i'm SO laid back, i only care about like 3 things in the world:

a film called satluj starring one of india’s biggest artists, diljit dosanjh, got released and pulled from streaming in india within days. the film covers a truly awful time in punjab when a separatist movement started a peaceful protest that became an armed insurgency, which lead to indian military and police forces committing unbelievable police brutality and extrajudicial killings, with thousands of punjabis going missing or cremated in secret. my mom lived in india in the time this happened—her brothers often tell stories of how they were beaten by police on the way home from school, they come up in fragments and haziness. it’s difficult for them to talk about it.

I had to do some googling since this post doesn't provide much historical context

your point is correct that establishing a country based on nothing but religion isn't going to do anything good and it's a reason for why this movement is as flawed as it is but truthfully it's a lot more complicated than that. it wasn't always a demand for a separate sikh state, it started out as a demand for greater regional autonomy due of the mismanagement of its waters and religious marginalisation + the way punjab bore the brunt of the green revolution by itself. hell, bhindranwale didn't want a separate state either - the call for a separate sikh state really only intensified after india's genocide of sikhs. and truthfully? india does not make matters better by treating the entire state like its going to explode with militancy at any time when the concerns this movement has are honestly really valid! it's india's fault they were ever present in the first place!

If your lover lives in Hong Kong and cannot get to Chicago, it will be necessary for you to go to Hong Kong. Perhaps you will spend your life there, and never see Chicago again. And you will, I assure you, as long as space and time divide you from anyone you love, discover a great deal about shipping routes, airlines, earthquake, famine, disease, and war. And you will always know what time it is in Hong Kong, for you love someone who lives there. And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time and, furthermore, to win.

someone recreated the iconic AR Rahman comp ‘introducing ar rahman’ as a YouTube playlist. Sadly it’s the best I can do since all the old blog uploads are now dead but it has a lot of his best most iconic work from his golden era.

a film called satluj starring one of india’s biggest artists, diljit dosanjh, got released and pulled from streaming in india within days. the film covers a truly awful time in punjab when a separatist movement started a peaceful protest that became an armed insurgency, which lead to indian military and police forces committing unbelievable police brutality and extrajudicial killings, with thousands of punjabis going missing or cremated in secret. my mom lived in india in the time this happened—her brothers often tell stories of how they were beaten by police on the way home from school, they come up in fragments and haziness. it’s difficult for them to talk about it.