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> Government of India amended a bill to allow Indian citizenship. They added a list of religions but somehow excluded only Muslims from that list. Because Muslims obviously are not…

> 6. Settling the Ayodhya Dispute: Is it done by Supreme Court or Government? Are you implying that Supreme Court is not independent and Government has a hand in Supreme Court deci…

----------------------------------------- Responding to 8.2 PM CARES Fund: > The total amount of funds donated and the names of donors have not been publicly disclosed, and the fun…

Splitting into multiple comments as Hacker News is complaining that it is too long. I'll answer in the order of the most contentious issue you raised first. I will tackle the easy …

How do I share "facts" on somethings that are fabrications by the Opposition? I'll attempt it: let us take the Rafale Deal accusations that was leveled against the Government of In…

> Note that this explanation is only one of the (many) incidents outlined in the (long) Vice post Where is this explanation? There is not even one mention of Nupur Sharma in the Vi…

1. Abrogation of Article 370 and removing Special Status accorded to Jammu and Kashmir, reintegrating it with India. This has been the bone of contention that has caused weakness i…

This looks great! Thanks for the share!

> I know artists who are vehemently against DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, etc. and regard it as stealing, but they view Copilot and GPT-3 as merely useful tools. An example: https://tw…

> I think this is mostly about Twitter's refusal to censor on behalf of the Indian government; see eg https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d3bmn/twitter-censorship-in ... I'll explain …

> I think this is mostly about Twitter's refusal to censor on behalf of the Indian government; see eg https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d3bmn/twitter-censorship-in ... Vice is part …

When it comes to India, Twitter is typically at the forefront of mainstreaming propaganda and selectively applying rules. So my perspective comes from that (since this article conc…

Because I have seen this bias on HN. I feel the need to call it out. Why is it bothering you? Can't I have my opinion? Or should I be forced to conform to everyone's opinion here? …

> "Actually no, you can't say we treat everyone equally, we're manually going in and exempting certain people from scrutiny, and that's entirely within our discretion." Isn't that …

> Meta meddling in politics and turning a blind eye to those who used the platform to peddle misinformation isn't news. But Twitter doing the same is perfectly fine right? I see th…

> can be presented without resorting to conjecture on your part about the motivations of the owners of the publication Why not? Are journalists different from politicians that we s…

Because, believe it or not, plenty of Indians are satisfied with the current Government in India. We have had shit Governments for more than 70 years. So don't be surprised if Indi…

Video of the man playing saxophone during his brain surgery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAuAWaLG2_s

> Who gets to make the call that these risks are okay and are not as bad as the negative impact(s) we may face from climate change? Who decides that it is an acceptable trade-off t…

I lumped you in with propagandists. Some spread propaganda of there being "systemic slavery" while others say "What the other poster meant is that you'll end up hiring out of the u…

Yes Indian state recognizes all castes. That is the core problem. For the system to be dismantled you need the Indian state to stop recognizing castes and implement US style Affirm…

Did I say it was you? I said "another commenter". If I wanted to say it was you, I would have said it was you.