Better than the GOI's silence on Navi Pillay's Nobel Peace Prize is @KanwalSibal attempt to offer an explanation and I applaud him for that. At the heart of his objection to Navi Pillay's Nobel is his suggestion that she "has a long record of targeting India". This is what he writes: "She has attacked India on Kashmir and mass graves and disappearances, on AFSPA, on Sexual Violence and New Delhi gang rape(2012), calling for substantial legal and systemic reforms to tackle widespread sexual violence, and Caste and Gender Discrimination (2014)." Let's break it down. 1. Kashmir mass graves. This is what a UN press release in Oct 2012 (news.un.org/en/story/2012/10…) said when Pillay was head of the UNHRC: "The human rights of people living in areas that are the subject of unresolved territorial disputes are also often neglected, she noted, adding that one such example is Jammu and Kashmir in India, where the discovery of 2,730 bodies in unmarked mass graves was confirmed in a 2011 report by the Jammu and Kashmir State Human Rights Commission. “I urge the Indian authorities to fully investigate past killings and disappearances and bring the perpetrators to justice, as well as to ensure protection of witnesses and families of the missing and provide them with redress,” the High Commissioner stated. “These will be critical steps in the ongoing effort to build confidence with the aim of promoting lasting peace and stability in the region.”" Here, Pillay does nothing more than cite the finding on mass graves of an OFFICIAL INDIAN BODY, the J&K SHRC and urges India to fully investigate. Here is the JK SHRC report (kljp.org/articles/shrc-on-un…). After 2019 the commission was disbanded and it no longer has a website! How is that 'targeting India'? 2. Call to repeal AFSPA. Navi Pillay made this call in 2009. Two years later, another Pillai, Gopal Pillai, former Union Home Secretary, said the same thing. (nagalimvoice.com/news/gk-pil…). Whether you agree or disagree, the call to repeal AFSPA has many, many backers within India and abroad and this position cannot be dismissed as 'anti-India'. The government is free to disregrard these calls, if it wishes. 3. "She has attacked India on ... Sexual Violence and New Delhi gang rape(2012), calling for substantial legal and systemic reforms to tackle widespread sexual violence" Yikes. Navi Pillay echoed what Indians were saying on the street and whose views Parliament duly took note of by passing a new law that embodied substantial legal and systemic reforms to tackle widespread sexual violence. 4. "She has attacked India on ... Caste and Gender Discrimination (2014)". Double yikes! He gives the date for 2014 when Navi Pilay made (as far as I can tell) brief and unobjectionable remarks in response to the murder of two Maurya girls in UP, but I found a more complete statement from 2013 which cannot be accused of 'targeting India'. (idsn.org/wp-content/uploads/…). She actually said this, which should please Mr Kanwal Sibal: "India also has far-reaching constitutional guarantees and laws which prohibit castebased discrimination. Most recently, the Union Cabinet in India has cleared the new legislation on manual scavenging, proposing stiff penalties against any public authority or private individual who uses or promotes this heinous practice. With an estimated 90% of Dalit women among manual scavengers in India, the adoption of this law will represent a key step forward in protecting and promoting the rights of Dalit women and it will represent a good practice for other countries where manual scavenging continues to be practiced." Net-net, the evidence offered to justify India not welcoming Navi Pillay's Nobel Peace Prize is unconvincing. Please revise and resubmit.

बलि प्रथा ठिक वा बेठिक भन्नेमा मैले राय दिन्न तर बलिको तौरतरिका चाहिँ अलिक सभ्य बनाउ है । बैतडी देहिमाणौंमा राँगो दौडाई-दौडाई मार्ने वा खोकनामा पाठोलाई पोखरीमा लुछेर मार्नेजस्ता कुरुप र नृशंस चलनमा भने फेरबदल गरौं । संस्कृतिका नाममा असभ्यता र बर्बरता प्रदर्शन नगरौं ।

RT @sanpokh: गेरु, सफेद, मरुन, कालो रङ्गका पहिरन ओढ्ने, निधारमा चन्दन खरानी घस्ने र ज्ञान बाँड्दै हिड्ने जतिसुकै नाम चलेको भए पनि मुल्ला,…

Actually I like the sky without kites that are man-made. We must leave the sky for naturally occurring kites and eagles. Studies in India have found remains of man-made kites killing birds in a large scale as the birds entangle in the threads used for kite flying! Happy Dashain!

सिंहदरबार, सर्वोच्च अदालत, तमाम व्यापारिक प्रतिष्ठान, अझ स्थानीय तहका नेताले त जीवनभरको पुँजी लगाएर बल्लबल्ल बनाएका घरसमेत जलाएर खरानी बनाई राजनीतिमा उदाएकाहरूलाई फ्रान्स जलेकोमा चिन्ता छ। चुतियम सल्फेट!

A new book from a fellow history PhD from @Penn Sanjay Joshi. 2026. Brahmins of the Himalaya: Upper-Caste Ways of Belonging, 1850-1950. Permanent Black (for South Asia) and SUNY Press. Publisher blurb: permanentblack.com/product-p… Podcast with the author: indianreligions.com/podcast/…

Why in India, Hindutva gang & some ‘liberals’ only talking about ‘regime change’ in Bangladesh? Because it is a Muslim country? Why not Sri Lanka? Why not Nepal? The most violent student protest that forced regime change in South Asia was Nepal - it is a Hindu majority country!

हाम्री देवीले हाम्रो कल्याण गरून्! यो तस्बिरका बारेमा एउटा स्पष्टीकरण पनि चाहिन्छ जस्तो लाग्यो। हामीले आफ्नै अनुहारका र आफ्नै पृष्ठभूमिमा र आफ्नै सांस्कृतिक बिम्बहरूले सजिएका देवी देवता देख्नै पाएका रहेनछौँ, पुझ्नै पाएका रहेनछौँ। भारतीय कलाकारहरूले आफू खुसी बनाएका चुच्चा चुच्चा हिमाल, वा जगमग ज्योतिका पृष्ठभूमिमा सुनका हात हतियार बोकेका, अस्वाभाविक मुख मण्डल भएका देवी देवता देखेर नै हामीले देवताप्रतिको छवि बनाएका रहेछौँ। झन्डै २५ वर्षअघि हिमाल एसोसिएसनबाट @KanakManiDixit र मैले सुरु गरेको "हाम्रा देवीदेवताको छवि" को अभियान कलाकार सुभाष राई अमेरिका गएपछि र कमलमणि दीक्षितले जुटाइदिनु भएको स्रोत सकिएपछि यत्तिकै सेलाएको थियो। अहिले यन्त्रमेधाको सहयोगमा म भित्रको अकुशल कलाकार फेरि जुर्मुराएको छ। प्रस्तुत चित्रमा भएकी देवीको अनुहार जानाजान कसैसित मिलाउन खोजिएको होइन। उनको तस्बिरको पृष्ठभूमिका लागि मनकामनाको मन्दिर, ढाकाको परिधान, नेपाली कहना र रुद्राक्षको माला अनि सिंहको साटो हिम चितुवा रोजिएको मात्र हो। अरू पनि मसिना केही डिटेलहरू पाउनुहुनेछ। कम्तीमा देवताहरू त हामीसित मिल्दाजुल्दा होऊन् न!

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Hello The idiot of the highest order, Neha, Aishe, Danish ..... none visit foreign embassy for validation. They didn't not burn country n undermine constitution illegally. They uphold it. You n your generation did one or other. They sat for 23 days without eating. Have you?

The checks and balances are strongest in parliamentary democracy, and that's its beauty. Let's keep each institution robust! Story by @ManojSatyal नेपालको संसदीय इतिहासमै पहिलो पटक सरकारले सिफारिस गरेका राजदूत अस्वीकृत setopati.com/politics/400853

In Baramulla, Kashmir, a major Buddhist site has been discovered. India's Hindutva brigade says Kashmir was a Hindu kingdom before Muslims took it over. But, what happened to those Buddhists before Kashmir became Hindu?

US Ambassador Marquita Maytag invites PM Tulsi Giri to an orgy, goes braless wearing a t-shirt that says 'keep those tips up', hosts parties with ganja and cookies, refuses to vacate the embassy when fired, and illegally takes Nepali artifacts when she leaves the country.

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