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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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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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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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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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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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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…

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J&K Assembly Election Result: जम्मू एंड कश्मीर नेशनल काँन्फ्रेंस बनी किंग मेकर, जानें सभी पार्टियों के परफार्मेंस

जम्मू-कश्मीर चुनाव के नतीजे आ चुके हैं. फारूख अब्दुल्ला की अगुवाई वाली जम्मू एंड कश्मीर नेशनल काँन्फ्रेंस इन चुनावों में सबसे बड़ी पार्टी बन कर उभरी है. जम्मू एंड कश्मीर नेशनल काँन्फ्रेंस को कुल 42 सीटे मिली हैं, वहीं कांग्रेस को 06 सीटे मिली है. नेशनल काँन्फ्रेंस और कांग्रेस की गठजोड ने बहुमत का आंकड़ा पार कर लिया है. जम्मू-कश्मीर विघानसभा चुनाव में 90 सीट के लिए चुनाव हुए थे, बहुमत के लिए 46…

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Zack Beauchamp at Vox:

I met Raqib Naik, a journalist who had fled his native India, at a coffee shop in suburban Maryland. We sat at the same metal table where he once discussed the prospect of his assassination with FBI agents.

Naik is a Muslim from Jammu and Kashmir, India’s only Muslim-majority state. In August 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi revoked the state’s longstanding self-determination rights and temporarily imposed martial law. Indian officials arbitrarily detained thousands of Kashmiris, including many journalists. Through it all, Naik did his best to convey the reality in Kashmir to the outside world — a firsthand account of what was really going on in what’s often termed “the world’s largest democracy.” On August 15, 10 days after the crackdown in Kashmir began, Naik received the first of three visits from Indian military intelligence officers who interrogated him about his reporting. The harassment forced him underground; he eventually fled to the United States in the summer of 2020. But Modi wouldn’t let him go that easily. In September 2020, an Indian military official sent Naik a message saying “i have invited your father for a cup of tea.” In November 2020, a second intelligence officer said he too had contacted Naik’s father, vowing that he and Naik would “meet in person” even though Naik had moved to America. While traveling in another country in June 2022, Naik received an anonymous text message saying “you are being tracked and will be prosecuted.” He flew back to the US as quickly as possible.  [...]

India’s plot against America

I have spent the past several months investigating stories like Naik’s: critics of India who say the Indian government has reached across the Pacific Ocean to harass them on American soil. 

Interviews with political figures, experts, and activists revealed a sustained campaign where Narendra Modi’s government threatens American citizens and permanent residents who dare speak out on the declining state of the country’s democracy. This campaign has not been described publicly until now because many people in the community  — even prominent ones — are too afraid to talk about it. (The Indian government did not respond to repeated and detailed requests for comment.)  India’s efforts include a handful of high-profile incidents, most notably an assassination plot against American and Canadian activists. But more commonly, India engages in subtle forms of harassment that fly under the public radar. An American charity leader who spoke out on Indian human rights violations saw his Indian employees arrested en masse. An American journalist who worked on a documentary about India was put on a travel blacklist and deported. An American historian who studies 17th-century India received so many death threats that she could no longer speak without security. Even a member of Congress — and vocal critic of the Modi regime — said she was concerned about being banned from visiting her Indian parents.

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And while Russian involvement in the 2016 election swayed few votes, there’s good reason to believe India’s campaign is working as intended — muting stateside criticism of India’s autocratic turn under Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

An American academic warned me that they couldn’t speak openly about India out of concern for family. An American think tank expert described numerous examples of censorship and self-censorship at prominent US institutions. These two sources, and many others, would only share their personal stories with me anonymously. All were concerned about the consequences for their careers, their loved ones, or even themselves — and they weren’t alone. “Indian Americans who are against the BJP, or oppose the BJP, have been intimidated and as a result routinely engage in self-censorship. I have heard them say as much to me,” says John Sifton, the Asia advocacy director at Human Rights Watch. “There are prominent Indian American intellectuals, writers, [and] celebrities who simply will not speak out against Modi because they are afraid that by doing so they will subject themselves to a torrent of online abuse and even death threats.” As a result, one of the most important developments of our time — Modi pushing the world’s largest democracy toward an authoritarian future — is receiving far less scrutiny in the United States than it should, especially at a time when Modi is running for a historic third term. 

India’s willingness to go after critics outside its borders — a practice political scientists call “transnational repression” — is a symptom of this democratic decline. Most sources told me that Indian harassment of Americans began in earnest after Modi took office in 2014, with most reported incidents happening in the past several years (when the prime minister became more aggressively authoritarian at home). Modi, a member of a prominent Hindu supremacist group since he was 8 years old, seems to believe he can act on the world stage in the same way he behaves at home. Despite the brazenness of India’s campaign — attacking Americans at home in a way that only the world’s worst authoritarian governments would dare — the Biden administration is putting little pressure on Modi to change his ways. Judging New Delhi too important in the fight against China, the US government has adopted its own unstated policy of avoiding fights with India over human rights and democracy. [...]

Modi’s “new India”

India was founded in 1947 as a secular democracy, with formal equality of all citizens enshrined in its constitution. But even before then, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) had begun laying the groundwork for an alternative Hindu nationalist state. Narendra Modi has been a part of this fight since 1958, when he first got involved in his town’s RSS branch.

The RSS’s ideology, called Hindutva, holds that India must be a state principally for Hindus. It treats non-Hindus, especially Muslims, as foreign imports at best and invading forces at worst. The BJP is the RSS’s political wing, and it has worked extensively to bring the Indian state in line with Hindutva principles.  Making this dream into reality has been the purpose of Modi’s political career. Since becoming prime minister, he’s proven remarkably adept at it. The revocation of Kashmir’s autonomous status, and the subsequent crackdown that swept up Raqib Naik, is just one of many Hindutva victories during his tenure.  His government recently inaugurated a major new Hindu temple in the city of Ayodhya, on the site of a mosque that was torn down by an RSS-aligned mob in 1992. It passed the Citizenship Amendment Act, a law that, among other things, set up discriminatory immigration rules for Muslims. In states across the country, local BJP governments have passed laws restricting interfaith marriage between Hindus and Muslims.

Vox exposes India’s siccing of Americans critical of its authoritarian turn under PM Narendra Modi.