In Cuba healthcare is a fundamental right, doctors can't run private clinics or hospitals to make money.

Geniuses who try to portray how many Cuban doctors can't make money off healthcare as repressive,

but fail to explain why for decades Cubans keep pursuing medicine & 6,000 physicians graduated last year from the tiny island, a portion of which US occupied till date,

if things are so bad for doctors there. How Cuba's healthcare is recognised as one of the best in the world despite sanctions against it.

Now come to the US, where healthcare is a

The guy who conned Sanjay Joshi, Keshubhai, Advani & literally killed it with Haren Pandya knows India too well.

In a hollow speech, he got one thing spot on, in a country of 140 crore, 1.2 crore are active stock investors, he said 80 crore who rely on free food grains, 9 crore on free cylinders, & a majority who have next to nothing & to whom what us privileged see as freebies is survival or hope for even a tiny upgrade,

won't listen to the Congress, because whether Adani stocks crash, whether he is in debt, or even if he flees or is jailed, nothing

If you want to know how Mumbai was built, it's natives were Koli as far back as documented history goes.

Today they are confined mostly to Koliwadas, & speak the Agri dialect of Marathi, with fishing hit by climate change & "development" projects.

While Kokanastha/Chitpawan brahmins, their Kshatriya rivals, Maratha & Savarnas shape a Mumbaikar Marathi identity which subsumes Kolis, SC, ST & OBCs.

Labour from Konkan & Vidharbha bled & died in mills, & dingy chawls where 10 people were crammed into one room leading to the Mumbai plague, they also

Moved from Surat to Mumbai a decade back, never even noticed how everyone refers to me because always got a straight answer to questions from strangers.

As someone seen with contempt by Gujarati cops, was shocked when cops apologised or talked nicely.

Complete strangers have always referred to me as bhai, boss, or sir.

Stayed in Delhi for 6 months in this time, saw two men blatantly refer to a girl in a scarf as Pakistani at a metro station.

Bus drivers lashing out for not standing near the door when asked why they didn't halt at a stop as they are

TW: Confessions

Most of the online discourse I see, respect & value sadly instantly seems as far away from the ground as my 14th floor apartment when I step down in the streets, & walk to work, where in a newsroom, Ravish Kumar's monologue doesn't help much, where you landing on the right side of power dynamics is largely luck, & most young journalists meaning well can either be cynical, learn to negotiate their values into their work, or switch fields, as paying rents & bills creates a loop, while they are judged as "media" based on what privileged

The demolition of temples in some era is used by Hindutva as justification for genocide now, & for razing a mosque.

The razing of a mosque which was locked for decades in a town which had other functioning mosques, wasn't a pilgrimage akin to Ajmer let alone Mecca is rightly remembered as a catastrophe.

Beyond this binary, the Buddhist structures appropriated thousands of years back are forgotten.

The storming & desecration of Golden Temple, actually akin to Mecca for Sikhs, with civilians inside who died in crossfire, is just a military operation

The American narrative built around racist men like Charles Manson, misogynist such as Ted Bundy & homophobes like Dahmer is used by the police to gloss over the fact that like those white men,

all Indian privileged caste men are filled with entitlement, which can't be scrubbed off overnight with intelligence, education or posing as woke.

They are given entitlement over their sisters, allowed to be aggressive in the name of being protective, & even hit women around them or see older men do it since they are kids.

Mothers too blame the female sibling

Indians give disproportionate importance to engineering, medicine & UPSC while looking down on humanities, literature & art, then wonder why there isn't innovation & attention to detail at par with west or South East Asia.

Let's start with robotics & AI, the word Robot wasn't coined by a techie, it first appeared in a 1920 play about a mechanical person who falls in love with a human, that set the ball rolling for future generations to explore the possibilities.

The metaverse was first explored in a 1935 sci-fi novel Pygmalion's Spectacles where a

So now thay everyone is so outraged about "desecration" of spectacular art.

Here are some striking images not created by #Picasso or #VanGogh but that have been shaped by nature.

Exhibit A: Coral reefs being wiped out by climate change. Which vandal is responsible for that? Exhibit B: Ice from Greenland to Himalayas turning black because of the effect of climate change. Is tomato soup on the glass in front of a Van Gogh worse?

The year is 2050,

rising sea levels have reclaimed the land once reclaimed from the sea to reduce Mumbai to a swamp it once was,

remaining residents see men in neat corporate attire sitting in dilapidated offices going on about spirit of Mumbai,

their corporate slavemasters are tweeting about it & it's amplified by hundreds of bots which are exclusive perks they got from Musk for free with their super-expensive plots on Mars & tickets for a space flight.

In Surat people living in temporary shelters on numerous flyovers in the flooded city are

Yesterday 16kg heroin was caught at Mumbai airport, before that 345kg at Nava Sheva port, before that 75kg in Mundra, all this in months after 3000kg at Adani's port in Mundra.

Multiple MD factories have been busted in Gujarat, drones are dropping heroin across the Indo-Pak border & drug abuse in Kashmir went up by 1500% in three years while no one from government to opposition blinked.

The only man Mullah Omar allowed to sell drugs for revenue, drug-lord turned Taliban top brass Bashir Noorzai has been released by US in a swap for a hostage,

I am not the shooting star that promises a wish and vanishes in a moment,
Nor are you the north star, shining bright only till the sun is out.

We are a constellation, a galaxy, infinite, neither born to please nor to be confined.

I am not a spark that triggers a blaze and hides behind its might,
Certainly not magma, gushing out of volcanoes, to cool off in the ocean.

I am the bonfire on street corners, soothing souls left out in the cold,
I am the boundless phoenix, hiding in ashes of dreams burnt to the ground.

To eyes that seek hope, the truth will

Chola dynasty ended in 13th century, Mughals came in 16th.

So they never fought a war, but @ShivAroor with his impeccable record for facts is running Cholas vs Mughal narrative on India Today to promote a film.

Not that I take pride in a history of conquests, casteism & grand structures, culture created by the privileged Savarnas & then Ashrafs with Brahmins in courts & Rajputs leading armies at the cost & labour of the oppressed castes or converts who were cannon fodder for Rajput-led armies.

But what is our history? And if some of it isn't ours,

The arrests were in Feb 15 2002, 12 days before innocent passengers were burned in Godhra.

The name underlined is from a wealthy business family in Surat, was convicted but was out in 6-7 years.

On release he went into business with Parsoli motors of Zafar Sareshwala who by then had flipped in favour of Modi, being one of his major Muslim cheerleaders.

A terrorism convict, gets to run a BMW showroom courtesy of a BJP lobbyist.

Picture that at a time when the Udaipur terrorists are seen with BJP Muslim morcha members.

Now the theory is that the

India Today has reported that Udaipur murderer Attari had links to BJP minority cell member with images from 2019.

He could be "infiltrating" BJP as India Today says, or could be the other way round, like unknown guys who throw stones from peaceful rallies.

This could mean that the radicalisation which leads to the extremist acts such as in Udaipur could indirectly be facilitated by Savarna-Ashraf collab project such as BJP minority cell & RSS Muslim wing.

Either way Muslims need to acknowledge that this is a problem & need to start organising to

There are two things that can happen when a political heir inherits a faction not aligned to his image, he either suffers from the burden of a legacy like Udhhav Thackeray or just becomes a bigger monster like Assad.

Can't say what Uddhav, a photographer for most of his life was like, but the lot like Eknath Shinde & his supporters most of whom were in the streets in 1992, are Shiv Sena at the core, & despite a facelift, Uddhav Thackeray clearly couldn't change the DNA of the party.

What that has done is contrary to practicality which most cited to

It's an important decision to examine validity of 124A, but in ground, anyone dealing with police in everyday life, knows that the law is what the cops say, from a traffic signal to being detained.

I have had my pictures taken by police twice after being detained during the anti CAA/NRC protests, & for peaceful sit in against the attack in JNU in 2020.

Back when a rape case was given communal colour in Surat, every Muslim male in my locality was picked up for being out post 9-10 in the night. No reason, no explanation, locked up for hours.

If sedition

Are madrassahs regressive or is anything problematic taught there?

Not necessarily.

But what's problematic is when religious education is considered superior & modern education is vilified.

When Muslims are told to send women to madrassahs right after interfaith marriage is painted as sin.

Also madrassahs in a neighbourhood where basic alphabet or Qur'an is taught aren't the same as those where clerics are trained.

The latter are run by different sects, each providing their own version as the only correct way, which is ok.

But implying that those

Anyone who thinks the hate among masses & silence of the privileged in India is some sudden shift in the country's climate,

never paid attention to the casteist nature of Indian society where throwing the most vulnerable under the bus, & glorifying the powerful who exploit the rest is normalised as a way of everyday life not for decades, but for centuries.

It isn't surprising at all that Savarnas are watching silently as their peers get masses to attack Muslims, they had been doing that to Bahujan forever.

All of us who ignored people dying in sewers

I'd call an economic crisis the failure of Modi's regime, if I believed it to be a blunder.

But instead it could be by design.

Dutch sociologist Jan Breman had found that the uprooting of traditional craftsmen in Gujarat, who migrated to cities in poverty, & their resentment was one of the factors behind the 2002 riots, apart from Sangh's organisational push post BJP's loss in local body & panchayat polls.

Hitler's rise came after German economy collapsed once after the first world war, was then rebuilt & again collapsed over the great depression

First of all @hussainhaidry has retweeted a claim by @alishan_jafri which is contradicted by the Quint, Indian express & a video of Ashrin where she mentions that her brother had a caste problem.

Jafri did not provide a link to the source when asked for it.

Now all these

https://twitter.com/hussainhaidry/status/1523058428825903105

Bahujan anti-caste handles he has shared selective tweets from, are active against the Sangh throughout the year, yet tweeting once in a year when a Dalit man is murdered by Syeds is categorised as targeting Muslims.

Then what should we call Ashrafs staying silent when Dalits