#thread So as per available info in the #punegangrape, 14 year old girl is called to pune station, allegedly by her 23 year old ‘peaceful’ friend at night. ‘Friend’ doesn’t turn up, but ‘peaceful’ autodriver knows exactly where to find the girl, and knows she is alone.
‘Peaceful’ autodriver takes her out of station, calls his ‘peaceful’ friends and they take the girl to multiple locations in two days including a lodge in Khadki and the girl is r@ped multiple times. In all this, her phone is switched off.
Two days later, peaceful gang is r@pists drop the girl on a bus to Mumbai, her phone works and she calls her ‘friend’, the same guy who didn’t turn up on day 1. Peaceful ‘friend’ doesn’t go to the cops, but takes the girl to Chandigarh!
Cops trace the girl from her phone and bring her back. Peaceful ‘friend’ is arrested along with others. Question is, why did the peaceful ‘friend’ call her to pune station at night and not turn up?
How did the peaceful auto driver know the girl would be alone, how would he know exactly where to find her and convince her to come out with him? Did he know the ‘friend’? Did he convinced her that the ‘friend’ asked him to drop her some place?
After keeping the girl captive for two days, how did the peaceful auto driver put her on a bus to Mumbai alone? And how did the ‘friend’ convince her to travel to Chandigarh? Was this a human trafficking racket? Was the girl going to be sold?
The gangr@pe is absolutely sickening, but my guess is, it is just the tip of the iceberg. This is not an isolated crime but an organised gang at work. Question is why is there no uproar, no outrage, no dharnas, no candle light morchas? Is it coz the perps are mostly peacefuls?
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#Thread Most Indian art has some underlying spiritual meaning, as every little thing in this world is perceived as a divine creation. Even the humble #Kantha, once the recycling craft of the women of Bengal and Odisha, was a way to communicate with the Divine.
Women stitched together old, much washed sarees and dhotis and turned them into the softest, warmest quilts after embroidering them with motifs drawn from their own lives, culture, religious beliefs and nature. #Kantha was the art of story-telling and the stitches were the words.
In his book on quilts of India, Patrick Finn quotes a Sanskrit proverb that uses quilting as a metaphor. ‘Slowly one stitches rags, slowly one traverses the path, and slowly one climbs to the top of the mountain’. Did you know that there are special deities in India for rags?
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Even today, these sarees carry a modest price tag that ranges between 800 - 2000 rupees. Woven using extra weft motifs and single ikat borders and pallus, #sutaluga sarees are elegant and drape well. This is a typical sutaluga pallu. @odisha_tourism@arunbothra#MyHandloomMyPride
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Motifs on Indian textiles are inspired by architecture, scriptures, religious beliefs, flaura n fauna n abstract patterns. Motifs tell a story. They serve a symbolic purpose that is beyond fashion. The trefoil motif seen on the priest king’s shawl from #harappa#MyHandloomMyPride
The peacock is one of the earliest motifs we see in Indian art. Found on Sindhu-Saraswati civilisation era pottery, the peacock is considered to be a symbol of immortality, courtship, rebirth, romantic love and fertility. #MyHandloomMyPride
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#thread on #blockprinting, India’s heritage. Do read and share. @silkmarkindia@csbmot@smritiirani@TexMinIndia. Block printing or छिपाई का काम is one of the oldest crafts of Bharata being continuously practised, with its history going back to the Sindhu Saraswati civilisation.
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