https://twitter.com/_Paul_Sanderson/sta ... 3743544320vijayk wrote:
Tulsi on Hillary's India trip
keep evil spirits away ?? LolA Deshmukh wrote:Hillary Clinton garlanded with a mirchi & lemon garland....that's strange.
These are coconuts, not cheeku or dateskrithivas wrote:Yindians are taking over the world - First, Downing Street and next White house?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/14/us/p ... trump.html
'It's a historic agreement',
A Deshmukh wrote:Hillary Clinton garlanded with a mirchi & lemon garland....that's strange.
Two leaders reaffirmed the strength of the U.S.-India relationship and committed to continue working together and in groups like the Quad: White House on Prez Biden- PM Modi talks
Do you really want to trade Arunachal Pradesh for a silly line of Boeing planes? Seriously? Is AP worth only $17 billion to you?drnayar wrote:Indeed , one hoped that at least one would come up with an assembly line at least, but also could mean that Indian aerospace is not mature enough to provide enough components or infrastructure not ready to move around the structures involved..maybe someone can explain. There must be a reason
Does India need an american stamp to make sure AP stays in India ?!, i was commenting on the practicalities of the decisionNRao wrote:Do you really want to trade Arunachal Pradesh for a silly line of Boeing planes? Seriously? Is AP worth only $17 billion to you?drnayar wrote:Indeed , one hoped that at least one would come up with an assembly line at least, but also could mean that Indian aerospace is not mature enough to provide enough components or infrastructure not ready to move around the structures involved..maybe someone can explain. There must be a reason
(I am not saying that is the deal that the Goi made.)
One of Kshama Sawant’s earliest memories of the caste system was hearing her grandfather — a man she “otherwise loved very much” — utter a slur to summon their lower-caste maid.
The Seattle City Council member, raised in an upper-caste Hindu Brahmin household in India, was 6 when she asked her grandfather why he used that derogatory word when he knew the girl’s name. He responded that his granddaughter “talked too much.”
Now 50, and an elected official in a city far from India, Sawant has proposed an ordinance to add caste to Seattle’s anti-discrimination laws. If her fellow council members approve it Tuesday, Seattle will become the first city in the United States to specifically outlaw caste discrimination.
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The McDonnell-Douglas foray into PRC was a total disaster for a company already in trouble, including being indicted by the US government on technology sale/transfer to China irregularities. It got merged into Boeing.Pratyush wrote:^^^
I still remember that the PRC had gotten a line to manufacture just 80 Douglas narrow body aircraft in the mid 90s. With final assembly of only 35 aircrafts.
https://www.yesterdaysairlines.com/airl ... 2C%201987.
But the government of India has not negotiated for it. Even though they made a joint statement with both Biden and Macron.
ricky_v wrote:could not find any more relevant thread, usually, I do not post these diamond dozen articles, I usually could care less for what these worthies have to say, but in this doggy dog world, stupidity and malice are an arms race, and these worthies might bumble into grasping the absolute without any aforethought of their actions culminating into a being of pure entropy with every successive iteration
it is archived, so click away
https://archive.is/hDOpuSoundararajan, an artist, Dalit activist, cofounder of civil rights organization Equality Labs, and Ambedkarite Buddhist, is the author of The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition.The numbers are truly shocking—in India, 37 percent of Dalits live below the poverty level, 54 percent of Dalit children are malnourished, and 38 percent of Dalit children eat separately from the rest of their classmates in government-run schools. More than 67 percent of Dalit women have experienced sexual violence, and Dalits make up 53 percent of India’s prison population. Soundararajan also cites these horrific numbers from the Indian National Human Rights Commission Report on the Prevention of Atrocities against Scheduled Castes: “every hour two Dalits are assaulted; every day three Dalit women are raped, two Dalits are murdered, and two Dalit homes are torched. A crime against a Dalit happens every 18 minutes.”And current political efforts, including the Citizenship Amendment Act, are working to revoke citizenships of “caste, gender, and religious minorities.”
Dalit can be translated as “broken,” and is Soundararajan’s preferred term.Soundararajan’s mother—whose first reaction to Soundararajan’s question about their caste was “caste is a terrible lie”—kept her Christian altar in a closet, as she was accustomed to hiding her faith in India, where most Christians are Dalits.dont know what eliminate means hereI also felt angry that current Hindu nationalist efforts to eliminate those from caste-oppressed backgrounds aren’t a cause we hear very much about.
Soundararajan is a key player in the often contentious movement in the US to include caste as a protected category on college campuses and in workplaces. In December 2022, Brown University became the first Ivy League institution to officially ban caste discrimination. In April 2022, Soundararajan was scheduled to give a talk about caste to Google News employees for Dalit History Month. The Washington Post reported that her talk was canceled after “employees began spreading disinformation, calling her ‘Hindu-phobic’ and ‘anti-Hindu,’ ” with some employees arguing on an email chain for South Asian employees that caste doesn’t exist in the US and lower-caste people lack the ability to “properly interpret Hindu scripture around caste.”he Post also reported that Equality Labs, the organization that Soundararajan founded, started receiving invites from tech companies to speak about caste following the death of George Floyd in 2020, and that she has spoken with employees at companies that include Microsoft, Airbnb, and Netflix.
Criticism of Soundararajan isn’t limited to the Google talk, and a quick search produces opinion pieces alleging Equality Labs fabricates surveys and has funding from nefarious sources. After Soundararajan appeared on the Conspirituality podcast and discussed her discomfort with mantras used in yoga classes, she was accused of going on an “anti-Brahmin” “tirade.”For Soundararajan, who writes that “Dalit experience was what originally illuminated suffering for the Buddha,
US Constitution lists three qualifications for the Presidencyvera_k wrote:This needs careful reading, but perhaps now a person born outside the USA can run for President of the USA if they are a suitable caste? That would be a good outcome and serve the world well by ridding the county of the prevalent Euro-capture.
I'm happy she left India.IndraD wrote:
lady behind bill introduction
Exactly. If only the likes of Yechuri, Vijayan, Kejriwal, et al could be shipped over to Seattle or some other leftist place, India would be a better place.vimal wrote:I'm happy she left India. A dhimmi commie jholawalla she is.
Not really. Bharat has taken massive steps over the last decades to prevent jati-based discrimination, and provided very concrete affirmative actions. There are plenty of laws and arguably decent enforcement, and at the same time malafide proposals on jati-based crimes or reservation in private sector brought by Maino et al have been shot down. Our approach works.Sumeet wrote:Guys this is a mistake you are making.