anniezaidi

anniezaidi, 3 hours ago to random

"If a young Indian man were to open a stall frying pakoras and make Rs 200 a day working every single day, he would make Rs 6000 a month.
That doesn’t even include his operating costs. Even if it did, and he made Rs 6000 in absolute profit, that would still not be enough to survive, let alone thrive, in modern India. It is simply not sufficient for a single man, even if he lives with his parents, and it is certainly not enough to support a wife and children"

https://scroll.in/article/1004225/?s=09

anniezaidi, 2 days ago to random

”2016, people linked to the Patanjali Group set up a non-profit charity company called Yogakshem Sansthan for establishing and promoting yoga and ayurveda centres, earning it a tax-free status. While the non-profit didn’t do a rupee worth of charity for six years, it was solely used to park investments worth tens of crores of rupees, including what Ramdev’s close associates made in Ruchi Soya"
https://www.reporters-collective.in/trc/baba-ramdev-used-tax-free-charity-to-park-funds?s=09

anniezaidi, 2 days ago to random

"Facebook approved adverts containing known slurs towards Muslims in India, such as “let’s burn this vermin” and “Hindu blood is spilling, these invaders must be burned”, as well as Hindu supremacist language and disinformation about political leaders.
Another approved advert called for the execution of an opposition leader they falsely claimed wanted to “erase Hindus from India”, next to a picture of a Pakistan flag."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/20/revealed-meta-approved-political-ads-in-india-that-incited-violence?s=09

anniezaidi, 2 days ago to random

"Omprakash, who got married last year, took to farming in 2023 after having waited five years for a government schoolteacher’s job. The state government has not advertised teachers’ posts for a decade, he said.
“If I stay home, stray cattle will finish off the crop within an hour. All my labour will go to waste,”

https://www.telegraphindia.com/elections/lok-sabha-election-2024/homeless-abandoned-cattle-nightmare-in-yogi-adityanath-land-uttar-pradesh-farmers-vexed-at-bjp/cid/2021264?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tt_daily_twit&s=09

anniezaidi, 3 days ago to random

"they curtly informed my sister and me that our names weren't on the voter list so we couldn't cast our votes.
We insisted this couldn't be right since we had double-checked the Election Commission of India (ECI) website... After adamantly demanding to see the voter lists ourselves, they begrudgingly showed us one, seemingly concealing the other... we didn't back down and persisted until they finally revealed the second list. Our names were right there"

https://article-14.com/post/a-muslim-voter-s-first-person-account-of-how-she-fought-to-cast-her-vote-in-the-2024-election-664abb5c73502?s=09

anniezaidi, 3 days ago to random

"On May 19, 1984, Ansari Baug, the farmhouse built by Ibrahim Ansari was set on fire by a mob. 31 Muslims and one Hindu sheltering there were killed between 10 am and 2 pm. The massacre, which made headlines and brought then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to Bhiwandi, has been forgotten, except by those who witnessed it. Among those were Ansari’s sons Aijaz and Javed for whom the farmhouse built on 32 acres, which had a private lake, was home"
https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/mumbai-news/ansari-baug-recalling-a-40-year-old-carnage-101716060827780.html?s=09

anniezaidi, 4 days ago to random

"Economists effectively were deciding whether armchairs should be allowed to crush children"

https://newrepublic.com/article/155205/tyranny-economists?s=09

anniezaidi, 6 days ago to random

"In a reel posted by Paltu Paltan, an Instagram account mocking Opposition parties with 1.64 lakh followers, two Muslim men tell a Hindu man that if Congress comes to power, they will get half his property. Paltu Paltan, created in June 2022, only follows right-wing and official Bharatiya Janata Party accounts and has over 3,000 posts, its reel garnering around 10,000 likes apiece. One of the actors playing a Muslim man in the video is 15-year-old Ashish Pandey"

https://www.boomlive.in/decode/bjp-varahe-analytics-instagram-troll-accounts-influencers-youtube-misinformation-elections-india-25181?s=09

anniezaidi, 6 days ago to random

""Yes we are primitive, and we are proud of it," the audio fades out as Harshvardhan Patel, a young social media influencer, walks through a temple in Ayodhya. He is dressed in traditional attire. This post on his profile has garnered lakhs of views and shares, with several people hailing Lord Ram in the comments. It has no mention of collaboration with any ministry or political party."
https://www.boomlive.in/decode/influencers-drum-up-publicity-for-the-government-without-disclaimers-24803?s=09

anniezaidi, 7 days ago to random

"Bangladesh launched its first tech park on the outskirts of Dhaka in 2015. But nearly 10 years later, most of the facility remains unused.
Several companies that had committed to setting up offices and factories at the tech park said they have stalled their plans because of bureaucratic red tape or workers' refusal to move to a place lacking basic infrastructure."

https://restofworld.org/2024/bangladesh-first-tech-park/?s=09

anniezaidi, 7 days ago to random

"We don’t want our child to be another Vismaya,” said the father of a domestic abuse survivor from Kerala who narrowly escaped death, referring to another woman from the state who died by suicide after dowry harassment by her husband in 2021. The 26-year-old survivor has endured brutal torture from her husband Rahul P Gopal, a Kozhikode native, allegedly over dowry, in the early hours of May 12, merely seven days after their wedding."
https://www.thenewsminute.com/kerala/he-beat-me-saying-he-deserved-more-gold-car-survivor-of-kerala-domestic-violence?s=09

anniezaidi, 7 days ago to random

"the transfer of $700 million of tank ammunition, $500 million in tactical vehicles and $60 million in mortar rounds — all ground-based military equipment that could help arm the tanks that are pushing into Rafah now or transport troops deeper into Gaza."
https://truthout.org/articles/biden-advances-1-2b-transfer-of-ground-based-weapons-to-israel-amid-rafah-raid/?s=09

anniezaidi, 8 days ago to random

"Uttarakhand has witnessed more than 1,000 incidents of forest fire this year, both controlled and reported – most of them in Nainital, Almora, Pithoragarh, Pauri and Uttarkashi districts. With the forest becoming dry due to global warming and climate change, and a lack of rain and strong winds in the winter, the phenomenon has worsened."

https://www.newslaundry.com/2024/05/14/uttarakhand-over-1000-forest-fires-in-4-months-crisis-looms-amid-poor-preparedness?s=09

anniezaidi, 8 days ago to random

"India’s last general elections, in 2019, were labeled the “WhatsApp elections” because of the platform’s prevalence and influence. In 2024, politicians are redoubling their focus on the app.
Kiran Garimella, an assistant professor at Rutgers University who researches WhatsApp in India, told Rest of World the app reaches people that other platforms don’t, including remote communities. “There are a number of people in India who only use WhatsApp,” he said."

https://restofworld.org/2024/bjp-whatsapp-modi/?s=09

anniezaidi, 8 days ago to random

"Many parts of Asia including India witnessed record-breaking temperatures and heatwaves in April this year. Now, a preliminary study released on May 15 shows that climate change made these heat waves more frequent, and more extreme"
https://m.thewire.in/article/environment/climate-change-made-april-heatwaves-across-asia-including-india-more-frequent-intense?s=09

anniezaidi, 8 days ago to random

I read a lot. That has a lot to do with everything else in my life. Not just what I think, my values & what I value, but also, what I am not & what I refuse to be. What choices I don't make because I know those are boring or too fleeting in the rewards they bring. Reading changed how I think & expanded what I imagined I knew. The process of reading, not the content necessarily, matters.

anniezaidi, 8 days ago to random

"India's mission to the UN in New York named the staff member as Col Waibhav Kale, who worked for the UN Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS) in Gaza.
The UN said the workers were travelling in a UN vehicle to the European Hospital near Rafah when it was struck.
It did not mention who it thought was responsible for the attack."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-69006734

anniezaidi, 9 days ago to random

"Girija was abused with swear words, allegedly molested by Revanna, and raped by his son and Hassan Member of Parliament Prajwal Revanna. She is now taking on Prajwal and his family who have ruled Hassan district for decades, irrespective of whether their political party was in power or not."
https://www.thenewsminute.com/karnataka/silenced-by-fear-survivors-reveal-years-of-abuse-in-the-revanna-household?s=09

anniezaidi, 9 days ago to random

"systemic failure of the first-past-the-post syste. It is doing what it is expected to do: amplify the vote differential between the leading parties to ensure a single‐party government"
https://www.theindiaforum.in/forum/it-time-change-way-we-elect-our-mps?s=09

anniezaidi, 10 days ago to random

"SQ Masood’s letter said that there were no clear grounds for deletion considering that he had voted in the Assembly elections in November 2023 and had resided in the same constituency for the past four decades."
https://www.thenewsminute.com/telangana/hyderabad-activist-and-family-deleted-from-voter-list-alleges-268-lakh-such-deletions?s=09

anniezaidi, 10 days ago to random

"Rajkumar Gautam, a daily wager from Mohammadpur gram panchayat in Bahraich district, doesn’t know who his local MP and MLA are...
“I feel that no one comes to our village because we’re Dalits. A lot of work has been done in the neighbouring villages. But in my village, if we don’t cover the roof with plastic when it rains, the house gets flooded,” he said, claiming that nothing has changed for his family irrespective of who represents Bahraich"

https://www.newslaundry.com/2024/05/10/no-one-comes-as-were-dalits-resentment-and-perpetual-struggle-in-ups-poorest-seat?s=09

anniezaidi, 11 days ago to random

"Dharmendra Singh Jhala, a former air force officer, made his way to the collector’s office to collect his election symbol as an independent candidate – only to find that his name had been added to the list of withdrawn candidates, using a fake signature"

https://m.thewire.in/article/politics/fake-signatures-intimidating-calls-how-indore-lok-sabha-candidates-left-poll-fray?s=09

anniezaidi, 12 days ago to random

"The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Thursday issued notice to Bollywood actor Kareena Kapoor Khan on a petition seeking registration of a case against her for using the word 'Bible' in the title of her book on pregnancy"

https://www.barandbench.com/news/use-bible-books-title-madhya-pradesh-high-court-notice-kareena-kapoor-khan?s=09

anniezaidi, 14 days ago to random

"There is an onomatopoeic term in Marwari that describes the shimmering surface of a lake, pond or river: palar paani. The shepherds of Rajasthan’s Thar desert have a name for cirrocumulus clouds, teetar pankhi, as they resemble the pattern on a partridge’s wings. And ghutyo refers to the asphyxiatingly still clouds that blanket the sky but never yield rain"

https://frontline.thehindu.com/environment/arati-kumar-rao-environmental-photographer-artist-bengaluru/article68131131.ece?s=09