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you've seen the jokes. india is "dirty", indians are "everywhere", why don't they fix their own country. ok. let me tell you why, and what's happening right now while nobody's watching.

first, the history you skipped: britain ruled india for two centuries and drained it. economist utsa patnaik's research estimates around $45 trillion in today's money was taken. the india that got independence in 1947 was one of the poorest countries on earth. every "why is india like this" question starts there. you don't get to profit off a robbery and then mock the crime scene.

now, what's happening RIGHT NOW:

in may the question paper for NEET leaked. that's the national medical entrance exam. over 2.2 million students took it. cancelled. years of studying, families' savings poured into coaching, gone overnight because someone sold the paper. students died by suicide after. these were kids who wanted to be doctors.

and out of that came a protest movement. a gen z group called the cockroach janta party, started by a 30 year old named abhijeet dipke, got 22 million instagram followers within DAYS. they've been doing a sit-in at jantar mantar in delhi demanding education minister dharmendra pradhan resign.

and then there's sonam wangchuk. if you've watched 3 idiots, he's the real engineer the character was based on. built solar schools in ladakh. invented ice stupas so himalayan villages have water. spent his whole life on education. he's 59 and he's been on hunger strike for 17+ days now. reporters went to see him this week and he was too weak to talk. and the troll armies are calling him "anti national" and "foreign funded". a man starving himself for other people's children. that's the thing here, anyone who asks a question is suddenly a traitor.

it's not one incident, it's everywhere you look:

• infrastructure worth thousands of crores failing within months of the ribbon cutting. tunnels collapsing in regions where heavy rain is a guarantee, not a surprise.

• youth unemployment near 10% for ages 15 to 29, 13.6% in cities. in a country of 1.42 billion where more than half the population is young.

• only about the top 3% of indians earn above 10 lakh a year. meanwhile billionaire wealth keeps ballooning and the headlines celebrate it.

• manipur burned for over two years. an ethnic conflict, tens of thousands displaced, and the prime minister barely said the word manipur while it happened.

• journalists raided. critics' houses bulldozed. activists sitting in jail for years without trial under laws like UAPA. our press freedom ranking has cratered.

• even the petrol is a fight now, ethanol blending pushed through while drivers complain about their engines and get no straight answers.

and through all of it, the PM, who came to power on religious polarisation (americans, sound familiar?), travels abroad for photo ops and has not held one single open press conference in over a decade. not one.

what i'm asking:

if you're not indian: share this. our media mostly won't cover any of it because the big outlets are owned by the same billionaires the government serves. the only reason wangchuk's fast is getting any coverage is people refusing to look away.

if you ARE indian: speak up even if you're comfortable. especially if you're comfortable. join the protests. add to this, correct me, translate it. staying quiet is a choice when nothing in this post touches your life.

india is not "dirty". india was robbed, and it's being robbed again, from the inside this time. but it's also the country where a 59 year old will starve for strangers' kids and 22 million young people will rally behind a party literally named after cockroaches, because cockroaches survive everything.

we can still save her. but only loudly.

Supporters of India's youth-led Cockroach movement said Tuesday they will continue their protest in New Delhi, refusing to leave their sit-in site a day after police used tear gas and batons to disperse thousands of them as they tried to march toward Parliament. Hundreds of protesters camped at Jantar Mantar, a designated protest site, under heavy police presence, saying they would stay until Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigns over alleged failures in India's examination system. "We are going to continue our protest," said Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the Cockroach Janta Party, which emerged just two months ago. The movement, drawing students, professionals and families, marks a rare public challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi 's government in its third term, reviving criticism over its handling of dissent and its use of force to respond to protests. [...] Sona Bisht, a 20-year-old student who was part of the protest, said the confrontation strengthened her resolve. "If the government thinks that doing this with Gen Z, they can stop us, then that won't happen. We are here talking about education, talking about securing our future. And till the time our demands are not met, we will not move from here," she said.

"Definitions developed thus far about youth, like the Gen Z narrative, have largely been linked to roles attributed by the dominant system. The rulers have invented a whole range of terms — rebellious, irresponsible, apolitical, extremist, consumerist — not to understand youth, but to neutralize it. They know as well as we do that whoever wins over the youth wins over society. [...] Thus the question is not whether youth is powerful, but in whose interest this power is directed. Today’s uprisings — such as those in Nepal, Bangladesh, Madagascar, Indonesia, Kenya, Morocco, and beyond — demonstrate that youth continues to emerge as a decisive actor. Young women like Deniz Ciya have proven this with their lives. These uprisings are not expressions of generational temperament. These „Gen Z uprisings“ are expressions of a social force confronting structural crisis inherent in the current system. [...] Recent youth uprisings — whether in the form of environmental justice protests, labor movements, or uprisings against authoritarian governments — are proof that youth worldwide are not only responding to a set of circumstances; they are consciously and collectively rejecting the narratives that seek to define them. Thus, it is crucial to analyze what transpired, and draw lessons from these uprisings, particularly in the context of building a global youth democratic confederalism. For the power of youth movements is interconnected, despite being geographically distant." — "Beyond "Gen Z": Defending Revolutionary Youth Spirit" by Lêgerîn

DO NOT TRY TO FIND OUT WHERE ANY OF MCR'S HOTELS ARE.

MCR drawing I really liked | looks like blur ( lowkey not intentional )

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𝑇hat butch is staring so greedily at a femme that isn’t hers smh . . .

How about I watch you play whatever video game has got a hold of you lately?

Or what if we just listen to music together in silence. Enjoying each other's company while we soak in whatever song I put on.

Maybe I’ll paint your nails, or do your makeup, or braid your hair.

i hope they hold your face in their hands and give you gentle kisses across your cheeks and the tip of your nose and tell you they’re proud of you. not because you’ve earned it..but because they see how hard you’ve tried. how far you’ve come.

and i hope they dance with you for no reason, and make you laugh so much your stomach hurts..and meet that softness you have with their own. that they never make you feel small for needing reassurance, or affection or gentle words.

that they make sure you understand that those needs aren’t burdens, they’re just places where love gets to show up.

I want you to feel safe changing around me. Aware that I won’t look at you negatively without clothes on. I want you to feel safe enough with me that you’re able to be vulnerable around me without any worries.

And I want the same for me too. I want to be so comfortable with you that I’m not scared to show you my insecurities either. Comfortable enough to share my own trauma and raw emotions with you.

To feel safe changing around you knowing you wont judge my body. I want to be vulnerable with you and not have to worry about you taking advantage of that.

butch frankie who goes with you to your family parties while you were fully expecting her to try and make a run for it but she actually stays and chats with all your family members,,, everyone accepting her like she was always meant to be there,,,,

at first she stuck by your side, listening to you talk to your mom about your new job in the city and silently sipping her beer. she enjoyed hearing you speak spanish, your voice was different something she couldnt pin.

you told her to not be afraid to talk to anyone, they would all like her of course since they all loved you— you were ‘la princesa’ to everyone.

your tias gossiping fully about how they thought she was a guy at first, but she ends up charming them with the stories she brings from tour, drama from all over definitely had then saying, “mija bring her over more, i want her to update me on that guy,,”

she helps your mom with the last of the tamales, tasting them all until she finds her favorite and eats five in one sitting!!!! leaving her beer next to your plate and picking up the cup of champurrado that your tia made,,,

your mom packs so many tamales that you guys eat them for the rest of the weekend,,, she also asks your mom if she can take home some of the conchas to which your mom calls you the following day saying to come pick up the extra bread she made for frankie.

this girl goes HARD durng loteria,,, begging you, “please just one more dollar baby im gonna win,,” to which you pull out your wallet handing her quarters to put in,,

she makes you watch and ensure shes hearing the right cards called, she kind of makes the game go slow but everyone likes her so they dont complain. she never ends up winning but you do so she treats your wins as a win for the both of you. “oh baby we won! we did it finally!” everyone laughs because they know you were the one playing that round.

just when you thought she couldnt get any better she ends up playing guitar with your tios, learning all the best songs while drinking her fourth beer of the night, you can see her face getting rosy and speech slurring, she picks up on some of the spanish to which she repeats on the car ride home, “babe— baby i want, besitos,, thats right? uhhh andd i wan’ amor,,, yess— uhhh im so tired,, tengo sueño? is tha’ right?”

while youre saying goodbye to everyone you start asking around for frankie,, “y mi novia??” your niece tugging your shirt and pointing to your childhood bedroom that was now empty, stuck in a time when you were the youngest person in the family, which wasnt for long but was still a while ago.

you opened the door, fully expecting frankie to be passed out but you instead saw her playing with your nieces and nephews all of them yelling, “frank—frankie,, play with me!! frankie lets play— frank, frankie this game!!” one was climbing her shoulder while the other was attacking her back, another one sticking a stuffed animal and barbies directly in her face.

her smile was huge, like she was meant to be there— tackled by kids. you wondered if your family could handle another one, maybe a few more from you and frankie.

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literally how can the worst people ever have gfs and i dont, like make it make sense im an angel