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Pluralistic: 05 Mar 2020 (New Pinkwater, RIP Jim Tyre, Right to Repair and covid, Radicalized is a bestseller, African Whatsapp modders)

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Daniel Pinkwater wrote a new novel! Yippee for "ADVENTURES OF A DWERGISH GIRL!"

Warner Chappel discoved a new form of copyright fuckery so dense it blew a wormhole into another dimension: From the people who fraudulently claimed to own "Happy Birthday" for decades.

RIP, Jim Tyre: The free internet just lost one of its most dedicated defenders.

Decentralizing the web is a human problem: The web needs stewards, not owners.

Right to Repair is the right to resilience: Independent repair is how we keep things going during emergencies.

Keyless car fobs can be defeated with a cheap RFID cloner: Car manufacturers wontfix a showstopper bug. Again.

Bookstores, libraries, human thriving and mental health: Books are great, even if the science behind their greatness is thin.

Copyright experts' panel on fair use removed from Youtube: A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?

Radicalized is out in paperback: Just hit every one of Canada's national bestseller lists, too!

African Whatsapp modders are outcompeting Facebook: Adversarial Interoperability is how you beat digital colonialism.

This day in history: 2015, 2019

Colophon: Recent publications, current writing projects, upcoming appearances, current reading

I'm coming to Kelowna, BC today! I'll be at the library from 6-8PM with my book Radicalized for the CBC's Canada Reads. It's free, but you need to RSVP (and most of the seats are gone, so act quick).

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cbc-radio-presents-in-conversation-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-96154415445

Daniel Pinkwater wrote a new novel! (permalink)

Well, this is amazing news. Daniel Pinkwater has a new middle grades novel coming out in September: ADVENTURES OF A DWERGISH GIRL!

https://tachyonpublications.com/bestselling-author-daniel-pinkwater-returns-in-classic-form-with-the-illustrated-middle-grade-adventures-of-a-dwergish-girl/

Molly O'Malley is a clever, adventurous girl. She is also a Dwerg. Dwergs are strange folks who live very quietly in the Catskill mountains, have lots of gold, and are kind of like dwarves (but also not!).

Molly isn't interested in cooking and weaving, as she is expected to be. So, she sets off to see the world for herself. Which means a new job, a trip to New York City, prowling gangsters, an adorable king, a city witch, and many historical ghosts. More importantly, it means excellent pizza, new friends, and very quick thinking.

Now someone is pursuing the Dwergs for their gold. Can Molly O'Malley save the day?

IOW: this is a book with every single thing I love about Pinkwater novels. Reading Daniel Pinkwater – as a kid and as an adult – was hugely important to my development as a writer and a human being. Meeting another Pinkwater fan is always a sign that you are among good people.

Warner Chappel discoved a new form of copyright fuckery so dense it blew a wormhole into another dimension (permalink)

I've seen some next-level copyfraud fuckery in my day, believe me, but Adam Neely's tale of Warner Chappell's copyfraud reaches a new height of absurdity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM6X2MEl7R8

This is sleazy even by Warner Chappell standards, and they're the crooks who fraudulently claimed ownership over Happy Birthday for decades.

https://vimeo.com/172715640

Buckle up for this one, as it is an onion of bizarre, bad-faith corporate behavior, with each layer peeling back to reveal another, even weirder and more terrible one. It starts with a garbage lawsuit against Katy Perry for including a piece of background music in her song Dark Horse that was similar to another very generic lick in an obscure Christian rap song called "A Joyful Noise."

No one claimed that Katy Perry lifted the brief snatch of music from Joyful Noise. Rather, the case turned on the precedent set when Martin Gaye's heirs sued Robin Thicke over "Blurred Lines," arguing that the song had a similar vibe to Gaye's. Gaye's heirs should not have won that suit. But they did. And it opened the floodgates to nuisance suits targeting the likes of Perry and her publisher, Warner-Chappell. They lost the suit and got hit for $2.8m.

This isn't even the fuckery part, by the way.

Enter Adam Neely, who created a massively successful viral video defending Warner Chappell and Katy Perry, arguing that the suit was garbage. The video was so successful he went on national media to discuss the case and was even asked to sign onto an amicus brief.

Let the fuckery begin:

Warner Chappell has claimed copyright over Neely's video, claiming that a few seconds of music that he used was the "melody" of Katy Perry's song.

Further fuckery:

In the case, Warner Chappell argued that this specific musical phrase was not the melody, and was rather some incidental background sound.

Fuckery extreme:

The Warner Chappell claim was not automated. A human manually claimed this phrase of music as Warner-Chappell's, despite:

a) Them having disclaimed ownership of it in a lawsuit,

b) Losing that suit and being told by a court that it wasn't theirs.

Fuckery to the max!

But the musical phrase they claimed ownership over was from "A Joyful Noise," the song they lost two point eight million dollars over, having claimed that their song was not confusingly similar to it.

The two musical phrases – the one from "Dark Horse" and the one from "Joyful Noise" – were so similar that Warner-Chappell's own copyright enforcers mistakenly claimed copyright over the wrong one!

2020 folks. Don't forget to tip your servers, they work hard.

RIP, Jim Tyre (permalink)

My old EFF comrade Jim Tyre just died.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/rip-eff-special-counsel-jim-tyre

Jim was a tireless civil liberties litigator, a titan of First Amendment law whose entree to tech law was defending people who criticized censorware companies who wildly overblocked what schoolkids could see. He was also incredibly garrulous, funny, a born raconteur whose encylopedic memory served him well both as a storyteller and a litigator.

Jim worked on the 2600 DMCA case, he defended Ed Felten when he was threatened by the RIAA, he fought ICANN, and he was key to our longrunning suit against NSA over mass surveillance.

Jim always worked offsite. He lived in LA and had eye problems that rendered him nearly completely blind. But he kept a stash of cash at the EFF offices so he could contribute to every whip-round for a baby gift or a wedding present.

He was a true mensch.

Decentralizing the web is a human problem (permalink)

My old EFF colleague Mai Sutton just published a smashing primer on competition, interoperability, and stewardship and the world of tech:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200228/22053744006/defeating-tech-giants-with-open-protocols-interoperability-shared-stewardship.shtm

After delivering a good backgrounder on the history of the wars between shared protocols and proprietary technologies, Mai delves into the thicket of laws that have cropped up to prevent technologists from adding interoperability to existing technologies.

This has led to a new online enclosure, with "Google" becoming synonymous with "search" and "Facebook" synonymous with "social media." These businesses once competed, but today, they preside alone, over protected territory.

But some of that is changing. Between legislative proposals, new standardization efforts, the Decentralized Web movement and its protocols, and a reinvigorated threat of antitrust enforcement, there's some hope that the web will reopen and redecentralize.

Ultimately, Mai writes, this has more to do with how we view the web than how we use it. If we think of the online world as a shared space for humanity then the technologists who keep it running are stewards, not owners.

(Image: Dietrich Ayala (https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/07/introducing-the-d-web/) and Open Clip Art (https://openclipart.org/)

Right to Repair is the right to resilience (permalink)

Writing in Wired, Kyle Wiens makes the crucial link between the Right To Repair and resilience, especially during moments of disruption to global supply chains.

https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-the-right-to-repair-will-help-us-endure-outbreaks/

It's no coincidence that farms and farmers have been leaders in Right to Repair: when you're isolated and you're not allowed to fix your stuff, it means that you can neither nip down to the shops for a replacement, nor easily have an authorized repair tech come to your place.

Covid can put everyone – even entire nations – into the position of that isolated farmer. As Long Beach port is denuded of shipping containers, as air- and rail-links are broken between parts of the country, the stream of parts, replacement units and technicians stops.

A key principle of resilience is to put resources at the edge, replacing hub-and-spoke models with point-to-point, peer-to-peer ones that infuse the system with redundancy. Neoliberalism hates redundancy and equates it with wastefulness.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1228326004508151808

But redundancy is the key to graceful failure-modes. Limiting repairs to authorized service centers works well (reliable, and certainly great for shareholders), but it fails very, very badly. Right to Repair is how our hospitals, schools, infrastructure maintenance, first responder and other vital services will keep the lights on if things go horribly wrong. Resiliency may be bad for shareholder value, but it's vital to human survival.

Keyless car fobs can be defeated with a cheap RFID cloner (permalink)

Toyota, Hyundai and Kia keyless ignition fobs can be cloned by attackers who get within a few inches of your pocket (say, at a conference), thanks to implementation errors that the auto-makers made with their Texas Instruments DST80 security systems.

https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-can-clone-millions-of-toyota-hyundai-kia-keys/

All you need is a Proxmark RFID scanner, which retails for about $300. That's more than the range-extenders used to steal cars from out front of targets' homes, but unlike those attackers, fob-cloners can start and stop the car as often as they like.

https://hackerwarehouse.com/product/proxmark3-rdv4-kit/

The researchers who did this work come from KU Leuven and the University of Birmingham. Their paper is great:

https://tches.iacr.org/index.php/TCHES/article/view/8546/8111

The attack on its own does not let you start the cars. All it does is disable the immobilizer that stopped people from hot-wiring the ignition system with a screwdriver.

"You're downgrading the security to what it was in the '80s." -Flavio Garcia, University of Birmingham.

The implementation mistakes by the car companies are embarrassingly basic. Kia and Hyundai's implementation only has 24 bits of randomness ("a couple milliseconds with a laptop"). Toyota uses a serial number as a seed, then transmits that serial number in the clear. The companies, naturally, are saying it's no biggie. Toyota claims the attack requires "a highly specialized device that is not commonly available on the market." This just isn't true. I found it with literally one search.

None of the vendors have offered to fix the problem for drivers who bring their cars to garages.

It's depressing, but at least now you know whether you can trust your car's security.

"It's better to be in a place where we know what kind of security we're getting from our security devices. Otherwise, only the criminals know." -Flavio Garcia.

Bookstores, libraries, human thriving and mental health (permalink)

I love Lydia Smith's hymn to the mental health benefits of books, libraries and reading (even if I think the science is less than convincing)

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/how-books-and-bookshops-improve-our-mental-health-and-why-we-must-protect-them/

Reading fiction definitely stretches your empathy. For a novel to work, you have to be invested in the lives of people who don't even exist. The death of the yogurt you digested with breakfast this morning is technically more tragic than the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. The yogurt was really alive and now it's really dead. Romeo and Juliet neither lived nor died. Fiction reading is varsity-level empathy!

I agree that the traditional fiction arc – adversity met and overcome – can lighten a dark day. I turn to Kim Stanley Robinson's "Pacific Edge" whenever I'm blue for that reason. I even played a small role in getting adapted for DRM-free audio.

https://boingboing.net/2015/01/15/audio-edition-of-pacific-edge.html

(Pacific Edge was just reissued as a "Tor Essential" in an omnibus with the other two "Californias" novels, sporting a fabulous intro by Francis Spufford. Run, don't walk!)

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250307569

It's also utterly true that books are a path to resilience and self-reliance, filled as they can be with how-tos, analysis and technical knowledge. As the Whole Earth Catalogues used to have it, "Access to tools and ideas."

(It must be said that the net is infinitely better at this than print books, provided you can get online. The use of a time-transported town library to jumpstart post-industrial civilization during the 30 Years War in Eric Flint's 1632 is delightful)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1632_(novel)

Libraries, of course, are the last place in our civilization where you are welcomed because you are a human being, not because you are an ambulatory wallet. Librarians, resist the urge to call people "customers." They're "patrons." That's far more dignified (and accurate).

And working in a bookstore is certainly therapeutic, for certain values of therapy. It can be a grind, but OMG is it ever great connecting people with books that you love and watching them fall in love, too. Generally I'm in accord with the essay. I just don't think the studies cited are of very high quality and/or recency.

It's OK to say, "I love bookstores and libraries because they're fabulous" without having to provide evidence for that fabulousness.

NYU law school's Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy held a symposium on copyright and the net with a panel on "when one song infringes the copyright of another and to prove if the accused song is 'substantially similar' enough to be illegal."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVQTz65Bq70

The video of the panel was taken down from Youtube after multiple copyright complaints from rightsholders who claimed that the brief clips, chosen by America's leading copyright experts as being fair use, were infringing.

https://www.law.nyu.edu/centers/engelberg/news/2020-03-04-youtube-takedown

These clips weren't just fair use; they'd been chosen by top legal scholars to illustrate what fair use was.

The rightsholder reps who issued the takedown claims for these videos did so manually – that is, these complaints were not automatically generated.

In the grand tradition of copyfraud fuckery, when the law professors appealed, the rights enforcement dimbulbs (trained on xeroxed procedures in three-ring binders) reasserted their claims, putting the law school at risk of losing its Youtube account.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/05/warner-chappell-copyfraud#warnerchappell

The law profs knew they had the law on their side, but they weren't ready to appeal, because if they lost their appeal, they'd get a Youtube "copystrike," which could also cost them their accounts. And since there were multiple claims, they weren't sure if they'd get multiple strikes by appealing. Youtube's docs don't make this clear, and going through Youtube channels yielded nothing but radio silence.

Now, these are eminent law professors at a top university, so they were able to make some insider calls to Youtube, who lifted the complaints altogether and reinstated the video. But no one ever clarified the multiple-claims/multiple copystrike procedure.

Moral: When it comes to Youtube, it doesn't matter if you're a nationally recognized copyright expert. You can't argue with anonymous, hamfisted rights-enforcer assholes to assert your speech rights. The only way to guarantee those rights is to know someone on the inside.

Radicalized is out in paperback (permalink)

My book Radicalized, a collection of four science fiction novellas, just came out in paperback!

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250229250

It's quite a week for the book! It's a finalist for Canada Reads, one of Canada's national book prizes, and the paperback immediately hit all of Canada's national bestseller lists!

I'm especially delighted to make the indie stores' bestseller list:

https://www.cbc.ca/books/the-bestselling-canadian-books-for-the-week-of-feb-23-29-2020-1.5484366

It's headlining the Toronto Star's list:

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2020/03/04/toronto-star-bestsellers-for-the-week-ending-march-4-2020.html

And there's one more national bestseller list that it's hit, but I can't name it until later this week, when it's published. But yeah, it's a hell of a week!

African Whatsapp modders are outcompeting Facebook (permalink)

Whatsapp is more popular than Facebook in Africa – but unauthorized, souped-up, third-party mods of Whatsapp are more popular still.

https://qz.com/africa/1804859/fake-whatsapp-app-more-popular-than-facebook-instagram-in-africa/

African software developers have modified the Whatsapp app to make it suitable to local users. The mods are transmitted from person to person, and sideloaded onto mobile devices.

The king of mods is GB Whatsapp, which allows for multiple accounts on a single device, ups file-transmissions from 16MB to 50MB, and includes privacy features like masking when you're online. GB Whatapp alone has more African users than the Facebook app.

All these mods communicate with users of the stock Whatapp system and with each other. They're tremendous examples of #AdversarialInteroperability, where hackers give users better, situation-appropriate tools without asking an incumbent's permission.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability

They really cleanly illustrate how Adversarial Interop defeats network effects by using it against incumbents. The fact that Whatsapp is the most popular app in Africa is an ADVANTAGE for Whatapp modders: they get to treat every Whatsapp user as a potential customer. These mods also show how Adversarial Interop is key to technological self-determination. Rather than meekly submitting to digital colonialism, modders ignore the choices and preferences of a massive US firm and its shareholders and deliver local solutions for local people.

Facebook's response is predictable. Mods violate our terms of service. Modders are crooks. Users caught using mods face bans.

Modders just tell their users to sign up with secondary phone numbers to avoid bans.

Colonial American industry enjoyed a huge advantage over UK rivals because it disregarded UK patents and copyrights, allowing American firms to leapfrog the former colonial masters. Now that it is a net exporter of tech, it expects foreign countries to respect its rules.

This day in history (permalink)

#5yrsago Justice Department issues "scorching" report on Ferguson's Police Department https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/03/ferguson-cops-routinely-block-public-from-filming-them-doj-says/

#5yrsago Matt Haughey retires from Metafilter https://metatalk.metafilter.com/23626/Sixteen-Years

#1yrago The NSA has reportedly stopped data-mining Americans' phone and SMS records https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/us/politics/nsa-phone-records-program-shut-down.html

#1yrago Jibo the social robot announces that its VC overlords have remote-killswitched it, makes pathetic farewell address and dances a final step https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/3/4/18250104/jibo-social-robot-server-shutdown-offline-dead

#1yrago BATHDOOM: A Doom level based on a terrible bathroom remodel https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/eveknn/the-hot-new-doom-mod-is-a-nightmare-diy-bathroom-renovation-bathdoom

#1yrago The People's Republic of Walmart: how late-stage capitalism gives way to early-stage fully automated luxury communism https://boingboing.net/2019/03/05/walmart-without-capitalism.html

#1yrago History is made: petition opposing the EU's #Article13 internet censorship plan draws more signatures than any petition in EU history https://www.change.org/p/european-parliament-stop-the-censorship-machinery-save-the-internet

#1yrago London councils plan to slash benefit payments with an "anti-fraud" system known to have a 20% failure rate https://news.sky.com/story/thousands-face-incorrect-benefit-cuts-from-automated-fraud-detector-11651031

#1yrago America is not "polarized": it's a land where a small minority tyrannize the supermajority https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/opinion/oppression-majority.html

Colophon (permalink)

Today's top sources: Carl Sondrol (https://twitter.com/sondrol), Naked Capitalism (https://nakedcapitalism.com/), JWZ (https://www.jwz.org/blog/), Danny O'Brien (oblomovka.com/)

Hugo nominators! My story "Unauthorized Bread" is eligible in the Novella category and you can read it free on Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-near-future-tale-of-refugees-and-sinister-iot-appliances/

Upcoming appearances:

Canada Reads Kelowna: March 5, 6PM, Kelowna Library, 1380 Ellis Street, with CBC's Sarah Penton https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cbc-radio-presents-in-conversation-with-cory-doctorow-tickets-96154415445

Currently writing: I just finished a short story, "The Canadian Miracle," for MIT Tech Review. It's a story set in the world of my next novel, "The Lost Cause," a post-GND novel about truth and reconciliation. I'm getting geared up to start work on the novel now, though the timing is going to depend on another pending commission (I've been solicited by an NGO) to write a short story set in the world's prehistory.

Currently reading: Just started Lauren Beukes's forthcoming Afterland: it's Y the Last Man plus plus, and two chapters in, it's amazeballs. Last month, I finished Andrea Bernstein's "American Oligarchs"; it's a magnificent history of the Kushner and Trump families, showing how they cheated, stole and lied their way into power. I'm getting really into Anna Weiner's memoir about tech, "Uncanny Valley." I just loaded Matt Stoller's "Goliath" onto my underwater MP3 player and I'm listening to it as I swim laps.

Latest podcast: Disasters Don't Have to End in Dystopias: https://craphound.com/podcast/2020/03/01/disasters-dont-have-to-end-in-dystopias/

Upcoming books: "Poesy the Monster Slayer" (Jul 2020), a picture book about monsters, bedtime, gender, and kicking ass. Pre-order here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781626723627?utm_source=socialmedia&utm_medium=socialpost&utm_term=na-poesycorypreorder&utm_content=na-preorder-buynow&utm_campaign=9781626723627

(we're having a launch for it in Burbank on July 11 at Dark Delicacies and you can get me AND Poesy to sign it and Dark Del will ship it to the monster kids in your life in time for the release date).

"Attack Surface": The third Little Brother book, Oct 20, 2020.

"Little Brother/Homeland": A reissue omnibus edition with a very special, s00per s33kr1t intro.

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Ganesh Chaturthi Whatsapp Status in Marathi Hindi English

is one of the most popular 10-day festivities (ISO: Gaṇeśa Chaturthī), otherwise called Vinayaka Chaturthi (Vināyaka Chaturthī), is a Hindu celebration praising the appearance of Lord Ganesh to earth from Kailash Parvat with his mom Goddess Parvati/Gauri. The celebration is set apart with the establishment of Ganesh dirt icons secretly in homes, or freely on expound pandals (brief stages). Perceptions incorporate reciting of Vedic songs and Hindu messages, for example, petitions and brata (fasting).[3] Offerings and prasadam from the day by day supplications, that are conveyed from the pandal to the network, incorporate desserts, for example, modaka as it is accepted to be a most loved of Lord Ganesh.[4][5] The celebration closes on the tenth day after beginning, when the symbol is conveyed in an open parade with music and gathering reciting, at that point drenched in a close by waterway, for example, a stream or ocean. In Mumbai alone, around 150,000 sculptures are submerged annually.[6] Thereafter the mud icon breaks down and Ganesh is accepted to come back to Mount Kailash to Parvati and Shiva.[3][7] The celebration observes Lord Ganesh as the God of New Beginnings and the Remover of Obstacles just as the divine force of insight and intelligence[8][9] and is watched all through India, particularly in the states, for example, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Telangana, Odisha, West Bengal, Gujarat and Chhattisgarh,[3][10] and is normally praised secretly at home in Tamil Nadu.[11] Ganesh Chaturthi is likewise seen in Nepal and by the Hindu diaspora somewhere else, for example, in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Malaysia, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, different pieces of the Caribbean, Fiji, Mauritius, South Africa,[12] United States, and Europe[7][13][14]

At open settings, alongside the perusing of writings and gathering devouring, athletic and hand to hand fighting rivalries are likewise held.[15]

Substance

1 History

1.1 Ganesh

1.2 Festival

2 Celebration in India

2.1 At unmistakable sanctuaries

2.2 At home

3 Celebration Outside India

4 Foods

5 Environmental effect

6 Gallery

7 See moreover

8 Notes

9 References

9.1 Bibliography

History

Ganesha, Basohli small scale, around 1730.

It is obscure when the celebration began. It turned into a significant social and open occasion with sponsorship of Shivaji after Mughal-Maratha wars. It became mainstream again in the nineteenth century after open intrigue by Indian political dissident Lokmanya Tilak,[16] who advocated it as a way to bypass the pioneer British government restriction on Hindu social affairs through its enemy of open get together enactment in 1892.[17][18][11]

Ganesh

Additional data: Ganesh

In spite of the fact that not insinuating the traditional type of Ganapati,the most punctual notice of Ganapati is found in the Rigveda. It shows up twice in the Rigveda, once in song 2.23.1, just as in psalm 10.112.9.[19][20][21] Both of these songs infer a job of Ganapati as "the soothsayer among the diviners, flourishing incalculable in food directing among the older folks and being the ruler of summon", while the psalm in mandala 10 expresses that without Ganapati "nothing close by or a far distance is performed without thee", as per Michael.[19][22] However, it is questionable that the Vedic expression Ganapati which truly signifies "watchman of the hoards", alluded explicitly to later time Ganesh, nor do the Vedic writings notice Ganesh Chaturthi.[23] shows up in post-Vedic messages, for example, the Grhya Sutras and from that point old Sanskrit messages, for example, the Vajasaneyi Samhita, the Yajnavalkya Smriti and the Mahabharata notice Ganapati as Ganesvaras and Vinayak. Ganesh shows up in the medieval Puranas as "lord of progress, impediment remover". The Skanda Purana, Narada Purana and the Brahma Vaivarta Purana, specifically, bountifully acclaim him.[24] Beyond printed translations, archeological and epigraphical proof propose Ganesh had gotten famous, was adored before the eighth century CE and various pictures of him are detectable to the seventh century or prior.

Ganesh symbol in Khairatabad, Hyderabad, India

For instance, carvings at Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain sanctuaries, for example, at the Ellora Caves, dated between the fifth and eighth century show Ganesh respectfully situated with significant Hindu goddess (Shakti).[25]

Celebration

In spite of the fact that it is obscure when (or how) Ganesh Chaturthi was first observed,[26] the celebration has been openly celebrated in Pune since the time of Shivaji (1630–1680, author of the Maratha Empire).[26] After the beginning of the British Raj, the Ganesh celebration lost state support and turned into a private family festivity in Maharashtra until its recovery by Indian political dissident and social reformer Lokmanya Tilak.[26]

I followed with the best interest swarms who conveyed in parade an interminable number of icons of the god Ganesh. Every little quarter of the town, every family with its followers, every little city intersection I may nearly say, arranges its very own parade, and the most unfortunate might be seen carrying on a basic board their little icon or of papier mâché... A group, pretty much various, goes with the icon, applauding and raises cries of happiness, while a little ensemble by and large goes before the symbol.

– Angelo de Gubernatis, Bombay Gazette (1886)[27][28]

As per others, for example, Kaur, the celebration turned into an open occasion later, in 1892 when Bhausaheb Laxman Javale (otherwise called Bhau Rangari), introduced the first sarvajanik (open) Ganesh icon in Pune.[29] In 1893, the Indian political dissident Lokmanya Tilak adulated the festival of Sarvajanik Ganesh Utsav in his paper, Kesari, and devoted his endeavors to dispatch the yearly local celebration into a huge, efficient open event.[30] Tilak perceived Ganesh's intrigue as "the god for everybody",[31] and as indicated by Robert Brown, he picked Ganesh as the god that overcame "the issue among Brahmins and non-Brahmins", consequently assembling a grassroots solidarity across them to contradict British frontier rule.[32]

Different researchers express that the British Empire, after 1870 out of dread of subversive congregations, had passed a progression of statutes that restricted open gathering for social and political reasons for in excess of 20 individuals in British India, however excluded strict get together for Friday mosque petitions under tension from the Indian Muslim people group. Tilak accepted this successfully hindered the open get together of Hindus whose religion didn't command every day petitions or week by week social affairs, and he utilized this strict exception to make Ganesh Chaturthi to dodge the British pioneer law on huge open assembly.[16][17][11] He was the first to introduce huge open pictures of Ganesh in structures in Bombay Presidency, and other celebratory occasions at the festival.[33][note 1]

God Ganesh: political impediment remover

Is there any good reason why we shouldn't change over the huge strict celebrations

into mass political assemblies?

— Lokmanya Tilak, Kesari, 8 September 1896[38]

As per Richard Cashman, Tilak enrolled and enthusiastically invested in god Ganesh after the 1893 Hindu-Muslim common brutality in Bombay and the Deccan riots, when he felt that the British India government under Lord Harris had more than once favored one side and not treated Hindus decently on the grounds that Hindus were not well organised.[39] In Tilak's gauge, Ganesh love and parades were at that point mainstream in provincial and urban Hindu populaces, across social stations and classes in Baroda, Gwalior, Pune and the vast majority of the Maratha locale in the eighteenth century.[40] In 1893, Tilak extended Ganesh Chaturthi celebration into a mass network occasion and a concealed methods for political activism, scholarly talk, verse presentations, plays, shows, and people dances.[41]

In Goa, Ganesh Chaturthi originates before the Kadamba time. The Goa Inquisition had prohibited Hindu celebrations, and Hindus who didn't change over to Christianity were seriously confined. Be that as it may, Hindu Goans kept on rehearsing their religion in spite of the limitations. Numerous families love Ganesh as patri (leaves utilized for adoring Ganesh or different divine beings), an image is drawn on paper or little silver icons. In certain families Ganesh icons are covered up, an element extraordinary to Ganesh Chaturthi in Goa because of a prohibition on dirt Ganes symbols and celebrations by the Jesuits as a feature of the Inquisition.[42]

Festivities

Man painting a sculpture of Ganesh

Craftsman setting up Ganesh's picture for the celebration in Margao, Goa

The Laalbaaghcha Raja (the most eminent variant of Ganesh in Mumbai) in parade.

Open arrangements for the merriments start a very long time ahead of time. Nearby Mandapa or Pandal's are typically subsidized either from gifts by neighborhood occupants or facilitated by organizations or network associations. The creation of the Murti in Maharashtra for the most part starts with "Padya pooja" or loving the feet of Lord Ganesh. The Murti's are brought to "pandals" on the day or a day prior to the celebration starts. The pandals have expound embellishment and lighting.

At home, the celebration readiness incorporates buys, for example, puja things or adornments a couple of days ahead of time and booking the Ganesh murti as right on time as a month previously (from nearby craftsmans). The murti is brought home either a day prior or upon the arrival of the Ganesh Chaturthi itself. Families enhance a little, clean part of the house with blossoms and other bright things before introducing the icon. At the point when the Murti is introduced, it and its sanctuary are enlivened with blossoms and different materials. Upon the arrival of the celebration, The stately establishment of the earth murti (icon) is done alongside serenades of blessed mantras and pooja including bhajans during a specific favorable time of the day.

In anticipation of the celebration, craftsmans make earth models of Ganesh available to be purchased. The Murti's range in size from 3⁄4 inch (1.9 cm) for homes to more than 70 ft (21 m) for huge network celebrations.[43]

The date for the celebration is normally chosen by the nearness of Chaturthi Thithi. The celebration is held during "Bhadrapada Madyahanaa Purvabaddha". In the event that the Chaturthi Thiti starts around evening time

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A New Beginning...

18 June 2015

It all started on this day. I never knew this day would come up to this. I was expecting it to be a normal one, like the every other day. But no, it was different. It meant to be different. A new beginning to my life was waiting just after the closed door in front of me. But here I was, confused, whether this new beginning will brighten my life or pull me away in the darkness. Yeah, I got a proposal. He said he likes me. In fact he said he loves me. Although it was over texts but still, a proposal is a proposal. The next day we were to go for a movie and today this. He knew I wasn’t in a happy and satisfying relationship. I was passing my life, not living it. I used to be stressed all the time. I wasn’t happy. I pretended to be normal in front of everyone but, actually I wasn’t. And maybe that’s why he proposed to me. Now, I was confused how I would face him the very next day. Since, these were my college vacations and I was back to home from the hostel, we planned to watch a Bollywood dance movie. The movie was planned by two of my school friends, Harshita and Udit. They were like friends-cum-couple. In fact, I never got to know what was there between them. Udit was his one of those friends who was his force buddy, go-tell-her-dude and the one who convinced him to confess his feelings for me. I didn’t know this was going to happen although in a corner of my heart I too liked him. But I can never accept this. I was into a so-called long-distance relationship. I had a very less contact with my boyfriend Ritvik. We used to talk over chats on Whatsapp and not on calls as he used to be busy most of the time. He was too shy to be a guy and it was me who took the initiative to disclose my feelings to him. He took a time of around a month or so just to say me a ‘yes’. He moved to Hyderabad after school with his family and we have just met thrice before that after being in a relationship, and that too in the presence of our classmates-cum-friends. My mind stormed with so many thoughts and I felt like a statue standing still feeling like what-would-you-do-now after reading the text that read “It’s just that I liked you since very long. I still do. Maybe I love you. I didn’t want to confess it. I never would have. I don’t know why I am doing it today. I am sorry. I don’t know how you would react after reading this, but trust me whatever will be your answer I’ll respect it and our friendship will not be affected by this anyhow. It’s all your decision. Don’t feel any kind of burden or pressure upon yourself. Take care.” And the very next moment I thought of skipping the movie as I had the gut feeling that I wouldn’t be able to face him but at the same time I knew that he was too difficult to be avoided…

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Propose Day : Know About 8 February Special Day

Propose Day

Propose Day is celebrated in India on 8 February as a day to propose to your significant other. A large number of youthful people give roses to propose to their prospective gal or swain. It’s the alternate day in Valentines Week.

Although Valentine’s day is celebrated across whole world, Valentine week is commodity celebrated in India only. This week marks colorful fests across India.

Propose Day: Wishes, Messages, Quotes, Images, Greetings, Facebook & Whatsapp status

You have seen my imperfections and insecurities and still chose to be with me. I will love you always. Happy Propose day!

You make my days better and make me whole. Happy Propose day!

You are the music in my life. Everything gets a little bit better with you in it. Your laugh is like a symphony that I can never get enough of. Happy Propose day! Loving you has made me become a better person. I want to grow old with you. Happy Propose day!

Today I promise a lifetime and neverending love and togetherness. Happy Propose Day, my love! Would you share the rest of your life with me? I promise we will make the best of every moment. Happy Propose Day! Today, I want to open my heart and let you know that you mean the world to me. Your smile brightens my day. Happy Propose Day! Love is not something you find. Love is something that finds you! I want to be with you until the sun falls from the sky. Happy Propose Day!

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Happy Propose Day 2019 Wishes Images, Quotes, Status, Wallpapers, Pics, Greetings, SMS, Messages and Photos

Happy Propose Day 2019 Wishes Images, Quotes, Status: Muster the courage and let that special someone know how you feel. (Designed by Gargi Singh/Indian Express)

Happy Propose Day 2019 Wishes Images, Quotes, Status, Wallpapers, Greetings Card, SMS, Messages, Photos, Pictures, Pics: As E.E. Cummings once said, “Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.” Don’t you agree with the poet, who so beautifully put into words what most of us feel, when in love?

If you still haven’t told your special someone about how you feel, then what better than Propose Day (February 8) to spill the beans! Go all out and let them know that you are in love. Take inspiration from these lovely messages.

* I know I am in love with you because my reality is finally better than my dreams. I Love You!

* Our Relationship is meant to be. Something that was written in the stars and drawn into our destiny. I Love You!

* We’re all a little weird, and life’s a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. – Dr. Seuss