— The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
I don't mean to constantly compare June/Nick/Luke to Katniss/Peeta/Gale but oh... the similarities...
Do you guys know that we brought back more than a 100 tonnes of our gold from the Bank of England on the day of Dhanteras?
Talk about celebrating at a large scale 😆
it's funny that we were all so worried about viktor's villain arc and then jayce was like L + ratio + here's my unconditional love and forgiveness + i always thought your imperfections were beautiful + nothing about you is broken to me + in every universe i will find you and save you from your loneliness + none of this is worth it if you arent by my side. and viktor folded IMMEDIATELY
🎶Our love, is a bubbling fountain... Our love, for eternity
some of you think ‘nuanced’ only means ‘morally grey’ and I’m here to tell you that actually straight up good characters can still be nuanced and unapologetically evil characters can still be nuanced. the character doesn’t have to be an anti hero or morally dubious to have depth. they don’t even have to feel sorry about their crimes to have depth.
People who benefit from casteism aren't bramhins 90 percent of the time, it is the vaishyas, i.e shopkeepers and land-owning farmer class who benefit off dalit farm labourers and poor dalit customers. Often, it is people call themselves "lower caste" by virtue of being down in the heirarchy; they benefit from caste reservations made for dalits while still opressing dalits. Often, and this can be a hard concept to digest, often they are ones who have succeeded in getting OBC certification in many states, so they are able to posture as dalit when it benefits them socially and politically and yet very actively perpetuates the cycle of opression on dalits.
It benifits caste-deniers to present casteism as bramhins vs. non-bramhins but it's important that we never forget what it really is: dalit vs. non-dalit.
*sigh*
I miss Nick Blaine
*Pakistan trained t*rrorists enter Indian soil and slaughter Indians, primarily selecting Hindus by checking their ID and whether they were circumcised, and telling their wives to send a message to Modi*
-> India launches Operation Sindoor* to take down t*rrorists in Pakistan
the Indian liberal feminist: "uhm, this operation sounds so patriarchal! weaponising women for religious dogwhistle!"
while pakistanis
the youth of india that has submitted to facism and right wing politics very conveniently complains about reservations but not about the lack of opportunities and seats by the government.
like do you really think by removing reservation, there would still be enough seats in institutions for lakhs of students?
the entire entrance system is a symptom of govt incapability to provide basic higher education and jobs and trap the youth into giving exams and blame their failure on students/candidates/people for not cracking them.
again, what good can come from the generation that believes that the government's responsibility is to build temples rather than focus on important things like education, infrastructure, development etc. these terms are almost non existent and alien.