distantvoices:

A compilation of everything that has been happening in India in the past few weeks

The RSS, a Hindu nationalist group, has been marching all around the nation. With heavy sticks and poles called “Lathis” (that have been previously used against peaceful anti-caa/nrc protestors). And they are being allowed to do this freely. There’s no section 144 being imposed on them. The internet in these areas is untouched.

Section 144 imposed in areas that organized protests against caa/nrc in Bangalore, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh. 

Internet and other phone services suspended in Delhi and other cities in India.

Not just the RSS- but the police has been going around causing destruction to people’s private property- in residential areas where there are no protests being held. To scare them and keep them in their homes. (Link 2) The police is unfairly arresting muslims who aren’t even taking part in the protests. Detaining underage students. Beating them up. Several people have been killed. Including babies. (Link 2)

Breaking into homes of muslims - Link, link

Police brutality - Link

Bhakts (Hindu nationalists) have taken control over most news channels and are planting their own members in debates, spreading fake news, etc.

The celebrities and “influencers” in our country are hush about everything that is happening. 

The government was recently allotted 1300 crore rupees (13 billion US dollars) to start working on NPR (national population register). Which basically sets the foundation for NCR (national citizenship registration). 

The GDP and unemployment is at an all time low. Modi lies about economic growth and wastes billions on discriminatory acts. 

Link 2 about relationship between NPR and NCR. Link 3. Link 4. Link 5 (!!!!!)

The government is using one atrocious act as a distraction to cover up other atrocious acts and they have been doing it for a while.

– Section 370 in Kashmir. Where, by the way, the internet is still down. It has been 144 days.

– The Transgender Act.

Activists jailed

Unfulfilled promises. Promises modi made.

German student expelled from university and sent back for protesting against the discriminatory act.

BJP IT Cells tweeting in support of Modi- influencing people who aren’t well aware of what’s happening and somehow these cells include some famous Indian athletes???

Educators jailed, Link 2

Detention centers are being constructed. While modi and amit shah lie and say that no such thing is happening. Link 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Modi lying some more.

RSS member impersonating cop.

Policeman dressed as a protester, being violent towards another policeman during a peaceful protest. Police strikes back against students.

Police using a hindu God’s name while attacking a largely Muslim group of peaceful student protesters.

People (including a baby) were sent and later found dead in Assam detention camps despite the proof of their citizenship. Link 2

University campus with majority muslim student population attacked by police, teargassed. Female students sexually harassed. 

Twitter and Instagram accounts are being surveilled by police.

Check my previous posts for more info. A simple google search can help clear your doubts. Message me if you’d like, I don’t have all the answers but I can give it my best shot. 

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quotes-for-the-soul:

“Autumn leaves don’t fall; they fly. They take their time and wander on this, their only chance to soar. Reflecting sunlight, they swirled and sailed and fluttered on the wind drafts.”

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Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

purplebuddhaproject:

“It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.”

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Erma Bombeck

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vital-information:

I told Miyazaki I love the “gratuitous motion” in his films; instead of every movement being dictated by the story, sometimes people will just sit for a moment, or they will sigh, or look in a running stream, or do something extra, not to advance the story but only to give the sense of time and place and who they are.

“We have a word for that in Japanese,” he said. “It’s called ma. Emptiness. It’s there intentionally.”

Is that like the “pillow words” that separate phrases in Japanese poetry?

“I don’t think it’s like the pillow word.” He clapped his hands three or four times. “The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it’s just busyness, But if you take a moment, then the tension building in the film can grow into a wider dimension. If you just have constant tension at 80 degrees all the time you just get numb.”

Which helps explain why Miyazaki’s films are more absorbing and involving than the frantic cheerful action in a lot of American animation. I asked him to explain that a little more.

“The people who make the movies are scared of silence, so they want to paper and plaster it over,” he said. “They’re worried that the audience will get bored. They might go up and get some popcorn.

But just because it’s 80 percent intense all the time doesn’t mean the kids are going to bless you with their concentration. What really matters is the underlying emotions–that you never let go of those.

— Roger Ebert in conversation with Hayao Miyazaki

Originally posted by flori-pori

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purplebuddhaproject:

“Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.”

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Maya Angelou

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Man fears time, but time fears the pyramid.

Tell me what’s the difference
between hope and waiting
because my heart doesn’t know
It constantly cuts itself on the glass of waiting
It constantly gets lost in the fog of hope

I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind.

I want you to know that it is not always easy to love me. That sometimes my chest is a field full of landmines, and where you went last night, you can’t go tomorrow. There is no manual, there is no road map, no help line you can call; my body does not come with instructions, and sometimes even I don’t know what to do with it. This cannot be easy. But still, you touch me anyway.

purplebuddhaquotes:

“I am worn out with dreams…”

— W.B. Yeats

purplebuddhaquotes:

“Whatever is in me is stronger than what is out there to defeat me.”

— Caroline Myss