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Majlis-e-Librandu | 6th July, 2026

This is a place where you can discuss or share anything you want. What was the latest movie you watched? Have you read any books recently? Got any interesting news to share? Apolitical discussions, book/podcast/movie recommendations, memes, and Q&A are also permitted.

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u/ManMarkedByFlames — 18 hours ago
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All signs of backwardness combined in one person

Castiesm orthodoxy misogny hatred all combined

Remember genz/genalpha outcastes if you ever encountered such professors/teachers don't argue with them just score good marks and move out of india

As arguing with teachers always ends up bad for students in india

u/ArrogantPublisher3 — 1 day ago
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r/Manipur denying Sexual Harassment of Women because they are Kuki

I've seen people showing sympathy to that horrid subreddit because they lack knowledge of the Manipur conflict. Be warned, the subreddit is a fascist propaganda cell pool which is engaging in an Information War.

u/Ecclesiasticus6_18 — 2 days ago
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On the morning of 13 April, workers across sectors launched a protest demanding better working conditions and a hike in wages in Noida, in Uttar Pradesh. The protest followed recent workers' strikes in Haryana, which compelled the state government to announce a 21% increase in the minimum wage. The Uttar Pradesh Police lathicharged workers, harassed women and verbally abused people at the Noida protests.

The police also detained several hundred workers and children. Activists have alleged that more than one thousand workers and other people have gone missing in Noida since the protests. The whereabouts of some were traced to the district jail, while those of several others remain unknown. The Caravan spoke to some of the families of those who went missing during the police action.

The police has confirmed the arrests of 396 persons, including four women. They have also filed seven First Information Reports on the protests, charging individual workers and over four thousand unidentified persons of attempt to murder, attacking public officials, rioting, destruction of public and private property, criminal intimidation, provoking breach of peace and other serious acts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLMwmYRUFZ4

u/Lotus532 — 3 days ago
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"When they see women, they rape them", Kuki-Zo volunteer says why he's fighting against Meitei fascists

u/Ecclesiasticus6_18 — 3 days ago
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"Tirri" itself is a derogatory slang term, weaponized against e-rickshaw drivers to dehumanize them.

The Nazis used the legal and social category of Asoziale (Asocials). This label was slapped onto anyone who didn't fit into the structured, formal, state-approved economy, including the homeless, beggars, and migrant workers.

The general German public felt completely morally justified in harassing them. When Jewish businesses were boycotted, the privileged classes cheered or looked the other way. They had been convinced that these people "deserved it" because they were a hazard to the structural order of the nation.

We are witnessing a real-time descent into "hyperreality," where the obsession with social media views, engagement and viral pranks completely overrides basic human empathy.

A trend has exploded where content creators use an app to turn off an e-rickshaw mid-trip. As a consequence, drivers are forced to push their vehicles for kilometres, leaving them exhausted, helpless and denied daily wages.

E-rickshaw drivers are part of an informal workforce where class and caste directly determine economic opportunities. The majority of them belong to OBC and Scheduled Caste categories, forced into this work due to systemic exclusion from stable employment.

If you look at the viral videos of this trend, the person adds captions such as "time for revenge," "karma." It labels the e-rickshaw drivers as "tirri wala" and accuses them of rash driving. This goes hand in hand with what would be the process of dehumanising a marginalised group by stereotyping them. Harassing them is targeted, caste-and-class-based exploitation.

The internet has a way of rewarding this behaviour. Social media giants don't care if your videos are cruel, as long as they generate engagement. Then there was the phase where "social experiments" involved exploiting the poor and day-to-day labourers by content creators, labelled with "Poorism". Usually, the intended victim is someone who doesn't possess the resources to respond.

credit: @musaibhussein

u/Fantastic-Action69 — 3 days ago
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‘Give him any award, and he’ll come running’: Narendra Modi racks up honours on overseas trips

‘Give him any award, and he’ll come running’: Narendra Modi racks up honours on overseas trips | Narendra Modi | The Guardian

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u/Important_Lie_7774 — 3 days ago
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You will own nothing and be happy !!!!

So yesterday Sony confirmed that they will be cutting production for physical disk based games. Now this issue to non gaming folks might seem largely unrelated but this sets a very dangerous precedent. Essentially now what happens you can't buy second hand games or trade old games, this also leaves you at the mercy of sony for buying games as they will have a monopoly.

They will be able to raise price by how much ever they want and whenever they want . That's not even the worst part. The worst thing is that there will be no guarantee that your games will live on . Yes that's right, the product you pay for can also clear to exist if the corpos want it. They can just just say we are not going to pass secret updates or outright shutting them and there is nothing you can do about it.

This example can be emulated by other corpos if they want best example at the top of my head is gpu manufacturing. Example:- let's say you want to do something gpu or cpu intensive (gaming, modelling,rendering etc) but the gpu and cpu companies decide that it's more profitable for them if you buy computing power from them (cloud based services) making your machine effectively a useless box that you can just use to surf the net.

This by the way is being done by Amazon (AWS) and Google as well, this can put huge dent in academia and research or even daily livelihood of people who won't be able to purchase computing power for their freelancing work.( Theoretically they can give poor tgp gpus and rent out higher tgp ).

Another thing that can be raised is essentially knowledge be held hostage as foss or fosd ( free open source software/hardware) will also be at the corpos mercy and guess what? Gpu tech is so IP protected essentially out of amd and nvidia or intel no one has been able to reproduce them (on curriculum level like you can learn how to make a cpu but not gpu).

Even in EU parliament, yes the bastion of lobs were not able to hold of save games bill even after it got 500k plus signatures.

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u/Annual_University790 — 4 days ago
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Ajay Devgan in his latest propaganda movie CHAUHAAN : "pellet guns ... limited damage" . In the seven months following October 2016 over 6,000 people were injured by pellet guns, including 782 who suffered eye injuries , not all of whom involved in protests

In the India state's latest propaganda movie "CHAUHAAN" starring Ajay Devgn, directed by Neeraj Yadav, and backed by Jio Studios — the entertainment arm of Reliance Industries, one of the most powerful corporate houses in India , Ajay Devgan is seen saying dialogues like "tear guns...masks are sold online" , "pellet guns...limited damage" , "Water cannons...temporary solution" and villanize normal words like "jumme ke din" ( friday )

in the past decade Indian state's glorified propaganda wing Bollywood's shift from soft nationalist propaganda like "Swadesh" , "rang de basanti" to hindu nationalist ( more militant ) propaganda like "dhurandhar" , "Chauhaan" is neither surprising nor unprecedented . Indian state , just like all other states uses media to spread propaganda among masses . The perception of Kashmir as " Heaven on earth" among indian masses is due to Bollywood's attempts starting in 1950's and 60's of whitewashing and trivializing suffering of kashmiris

"The film is not just "entertainment"; it is a commodity produced to generate profit while simultaneously performing ideological work for the ruling class.

This is the heart of the matter. These propaganda movies are the outcomes of a capitalist system that requires nationalist fervor to justify state violence and extract profit from every facet of human life, including the blinding of children. Jio Studios, the production house behind Chauhaan, is owned by Reliance Industries—India's most powerful corporate conglomerate, with deep ties to the ruling political establishment. When Reliance backs a film that normalizes state violence in Kashmir, it is not merely chasing box-office numbers; it is cementing its relationship with power, securing political goodwill, and contributing to an ideological environment that benefits its broader business interests. The film becomes a two-for-one deal: profit at the box office, and political capital in the corridors of power. This is the genius of capitalist cultural production. The ruling class does not need to directly commission propaganda; it simply needs to fund the right projects, reward the right narratives, and let the market do the rest. Filmmakers learn that nationalist spectacles get government patronage, tax exemptions, National Awards, and even security protection. They learn that questioning power is a career risk, while glorifying it is a career strategy. The market, guided by state incentives, produces the desired ideology organically—or so it appears" - article

In 2010, when Indian forces in kashmir fired on protesters and killed 112 people. International outcry followed, prompting the Indian government to supply regional police and the army with pellet guns they called “non-lethal" . However this *non-lethal* according to a spokesman from the Omega Research Foundation which monitors military technologies , is "pump action shotgun" . It uses a cartridge with up to 500 tiny lead pellets, which disperse in all directions when fired as ammunition , commonly used by hunters . "The ammunition is not designed for crowd control,” he says . It is designed for causing non lethal injuries that can make people permanently disabled . This weapon should not be used at all,” says the Omega Research Foundation spokesman . “No modification could make its use compliant with international human rights law and standards"

The darkness that surrounds pellet gun victims in Camillo Pasquarelli’s photographs surrounds them in life, too; they are all fully or partially blind . Each of Pasquarelli’s subjects are still coming to terms with their blindness, including the loss of not just their sight but also their ability to go to school or to work. They told the photographer of their pain. Faiz Firdouz, 18, was hit by 20 pellets, two of which entered his right eye. “Why? What was my fault? Why [have] they ruined my career, my future" . “

"it was only later that he (Camillo Pasquarelli ) saw an X-ray. While the complex and fragile machinery of the eyes doesn’t heal itself, the skin does—leaving only minor scars if victims are lucky. Doctors often decide that removing the pellets is too dangerous. They remain lodged into victims’ bodies, as permanent as their blindness. The first X-ray Pasquarelli saw was of Amir Kabir Beigh, one of Kashmir’s first pellet gun victims. “I mean, it’s crazy,” he said. “Hundreds of small pellets all over his head. It was then I realized I needed X-rays, to make the project complete and to balance the message that I want to convey.”

source : https://redfrontmedia.com/f/from-pellet-guns-to-propaganda , https://time.com/5386056/pellet-gun-victims-kashmir/

u/Important_Lie_7774 — 6 days ago
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Meitei women halting a Police Vehicle from helping Kuki-Zo people

Same group that handed the two women to be publicly gangraped by men.

u/Ecclesiasticus6_18 — 6 days ago