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5 Jul, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Free #StanSwamy before it becomes judicial homicide.

// Before his arrest nine months ago, he was physically independent and could eat, walk and take a bath on his own, but since his judicial custody, “all that is disappearing one after the other". // 

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"Why must a veteran tribal rights activist with multiple ailments be compelled to suffer in this manner at his age on CHARGES THAT ARE YET TO STAND SCRUTINY IN COURT?"

He is 84, has Parkinson's and lumbar sponsylosis...and has been brought by the "system" to ventilator stage.
If we wish to keep calling ourselves a democracy, we simply must take a good look at UAPA.

If anyone has any doubts about why #uapa is essentially an instrument of torture, this would be a good primer.

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Sunil Menon Profile picture
7 Jul
Go well, Yusuf saab.

For me, he reinvented speech itself for Indian cinema. Taking it away from the distant theatrical orations of the likes of Sohrab Modi. Down to ordinary human speech, intimate whispers, mumbles, bringing a sense of nearness and interiority.

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The classic clash of styles came in Mughal-e-Azam, where his soft, sensitive Salim faced off against the thunderous Prithviraj Kapoor with...yes, words...but also silences, and speaking eyes.

The scene that framed this the best is his very entry....
All the grandiose pageantry of the Mughal court comes to us first, nobles, palace maids and eunuchs running about, orchestras heralding his arrival....

All that magniloquence comes to a halt in anticipation of his first words.

And it's an intimate whisper: "Ma".
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5 Jul
Too late. This is nothing else but murder.
Mark my words, #StanSwamy will make a last stand for freedom...everybody's freedom... from his grave.
Let this death be the beginning of the end of UAPA.

Let some democracy be born.
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8 Oct 20
A bouquet of powerful essays by #Dalit women writers. All of them wrote from the trenches, from an embattled zone. A whole experiential domain opening up, always enlightening, disturbing the received opinion, challenging the old discourse, enriching, humbling.

#DalitLivesMatter
That striking cover art, deeply personal, contemporary, yet adorned by the old nature motifs, is by Dalit artist Malvika Raj. She works with, breaks and extends the Madhubani idiom, giving us powerful art. Some iconic images -- Savitribai, Ambedkar, Buddha -- partner the essays.
Malvika's art offers a perfect visual realisation of the world the essays weave: bustling with moral urgency, coping with trauma with a deeply introspective wisdom, and most off all a desire and commitment to write an as-yet unwritten history. @caselchris1 writes the lead essay.
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2 Sep 20
@TIinExile @neha_aks Yes, but it finally does, does it not, somewhere during what can be called the classical phase, leaving not much of a trace in the post phase. What we see is clearly a very interesting transition to total patronymy.
@TIinExile @neha_aks Yes, there's clearly a widespread tendency attestable -- often the figure of the father is more fleeting, and it's also matrilocal. In this case, you also marry that against the overall tendency and attitudes from the devas, despite being kin.

@TIinExile @neha_aks There are two separate strands here. One is the higher degree of variety before codification, which is general. In this specific case, one sees a kind of classing on that basis, and conflict, which the higher deities try to adjudicate over.
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31 Aug 20
@TIinExile Hi TN, okay, this is how I would offer my response. It comes not from any hasty perusal of literature, I did not do it then, and I did not it now -- in fact, took your words at face value and issued a corrigendum on that factual point on my post. But they come from a deeply...
@TIinExile ...considered view of things over decades of knowing/living a reality, just like millions of others, and you could spare some space in your mind and heart for it, if you do have that space. There exist multiple tracks here, in plain view. Tying them up is the lore related to...
@TIinExile ...Vishnu, which provides the primary mythic material here. Now, in Vaishnavite lore, it is natural that the deity's ineffable primacy is what is centralised...and hence Bali (and his Daitya lineage...before him Virochana, AND Prahlad) are shown in aspects of total devotion.
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30 Aug 20
This has got to be the most unintentionally hilarious one ever :)) utter innocence on three counts:

a) whether a stable form of Bali iconography exists (it doesn't)

b) how a "Christian saint like Jesus" (!) is depicted

c) most cripplingly, what native Indians really look like! Image
Here's a small sample of Bali iconography picked from Wikipedia. This is from Badami, Karnataka, 7th c AD, with the Bali figure highlighted on the right. Doesn't look very much like a member of the "choti and thread" club :))) ImageImage
Here's another. Choti-thread? Why on earth (or sky or pataal) would they at all want to turn a Daitya king into that? Image
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