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Are you asserting the smiling photo is the real one?
India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters' faces
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#102Delhi Police arrested the protesting Indian women wrestlers. Various social media handles of IT cell of ruling party shared morphed picture of protesters to show that they were smiling in the police van. https://twitter.com/SakshiMalik/status/1662729269532065792
Is that an all female police squad?
There is a law (maybe a Supreme Court judgement) that only lady officers can arrest women.
And in these cases, a high powered officer, like the SP/DSP calls out for every lady police officers in all local police station to be present.
It doesn't need to be a "all female squad".
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
The inauguration of the new Parliament building where: - None of the major opposition parties attended - The President and other constitutional heads were not invited - The protesting athletes were arrested - One religion was in the spotlight, as opposed to the Indian brand of secularism where ceremonies of all religions should have been conducted - On the day of Savarkar's (Hindu nationalist) birth anniversary - The…
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Thank you for raising this! it definitely isn't talked about as much as it should, especially in western spheres of dicussion like here on hn
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is what a lot of us think the real threat of "AI" is: not that it will autonomously produce bad outcomes for humanity, but because it's a tool that's indifferent to truth or falsehood it allows any kind of truth or reality based politics to be totally flooded out of the public sphere. Everyone ends up fighting in the hall of mirrors.
Yeah. The postmodernists (as I understand them) have been talking about "post truth" and "claims of truth are just assertions of power". And I've always thought that their position was insane. Now they look more like prophets. That world is increasingly the world we live in. The question becomes, how can we stay sane in that world? How can we find enough actual truth (truth that is actually true , true in the old sen…
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Pointing out the population size of India to suggest it's the measure to use when judging quality of a democracy has yet to be used in context of India behaving like a democracy.
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#106As an NRI, I continue to be disappointed by the country I called home for most of my life. Between the politics and the pollution in Delhi, I fear I can never really return home. The last time I was home, I was struggling every day to breathe because Delhi has crazy air in the winter. While high school friends were telling me about how they don’t believe in equal rights, justifying any means to achieving a Hindu coun…
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While those criticisms are true, and I won’t dispute it, he was also a huge symbol for many to actually trust in science and push the country forward.
Sometimes what the symbol represents is more important than the contents itself
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#107What's with India and the shift towards the right? I thought it had too many religions and different cultures to pull this off.
Religion is a force that pulls people in a conservative direction, particularly when there has been a history of inter-religion conflict like in India
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#108"Hey, we're just trying to democratize art.."
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"Is there something dystopian about India or Soviet Union that is unlike the Global North?" Actually, I would place the soviet union in the global north (you cannot go much further north, than russia is). And the difference is the extent, what they did to rewrite history. The famous removal of Trotzki out of revolution pictures, after he was not with the main party anymore. Stuff like this, did not happen in the west…
Geographic location isn’t the only aspect of “Global North/South”. Australia is considered part of the North grouping.
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> It is only in "secular" India that organized religious conversions were allowed that led to Christians going from less that 1% of the population 100 years ago to 90% today in some states But all that happened before India was even fully independent so how is it relevant? Are you saying Christian should be forcibly converted back to Hinduism?
I'd partly disagree, there are reports of forced conversions to Islam in Kashmir, and women being raped and murdered on refusing to do so long after independence, as recent as 2021.