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19 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
i just finished seeing #Trance (malayalam w/ english sub-titles, 2020, amazon prime video). it totally rips the mask off the entire RoL evangelism industry, and shows how it's a huge money-making fraud. the film shows the villains dying, but in real life they thrive. must watch.
next, #jallikattu (malayalam w/ english sub-titles, 2019, amazon prime video), india's official entry to the oscars this year. about the killing of an errant buffalo, as social commentary. maybe like #maranasimhasanam (throne of death, 1999, camera d'or at cannes). there a 1/2
man is sentenced to death on the newly arrived 'throne', a world-bank-funded electric chair, and becomes a minor celebrity on that count. the kerala villagers, the political parties, and the govt, and the (happy!) victim himself all become partners in a macabre game of death 2/2
watched the first 12 minutes of #jallikattu, it's kind of brechtian with lots of meat being butchered and distributed wrapped in banana leaf, and a disjointed, pointless, impressionist series of images. i think i'll give it a miss.

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#sisterAbhaya case final verdict tomorrow. found drowned in convent well 1992 mar 27. Suspects #padre #godman kottor, #nun seffi (pic below) confessed under truth serum but cji Balakrishnan conveniently ruled evidence inadmissible. Seffi got hymenoplasty! #joemon pursued case 1/2 ImageImageImage
Seffi, kottoor and another godman puthrakkayil confessed to 3way in kitchen, which abhaya stumbled upon. So seffi beat her over the head with an axe handle and they dumped her in well.

Seffi hymenoplasty to 'prove' virginity! No patriarchy, no sir! 2/2
Joemon doggedly pursued case after Michael the investigating cop destroyed evidence, later both ib and cbi both gave up. So 28 years later, verdict. I'm hoping abhaya gets justice. Her parents died waiting. Is justice possible in India against the global might of vatican?
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17 Oct
indians have a misconception about long-term US resident/citizen indian-americans: that they care about india.

for many of my IIT classmates who have been there for 40+ years, this is not true. they get teary-eyed about 'america the beautiful' and july 4th.

i generalize. 1/n
i am not blaming them, either. they may be married to americans, and their children are americans, and they will almost certainly die there, and once their parents die, they lose allegiance to india. this is the seductive 'melting pot'.

those who care about india return. 2/n
that is also a generalization. i know people who are passionate about india after living in the US or UK for 50 years. my UK doc uncle who died last year was one such; i have friends who also are.

the best way to support india's interests in the US is to create linkages. 3/n
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let's look at this from first principles.

1. H1B visas not necessarily in india's national interest.

2. H1Bs are in the personal interest of middle-class indians who want to live in the US. and of indian IT companies and US firms.

personal interest > national interest? 1/n
not in national interest coz it negates #makeinindia, and skews aspirations away from, say, mechanical or civil eng jobs which are needed for manuf/infra.

training up these migrants is a drain on the indian economy, and then they all become medium-skilled coders 2/n
they then depress wages in the US and compete with natives, who are justified in complaining about it.

besides, if they stayed on in india, at least some of them will build solutions to problems we have in india.

yes, admittedly, some individuals' US migration will be hurt 3/n
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now reading this ebook by @CatherineNixey #thedarkeningage about the destruction of #greek and #roman #culture by #christians. we are seeing the same in action re destruction/#digestion of #hindu culture in india today by the same folks.
no, not ISIS. christians. the first page of the book.
the tyrant. we saw this in #antonio #maino's NAC, which turned into law the RTE, and was about to turn into law the Communal Violence Bill, which essentially made all Hindus criminals. expect the roman christian behavior as in this excerpt if @incindia comes back to power. 👇
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the inevitable gopal subramaniam and indira jaising. surprised bhushan wasn't there as well, and kapil sibal. it could have been a reunion, just like old times.

sending crummy lawyers against these well-connected shyster sharks is a losing tactic.
in other words, you can get ANYTHING done in india by hiring someone from a small set of millionaire lawyers. and we have to believe it's their brilliant arguments, not that they have social ties with the judges?

there's something deeply disturbing about this scenario.
the FCRA NGO cabal figured this out long ago. for a small investment of a few crores, they can get their missionary #breakingindia sponsors huge force multiplication through the PIL mechanism.

#1 need for judicial reform: force all PILs to be filed in the lowest court, never SC
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