So what is going on in the one in Israeli Hamas war because I wish, you know, I wish it became over war. I mean everything I predicted. Many of you made fun of me, maybe many of you ridiculed my views, many of you said no, no, no, you know, Netanyahu's a good guy, he's powerful, he's, but the reality is as I predicted Netanyahu's slow, he's not reacting. The ground invasion has been delayed almost three weeks. It'll be three weeks on Saturday. The world has decidedly turned against Israel. And you've got, you've got even the United States and other countries calling for ceasefire, ceasefire so that humanitarian aid can enter. The whole point of this is to penalize the Palestinians. There shouldn't be any humanitarian aid entered. They should suffer the consequences of supporting Hamas. They should suffer the consequences of the ideology that they support and the political entity that they have chosen to lead them and supported in leading them. But no, the world wants humanitarian aid. The world wants peace negotiations. The world wants a ceasefire. I mean in the week after the world was with Israel, the world would have tolerated a lot. All of that is gone. That goodwill is gone. That sense of this is self-defense is gone. Now it's just going to be Israel victimizing the Palestinians. So Israel's waiting. Why is it waiting? It's waiting because the United States wants it to wait because they're negotiating for prisoner release and the Israelis are negotiating for prisoner release through the Qataris and who are, of course, host Hamas. So they're in a position to negotiate. We'll get to that in a minute. But it's a travesty. I told you from day one Israel should function as if the hostages are dead. It should do whatever it can to save them militarily. No, you know chapter, I don't know, chapter one, chapter two, chapter three of Benjamin Netanyahu's book on terrorism. Never negotiate with terrorism. I think that's just chapter heading. Never negotiate with terrorism. All he's done as a prime minister is negotiate with terrorists. So nothing's really happening. It turns out that even within the Israeli government there is a massive conflict between Netanyahu, his defense minister and Gantz, General Gantz, who joined the coalition and is in the war cabinet. They believe, they believe the week ago that Israel should enter Gaza by land. Netanyahu insists Israel's not ready and needs to wait. Again, so one reason to wait is the Americans. Hostage negotiations. Second reason to wait, Americans. They're moving more, you know, missile defense systems into the Middle East to provide cover for Israel and for the American bases. And they want Israel to wait before the ground offensive, before they have the Patriot missiles and the other types of missiles in place. And then Netanyahu believes that the IDF, the Israeli military, is not ready yet to enter Gaza. They need more time. They need more planning. The IDF thinks they're ready. The defense minister thinks they're ready. Former commanders of the Israeli military, Gantz thinks they're ready. But Netanyahu, the coward, I think we should just call him the coward, insists they're not. Delay, delay, delay, delay. Morale is dropping. Morale, which in the days after the horrors of October 7th was, you know, these Israeli soldiers were ready. They were ready to go in, ready to do what's necessary, committed, focused. Morale is low because they expect it to be in already. And I think what's happening with this time, and I think this has always been the case with Netanyahu, in spite of the talk, we're going to destroy Hamas. We're going to uproot it. We're going to change the framework of the Middle East. This is what you remember for generations. Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. Of course it's Netanyahu holding it back. Stop defending Netanyahu.  He's been a terrible prime minister for Israel. Maybe it's worst ever. And he continues to be that. He is a coward, if only because he won't stand up to the United States. But it's not the United States holding it back. Every indication from every publication I read, Outcoming Out of Israel, suggests that the military and the defense minister wanted to go in a week ago and it is Netanyahu who is stopping them. And look, I told you day one, day two. I told you that this would not happen fast. I told you it should happen fast, but it would not happen fast. This is before the United States. I just know Netanyahu. So you can, it's like Trump fever. When people love Netanyahu and love Trump, they'll justify anything they do. He's playing for deep chess with Hamas. Anyway, Israel today did what's called a deep excursion into Gaza in a particular area in the north. They seem to be setting the ground for an ultimately ground invasion into the Gaza. The clearing trails for the tanks and for the personnel carriers. And I think that probably in the next two to three days, you'll see a significant military incursion into the Gaza Strip. Will it be significant and robust enough to wipe out Hamas? I doubt it. I think that before that goal is achieved, Netanyahu and the Israeli cabinet will agree to some kind of ceasefire, will agree to some kind of compromise. Will Israel destroy Hamas? Will they kill the political leaders in Qatar? Will they do everything that's necessary? I still think the answer is no. And believe me, it really, really, really saddens me to say so. I've been arguing that this was the action necessary for 20 years, 20 years. And I've got videos to prove it, right? You can go see my 2003 talk about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And they continue to do what I expect them to do and to disappoint me. They continue to kick the can down the road, continue not to do what is necessary. Now, part of the compromise is that Israel has agreed not to preemptively strike the Hezbollah in Lebanon. I also told you in the first few days that Israel had a window of opportunity to take the strategic high ground, take an element of surprise if you will, and crush, crush the Hezbollah and the Iranians in Syria, as well as poking them. Poking.  How long is that going to work for? Total destruction is what Israel should inflict on Hezbollah and inflict on any Iranian and Hezbollah troops in Syria and Lebanon. But it won't. And again, the Americans have asked it not to. And by the way, the American military, those really, really smart guys who've won every war since World War II, I mean they've won them all. They're so good. The military is skeptical about Israel's ability to fight a two-front war. I am not skeptical about their ability. And I doubt the Americans know what they're talking about.


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So, we will try to understand now the management tool. If you if you remember in the beginning when you were trying to understand what are the different tools, what the company they are using to integrate sustainability into their day to day activity, those are of three types. One is impact assessment tool, second one is the management tools and third one is the reporting tool. So, under the category of the impact assessment tool in last two sessions where understanding what is LCA, in this class we will understand what is the management tool, one of the management tool that is design for environment. Now, going further let us see where the design for environment fits into our goal of the sustainability or the journey of the sustainability. Now, what is the primary goal? The primary goal over here is that sustainability that is responsibility towards the future generation. Now, what is the basic approach it is being followed that is industrial ecology, we try to imitate the, imitate the nature or mimic the nature to conserve and reuse the resources. So, in this case one we get into the imitation of the ecosystem, we get into the eco industrial park, closing the material loops, energy efficiency, few of the action points. Apart from this we can get into the green technology and green technology talks about pollution avoidance rather than pollution treatment. This green technology again can be into pollution prevention, we get into the green processes or we get into the design for environment green design. It means we from the design stage of the product we the so called sustainability concern, incursion or whatever way you put it that gets incorporated into the design of the product. And here this design for environment is again into two types one, we do the product design we incorporate design in such a way that there is a recycling, there is a place for the recycling to promote the closed material loops. And second one is the dematerialization which typically doing with the less, how we can design the product that we have to use less of the resources. So, design for environment is a design approach and this design approach is to reduce the overall human overall human health and environmental impact of a product process of service. So, this is a design approach which is typically used to reduce the overall human health, environmental impact of a product process of service. And this impacts are considered across the life cycle. So, it is not about designing for a specific part of the product life cycle, typically it is decided across the life cycle of the product. And if the DFE is being planned well, it is being designed well, it is being incorporated in the product design in a better way, then it improves and maintains the product quality cost reduce the environmental impact. And DFE expand the traditional manufacturer focus from the production distribution of its product to the closed loop cycle. The origin is in 1970s and Papua NIC 1971, he challenged the designer to face the social and environmental responsibility instead of the commercial interest rather than only getting into the commercial interest in the product design, also to incorporate the social and environmental responsibility. There were many influential books published in 1990s about the need and the benefit of DFE's. It created by in by number of electronic form in 1992 and they were attempting to build a environmental awareness in the product development. And American Electronics Association was the first initiator of DFE. Initial guideline of DFE is made by NGO East Mid-West. This is the NGO based out of New York. And there are various terminology used for this environmental friendly design approach that can be green design, eco design, sustainable design or the eco friendly design. Now, what are the driving forces for adopting or implementing this design for environment? The first one is risk management to say whatever the risk associated with the product by incorporating all this in the design stage we can manage the risk. This is a action towards the product towards it. The consumer gets satisfied with the incorporation of this and get a better product. There is a competitive pressure other companies doing it and getting improving their brand into a better one. Then at some point of time in order to do a compliance with the standard few company they take this as the DFE as one of the tool. And in the biggest scale the end goal is the sustainable development and sustainability for the DFE should be part of the DFE should be part of the action point or part of the intervention. Now, what are DFE strategy? There are four strategy of DFE. Incorporating environmental motives to improve the product design, improve the technology and design tactics, incorporating eco efficiency into the design tactics and minimize the environmental economic cost to the consumer. So, if you look at the first two is mostly into keeping the space for recycling and how recycling whatever the recycling resources or the recycling product, how this can be part of the product. And second two is mostly about the dematerialization that is incorporating the eco efficiency into the design tactics. So, that we produce more with less of resources and minimize the environmental economic cost to the consumer. This is the DFE practices that is we design for environmental processing and manufacturing that is one stage where the DFE is being practices where we get the raw material extraction, processing and manufacturing. Then this DFE can be part of the packaging getting into the environmental friendly packaging. Then design for disposal and reuse where we address the product design is such that in the end of life of the product the impact the human health impact or the environmental impact is less. And design for also the energy efficiency how we should the how it should be the product design or technology that it can be more energy efficient. So, this is the product development process it starts from planning to concept development, system level design, detail design, testing and refinement and production ramp up. And here the role of DFE get mapped into the each stage of the product development process. So, planning mostly with the DFE goals and team then in concept development and system level design the DFE and material guidelines can be given. In detail design and testing and refinement we can assess the impact and refine the designs and production ramp of typically improve the DFE process. So, DFE can be integrated into the standard product development process. This is the DFE process. So, in case in the stage of the product planning typically the DFE agenda is set. In case of concept development we identify the potential environmental impact and select the material and DFE guideline. In the system level design we apply the DFE guideline into the initial design. Then after this DFE guideline is applied to the initial design again the environmental impact is assessed. And then refine the design if needed compared to the DFE goal if the environmental impact is more or it is not matching with the goal the design is being refined and again assessing the environmental impact. And finally, reflect the DFE on the process and reason that is in the process improvement. Then let us take few of the examples to understand this DFE or let us say a few of the case study where this DFE is being used to make it a better product which is environmental friendly or there is impact to the health. So, typically Herman Miller they are into the office chairs and these are the three variant of their office chair which is they are into the providing the ergonomic chairs and these are the three variant of the office chair that are given by the Herman Miller. Now, what is Herman Miller's environmental goal? They tried for zero landfill, zero hazardous waste generation, zero air emission, zero process water use, 100 percent green electrical energy use, 100 percent sales from the DFE product and company building constructed to the minimum lead cellular certification. So, we will see that what they have done in term of the DFE product. So, they take the taking the case this is the case of the set to multipurpose chair and we will see that how based on this design for environmental how they have made it it is a environmental friendly chair. So, this is this typical chair is environmental friendly and non-toxic produce of non-toxic material which is 41 percent aluminum, then 41 percent polypropylene, 18 percent steel that is by weight and it is used produce from use of the recycled material, 44 percent is from the recycled material that is by weight, 23 percent recycled post consumer and 21 percent post industrial. Then there is a less material content this is lighter than the other task task chairs that is easy to disassemble that is 86 percent easily separable material and when you talk about the recyclability of this 92 percent by weight can be recycled and products line uses 100 percent of the green power green energy no air or water emission release in the production and this can be returnable and recyclable packaging. So, whatever the packaging they use that is also returnable to the company and also this can be recyclable. So, if you look at starting from the materials they have used that is of environmental friendly non-toxic and made from the recycled material they use green energy there is no air and water emission and also the packaging what they have used that can be recycled. Now, when it get into the Herman Miller's DFE protocol, so they have moved beyond the regulatory compliance to thoroughly evaluate the new product design and possibly that is how we get what we are checking in the previous slide how they have made a environmental friendly chair. So, here what they have done in their protocol they are looking at the material chemistry and the safety of the inputs what they are using for the product. What chemicals are in their in the material specification are they safest available then they consider the disassembly is it possible to take the product apart at the end of their useful life to recycle their materials and recyclability do the material content recycle content can the material be recycled to end the at the end of the products useful life and LC is that optimize the product base entire life cycle. So, based on that this is for the their DFE assessment method where 33.3 percent is their material chemistry recycle content is 8.4 percent disassembly is 33.3 and recyclability is 25.4 percent. Now, the second example what we take is Nike grind and this is one of the initiative where they are scrap whatever the scrap is coming out of the post using the product what are the product that those are being developed from those scrap. So, this Nike grind is part of Nike is 30 years commitment to the holistic sustainability and this is for more circular future and it was what once was considered waste typically from the waste there is a new opportunity to create a new product or a different product from the waste of the one of the product. So, in this Nike grind what is being done is today they collect the recycled material developed by Nike whatever their product Nike product they collect the recycled material from their product which is composed of pre-consumer manufacturing scrap recycled post-consumer shoe from the reuse a shoe program and whatever the unsellable footwear what they could not sell in the market that also get into the recycled material. So, there are three component of the recycled material what they use in the Nike grind program that is part of it is the pre-consumer manufacturing scrap what is the scrap generated during manufacturing then the post-consumer scrap post-consumer shoe that is the scrap what they get from the reuse a shoe program and finally, whatever the footwear unsellable footwear they also get into the scrap and the purpose of this goal or this program is to eliminate the waste and close the loop on the Nike product life cycle. So, if you get into the profile of this Nike product 70 percent of all Nike shoes and April now contain some recycled material at least 75 percent of the Nike shoe they have some of the recycled material and Nike grind is also used in athletic and play surface like running track, torque field, playground surfaces, coats, wet room flooring and carpet underlay. And since it is inception Nike grind has been used over 1 million square feet of the sport surface in total and 130 million pound of Nike grind have been recycled into partners product since 1992. This is some of the example what is being made from Nike grind that is the basketball court and Samuelson track and field which is being created from the scrap that is generated under the Nike grind. Then the second example what comes again from Nike is Nike Air this is the product this is one of their shoe variant and this is considered as the most sustainable innovation because it is being produced from sustainable materials, computational design and advanced manufacturing tools. And 99 percent of the recoverable dye water to be recycled whatever they the dye coloring process whatever water they use for the product out of those total water consumption 99 percent can be recoverable by to be recycled which can be recycled further. Then the air sole innovation they did that is from 50 percent of the recycled manufacturing waste the sole what they plan for the shoe the air sole that is from the 50 percent of the recycled manufacturing waste and Nike Air manufacturing innovation facility they divert more than 95 percent of the manufacturing waste from the landfill. Then we get into the packaging solution given by Puma that is known as the clever little bag and this is the design for environment is being incorporated in the packaging. So, this is designed by Uves Beher and Hughes project and they develop a game changing packaging system and the goal was to reduce the footprint and build on their initiative towards cleaner greener and safer practices for sustainability. The design a innovative solution called clever little bag and the solution is reusable for the consumer and fully recyclable at the end of its life. The impact because of this better packaging they use 65 percent less cardboard than the standard box no laminated printing no tissue paper less weight and space in shipping and a new reusable bag replace the polythene little bag made of recycled pet which is also recyclable. So, whatever the reusable bag they have created that is also recyclable. The impact of this clever little bag is that approximately 8500 tons less paper consumed in this packaging 20 million mega joule of electricity safe in the because it is less of consumption less of production 1 million later 1 million liter less fuel oil used 1 million liter water conserve and this is the litter of diesel safe because in the logistic process and replacing the traditional shopping bags the difference in weight will almost save 275 tons of plastic and look at the impact the small little bag that is created and it is a little bag can have such a big impact and that is why possible this is known as the clever little bag. Now, the other example is Dyson air blade hand dryer and this is from the German federal environmental agency UBA Germany they have certified this as a most environmental friendly drying method comparing with paper towel cotton towel and other standard dryers that those are available in the market. It is the energy saving from this Dyson air blade hand dryer is 80 percent 64 percent faster it removes 99.9 percent air bacteria and it produces up to 79 percent less CO2 than other hand dryer and it able to dry 18 pairs of hand for the price of the single paper towel. So, it is not only environmental friendly it is also has an implication on the cost whatever the price of the single paper towel with the same price with the help of this dryer the drying is done for the 18 pairs of the hand. Now, summarizing this session so we have tried to understand what is this design for environment tool what are the different we have taken the different product examples and understand that how design being incorporated is creating less environmental impact and less health impact. So, while summarize we have taken this picture from Conrad and Jessica's in from their eco design and the 10 golden rules paper which gives that in the production process what the individual process play in the overall design and production of the product. So, there are many parameter which is not coming out very clearly in the slide, but if you look at for a specific product there are many individual processes they plays a role and if you look at the one which is little bit raised over on the top left hand side of the slide that typical in this pie chart the typical pie is representing the environment and which says that environment has also began to play important role in this diagram that in the process in the in the production apart from other individual process environment is also playing a role. And if any piece is being missing from this diagram possibly production will not occur and if so it is not about taking out environment the product would be a successful one or the product would be a feasible one that is what entirely the session what we have discussed that summarizes that environment has to be incorporated in design, environment has to be incorporated in the process, environment has to incorporate in the usage of the product and finally environment has to incorporated when the end of life happens for the product. Thank you.


But that would mean, Mariah, that the conversation started on the wrong tone and then went down the wrong line from there, because if on the part of the JFF you start the conversation on the right line, then I don't think you end up there. Yeah, there's actually a report going around at the moment in the last few minutes suggesting that Lorne Donaldson has refuted the report, the JFF report, that it was a mutual decision. Oh, that it was a mutual decision or that it was a lengthy discussion. I'm just seeing that it wasn't mutual from what Lorne Donaldson is saying. This is unconfirmed, but it is something going around now that Lorne Donaldson has said, has refuted the narrative that it was a mutual agreement. And as I'm suggesting to you, Lance and Mariah, maybe at some point it was mutual.


You're watching newsclick.in. We're talking today about the situation in the United States of America and if you hadn't already seen that video, that was 16-year-old American tennis player, Koh-Koh-Koh-Koh, whose message was, is deeply personal, but also one that seems to resonate with an entire section of society in the United States of America. From the newspapers and the coverage of the protests that have broken out across that country over the past few days after the killing of George Floyd, we can tell that discrimination against minorities, racism, hundreds of years after or more than 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation is still a very real thing that the black community and as well as Hispanics and other minorities, including the large chunk of Indian Americans, face in that country on almost daily basis. We're talking with Bevav Ranganand and Leslie Xavier of Newsclick Sports today. Putting a little bit of context on this entire story, of course, getting an update on all the news that is coming out of the U.S. as well as how the international media is reporting the developments. We'll be looking at it from the perspective of, of course, athletes who are coming out because very disproportionate percentage of elite athletes belong to minority communities and this is true for the U.S. as much as it's true for India as well. So we'll be bringing some of these things into context and having a conversation around them and around minority rights, around racism, some of these issues. I'll come to you, Bev, first, just for a quick update on what's been happening over it's been night in India, what's been happening overnight, what are the papers saying and other news outlets saying, so let's pick that up. So actually we were supposed to record this a few hours back and at that point of time we had, we were going to talk about just a few athletes, young athletes in the Bundesliga as well as Naomi Osaka and Coco Goff from in the WTA who had supported, who had sent out messages in support of George Floyd and condemning police action against minority groups in the U.S. Since then, in just this little, in the time that we were asleep, a lot has changed.  And Liverpool last evening in a training session, all their players and staff found a circle around the center circle and they took a knee. Floyd Mayweather, a man who is famously known for not saying much, has come out and said he's going to cover the funeral costs for George Floyd. In the new surrounding George Floyd's murder, it has now been classified as a homicide. Medical investigators have classified the death as being caused because of the knee on his neck and the U.S. president has tear gas protesters outside the White House so that he can go to church. So, several questions coming out of the update that Weber gave us, Leslie. Among them, of course, the most significant one perhaps in the context of this conversation is why it's taken so long for non-black athletes or athletes in general perhaps to come out and support their I don't know, compatriots, their colleagues, their counterparts, their competitors or however you wish to describe them. Despite the sports arena being a place where people across race, religion, nationality, ethnicity in India cast to some extent come together. So, there is a sense of solidarity within the community and yet at times like this when solidarity is what is perhaps most needed, you also find that that's when it's the most lacking. So, just contextualize this for us in the Indian sort of sphere less and what is the sort of reaction that we're getting out of Indian athletes are people coming out and talking about it and are they also talking about things that happen within our own system, within our little sphere? So, it's, I mean, the world is an open playground that way. Earlier, Weber was also mentioning about social media and how things catch fire there. So, athletes, regardless of whether they react to this or stand up in support of solidarity to the people who are fighting against racism in the US, it would come across as something very opportunistic and frivolous in the Indian context because our sports stars, cricketers, athletes, across any sport you take, footballers, everybody remains silent when things happen closer to home. And India is not perfect. India's discrimination is multi-layered, religious discrimination is there. We also have a, I mean, widespread of ethnic differences across states, languages are different. And being part of the sporting ecosystem, we have come across, we have seen various instances of discrimination against athletes. Be it sports persons coming from the Northeast, be it South Indians taking part in, I can say that from my experience being a wrestler and not dominated sport coming from Kerala. So, how they look down on South Indian wrestlers. It's just a small instance, but I looked the part. I am brown screened. I can pass off as a North Indian, but it's not the same for very visibly different sports persons. I'm talking about Northeast athletes. Having said that, our Northeast athletes are the ones in many sport that dominate the sport, but still they don't have that kind of a respect outside of that playing. For instance, if you take football, we have a lot of footballers who are the driving force, we are in the Indian football team now, but their relevance remain in that 90 minutes of play and in that 90 yards or so of the playing field beyond that. So these are underlying issues that is happening in Indian sport. And beyond the sporting circle, there are a lot of social injustices, political injustices happening related not just to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now suffering has climbed up to epic proportions. People are dying on the road. But before that, say for instance, political targeting of the students that happened end of last year, the Delhi program that happened, the violence that happened. So we have sports persons, for instance, someone like Virat Kohli or someone like Virinder Sehwag, who have tremendous reach among the masses, who have that cloud to sway not just people's minds, but also sway even policymakers that way, even people in power, because that's the kind of cloud that sport like cricket has in India. We consider them as demigods, but they remain silent. They live in their own bubble of sorts and they are completely happy with being around their own vested interests, pushing messages for their own vested interests, like for instance, business interests or endorsements or even social messages which are safe. So that's the story in India. So for example, like you very rightly brought up, because we're talking here in a sense also about not just the institutional or systemic racism that we see in America and how those elements play out in the Indian context, but we're also talking about specifically police brutality. And the role of this uniformed sort of agents of the state and state sort of state sponsored in that sense oppression, you know, and directly. So both in the context of Jawaharlal Nehru University as well as Jamia Miliya Isamnya, we found that there were clear sort of violations in terms of, I mean, in however many years since our existence as an independent country, how many instances or instances can you remember of the police marching into a university campus with, you know, weapons of whatever sort, tear gas, lattes, all of that, and openly attacking students and evidence of which was caught on CCTV camera, et cetera, et cetera. And these cases are also in court at the highest level in the country. And we also find that, so this pandemic and the kind of shroud that is its kind of put over all of us has then allowed these forces to continue their work because so much of the media attention, the world's attention is all on this virus and how it's spreading and impacting various sections of society. So, while on the one hand, you're saying that the entire country is uniting against or uniting in an effort to mitigate the effects of this virus. On the other hand, student activists, students, intellectuals, professors, et cetera, et cetera, are being rounded up, being sent to jail. Due processes are not being followed or ways of being found around those new processes simply because everyone is being told to stay home. So, extremely complex challenges and just a few, in fact, just a few weeks or months previously, we found a spate of such, of course not with the level of brutality and one, I suppose, distinction is that the level of militarization of the police. In India, except in the state of Kashmir, is far less than what you see, you know, for urban police forces in high density, high population areas living in the United States.  Yeah, it's, and that kind of military hardware facing a bunch of, well, people armed or equipped with sticks and stones. So, there are all of these things that are also happening. So, this whole thing of targeting people in India or communities in India that appear like Chinese, for example. Yeah. Right? It was a regular thing where they were racist or racial slurs were used for them. People were physically attacked, you know, and this all over the country, whether it's in cities like Bangalore or Delhi or Bombay. In fact, one of the few athletes who spoke out against this was Sunil Chaitri, who is the captain of the Indian football team. He was talking about people from the Northeast and literally, I mean, here's one more similarity.  Shouldn't be a reason for me to get killed. And it's quite similar in that sense here, where the reaction over there to it is, yeah, don't get killed, sure, but look at where all the crime happens. Look at, you know, who are the perpetrators of all this, all the crime. Of course, you will be pulled up at a routine traffic stop, pulled out of your car, shoved onto the street and manhandled, cuffed, etc. So many, in fact, so many multiple white women have come out with accounts of how their partners who they were driving with in a car at various times in their lives have been treated at these traffic stops versus how those women in the same situation were treated themselves. So it's something very similar to what's happening in India where at a basic level, people from the Northeast or people who belong to a certain ethnicity are repeatedly asked to prove how they are even Indian. So going back to something Sidhan said about virus being a shroud or a shield for these activities to happen on the side and we are not getting enough attention or people are not understanding what is happening on the side. But we can't justify our political and social inertness as a society. I mean, because sports persons also is part of that society and it reflects what how we are. So when all these issues were happening in the JNU or when the violence was happening in Delhi and all that people will live next to the JNU. Also, if it doesn't affect their lives, they don't care. So if it's not their son who is getting lathi charged by the police inside the campus and it doesn't matter for them. So and I've heard it from people I live right next to the JNU and I've heard it from people from the from the neighborhood. They say about how these students are always unhappy and creating problems and all that without realizing what is the issue that is happening. Why they are standing up and why it's important for for for education to to be free and why why the society should needs free thinkers because this is an attack attack on democracy. Why are killing education and free thinking and the capability of standing up and understanding the rights. So that is the basic thing that they're targeting, which which to a large extent is is not there in the US.   It's it's not it's not a riot. It's a revolution that is happening. That's what that's what people in the US are saying people who are involved. Actually, what you're saying Leslie is like also very appropriate. Just in terms of purely in terms of like the kind of posts that certain athletes are doing where they are not just asking people to speak up but also asking them to understand their privilege when they're speaking up. It's like they're asking why it's not a privilege. It's it's a right. It's it's a privilege. Yeah, African American athletes are telling their white counterparts to educate themselves and speak up not because they just need to speak up but also understand the situation that they live in because of just the color of their skin is so different from someone else's. And very often, even in India, like we don't understand that just the concept of how privileged certain people are and how they're treated differently by law enforcement agencies just because of the way they look. It's I mean, I have like a very simple experience of this when I was in this was just a brief bit where I was working on a short film in Hyderabad and there's this festival called Batakumma that happens. Okay, Batakumma is actually a rural festival has been appropriated by the government of Telangana. And now it's like the Mardi Gras of the state. So there was a friend of mine who is he's he's a schedule class student who's studying at Usmania University a PhD student. And he wanted to go and his PhD thesis he was exploring the idea of doing this. This appropriation of a rural festival into the urban consciousness. And he wanted to go and just shoot some pictures at Batakumma. But he wanted to take me because he said if I take you, then I'll probably get to breathe through and go through right till the chief minister.   Why, why, whereas if he stops me, I just turn around and walk away. And it really opens your head a little bit about just this idea of privilege, which is I think something that is being questioned now and different ways in the US. And I hope that athletes in India also recognize that in the US also. Yeah, it's not the color of the skin that matters there because yesterday Michael Jordan spoke up and Jordan is the greatest of all time. Jordan's show is doing amazing numbers on Netflix at the moment. But he was one person who never stood up when he had that kind of a platform when he was on at his peak while playing basketball. Never, not even a single issue, social issue, political issue, nothing, zero. So, and here he comes out suddenly. So first thing you when I see that is you question is motive. Maybe it's to promote his show.  But so, and here is a black athlete who represented that race at the IS level, Olympic gold medalist, five times, six times NBA champion, considered one of the greatest, or if not the greatest possible player in the world. He never used his platform at all. And you, I mean, I would never do that, but there are many people who have compared him to Muhammad Ali. And, and Muhammad Ali represents that athlete who lost his best years because he stood up for something that he believed in. He probably would have been, I mean, there's no question about his greatness in the boxing ring, but he lost his best years because he never wanted to be roughly was against the wall. So, when athletes speak up, athletes like Naomi Osaka or the young athletes go off. They have a lot to lose as well, because we remember, I mean, we remember calling Kafeinik, he started off the kneeling down protest when national anthems were happening in the NFL. And San Francisco's 49ers various club, and they next season they removed him and after that he has not gotten a contract in the NFL. And ironically, yesterday, the owner of 49ers, he came out saying that he's donating so much of dollars in the fight against systemic racism. Twitter obviously went after him. He said, we don't need your money. So, I mean, I don't know if this is a disagreement or what, but like, again, none of us know Michael Jordan and can't really speak too much about his personal innovations. But we understand the system, right? It's the sporting system, the business of sport that's governing a lot of things. No, fair enough, fair enough. But like, for what my understanding of it is two things. One is, of course, speaking out about issues that affect you and your community, if you are a leader in that community is important. But how you do that can come in multiple ways. And I don't think that, in my opinion, that point calling out a black athlete, no matter what their greatness or their influence may or may not have been, in this context is very different from what Vero was talking about earlier about those of us who don't belong to minority communities and the privileges that we enjoy and the impact that it has when non-minorities or majorities or in this case white people, white athletes come out and take a stand and show solidarity. One thing that has come out over the past and, you know, when Michael Jordan started playing basketball or became a professional, it has to be said that things were very different in the US than they are today, you know. So economic emancipation, right? Creating this now Michael Jordan is a millionaire several hundred times over probably. He has, the Jordan brand is one of the biggest sportswear brands in the world. He made a ten-episode advert on Netflix. Yeah, so no, you like what he does, what he does, that's one part. But what the impact of that may or may not have done to empower his community, we cannot effectively comment on from where we are sitting probably, right? And the fact that like Jordan did manage to create this very large financial empire for himself is a model that then some black athletes have continued to follow, you know. You look at the guys who are at the top of and the NBA in many ways because it's so driven and so largely sort of manned by minority community athletes, increasingly now imports from countries other than the US and a very large chunk of African Americans. So, you know, all of them now are investing the millions of dollars that they get in salaries in creating wider systems and networks that allow more people from various communities to take these stands to just have the economic freedom to even think about things beyond what impacts you personally. So that is, I mean, maybe a small distinction and that's why it's so much more striking when you look at the Indian context and you examine where some of our greatest athletes come from, our most popular athletes, our most financially independent athletes, they happen to all be cricketers, which is, you know, again, we can talk at length about the systemic racism or institutional sort of biases that pervade the cricket system as well and how various people are treated in that system based on where they come from, how they speak. You know, if you have a middle class upbringing like Sachin Tendulkar, you are kind of left alone to work on your sport and do all of that, but you also elevated to this status of like, let's say, demigod, you know. Rise of Tendulkar had another factor playing in it also, which is deeply rooted in how cricket is controlled by Apakas. Yeah, I mean, you don't have to go very much further than to compare the two, Kamli and Sachin Tendulkar who came up through this in the same system. Many people argued at that time when these guys were youngsters, these guys were teenagers that Kamli was the more talented, the more explosive, the more so many charismatic of the two and undoubtedly at least in terms of personal charisma or personality, Kamli was. He was much more spoken, you know, he was much more flashy in terms of his style and he said things. Whether you agree with his stand or not is a secondary matter, but at least he said things. People blame him for his downfall, but I would say cricket system failed him. So, I mean, at a deeper level. Yeah, I mean, after that 1996 World Cup situation, even the fans turned against him. Yeah, and it was not his fault. Of course not, but one guy, probably and unsurprisingly the darkest skinned guy on the team, takes the entire blame for what is a team sort of collapse, whatever, you know. And at that point, how many of his brethren, his compatriots, his friends in the dressing room stood up for him. I mean, we're talking about Kamli, but I was growing up in a small town in Jharkhand and I remember at that point in time, whenever India played Pakistan, the immediate question used to be, how will Azhar play today? Like, which is, I mean, like, it's, I'm sorry, but it's... Yeah, I know. So it's, yeah, fair enough, man, and it's undoubtedly like, you know, you have these conversations, especially like Leslie would say in North India, right? Yeah. Like, just the pervasiveness of this casual racism is so absolute. Absolutely. Like a Punjabi guy was saying this the other day, everyone south of Bombay is a Madrasi. Bombay is a Madrasi, yeah. And like, are you Marwadi or Bani? We don't have any respect for each other. You know, so this is, and then this goes into then, like, if you happen to look like, or belong to a different ethnicity altogether, then there's no... Then it's magnified.  And yet we sit and we deny the existence of racism in our society. But that's so quick.  So we, well, how can we be racist because we are already black or brown? Brown skin and the same, and a shared colonial past. So whenever we are accused of being racist ourselves, we are like, no, but how can we be racist? I don't know. White man has ruled us, you know. We need to get whitey off our back as well. And all of these things. And like, I mean, simple actual facts, like how now in the sport of football, we, there's a long history of, especially from Nigeria, several players being imported or coming into play for our football clubs over the years. And many of them have been the most, like sort of the crowds love them. They score the most amount of goals. I mean, we were just talking yesterday about the 1996-97, ACT Mills football team has won the first edition of the National Football League. And Stephen, who is a Nigerian former footballer now. And it was one of the rare seasons when an Indian striker finished on top of the scoring charts that Baichung got 14 goals that season. But Stephen was an amazing player and like his role in that team was central to how they managed to be the dominant side for that season, winning pretty much everything. But from the crowd, the kind of reception, response that African players, that black players get.   But just when you talk to coaches or scouts or managers, the way they talk about, like, players from different ethnicities and the way they play, it's just like, it's like, yeah, he's from here, so he will play like this. They are strong and built. And he's from here. They are very calm demeanors. Like, you know, like, this is racism. I mean, there is no other way to describe this. So, and such stereotyping is what is happening when these police pull out. And they are using tasers and all now. I was seeing some videos in the morning. Some guns and they are just sitting in the car. You stop and the two kids, 20-year-olds, they were coming from a protest and they stopped them, asked them questions. They don't want to talk to the police because they know what is coming next. They chase him down and then within the car itself, they're just... So that's not done. That's not how... So why is it happening?  So I mean, straight, easy target. So, and in our context, it's just the problem is magnified because A, the level of poverty that we have here is far more absolute than what the United States is facing. The level of institutional systemic oppression where they have had it for 400 years, we have had it for thousands, ever since this whole structure of caste came into existence. So it's in our, in many ways, it's in our DNA and so the fight is that much harder but also the consequences are that much harder. And yet we find that people like us who are, have gone through the best in terms of what the education system of this country can offer in terms of jobs, in terms of just how we live our lives. We find it hard to educate ourselves to be more sensitive, to be more aware and to take a stand when it comes down to taking a stand because if you don't stand for anything at the end of the day, how many cars you have parked in your driveway, isn't it going to mean anything? That's the point when you mentioned earlier about economic independence of black athletes and how they are using it. So in our country, there's no culture as such about giving it back to the society except if it's a campaign that gives you some kind of PR brownie points. That's how bad it is over here. So be it middle-class, normal professionals living in Delhi, not acknowledging things that are happening, not doing their bit or not standing up, or be it our elite athletes, our sporting heroes, someone like the multi-millionaire Virat Kohli or MS Dhoni. It's the same. It's some kind of, I don't know, cultural backwardness or whatever, societal backwardness or whatever because we are all selfish and live in our silos, in our locked-up societies. I don't know how India has come about to such a situation. I mean, it's... I'm again, I mean, I'm not going to fully agree with what you're saying about athletes not giving back to society because there are athletes. Of course, there are. Dilip Turkey, for example, a man who's been capped for India by someone else in hockey. He's gone and he's done something for the area that he comes from. And he's done it in different ways. He's had to get into the system to be able to deliver back to his community. So there are athletes. There's a... Maybe you can elaborate on this, but there's a really interesting sort of comparative there Dilip was also a member of parliament as is Sachin, right? Yeah, absolutely.  Again, I don't want to generalize after having said that I won't generalize but I think it has got something to do with what kind of community you come from and how connected you are to it. When you're growing up, I guess, as a middle-class kid in Bombay, you're giving back to the community just in terms of like, hey, let's make a cricket academy or something of that. Whereas for someone like Dilip Turkey, it's not just about that. He understands the struggles that he grew up facing. So when he's giving back to the community, it's not just why are the medium of sport that I want to make more hockey players for India. It's also that he understands what this hockey, just playing hockey, just the facility he can represent, just the ambition this can show to any kid in Sundargarh growing up. It's also just... I mean, perhaps the difference. Generalization, that is perhaps a difference but also such a generalization is impossible because when we take into account another member of parliament, Mary Kom, who is from the Northeast. I knew that. No, so it's... how opaque and... insensitive she has become. And she has come up the hard way. No question or no taking away the hardships that he has suffered coming up but what she is doing about a lot of open things that are happening in the Northeast, I mean, we all know. So it's not the middle class upbringing? Again, let's... I mean, we do often call people out and take specific examples and names and stuff like that. Having been to Mary Kom's boxing academy in FAL, for example, like these, the contradictions in her personality and because she's a public figure, I guess, we often discuss public figures and their roles in society. And she's a parliamentarian, so even more so. A parliamentarian representing a region of this country that has been again ignored, whether it's in terms of economically... Yeah, and because of the fact that ours is a system of representational democracy and where the number of seats in parliament you get is based on how populist your state is. Therefore, if you come from Manipur where you only have a few lakh people, you have very few members of parliament and therefore the stories from the Northeast don't get told to the country at the highest level decision-making body. Right? So the contradictions in terms of Mary Kom's support for the Bhartijanta Party and the stand that she has taken in the context of this ruling party is essentially what seems to be a lust or a thirst or a desire to keep these guys on her team so that she continues to get the support that she gets from the state. Now, if you look at the sponsors that her boxing academy have, for example, many of them are either public sector or directly the government itself. Right? And now what it's having an impact on is that several kids I don't know the exact number of kids that live and train at this academy but there's no doubt that in that small ecosystem the lives of these few kids who do get access to it are completely transformed. We met some new recruits there who were just about joined and for them this was kind of an annual day celebration that they have. And we met some new kids and we saw how, kind of, what their aid, how they were dressed, how they spoke, the kind of confidence or whatever they demonstrated and versus kids who had been there for some time, some of them had gone on to compete at the national level, etc. Both boys and girls and how sort of their whole vibe. So you can tell that it's transformational work that is happening in places like this. So these contradictions are very hard to kind of figure out also and wrap our heads around it. It's also an understanding of how deep do you want to get your hands dirty. It's just something as simple as that. While I'm saying all, like, I have a huge amount of respect for Dilip Terqi and I mean, whenever I'm around him, I can't say anything, like Leslie can tell you this. But the truth is, he got his hands dirty. Like he went in, he got into the BJD, he's fought elections. He's like tried to influence policy from that level. He's become influential to a level where he has now realized that, hey, you know what, we've also got the support of the Odisha government. So let's do something in Sundargarh. All these things, like you have to get him, get your hands dirty and do that. Another truth that seems to emerge out of this is that the Lord, the entire burden of this awakening or this fight, goes back on to the same people that are the most affected by it. Absolutely. Yes. Which is kind of like... Like immediately, like... Yeah. So wherever you want to see, you can talk about Dilip Terqi, Mary Kom, we have so many friends in football who are small or big, who have the possibility to do as much as they can. We do it in our communities a little bit. We don't... In Maharaj's case, we had... Yeah, absolutely. He's played for India. I mean, one of the most recognisable football players again in this country. Not that there are very many, but Maharaj is distinctive, man. He's got now that flowing pure that he's got. He's at an ISL club. So his picture and everything is all over the place. He's accomplished or well, getting to becoming an accomplished coach. And yet, when he was going to see his ailing mother in Srinagar a few days ago, the police picked him up and locked him up without any conversation, without asking any questions. Of course, now because Maharaj within the sphere of things is an influential person. So this mistake was corrective. Right? And the local DCP or whoever it was, then he issued him a pass and allowed him to go and see his mother. But this is a person who has a voice who is an athlete and a recognized athlete. That's the point, the athlete's voice. That's why athletes' voices are important because it reaches a larger audience. I mean, it has a global impact when an athlete stands up or deals down. So again, I mean, I'm sorry. I don't want to digress or like I want to bring this back to just the fact that we expect people from minority communities and do whatever development work that needs to be done. Right? Like we expect Dilip Turki to go back and do that in Sendergarh. We expect Mary Koon to do this. We expect Maharaj to do this in Kashmir. But unless they don't or they don't take the initiative, the system doesn't seem to care. Like, I mean, I can find this truth for Jharkhand where we had a great hockey player. Unfortunately, when he was playing, there was no Indian system.  And so Jharkhand hockey has languished behind for years and years and years. And till some player from Kunti goes back and says, you know what, I'll start because there are no male hockey players anymore from Kunti. Till then, hockey India is not going to be interested. There's no center there. What are we talking about? There is no other athlete who's going to go there and do anything because we expect, we put the onus, the burden of development on the people who are being most affected by a lack of development itself. Which is essentially, I find, to be the conversation happening internationally also right now. Yeah, so it's exactly, but again, expectation is not for people from the minority go back. Expectation from our, the expectation that I have being a sports journalist and before that being a sports fan is for our sports persons or people with privilege to use I mean, excerpt things in their sphere of influence. It can be just one small locality that because that's what's happening in my home state Kerala. So the sports clubs over there, local sports clubs are where forefront in during the floods or during this pandemic in exerting their sphere of influence, their youth, the bank of youth to do relief work to help out the society in whatever ways possible. So that's how society grows, that's how it works. So that's the least expectation that I have and of course our stars have bigger sphere of influence. It's up to them to how to make use of that. Thanks very much guys for all your inputs. Of course this is a complex conversation it's a conversation that engages communities and should be engaging communities across the world at a time when we are debating some of, especially when we are debating some of the structures, the economic political structures that have led us to this point. So we'll keep this conversation going in different contexts. Of course it's a developing story, things are happening in the US as well, things are happening in India as well. So we will update you more on that but for now that does it for us. Thank you for watching NewsClick. Follow us at NewsClick Sports. It's our new Instagram handle which has all the updates on the stuff that we're getting up to and also wait for us to engage with our audience. 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So, I just want to know if the hype is justified or not. Six of Crows and Cookingdom are I think like the most hyped geology on BookTube, on the book internet. Hahaha! He's like, the hype is justified!  Like, is it legit, that good? So I'm gonna be putting them to the test and I'm gonna be reading them in this reading vlog and sharing all of my thoughts with you and then we'll come to a conclusion together over whether or not they're overhyped. This video is going to be non-spoilery so don't worry if you haven't read them yet and you want to know the answer yourself. I will do my best to give you a solid answer but there won't be any spoilers so you don't need to worry about that. So if you don't know this series is about like a gang of thieves and criminals led by Kaz Brecker and they're planning like this major heist I believe that's what I really know it's set in the Grisha verse I have read the entire Shadow and Bone trilogy um I didn't wasn't really a fan wasn't really a fan what's gonna happen gonna shoot me I doubt it you have to catch me first I'm like a wippet I think I gave them like three two point five two or maybe even a harsher than that I don't think it was I think it was three two point five two in terms of my rating of the series but I also read Night House by Lee Bardugo and I gave that five stars and it's one of my favorite books of all time so this could go either way this could go either way I can't predict it but with the Netflix show for Shadow and Bone which the Crows also feature in I've just decided it's time to stop taking this video off and to finally read the series and to decide whether they are worth the hype or not I'm hoping for good things I'm hoping for good things so I'm gonna go start six of Crows and I'll check in with you when I'm a little bit of the way through I feel like today the future starts so it's a good day I'm excited so initial thoughts it's really good isn't it it's really good it's really good it's like so good why why have I waited this long to read it firstly carrying it carrying it on her shoulders I am obsessed with her she's a businesswoman a TV star a host a producer an actress a philanthropist she's one of the most influential popular wealthy women in the world also Nina but mostly the women the women are in control here the women who have has my heart in nage like when it's described basically don't know nage is really good at being silent and like sneaking around like a spy but she's also really good with her knives and when it's described like how she's like I fall in love a bit like I'm a little bit obsessed with her in a way that I don't usually get obsessed with characters like I don't usually get connected to characters but like a nage I love her I love her I love her so if you don't know which I'm sure everyone knows but to sum it up quickly Kaz Brecker has united this kind of like motley crew to break into this prison I guess yeah high security prison for a lot of money because this guy is being held captive there who has created this potentially very dangerous drug to people with Grisha powers so they've been hired to do this and like it's just incredible like I can't I can't emphasize true enough how much I'm enjoying it yeah I what I have to say is an edge that's all I have to say I'm obsessed it's really well written it is ninth house level of writing already not shadow and bone level of writing it's night and day night and day I feel like oh she just does something with like how the story moves I it's something I can't put into words and it it's only done very occasionally and it's only done where a book is five stars but like some authors just know how to make the words flow I have a very particular thing about how the words flow how everything comes together and some people just can't do it I think it's a name I don't think it's something that can be learned at Leigh Bardugo has it she has it she has it I'm only a third of the way in by the way I realize I haven't said that I'm a third of the way in I don't really want to be sitting here talking to you I just want to be reading it and in edge she is exquisite I love her I love her and I love her even more yeah I really love the the cutthroatness and like the harshness of the world that we're in what I can think about as an edge it's like my brain is like in edge in edge in there I can't I can't say anything else to you I'm also really loving the audiobook for this so I'd really recommend the audiobook so far I've done a lot of the reading by the audiobook and I think when I carry on reading physically now I will listen to the audiobook as well it's a full cast so when we switch perspectives because each chapter is in different perspective it switches the narrator I'd heard some people like say that the audiobook wasn't for them so that made it and that made me wary of it but I'm really enjoying it some of the writers are better than others like the Jesper one I think I've only heard once but I was only feeling him but the Kaz and the next ones are the best you guys this is some good shit it's really good I'm really enjoying it also I've just come to cook dinner and I had another thought my washing machines on I'm making my potato wedges I just listening right and I've seen people say we're not supposed to shit Kaz and a niche and I do currently I do I mean I'm only a third of the way in we've just had that spoilers we've had like a boom boom boom boom scene I don't know what that was and and I ship them like I my mascara is melting I ship them so why am I not supposed to questions okay so firstly apologies for I've had pretty bad eye strain the past couple days with like pain and like my eyes twitching so I didn't want to put anything around my eyes to fuck with it but even this ring light I'm like no thank you it's a night for me anyway I am two thirds of the way into Six of Crows and I'm still really enjoying it and Nez still has supremacy for me but I've got to admit Jesper is starting to climb the ranks of it I thought Nina would be my favorite character she's like up there they're all up there in their own ways it is very different than what I thought I thought it was gonna be like money well it is kind of money heists but I thought it was like robbing banks that's not what it is it's like a mission they've been sent on as a group the one thing I would say not like negative but you constantly getting back stories of the characters which is very valuable in many ways like I almost cried hearing Kaz's backstory but sometimes I feel like it messes with the pacing a bit of the rest of the story you're like listen we're in this high stakes exciting moment and then I'm just like hearing someone's backstory and it just like breaks the story up oh my god I'm shocking to think my eyes I feel like I need to turn the light down and up the camera okay we're just gonna deal with like poor lighting for a sec because I actually can't think well the light is bright in my eyes and it's hurting another thing I thought of was I here's a thing I read Shadow and Bone Trilogy to like have an enhanced reading experience of this to fully understand the Grisha verse Grisha powers and listen I when I finished the Shadow and Bone Trilogy I was like I still don't quite understand it like how it works like the whole like corporate Rowney all different words for the same thing I don't I still don't really understand that I was thinking how's that actually enhance my reading experience to the extent that I would recommend reading that trilogy because I didn't enjoy the trilogy but I do think if I hadn't read it I wouldn't understand some of the context in this of what it means to be Grisha it's quite a big theme of like the burden of being Grisha of yeah having those powers and the position it puts you in the society and I don't think if I was just here reading this I don't think I would fully have such like a well-rounded understanding of what that means for someone you know to be Grisha I'm glad I did it I'm glad that I have read the Shadow and Bone Trilogy for going forward like reading this reading King of Scars however I don't know if I'd recommend you do that if you haven't read any of them yet because the trilogy isn't good the step up in terms of like writing quality from that to this is so incredible like I don't understand how someone would do that like literally ruin and rising Lord Lord it wasn't for me if it came on I wouldn't necessarily skip it well that's not true I would it wasn't for me but Leigh Bardugo in this the way that every scene serves a purpose with like developing these characters developing the story the pace at which it goes out this is like masterful writing this is like some of the best YA writing ever like Leigh Bardugo is an amazing writer so the step up is just incredible it's really good I think this is gonna be five stars I don't speak too soon but I think it's gonna be five stars that was not how I was expecting this to end I was a bit shook about a few things that happened at the end there I enjoyed it but something about that last third I don't know if I just wasn't in the mood it was like a four star so like I feel like the thing as a whole is a 4.5 star I think I like the vibes of Keterdam as a place and like the toxicity of it and the the harshness of it and so I think I think Corky Kingdom is predominantly set in Keterdam so that's what I'm most excited for but anyway I love these characters these are some of the best well written characters I've ever read particularly in terms of dialogue like writing good dialogue funny dialogue is not easy like that's not something a lot of people can do but Leigh Bardugo completely managed to do it and the way that they bond and like the way that you can see their relationships growing throughout the book is really just so good it's so good I really loved how flawed they were I wouldn't say they're like morally gray that's a term that people like like throw around a lot but I wouldn't say they're morally gray they're just like flawed and they have struggles and they have so many dimensions to them each of these characters yep I really like Kaz I really like Nina like Nina oh my god Nina Nina Nina Nina Nina Nina came into her own in this last third she was really the highlight of it for me she was like a fucking queen Jesper and Wylan I understand now why it's so loved because these characters are so so easy to fall in love with and at the same time the plot is just so fast-paced and so well done so it's like a perfect amalgamation of everything you want from a book essentially but I think yeah for some reason like the last bit didn't hit it for me as much as I wanted it to although it was amazing just like my personal like this is a five star feeling went away a bit so I'm gonna give it 4.5 stars I completely understand the hype I'm so happy I finally read it yeah it's just such a good book I understand now I understand so I'm gonna start Crikey Kingdom now tonight I don't know how much of it I'm gonna get through this is longer than this one was but oh my god look we've got a map of Keterdam I'm so excited that it's gonna be well hopefully it's gonna be mostly set here because that is like the 1.5 that I felt like was missing from Six of Crows for me so oh my god I'm so excited to also go into a series straight away like I never read series one after the other but this is one of the only series of actually I mean obviously I was gonna be doing it for the video so like good thing I feel like this but I rarely feel like that was series where I want to go into the next one straight away but because of how Six of Crows left off I want to read this straight away and the characters like I just have to know the answers to so many questions that they've already raised so I'm so excited okay I'm gonna go start it but I don't know if I will check in tonight because it's long and I've already read loads today so we'll see right so I am a third of the way through Cooker Kingdom and I'm really enjoying it the album's amazing song to song I can't stress it out what I really love about this is that it is more of what I expected from the first book in that it is lots of planning and plotting and like figuring out almost lots of different heights there's lots of steps to the plan in this book and that's more what I was expecting like them sitting around in the room together going we've got to do this this and this and like making like a plan as a team whereas Six of Crows is more one big plot one big heist Wyland Wyland is starting to become almost my favorite no and there's still my favorite then probably Nina then Wyland and Jasper but Kaz is like the thing that holds it all together without Kaz it wouldn't be a thing so like he here's the thing Kaz is an incredibly interesting well-rounded character but like he's never going to be your favorite character because firstly he is the most cutthroat and secondly it's almost like I like to call it Alice in Wonderland syndrome where like when you have this big cast of characters who are also interesting the main character the one who holds it all together is never going to be your favorite character like Alice Alice is the most boring character not saying Kaz is boring but Alice is never going to be your favorite character I don't think Kaz is ever going to be your favorite character in my opinion there's nothing wrong with my views or beliefs because I have freedom of speech and everything I'm saying is true so I still love him but he's just the thing that helps all the other ones shine I think oh my god also Nina Matias I'm falling for it I am falling for it I'm falling for it but I don't know if it's going to be a five star again like it's feeling like a 4.5 like so close but I am just very strict with my five stars so like a 4.5 is probably a five like other people would probably just give it a five but I'm very strict so it's feeling like a 4.5 at the minute I'm gonna go play some sims and listen to the audiobook I am now two-thirds of the way into Kruger Kingdom and objectively I think this is better than Six of Crows however Six of Crows was still a 4.5 that doesn't make this a five this is maybe like if we're being picky this is like a 4.75 but I think I'm just gonna give it a 4.5 like unless it pulls it out the bag in this final third but I haven't had that five star feeling where it just feels like oh my god this book was meant for me but it's still when it's a 4.5 that means I can completely understand why this is a five for other people and why this is so popular it's just like a five star feeling is a very specific feeling I'll get over yourself love silly car but I am loving the way that the relationships are developing I think that that has been done so well across the geology the way that we care for all the different relationships within the the gang I cannot emphasise to enough I know I keep saying this but how happy I am that this is in Ketterdam I really just love the setting of Ketterdam and yeah exploring it and going into it in much more detail it's what I wanted like it's what I wanted from this second book and it's done that so well but I don't know how I'm about to be fulfilled by there only being two in this series like I don't I know we have King of Scars after this and we're following some of the or like maybe it's just Nina I know we're following Nina in that but I don't know how I'm gonna deal with not being able to follow all of these characters for more than remaining 170 pages like I just want to be with them and I don't understand why there's only two I'm not looking forward to how it's gonna end because I have a feeling I'm not gonna be happy because I want more and there's a reason why there's not more there must be anyway I'm gonna go finish it and then I'll come back to my final thoughts and my final thoughts on the series as a whole as well it was coming I still cry even though I knew even though I knew what was gonna happen even though I've known for years what was going to happen I still cried a fucking clown we are a bitch we are a fucking clown I loved it I'm not gonna give it a five star but it's like a 4.75 like it's really close and I don't know maybe if I was to reread these books or something I may give them five stars there's something almost about the Grisha world that I feel like I keeps me a separate moved is that 2.5 I'm not fully sure if I love in a way I can't quite articulate because perhaps I didn't love Shadow and Bone I think that's why I loved Ninth House by Lee Bodgy ago because it had her writing her characters which are incredible but it wasn't that grishiness which I always feel like I almost just don't understand like it I'm always like I should understand you but for some reason I don't you know it's not like say the fifth season for example by N.K. Jemisin where like I can just accept that I'm not gonna understand this like I feel like this world isn't that complicated but I still don't kind of get it maybe that's the 2.5 but it's like a 4.75 it's very close one thing that this series does so well but particularly in this book I feel like it almost did its success in this book but it definitely did this in this one is the characters leaving you five steps behind them I love that I know some people don't like it but I love when the characters know so much that I don't know particularly with like the highest D mission sections of these you would not know the plan that Kaz and the team have and so when the plan is being enacted you're being constantly surprised and like things will happen you're like oh shit really but then something else happened you'll be like oh my god what and then it'll come down come down rather than them saying this is the plan this is what we're gonna do you go into it thinking you know the plan but you don't you don't know the plan and then you see it fall into motion and all the dominoes fall into motion in time with the people who they're tricking yeah I love it when a book does that I love being kept in the dark for so long and all the other characters kind of know this the deal and you don't like I think that's amazing in my opinion these are not overrated they're not overrated I think they deserve their hype they deserve their love I'm so glad I finally read them if you've been thinking about it for whatever reason go read them if you love them let me know down in the comments if you don't love them we can talk to final conclusion I think they deserve the hype that they get but I actually think I prefer Quaker Kingdom which I didn't think after having read Six of Crows really possible but I think Quaker Kingdom is better like the way that all of the characters stories wrap up and it was the perfect ending without saying anything everything ended the only way it could end like it ended so well ended so well and here's the thing I kind of want to read King of Scarlet Shaker way this was never in my plans this was never a book I thought I was gonna read soon but having just read this I'm kind of like I probably won't because this was like not even one of my top books I was planning to read but like I kind of want to I feel like I need because I know this for those Nikolai, Zoya and Nina I need Wyland's story like the way that we leave off with Wyland oh my god I just love him my love for Wyland has been slow but particularly in this book I feel like he's Sean and I need a book on Wyland so who's gonna give it to me? Morley Budugo is? Lee? Pay up. I'm so glad I funny read them leave me your thoughts on this series down below if you've gone to the end comment like a crow is there a crow emoji or a bird emoji one of them and I will see you very soon in another video bye