wsj crows about 'western medicine'. not so fast

mRNA may yet have terrible side effects, and anyway didn't a million US people die?

famous last words, wsj?

google should do a similar "buy all hindu" in india

if they can do this in the US, why not in india?

identify hindu businesses.

if google can't do this, can hindus themselves do this? or is it not #secular?

eastern europeans and their atavistic blood feud against russia

this won't end well. that much i can tell you.

https://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2022/12/truly-remarkable-eastern-europeans-will.html

how important india is to biden

no ambassador for years. his pick is a doofus, too. rejected by los angeles, so let's send him to india. yeah. 

truly remarkable: eastern europeans will fight russia to the last american

blinken, albright, nuland, vindman, et al: atavistic blood feuds by these guys against russia are fueling the ukraine war. but this is the first time i have heard that the US in anticipation of russia invading ukraine decided to pull out willy-nilly from afghanistan ruining their reputation (even hollywood is yet to do a film lionizing US forces' valor in afghan), leaving behind $$billions worth of weapons. 

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2022/12/blinken-we-had-to-surrender-to-the-taliban-for-ukraine

pak origin lina will do a number on US firms esp big tech

imagine, a woke pak. this will not end well.

yet another coconut on ayodhya

some coconut writes in the jewish magazine about #secularism, dissing #rammandir as tho he were some white orientalist. i had forgotten this trash from april, but it's one of their 'top 10' picks of the year.

hindu-jew bhai-bhai it ain't. "schindler's list" is cinema verite, but "kashmir files" is 'vulgar propaganda'. ok maybe it's indian anarchist-israeli anarchist bhai-bhai.

and fittingly, this garbage was written by yet another deracinated bong.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-idol-and-the-mosque

kissinger worries about the world

in other words, leave it to us few brilliant intellects to screw up all you plebeians.

from walter russell mead in WSJ

biden fibs

this is extraordinary. either he's cuckoo, or he's forrest gump.

mead is worth a read always, even though kissinger is a war criminal

Virus export

Chinese tourists can spread dangerous new variants: 1000% travel spike forces Japan and India to require negative coronavirus tests and brief quarantine periods from Chinese travelers.

Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio said China’s “lack of information-sharing and transparency” about the coronavirus, and the “huge discrepancies” between tallies of infections and fatalities from various sources, compelled Japan to take steps to “prevent the rapid increase of infections in this country.”

Risk of new variants: The lack of transparent data from China—particularly about viral genomic sequencing—is making it “increasingly difficult for public health officials to ensure that they will be able to identify any potential new variants and take prompt measures to reduce the spread”.

job posting: terumo (penpol), trivandrum

interesting thread on depopulation (of india) efforts by the US

according to me there's a logically consistent thread here:

1. wokes/Democrats think climate change is the biggest issue facing us

2. climate change is exacerbated by increasing population (never mind per capita emissions)

3. ergo, best thing to do is to reduce populations

4. which populations? why, of course, black and brown populations

5. so let's create biological warfare mechanisms to depopulate black and brown countries

6. small problem, US law prohibits gain of function type experiments

7. oh wait, chinese law doesn't. so let's fund the chinese (and others with lax rules)

8. let's create pandemics. let's even go so far as to obliquely warn about them

9. plan: pandemics mean only white (and ok, yellow) countries will have vaccines

10. other countries will be denied vaccines, and they will drop dead like flies

11. let's pick a lab... yeah, wuhan and send old peter daszak there with the funds

12. oops... idiots at wuhan released the thing earlier than we wanted 

13. ok, our friends at pfizer and moderna have a funky, untested tech called mRNA

14. let's hype up mRNA and pump out billions of doses as the panacea

15. but let's hoard the doses so that only white countries get them

16. hey presto: blacks and browns will die like flies. mission accomplished.

17. oops, bloody indians invented a vaccine that actually works and isn't a carrier of further bioweapons

18. let's use the native assets to deprecate covaxin and deny it WHO certification

19. double oops. covaxin seems to work, and black countries that got no vaccine seem just fine

20. triple oops: partner in crime china is now going to have massive infections

21. ok, back to the drawing board for the next bioweapon. go to step 1.

pretty interesting stuff here. mRNA will mess with your DNA, plus it can be a carrier for even worse bugs. 

see this thread about bad faith for a long time. 

brits tried to depopulate india through famines. didn't quite work. so this is plan B.

https://twitter.com/vijaygajera/status/1607331188129300480?s=20&t=neFtsDYwc0T7tx49_TUvOw

but hey, biden has $45 billion for ukraine; you can eat cake

no money for medicaid for poor people. but don't worry, democracy is safe.

talk of skewed priorities. zelensky has to live comfortably, that's the big thing.

meta and privacy, and in passing, cambridge analytica

the latter were friends of the sonia congress until they shut shop.

so $5 billion, $725 million. non trivial fines.

huawei cannot be excluded from telecom

they have standards-necessary-patents, i imagine.

when will reliance have these? 

fairy tale believed by millions

those romans did a number on us with all this, didn't they?

totally cool name for weather reporter

doesn't suryatapa mean 'sun's heat'?

that/he would be most welcome in most of the US!

Quick notes: US meddling | Origins of Indian IT...

• US State Department to sponsor transgender activism in India: To support the creation of transgender activist groups inside corporations in India.



• The untold story of Indian IT industry: Dr Homi Bhabha was actually the creator of many things that are relevant to India today, including computers. Bhabha wrote a report at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in 1959 on the need for computer education and the need for India to embark on a computer industry.
  
  “In 1962, TIFR released the first digital computer for scientific applications - ‘TIFRAC’. Joined MTech computer science in 1965 when IIT Kanpur started the first computer science school. We need to recognise all these events and people and as the starting points for this industry in India”.



• Apple Suppliers Accelerate Buildup Outside China: A legion of skilled workers who'd received some education and training has been the backbone of China's rise as the world's factory. A direct replacement for China isn't immediately in the cards, however firms like Foxconn Pegatron are putting the foundations in place to handle more of the final assembly and packaging of products outside China.
  
  - Apple looking to move production of Mac Pro to Vietnam. Vietnam has attracted 21 Apple suppliers to operate in the country.
  
  - Foxconn building hostel to house 60,000 employees in Tamil Nadu



• Cars? In this economy? Car-free streets are here to stay. Here’s how four cities took back miles of pavement from cars, making a popular pandemic solution into a permanent fixture.




• A trash heap 62 meters high in India: Over decades, dangerous toxins have seeped into the ground, polluting the water supply for thousands of residents living nearby. “The methane leak from this landfill would have the same climate impact as emissions from 350,000 US cars”.
  
  
  



• 'Asking for a friend': Salesforce co-CEO Marc Benioff told employees in a Slack message that the company’s newest hires aren’t being productive enough, and he asked for feedback as to why that’s the case. “Are we not building tribal knowledge with new employees without an office culture?” he asked in a message viewed by CNBC. He said he was “asking for a friend,” a phrase people often use on the internet to humorously reveal their curiosity about a topic.
  
  Management lessons from Marc B:
  1. CEO poses important directional issues as questions rather than commands.
  2. CEO shows gratitude for feedback.
  3. Trust as a primary company value.



• Kalapini Komkali: Ram Niranjan Nyara re, Kabir nirgun bhajan

did china drop zero covid because it costs too much?

interesting speculation in the WSJ.

JFK Assassination's Links to CIA

U.S. Announces Fusion Energy Breakthrough

This could be world-changing

Quick notes: Separation of powers | Tech secrets...

• ‘Respect the Laxman Rekha’: Vice President takes on the Ayotollahs of Supreme Court. . . . . . Finally, someone steps up to put India's SC in its place, which has been making a mockery of separation of powers. No one relinquishes power voluntarily. You need to seize it by force.

The Supreme Court can have 34 judges.

Chief Justice DY Chandrachud will have the opportunity to fill at least 18 vacancies during his tenure as CJI.

Once you understand the significance of that, you can see why the Law Minister and the Vice-President are wading in so heavily.

— Anup Surendranath (@asurendranath) December 3, 2022





• FTAs and their discontents: Do free trade agreements benefit India? India's balance of trade has worsened with countries with which it has signed free trade agreements



• Tech secrets: Taiwan govt looks to protect TSMC tech from the US
  
  3nm by 2026: TSMC commits to $40 Billion investment on Arizona Fab.
  
  Pointing to high costs and a US skills shortage, TSMC has reported challenges to the completion by next December of its new 4 nanometer semiconductor plant north of Phoenix



• The incredible shrinking future of college: The population of college-age Americans is about to crash. It will change higher education forever.



• Gambling Addiction: Online gambling ravaged UK. America could be next.



• Kumar Mardur: Raag Gaud Sarang | Kirana Khayal.





• The eight negations: Nagarjuna's eightfold negations are that there is no becoming, no not being, no annihilation, no persistence, no unity, no diversity, no coming, and no departure.. "Substance does not exist, non-substance also does not exist, nothing that is to be designated by words exists at all. All the things that are designated by words similar to 'nirvan' are void of an own being".
  
  The eight negations are actually four pairs of neither birth nor death, neither end nor permanence, neither identity nor difference, neither coming nor going.



• Revathi Kamath: Lake activist breathes new life into polluted wetland in Bengaluru outskirts



• Journalism Competition and Preservation Act: US legislation pits Big Tech against news outlets.. Big Tech benefits tremendously from journalism content, yet they refuse to pay local publishers fairly for the content that fuels their platforms.



• New Zealand plans law to require Facebook, Google to pay for news: The legislation will be modelled on similar laws in Australia and Canada. "It is critical that those benefiting from their news content actually pay for it."



• Pathetic record: Western medicine has failed people with chronic pain.

AI for the non techie

the man who broke capitalism: jack welch

https://casi.stanford.edu/news/conversation-david-gelles-lions-den-did-jack-welch-really-break-capitalism?mkt_tok=ODg0LUZTQi0zMDcAAAGIg3z50vDVx8O5K_Ml2_sZTGBtApPLucS7s-oBy4hlzZw_ETt_B4KWGVt6SU3hKEODOg8ah-qSM6JVLh5MhpIWEzjlCPpJ1d81D4J7Vh2rvso

will the US balkanize before russia, china, or india?

scary prospect of the Untied States of America.

https://twitter.com/tabletmag/status/1597946082398736384?s=20&t=cU2TNVytyLT6C0FIYdBBPg

Quick notes: Anti-drone | R&D spend...

• Anti-drone predator: Indian Army shows off birds-of-prey trained to destroy armed drones.

#WATCH | Indian Army demonstrates the capability of the trained Kite to take down small drones at Auli in Uttarakhand pic.twitter.com/AkZvbTJjSi

— ANI (@ANI) November 29, 2022




• Where Indian Army Scores Over PLA: An oft-overlooked military advantage that India has against China is the resilience and fighting quality of our combat forces. In contrast, the average Chinese soldier is a lone male child, pampered by an adoring family and ill-prepared for the hazards and discomforts of the Line of Actual Control.
  
  This man-to-man advantage that Indian jawans on the LAC enjoy over the relatively comfort-loving Chinese soldiers would be eroded once the ranks of hardened jawans, enrolled on long-service tenures, are diluted by significant numbers of so-called Agniveers -- soldiers enrolled on short-service tenures of four years.



• Kumbhaka (Breath Retention) and Bohr Effect: According to the Bohr Effect, buildup of CO2 during breath retention (hypoxia) triggers release of oxygen. Oxygen is attached to hemoglobin in the blood, and is then unloaded into the tissues.
  
  Most people have a blood oxygen saturation level of 95-98%, which sounds very high. However, this number is only a measure of oxygen in the blood—not the tissues, where oxygen is needed to energize and repair. Once oxygen is unloaded from hemoglobin due to a breath hold, it can be utilized by tissues. CO2 is then picked up by hemoglobin, escorted to the lungs, and breathed out.



• Take One Minute to Discover the Timeless:




• Annual R&D spend as a percentage of GDP: India? We spent it on Sardar Patel and Kempegowda statues.
  
  



• 'Most countries won't forgive deaths of children': 'The deaths of the children in the Gambia would batter India's reputation as the developing world's pharmacy.'



• Supplement fetish: Intake of popular commercial dietary supplements like nicotinamide riboside (NR), a form of vitamin B3, could actually increase the risk of serious diseases, including cancer. NR could not only increase the risk of someone developing triple-negative breast cancer but also cause the cancer to spread to the brain, the study said.



• Dylan Patel: China's Biren is a bigger threat to Nvidia’s AI training hardware dominance than the competition from Intel, AMD, Graphcore, SambaNova, or Cerebras. How China is attempting to evade US sanctions.



• 'There really is more to life than posting on Instagram': "I would find myself scrolling at night, and then having a bad night's sleep, and then waking up not feeling refreshed. Now I'm not making comparisons in my day-to-day life, and I don't really know what celebrities are doing".



• TikTok is China's Digital Fentanyl: They show a very different version in China than in U.S. “China only allows people to be on TikTok for 40 minutes a day”.



• Climate hypocrisy: U.S. to auction almost 1 Million Acres off Alaskan Coast for oil drilling.

'steely dan', 50 years old now with their first album

steel dan has been one of my favorite groups. unremittingly negative and sarcastic, but superb lyrics. 'gaucho', for example. 

Thanksgiving..

Celebrating the day Americans fed 'Undocumented Aliens from Europe'.

even the paks can't stand the hans

is this the end of technological innovation? hardly!

my essay in open magazine:

https://openthemagazine.com/essay/will-the-churn-in-big-tech-lead-to-a-new-period-of-innovation/

the case against crypto

https://www.ft.com/content/028e0109-6e87-42ed-8480-996cf645ce04

global warming ki jai.

the future of the university: lecture by makarand paranjape

the #FTX debacle, and side players

sequoia, the great silicon valley venture capital firm?

they should die of embarrassment!

sam bankman-fried clearly despised them. that got their attention! 

this is the problem with indians: we don't despise the west. han chinese do, and the west respects them.

and even better

"drown a toddler in my panties"? do actual women talk like that? or is this testosterone-fueled la-la-land?

kantara and rocketry: two hindu heroes' journeys

https://rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com/p/ep-80-kantara-and-rocketry-two-heroes#details

my take on the US elections a day before the results started rolling in

https://rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com/p/ep-81-the-us-midterm-elections-and#details

On average, a lame-duck Biden Presidency is a reasonably good outcome for India. If 2024 brings back a Republican Presidency (not necessarily Donald Trump) that too may be a good thing. The decline of the woke 'progressives' is good; however the hostility of the Deep State and the Military-Industrial Complex is not going to diminish until and unless India becomes a major economic and military power; which of course will happen by 2047. 

hmm.... never heard of Rust until today

https://www.wired.com/story/rust-secure-programming-language-memory-safe/?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=wired&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_110722_FastForward&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&utm_content=WIR_Daily_110722_FastForward&bxid=5cc9e3122ddf9c1a7ae03a81&cndid=55280215&esrc=growl2-regGate-1120&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_TRANSPORTATION_ZZ&mbid=mbid%3DCRMWIR012019%0A%0A&utm_term=WIR_TopClickers_EXCLUDE_Transportation

the joys of single-source dependence on china for your supply chain: covid ki jai

this is why india has a chance

remarkable progress of inclusive growth in the modi years, the data is in

ah, the october surprise

in 2019, it was the hunter biden laptop, which of course was turned into a non-story.

now this.

i get the feeling the Dems are *ready* for the Nov elections. #octobersurprise #speaktruthtopower

https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformation-dhs/

The Wire Wrecks Its Own Credibility Yet Again

 The Wire has just engaged in such ridiculous stuntsmanship that even fellow sympathizers have backed away holding their noses:

https://archive.ph/hkYei

A prominent Indian independent news site destroys its own credibility

The Wire’s own-goal holds lessons for opposition forces everywhere

finally, hindus are realizing how they have been humiliated and insulted by urduwood

Quick notes: Trade deal | Muslim refugees...

• Is it India's job to rescue her colonial masters? The UK economy is in shambles. India's economy is expected to double in GDP in the decade. India-UK trade deal - one-way street?
  
  The report of the House of Lords International Agreements Committee is replete with sermonising text. It observes, “India has a notoriously difficult business environment— corruption levels are high, business permits are difficult to obtain, tax and customs processes are complex, levels of contract enforcement are low, and IP protections are limited.”
  
  It also points out that the UK Government “has not been specific about the importance it will give to human, environmental and other rights and protections, nor (in most cases) about its red lines.”


.@RajivMessage explains the shortcomings of exporting India's manpower to help build foreign technology companies. He also emphasizes the need for #atmanirbhar in #research & #development as well. #aiandpower @NITIAayog
Watch the full conversation here- https://t.co/O0Y4HjKPKf pic.twitter.com/pSdZzh1N7W

— Infinity Foundation (@InfinityMessage) August 4, 2021





• Muslim refugees unwelcome in the Caliphate: Turkey deports hundreds of Syrian refugees. 'Taken to the border and forced to cross at gunpoint.'



• Cyber Jihad: Turkey secretly helped Pakistan in setting up a cyber army to shape public opinion and influence the views of Muslims



• Pope Francis: "Even nuns watch porn". He advised the group to "delete this from your phone, so you will not have temptation in hand".



• Drug manufacturing in India: Unregulated, out of control. Unlike other regulators like the TRAI and Food Safety and Standards Authority of India, the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) does not have any statutory backing.



• Ubuntu on RISC-V, under $20 computer: At the heart is a 1 GHz Allwinner D1 XuanTie C906 single-core processor based on RISC-V architecture



• Why You Should Avoid Vegetable Oils We were told to use more vegetable, seed and bean oils (like soybean, corn, safflower, canola). Now we know this advice was completely wrong.




• Tennis is mad at Pickleball mania: Pickleball is more accessible and fun than tennis. An 'addictive' game that won't stop growing

savitha halappanavar

what abrahamic fundamentalism wreaks. the murder of women, for starters. 

mike davis, RIP

#mikedavis passed away. RIP. the man who wrote the monumental #LateVictorianHolocausts, a damning indictment of british colonialism that led to 20 million deaths and untold misery. it should be required reading in indian schools. the one marxist i admired.

not interested in his LA stuff, but that one book is a masterpiece and a must read. on climate change, el nino, and how the third world was created. he was a macarthur genius award winner.

https://news.yahoo.com/mike-davis-city-quartz-author-021422726.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAGPUygg-JBmHrgBwA6eFMCw5WqktDw0yuA87uaUiAkIThD_bUJap-75oz2O6l1cLvQQRs6w496glS7sQwmj-AtL6730pSTM3MorJlueh_LPBO1A_KpoGofs4asmpjNZz7CREvJ_IS7sosozLtnQBFrM3tATLuUPLg1tgltUt1Wgf

the recession is here

Xi Jinping's Purge of Hu Jintao

san francisco, just 25 years ago the greatest city in the US

hat tip shefali vaidya. 

https://twitter.com/ShefVaidya/status/1585159493255847936?s=20&t=yR_O5HzYglTlWxjGT3UKOg

why is pauper britain sucking wind?

pretty good analysis. 

a simpler one: their economy was dependent, like a leach, on theft from the colonies, principally india. 

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/10/uk-economy-disaster-degrowth-brexit/671847/

on covid origin: harvard-mit guy says it was lab-created

since it is a harvard-mit guy saying this, it must be true, no?

and who said it "escaped by accident"?

https://twitter.com/Biorealism/status/1584790642169110528?s=20&t=2YN2eLBmnCx7AWMVTyd4Tg

kantara

i saw kantara today. the scenes with the bhootha kolam are superb: you feel the intensity of the presence of the deities. but there's a lot of unnecessary stuff, like big fight scenes, lots of boy-gang stuff, including a lot of drinking and eating boar-meat, which doesn't add much to the real theme, which is that the autochthonous tribal spirits are real. good movie, unabashedly hindu; the crap about bhootha kolam (which is almost ditto to theyyams in neighboring malabar; and i almost understood the spoken tulu though i saw the dubbed malayalam version with tiny TINY subtitles) not being hindu is just the 'onamization' of every hindu festival, ie digestion for the benefit of commie or other semitic world-conquering death cults.

stanford event on india in the global power struggle

https://aparc.fsi.stanford.edu/events/asian-perspectives-us-china-competition-assessing-india%E2%80%99s-role

suhasini haider speaks at stanford about india in global power competition. presumably the toolkit/script comes from the CCP via n ram. arvind subramanian also speaks.

i predict indian-americans will be next to be arrested for... 'spying'

full-court pressure tactic coming up: indians caught 'spying for india', although in fact no indian-american is going to do that. hans do spy for the fatherland. they are into han superiority, plus xi will put pressure on them, or hold their families hostage. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/garland-hold-news-conference-significant-national-security-cases-rcna53702

rishi sunak's win is generally bad news

although i am happy for his win as a hindu, an indian, and a fellow stanford b-school alumnus, i think this is a terrible time for him to take the reins.

1. the brit economy is in deep trouble after brexit, and there is no sign of relief

2. there will be a general election, and the conservatives will lose badly

3. for all this, the brit establishment and the entire anglosphere will blame

a) hindus

b) india

c) stanford business school

that is, everybody other than the racist blimps of england. i was really hoping rishi sunak would drop out of the race, because britain now is a tar baby, with nowhere to go but down.

diwali

every year since 1994, when i was in exile, i send this poem out on diwali, on the 'fire-crossed night'. 

i too am home, after all.

This may as well be my home.
Because no other nation
Moves me thus? What of that?
Cause for congratulation?

DIWALI
by Vikram Seth

Three years of neurotic
Guy Fawkes Days - I recall
That lonely hankering -
But I am home after all.

Home. These walls, this sky
Splintered with wakes of light
These mud-lamps beaded round
The eaves, this festive night,

These streets, these voices...yet
The old insensate dread,
Abeyant as that love,
Once more shifts in my head.

Five? Six? generations ago
Somewhere in the Punjab
My father's family, farmers,
Perhaps had a small shop

And two generations later
Could send a son to a school
To gain the conqueror's
Authoritarian seal:

English! Six-armed god,
Key to a job, to power,
Snobbery, the good life,
This separateness, this fear.

English: beloved language
of Jonson, Wordsworth's tongue-
These my "meridian names"
Whose grooves I crawl along.

The Moghuls fought and ruled
And settled. Even while
They hungered for musk-melon,
Rose, peach, nightingale,

The land assumed their love.
At sixty they could not
Retire westwards. The British
Made us the Orient.

How could an Englishman say
About the divan-e-khas
"If there is heaven on earth
It is this; it is this; it is this."?

Macaulay the prophet of learning
Chewed at his pen: one taste
Of Western wisdom "surpasses
All the books of the East,"

And Kalidas, Shankaracharya,
Panini, Bhaskar, Kabir,
Surdas sank, and we welcomed
The reign of Shakespeare.

The undigested Hobbes,
The Mill who later ground
(Through talk of liberty)
The Raj out of the land ...

O happy breed of Babus,
I march on with your purpose;
We will have railways, common law
And a good postal service -

And I twist along
Those grooves from image to image,
Violet, elm-tree, swan,
Pork-pie, gable, scrimmage

And as we title our memoirs
"Roses in December"
Though we all know that here
Roses *grow* in December

And we import songs
Composed in the U.S
For Vietnam (not even
Our local horrors grip us)

And as, over gin at the Club,
I note that egregious member
Strut just perceptibly more
When with a foreigner,

I know that the whole world
Means exile of our breed
Who are not home at home
And are abroad abroad,

Huddled in towns, while around:
"He died last week. My boys
Are starving. Daily we dig
The ground for sweet potatoes."

"The landlord's hirelings broke
My husband's ribs - and I
Grow blind in the smoke of the hearth."
"Who will take care of me

When I am old? No one
Is left." So it goes on,
The cyclic shadow-play
Under the sinister sun;

That sun that, were there water,
Could bless the dispirited land,
Coaxing three crops a year
From this same yieldless ground.

Yet would these parched wraiths still
Starve in their ruins, while
"Silkworms around them grow
Into fat cocoons?", Sad soil,

This may as well be my home.
Because no other nation
Moves me thus? What of that?
Cause for congratulation?

This could well be my home;
I am too used to the flavor
Of tenous fixity;
I have been brought to savour

Its phases: the winter wheat -
The flowers of Har-ki-Doon -
The sal forests - the hills
Inflamed with rhododendron -

The first smell of the Rains
On the baked earth - the peaks
Snow-drowned in permanence --
The single mountain lakes.

What if my tongue is warped?
I need no words to gaze
At Ajanta, those flaked caves,
Or at the tomb of Mumtaz;

And when an alap of Marwa
Swims on slow flute-notes over
The neighbours' roofs at sunset
Wordlessly like a lover

It holds me - till the strain
Of exile, here or there,
Subverts the trance, the fear
Of fear found everywhere.

"But freedom?" the notes would sing...
Parole is enough. Tonight
Below the fire-crossed sky
Of the Festival of Light.

Give your soul leave to feel
What distilled peace it can;
In lieu of joy, at least
This lapsing anodyne.

"The world is a bridge. Pass over it,
Building no house upon it."
Acceptance may come with time;
Rest, then disquieted heart.

Xi Jinping Purges Former Leader Hu Jintao in Machiavellian Move

at #stanford

suella braverman gets fired

that rude suella is toast, too. hahahaha. this is such a keystone cops comedy. i like to think a little bit of the reason suella was sacked is that she destroyed the FTA with india, which the brits need badly (and india really doesn't need). https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/19/suella-braverman-departs-as-uk-home-secretary-liz-truss

siddarth varadarajan's extortion RICO racket comes undone

so sid caves in, finally? but he has succeeded in elevating his visibility. https://www.platformer.news/p/the-wire-pulls-its-meta-stories?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=7976&post_id=79218401&isFreemail=false&utm_medium=email

kantara the movie

an incredible twitter thread on the film 'kantara'. the Divine is present in the theyyams of malabar, too. must read. i think the film is a must-see https://twitter.com/PankajSaxena84/status/1582615110958612481?s=20&t=uRXwewuZPk6OWMjfokZOWA

Can Liz Truss outlast a lettuce?

Liz Truss now the least-popular UK prime minister in the history of polling



62 per cent of Tories feel they made the wrong choice between Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, compared with 15 per cent who said they had got it right.

My son has lived through four chancellors, three home secretaries, two prime ministers and two monarchs.

He's four months old.

— Alan McGuinness (@Alan_McGuinness) October 19, 2022

balaji echoes, in a way, the huntington thesis

spain. a mediocre european country.

there is a full-court press by white people to defenstrate india. ok, let us remember this and retaliate when the time comes. stop imports from spain.