MLA speaks at Surrey demonstration following murder of Indian journalist Gauri Lankesh
- Surrey–Green Timbers NDP MLA Rachna Singh spoke at a rally condemning the assassination of Indian journalist Gauri Lankesh.
Lankesh was a well-known critic of growing violence by Hindu fundamentalists since the election of a right wing government in 2014 led by Narenda Modi.
She had reportedly been receiving threats from extremist groups.
Gauri Lankesh was shot dead outside her home in the state of Karnataka.
After she was killed, some supporters of Modi's Hindu nationalist Bhartiya Janata Party trashed her on social media.
Speakers at the September 6 rally in Holland Park condemned the murder of Lankesh, with some carrying placards denouncing Hindutva terror on minorities.
Organized by the Indians Abroad for Pluralist India, the only MLA present was the NDP's Rachna Singh (Surrey–Green Timbers).
Her husband, indpendent journalist and Georgia Straight contributor Gurpreet Singh, was there as a founding member of IAPI.
Others present included journalist and broadcaster Gurvinder Singh Dhaliwal, Dashmesh Darbar Gurdwara spokesman Gian Singh Gill, Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Society founder Ranjit Singh Khalsa, Akali Dal (Amritsar) leader Sarabjit Singh, visiting Dravid activist from India Waman Meshram, Muslim activist Sayyad Wajahat, Dalit activist Kamlesh Ahir, secularist activist Sunil Kumar, Indian RationalIst Society Leader Avtar Gill, and two veteran leftist activists, Harjit Daudhria and Amarjit Sufi.
https://www.straight.com/news/962246/modern-day-ghadar-equivalents-gathe...
https://www.straight.com/news/962546/gurpreet-singh-indias-double-standa...
Instead of starting a new thread I went back into the archives to resurrect the first thread titled "India"
CCTV 4 in China is all over this but I'm under the impression western news outlets are silent(input required)
https://thediplomat.com/2017/12/india-launches-second-ballistic-missile-...
In China's news there's a claim that India is more agressive in establishing total control of the Indian ocean. This link sheds a little light on this
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/competition-indian-ocean
Not sure if other babblers are interested in this subject but I'll throw it out there?
The New Great Game Moves From Asia-Pacific To Indo-Pacific - by Pepe Escobar
http://www.atimes.com/article/new-great-game-moves-asia-pacific-indo-pac...
"Is the world's center of gravity shifting to the heart of the Indo-Pacific - a new pivot to Asia?
Thanks for the link NDPP! I personally feel that not only babblers, but many people in the west underrate the importance of India and its relations with China Pakistan and other regional powers.
I predict in another 5-10 years, Indo Pacific news stories will be much more common and covered in greater detail!
https://www.straight.com/news/1025166/gurpreet-singh-world-leaders-must-know-who-killed-mahatma-gandhi-and-why-requires
Arundhati Roy’s Latest Novel Takes on Fascism, Rising Hindu Nationalism in India & Abuses in Kashmir
quote:
ARUNDHATI ROY: The Narmada dam, sorry, the dams that are built on this Narmada River. And, to me, that political understanding and education that I received from that movement, I see the bones of—the sacrificial bones of this uniquely Indian fascism really in the foundations of that dam, you know, really the idea that there is a community that is more entitled than another, the idea that you can take the water from a river valley, centralize it in a dam reservoir and then decide who should—who should get that water.
I mean, recently, now that the dam is built, now that everything that the anti-dam movement has said has come true, we had an incredible spectacle of: whatever little water there was in the reservoir, which should have been used for the farmers of Gujarat through the drought months, given what the dam said it was going to do, was released, in a rush, the day—just weeks before the Gujarat election. For what? For the prime minister to land a seaplane as an election spectacle. And today, that water is gone. And what little water there is in the canal is being protected by the police from farmers who need it. You know, this is fascism. It’s not just concentration camps, you know?
AMY GOODMAN: Which most people here really know almost nothing about.
ARUNDHATI ROY: Nothing about. I mean, just imagine the fact that just in the last few, two or three, years, a new technique of firing pellet guns into crowds has blinded completely or partially more than a thousand people. A thousand people, you know? But under the banner of this market-friendly democracy, no one’s going to talk about it. Under the banner of a democracy that buys huge amounts of weapons from France, from America, we are being courted. All those dark secrets are being swept under the carpet, because we are buying weapons from the West. And how will the West survive if we idiots don’t buy weapons?
So, I mean, 20 years of traveling, of seeing, of writing, but all those essays were always very urgent interventions in a situation that was closing down. There was something very urgent about the way they were written. But, simultaneously, there was all this kind of gathering in me—for example, the travels in Kashmir. I could not write about Kashmir. Nobody really can easily write about Kashmir in nonfiction, because what happens there is not just based on what evidence you can produce, you know, the terror that seeds the air, the terror of living in the most dense military occupation in the world, half a million soldiers, the complicated—
ARUNDHATI ROY: Well, look, you know, I have always found it remarkable—I mean, The God of Small Things was a political book. After it won the Booker Prize, people in India especially, but a lot of people, particularly in Kerala, you know, liked to think about it, because they wanted to claim me, but not the politics of the book, so let’s ignore the fact that it’s about the most brutal and ancient social hierarchy that any human society has produced, which is caste. Let’s not talk about that. It can be a book about children, or it can be a book very lyrically written, and so on.
BJP brown shirts.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/we-dont-have-any-fear-indias-angry-young-men-and-its-lynch-mob-crisis/2018/08/26/9a0a247a-a0aa-11e8-a3dd-2a1991f075d5_story.html?utm_term=.76c0e1b13132&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1
Thanks for providing the link Josh!
This is real scary stuff! There's a hell of a lot of stars/planets lining up so to speak to create a very dangerous uprising in India. I wish these people all the best in improving conditions within their country and lots of peace!
I'm not a big Modi fan
Canada should give honorary citizenship to author Arundhati Roy to highlight growing fascism in India
https://www.straight.com/news/1169091/gurpreet-singh-canada-should-give-...
Mission Shakti: India shoots down live satellite in space, says PM Narendra Modi
Announcement comes just over two weeks before polls open in Indian general election
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/india-satellite-missile-system-shakti-test-modi-space-a8841381.html
Talk about circumventing the rules but it appears Modi is a sandal-in for re-election.
PM Narendra Modi takes spiritual break
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-48321989
https://www.thequint.com/elections/times-now-vmr-survey-exit-poll-live-updates-election-2019-results-prediction
A shame, but not surprising. Fascism is in now, especially when it covers itself in religion. And where, as in Israel, there is a moribund opposition.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/05/asia/india-pakistan-kashmir-intl-hnk/index.html
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/07/748957876/pakistan-warns-indias-move-to-end-kashmir-s-special-status-could-lead-to-war
https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/pakistan-downgrades-diplomatic-relations-suspends-bilateral-trade-with-india-1.1565185668803
Kashmir Article 370 Scrapping Shows BJP Wants AUTHORITARIAN INDIA - Vijay Prashad (and vid)
https://www.rt.com/shows/going-underground/465949-kashmir-india-federali...
"On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Indian author and Director of the Transcontinental Institute for Social Research Vijay Prashad on India's revocation of Article 370 and the 35th Amendment for Jammu and Kashmir. He discusses this as a sign that Indian federalism is under threat and that the BJP wants an authoritarian, centralized India..."
Pakistan to Downgrade Relations, Suspend Bilateral Trade With India
https://on.rt.com/9zjo
"Pakistan says it's going to downgrade diplomatic relations with India and suspend trade with neighbor state, dubbing New Delhi's decision to revoke the autonomous state of Kashmir as 'unilateral and illegal'. Pakistan vowed to take the Kashmir issue to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), while PM Imran Khan, told the Pakistani military to 'continue vigilance..."
https://newrepublic.com/article/154682/india-looming-ethno-nationalist-catastrophe
Fisk: Israel is Playing a Big Role in India's Escalating Conflict With Pakistan
https://t.co/DOqvDvCgVQ
"For months, Israel has been assiduously lining itself up alongside India's nationalist BJP government in an unspoken - and politically dangerous - 'anti-Islamist' coalition, and unofficial unacknowledged alliance, while India itself has now become the largest weapons market for the Israeli arms trade. The Israelis have filmed joint exercises between their own 'special commando' units and those sent by India to be trained in the Negev desert, again with all the expertise supposedly learned by Israel in Gaza.
Several Indian commentators, however, have warned that right-wing Zionism and right-wing nationalism under Modi should not become the foundation stone of the relationship between the two countries. But it is difficult to see how Zionist nationalism will not leach into Hindu nationalism when Israel is supplying so many weapons to India - the latest of which India, which has enjoyed diplomatic relations with Israel since 1992, has already used against Islamists, inside Pakistan..."
Footage From Kargil: Indian Occupation in Full Swing
https://twitter.com/maknosh7/status/1159811660896514049
Indianising Kashmir at Gunpoint
https://countercurrents.org/2019/08/indianising-kashmir-at-gunpoint
"...All those historic assurances by India's founding fathers to the Kashmiris have been struck down and swept away with the stroke of a pen by the current Indian leadership. A complex melting-pot of a country that once took great pride in its diversity, tolerance and democracy is being recklessly transformed into a majoritarian and totalitarian state..."
Hitler's Hindus: The Rise and Rise of India's Nazi-Loving Nationalists (2017)
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/hitlers-hindus-indias-nazi-loving-nation...
"Admiration for Nazism - often reframed with a genocidal hatred for Muslims - is rampant in the Hindu nationalist camp, which has never been as mainstream as it is now..."
I was much younger and naive when I travelled through Kashmir and Ledac, and other parts of India. I have no idea who was in government in India in 1990 but the Indian Army had Srinigar on curfew and the Indian Army was active throughout Kashmir - skirmishes with the Pakistani Army. You could see the fireworks of these assaults on villages at night and rubble the next day. Our hosts during our stay in Srinigar were huge fans of Bob Marley, who they regarded as a warrior for the downtrodden of the world. (I also think there was a lot of hash being smoked :-) )
I do hope the BJP is stopped from pursuing this purge of Kashimiri Muslims and the advance of their vision of Hindutva. The whole country was engulfed in violent protests, acts of self-immolation and arson related to Muslim and Hindu tensions and Hindu on Hindu tensions (protests against certain casts finally being granted greater access to post-secondary education).
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/16/scared-for-my-life-kashmir-politician-daughter-iltija-mufti-international-help
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/world/asia/india-muslims-narendra-modi.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
Kashmiris in New Delhi Speak of Fears Amid Lockdown (podcast)
https://www.dw.com/en/worldlink-kashmiris-in-new-delhi-spoke-of-fears-am...
"A lockdown in the Muslim-majority state of Kashmir in India has left many Kashmiris in New Delhi worried about their friends and family back home..."
'The crackdown is unprecedented. It's a very dire situation..."
https://www.sikhnet.com/news/islamic-india-biggest-holocaust-world-history
Christian West supporting Jihad against the Pagan East.
Nothing unusual to see here,
Torture allegations in Kashmir.
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia-india-49481180?__twitter_impression=true
India's Annexation of Kashmir is Straight Out of the Israeli Playbook
https://t.co/QH0EDqNolx
"Revoking article 370 has turned India from administrator to fully fledged coloniser, following, in many ways, Israel's methods..."
Why India's Hindu Nationalists Worship Israel's Nation-State Model
https://t.co/Tjva40d8vw
"The bonhomie between Narendra Modi and Binyamin Netanyahu is rooted in the admiration of generations of Hindu nationalists for Israel..."
Christians killing "pagans" en masse has indeed been a feature of history. But that article is about a holocaust against Hindus that has been carried out by Muslims, starting in the middle of the seventh century.
“From the time Muslims started arriving, around 632 AD, the history of India becomes a long, monotonous series of murders, massacres, spoliations, and destructions. It is, as usual, in the name of ‘a holy war’ of their faith, of their sole God, that the barbarians have destroyed civilizations, wiped out entire races.”
And so on and so forth.
So, lemme guess. You were hoping that some other posters would come along and offer knee-jerk agreement with your anti-Christian rhetoric, then end up with egg on their face when someone else points out that the article is about Muslims killing Hindus.
Or maybe not. But I honestly can't think of another reason why you would post anti-Christian comments to back up an article that doesn't even mention Christianity once.
Native people defending themselves is racism bro.
India is slave nation with no dignity and should be ruled by enlightened abrahamic foreigners bro.
If you wanna talk about Christians doing bad stuff to Hindus, including allying with Muslims against them, be my guest. I assure you I won't protest.
But the original article you posted had nothing to do with Christians, and was exclusively about Muslims doing bad things to Hindus, starting in the seventh century AD.
Is India about to land on the moon?
https://www.cnn.com/specials/live-video-1?adkey=bn
Chandrayaan-2 Moon Landing Live Updates: Isro tense as India awaits signal from lander Vikram
https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/chandrayaan-2-moon-landing-india-space-research-organisation-reactions-live-updates-1596237-2019-09-06
Isro loses contact with lander Vikram
Did Chandrayaan-2 Crash? How to Follow India’s Moon Landing Attempt
What you need to know about the mission and how to follow it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/science/india-moon-landing-chandrayaan-2.html
India’s Moon Landing May Be Doomed
https://www.wired.com/story/indias-moon-landing-may-be-doomed/
Too bad!
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/science/india-moon-landing-chandrayaan-2.amp.html
Hindu genocide is ok because Hindus are heathen savages dude.
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/597631/
Hindus can only do stuff with the white man's approval bro.
Media Reports Allege 'Brutal Torture' By Security Forces in Kashmir
https://thewire.in/rights/media-reports-draw-light-to-brutal-torture-by-...
"Torture claims by Kashmiris directed at the Indian military and paramilitary are not new. Yet they appear to have renewed in intensity..."
'No Rational Human Being Can Talk Of A Nuclear War': Pakistan PM Khan Speaks to RT
https://youtu.be/aRTC3xBEHt0
"Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan talks Kashmir with RT's Paula Slier." 'The international community must put santions [on India] where it hurts.' MUST WATCH interview.
https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/two-months-misery-indian-kashmir-100949803.html?__twitter_impression=true
Why aren't streets in Israel named after Hitler - Sean in Ottawa 2019
Stop telling people what their problem is. It makes the rest of your post unreadable and undesireable.
I justify nothing other than what I said: that the BJP project is not only to change colonial names but also to change other names.
These facts do not come with ideology or race or anything else. They are just facts. Facts I learned while living with an Indian person for a year who just happens not to be an apologist for the excesses of the BJP.
That is the point you made and the refutation you ignore by posting completely unrelevent material.
Wth are you talking about? In your sick and twisted mind is only British/Christian imperialism colonial and not muslim?
You are basically saying that you lived with one indian for one year and that this somehow makes you an expert on the topic?
Did you even read the links you posted, they were crying the erasure of Aurangzeb from our road infrastructure.
I educated you on the crimes of Aurangzeb and you called it irrelevant. I am not an apologist for the BJP nor do I believe they are engaging in excess.
In my personal opinion, they are not even Hindu or traditional.
Is the murder of children and the execution of Saints an irrelevant matter to you now?
Is speaking out about the crimes of Muslims in the subcontinent, which are celebrated or whitewashed by the likes of you now an offence?
https://twitter.com/MajorPoonia/status/1178990359877021697
You sit atop a white horse and preach to the brown man that in the name of Gandhi he shouldn't defend himself.
Yet, we are sons of Guru Gobind Singh.
If struck with a stone, strike back with a boulder.
ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂਜੀਕਾਖਾਲਸਾ।।ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂਜੀਕੀਫਤਿਹ।।
You were speaking in terms of modern colonialism with the comparison of name changes then when called out that India is not doing this just to English names you riased the idea of Muslim colonialism. Islam arrived in India in the 12th century. You really trying to compare it to the British in India?
I called you out when you said it was the same as the other examples. What I said was irrelevant is all the stuff that you posted that has nothing to do with that.
You don't know me at all and that is okay. I never said all I know about India came from a person I lived with for a year. I said the issue of name changes in India was made known to me by him.
There is a difference and you are skating all over the road to try to defend a comparison you made that is not valid.
I am not debating with you the merits of the name changes. I am merely saying that you were being disengenuous when pretending that India is only changing colonial names like other countries have. This is what you said. All the gory pictures you posted do not change the fact that what you said was the same is not at all the same.
I am offended that you do not act white, so hurry up and get to it.
Holi becomes Color Run Festival
Mithras Jayanti becomes Christmas
Diwali becomes Lights Festival
Bro just be more secular and let us absorb/genocide you man.
Be chill while we sell your women into slavery dawg!
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