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by iamshs 4y ago
I am a Sikh, I need to clarify some of my concepts, look for meanings etc and nearly all the search terms are polluted by Hindu Nationalist and Islamist Dawah guys. There were websites started early on, which are now abandoned and hence don
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by iamshs 4y ago
What post-colonial narrative does BBC spew? If you see BBC regional languages programs, you will see that it platforms RSS-BJP's Hindu Nationalistic rhetoric to a far greater degree.
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by iamshs 4y ago
In Punjab, during Covid lockdown Police made people crawl on all fours on national highways for violation of curfew orders. Assaulted people with lathis (cane-charge, another colonial rule legacy). And then newspapers here write every year
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by iamshs 4y ago
Imagine saying "post-colonial history" about a massacre done by Hindu revivalist movement started and benefited most from the colonial times. This "post-colonial" term has been weaponized by RSS-BJP and plays to their ad
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by iamshs 4y ago
Modi used Adani planes during election campaign. Adani and Modi are close since his Gujarat CM days. He truly is too big to fail. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/fleet-of-3-aircraft...
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by iamshs 4y ago
Caste system too. Apartheid on a scale which has forever condemned millions into a state which they'll never get out.
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by iamshs 4y ago
Canadian public broadcaster, CBC, reported this as "financial terrorism" back in 2019. Now it seems the references have been scrubbed out. $10B drained from old and financial vulnerable is absolutely ridiculous and should be calle
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by iamshs 4y ago
I just wish Firefox would integrate Apple’s Keychain. I don’t know if it is even possible or not. But it is such a pain because I really am tired of all these password managers and also security breaches from multiple silos. Medibank has le
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by iamshs 5y ago
People living paycheck to paycheck cannot fight oppressive regimes. Sanctions are meaningless if you want to make people rise up. Protests need a supply chain in itself.
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by iamshs 5y ago
Ukraine is being invaded and will come under occupation. Ukrainians are being killed. There is no way Russian propaganda would have held any sway.
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by iamshs 5y ago
In the end it is still and occupation and people fear Putin’s purge. There will be refugees. Compare how Iraq, Afghan invasions were and this one is. I am not aligned with Russia one bit but difference is indeed stark.
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by iamshs 5y ago
You always need PR for both internal and external audience. Internal discontent has to be managed a lot more than external one. Russians have started putting out videos but there not in the way CNN did in Iraq. Sitting on Abram Tanks and si
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by iamshs 5y ago
I hope your family stays safe. In the end it is still an occupation, they are brutal there’s no disputing it. Degree of brutality was my point, I have seen how Armies behave and Russian way of capturing towns is brutal which they have yet n
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by iamshs 5y ago
Iraq saw lots of Civilian casualties and we are not seeing it in this invasion. As someone who opposes this invasion 100% it has been quite stark to see cordial behaviour of Russian soldiers until now with the local populace. They are not h
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by iamshs 5y ago
Sikh here. I mutter Waheguru 2-3 times a day. In a year, recite Japji Sahib maybe 10-15 times. In a year, god on my lips is for barely an hour. I do seva (community service) a lot and that provides me peace.
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by iamshs 5y ago
Works for me on Firefox.
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by iamshs 5y ago
Intel chief: Too many chips made in Asia, 7 months ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26573236
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by iamshs 5y ago
It is an absolutely serious matter. Chilling effect that this will have is massive. . As an example, India recently did not let two US and Spanish nationals [1,2] enter India because they were supporting farmers' protest happening in I
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by iamshs 5y ago
Probably to direct more fish into the trap, which otherwise would've swam to the other side totally oblivious of the trap. Efficiency is increased by that middle fence. Edited to add excerpt from the original paper. >A leader set in
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by iamshs 5y ago
If you read the original article, Taiwan is not keen on giving India a semiconductor fab, but who cares, a narrative has been built.
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by iamshs 5y ago
Full time equivalent most probably.
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by iamshs 5y ago
Hazy analogy but will do. Buddhism was made to go extinct in India similarly.
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by iamshs 5y ago
There still could be accounts in the native press though, but it looks like none exist. How come largest shrub wall is non-existent in Indian language press but existent in English press? No contemporary politician has referenced it in his
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by iamshs 5y ago
It is intriguing as to why no native account/cultural memory of the hedge exists, especially since it spanned various states. On the other hand though, it also reminds me of a recent Twitter thread [1] about India: "Ever wondered
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by iamshs 5y ago
Recently, Indian Embassy official in US borrowed Bhagvad Gita terminology and called Steve Bannon as great “Dharmic warrior”. https://thediplomat.com/2017/02/steve-bannon-dharma-warrior-...
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by iamshs 5y ago
War for Dharma, and you perfectly know everything can be called dharma in Hindu religious texts. Cleaning toilets, dharma for the subjugated caste Hindu; worshipping god - dharma for the dominant caste Hindu; fighting territorial war - dhar
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by iamshs 5y ago
Bhagvad Gita is a proponent of just war. Ambiguity in Bhagvad Gita can be used to endorse any position you find yourself in. Act but don’t act - perfect text which gives ample manoeuvring space if you are feeling spiritual.
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by iamshs 5y ago
Yeah in some parts there's no law... law-abiding has no meaning.
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by iamshs 5y ago
I do not like another Lastpass behaviour. If your laptop dies and you are logged into web extension, upon re-starting the browser session Lastpass straight away asks you for 2FA without asking for master password. On top, if you do not logi
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by iamshs 5y ago
So much of Canadian tax payer money has been poured into Bombardier. What could Trudeau do when Boeing had won the case in a US court against Bombardier, which allowed Airbus to swoop in?

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