arjun 🏹

on april 7 this year, a bomb went off at a civilian house in bishnupur district at 1am, killing two children: a five year old boy and a five month old infant girl, and critically injuring their mother. their father is a bsf (border security force) soldier. meitei groups blamed kuki fighters, kuki groups said they didn't do it. what followed was: around 500 angry protesters stormed a nearby crpf camp (central reserve police force, a paramilitary unit), and police open fired, killing two more protesters and injuring 31 others with gunshots. internet was shut down across five valley districts. curfew was imposed. and then, as it has happened so many times before with manipur, the news cycle moved on.

this conflict has been going on since may 2023. over 50,000 people remain displaced, living in relief camps with limited access to healthcare, sanitation, and food. the state has effectively been split in two, meiteis on one side, kuki-zo communities on the other, with no real dialogue between them and no resolution in sight. at least 44 people have been killed in armed clashes in manipur in 2026 alone. the government's response has consistently been internet shutdowns, curfews, and silence from the top. modi had very little to say about manipur throughout all of this.

also calling indians "street shitters" is deeply racist, classist, and casteist. i don't care whether you are indian yourself, you are perpetuating all of those ideologies by saying that!

yes, the RSS is the all-male paramilitary group i was referring to. if they have more wings to don the veneer of being "progressive" that was certainly not the case in modi's childhood. i highly recommend rohan davis' youtube channel if you want to know more about the political situation in india in general. also i will not deny there have been minor improvements with the modi regime--i just don't think fascism is the price to pay for it. people deserve clean toilets and political freedom, it is not an either/or, and modi (nor any political party in india currently) does not provide that!

there is something happening in madhya pradesh (india) right now that not many people are talking about.

it's called the ken-betwa river linking project. ₹44,605 crore (40 million USD). india's first ever river interlinking project.

the project is being built inside the panna tiger reserve. to make way for the daudhan dam, over 6,000 hectares of protected forest land will be submerged. 12,000 trees have already been felled inside the reserve. estimates for the total number of trees that will be destroyed across the project range from 2.3 million to 6 million. the supreme court's own central empowered committee flagged this. the panna tiger reserve had tigers declared locally extinct in 2005. it took years of work to bring them back. the project will now drown the habitat that recovery was built on. it also threatens the ken gharial (crocodile) sanctuary and critical vulture nesting sites downstream.

22 villages are directly affected in the first phase alone. over 7,000 families. gond and kol adivasi (tribal) communities who have lived on this land for generations, whose entire existence — food, income, culture, identity — is tied to jal, jangal, zameen — water, forest, land. they are being told to leave.

most families have rejected the rehabilitation package. the compensation is below market rate, surveys have discrepancies, and many families have received nothing at all. homes have been demolished during the monsoon season. people are living in the open, in the rain. there are videos of a tribal family sitting among the rubble of their home circulating on social media. the administration says precautions were take but families say they were inside when the walls came down.

when they protested, the government of india filed false criminal cases against them. cut off electricity to villages. demolished schools. and then, on july 19 at 5am, police moved in and forcibly broke up a 17-day sit-in on the banks of the barana river. the protest leader amit bhatnagar, who had been on hunger strike for 11 days, was taken away. the police say he was hospitalised because his health "worsened." (exactly what happened with sonam wangchuk) the protesters say he was detained before he could speak to the media about alleged corruption of ₹400 crore (4 million USD) in the project. the protesters' slogan was: nyay do, ya maar do — give us justice, or kill us.

this is being done in the name of providing water to bundelkhand, a drought-prone region. that's a real problem that deserves a real solution. but the people being displaced are asking something reasonable: show us the surveys. pay us fair rates. give us land for land, not just cash. consult our gram sabhas the way the law requires.

also calling indians "street shitters" is deeply racist, classist, and casteist. i don't care whether you are indian yourself, you are perpetuating all of those ideologies by saying that!

People need to ask the right questions, the problem is much more structural and bigger than any party.

Anyway we have 3 years with this government, you can't remove them in an unconstitutional manner, the people voted them in.

• they've started detaining students liberally. if you're going to the protest or coming from it they're very likely to detain you (the police has spread it check points all across central delhi). you'll be denied entry by auto or even walk, they'll either try to scare you away or detain you. if you're coming from other state especially by railway you'll be asked what are you here for & be asked to prove it.

• the government has blocked 18 metro stations surrounding jantar mantar. for some reason they're also covering up janpath & other nearby metro stations. all entrances to jantar mantar have been closed off & a complete internet shutdown near jantar mantar.

• they are denying lawyers contact with their clients. they've also been denied entry in police station to speak to their clients, that inspector has apologized as of now & an internal investigation for his behaviour is said to have started.

• they're also making sure that the protesters have no access to food, water or electricity. last night electricity supply to janpath was cut off ++ the police are now stopping delivery men at check points & seizing food ordered by supporters from all across the country. they're also threatening restaurant owners against delivering food to the protest site.

• cafes & shops in connaught place have been given a legal notice to shut down by 6 (since many of them were providing free water & washroom services to protesters). even nearby hotels have denied room booking to doctors.

• many creators have been offered money to speak against the protest & start a hate campaign.

• we are under complete state surveillance. the police is using meta ai glasses to record the protesters, and is later running a facial recognition check on them.