No, I am not going to wear it out and about - but the cognoscenti among you will have realised that I am modelling here the latest in political headgear. Not so much political tat (though it's that as well) as political titfer (rhyming slang, tit-for-tat = hat).
This is the 'Aam Admi' cap - as sported by supporters of the anti-corruption party which powered to a dramatic win recently in the Delhi state elections, and then imploded when the AAP chief minister stalked out of office after little more than a month. The style is also known as a Gandhi cap - though in Gandhi's day it was made of khadi, homespun cloth, and this is, I'd guess, of synthetic material and there are suggestions that the caps have been mass produced in China. This version is without the AAP election symbol, the broom, but it has the party's slogans - on one side 'me hu aam admi' ('I am a common man'), and on the other 'mujhe pahiye puri azadi' (which comes up on Google Translate, entirely unconvincingly, as 'I have complete freedom wheels' - please somebody out there help me improve on that). In the Delhi state elections, supporters of the Congress party complained that AAP rivals were breaching Election Commission rules by sporting these caps. The Commission ruled that as long as the caps didn't show the party symbol or carry the party's name, they escaped the ultra-strict regulations about electioneering. For lovers of political ephemera and kitsch, this is a gem. Thanks, Sanjoy!
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samir sardana
20/12/2019 05:15:28
Subject - The CAB/NRC in North East India/Sikkim and the Partition of India - Courtesy Chaiwala
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samir sardana
20/12/2019 05:17:56
Subject - The 1 advantage of CAB in East India - Eradication of the Nepali menace
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samir sardana
21/12/2019 18:53:34
CAB and NRC for the Indian Muslims
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samir sardana
22/12/2019 18:45:38
Y Muslims need to see CAB,UCC and NRC Together - like the Christian Trinity (which is Haram in Islam)
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samir sardana
3/5/2020 22:28:15
The Indian Hindoo Media has declared jehad on the Indian Muslims – ON THE ADVENT OF CORONA
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samir sardana
3/5/2020 22:30:53
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samir sardana
3/5/2020 22:33:17
Step 8
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SAMIR SARDANA
27/9/2023 20:36:42
STATISTICS !
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SAMIR SARDANA
21/2/2024 16:38:31
In its 2022 Annual Report, USCIRF recommended that the U.S. Department of State designate India as a country of particular concern (CPC) for its particularly severe violations of religious freedom. USCIRF also published a 2022 country update on religious freedom conditions in India and a Spotlight Podcast episode on anti-conversion laws and growing intolerance in India.
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