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Mikki Kendall Remembers the Indelible Work and Full Complexity of bell hooks https://lithub.com/mikki-kendall-remembers-the-indelible-work-and-full-complexity-of-bell-hooks/

When hooks wrote about power and how power relations are built into how we perceive one another; her work validated my personal belief that not looking away, being confrontational, rebelling against demands of being ladylike isn’t falling into the stereotype of being an Angry Black Woman, it is instead a way to short-circuit the power dynamics that seek to force women into perpetual subservience.

Rejecting the idea that progressive social movements could function in isolation, she tied together feminism, civil rights, and even economics into all her conversations.  thought process is integral to her definition of feminism, as “a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.”

hooks regularly challenged Black culture to not just reinvent itself in the face of outside oppressors, but to consider what was being built and how it would impact the future. Though she did not always agree with the focus of other Black icons, she largely centered her critiques on impact, challenging thought leaders and artists to consider their sometimes outsized impact in a society that tried to limit Black creativity to what would be palatable to white audiences. Creating for more than the white gaze or the male gaze was the goal.

मुंबई में बीजेपी के मंत्री ने 500 घरों पर चलवाए बुलडोजर, न सर्वे न नोटिस भारी बरसात में ढहाए घर https://www.workersunity.com/india/wp-me-pazulx-6ic/
July 21, 2023 - by Workers Unity Team

निवासियों का आरोप है कि महाराष्ट्र में बीजेपी के एक मंत्री मंगल लोढ़ा के आदेश पर इस बस्ती पर बुलडोजर चलाया गया और मांग की है कि इस मंत्री पर एससी एसटी एक्ट के तहत मुकदमा दर्ज किया जाए।

अंबुजवाड़ी बस्ती में अधिकांश निवासी दलित, आदिवासी और पिछड़े वर्ग से आते हैं और उन्होंने अपनी कड़ी मेहनत और खून पसीने की कमाई से घर बनाए थे। ये घर 20-20 साल पुराने थे।

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar: Fountainhead of fundamentalism in India May 28, 2023  https://frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/veer-savarkar-myth-in-indian-freedom-struggle-by-tamil-writer-jeyamohan/article66903378.ece Savarkar called for an armed rebellion against the British and made preparations for it. He was not grounded by a sense of either reality or history. He had no understanding of the power of the great administrative machinery of the British or their massive army. Lacking a sense of history, he failed to see that the British government drew its power from the popular acceptance it had gained from the millions of Indian people it ruled over. 

Before the advent of Gandhi, during Savarkar’s era, some “intellectuals” believed that the British could be driven out using violent means. Once a violent struggle was initiated, they thought people would join in the riots to destroy the British. Fifty years later, tragically, the naxalites too shared the same belief and modus operandi. Savarkar, Bhagat Singh, and Subhash Chandra Bose were all people with a similar misapprehension of history. Their rebellion was a childish effort completely based on their belief in violence and a misbegotten sense of personal adventure. Their misplaced confidence came from imagining themselves to be extraordinary men capable of determining history. Essentially, it stemmed from a lack of faith in the great power of the people.

https://www.rediff.com/news/interview/savarkar-was-granted-a-pension-by-the-british/20211014.htm Tushar Gandhi interview, quoting from his book Let's Kill Gandhi, .. what you do at the end of your life makes you what you are and what Savarkar did at the end of his life was he was a collaborationist with the British colonial regime and was a part of Mahatma Gandhi's murder conspiracy.

He was granted a pension by the British till 1947 and was given a home in Ratnagiri where he was confined. He was provided sustenance by the British. And at many times he wrote to the British that he needed an increase in pension, which is a fact and I am not alleging anything on my own.