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Don't mean to be a negative nancy, but I **really**, really, dislike this trend of some Punjabi artists in the West now churning out artwork by making their own "covers" of popular magazines with photos from the protests.

Lot of genuine problems with this

 For one, when these are shared on social media, the image is what captures attention, not the caption - a LOT of people are sharing these in groupchats/posting online with the assumption that they're real. Have had to correct some of my fam in India saying it's just artwork
This just adds to general misinformation, which is really not ideal at a time when we see coordinated efforts to spread that - the facts should stand out above all
Secondly, this gives really easy currency to those saying that farmers are protesting the bills because they're unknowledgeable; some Indian media outlets have already scored points off the National Geographic cover, "fact checking it", and inferring all info is as such.
Another problem is a lot of the "headlines" are lifted from other news stories - for example, the Rolling Stone "cover" literally copied the headline of IP Singh's great article (covered here). Give coverage to the people actually writing these stories!

https://t.co/NtgREE0rhF
These are my main substantive problems, but I also have a more of a meta-critique; I dislike the draw of such covers on an artistic level in the first place.

Is a movement only validated if it's covered in a magazine for Western audiences?
We're already seeing protestors take their narrative into their own hands with their own newspaper and independent journalists equipped with nothing more than a phone pushing out crucial information; so why do we still crave that Western validation? What purpose does it serve?
There's a whole world out there, with multitudes of topics to cover and politics to discuss. Sikhs, IMO, need to stop demanding tokenized representation in the mainstream as if it's owed to them and write their own narratives as they see fit
National Geographic ran a spread on the Green Revolution's ills in Punjab and I remember as a kid it was like two worlds colliding; I followed NatGeo for my "NatGeo interests", but this one article satiated my "Punjab interests". But they don't owe that to you and they shouldn't.
On that note, I think a great example of Punjabis/Sikhs in the West owning their own narrative and telling their own stories is going to be this initiative - I hope it can get as much traction as these covers did, as there'll be a lot to engage with:

https://t.co/LpGafXQZ3Y

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It is entirely possible that,Carey in his arrogance of being the white man and hence more civilized,his inability to under the Hindu scriptures and his natural disdain for the learned community coupled with his inherent hatred for the idolaters may have exaggerated the incidents.

In fact, considering the venom with which he has spoken about Hinduism and it's practices, it's likely that he has exaggerated these incidents. But it cannot be denied that these incidents did happen even if they may not have been on scale at which Carey has described.

One of his journal entry mentions a debate which happened in a temple in front of around 200 people. Carey describes having debated with two learned men and goes on to say when both learned men failed to answer his questions, he went on to preach the gospel to the assembled crowd


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Just like Bhagat Singh, Faiz was considered a Hero in Undivided British India. During WW2, Faiz served with a unit led by Akbar Khan, a left-wing officer and future Pakistan Army general.

Faiz rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel.

There was a mass recruitment of Indians especially socialist & communist activists into the British Indian Army and RIN (Navy) for war efforts against Nazi Germany after 1941.

However, once the war was over, the newly recruited men turned against the British, 1946 Naval Mutiny.

His poem Subh-e Azaadi (The Dawn of Freedom, August 1947) records his disappointment with the partition of the Indian subcontinent.

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Located on the left bank of the Ganga, Varanasi is one of the 7 holy cities of the Hindus. According to the Vamana Purana, two rivers named Varuna and Assi originated since the beginning of the timei

The name Varanasi originates from the two tributaries of the Ganges, the Varuna &the Assi, which flows at its northern & southern boundaries. The land lying between them was named 'Varanasi'. Its original name was derived from the word 'Kashi', 'Kaasha', which means brightness.

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Famous American writer Mark Twain writes: " banaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend and looks twice as old as all of them put together.”

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Some were asking me whether @yadavakhilesh will have revival like Tejaswi Yadav of Bihar in Uttar Pradesh elections.

Simple 1 Point Reply - This is @myogiadityanath governing Uttar Pradesh not @NitishKumar of Bihar.

is brand of his own and he has his own image and stardom.

This is not media creation or creation because of weak Oppn in state.

@myogiadityanath Brand UP is creation of his own hardwork in ground through effective governance and he is self made politician.

In Today Position as per reliable ground reports in Uttar Pradesh.

BJP is sitting pretty with 42% without any allaince partner, without any campaigning Just in Brand Value of @myogiadityanath it is in position to easily reach 300 seats.

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