Justice To Those Who Were Wronged

south asian diaspora students protest in solidarity of freedom for palestine, chanting for azadi (adopted from kashmiri slogans against occupation)

transcript under the cut

arre hum kya chahte? AZADI ! palestine ki AZADI ! cheen ke lenge AZADI ! hain haq humara AZADI ! cheekh ke bolo AZADI ! chillake bolo AZADI ! jor se bolo AZADI !

columbia main AZADI ! cornell main bhi AZADI ! palestine main bhi AZADI ! palestine maange AZADI !

aadhi raat main AZADI ! aadhi raat ko AZADI ! arre hum kya bole AZADI! baaki sunn le AZADI! columbia bole AZADI ! cornell bole AZADI !

cheen ke lenge AZADI! biden sunn le AZADI ! netanyahu sunn le AZADI ! modi sunn le AZADI ! columbia wale AZADI ! cornell bole AZADI ! nyu bole AZADI ! nypd se AZADI !

cheen ke lenge AZADI ! hain haq humara AZADI ! what do we want AZADI ! what do we want now AZADI !

A Durga Mata temple at Manali Mall Road

It was strange no one was visiting this temple on a Friday (I visited this on the 7th of Feb)

I love the little art on the golden plated doors of this temple. I can make out a few from this picture too.

बड़का मंगर / बड़ा मंगल

Tuesdays (मंगर in Awadhi) falling in the month of Jyestha (जेठ या ज्येष्ठ ) are celebrated as बड़का मंगर

This is similar to how we do Saawan somvaar on Mondays in Shravan.

Devotees of Ramdoot Bajrangbali Hanuman fast (optional) each Tuesday and visit a Hanuman temple. The folktales speak of Shri Ram and Lakshman meeting Hanuman and Sugreev in the month of Jyestha.

|| जय सिया राम ||

|| जय हनुमान ||

Ik how it might have come across.

But look at it this way —

Muslims must have come along with the Mughal and turks and persians and settled in India. How? By years of massacred hindus and stole their lands. And yet their crimes are to be somehow made invisible and they are given a minority status. And they continue to commit those crimes. They continue to benefit from the crimes their ancestors committed.

Upper caste in India have committed the crime of casteism. We hold them accountable for it. There are caste based reservations to help the lower castes.

Muslims in Kashmir kicked out Kashmiri Pandits. Is that justified because they are upper caste? Do the Muslims deserve the minority status and the special rights? After all the crimes they've committed.

We don't say "not all muslims" even though they all benefit from the crimes some of them commit. They still deny us from our religious lands. They still occupy stolen lands.

Don't blame all Kashmiris and Indian Muslims for terrorism. Okay ji.

But blaming all UCs for 5000 years of history is alright? Building a system which denies equal opportunities for ordinary general category Indians citizens is also acceptable?

How does that work?

100 चूहे खाकर बिल्ली हज को चली

Shoot us and then offer free food to get rid of the guilt or the bad karma. Those are the same hands that pulled the trigger and those are the hands that are not cutting fruits for you.

ध्यायामि शीतलां देवीं, रासभस्थां दिगम्बराम् ।

मार्जनी-कलशोपेतां शूर्पालङ्कृत-मस्तकाम् ॥

Does that lie help you sleep better?

India violated the ceasefire as expected

I'm just so sad

शीतला सप्तमी

My family celebrates Sheetla Saptami every year twice. Once in the month of Chaitra (चैत in Awadhi) and then in the month of Shravan (सावन in Awadhi)

My mother has to observe a fast on Saptami and do a pooja before dawn the next day

Hibiscus flowers, doob grass and paan leaves are offered to Mata

There are offerings made, which is completely satvic. There is a puri, a batasa(बतासा), a jaggery filled gujiya (गुजिया), few uncooked soaked chana, a small amount of dahi, a dallop of lapsi(लपसी prepared from flour and jaggery), and a clove(लौंग)

A diya is to be lit and kept on a rice filled earthen bowl called कोसा in Awadhi. Which is kept on a kalash filled with water and adorned with mango leaves

Hate how I was just discussing this yesterday with couple of friends and I feel like I jinxed it

The west wants to fund a war while rattling on about de-escalation only to India. Why else would imf approve a loan this big

The reality of "Kashmiri students being harassed in India". Government of India pours shit ton of money on infra in Kashmir and Kashmiri youth to study in top institutions in Deli, Mumbai, Bangalore only so that these same pieces of shits can cry freely "free kashmir" and support t*rtorists who m*rder the only natives that is the Hindus. Fuck outta here with that.