The Official Indian Politics Thread

[Arachnodouche]

Yeah, the light skin = good theory was promoted by Western scholars of the 19th century who had their own vested interests in advancing the Aryan Invasion Theory. It's enough to put anyone off from relying on an English translation of the vedic corpus by someone with an Anglo-Saxon last name. Which of course isn't to say that varna biases (not based on skin color, as if that makes it any better) hadn't ossified before the Brits came calling; only that the British used those social divisions to their advantage for administrating a vast empire.

 

[vcs]

Bharat Mata ki Jai

 

[honestbharani]

There is this screengrab of Arnab shouting about boycotting Chinese products and there is the wonderfully timed "sponsored by Oppo" there right in front of him.

 

[smalishah84]

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Bharat Mata ki Jai

 

[Kirkut]

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I remember when twitter was new, there were Indian fans savagely abusing Michael Vaughan for that vaseline on bat comment and Vaughan was literally taking the pain asking every poster individually to be polite. Probably the only time I saw a high profile person replying to fan posts on twitter.

 

[duffer]

So I just found out "Surrender Modi" and "Cong-China" were things.

The cringe is real

 

[honestbharani]

Well, if it helps, every country's politics is gutter right now... Maybe we take solace knowing its not just us.

 

[Spark]

A lot going on in this one:

 

[honestbharani]

Its funny coz even Arnab's channel won't do something like this..

 

[harsh.ag]

That pie isn't even divided 60-40

 

[honestbharani]

It looks like the PAC MAN or something... Surely there must be a disgruntled graphics designer there at TIMES NOW.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

I thought it was TIME SNOW

 

[honestbharani]

John Cena's theme?

 

[honestbharani]

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/tam...r-tamil-nadu-deaths-in-police-custody-2253116

not good.

 

[duffer]

Awful, awful story that. Can't say I know too much about Indian police brutality. Is it a big issue across the country?

 

[honestbharani]

Its not that widely reported. I don't think it is anything systemic but there are always odd incidents. The real trouble is most of the time police can end up being henchmen for the politicos. That is why evne the cases of brutality usually do not get covered, as you can be sure there is a big shot politician behind those and he will make sure it does not see the light of the day.

 

[Arachnodouche]

Man, if Americans think they have it bad with their cops, they should come spend a month in India. There's no conceivable trouble you can get into, or get out of for that matter, with regards to the Indian constabulary.

 

[vcs]

Indian Govt. bringing out the big guns now in response to Chinese incursions. Banned many Chinese apps including TikTok.

Cheen ko karara jawaab diya

 

[Daemon]

That's pretty bad news for ByteDance. I believe India is their second largest user base outside of China for TikTok.

 

[vcs]

It's a genius move. China can't even retaliate because we make **** all that's worth banning.