Can people please talk about the absolutely disgusting thing that got uncovered in Tirumala?
Honestly I don't engage with many politics or news posts, as they can often end up in conflict- but this absolutely disgusts and saddens me to no end.
There are so many things on so many levels that hurt me about this- and I'll be talking about it in this post.
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QUICK RECAP, FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW OR NEED A REFRESHER:
Recently, it was uncovered through lab reports that there were animal products (such as beef, pork and fish) in the prasad (food given as offerings to the deity in the temple, in this case, Lord Venkateswara, and then given to the devotees) of the Tirumala temple, more specifically, in the Laddos.
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The following is my view on this is my opinion on this whole incident, from what I know about it.
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First of all, the fact that this went under the noses of so many people, so easily, is a complete dissapointment.
Hundreds, if not thousands of devotees visit the massive temple complex every day- and consume the prasad- hell, this doesn't even include the people who get the prasad as a gift from people who visited Tirumala.
Not even counting faith- this was so wrong on multiple other levels- including health. This was obviously a massive food safety violation.
Fine. Let's say that this alarmingly large issue went unnoticed accidently. But that still doesn't justify the responses of the people in charge.
And then going into that temple and saying that 'if we did this wrong then the lord will take care of us' is absolutely shameful.
Pushing all the wrongs onto god's name, just so that no-one will question them, instead of acknowledging a huge, huge wrong is just absolutely so so disappointing and shameful.
I am just immensely, immensely disappointed by this chain of events- and all I can say is that I'm absolutely ashamed of it all.
This whole incident speaks a lot about these 'organisations' and their actions- and just breaks my trust in them even more.
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I was scared to post about this incident- but after a point, I simply could not take it. Tirumala is a place very, very close to my heart and honestly I considered it a safe haven- but now this incident has shaken me up. Tirumala will never lose its divinity- but this just makes me so much more reluctant to go there- not because I don't like Tirumala, or that I think of it as different- but because of my distrust at the organisation handling matters regarding it.
I'll probably add on more to this post soon, but for now, this is it.
Every time, every single time, anybody is raped in India, it gets brushed off, and when once in a while it reaches the national television, the general public stages protests and screams for justice, yet nothing truly comes out of it.
A resident doctor getting brutally raped and killed just days before India's independence day shows just how far behind India is. Economically we might be progressing but we keep on stepping back when it comes to protecting our women or people in general.
She was found in a half naked condition, bleeding from her privates and other parts with her pelvis broken. Even in such a bad state, the hospital didn't allow her parents to even see her, lied to them that she commited suicide. Only after hours of waiting were they allowed to look at their daughter.
Just last year, India had its major Shraddha Walker case. She had been cut to pieces by her boyfriend and kept in the fridge until he slowly disposed every piece off in different areas. There was widespread rahe and anger. People were disgusted, they revolted but soon the news died down and now nobody's sure what happened. And this happens every single time.
This independence day, what do we even have to celebrate? We most certainly do not feel free. A place where even my workplace could be my crime scene is not a place I would like to celebrate. This revolt will go on, and then it will die down and then, it will start all over again, every time, every single time.
1947 pakistan attacked first
1965 pakistan attacked first
1971 pakistan attacked first
1999 pakistan attacked first
2001 terrorist attack by pakistan
2006 terrorist attack by pakistan
2008 11/26 terrorist attack by pakistan
2016 terrorist attack by pakistan
2019 terrorist attack by pakistan
2025 terrorist attack by pakistan
yet the cries for peace and humanity only echo when India retaliates.
the world weeps when terrorist camps are reduced to dust—but stayed silent when our people were turned to ashes. was our blood not red enough to stain headlines? did it not matter, just because it flowed quietly through classrooms and prayer halls in Poonch? where was the outrage when bombs fell on unaware children in response to us shelling their terrorists? when prayers were silenced mid-sentence in Gurudwara?
was peace not a global concern then?
was humanity not an international concern when our unarmed citizens were hunted down and killed right in front of their family—mercilessly shot in the name of religion—when all they wanted was to enjoy a vacation with their families in the hills of Pahalgam?
do only terrorists deserve mercy? not the child clutching his dead father’s shirt? not the mother who still sets a plate for the son who’ll never come home?
why does the world stay silent when we mourn, but raise its voice when we defend?
do the hands that carry weapons of hate deserve more compassion than the hands that held their daughter’s as they died?
me: is completely shocked when something fucked up happens in my dystopian novel
I finally got around to watching The Handmaid's Tale. I just got to season 3, and I gotta say,
Serena Joy Waterford is the kind of Complex Female Character that fandom says they want and then can't handle.
She is a horrid cruel bitch, and a brilliant and relatable antagonist. She has an MBA and is a published author that helps build a new society that bans women from any form of literacy. She tries to be friends with her natal slave and then punishes her for being overly familiar. She is full top to bottom of fart-huffing bullshit and cognitive dissonance so bad she cannot tell up from down but she knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that looking good and speaking with confidence will get her her own way 99% of the time (and it only cost her a finger once)
Serena Joy is Girlboss Gaslight Gatekeep and I will stan her even as I hate her.
i have no idea how to process this. it’s not unfathomable and it’s something i’ve thought about many times but i don’t actually know how to process it. what do you mean he was such an integral part of me growing up and he did some fucked up things in part bc of the fucked up environment he grew up in and now he’s DEAD and can’t do anything to try and make amends. what do u mean the boys now means harry louis liam niall zayn. what do you mean he left behind a child less than 10 years old. what the fuck do you mean
first, the national digital library. now this. I'm gonna cry
i have no accommodation to make for the backers of a terrorist pseudo-state that carries out indiscriminate shelling that took lives of children and destroyed a school, gives state funeral to terrorists killed (while calling them "martyrs" and "freedom fighters"), and state protection to terrorists still alive
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