To all those deeply upset at Deep Sidhu's comments, here's a little lesson in mass movements.
Mass movements involve all kinds of people. The movement against Emergency involved people from all political hues, including RSS. Does that mean we disown and reject that mov't? (1/n)
Similarly, a massive movement emerging out of Punjab will have a few Khalistani supporters and Bhindranwale sympathisers as well. So what? How can that be grounds to override and reject a movement???
This is outrageous.
(2/n)
A lot of people following the movement do not understand Punjabi, otherwise the amazingly progressive and radical ideological foundations guiding this movement would have left you stunned.
(3/n)
And finally, while nothing better is expected from Godi media, but in this case the likes of @BDUTT, who only choose to highlight standalone views instead of the mass message, also have a lot to answer for.
(4/n)
If you want the perfect movement that ticks all your nationalist/progressive/liberal check boxes, then sit at home. Because such movements do not exist.
(5/5) #FamersProtest #FarmersBill2020
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Some of what I write may sound like a conspiracy theory. Till some months back, it would have seemed the same to me. No longer.
Till a few days back, haunting images of daily wage workers struggling to go home were circulating on Social Media. Now these images are changing. (1/n)
They are images of vandalism, violence and workers finally beginning to explode. This government has transgressed all levels of indecency and callousness towards the poor. The ugliness of our systems has been exposed. (2/n)
The truth is, PDS, Public Health, Public Education, all are in shambles. With growing contractualisation and dilution of labour laws in the last two decades, labour has become brutally vulnerable. The few existing, flimsy labour laws have been revoked in UP and MP. (3/n)