Public sentiment is marked by concern over health and safety regarding the cholera outbreak in Odisha, with many citizens voicing worries about the government’s response, urging for accountability and preventive measures amid rising cases.

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I hope that this sub will blame this Rath Yatra for the increase in cases just as that tableeghi jamaat. 

Does it really seem like the guidelines are being followed?
https://scroll.in/video/965399/watch-jagannath-rath-yatra-begins-in-puri-amidst-coronavirus-crisis-with-no-physical-distancing

The link has ANI tweets clearly showing.

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Via - @Indiainpixels



https://twitter.com/indiainpixels/status/1275278355542061056

BigSurround2

what is this [then](https://scroll.in/video/965399/watch-jagannath-rath-yatra-begins-in-puri-amidst-coronavirus-crisis-with-no-physical-distancing) ?

Asli_Budhijeevee

Could someone explain why the murtis are not made of stone or metal ?

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**JAI JAGANNATH**

Every year, the Rath Yatra in Puri takes place at a grand scale, but this year, unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the chariot festival is postponed until next year, saddening the Hindu devotees.

We can stay motivated and wait for the next year and be a part of this rejoicing yatra. It is always better to hire a [taxi](https://www.travelodesk.com/book-bhubaneswar-airport-taxi) from Bhubaneswar airport to Puri to reach comfortably.

I hope lord Jagannath will fill your lives with wisdom, prosperity, and good health.

pulkitsehgal

I think gaja besha happens after snan yatra.

inoorbot

I'll try to narrate the daily life of my own relatives and you'll get an idea how life was for a zamindar, a freedm fighter or a simple farmer.

i had the fortune of havingseen and spoken with 4 of my great grandparents. My mother's grandma, My Dad's grandma and My Dadi's Parents. All of them born in the timeframe of 1925-1936, oldest being my dad's grandma who'll turn 100 after janmastmi (the exact date of her birth is unknown).

For context: All of them lived in villages in North West UP, from Upper Caste families. Since all had different financial conditions, their lifestyles were very different.

1. My Dad's village

My g grandma was married, aged 16 (considered old for that time) into a Zamindari family in a small village near Saharanpur. Since it was the family of the village zamindars, the women had a lot of restrictions unlike all other families both high caste or low.  The house was huge with a big courtyard, washrooms (only house to have them)  and a water well. the women were not allowed to go outside. While visiting their Inlaws, they were taken in a covered palanquin (Doli) and then a covered Bullock cart. While visiting a temple, they would be accompained with the Brahmin maids and servants who would hold a cloth on three sides to keep them in purdah. They were not allowed to work in fields like the women from lower castes. The women were also not allowed to milk the cow or take care of the animals as this was done by the Ahirs. The women ground fresh wheat in the morning, cleaned the house and cooked. Then they would make pickles, papads, sweets and smoke chillum. Then they would wash clothes by the well, then cook, prepared for upcoming festivals, took care of kids, etc. etc. They also had servants, generally brahmins and other rajput girls as lower caste folks weren't allowed inside the living areas. People lived in joint families and all the women cooked together in a single kitchen. A lot of relatives would come very often and relations were maintained. Although girls were married early on, they lived for the most part at their parents house.

The British civil servant would regularly come and there was this tradition where he would stop at the village boundary and ask for the permission of the village headsman to enter (the brits were masters of diplomacy). Other than than the village folks never interacted with any British official. Most folks didnt even know that a foreign power ruled them, for them only the thakurs were the authority figure.

Only the upper caste folks were allowed to ride a horse, enter the main temple building. My g grandma tells me that untouchability was pretty prevalent during her grandpa's time but by her time, people didnt practice it. Earlier people would bathe with ganga jal if they accidentally touched a lower caste person or passed by from their locality. 

2. My Mom's grandma

Her uncle was a police officer under the Brits and hence she was educated (very rare for villages for that time). Since her dad had died, she was married in a very simple farming family. Although she didn't work in fields or rear animals, she worked very hard. She came from a haveli and lived in a kuttcha house until her husband got a govt job. Her uncle had a horse drawn buggy and she once went to the city to see a theatre performance, where she saw the goras for the first time.

sedesten_pedesten

My great great grandfather joined the British civil service in 1879 and what my granduncle told me that in those days these britishers even looked down on even those indians who worked in the British Indian government so God knows what was the condition of common indians during that era

Unique_Strawberry978

Life in the British Raj, I can say, Indians were overwhelmingly poor, there was strict caste segregation,low women's right as girls married early on , and princely states enjoyed wealth. Around 100,000 Brits resided in India, and they were  mostly in the bureaucracy. Spotting them was not common unless you went near the collector's office. During summer, the British regularly flocked to hill stations all across India.

srikrishna1997

I can give some perspective and also throw in my own from the mid 80's for comparison. 

Am 45 yo old so seen 3 different countries (no political context here at all, purely being apolitical below) in the past 40 odd years but can go back further. 

My maternal grandpa was born in 1929 passed at the ripe old age of 89, grandma was born in 1937, but passed early around 1998. Paternal grandma was born around the mid 1920's she couldn't nail the year though, never met my paternal grandpa, he passed in 1979. 

My maternal side was / is from a small village near Theni in Tamil Nadu. Parental grandma was from near Kumbakonam but moved to Chennai after a series of devastating famines, my grandma couldn't say when but I assume that her parents would have moved around the 1890's after a series of terrible famines devastated the south of India (Madras famine). 

My maternal side now. 

My native village was always prosperous, it is in the Vaigai catchment area but even my grandpa says that his own parents and the village in general suffered from severe food deprivation though they owned a lot of lands. He even gave examples of 2 entire villages which were on British revenue maps in the 1870's but ceased to exist by the 1900's. As far as day to day life goes, most peasants, even the rich ones rarely travelled beyond 10 kms.  To them even the "town" of Periyakulam was a major urban centre. Trips to Madurai were as rare as the average Indian now visiting the USA. There was no power till after independence, one rickety old road connected the 4 kms to main trunk road that lead to Madurai and was our lifeline, still is but now it's a modern 4 lane paved road with a median. British rule barely touched them, except when it came time for the annual tax collection exercise, he claims that the taxes were exorbitant but the biggest issue was that the Raj NEVER waived them. Even in lean years you paid the whole sum or the land was confiscated. 

There was a govt school, it still stands today, but education was seen as a waste of time. More than caste issues, starving families put every child to work once they hit age 10 ish. On that note families produced many many children, like dozens because only 3-4 would survive to adulthood. 

Granny used to say that religious, casteist violence was very rare and these started post the 1960's (casteist, not religious as that region of TN is like 95% Hindu so not much scope there). Granny herself was a rare individual who studied in a hostel in the Medical college in Chennai but 3 years into her studies, marriage was arranged and she had to simply leave her studies behind. No questions asked. 

Again on the subject of day to day life, apparently there was not much knowledge of what the on, there was one radio in the next town where important news was relayed through. No newspaper reached the village so it was very isolated. He does remember distinctly the one time a white man came to our village in a car! One James Oak? Sorry I don't remember the name precisely but he was the founder of the single biggest employment generator in that region called Madura Mills. Apparently they were scouting for the site of a new plant so he visited our village and rested in a neighbours house briefly. Grandpa, a motorhead often described the Humber Snipe (the car he came in) very lovingly. 

So yeah broadly if I were to extrapolate this, even educated Indians in villages rarely even met a whiteman, but the outcome of their policies was clearly felt by all. 

As to me, even as recently the mid 80's my village would have power only for 6 hrs a day and 10 on Sundays (Sundays they played MGR movies on Tv and a riot would have ensued if the power went off). Piped water didn't exist. We had one tap connected to the water pipeline and water would flow at random times for an hour or two. You filled up that water or it was the brackish well water for you. Roads were barely existent, it would take 2.5 hrs to do the 70 kms to Madurai. Poverty was rampant, reading about people dying of old age by age 30 was still fairly common. 

And this was in a prosperous part of a prosperous state. Change really started happening after the early 90's, it was slow but visible. Roads, 12-15 hr power window, tap water to every house started in the early 90's thanks to a project started in the mid 80's etc etc. 

We have come a long way as a nation overall.

SPB29

there were less or aorund than 100k british and most of them were  sahabs who lived mostly in shimla delhi , its brown sepoys who fought and died , killed his own people in jallianwala bagh for the gora sahab and indian gov paid these people pesnion after getting dominion status and then independence

Wild_Possible_7947

My grandfather(Jajpur, odisha) was 17 when India got independence. This was his answer when I asked him.

Back then, the village head had a lot of influence in the society. No matter how bad was the yield, they always collected tax. So, very few people were fully dependent on farming. So, they used to make money by buying kerosene from Kolkata and selling it in Odisha. 

The last few years of British rule was very chaotic for them. Someone will always set some British building on fire. Everyone claimed they did and police was always out numbered. People would walk hundreds of kilometer to some railway station to see Gandhi. 

After independence, everyone was happy. Those who supported British(usually the police or informer were beaten up black and blue). Some villagers also kidnapped the village head's daughter and forcefully married her to get some property.

Southern-Reveal5111

In Bengal it was mostly like 

&gt;wake up in dawn &amp; go to work in your paddy field which belongs to the landlord, work for 12 hours 

&gt;Return home just to see Zamindar's private militia has abducted your young daughter for a party in Zamindar's palace with english officials as guests 

&gt;Die in next famine, small pox/cholera epidemic

Gopala_I

I heard a story about my great grandfather about how he used to walk 20-30 km to Delhi Ordinance Depot daily and walk back. Pay was not good and it would take his whole day. Once he did some work for an English lady and she called him over and said "This is a biscuit" and gave it to him.

Low_Concentrate7168

British ruled India with just 2000 or so people. Most people in random villages and cities had no interaction with the Brits; there were plenty of local chamchas doing the Brits' bidding.

luvmunky

My grandfather was a freedom fighter.

In the British Raj, poverty was rampant. Famines, droughts, starvation, etc. were commonplace. Indians never felt safe or secure. Anything could happen to you anytime. 

Poverty was the most prominent aspect of life.

ashutosh_vatsa

May be it was better then or equal to how bureaucrates or politicians treats us in government offices or anywhere, specially in undeveloped states. There was one incident recently in video where MLA was beating villager with sugarcane because some flowers were wrong or some pity reason.

ForsakenZone858

Not only British, even during moguls or any empire, villagers are untouched. Only when collecting taxes, officials come to collect. In Rama Rajyam, You are on your own

Ragnarok-9999

Read Poverty &amp; Unbritish rule in India by Dadabhai Naoroji 

Different_Rutabaga32

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Kwen_Oellogg

Didn't even see this "largest protest" on the TV or newspapers. Feel like we're in an era where nothing really surprises people and no one really cares. If aliens visited earth tomorrow we'd probably be like "Oh yeah whatever, did you hear petrol has gone up 5p per litre"

Love this series thanks.

I follow a lot of finance people on Twitter. Capitalist realism is having a meltdown. It should be a crazy month…

Best wishes to all, Weeeeeeeeeeee 🎢

WernerHerzogWasRight

Thoughts on this: [https://youtu.be/iy1DNxkVUT0](https://youtu.be/iy1DNxkVUT0) Minnesota Power Plant Leaks 400K Gallons of Radioactive Water.

StarrRelic

Banking crisis is deepening with the latest breaking news: UBS is acquiring Credit Suisse 

https://apnews.com/article/credit-suisse-ubs-bank-collapse-svb-swiss-1a06bc96cbca9be4fbfd20a8f008ab8f

I imagine next week's update is going to contain more banking news and possibly train derailments.

Ellen_Kingship

Thanks for the compilation, appreciated as always.

Old_galadriell

Will the protests in France last or will they be over in a week and everyone returns to their boring lives? Nothing will change unless society is actually interrupted by these protests and riots, which means they must go on for weeks if not months until shit actually changes.

ww3 is moving forward . and everyone is cheering it on

survive_los_angeles

Gotta say, while a shitton of this is depressing, the riots give me a bit of hope. Some people are voicing their outrage at least.

Great write up as always.

EZDUZ1T

I've been wanting to ask for a while, do the "---------" segmenting on these break up different categories?

Biorobotchemist

I read your updates all the time but have never said thanks for your work. Thank you! It must take a significant amount of time making these posts.

Also loved the inclusion of EEAAO. 🌭🖐️

wholesomechaos

schupee

They *claim* there was no evidence of any contamination.  It honestly reads as “we barely tested to ensure we wouldn’t find anything”.  In MN this has barely been a news footnote.  Lots of “nothing to see hear folks”.

JustAnotherUser8432

The thing about the cruise ships is kind funny

Cool_Young_Hobbit

Thank you so much!!!

As a reminder, substack can narrate these posts - which is great for those of us with adhd, vision loss, and brain fog.

I have it read to me on substack and then come back here to engage with everyone.

I really appreciate this authors work. If you’re able, a latte a month is not so much money (for now) to support such great content.

Thank you again for all your hard work 💙

Spector07

Your efforts and time are truly appreciated. Thank you

ManticoreMonday

As illustrated in the quoted study, the problem with government policy aimed at cutting CO2 emissions is that it's mostly carrots, i.e. tax credit, and not enough sticks, i.e., fees/taxes on fossil fuels. Unfortunately, most folks won't curb their use of fossil fuels until they're forced to do so by economic considerations.

Formal_Contact_5177

&gt;British teens have the lowest happiness levels of 27 countries on the continent—according to a 27-page report; England and Wales also have the highest suicide rate in 25 years.

There's a nice term for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shit_life_syndrome

dumnezero

I just want to note for those not in New England that EEE isn’t a new thing around these parts, it’s just making a comeback. We had cases in 2017-2019 and a lot of businesses has signs on the doors about not using the patios at dusk. 

My husband and I live in Massachusetts at the time and one of our favorite ice cream places had a tiny indoor space so they specifically removed their tables and encouraged people to eat in their cars after dusk to avoid EEE.

SunnySummerFarm

It's worse than expected, on all fronts. :-(

sg_plumber

Thank you for the weekly summary. Am surprised reading about the rain forecasted for the Sahara as this is the first I’ve heard of that prediction. Am wondering if / how much we’ll see the rain belt shift in the coming years

a_dance_with_fire

I will repeat my "the US is the least drunk driver on the debt/GDP road" with China approaching 300% and the US just north of 100%.  China:  Demographics, deleveraging, and deflation.
https://archive.ph/Tnkom

daviddjg0033

Odisha faces a severe cholera outbreak, particularly in Jajpur district, with reported deaths and infections prompting government action and public health campaigns.

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