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My Ammamma told me that she ate it in the days following giving birth to my mother to recover, am I’m wondering if that was an actual documented widespread practice at the time?

(This was in East Godavari district)

I know that murrel is a prized fish with a lot of significance in Telugu culture (state fish of both AP and TG) but I chalked this practice off to superstition.

However, new studies show that there may be some truth to this practice (which was also done in Southeast Asia):

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12931505/

In order to adapt to low-oxygen environments and brackish waters, murrels have high albumin content.

However, in humans, albumin speeds up wound healing, enhances collagen synthesis and reduces inflammation. It also has antimicrobial and anti fungal properties:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammad-Habibur-Rahman-Molla/publication/324731953\_Snakehead\_Fish\_Channa\_striata\_and\_Its\_Biochemical\_Properties\_for\_Therapeutics\_and\_Health\_Benefits/links/5e6b148c299bf12e23c0546c/Snakehead-Fish-Channa-striata-and-Its-Biochemical-Properties-for-Therapeutics-and-Health-Benefits.pdf?origin=publication\_detail&\_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIiwicGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uRG93bmxvYWQiLCJwcmV2aW91c1BhZ2UiOiJwdWJsaWNhdGlvbiJ9fQ

That said, has anyone else used murrel for postpartum recovery and how effective was it?

So I saw u/shubhamxtreme ‘s recent post and I’ve been thinking and thinking and thinking.

And my thinking brought me back to the 2002 Gujarat riots.

I have not seen any evidence that Modi orchestrated those riots as the CM of Gujarat nor do I believe that.

However, this is what we do know for certain about the timeline:

1.) A train catches on fire, resulting in the deaths of 5 dozen pilgrims and the injuries of several more.

2.) There is debate on whether the tragedy was an intentional act of arson or whether it was an accident:

The Gujarat Police and government appointed commission claim that it was on purpose while the Concern Citizens Tribunal and independent commentators, including those from abroad, maintain that it was an accident.

There was also a third theory:

“Forewarning of the violent incident was also noted. Additional director general of police G. C. Raigar had informed prior to the Godhra train burning that the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) activists could instigate communal violence. He was removed from his post after he provided evidence to the media outlets to show that the state could be compromised by VHP activists who were arriving to and from Ayodhya”

3.) Regardless of how the incident came to be, the outcome was the same: Communal tensions reached a boiling point and mass riots ensured, culminating in the deaths of at least 254 Hindus and 790 Muslims.

4.) While Modi may not have directly ordered the riots, what we do know based on the testimony of a minister close to him is that he ordered police to stand down for the first few days of the riot and to “not obstruct Hindu rage”.

Indeed, police did nothing as attacks happened right in front of them and, in some cases, they were even complicit in the attacks. Some rioters even had voter registration lists with them.

So, even if the gov wasn’t complicit, it was complacent.

This begs the question:

If Modi was willing to let (at least) 1044 of his constituents die to advance his career as CM, what makes you think it’s beyond him to do the same as PM?

Uri, Pathankot, Pulwama, Pahalgam and now the recent attack.

All coinciding with political events.

Some of you may say that Indian Intel isn’t perfect and that agencies cannot thwart every single attack. Even so, what are the odds that the small percentage of terrorist attacks that do occur just so happen to occur at the same time that Modi needs them to occur?

With each successive attack, the chances of all the attacks being coincidences diminishes.

My theory is this: While Modi may not have ordered those terrorist attacks, he may have suppressed some intel and allowed some attacks to happen at a politically expedient time where he could utilise the rally around the flag effect.

And there is evidence supporting this for the Pulwama attack:

“Central Government had received at least 11 intelligence inputs, including from the Intelligence Bureau and Kashmir Police, days before the attack. Two days before the attack, Jaish-e-Mohammed uploaded a video of a suicide attack in Afghanistan and hinted at launching a similar attack in Kashmir. The Home Ministry refused to provide CRPF aircraft on the day of the attack and instead let the convoy take the road route, ignoring intelligence inputs.”

I hope I’m wrong but this is too suspicious and he’s already proven that constituents’ lives matter little to him.

Rudrama Devi did not sacrifice her life for this.

This is the most British headline in the history of headlines 🤣

Using a random image of a Chinese person to conceal your identity as an Indian in Canada while pushing an agenda is just another level of unemployment.

Source: https://www.weforum.org/publications/global-gender-gap-report-2025/in-full/benchmarking-gender-gaps-2025/

The Global Gender Gap Index examines 4 subindices-

1.) Economic Participation and Opportunity:

India does poorly here because it suffers from both low female Labour force participation rates AND wage inequality, where the average per capita income for women is only 40% of that of men.

Bangladesh, in contrast, has high Labour force participation rates and women dominate the garments and textiles industry which is the backbone of its economy. Wages are also closer to parity.

I suspect the Telugu states would be doing slightly better than the national average due to higher participation but still far behind Bangladesh.

2.) Educational Attainment:

India and the Telugu states do well when it comes to parity in gross enrollment ratios. However, the ranking in this sub index is brought down by a massive gender gap in literacy rates, especially in the Telugu states.

3.) Health and Survival:

India’s female life expectancy is a little over 3 years higher than its male life expectancy which is pretty normal compared to other countries. However, it has one of the worst sex ratios at birth which greatly diminishes its ranking in this sub index. Bangladesh, in contrast, has a much more normal sex ratio at birth.

4.) Political empowerment:

I think this is pretty self-explanatory.

Link to Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_Indian\_states\_by\_life\_expectancy\_at\_birth

Link to most recent SRS data (2020-2024):

https://censusindia.gov.in/census.website/data/SRSALT

The problem I noticed is that most PoC—not just Asians—is that they SOLELY go on the defensive when faced with racism, whether it’s online or irl.

The problem with this is that it presupposes that YT supremacists are engaging in good faith and are genuinely willing to learn.

My friends, I can guarantee you that this is not the case 99.9999999…% of the time.

They don’t care about your culture; they care about your complexion and appearance. And, even if you did nothing to them, they will see you as a subversive. Their entire worldview is shrouded in a sort of tribalistic cognitive dissonance (see last paragraph of comment). So expecting them to be morally or logically consistent is futile.

Did YT supremacists ask Vincent Chin if he was Japanese when bludgeoning him to death with a baseball bat? No.

Did YT supremacists ask that Sikh man if he was Arab before shooting him dead the day after 9/11? No.

Did YT supremacists in the UK ask that Sikh woman if she was Muslim before gang raping her in a park? No.

(Even if these atrocities affected their intended demographic, they would be equally horrific but the point of these examples is to emphatically show that they. Do. Not. Care. Who. You. Are.)

They are and will remain ignorant and, even if you are 100% correct in what you say, playing defense does nothing.

You need to flip the script and turn the tables. If they are “superior”, why do they hold themselves to, as I put it, “abysmally low, borderline infantile standards”?

After the murder of Tunchanok Donhomla, the Western media painted the human sack of garbage Simon as a victim of his own impulses. “It was out of my control!”
The same level of agency afforded to a toddler that pooped themselves. Pathetic.

Yet, you won’t see the same level of mollycoddling for so-called “inferior races”.

Ask them why is that? Shouldn’t the straight-A student be MORE upset when they get a C on a test compared to the C-student? Not less?

It’s high time that the paradox of low standards is burst.

While everyone is clutching their pearls at Palestinian kids playing with toy lambs, they ignore the real atrocities being committed