Comments by "Rutvik" (@rutvikrs) on "ThePrint" channel.

  1. This is it. We are the new Argentina....
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  2. Lol Islam cannot be reformed. That is the point, it's not a big is the main feature. They think it has "maintained its authenticity" for a thousand years and others did not.
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  3. As soon as they leave the sovereign high posts, no one in academia, international agencies and markets seem to want them. It's almost like their whole charade is about getting access to Indian data and markets.
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  4. We will call them Idiots? Now what about the people killing "blasphemers"?
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  5. No correlation. Anand Malligavad and Ramveer Tanwar also did similar things.
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  6. It's reportage. Waiting for Jaishankar to swat this fly
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  7. Should have been given to Alt News. 🤣
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  8.  @PK-tt5kk  so is civilization. Return to Monke.
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  9. Power of delegation
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  10. To the "Modi did not talk" gang, When he talked, they fled. Is this also Modi's fault?
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  11.  @Tatpunjiya  you got that wrong already. The slavery in India was primarily conducted by the various Caliphates, the later slavery was under the British mandates. That is why you see Tamils and Biharis primarily in the endentured diaspora, not Rajasthani, Punjabi, Kannadiga or even Odiya(which suffered to the point of de-urbanisation).
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  12.  @bigfigher  Kerala and TN have done that since 1980s.
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  13. ** Imperial noises intensify **
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  14. "why tax me when you can print my tax money?"
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  15.  @blitz1162  a rhetorical is not the same as a literal interpretation. They can be an expressed cultural value. An atheist can say "go to hell" while not believing in it.
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  16. Can't replicate it. Delhi spends close to 200cr on advertisements alone.
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  17. Now waiting for action on Owaisi and Munnawar.
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  18. Back in the day, they had kafgir businesses they could fo this to. 😢
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  19. I must preface, this is Hearsay from my Gujju friends: 1. This is a peace deal between VHP and BJP. They have been bickering over street power since the late 2000s with bad blood ensuing to the degree several functionaries of VHP were arrested. 2. This is in response to rising crime rates and (alleged) Muslim street power. This is a message to them, that the Hindu community is being held back. 3. While we can wax lyrical about police reforms, law and order and enforcement capabilities in metros or even Ahmedabad, the local people actually derive a sense of safety from goons. Known evil is better than unknown good. My opinion: it's disheartening to know how police reforms are avoided even in the better states, the social messaging from this development is very concerning. Since this crime has an angle of Juvenile justice(perpetrators were below 18 when they committed this crime), the law has to be relooked at when there is a socio political and institutional angle to it. Should these monsters be let go, regardless of their conduct when they have links to organisations that may place them back on the same path? Were they made to sign affidavits they will not take part in such organisations? So much to think about.
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  20. Not an easy topic. It's difficult to build an incentive structure for agri and biotechnology sectors without patents.
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  21. But Shashi Tharoor submitted a 1000 word private bill way back in 2017. It may have sounded like a sophamore ChatGPT generated essay but he should be given credit for it when it invariably works. Till then "keep calm and Mudi ze musht rejin".
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  22. ​ @WTFuzzzz his paranoia
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  23. This is exactly why I refuse to buy a subscription. There are journalists in the Print with a chronic inability to understand where the other side is coming from. PN Oak isn't the role model for the current BJP, it's Jadunath Sarkar, Sita Ram Goel, RC Majumdar and BB Lal. Also I'd like to know what kind of logical leap one needs to take to equate the removal of Mughals to teaching hatred to children.
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  24. ​ @jeanpierre-st7rl growth is always uneven and urban. For every Shenzhen there is a Xihaigu.
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  25. This is absolutely needed. People buy breeds without understanding their needs.
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  26. I remember having this great conversation with a NRI stoner. The act of offering non vegetarian food( for Hindus), alcohol and narcotics( for Hindus, tribal and animist communities globally) is metaphysical not material. In simple words, Naga Sadhus/Shipibo shamans consume drugs ritualistically but can be fine if the ritual requires them to abstain. A stoner likes the rituals/tradition because it's a free pass to consume drugs. Stoners will not follow through abstinence for the sake of "authority". Liberals like Mahua conflate the two. It's neither liberalism nor traditional. It's a stance of convenience.
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  27. Old congress: we will use laws to reform this nation. New congress: Tear the laws, poetry it is..
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  28. ​ @balajeepratham8200  he said regional not just NE
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  29. What kind of garbage is this? And SG asks us to pay for this?
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  30. Don't be harsh on Congress.
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  31. This is just trolling, bringing in regionalism.
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  32. Let us make it amply clear that they are not fanatics, they are reacting to fanaticism. They are our natural allies and we wish for their well being.
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  33. One thing I hate more than shrill nationalism is self flagellation. 🤔
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  34. They are not any different from Congress my friend. People forget that Congress had its "Hindu" phases as well. The reason they gravitated towards the Muslim votebank was it's reliability. Aap is much too young to make such calculations(any loss is marginal, any win is game changing). The moment AAP has to reliably win elections, they will have their Hindu and Muslim phases. Kejriwal has already shown glimpses of it after the Janmabhoomi verdict and even in the Punjab elections(promises for an Anti conversion bill)
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  35. Lalu for prejident. Remove Mudi. Not my prejident. 🤣
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  36. Mudi ze musht rejin. 😡
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  37. It's time for a sensible section of congress to split and make their own party. I want the BJP to win every election possible but anyone who understands democracy knows that destruction of institutional knowledge leads to chaos.
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  38. ​ @joevarghese707 polarisation on religion is for historical justice, while polarisation on caste is for division of the Indian union.
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  39.  @theindianliberal  not in disagreement on that. AAP is a financial and governance disaster in the making.
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  40. How is Rishi Sunak? 😂😂
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  41.  @rakiniprem  it's still their duty to listen and debate. Walking away meant they had something better to do. How was the time utilised?
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  42. We need to know this.
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  43. Wow the megalomania in this speech. All 14 people in the crowd are indulging him.
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  44. Taliban is more secular than BJP. 😭 Mudi ze rejin. Not my prejident. 😡
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  45. (I am saddened that I need to spell this out in English so that people can understand, such is the state of empty liberalism in this country) The minister's statement has conflated issues: 1. The idea that Karva chauth is preventing scientific enlightenment: there is no causal link, Karva chauth does not prevent anyone from attending schools, reading or education in general. It's not a daily ritual that consumes time either. I am happy to hear how Chinese and American women gained an edge over Indian women due to this practice. 2. Karva chauth is a ritual hence unscientific: science and culture are separate domains. Science informs you on facts of the universe using deductive logic and culture informs you on how to deal with life using inductive logic. There is no need for any ritual to be scientific. If you disagree, show me how music, poetry and dance is scientific. I will wait. In fact art of any nature is obstructing science, a majority of humans choose to spend time creating and consuming art, poets should have been writing scientific papers instead of useless poems. How many here bunked a class to watch movies? Ritual belongs to the domain of culture. It is not restricted to religion. There are several secular rituals. Tell me how a birthday, new year celebration, independence day, Pi day(3/14) or even World science day is scientific. Even animals in the wild have been observed with rituals(wolf howls, cock-a-doodle-doo, pre mating). This is not genetic but predisposition to form rituals is. That is why there is no universal culture. 3. Karva chauth is mysoginist: i am conflicted on this personally. A part of me says this ritual has lapsed in its purpose as every festival is linked to cycles in agriculture(India is urbanizing), war(we don't do that at the same scale and frequency) or forming social relations(Karva chauth is for women in close knit societies bonding). Our life has changed and thank goodness we are not Muslims, we change with times(tell me the last time you worshipped Indra, Vamana avatars or Bhrahma.). Other side of me says it's not oppression. It's an ritual of nominal sacrifice, where a woman does so for a belief. I have not heard of thousands of women being beaten up or forcibly starved for the ritual, feel free to correct me. So why interfere with a ritual which people partake in mostly voluntarily? It's how people see it fit within their personal confines of culture. Before you come at me, I am an agnostic atheist myself. Been associated with early days of atheist republic and even wrote articles for them. I have not rediscovered god or religion but am aware of Hindu/Indic lexicon and philosophy to the degree i can differentiate a valid critique from hyperbole like this statement or sarcasm. I retain my agnostic stand. There probably isn't a god or reincarnation.
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  46. Wtf? 😂
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  47. Der aaye durust aaye.
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  48. Full support to Nitish on this decision. BJP deserves to run the state without coalition partners.
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  49. ​ @nirmal886 Modi doesn't get blamed because that was a state unit making it a poll plank while Rahul is running his dukaan on redistribution.
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  50. ​ @tokyotokyokawa what came out of the Jasmine revolution? 😂
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