Padmakumar N

Just the clearest, most inarguable speech from anyone on the times we inhabit!

As I said on March 5th, if SBI cannot deliver this data in a day, it is unfit to function as a bank, anywhere in the world So SBI's March 4th filing is now proven malafide. Will the SC hold SBI Mgmt & their lawyer to account for the blatant falsehoods in their filing & arguments?

@ecomarxi We will never forget.

This is a list of 11,500 dead Palestinian children. Every one needlessly murdered for Zionism and US Imperialism, hundreds before their first birthday. It’s seven minutes long. Fuck Israel and fuck the West. We will never forget.

Having the worst possible Labour Party at the same time as the worst possible Conservative Party at the same time as the US has the worst possible Democratic Party at the same time as the worst possible Republican Party isn’t just a coincidence we can just shrug off. This is the result of decades of intentional centralisation of power and wealth, courtesy of late-stage capitalism, and the resulting authoritarianism working to prevent any reasonable alternative to the managed duopoly. Or, in short, this terrible, undemocratic and dystopian juncture, where the nations who helped write international law ignore it to murder thousands of children, is the result of what happens when the system works precisely as intended—so we the people have no political power, the tyrants do as they please, and every avenue to change is blocked and tightly controlled. This is what happens when we meekly accept terrible ‘representatives’ on repeat: they continue to disenfranchise us while pacifying us with lies. And we know they’re lying. We know they’re playing us. We know they’re the worst kinds of people imaginable—child-killers and grave-robbers in business suits with dead eyes and greedy, plastic smiles. Yet this will only continue and worsen even as time goes by. The state of play will continue to decay because the fundamentals are still the same: the same centralisation of power, the same bad actors stifling change, the same charlatans like Biden and Starmer presenting the illusion of hope while acting completely against our interests. Until we take a stand. Until we unite across significant divides. Until we refuse to let them manipulate us with their ‘Good Cop, Bad Cop’ rhetoric where the fear of one tyrant plays us straight into the hands of another. The solution is the old solution—organisation, mobilisation, mutual aid, civil disobedience, citizen education and direct action. And while the police state has never been stronger, we have new tools at our disposal, too, in how we organise and build movements for change. If, like me, you have an issue with prejudice, with inequality, with climate change, with imperialism, or with any of the dystopian policies being carried out across the Western world, these are all upheld by the same system that exploits and disenfranchises us all, destroys communities across the world, murders innocent people, and treats our planet as nothing more than a resource to exploit. This is the only fight in town, and we’ve been subjected to it for years. We need to get better at fighting back.

@HawakalP If you were indeed a conscientious publisher that believed in poetry, you'd have indulged a young poet in his mere choice of a filter - something so trivial! But your obnoxious post points to a sinister show of power. That of the system versus a single artist.

On the controversy revolving around Gautam Vegda's manuscript: "The Black Drongo". "It is also to be noted that the literary work pertains to very sensitive issues surrounding the identity of the Dalit community and their perceptions of the earth’s ecology, and the background of the author as a young representative of the Community’s ideas ought to have been considered by you before making derogatory comments and further extending threats of terminating the contract. It is understood that such comments have been made with a view to arm twist our Client into oppressive and non-existent terms of the contract and also making the author’s creative rights subservient to the Publisher’s whip." — Excerpted from Point 13 of the legal notice sent by the Advocate on behalf of Gautam Vegda, dated Aug 31, 2023. The entire controversy began with uploading the wrong cover design that was deliberately made by the author having followed his professor's advice. Since the onset of the controversy, we refrained from commenting on caste issues. Our selection of Gautam Vegda's "The Black Drongo" wasn't based on his caste but on the merit of the poems. A simple email bearing the author's request to withdraw the manuscript could have ended the controversy that was blown out of proportion. Instead, the author chose the legal pattern and made us select an appropriate way of responding to the legal notice served to us. Legal procedures are expensive and time-consuming, to say the least. Moreover, the author's attempt to engage us with legal mediation arrived with a demand for a lump sum. So, friends and well-wishers, we had enough conversations with half-baked information — with truth, lies, and half-truths. We request that all of you refrain from making any comments/remarks in any manner until the legal procedures end. Thank you. Bitan Chakraborty (Founder-Director, Hawakal)

@ecomarxi This is the only fight on this planet, and the enemy empowered themselves by spreading ignorance. It's going to take a mighty thrust, but we have to begin somewhere.

Enough! It is just horror after horror after horror. Remember these precious and beautiful lives. They are human beings with names and faces. And they are being indiscriminately slaughtered. What unconscionable inhumanity. We need a ceasefire, now.

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Oh God! Shocking! 😥

Manipur is burning after All Tribal Student Union Manipur (ATSUM) took out a march to protest the non tribal Meiteis, who dominate Imphal, from getting Scheduled Tribe status. @KRahmanKhan @MansoorKhanINC @_dreamerhere @dzongrijourno @MangteC @IromSharmila #ManipurIsBurning

The anarchy that mainstream media will not report on. Sab changa si

More of what mainstream media doesn't want you to know

Army has been summoned to control the violence in Manipur. There have been casualties on both sides but numbers are not yet known. #manipurisburning @KRahmanKhan @MansoorKhanINC @_dreamerhere @dzongrijourno @MangteC @IromSharmila

Here's what mainstream media is hiding from you.

Came across this poem and poster.

An old proverb : Judge a man by his friends Putin's friends... Bashar al-Hassad, who used poison gas on his own people Alexander Lukashenko, Dictator of Belarus Dictator Xi of China, comitting genocide on the Uighurs Many Russian kleptocrats Wannabe Autocrat Donald Trump...

Why's anyone surprised with “manipulated media"? We all know that “manipulated media" is in fact BJP's specialty. Just turn on your news channels.

Aankh se aasu beh rahe hai Aur Ganga mein laashen beh rahe hai