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Dhoni Told Kohli 'Side Ho Ja, Tu Janata Nahi Isko': Pakistani Pacer Recalls | Cricket

India vs Pakistan cricket match is always of high intensity. Moments of heat on the field have been limited in the last four or five years, but in the past, players from both sides did not need a second invitation to give vent to their anger. India’s great captain MS Dhoni has seen many such moments. In fact, he was the pacifier on a few occasions, most famously when Gautam Gambhir and Kamran…

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Martine Janata aka "the one who is no longer"

"I know you said it didn't hurt, but what does it feel like? The thing you lost?"

One of the most fascinating minor characters of the books for me and a fun subject for brush experiment

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definitely a longer piece so these excerpts are far from showcasing everything this piece has to offer! read the whole thing on your own time, and in general, just check out jewish currents, an educational, leftist, anti-zionist jewish magazine!

Every August, the township of Edison, New Jersey—where one in five residents is of Indian origin—holds a parade to celebrate India’s Independence Day. In 2022, a long line of floats rolled through the streets, decked out in images of Hindu deities and colorful advertisements for local businesses. People cheered from the sidelines or joined the cavalcade, dancing to pulsing Bollywood music. In the middle of the procession came another kind of vehicle: A wheel loader, which looks like a small bulldozer, rumbled along the route bearing an image of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi aloft in its bucket. For South Asian Muslims, the meaning of the addition was hard to miss. A few months earlier, during the month of Ramadan, Indian government officials had sent bulldozers into Delhi’s Muslim neighborhoods, where they damaged a mosque and leveled homes and storefronts. The Washington Post called the bulldozer “a polarizing symbol of state power under Narendra Modi,” whose ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is increasingly enacting a program of Hindu supremacy and Muslim subjugation. In the weeks after the parade, one Muslim resident of Edison, who is of Indian origin, told The New York Times that he understood the bulldozer much as Jews would a swastika or Black Americans would a Klansman’s hood. Its inclusion underscored the parade’s other nods to the ideology known as Hindutva, which seeks to transform India into an ethnonationalist Hindu state. The event’s grand marshal was the BJP’s national spokesperson, Sambit Patra, who flew in from India. Other invitees were affiliated with the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (HSS), the international arm of the Hindu nationalist paramilitary force Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), of which Modi is a longtime member.

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On December 6th, 1992, a mob of 150,000 Hindus, many of whom were affiliated with the paramilitary group the RSS, gathered at the Babri Masjid, a centuries-old mosque that is one of the most contested sacred sites in the world. Over the preceding century, far-right Hindus had claimed that the mosque, located in the North Indian city of Ayodhya, was built not only upon the site where the Hindu deity Ram was born but atop the foundations of a demolished Hindu temple. The RSS and its affiliates had been campaigning to, in the words of a BJP minister, correct the “historical mistake” of the mosque’s existence, a task the mob completed that December afternoon. “They climbed on top of the domes and tombs,” one witness told NPR. “They were carrying hammers and these three-pronged spears from Hindu scripture. They started hacking at the mosque. By night, it was destroyed.” The demolition sparked riots that lasted months and killed an estimated 2,000 people across the country.

The destruction of the Babri Masjid was arguably Hindu nationalism’s greatest triumph to date. Since its establishment in 1925, the RSS—whose founders sought what one of them called a “military regeneration of the Hindus,” inspired by Mussolini’s Black Shirts and Nazi “race pride”—had been a marginal presence in India: Its members held no elected office, and it was temporarily designated a terrorist organization after one of its affiliates shot and killed Mohandas Gandhi in 1948. But the leveling of the Babri Masjid activated a virulently ethnonationalist base and paved the way for three decades of Hindutva ascendance. In 1998, the BJP formed a government for the first time; in 2014, it returned to power, winning a staggering 282 out of 543 seats in parliament and propelling Modi into India’s highest office. Since then, journalist Samanth Subramanian notes, all of the country’s governmental and civil society institutions “have been pressured to fall in line” with a Hindutva agenda—a phenomenon on full display in 2019, when the Supreme Court of India awarded the land where the Babri Masjid once stood to a government run by the very Hindu nationalists who illegally destroyed it. (Modi has since laid a foundation stone for a new Ram temple in Ayodhya, an event that a prominent RSS activist celebrated with a billboard in Times Square.) The Ayodhya verdict came in the same year that Modi stripped constitutional protections from residents of the Muslim-majority region of Kashmir and passed a law that creates a fast track to citizenship for non-Muslim immigrants, laying the groundwork for a religious test for Indian nationality. Under Modi, “the Hinduization of India is almost complete,” as journalist Yasmeen Serhan has written in The Atlantic.

To achieve its goals, the RSS has worked via a dense network of organizations that call themselves the “Sangh Parivar” (“joint family”) of Hindu nationalism. The BJP, which holds more seats in the Indian parliament than every other party combined, is the Sangh’s electoral face. The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) is the movement’s cultural wing, responsible for “Hinduizing” Indian society at the grassroots level. The Bajrang Dal is the project’s militant arm, which enforces Hindu supremacy through violence. Dozens of other organizations contribute money and platforms to the Sangh. The sheer number of groups affords the Sangh what human rights activist Pranay Somayajula has referred to as a “tactical politics of plausible deniability,” in which the many degrees of separation between the governing elements and their vigilante partners shields the former from backlash. This explains how, until 2018, the CIA could describe the VHP and Bajrang Dal as “militant religious organizations”—a designation that applies to non-electoral groups exerting political pressure—even as successive US governments have maintained a warm relationship with their parliamentary counterpart, the BJP.

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The most extreme figures in the Hindu nationalist and Zionist movements were especially frank about the nature of their partnership: “Whether you call them Palestinians, Afghans, or Pakistanis, the root of the problem for Hindus and Jews is Islam,” Bajrang Dal affiliate Rohit Vyasmaan told The New York Times of his friendly relationship with Mike Guzofsky, a member of a violent militant group connected to the infamous Jewish supremacist Meir Kahane’s Kach Party.

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In 2003, Gary Ackerman—a Jewish former congressman who was awarded India’s third-highest civilian honor for helping to found the Congressional Caucus on India—told a gathering of AJC and AIPAC representatives and their Indian counterparts that “Israel [is] surrounded by 120 million Muslims,” while “India has 120 million [within].” Tom Lantos, another Jewish member of the caucus, likewise enjoined the two communities to collaborate: “We are drawn together by mindless, vicious, fanatic, Islamic terrorism.”

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The more I think about Setalle Anan the more I think her motivations are as follows:

protect Aes Sedai from non-Aes Sedai

protect non-Aes Sedai from Aes Sedai

protect young people who are in over their heads

“I have to understand what the fuck is happening here”

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Hannah Ellis-Petersen at The Guardian:

Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata party has lost its parliamentary majority, dealing an unexpected blow to the prime minister and forcing him to negotiate with coalition partners in order to return to power. With all votes counted early on Wednesday morning, it was clear that the landslide for the BJP predicted in polls had not materialised and instead there had been a pushback against the strongman prime minister and his Hindu nationalist politics in swathes of the country. The party lost 62 seats, bringing its total down to 240, below the 272 required for a parliamentary majority. It is the first time since Modi was elected in 2014 that the BJP has not won a clear majority on its own. Nonetheless, together with its political allies, known as the national democratic alliance (NDA), its win amounts to about 292 seats, which is enough to form a majority government to rule for the next five years and return Modi to office for a third term.

Meanwhile, the opposition alliance, which goes by the acronym INDIA, far outperformed expectations, collectively winning more than 230 seats. The alliance, formed of more than 20 national and regional opposition parties, had come together for the first time in this election with the aim of defeating Modi.

Incumbent Indian PM Narendra Modi and his right-wing BJP won the most seats, but not enough to gain a majority on its own in the recent election in India. Modi is likely to remain PM, as his coalition partners National Democratic Alliance are likely to cobble a majority.

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Castor Oil Semi-Looper, a fat one.

25/03/23 - Achaea janata, hostplant: Rosa sp.

NSW:Wollongong, suburban garden

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What if Bewitched style show featuring Setalle Anan hiding her past from husband and kids, but instead of having powers she has bizarre arcane knowledge and a tendency to come upon all sorts of ter'angreal. The Kin keep on dropping by and do NOT make things easier

The Kin as Setalle's oddball acquaintances whom she has to introduce as her relatives because her family's been dead for half a century is making me giggle

Setalle being so used to boss people around only to be babied by her "aunts" because most of the Kin have some hundreds of years on her

And she doesn't have powers, sure, but things do keep exploding or disappearing or changing around her because someone has brought her ter'angreal for assessment and, well, she has to take a look, right?

At some point, her family starts wondering if she does have powers except there's no solid evidence beyond weird shit happening near her and even the Wise women who can channel cannot clock her as a channeler

Her daughters conclude that this is just how moms are, and her husband has accepted his love is nothing but a really nerdy Borderlander, which is accurate

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The Rise of Resort Politics in India: A Closer Look at Maharashtra's Political Maneuvering

The Dark Side of Indian Politics: Resort Politics After completing a routine assembly vote, the lawmakers dispersed into the bustling Mumbai night. Among them was Nitin Deshmukh, who represented a district located 350 miles away. Planning to catch an overnight train, he was suddenly extended an invitation for dinner in the suburbs by a senior official from his party in the Indian state of…

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Virat Kohli's 'Aapka dil janata hai way' Instagram update leaves fans in a tizzy Cricket

Virat Kohli is enjoying his time away from the cricket field to the fullest. Ahead of the all-important Border-Gavaskar Trophy against Australia, the former captain is spending time in Uttarakhand with his wife Anushka Sharma and daughter Vamika. He was earlier spotted at an ashram in Rishikesh. On Wednesday, he shared pictures of the trek through the jungle on Instagram. The brilliant…

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Censure And Restrain Rahul Gandhi From Spreading Lies: BJP Approaches ECI Against Congress Leader

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) complained to the Election Commission of India (ECI) against senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday. The saffron party accused him of making false statements about the Indian Constitution in poll-bound Maharashtra. Union Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal addressed the media and said that the delegation of the BJP met the Chief Election Commissioner and said that…

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Sat Sharma appointed J&K BJP president

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday appointed Sat Sharma as president of its J&K unit, replacing Ravinder Raina.

The decision was taken by BJP president J. P. Nadda and will come into force with immediate effect, party sources said.

Source: bhaskarlive.in

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Maharashtra Elections 2024: Amit Thackeray's Debut and MNS's Strategic Push

Maharashtra Elections 2024: Amit Thackeray’s Debut and MNS’s Strategic Push The political atmosphere in Maharashtra is heating up as the state prepares for the 2024 Assembly Elections. One of the most notable developments leading into this crucial election is the announcement of Amit Thackeray’s candidacy. Amit, son of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) president Raj Thackeray, is all set to make…

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Learn about the BJP or Bharatiya Janata Party Political Partiy of India, know about its founding politicians, year of creation and the current leaders at VotersVerdict.com your genuine source of information related to the Indian Political environment.

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Some leads present in Baba Siddique homicide case, says Devendra Fadnavis | Politics Information

Baba Siddique, a distinguished Muslim chief from Mumbai, was additionally recognized be near a number of Bollywood stars, together with Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and Sanjay Dutt. (Photograph: PTI) 4 min learn Final Up to date : Oct 13 2024 | 2:48 PM IST Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday stated police have discovered some leads in reference to the killing of NCP…