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These trained and experienced combat veterans will be looking for jobs and opportunities, this is just the first batch. Given the condition of the jobs market and pay scales Criminal gangs will be recruiting a lot of these people.
This happened in Iraq also. When saddams army was dismantled ISIS was born. Idle hands are the devils playground, every year from this dec if we have 30k trained soldiers/killers on the lose in indian streets without jobs and housing and insurance etc will be a recipie for disaster. Your avg bajrang dal and RSS goons are about to get a serious upgrade.
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27 October 2026
On 27 October 2026, Instagram withheld in India a cartoon by Aadvik (@sketchydudee) who first published on 29 September 2026 as a collaborative post on the accounts of IFF, Aadvik and stand-up comedian Pulkit Mani. It shows a panicked man at a console in the image and style of the Prime Minister with red buttons marked "Censor", "Copyright" and "IT Rules", while a comic performs on a screen above him. Its caption reads, "Quick, check if comedy counts as a violation of copyright or a matter of national security." The post asked who decides what gets taken down, and on what grounds.
Instagram has now answered this literally by taking it down after close to a month. Its notice says access was restricted "through an automated system implemented pursuant to legal requirements" under the IT Rules, 2021. It names no order, authority, provision or ground. There was no prior notice and no chance to respond. The same cartoon remains available on IFF's X account. The post also carried an update on Pulkit Mani v. Meta Platforms Inc. & Ors., his Delhi High Court suit over fraudulent copyright strikes on his Instagram page, in which IFF appears for him pro bono. Meta, a defendant in that suit, has now hidden a post about it from Indian users in which it is the principal defendant.
In 1945, George Orwell wrote a preface to Animal Farm, a book four publishers had turned down. He noted, "the sinister fact about literary censorship in England," he observed, "is that it is largely voluntary." Unpopular ideas, he argued, could be silenced without any official ban, by institutions that guess what power wants and act first. The preface itself stayed unpublished until 1972 and in Nineteen Eighty-Four he gave this habit a machine, namely, the memory hole, a slot at the Ministry of Truth into which inconvenient records vanished, unexplained and beyond appeal. Today, the Ministry of Electronics and IT acts as this Ministry of Truth that covers up its gross incompetence in securing our cyber security by building an architecture of digital censorship that is implemented by technology platforms. It is under these IT Rules, 2021 that Instagram's "automated system" exists as a memory hole. It has swallowed a cartoon whose whole joke is a man reaching for the censor button without asking what comedy is. The absurdity Aadvik drew has now been actually demonstrated in stark reality.
This machine did not build itself and in April 2026, The Hindu reported that Meta automatically restricts content flagged by government and police in India, and wants a fresh government direction before restoring anything later found lawful. MeitY's unpublished advisories of 8 and 10 October 2026 pressed platforms, and Meta by name, for "enhanced diligence". The same notice has been served on cartoonist Satish Acharya, who lost nine cartoons and then his account, on journalists covering the October protests, and days ago on comedian Kajol Srinivasan. The Union Government applies the pressure and Meta has chosen to answer it with a system that censors first and explains nothing.
IFF will soon challenge Meta's automated restriction system in an appropriate legal proceeding. A joke is not a threat to the nation, and we will not let Meta’s algorithms decide otherwise.
A memory hole works only as long as people accept it in silence. If you are a cartoonist, comic, creator or journalist whose post or account has been withheld with this notice, write to us at [legal@internetfreedom.in](mailto:legal@internetfreedom.in) with screenshots of every notice and we will try our best to provide you help pro-bono. Over the past 72 hours we have assisted close to 56 social media users, some of whom had their accounts restored. We are in this together!
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Good afternoon,
When I was 19 I traveled from Europe to India for about £200. Why so cheap? There was an Indian airline that needed a few seats filled for a London-New Delhi flight. Now I thought it was London to New Delhi but it was actually to Guwahati but stopped in Delhi and some people got off and they refilled the plane and then continued to Guwahati.
I’m not Indian, I have no ancestral connection to India or Guwahti or Assam or any ethnic group there (I’m Irish). But at 19 I wanted to travel a bit and had some money saved and figured, India seems pretty cool, I like tikka masala (i actually wouldn’t find out that’s technically British food until later). I was only in India for 10 days and every day was me just walking around Guwahati.
And this was a stupid thing to do in my opinion because like… I had no idea what the conditions were like, the language or if I’d stick out (I did lol) if robbery was common or anything like that. I remember.
Guwahati honestly felt safer than East London lol. I had an amazing time and it left me with a very positive opinion of India that I still hold to this day. For some reason my dumbass thought the people there would speak Bengali (when I checked a map I was like…. Oh we’re near Bangladesh) and I had that downloaded on my Google translate and it wasn’t until I met a restaurant owner that knew like 5 languages that people here speak Assamese, and then Hindi and then English and then SOME speak Bengali.
There were other foreigners in the city and when I visited Kamakhya Temple but because I did no planning at all, my hotel was just in a random industrial part of the city and I had to walk like 30 min to get to a place to get a taxi.
It was a lovely time. I know India is extremely diverse and there’s a north / south division but what do Indians generally think of the Assamese?
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