#October21 | @Chandrabosebjp : 75 yrs ago Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose formed the first free govt of undivided India in Singapore on 21 October 1943. Subhas Chandra Bose was declared the Head of State, Prime Minister and Minister for War and Foreign Affairs
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Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh on this day in 1951. The quest for an alternate political narrative to the hegemony of the Congress was thus launched... https://t.co/47jRIZO7Pv
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Th Thugs of Hindostan is reminiscent of Manoj Kumar's Kranti | @EditorBharathi:Certain things r just meant 2b. ManojKumar & patriotic cinema wil always b taken in th same breath. Also,politicians & filmmakers hv always been compatible bedfellows | #_B_S_P_ https://t.co/H9xnCVKYXj
No I didn't watch it DDLJ then. But the film I remember with equal fondness is:
[Woh Saat Din (Those Seven Days) is a 1983 Hindi film directed by Bapu. Produced by Surinder Kapoor and Boney Kapoor Starring: Anil Kapoor; Padmini Kolhapure; Naseeruddin Shah] #23YearsOfTimelessDDLJ
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Remembering the other K.K. Nair (Krishna Chaitanya) (1918–1994) of the five-volume Philosophy of Freedom fame is in order. Said [Sri Aurobindo's discussion of time and eternity is wholly derived from that of Boethius; Life Divine is watered down Plotinus.] https://t.co/icEdIZRe47
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"I want to keep these plays free for my imagination – whenever I re-read them, I always try to imagine some key scene in cinematic terms."
Slavoj Žižek discusses his five favourite plays and explains why he hasn't seen any of them on stage. https://t.co/DaKWgOwaNq
Not all women are the same. Then why should there be just one feminism? When we try to box diverse people into a monolith, it becomes a shouting match. That’s when privilege steps in, followed by “Saviour Complex”. Thats exactly what happened in #Sabarimala https://t.co/SCodplh5mK
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Equality does not mean Sameness – A perspective on Sabarimala.
We don’t think the same way, we don’t dress, walk or talk the same and we don’t share the same aspirations.
If our backgrounds, hopes, dreams, languages, expressions, bodies and preferences are all different, then how can one feminism define us all? If we insist on boxing women into one monolithic feminism, it is bound to fail many of us as it will devolve into a competition of who can shout louder. This is when privilege steps in. An English-speaking, rich, urbane woman will always have more access to amplify her voice over that of the native-language speaking subaltern. This often leads to “saviour complex”.
Well-meaning but privileged women start imagining that they can be the representatives of these native women and they can “uplift” their lives by advocating “change”, “reform” and “progress”, underlying which is the troubling assumption that natives lack agency. That they are too meek to decide for themselves, and share the aspirations of the progressives. This is exactly what is happening in Sabarimala.
The argument is that what is supreme and what is not should be a decision of the people concerned and not presumed advocates who assign to themselves, the role of “saviours”.
"If our backgrounds, hopes, dreams, languages, expressions, bodies and preferences are all different..." @neha_aks asks invoking the plurality principle but stops short of saying that there should be different rules or options too. Tradition is not supreme https://t.co/YjV4BDAk3Z
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This argument of 'leave it to social & political reformers from within'. This is 2018! If society & politics is taking this long to catch up, someone's got to do it. Why r women always told to wait for incremental, evolutionary change? https://t.co/ayN1QdDjhc
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People who are brutally honest are often lonely and miserable and die alone.
To have a big circle of friends and admirers one needs to be an excellent and polished liar.
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Why is truth no longer popular? No, why?
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Women must be truthful in #MeToo movement n not confuse flirtation with assault. I fear that too many frivolous allegations will dilute the seriousness of this issue. Whilst lewd n shameless behaviour is despicable, flirtatious behaviour with an apology ought not to be shamed
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I think we need to be balanced about social behaviour. In a gender inclusive society both sexes need sensitisation of what’s acceptable n what’s not. This must be taught from school onwards.
How to behave around women in office: Vinita Dawra Nangia The rulebook for behavior towards women colleagues is the same as earlier. It’s men who need to toe the line and be more sensitive. One of the silliest things a man said right after the #MeToo… https://t.co/RcZGSU1T9J https://t.co/zTr1Y5dh4I
If harassment was open secret, why the conspiracy of silence?: Swapan Dasgupta The positive facets of India’s fierce MeToo moment have been both quietly and vocally internalised, at least in metropolitan India. Following revelations of alleged harassment… https://t.co/OVtlwbk3Cr
Conspiracy of silence | @Swapan55 : But why did their colleagues not spill th beans? Where were th whistle-blowers, especially now that it emerges the harassments were an open secret? Why was there a consensual conspiracy of silence? | #_S_D_G_ #_Me_Too_ https://t.co/7ml0dKLgLX https://t.co/LpaKdmfNZH
"Many of the evil acts that were performed relied on the Nazis recognising their victims’ capacity to feel human emotions, to feel shame or humiliation."
@paulbloomatyale reconsiders the place of dehumanisation in our concepts of cruelty and evil.
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"First of all you need to understand your insecurities and why you have them. Secondly you have to accept that they’re part of you. You are who you are."
Bestselling author and CEO @RobertKelseyWSY recommends five books on overcoming insecurity https://t.co/PrhHsjDOrs
#SundayMotivation how women are revered in Hinduism or Sanathan Dharma whereas in Abhrahamic faiths women are merely disposable commodities hence this false feminism a very readable column by Itee Sharma @Pragyata https://t.co/lyIyXZKD1A
The Complex Nature of the Mental Action of the Human Being https://t.co/nmBVmDp3IE
Sri Aurobindo's biography by Rishabhchand (TEXT).
"We have based our study of the political life of this “brightest star on the Indian firmament” on the fact, borne out by... https://t.co/oSPP9JcT34
Comments of Dr. Mangesh Nadkarni made on 7 March 2001 in conversation with two Bombay businessmen, who asked several questions... https://t.co/u75t54fFnW
"How can we show whether the happiest life is going to be the just life or the unjust life? If we’re going to try to answer that about the individual mind or soul, let’s look at the city in big letters, like a model for the soul."
The best books on #Plato
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#Hegel’s #India (#Oxford #India #Paperback) now on #Amazon! A new Preface, original text plates, 14 #book #reviews! Amazon shows that in the last few weeks, copies found way to lands like Philadelphia, Detroit, Boston, Kansas, Pittsburg. Don’t ask why. https://t.co/0zCmBgSSpc
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We'll read Epperson on quantum theory in my January course "Whitehead's Adventure in Cosmology" https://t.co/cJtWH7KKej
"environmental issues are inherently collective in nature, and preventing the emergence of collective agency contrary to the interests of capital is priority number one for neoliberal public policy." https://t.co/rmMjNrJiCT
The churning of tradition | @KS1729 : What is important to note is that temple rituals in Hinduism are highly localised, unlike liberal aspirations or Semitic religions that are universal | #_Sabarimala_ https://t.co/1CCqAvVITD
Certainly some relevant reading on the subject but in no way justifies the stance on #Sabarimala taken by a supporter of science like @arvindneela (and also @AgentSaffron). Blanket disregard for Marxists' contributions towards social reform worldwide is not a sign of objectivity. https://t.co/P6mOPsfhB0
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1053661632264630273?s=19
That a temple is the home of the deity and therefore the rules and customs followed as per tradition should enjoy autonomy is a formidable and convincing-seeming argument. But the flaw is law is about human beings whose perceptions and interpretations alter with time. #Sabarimala
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Abnormal level of population and dual govt system is the bane of India. Languages form the basis of a nation as in the European countries but the States don't enjoy Sovereignty in India as a result people lack initiative & motivation to contribute their best. #Sabarimala is local https://t.co/0vbVTIDbQh
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No amount of moderation can be the pretext for overriding the primacy and superiority of Constitutional rule. Hinduism, or for that matter, any religion mustn't impose its priorities by pushing mob wisdom as more legitimate as is happening in the case of #Sabarimala imbroglio. https://t.co/r1bJtoUUpU
https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1053648344013099008?s=19
For God’s sake, Don’t Dr ASG Netaji — he was totally Secular- his motto Itamad, ,Ittefaq, Qurbani ? Hindutva-types were so busy chumming with British during Freedom Struggle that they didn’t produce Martyrs! Now, they are stealing them from Congress! https://t.co/HJfIUBN0TM
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Sabarimala issue: Palace directs Tantri to close the sanctum if young woman enters temple premises - RSS BJP Talibanis want to take India to medieval ages and barbarity. https://t.co/enPYMGkcvU
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