u/AbenegationQuestion

What bothers a lot of people is that Dhurandhar doesn't hold back when depicting the political machinery of Pakistan as corrupt, volatile and hostile to India.

The mistake filmmakers and showrunners make when depicting our enemy, is that they go for two extremes:- either showing them as completely relatable Aman Ki Asha types who just want peace and solidarity, or they make them cartoonish caricatures who rely on stereotypes and incapable doing anything humane.

Dhurandhar does not do this. It ingrains us into the psyche and territory of the enemy. We learn they have human traits, they have frailities, they have strengths and they even have disagreements with one another. Hell, the divisions in Pakistani society are so profound that they often lead to violence. Ethnic rivalry, sectarian clashes and political differences. Even the various villains we meet don't really like each other and would kill the other if given the chance and they do.

Little by little, we are shown how Pakistani govt agencies and structures are built upon dehumanizing the Indian and the infidel. Then comes the television chamber scene with 26/11 and see that all these characters, some of which we started to like, sympathize with and found out were always looking betray the other- are unilaterally celebrating the deaths of innocent civillians across the border. Hamza is clealry shook by this and so are we, as Rehman Dakait was someone who cared about his family and could be approachable if you got to his heart. But none of this erases the fact that they consider the neighbouring country and its people as the ultimate targets. No matter how much they hate each other, they will hate us more.

This is what makes Dhurandhar surpass Tiger, Pathan, War and all other similar movies.

I have been noticing this pattern nowadays. You will have this online account that claims to be of some Northeastern ethnicity which will be either extremely pro-India or extremely anti-India sometimes even supporting China, no in between. They make these weird claims about being linked to the Centre through folklore or talk about how Brown men "deserve" NE women and that we need or to open up our borders. Or if they are anti-Centre, they will take to the umpteenth degree, advocating for Chinese interventions and making strange comments about white people. Then within two weeks or less, you will find out the account was being run by someone from Patna or Dhaka.

I have no doubt some of our own NE people may be a bit extreme or that Chinese bots and trolls may be involved here. But it's very easy to tell when it's one of them vs when it's someone from the Mainland or Bangladesh. There is this particular subconscious tone in them. It's easy to notice. Even Pakistanis have it.

Doyichi used to LARP as Northeastern before being found out. Rohit_rra on twitter was LARPing as Arunachali on reddit but it was so bad, everyone saw through it. There was this Axomiya ethnonationalist account on insta that posted the most extreme anti-Centre posts which gathered more hatred towards us but was revealed to be a Bangladeshi ultimately.

The LARPers are very bad at maintaining their facade, especially since they don't speak local languages and almost never post their faces.

I don't know what's the plan behind this behaviour, but it is concerning.

The tactics of Mainland Indian trolls usually consist of a few common tactics: i) Post about rape constantly. ii) Always make degrading posts about the women every second. iii) Post such an obvious lie that you don't even want to counter it. iv) Do some weird LARPing as some other ethnicity that is too hard to counter or even understand.

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Bangladeshis are pretty much the same, except they are more hilarious and overconfident about their abilities.

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Nowadays, there's been a trend noticed online. So many accounts which seem to be of NE ethnic ethnic extraction-many even posting anti-Asian or creepy fetishizing posts- turn out to be some Indo-Aryan doing a very bad LARP. There's the Doyichi account on Twitter that used to pretend to be NE but got busted. Another account whose name I forgot that was LARPing as Arunachali on reddit. And an Assamese nationalist account insulting India/supporting militants that turned out to be a Bangladeshi.

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I don't know what they are planning or seeking but beware of this. Even on this sub and others, they exist.

Imagine Dhurandhar but about Bangladesh rather than Pakistan. The MC is from West Bengal and chooses to join after some familial dispute and is meant to infiltrate the heart of hostile networks and infrastructure in Bangladesh.

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Which groups, networks and events would we have seen? I wonder which historical domain characters would show up.

I had crossed all lines. I literally lost all morals. Went on, insulting the troll endlessly, using the most demeaning and dehumanizing language. I shouldn't have done that. Even disagreements should be cordial but that did not happen. In an attempt to fight the troll, I just turned into an even worse version of him.

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The worst part of it was dragging in innocents who had nothing to do with the conflict. In the flurry of the moment, I did not retain any scrupples. As he kept insulting us and me, I continued to retort in an equally dehumanizing way.

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I am ashamed of my behaviour and I believe I shouldn't even be given the right to say this.

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I did the irreversible. Now the damage has been done. It's terrible. I must shoulder the responsibility.

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Forgive me if possible, all the innocents and the general people.

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I was debating this weird Mainland troll on another sub. Just by way of writing, I knew he was low-iq. He kept lumping us with Asian Americans and East Asians all while potraying us as Asian wannabes.

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I knew I had come across him before because I met some troll like him on instagram who talked exactly like him. He even had that same annoying insistence on birth rates and constantly denying truths.

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He was so vulgar, insulting and degrading, that I felt compelled to insult him in his own way. I even started pointing out to massacres against civillians when he provoked me about what I could do irl. Then I kept bringing up cruelty in the NE towards outsiders and kanging on the specific number of massacres, to own him. I felt like I had devolved and had eventually become like him.

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It's just the misogynistic aspect that I couldn't imitate. He had that standard troll behaviour of using derogatory remarks on women, which I couldn't bring myself to do. The closest was just pointing out brown women hate brown men nowadays.

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I know it's pretty silly to say this here. But I had to clear myself up. By interacting with these crazy trolls, I am just becoming like them. I need to cease. And I hope the rest of you won't make the same mistakes.

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And if any of you have done similar things, please do tell me.

Bagyidaw, born Maung Sein- the successor to Bodawpaya. The one who took part in the invasions of Thailand as a prince.

He conquered fully annexed Assam and strengthened control on Manipur. He eventually picked up the fight with the British.

I would like it if you could give me a list of their quotes and doings.

Historical movies made in Burmese history, particularly the Konbaungs, will be appreciated.

Thailand is the perfect hotspot for sex tourists, especially the predatory types seeking children. Other Southeast Asian countries like Cambodia serve as sex tourism hubs too.

Asian woman fetish and the will to have sex with vulnerable and poor populations all contribute to this. Westerners, Indians, Arabs, many populations contribute to this industry as customers.

The northeast serves as a relief centre for those perverts too broke to afford Thailand. And just those seeking new types of debaucheries. The issue of sexual trafficking of women from NE-including Mizoram- is well known. Many are lured with false promises of a decent job then forced into brothels, spas and parlous in incredibly sexual positions.

So far, most of the sexual exploitation has been done outside of the state. But now, they are planning to take their perversion inside. The weird behaviour of certain vloggers attests to this. Western vloggers have been seen to do this too.

Mizoram, which is a relatively peaceful, homogenous and stable state is bound to be affected by these trends as it provides a safe passage to these degenerates to enact their fantasies.

How do we deal with this problem?

This is a question for the Northeast as a whole but Sikkim being a peaceful, quiet and stable state with a decent economy has a special place in this.

We all know of sex work and abduction of NE women, including Bhutias into sexual slavery and humiliating conditions. Sikkim has these in low rates due to being a strong and successful state but it is not unheard of.

Now there are people coming into our lands with the explicit intention of mimicking all the depraved behaviour they do with the sex trafficking victims in their lands, hoping to find easy release here. Lots of vloggers have shown this behaviour.

Places in Southeast Asia like Thailand serve as easy avenues for those with an Asian woman fetish and seeking easy sex. The Northeast is a perfect spot for those who can't afford to go to Thailand or just a different taste.

Historically, Sikkim has been more of a transit point for trafficking networks than a source of victims, but if Sex Tourism becomes popular, it could be affected very badly.

How do you suppose we could deal with it?

I have suspected this for a long time. We do have reservations, appeasements, ILPs and some token offerings here and there. But look at cases like Manipur where the govt took aeons to respond and is still military quiet for the most part.

The addition of Bengali nationalist scholars makes it all the more trickier. I don't know if you know this or not, but a lot of Bengali ethnonationalists go out of their way to claim that the entire Northeast is a homeland rightfully for Bengalis and that Mongoloid people are all illegal settlers. They advocate for removing us and moving Bengalis and Biharis in.

Just look at Bishnupriyas who keep insisting Meiteis are Chinese immigrants and that they are the true owners of the land. They want to depict us as outsiders and take away everything that belongs to us.

Tripura and Assam are their favourite targets. You have dudes claiming Tripura was always Bengali land and talking about taking Assam.

It's the reason why I haven't fully subscribed to mainland political agendas. Because they fully have the potential to turn against us anytime.