NEWCASTLE MELA 2022
A visit to the first day of the annual Newcastle Mela.... music, dance, theatre, food, giant puppets !
In case anyone isn't familar with the concept, mela is a Sanskrit word meaning "gathering" or "to meet" or a "fair".
Newcastle Mela is a free event, based around Pakistani, Bengali, Indian and other South Asian cultures.
#newcastle #mela #festival #music #dance #theatre #food #puppets #asian #pakistani #bengali #indian #multicultural #video #film #youtube
Is Rishi #Sunak Prince Charles' son?
Sunak was conceived in 1979, when Prince #Charles was 31. The Prince is 5 foot 10 inches (1.78m) tall, Sunak is 5 foot 7 inches (1.7m). Sunak has the same ear #morphology as the Prince. Sunak has close-set eyes like the Prince. Sunak has thick eyebrows like the #Prince. Sunak has similar lip morphology to the Prince. Both the Prince & Sunak have ostensibly #ectomorphic #body types. Both the Prince & Sunak have similarly long #facial morphology. Sunak has a similar hairline as Prince Charles had when he was a #young #man. Major differences are nose shape & other more typically #Indian #features.
#princecharles #rishisunak #royals #royalfamily #isrichiroyal #royalrishi #uk #illegitimateson #biologicalson #rishisunakmp #rishi
Wow, the #film Bend It Like Beckham came out 20 years ago today! Hard to believe it's been so long. "A kaleidoscope of colour and culture clash humorously as an #Indian family in #London tries to raise their #football playing daughter in a traditional way."
Happy #wintersolstice , and also there is another #special day #today
Today is also the #happy #birthday of #Indian #mathematician Srinivas Ramanujan, regarded as one of the greatest of Indian genii...
He was a blend of innate #talent and platonic #love towards #mathematics.
At an early age, he was taken to #Cambridge by another genius of Britain, Godfrey Harold Hardy. Together, they made several #beautiful discoveries. The #story of Ramanujan's life is indeed a wonderful piece to read, full of romance and thrills :)
India added around 11.1GW of solar capacity from January to November, which is a 249% jump on installations for the same period last year, bringing its installed renewables capacity to roughly 104GW, according to research by JMK Research.
https://www.pv-tech.org/india-adds-11-1gw-of-solar-pv-an-increase-of-249-on-the-same-period-last-year/
#jmk, #research, #indian, #to, #bridge, #india, #solar, #news
“I don’t need to wake up. I dream with my eyes open.”
Sonu Sood as Basu: City of Life (1:27:56, Ali F. Mostafa, 2009.12.11)
#Indian #taxi #driver #immigrant #worker #hope #alone #nevergiveup #Dubai #UAE #exploitation
Fragments - A dance film by Ishika Seth & Amit Patel - Final Submission for Nrittam 2020
Created and edited: by Ishika Seth & Amit Patel
Special thanks to Bhavini Mishra, Deepak Sinha, Akshay Radia, and the all of the Mentors for Nrittam 2020.
Original Music by: Hang Massive - The Secret Kissing of the Sun and Moon
Additional music: Akhil Joondeph
#dance #Ishika-Seth #Amit-Patel #indian #contemporary #music #Hang-Massive #Akhil-Joondeph
We're having a bit of an #IndianSummer here right now as we fast approach #Autumn. The temperature has been in the high 20s for a few days along with bright sunshine. It's due to last several more days yet.
I often used to wonder where the term Indian Summer came from and later found out that it is actually of #NativeAmerican origin and nothing to do with #Indian #Subcontinental climatic conditions.
Churning of the Milky Ocean (approx. 1820)
#art #hindu #indian #myth https://www.britannica.com/topic/churning-of-the-ocean-of-milk
July 02, 1809 - Chief Tecumseh urges Native Americans to unite against white settlers
Alarmed by the growing encroachment of whites settlers occupying Native American lands, the Shawnee Chief Tecumseh calls on all Native peoples to unite and resist.
Born around 1768 near Springfield, Ohio, Tecumseh won early notice as a brave warrior. He fought in battles between the Shawnee and the white Kentuckians, who were invading the Ohio River Valley territory. After the Americans won several important battles in the mid-1790s, Tecumseh reluctantly relocated westward but remained an implacable foe of the white settlers.
By the early 19th century, many Shawnee and other Ohio Valley tribes were becoming increasingly dependent on trading with the Americans for guns, cloth, and metal goods. Tecumseh spoke out against such dependence and called for a return to traditional Native American ways. He was even more alarmed by the continuing encroachment of white settlers illegally settling on the already diminished government-recognized land holdings of the Shawnee and other tribes. The American government, however, was reluctant to take action against its own citizens to protect the rights of the Ohio Valley Indians.
READ MORE: Native American History Timeline
On this day in 1809, Tecumseh began a concerted campaign to persuade the tribes of the Old Northwest and Deep South to unite and resist. Together, Tecumseh argued, the various tribes had enough strength to stop the white settlers from taking further land. Heartened by this message of hope, Native Americans from as far away as Florida and Minnesota heeded Tecumseh’s call. By 1810, he had organized the Ohio Valley Confederacy, which united Native peoples from the Shawnee, Potawatomi, Kickapoo, Winnebago, Menominee, Ottawa and Wyandot nations.
For several years, Tecumseh’s Indian Confederacy successfully delayed further white settlement in the region. In 1811, however, the future president William Henry Harrison led an attack on the confederacy’s base on the Tippecanoe River. At the time, Tecumseh was in the South attempting to convince more tribes to join his movement. Although the battle of Tippecanoe was close, Harrison finally won out and destroyed much of Tecumseh’s army.
When the War of 1812 began the following year, Tecumseh immediately marshaled what remained of his army to aid the British. Commissioned a brigadier general, he proved an effective ally and played a key role in the British capture of Detroit and other battles. When the tide of war turned in the American favor, Tecumseh’s fortunes went down with those of the British. On October 5, 1813, he was killed during Battle of the Thames. His Ohio Valley Confederacy and vision of Native American unity died with him.
from This Day in History
Gnaaaa, je bave devant ce danseur chorégraphe et sa danse indienne contemporaine 😍
Oui, c'est sur une version raga de Shape of You d'Ed Sheeran.
#danse #danseindienne #contemporain #danseur #chorégraphe #dancer #dance #indian #contemporary
by Brian Ward
Source: https://newpol.org/issue_post/are-you-a-settler/
We have an urgent need to bring the fight against Native oppression into all the #economic and #social struggles of today. And that means grasping, as clearly and firmly as possible, that the struggle for Native liberation means keeping the question of land rights central.
Understanding the history and ongoing process of Settler-colonialism adds to our understanding of capitalism, while ignoring it perpetuates the erasure from #history of Native peoples and their resistance to that process.
Hundreds of different social organizations existed on Turtle Island prior to the arrival of capitalist markets, but one common feature was that most #Indigenous Nations treated the land as something held in common. The idea of nonhuman life being someone’s “private #property” was almost literally unthinkable.
Writing in the Communist Manifesto in 1848, Karl #Marx said, “The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere.” From an Indigenous perspective, that expanding market transformed abundance into scarcity.
Exploitation, expropriation, and extraction of the land’s riches created #wealth for those colonizing land and enforcing their claim to it by violence. Marx’s term for this process as it had occurred in Europe is usually called “primitive accumulation,” although it might be better translated as “primary” or “original” #accumulation.
"The historical process of primitive accumulation thus refers to the violent transformation of noncapitalist forms of life into capitalist ones."
With a wider perspective, we see that what the textbooks recall as Manifest Destiny was really capitalist accumulation through colonial #expansion—taking the particular form of the settler republic. (Other examples include #Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and #Israel.)
Land grants, and the willful misreading of treaties as real estate transactions, to paraphrase Vine Deloria, were central to the growth of the United States as a continental and then global imperial power, central to waging war at ever-greater scales.
Settlers are a tool, but capital is the system that drives this process and ultimately benefits. This is an important point to clarify, for capitalism is always ready to abandon a tool when it has served its purpose and create a new one, as need be.
Estes defines settler-colonialism as the specific form of colonialism whereby an imperial power seizes Native territory, eliminates the original people by force, and resettles the land with a foreign, invading population.
As treaties are broken and #resources are extracted on Indigenous land, it’s important to know that two-thirds of uranium, one-third of low-sulfur coal, as well as major hydroelectric, oil, and natural gas reserves are located in Indigenous communities.
“According to a 2002 report by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), white settlers own 96 percent of private agricultural lands in the United States, and 98 percent of all U.S. private lands overall.”
The Bureau of Indian Affairs argued how the flooding of Indigenous land would speed up termination and force Indigenous people into the capitalist economy
... that most Indigenous communities in the area relied on the “free goods of Nature,” such as hunting, trapping, and gathering. Forcing them to rely on a cash income is what Marxists, if not the Bureau of Indian Affairs, would call #proletarianization.
The project of stealing indigenous land remains fundamental to the United States and its success. Settler-colonialism and its ideological companion of Manifest Destiny are baked into the development of the United States much like slavery and racism and cannot be extracted without completely overhauling the entire system
I would argue that a future decolonized Turtle Island is looking toward a #socialist #society that puts forward Indigenous self-determination and liberation and counters racism, white supremacy, settler-colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism
The #Indian and Metis movement must focus primarily on the destruction of #imperialism and on the process of decolonization. There is no longer any question of where the native struggle should pursue a capitalist or socialist path of development. Liberation can take place only within a true socialist society.
We will not succeed in slowing, let alone stopping, #climate #change and #devastation, and in having clean air, water, and land unless we stand for Indigenous rights, sovereignty, and the enforcement of treaties. If we do not have a left that understands this and puts the question of land, imperialism, and conquest at its center we will perpetuate the same old song of class reductionism. Indigenous liberation is about liberation for all.
~ Anoushka Shankar, Ricardo Mino ~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cMBcoUrQK0
#musicvideo #anoushkashankar #shankar #ricardomino #mino #buleria #raga #flamenco #indian #spanish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxiYIkt3vnc
#musicvideo #deva #premal #miten #manose #yougottamove #spiritual #indian
#indian #ethnomusic #music #worldmusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW2DU-xbRrE
Source: http://dia.so/35s
