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film. literature. history. politics. culture. philosophical rona dhona in desi cinema.

Joined June 2019
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Those who are great, and those who aspire greatness, live through a struggle against the world. The insignificant individual is sustained by the general insignificance of life itself.
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extra judicial killing is just state terrorism with a fancy word
No mercy! No court delays! Rapists will NOT be forgiven!
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Each day Kolkata gets one bit more ripped off of its sophistry and exceptionalism, and down to the level zero of history. Monke era brought to you by Sanghi fash cult.
Bone-Chilling Incident From Kolkata -Father and son paraded naked in public. -Alleged relationship with a young woman triggers family’s anger. -The woman’s family humiliates the youth and his father. -FIR registered under multiple sections: Sources -Victim: They laughed at our humiliation. -Victim alleges being 'threatened' at gunpoint. Watch as @AnirbanSinhr and @SiddharthaTalya bring us more details.
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very zizek coded commentary
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If one were to go deep in history of Bengali feudal lords, they might just want (and get as well given Sanghi regime is there now) a Kashmir Filesque prop for their misery, which happens to be (in their own words) leaving behind their palatial houses and ‘zamindari’ back there.
South Calcutta aantels living in posh flats in Golf Green and Hindustan Park calling themselves "refugees" is really ironic, because there are actual refugees from East Bengal settled in both the 24 Parganas, generations of who are struggling for 50+ years since they got displaced.
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I can put out a whole polemic, but a basic Star Wars ref would do. Sanghi Empire wants its Vader, and it has got some candidates who make serious grievances but in reactionary terms. Now, what is new here is that this co-opted, manipulated Vader is situated within the resistance.
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The Vader, who sees himself a part of the resistance but denied a space, makes it altogether problematic for the resistance to counter. For now it means a radical revision of the idea of the resistance itself and its larger purposes. From here begins the rethinking in totality.
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A paradox reproduced by another, to dismiss this Vader in terms employed by himself would be an ironic reversal. Revolutionary intiatives demand revolutionary terms, not a rehashed response. To see the aggrieved in reactionary is to also see the reactionary in the aggreived.
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As more and more disastrous consequences unravel in Bengal and Kolkata under the puppet regime of BJP, the more you get to hear the word ‘Sanatani’ by the puppet CM of BJP. You ask why are major roads still broken, and the BJP puppet answers, ‘I am a Sanatani’. Quite the humour.
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Either you die a hero or live long enough to become a vulgar empiricist.
French “student” protests are even more DUMBER than Indian protests. Not to mention they are much more violent and obscene. And yet, instead of instilling sense among the aggrieved, we find people like Greta Thunberg joining them. I guess it’s really about who cashes in on a dumb ignorant herd. There really is a great market in fuelling populism and delusions of a crowd.
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sanghi cringe of ‘first in my bloodline’ over bengal/kolkata did not age well.
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Waking up to the news of a stampede aboug a puja pandal, it feels just as cold as the weather in the city. People dying while celebrating festivals, completely outrageous. The whole admin chain, from Sanghi bosses issuing demagogic orders to the personnels on ground, is failure.
Kolkata Police flopped in public & traffic management this puja. Dunno if they are working under the lead of some other dept or whatever the puppet BJP regime set them up to. Way less people than usual, but most on roads when vehicles are moving, and the police are onlookers.
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Never beating the neelgai allegations.
In absolute solidarity with ACP Vivek Bhagat. Thank you Delhi police (for the first time ever), for ensuring justice to a Dalit man who is constantly targeted by casteist savarna women.
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Kolkata Police flopped in public & traffic management this puja. Dunno if they are working under the lead of some other dept or whatever the puppet BJP regime set them up to. Way less people than usual, but most on roads when vehicles are moving, and the police are onlookers.
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They are not hurt because ‘chaiwala’ might be a classist slang. They are hurt for this is a blasphemy to them when done against their fake god. The same lot that abuse marginalized people in every next sentence. Now, they fear the turn in the wheel of history. ‘Hum dekhege...’
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Here comes the time of year when Hindu ‘progressiveness’, known for its mantra of ‘we are not like Taliban’, is exposed like a third-rate cringe as they abuse Hindu women for wearing ‘revealing’ dresses during festivity. These ‘dresses’ reveal their hollowness more than anything.
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Mao Tse Tung spotted. High-end ref for kino cinema enjoyers.
Bollywood actor Imran Khan has been detained by the Police at August Kranti Maidan in Mumbai. Video: @EmmanualYogini thehindu.com/news/cities/Del…
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Funny to realize that this was the official line of the undivided CPI in 1948, from where we have the evergreen marxist slogan, ‘Ye Azadi Jhooti Hai’.
Replying to @gautambhatia88
So if you’re wondering why protesting needs permission, it’s because we have an executive-centric constitution that has been interpreted by a historically executive-centred court, to uphold colonial executive-centric laws as constitutionally compliant.
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well, so far there is no penal code for being cringe, you among all are safe
🚨URGENT NEWS🚨 The government is planning on arresting me, Abhijeet, Ashutosh, Ratna and other Cockroach Janta Party leaders. If the government thinks that such dictatorial actions will work, then they are mistakened! The young generation has awakened. We appeal to everyone to continue fighting for our rights and future, with or without us. We have always been ready to face the jail or worse. But this will be a big mistake. The young will not tolerate this. The protests must continue. People of India should ensure the biggest mobilisation starting October 10th. @Cockroachisback
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Full on terrorism by a ‘Hindu’ group, just that terror laws are not invoked against them that they are not being called ‘terrorists’. If you want to deny this argument, just make up a ‘Muslim’ named group and do the same, and you will see the full nazism of Sanghi status quo.
#WATCH | Kolkata, West Bengal: Members of the Hindu Jagran Manch hold a protest against students of SRFTI (Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute) in Mukundapur. Members of the Hindu Jagran Manch attempted to break down the gate and enter the SRFTI premises. Heavy police deployment at the spot.
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Allama Iqbal was never insulted like this since the afeemchi tag.
What Iqbal was to poetry and Maududi to Islamic thought, Sharjeel Imam is to Muslim politics. His understanding of Muslim politics in India is without parallel. I wish he were seen not merely as a socio-political activist, but as a political scientist & a thinker whose ideas need to be taken as a new framework in modern democracies. thequint.com/news/politics/s…
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