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हॉलीवुड में AI के ख़िलाफ़ हड़ताल | Hollywood protests against AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpWo_EwjFsM Jul 28, 2023 #hollywood #ai #protest
हॉलीवुड में एक महीने से हड़ताल चल रही है। Artificial Intellegence AI के कारण सबके काम पर असर पड़ने वाला है। फ़िल्म लिखने वालों से लेकर कलाकार, मेक-अप आर्टिस्ट से लेकर कोरियोग्राफ़र और वीडियो एडिटर सबका काम कम होगा। पगार कम होगा। ये कामगार चाहते हैं कि फ़िल्म निर्माण से जुड़ी कंपनियाँ उनकी सैलरी बढ़ायें और AI के कारण नई शर्तें बनाएँ , जिससे उनका हित सुरक्षित हो। इस हड़ताल में बड़े बड़े अभिनेता और अभिनेत्री शामिल हैं। AI के खिलाफ दुनिया की यह सबसे बड़ी हड़ताल है। न्यू यॉर्क के टाइम्स स्क्वायर से मेरी रिपोर्ट।

Kuki Leader Who Once Backed Biren Manipur Govt Claims ‘200 Meiteis Killed’ in Khamenlok, June 13/14  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV2PpL8m2s4 The Wire Jul 27, 2023

The General Secretary of the Kuki People’s Alliance, a party with two MLAs in the Manipur Assembly and until the Manipur crisis started on 3rd May an ally of the BJP government in Imphal, has revealed that he “estimates” that 200 Meitei combatants were killed and up to 300 or more injured in the conflict between the Kuki and Meitei combatants that took place in Khamenlok on the 13th/14th of June. Mr. Wilson Lalam Hangshing said: “It was a massacre”.

Exerpts from Lette from Association of Meiteis in the Americasto  Ajay Bangs, President The World Bank,
July 22, 2023

violence in Manipur has set the economy back by decades...
Manipur has not only survived but also emerged stronger after numerous internecine clashes. The common factor in most of these clashes seems to be the aggression of the Kukis. Mention may be made here of the Kuki and Naga clash in the 90s. Kuki and Paite clash in 1997. Kuki and Karbi clash in 2009. Kuki and Dimasa clash in 2011, and the ongoing Kuki and Meitei clash of 2023. In the context of Manipur, we see a repetition of history - the aggression of the Kukis in the 1990s and 2023 is directly linked to the military coup in Myanmar in 1988 and the military coup of February 2021. The junta's brutal suppression of resistance displaced mom than a million Myanmar people, and there has been a massive influx of asylum seekers to India. Consequently, them has been a documented exponential growth of Kuki-Chins people from Myanmar. The economic, land, and political pressures leave poor migrants with minimal choices for employment. India's restrictive migration regime provides no protection for refugees and displaced people, leading to poppy cultivation in over 15000 acres of protected fore. in Manipur.
The World Bank projects like the P176733 will help uplift socio-economic conditions through economic impact initiatives, bringing Manipur digitally closer to the rest of the world. The social risk and impact am enormously positive for the World Bank to invest in these regions. The project is highly inclusive, with special attention to women and over 35 diverse tribal groups.

Comment by BD : Othering the Kukis and labelling them as aggressors against other tribals groups like Nagas and Paites and other ethnic groups

Excerpts from Letter 
NORTH AMERICAN MANIPUR TRIBAL ASSOCIATION July 19, 2023

This conflict violet. your own 'Environmental and Social Framework' policy document Section 4(b) since the Kuki-Zomi have borne the brunt of the impact from this conflict, not only the potential risk. 

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/now-manipur-diaspora-groups-fight-over-world-bank-project/articleshow/102185678.cms?from=mdr

A World Bank-supported project to promote digital skills and entrepreneurship and secure the foundation of digital governance in Manipur, and approved by the World Bank three weeks ago, has now become the bone of contention between Manipuri tribal and non-tribal diaspora groups.

Project , or the Manipur Infotech eNabled Development Project, which was conceptualised in 2022 at a cost of $57.5 million ($46 million to come from the World Bank and rest to be borne by the local government), is to be implemented by Cyber Corporation of Manipur Ltd.
Scheduled to start in the current financial year, when the state is engulfed by violence for nearly three months now, the project has sparked off a row between the Canada-based North American Tribal Association (NAMTA) and the Houston-based Association of Meiteis in the Americas (AMA).

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Facing the Atom Bomb: Gandhi, Oppenheimer and the quest for Nonviolence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iTnknFMC1U Indian Academy of Sciences Jun 11, 2021 IASc-DBT Gandhi Science lecture series Talk by Rajni Bakshi. 12 April 2021

https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/oppenheimer-moral-dilemma-atom-bomb-8857883/

https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/oppenheimer-moral-dilemma-atom-bomb-8857883/