Seriously, let's say the #ww3 the US/EU/NATO/ISRAEL/UKRAINE have been provoking to start eventually starts and you are stuck in a country that you feel is in the wrong side of the war-front?
What do you do?
Engage in guerrilla warfare against the people around you who blindly conform to their state? Become vocal and suicidal as a peace activist? Run away to a strange country on the other side of the war front?
#Muslim voters in #India feel targeted more and more by the ruling party and Prime Minister #Modi with hate speeches. There have been reports of Muslim voters' names being removed from the voting list and in one village in #UttarPradesh, they were even beaten up. But no action has been taken by the #Election Commission of India against these complaints prompting activists to launch a campaign against it. Navodita Kumari reports.
@mastodonindians - Shiva Sena has been an important factor in NDA's rise in MMR. But BJP seem to have narrowed its gap with Sena since 2012.
If NDA gets even 40% of Sena-NCP votes, it is likely to win 7 seats. For MVA, even getting 70% of Sena-NCP votes is likely to only bring 3 MMR seats. (3/4)
@mastodonindians *Note: ENOP is the reciprocal of the sum of squares of vote share of candidates in a constituency, and a higher number suggests that more candidates are in the fray. The median PC-wise ENOP in MMR stood at 3.4, 2.6, and 2.2 in 2009, 2014 and 2019 respectively. (4/4)
"A brutal #heatwave swept swathes of northwest #India on Friday, with maximum temperatures soaring to a scorching 47.4 degrees Celsius in southwest #Delhi's Najafgarh, making it the warmest place in the country."
Nine Succumb to Heat-Related Incidents in #Rajasthan; Temperatures to Cross 50°C in Many Rajasthani Districts
While a large number of these heat-related deaths took place amidst the searing outdoors, a frequent #PowerOutage nuisance in these areas continues to aggravate the heat problem indoors as well. According to reports, at least 16 areas of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh have recorded maximum temperatures of 45°C or above on Thursday. "
"According to a recent survey by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and CVoter International, a staggering 91% of Indians are worried about #GlobalWarming, and an impressive 86% support the government’s ‘Net Zero’ commitment to reduce #India’s carbon pollution to nearly zero by 2070."