Please, thank you. Kill the lights. Thank you. Everybody out, please. The carriage? The carriage.  I've been to Providence Point. Most of them, since I've been a secretary, took advantage of that opportunity to press our case. Eddie Officer Hopkins. All in. Technical Sergeant Harris. Mayor. Dan Sargent-Brite. Chair in your right. Ambassador. Coast guard. I think they're a little nervous. Well, it's a meeting that you may have to keep. It's quite an honor. Thank you. Thank you. Well, it's on my boat. I know I'm not supposed to call this ship a boat. Boats have oars. Thank you very much. I'm sorry that we have to do it by written answers to you, but we'll get them to you as soon as we can. I told this morning to get a haircut before he sat down. I appreciate it, too. I don't know whether the questions will lead to this or not, but I hope that there will be an opportunity for me to answer some of the questions. Mr. President, if we could get one question. The group has elected the Army to ask it. If you could answer one question, the forum will complete the proceedings. Mr. President, we understand that you've served in the Army during World War II. But we're wondering if you see any fundamental difference between the military of the day versus the military of World War II. Because there was World War II under wartime. The situation and the tragedies were again and all, and they have seen a great difference now. And for the last few years, when there was just a five-day vote around in those days, something that always stuck with me and that has guided my thinking about the military today, is that then as now, there were those in Washington who didn't think it was necessary to do anything for the military. And then they were having their way more than they are today. But we had held just a few months prior to Pearl Harbor, the Louisiana maneuvers. The greatest war games, the biggest war games we've ever had. Many of the soldiers were carrying wooden guns, and they were using cardboard tanks to send the armored board there. And after the war, when some of our top officers were able to meet with some of theirs and talk about the war that they were fighting against each other, one of the questions was why Pearl Harbor? And the last Japanese answer was just what I've said about Louisiana. They said, why not Pearl Harbor? We didn't think you'd fight. But it was my first. I was a reserve officer. In those days, and after World War I and the years following, I don't think anyone ever thought there was going to be another war. We fought World War I, the End of All Wars, and I was always crazy about horses. And I found myself a sports announcer in Des Moines, Iowa, where I was also located at Fort Des Moines, which in the war became the Wacken Warriors, but then it was the home of the 14th Cavalry. I enlisted as a candidate for a commission. And by doing so, part of our training involved riding the cavalry horses at Fort Des Moines. And I got the commissioners called to act at duty. I was tagged limited service because I wear corny offenses and I'm pretty very near sighted without them. And the cavalry had no provision for limited service. They tagged me limited service when they examined me. So I wound up at Fort Mason as a liaison officer, loading convoys for it. We were shipping everything we could, even just basic training to Australia because we believed that with the enemy planned call, they would have to pin down their flank before they could move east against us. So we were filling up Australia with American troops to complete their training there. And then the Air Force was the Army Air Corps. They created something comparable to the Signal Corps because General Arnold was looking to have a conservative Air Force. And the next thing I knew had been in that business, the picture business, I found myself shipped back down south at California to help organize and commission directness of Indian life. Technicians still work in the British industry. We trained all the combat camera crews and set up a training plan on the death of the Air Force. I wasn't very heroic, but I never cried by the death. Thank you, Mr. President. Gentlemen, you've come this way. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Mr. President? Yes, sir. Nice to see you. My wife, Lady. Hello, Mr. President. My son, Al. So it's from? I was in college and Al is just starting his work in New York. Sonya and Rabia will join us. That's when they can.  Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Mr. President. Oh, that's very nice. Well, we appreciate the tie bar. This is Christmas early. Oh, we just don't want you to forget us here. It's very nice of you to receive us, and I know how busy you are. We've been sworn in by Secretary Schultz and we'll be off on Wednesday and be in Jeddah on Friday. And looking forward to serving you, Mr. President, as we did for the last few years in Tunisia. And I must say, I want to repeat again how much we progress. It really makes you feel as if you're working with the President. We are. It's college. I went to our college. In Airman? Yeah. That's right. How long did this graduation from Amherst College? From Amherst. Isn't Amherst the one that was on television? Yeah, he's had a wedding. He's a good lady. Well, you never follow everything, don't you? He's a good person. He loved my college. He wanted to go with you, Steve. He wanted to briefly yell. Has anyone backed Weston? No, he was the one that got that yen that he thought he wanted to be about anything. Oh, that's right. And he's left that, and he's got a very successful career. Thank you. Thank you very much. Mr. President, thank you very much. You know, this President, after Carol, broke all those records and homerun, and games played and everything else, and he had all that stuff on his mind, and all the parks were stand-up, stand-up ovations. He decided he was going to have some rings made up for some of his best friends. And he not only had a ring made up for you, but something else for Nancy. Wow, Mr. President. I appreciate it very much, and I appreciate a lot of things he did for supporting me, but also especially for bringing you here. I just designed a ring at the end of my career. I had 23 stones in it for 23 years. 23 years. A long time. I designed it up. I made 20 of them up. You know this? Her birthday is July 6th, and her mother has told her all her life that it would have been July 4th, except her mother didn't want to miss the double-header. I swore that was true. Well, I thank you very much. Mr. President, Carol has got a new job now, and he's going to be a sportcaster in the Channel 7 of Boston. He'd like to ask you a couple of questions for his first interview. Well, that's TV. Well, all right, fine. It's like an old thing in the schedule. I don't know that there is such a thing as a typical day here. It doesn't get too early in the morning. Nine o'clock. And there are some things that are typical. Usually starts out with staff meeting, first of all, on anything that may, and then the National Security Council meeting. They come in, and we sit around over here, and what is the latest development of the latest hotspot in the room go forth. And then the day takes off where it can range from meetings with the congressional leadership, one or both parties. It can be special meetings, like these few days the governors are having their conference in town, so this morning I was over in the East and we didn't take their questions, things going on. And it can go for a series of meetings and interrupt the, I'm happy to say, every once in a while with some time there at the desk to try and keep ahead of the paperwork. And then usually at the end of the day, and I go upstairs with quite a packet of homework in my evening reading, is it's various memos and reports and so forth. How do you handle all the stress on this job? Well, I'll tell you, I have to say that I haven't found that the problem that someone has talked about and that people have said, but I think possibly that was because of my previous experience as eight years as governor in California. And while that isn't as large and up to the point of this job and doesn't have foreign policy, at the same time that was when I first knew some real stress in those opening months because I inherited an economic problem there and a deficit of the constitution provision hanging over us that deficit could not go beyond the next six months. It had to be solved. And I remember some days when we were there sitting at the desk when it seemed as if every other half hour someone was in front of the desk with another problem and I would have an almost irresistible desire to turn and look and see if there wasn't somebody back there I could turn to for it. But I think out of that I learned that there is only one thing and that is you take, I get all the counsel and so forth that I can all the advice I can and then debate on issues with our cabinet and the cabinet room, I left that out and what is the routine and the things that happen just make up your mind that you will have to make the decision based on what you honestly believe is the best thing for the people and if you do that you may make mistakes but let that be your only consideration instead of saying well how is this going to affect elections or what is this going to do politically I have been structured in California and I learned to construct here at the cabinet. The one thing I never wanted to do in any discussion is what are the political ramifications I only want to hear is it good or bad for the people. It's a fantastic shape you work on a lot Yes I finish every day before I go into that I want to work upstairs I go to the gym upstairs and some equipment in there we have two sets of exercises for different sets of muscles for all in the days I look forward to that at the end of the day Thank you Mr. President I'm going to interview him He's got a couple more questions I'll try to make the answer short Okay How did you develop your interest in sports when you were in Yamastown? I thought that was the greatest thing in the world we lived near the high school athletic field when I was a kid I'd be there every afternoon watching football practice in the spring track and I ended up playing football for four years in high school and college and around the quarter mile in a relay team I drove up swimming and spent seven summers lifeguarding and finally in college I had to drop track and turn to swimming because you can't do both different sets of muscles and I didn't have that experience Did you have any heroes in Yamastown? Oh yes, whoever the current top athletes including George Gipp of Notre Dame How did you start to become interested in sports announcements which was your first job I guess baseball announcements Yes Radio was very new It's hard for anyone today to realize the impact that radio made on this nation You forgot that it was very young for several years but suddenly this thing that came right into your home you could now sit there and hear someone tell you all about a football game that's going on or baseball and baseball games but even drama plays that were done and you didn't have to see them as you see them on television your imagination did it for you as you heard over radio that play well I realized by the time I got out of college in the depths of the Great Depression that it was hard to say in the small town of Illinois at the time that I thought I wanted to do something in the world of entertainment and finally tying that love of sports in with this I thought that's what I would like to do and I just started knocking on radio station doors hitchhiking around the Midwest and one day after I saw a lot of turn downs I didn't ask to be a sports announcer I just I said I'll take any job to get in radio and then I'll take my chance of working up from there and finally in one station a fellow put me in front of a microphone after asking me what I knew about football and I told him I'd played it eight years he said you think you can tell about a game and make me see it and I said I think so and one of them like he says I'm going in another room and I'm going to be listening when the red light goes on you start broadcasting an imaginary football game and he said I'll be hearing it and for 15 minutes it wasn't completely imaginary I decided I would do the last quarter of a game that I played in the previous football we won in the last 20 seconds so there was a good finish to it and he came back in and said the question said be here Saturday you're broadcasting the Iowa Minnesota game and I'll give you $5 in bus fare one final question Mr President it's the ninth inning of the World Series the seventh game you're on the mound pitching your team's ahead by one or another the bases are loaded and the hitters tip on the hill how would you pitch it? right for his head I'll be able to get out of the way I'll have to tell you one time seriously one time I was on the mound in the seventh game of the World Series with the bases loaded no one out and hit by one run it was the seventh inning but that was in Hollywood and I was playing Grover Cleveland Alexander in that famous World Series in 1926 went after having won two games in the series he was supposed to be over the hill and two over for baseball and a sick man was brought out to take over and Rogers Warnsby the manager said to him what do you think and Grover looked at all three bases with Yankees on all three bases and he said it doesn't seem to be any room for him on base and he struck him out thank you Mr President I can't really say I don't know I don't know that I did like it it was great to be on yeah it's really they get to see it it's a whole different it's a whole different it's a whole different it's a whole different it's a whole different and I understand that you don't know what shot he's gonna put on Thank you Mr. President, I appreciate your time. What is the Triple Count on baseball? Badding average, most home runs, most bad things. I never had heard of that until you were coming in here today. As I say I know what it is, torturizing. I'd rather own the horse. I'd rather have a major league baseball than I've ever heard. Thank you again, sir. Good luck. Thank you. Thank you Mr. President. Appreciate it. Thank you. You're welcome.


Hello and welcome to NewsClick. I am Paranjoy Guha Thakurtha. On the 1st of July, 2023, I was honored and privileged to interview India's greatest living filmmaker, Shyam Benegal. I spoke to him for almost two hours at his office in Tardew in Mumbai. In the first part of this interview, we discussed his forthcoming film on Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. It is titled, Mujib, the Making of a Nation and scheduled to be released towards the end of 2023. In this, the second part of this interview, we discuss his famous trilogy of films made on Muslim women. We also discuss politics. We discuss the Muslim questioning in Narendra Modi's India. I ask him questions about minority communalism, majority communalism and Shyam Benegal is somewhat ambivalent in condemning the Rashtriya, Swayamsevak Sangh, and he is non-committal about commenting on India's present Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Let me specifically ask you, Shyam Benegal, you have made films about both of them on the basis of two people. One is Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Today, we, the Indian government, not just the Indian government, which is the support of the Indian People's Party, which is the support of the Rashtriya, Swayamsevak Sangh, today, in every occasion, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, who is moving forward to destroy Chhavi, and is still doing it. The image of India's first Prime Minister is being sought to be tainted and even tarnished by large sections of people who claim to be supporters of the Bharti Janta Party and the Rashtriya, Swayamsevak Sangh. What do you have to say about this? Well, clearly, you know, you can't wipe out history. How can you take away the fact that you had India's first Prime Minister, probably who was the Prime Minister the longest in our country? Now, the fact is that he laid the foundation for the country. Look at the five-year plans. Not all of them were successful, but the fact was that it made, he laid the first brick as far as development processes of development in India were concerned. A lot of the present day political establishment does not give him credit for that. But the fact is that he did, you see his five-year plans, the first five-year plan, and then the second five-year plan. Of course, it couldn't be completed or it was done, but there were wars in between.  So, you see the problem is that you have a situation which has a, where he said, I mean, without him, you cannot think of a modern India. You know, you can't really, at least me, for myself. I don't think you can think of a modern India without the foundational work that was done by that generation. Among them, Joala Nehru played an important part. There were other people like Sardar Patel and various other people who were, in fact, maybe more important. Today, there are large sections of the ruling establishment, the ruling regime, who try to portray Nehru, Vanam, Sardar Patel, and a concerted effort is being made to portray Joala Nehru in a negative light. Why is this being done? You see, I think that's being unfair to both because, you know, as long as Sardar Patel lived, they were both very, I mean, they worked together. They may have had differences, differences of a period, differences of the method that had to be used and so on, and maybe Sardar Patel was more indulgent towards the younger man. You know, all these things were there. But then, these are, in the larger, if you look at it, if you take a historical perspective, they were both equally important for independent India. You know, and Sardar Patel, of course, there are people who believe that his contribution was greater, but then I don't want to go get into that kind of thing. But the important thing was they worked shoulder to shoulder. You know, when it came to India, unfortunately, Sardar Patel died very quickly. You know, if he had lived longer, maybe we would have had a slightly different history for ourselves. I repeat my question. Why is there such a concerted attempt to not just downgrade his contribution, but to actually tarnish the image of Nehru? I know, but the fact is that, you know, this is an entirely, I mean, it's a political thing, and it's also kind of, I'm not quite sure whether it is, it's a tactical thing for the opposition parties, no, no, no longer opposition party. You mean the ruling party? The ruling party. But you know, because it's a, there was a certain kind of tactic used, you know, to come to power as well. And so people who went before you, you tend to discredit them, no? This is a tendency for most politicians to do that. It's nothing unusual in that. You don't think it's anything unusual? Tell me, when you look at the changes that are being made to the history textbooks across the country, there is simultaneously a section of people who claim their allegiance to the RSS, the Rajaswamy Savaksang, to the Bharati Janta Party, to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to glorify and defy Gandhi's assassin, Nathuram Godse. You see, RSS. And his mentors, and his mentors, including Savalkar.  So RSS, in that sense, you know, it was a, it was a kind of, because when it came, the British were still here, you know. So they were claiming their bit of land as theirs. But the important thing here was that there were several others. I mean, you had different kinds of political views on this. As far as RSS was concerned, it was based entirely on principles that are basically Hindu, in that sense, you know. But then they defined Hinduism as Hindu, because that people who lived in India, because it was Hindustan, and they were Hindus anyway. And it wasn't a definition of their religion. You know, it was a definition of their status as Indians, being Hinduism. Now, it wasn't totally accepted by a whole lot of other people, certainly not by minorities in this country. Hinduism and Hindutva. More importantly, I repeat the question, why is there an attempt made by sections of people to glorify Gandhi's assassin, and his mentors, including Savarkar? Well, that I, I don't think I can answer that question. Because, you know, what the, what the thing was, I mean, what the strategy was, political strategy, wanting to do something like this. Because I cannot see the thing, except that I know that, you say, RSS claimed to be Indian, but it was Hindu, because they considered that everybody living in India were Hindus, you know. And then, of course, they said that there was no caste system, you know. You know, there was no caste, there was no such thing as a minority, you know. But do you agree with that viewpoint? No, I don't agree with that, because, you know, the fact is that I believe that our unity, it's a very unique thing as far as India is concerned, our unity lies in its diversity. Because we are not a country, like a European country.  Europe has defined their nation in those terms, but we have always defined our nation as a kind of, you know, unity and diversity that nobody disagrees with. Give us the answer to one question. For the independence of India, the struggle between our father and his father, the freedom struggle, was there any land of RSS in it or not? This was a very, very controversial topic today. RSS, as you know, had never claimed to be a political party. Social organization. No, because it was never defined as such. They saw themselves as a cultural organization. And it was a certain amount of cultural revivalism there. You know, the whole idea, there is cultural revivalism, but there it depends on who is defining that. You know, it depends on from which part of the spectrum you are and you will define it differently. But the important thing, of course, is that they were also efforts for the good as far as independent India was concerned. One minute. So you believe that the RSS had a role to play? But there is a controversy today that the RSS did not support the freedom movement, but sided often with the British. Well, I don't know. That's probably stretching it a bit too far. Because, you know, they didn't think that it was important that they need to support, you know, support the allies as it were during the war and all this kind of thing. Or any such thing, because they defined themselves as a cultural organization, not as a political organization. Let me ask you that. The Bhartya Jansang was born. RSS is going to be 100 years old in 2025, if I'm not mistaken. The BJ, the Bhartya Jansang is much younger. But the role of those who subscribe to their ideology, the Hindutva ideology, do you think they had a role to play in India's freedom movement?  You know, the Congress had a very distinct anti-British stance. You know, a whole lot of other parties also did. Socialists, the Congress Socialist Party also did. But then you had at the same time, you had people who had supported the British during the war. You know, that is, you had, Savarkar was clearly against the British, not only was he against... But he wrote an apology. But he later, because once he was condemned to jail, when he was put in jail for a lifetime, then he repudiated many of the things that he had earlier said so that in order to get his freedom, he came out of jail. But the fact was that that didn't make him any less a nationalist. You know, because his stance was, of course, he came out of jail, because when he was there in Andaman's, he said that... So you're saying he wrote the series of letters of apology to the British rulers to get out of jail? No, there were letters of apology, which he had didn't. There's no question about that. But the fact was that he, they saw it as a tactic. Let me ask you something related today. And I'm talking about today's India. And you have examined not just the way caste works, the way class works, politics of sex works. But we'll talk about that in a little while from now. You made three films, which are often described as your Muslim women's trilogy. And these were three films, Mamo, 1994, Faridah Jalal, Surekha Sikri. It deals with the partition. It deals with Pakistan and India. It deals with Mumbai, how she starts living in Mumbai, how she has to pay bribes to get a permanent visa, how she's arrested, sent back to Pakistan. And you've shown how political priorities often triumph humanitarian considerations. And it's told through the sister, Faridah Jalal, the character played by Faridah Jalal. She's her older sister's son. This is 1994, 1996 Sardari Begum, musical Kiran Khair. She's a member of the ruling party, Amrish Puri, who's no more.  But once again, there is a political angle, in the sense, the stone which is thrown, the riot that takes place in old Delhi. Less political is Zubeda, of course, loosely based on the life of the mother of film critic Khalid Muhammad, starring Karishma Kapoor and Rekha. Now, what we see, it's called Zubeda's a story of a princess. And she marries an already married man, who's married to the character played by Rekha, Manoj Bajpayee's character. And then her brother-in-law makes advances at her, but eventually both the Maharaja and Zubeda die in the plane crash. And you suggest that it was really a conspiracy for Uday Singh, the younger brother, to get hold of the kingdom. It is perhaps less political than the two other films. But all the three films talk about the condition of Muslims in India. Today, many could argue that Islamophobia is at a level that prevailed in the 40s. When the sub-continent was partitioned, when Bengal and Punjab were partitioned.  You saw what happened, Citizenship Amendment Act, National Register of Citizens. So, on the one hand, the present ruling establishment, the Bhartajanta Party, and its ideological parent, the social and cultural organization, the RSS, who are believers in Hindutva, and their critics say they are believers in a majoritarian ideology. As a person who's examined through your films, Muslim women, what are your views on how Islamophobia has spread in India today? Where one out of seven Indians who are Muslim, how they feel in today's India? In the last nine years that Narendra Modi has been in power. There are more Muslims in India, in all countries in the world, except for Indonesia and perhaps Pakistan as well. But the Muslims in this country, one-seventh of India, do feel that they are beleaguered, that they are being treated as second-class citizens. Large sections of the media have contributed to the spread of Islamophobia. And barring a few token individuals, the Bhartajanta Party, not a single member of parliament, is a Muslim who is to the Lok Sabha. There are two things here. One, the most important thing is that the country got, India got partitioned. On the basis that you had to have, because of the population ratios and so on so forth, Jinnah brought about two-nation theory. That two-nation theory became actually a fact. But the odd part of it was that India is not sort of clearly between Muslims and Hindus, or Hindus and other minorities and Muslims on one side. It has never been like that. But the fact was that if you're going to make a nation, create a nation, then you have to have that kind of division made. Now, which they made, which caused horrors all over the place, I mean vast movements of populations in 1947, 48. And then even later, when Pakistan split itself into two, but the important thing was that when the first partition took place between India and Pakistan, at that time, you had in people's minds that we constantly claimed to be secular. That is India claimed to be secular. We created a constitution that made it important that our secularism was very important to us. But the funny part of it was that because it was a Hindu majority country, India being a Hindu majority country, there was always a tendency for minorities to feel that they didn't really have a kind of place here as they should have. Pakistan was fine because it was already divided and it could claim itself. It could make the claim of being Islamic and Islamic Republic also. But even that got hit when Pakistan itself split. Because this is still part of the continuing historical dialogue in this country. Because we constantly have different kinds of problems, people claiming, there's people claiming that, all sorts of things. But the important thing is that you can keep claiming if you want. You can always evolve the whole process as long as it doesn't become a tinderbox. But tell me, has Islamophobia in India again peaked and we have in some ways regressed, gone back 80 years to the forties? Well, you know, we can use the word, but I don't think I would use the word Islamophobia easily because we have, for instance, if you look at a place like Hyderabad, where the Nizam state of Hyderabad, it had four languages, it had Urdu, it had Telugu, it had Kannada and of course it had English because English was the language through which all higher education was taught, you know. So you had these were the languages. But then the moment we developed a concept that language will determine the nation. So a language is one of the important components of a nation. Then this whole Hyderabad thing was collapsed. Today, in India, in the last nine years, the Indian People's Party has not even held a Muslim prayer in Lok Sabha Chuna. You see, after the 2019 Lok Sabha Chuna, in the 540 Lok Sabha Chuna, there are 303 Indian People's Parties. There is not even one Muslim. One seventh of India is not represented in the lower house of parliament in the ruling party. So what do you have to say that the Bharti Janta Party, which claims that it is the, its ideological parent, the social and cultural organization called the RSS, the Raj Tuya Swamseh Vaksan, that it has shown this is their attitude towards one seventh of India, 200 million Muslims. What do you have to say? You know about Muslim representation in parliament or in parties, I don't really believe that's all that important, quite frankly, because you don't necessarily have to be represented by your religion, by your claim of being one or another religion. If we, if we claim to be a democracy, we shouldn't worry about these things. Why should we worry about that? Because according to me, as long as there are equal opportunities, you know, equal opportunities when it comes to work, equal opportunities when it comes to education. Is that happening in India? Well, I think it is happening, but it's happening very, fairly slowly, but in India we also had another thing. We had, for instance, schools that cater to Muslims, you know. So you had, but slowly that changed. For instance, you know, I come from Hyderabad and in Hyderabad, we had, for instance, my school, the school that I went to. It was called Mahbub College High School. Now the fact was that when it was originally started, it wasn't seen as a school for everybody. It was, it was seen as a school that would be, that would bring up the Muslim population, you know, the quality of education for them.  So they didn't have modern education. Now the fact was that when it started the school like this, Nizam started a school like this. The Mahbub High School, like Nizam College was there. And it was, I mean, the regional language in which you were given education was an Urdu. But it changed. No, I am answering your question about today's India. About whom? Today's India, today's India. Do you believe that Muslims feel that they have been treated as second-class citizens? I'm not quite sure that is entirely true. Because I don't believe that if you, if you went to a place where there has been a great amount of, you know, like, for instance, the old Mysore state, that is Karnataka. That is Hyderabad, that is Andhra Pradesh, but mainly Telangana part. Now I don't believe that this, this holds good for them. But what about Northern India? What about Uttar Pradesh? Well, there you see, which has been affected. Those parts of the country that were affected by partition. That feeling is much greater there. No, that's Bengal and Punjab largely. But I'm talking about Uttar Pradesh. I'm talking about Madhya Pradesh, Shatizgarh, Rajasthan. There is a feeling. Muslims do feel that they are being treated as second-class citizens. Do you agree? And this feeling has grown in the last nine years of the Narendra Modi regime. Would you agree with me? I don't know enough about Northern India in that sense. Because to make any kind of broad comment on that, you know, because it's very difficult for me to say that. Because you see, when I go to, when I'm traveling, it doesn't seem like there's any problem there. You know, it's, it's, that is very, in some ways, it's quite superficial. See what happened in Gujarat in 2002. Oh, Gujarat is definitely Gujarat. See what happened in Delhi. Sir, see what happened in Delhi very recently. No, Gujarat, Gujarat has a certain, because you had Muslim majority parts. You know, because there was a Nawab. There was a, you know, what was his name? I, the fellow who went off. Junagar. Junagar. Now Junagar had a Muslim majority at that point. But today's Gujarat, the proportion of the population, that is Muslim, is half that of the rest of the country. Rest of India, as per the 2011 census, is around 14 percent. So you don't want to comment on, you don't believe there is, Islamophobia has reached a level comparable to the 40s. Well, it comes up from time to time. Because we do have rights. We have different kinds of things like that. But I don't believe that it is a threat to our country in that sense. There is a certain amount of Islamophobia. Certainly there is. Just as much as there is a kind of prejudice among Muslims, you know what I mean? No, but show them, show themselves much more easily in things like marriages and stuff like that. What kind of Communalism would you condemn more? The Communalism of the majority community? Or the Communalism of the minority community? Yes. The majority of the people in Bahumut are not that dangerous. As majority, majoritarian Communalism, that is worse. Because they have much greater influence. See minority Communalism, of course Communalism generally is bad in the secular country. But the fact is that minority Communalism is something that can be kept held together. But the majority, majoritarian Communalism is really dangerous to all minorities. Do you think we are going through such a stage like that in India at present? I don't believe that, I don't believe that. Because I think it's not, it's not a simple between two groups. It's not just Hindus and Muslims. Because we have people from different faiths. I mean you have Christians, you have this, you have... But look, the last time we had a census in this country was in 2011. We haven't had one in 2021. But that census shows that roughly 80%, little more than 80% of the population is Hindu. 14% is Muslim and the rest are the other communities. Yeah, of course. But then I don't know how that is a threat to our unit is affected by that. I don't believe so. Because there was a time, for instance, northeast when it was on the boil. It is still Manipur is on the boil. Manipur, yes. But just now it's not here in the year old. The whole Manipur is one, but the whole Nifa part. Arunachal Pradesh, northeast and frontier agency. Okay, Shamminigal Ji, you have received several awards. You've got 18 national film awards. You were given the, in 2005, the Dadasai Falke Award, India's highest award for filmmakers. In 1976, you got the Padma Shri in 1991. You got the Padma Bhushan. You served on the juries of several film festivals in India and across the world, including in 2009 at the Moscow International Film Festival. At the same time, your films indicate that you're not really pro-establishment. In more ways than one, you have been a beneficiary of the establishment. And yet you've been a critic. And a critic, often a strident critic of the establishment. And I'm looking at all the films that you made and, you know, including the most recent one just before Mr. Narendra Modi came to power. In 2014, the one on the Indian Constitution, Samvidhan, Rajasabha Television, March 2014. You made films on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee of India's independence, Sankranti. Of course, Bharate Khoj was there. At the same time, you worked with the government. You criticized the government? No, because you see, I personally believe that India has to be democratic because the diversity points to that direction. All right, that is number one. Number two, you have to look at the flaws. You must pinpoint the flaws in your system. As a filmmaker, you normally look at your society in a particular way. And therefore, you also look at the flaws that exist. You know, to pinpoint those flaws is one of the things you can do through cinema, like which I have been doing over a long period of time. You know, it does not mean that I'm against the system, but I'm really very concerned about the flaws in our system, you know, which need to be pinpointed from time to time. So, do you feel in the last nine years that Narendra Modi has been the Prime Minister of India? Democracy has become stronger in India or weaker in India? I'm not quite sure. You see, the jury is out on that one. Because, you know, it's very difficult to tell. But one of the things, of course, is that there has been a certain amount of it has been possible for a certain kind of development to take place. Because then much of the satisfaction has been contained. You know, I'm not able to understand your point. It has been contained, except in the northeast, places like that. By and large, of course, but you have to accept that. But the fact is, what about Gujarat 2002? What about Delhi? Delhi, as recently as 2019. What do you say to that? You've seen communal rights, Hindu-Muslim rights. You see it even now as we are talking in the state where you are and where we are sitting in Maharashtra. It's not as if Hindu-Muslim tensions in the country have come down. There is, on the contrary, there is evidence that it has gone up. I'm saying that it is being, or rather we know how to contain it. We have known how to contain it. Because, you see, if you look back from the time of partition, you see that... No, the question is, was it contained in Gujarat in 2002? Was it contained in Delhi almost two decades later, northeast in Delhi? Was it contained or was it the establishment was complicit with the rioters? And they belong to the majority community, the Hindus. I really wouldn't know. I mean, I'll stop all my questions on politics, but I have one last question. How do you evaluate Narendra Modi as the prime minister? How did I? Evaluate Narendra Modi as the prime minister of India in the last nine years? Well, you know, the fact is that he has not curtailed democracy in that sense. You know, the democratic norms have not been constantly tampered with. That he has not done. I would disagree with you, but you are entitled to your opinion. I believe whether it's the media, whether it's the civil service, whether it's law enforcing agencies, whether it's been constitutional authorities, all these organizations which I was supposed to provide checks and balances in a democracy, in my opinion, it's become weaker in the last nine years. Would you agree with me? Well, I cannot comment on that, really. We conclude the second segment of this interview with Shyam Benigal, India's greatest living filmmaker. In this segment, we've discussed politics and I keep questioning him. I have questioned him again and again on his views on majoritarianism. He's clear. The communalism of the majority Hindu community is to be condemned more than the communalism of the minority Muslim community. Yet, he's ambivalent about the role of leaders of the RSS, the Rashtriya, Swamseh Vaksang in India's freedom movement, and he's also non-committal about Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Wait for the third part of this interview. Shyam Benigal reminiscences about several individuals, actors he made, actors like Smita Patil, Om Puri, Amrishpuri. He reminiscences about the films he's made, about the documentary films he made on Satyajit Rai. That will all happen in the third and final segment of this interview. Till then, keep watching NewsClick. Subscribe to this channel.


Hi friends, happy, happy Saturday. It is a gorgeous, gorgeous day here, which is perfect because today, if you remember from my video yesterday, is a work in the yard day. So it is about 20 minutes to seven. I just got to the grocery store. I'm gonna go in, do some grocery shopping. I'm also heading to Trader Joe's to pick up a few things. I'll be home to show you my grocery haul and my meal plan for the week. I cannot wait to share with you guys what is on my meal plan. I am super excited. I'm also doing another little video for Mother's Day with a really, really good treat that is WW friendly that you can share with your family on this next Sunday, which is crazy. That is Mother's Day. So if you wanna see what I picked up for the week as well as what I have in store for my Mother's Day, bake with me and my meal plan for the week, all you have to do is stay tuned. So here is my huge grocery haul for this week. Of course, this will last a little longer than one week, but this is everything I picked up at both Fred Meyer and Trader Joe's. So let's get started on this week's grocery haul and then I'll show you what my meal plan is. So first I picked up some fresh flowers from Trader Joe's. Best price for flowers, $3.99. I'm gonna pop these in a vase and put these on my kitchen island. Hi, Diesel. Hi, buddy. He's in here with mom doing the grocery haul with you guys. And then of course at Trader Joe's, I always, always pick up their light shredded mozzarella. This cheese freezes beautifully. So if you wanna stock up like I do, I've grabbed three bags. You can just pop these in the freezer and literally it's the best cheese ever for melting, for taste, for texture. And again, it freezes absolutely beautifully. I also picked up some Parmesan cheese. This is for a couple of upcoming recipes. It is least expensive to purchase it in the bag versus the little tubs. And then at Trader Joe's, I also grabbed a pack of the light Mexican blend. I really like this light shredded cheese. I think it's better than a lot of the store brand. So inexpensive, $3.49, I believe, for this large bag, 12 ounces. So that's actually a lot of cheese. And then I picked up these cheeses snapped. I've really, really been liking these. This is the jalapeno jack. These are so good, you can see that I munched on them a little bit, but look, they're so good. This flavor is good. I do like the creamy ranch or creamy, something better, but this flavor is pretty good as well. Two dozen eggs, these are normally $5 per dozen on sale for $2.49. Really, really good quality egg. I picked up a four pack of taco seasoning. I just used the last package in our taco pasta in the Instant Pot series. So I grabbed another four pack, great price, $1.60 for four packets of taco seasoning. This is a new thing I found at Trader Joe's. This is the banana date nut bread crisps. So those of you that have been following my channel for a while know that over Christmas I was loving the ginger crisps. So these are new. I decided to grab these and give them a try. I love bananas dates. I'm guessing this is going to be reminiscent of banana bread. And I wanna say this package was $3.99. So for some canned goods, I grabbed some hunts tomato sauce. This is for an upcoming recipe. I also grabbed some of this Hormel, 98% fat-free turkey with beans. I thought with the weather getting nicer, chili dogs would be really good or chili burgers. And this chili is so low points. I never thought you could have canned chili for low points. So I was excited when I found that. I also grabbed two big cans of crushed pineapple. This is for two upcoming recipes. And then to stock my pantry, I went ahead and grabbed some of the reduced sodium bushes beans. These were on sale for a dollar, a can. And then I also grabbed a Bush's black beans as well. Picked up some more crystal light water flavoring. I really like this peach mango green tea. So good. I do limit myself to one pack per day because they do have 10 calories. But I do really like this flavor. Never heard of this, never seen it before. But this is white balsamic. So I was excited to find this. I've literally never heard of white balsamic, but I had a recipe that called for it. So I went ahead and grabbed a bottle of that. Of course, while I was at Trader Joe's, I restocked my olive oil. I love the Trader Joe's brand of olive oil. It is the best. So inexpensive, I want to say this bottle, which is 16.9 ounces, was only $5.99. I also picked up another container of Italian seasoning. I was about out and I had a great coupon for the Simple Truth Organic brand. At Trader Joe's, I grabbed some fat-free feta. I do need this for a recipe. This fat-free cheese from Trader Joe's, this feta, is zero smart points. Can't beat that for cheese. I also grabbed four of the two good yogurt. I got them all in vanilla. I'm gonna try these with my smart cake parfaits. This next week, these only have two grams of sugar and only three carbs. So if you are watching your carbs, this is a very, very low carb yogurt. So I did go ahead and pick up four of those. Of course, I grabbed another can of my fat-free ready whip. I still have about a half a can, but I cannot run out of my ready whip. I also picked up some more of the fat-free half and half. I really like the Kroger brand. It is really thick and creamy and delicious and I needed to have this on hand for a recipe. I also grabbed another big container of the Faw A Total Zero Percent non-fat Greek yogurt. This is also for an upcoming recipe. Picked up a thin crust, Pillsbury pizza crust. Again, I am making deep dish sloppy joe casserole. Cannot wait and you do need the A pizza crust for that recipe. I also grabbed some more packets of marinade only because I was out and I really like to have these to add some flavor to chicken and beef. So I grabbed tomato, garlic and basil. This one sounds really good, brown sugar bourbon. And lastly, I grabbed my favorite, which is the Mesquite. One dollar a pack, you can't beat that. I also grabbed another box of my Simple Truth natural chicken breast. You know that I really have been enjoying the organic chicken. I think it's a lot better quality and really it's not that much more expensive, maybe a dollar or two per package. So definitely worth it in my opinion. I also picked up some cheese ravioli. This is for an upcoming dinner recipe. Cannot wait, who doesn't love cheese ravioli. Shredded hash browns. These are not only for breakfast, but of course for some recipes coming up this next week. And I really do like the Orida brand. I think for the little bit of price difference, I think the quality and flavor is a lot better on the name brand hash browns. What do you guys think? Comment down below. Let me know if you notice a difference in some name brand versus store brand products. At Trader Joe's, I also as usual grabbed two pounds of the 96.4 extra lean ground beef. I love this hamburger. It is the best price at Trader Joe's. So I picked up two pounds. And then of course my very favorite center cut bacon, which is the private selection brand. This you can have two sizes of this bacon for only one smart point. So that is amazing. So I picked up a package of that. And then my husband wanted ham sandwiches for lunch this week. So I grabbed this big huge pack of ham and this is also WW friendly. So if we don't use it all for his lunches, I can use it for rollups and things like that.  I also grabbed a big package of shrimp. This looks so good. So this is succulent butterfly lobster taste and texture shrimp. This is wild caught Argentine red shrimp. I thought, yum, that sounds great. And I am making a shrimp recipe this next week. So I grabbed this fancier brand of shrimp veggies. I grabbed frozen corn from Trader Joe's. I also grabbed a bag of the soy catash. I love this blend. So it has the lima beans, soy beans, carrots, I believe and corn. I don't know if it says on here. Hang on guys, sorry, I'm not sure. There we go. So it has sweet corn, shelled edamame and peppers. That's what's in there. Really good blend of veggies. I also grabbed some of this fun rainbow, organic cauliflower. I just thought for some color in dinner and it is zero points. I also have never tried this. So I wanted to give it a try. This is the rice cauliflower stir fry. I believe this does have points only because it has sesame oil in it, but this looks delicious. And I thought this would be a really good side dish. I also at Trader Joe's grab some grain free dog treats for my doggies, peanut butter, banana. So if you have dogs that have to be grain free, these are only 2.99 a box and this is a 10 ounce box. There are a ton of these little dog treats in there. So this is a fabulous deal at Trader Joe's. Now I think we're on to produce. So I picked up some Delicata squash. I was actually really excited to see this because Delicata squash is a fall vegetable. So typically you can't get it passed about the beginning of winter, but Trader Joe's had it fresh, already cut. Delicata squash, you actually eat the rind of the squash. So I'm gonna barbecue this up in my barbecue series and I'll show you. This is seriously so good, zero points and I love, love, love it. It is reminiscent of a sweet potato. Really, really good. I also grabbed a big package of grape tomatoes for a recipe, two romas, two apples. That is also for an upcoming recipe. I cannot wait to share that with you guys. A red onion and then I also picked up these red delicious apple chips. I count these as, well let me look actually, let's see what's in these first. So there is actually sugar. So I will actually have to count some points for these. I'll put the points here on the screen, but this is for an upcoming salad recipe. So I'm okay counting points for the apple chips because salad is obviously zero. So excited to see watermelon. So I picked up a watermelon at Trader Joe's. Also at Trader Joe's I picked up a big ginormous pack of strawberries. So I do have some grapes and blueberries left over from last week, so I'll be having that. Strawberries and watermelon as my fruits for the week. Shredded lettuce for a recipe, coleslaw for a recipe. I'm actually making a copycat KFC coleslaw. I can't wait to share it with you guys. I also grabbed some baby spinach. This is also for an upcoming recipe. And last but not least for produce, I grabbed sliced cremini mushrooms from Trader Joe's. Now let me show you some of the beverages that I grabbed for the week. Two cases of diet coke for my husband. I grabbed another case of the peach bubbly. I love, love, love this. I take this to work and it keeps me satisfied with that little bit of sparkling water. I picked up Coke Zero for myself and then I had a coupon buy one, get one free for talking rain. So I grabbed a grapefruit and a peach neck durain. Let's talk about this week's meal plan. As usual, I have everything here in my Keri-El meal planner. I love this meal planner so much. It is so nice. It's so comprehensive. Love it. So I'm gonna go ahead and turn here to the meal plan tab. You can see here that there is weekly meal plans. There is monthly meal plans, which I actually really like. This makes it really easy because at a glance, you can see what is on your menu for the week and you can go ahead and pull your ingredients, frozen meat, that type of thing out of your freezer the night before. Love so much that it's at a glance. And then of course, the weekly meal plans look like this. There is a portion for your weekly menu. You can go ahead and add in all your dates. And then there is also a detachable grocery list. You can see that I do use the grocery list every week. I absolutely love that feature. There's a gatherings tab. If you have an event or something at your home, there is a notes tab. And then there is also a resources tab and an inventory tab. So let's take a peek at the meal plan tab. I do have a 10% off discount for the Keri-El meal planner. I will put it down in the description box below. But if you're looking for a high quality, perfect meal planner with everything you'd ever need in a meal planner, the Keri-El is definitely the way to go. So here's this week's meal plan. I go from Saturday to Friday. So Saturdays is the day that I use my weekly. So we typically go out to dinner. Sunday, I am planning on making creamy shrimp and spinach tortellini. So excited for this dinner recipe.  And I'm gonna pair that with some vegetables. On Monday, I'm going to be making deep dish sloppy joes. Again, really excited about this recipe and we'll pair that with some vegetables. Tuesday is going to be Tex-Mex mac and cheese. Who doesn't love mac and cheese? This will give it a little bit of that Tex-Mex twist and of course, some vegetables. Wednesday will be leftovers. Wednesday is always a leftover day. It's typically my late night at work. Thursday, I'm going to make copycat Panera Fuji Apple Salad and we'll have some sort of roll or bread with that. I cannot wait to have this salad, you guys. It's fresh, crisp, sweet, perfect for spring and summer. So I'll definitely be showing you that in an upcoming episode. And then on Friday, we're gonna barbecue some burgers. I'm gonna make some coleslaw and this will be featured in my barbecue series. So stay tuned for this absolutely delicious burger and coleslaw recipe. So that is my meal plan for the week. On the backside of my meal plan is where I plan my meal prep. So for breakfast this next week, I'm going to be making a sheet pan breakfast bake. You guys will see this in my upcoming meal prep Monday video. So stay tuned for that. You'll also be seeing my lunch, which for lunches this week, I'm going to be making crunch wrap Supremes. So this is a copycat taco bell recipe. So cannot wait for that with a veggie and some candy apple salad. And then I'm going to be making some Kodiak blondies. I cannot wait to share that recipe with you guys just to have on hand for a sweet treat. And then my Mother's Day baking series will be uploaded this next week. And we are making pineapple upside down cupcakes. Yes, ma'am, that sounds great for Mother's Day. So that is my plan for meal prep. That is my plan for meals for this upcoming week. And again, this, my friends, is my amazing carrier meal planner. Again, link for 10% off down in the description box below. Thank you for joining me on another weekly WW grocery haul. I hope that you enjoyed seeing this ginormous grocery haul from both Trader Joe's and Fred Meyer or Kroger. Also, I hope you enjoyed seeing my meal plan for the week. What's on the plan for meal prep? I cannot wait to share all of these recipes with you.  If you're new to my channel, I'd like to welcome you. Make sure you subscribe, hit that little notification bell so you're notified each and every single time I upload. You don't want to miss out. I do upload most days of the week. Give this video a thumbs up, comment down below. Let me know what you think of my meal prep and meal plan for this week. What's on your meal plan? And I'll see you guys in my next video. Bye.


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We collected all the Dark Deity videos on YouTube in one place. There are 787 videos and counting in the three weeks since we launched this game at E3 2021. Click the links down there in the description below for any of these websites that I'm showing you. What else do I have for you? We have a tag optimizer. I told you about this in a previous video. Now you can go to www.tags.tm and you can use it to improve, to get more views, to improve your tags for your videos. Here I'm putting in my God strike video and the tag optimizer shows me the current tags I've already chosen matched with the new tags suggested by tags. And you can see that I can choose all my existing tags and then I have only 420 out of 500. So I need 80 more characters to maximize my 500 tag limit. So I'm going to choose Nintendo and Switch because this is a Nintendo Switch game. I am showing gameplay. Great. There is 110% revenue share mentioned in the video. So now we're at 466 so I can add a few more. PC game. 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What you see behind me is what you can use to get any thumbnail on YouTube. Plus you can play videos on the site and favorite your best thumbnails. You can also sign in with your YouTube channel and soon you will be able to edit your own thumbnails by adding watermarks or making changes to each of your thumbnails with a single click with an undo button. So you can go back to your original thumbnails if you don't like the changes. You can apply it to all of your thumbnails or just a few on your channel. That's coming soon. But what's working right now is if you search for any video. Whoops, that's not a video.  Let's take this God strike video for example. I'm going to copy the URL, paste it here. There's my thumbnail and I can click download or I can click play video so I can watch my own video if I wanted to right on the site. God strike is and I can go back to showing the thumbnail. I also can show more resolutions if you want a different resolution than the highest resolution. You can download each one. When you click download it'll just give you the image file to your hard drive and look now it shows my latest the thumbnail I searched for is the first one in the list. So if you search for your thumbnails your videos will be at the front of this list and then anyone coming to thumbs.tm can click your thumbnail download it or watch your video and I hope you'll get more views this way. In the future we will make it so you can choose whether or not you want to allow people to download your thumbnails. In other words you'll be able to specify do not allow people to download my thumbnails just look at them or maybe show them a lower quality resolution version of your thumbnail if you don't want to give out your original but keep in mind YouTube does make these thumbnails public which means there's a ton of thumbnail grabbers out there so just because we will let you limit your uh the permissions of who can download thumbnails from our site people can use other sites to download your thumbnails so really it's not a big deal guys I would encourage you to think about your thumbnails as a way to promote your brand and let anyone download make it easy for them to get your thumbnails in case they want to use them on a blog to write about your video which is exactly what we do on mgn.gg if you go to www.mgn.gg we have a whole list of dark deity guides about the classes the adept the rogue the mage the cleric the ranger here is our mage guide so the thumbnails that for each of these articles we get using thumbs dot tm and uh we then have the thumbnails here on the right as well as in the article and you can see it's a very detailed article with screenshots talking about all the different promotions and characters that you could use in dark deity for the mage class and you get a convenient link to the video in the bottom right corner so you can watch what you are reading as you are reading it which is really cool if you don't like that you can just click this little x and it'll get rid of the video I hope you will join us and be a writer on mgn.gg just join our discord channels down there links in the description below and contact big c or any of our admin staff and we'll happily set you up as a founding writer where you'll get 90 revenue share of all the articles you write from the revenue we collect from this website using google ads sense display ads not youtube ads you get youtube ad revenue anyway this is an additional revenue stream as a founding writer all right freedom family hope you enjoyed this video celebrating how we have the number 14 best pc game of 2021 dark deity published by freedom games and I hope you'll enjoy all the other games we're going to be publishing we have one big game coming next month in august then we have more big games coming before the end of the year and then we have even more coming in 2022 there's a total of 20 games that we've signed freedom family and we've only published three well four if you count dreamscape or in early access but my point is there's a lot of games coming and I hope you'll enjoy them I hope we'll get more number 14s or better uh in future games but let's take it one game at a time freedom family and let's celebrate our successes as we get them until the next episode I am George Venus CEO and founder of freedom for freedom and the freedom family where we all help each other grow together as a family that is the spirit of freedom we also do exercise together guys I went to the gym yesterday doing the rowing machine it was very hard I'm all sore today how do you exercise how do you stay fit how do you stay healthy I hope it's not I don't exercise I sit in my chair all day kind of answer because if it is get your butt off that chair use me as your motivation let this be your motivation a 45 year old CEO of freedom who's going to be 46 this year ah those numbers just keep going up plus one they don't stop huh well we're all young at heart at least let this be your motivation to get off this chair and get some exercise because if I can do it you can do it all right freedom family until the next episode I am George and you've been watching who you're dreaming but love yeah click that eye to partner with freedom and join the freedom family so we can all grow together you get many perks like position music you also get epidemic sound a lot of other access to royalty free videos sponsorships and many things to help you grow just click the links down there in the description below to get involved in our community our forums our discord chat servers meet our graphics team meet our community team all of that on discord and the forums what are you waiting for get started and we will grow together as a family because this is the freedom family you are part of it we are all part of it and we're all growing together to get more george click that big f that will subscribe you to freedom central home of the george show and pewdiepie gave one of you freedom family a big shout out click that video to see the shout out and to see our new 3d sets for you and click that video to see what youtube recommends


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