Some funny mix of Hindutva and liberalism| Pro free markets| pro FOE| Energy markets| Fan of Ilayaraaja! N̶a̶h̶ Bruyat Satyam Apriyam| I block liberally!
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#GST
rate on cancer drugs reduced from 12% to 5%; aimed at reducing the overall cost of cancer treatment
🔹GST rate reduced prospectively from 18 to 12% for namkeens and savoury items
-Union Finance Minister
@nsitharaman
It's possible it's true, but this is not the only truth. I am right now in my native town in Kerala and this is the story i heard. Our locality is primarily hindu. There is a guy who has been selling groundnuts on the roadside in the local markets for decades. Over the last few
I grew up in a predominantly Muslim neighbourhood in Kerala. We played cricket together, ate at each other's homes and celebrated festivals together. This was the case then and this is the case today.
"Hindus can't live peacefully among Muslims" is purely a Hindutva myth.
Old enough to remember RW dolts claiming that the high fuel taxes was a conscious policy to accelerate the shift to EVs.
More than 20L cr collected by centre in last 10 years as fuel taxes and not even 2-3% ploughed back as subsidies for EVs. China has provided an estimated
This man's entire community has been wiped out from Kashmir due to Islamist bigotry and yet he thinks nothing of virtue signalling by doing whataboutery over systematic ethnic cleansing by the Islamists with individual acts of violence. Shameful.
One of the lessons of Ramayana which is popular in my part of the world: when Rama left for the forest, he gave up everything, EXCEPT his bow and arrows. A king should never leave his weapons, never let your guard down.
Dhanya is a self-professed feminist. She didnt utter a word when Ketaki was arrested for criticizing a politician. Nor did she stand up for Nupur who faced serious calls for beheading. But she will stand with Zoo. Ppl like her are reason why FOE has no real future in this cntry.
#IStandWithZubair
What the Delhi police has done today is condemnable. An arrest over a tweet, they claim. But everyone knows what this is for. This is payback.
This video was dated around the time when there was A) full fledged ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri pundits and B) a raging khalistani movement triggered by the worst pogrom since 1947 orchestrated by Rajiv Gandhi and his party of thugs.
Bait jao.
Those Were The Days, Country Wasn't Radicalized, We Were Hopeful Towards Future, There Were Differences Between People But Not Hate For Each Other, No Sentiments Were Hurt For Small Things...
We Left This India Way Behind,
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Going through
@opinion
's legendary Indian columnist Andy mukherjee's articles over last few yrs, its remarkable how consistently he has been wrong with his predictions. A thread:
1) Starting with his most legendary one. Since the time he wrote India's
I know it's a bitter pill to swallow for BJP supporters but I am old enough to advice the younger ones at least - that is life, you have to be able accept setbacks.
And it's not like this is the end of the world. With 240 seats, a BJP PM can still build on the foundations of
Apparently less than 2000 people were watching this collaborative effort of TNM, Newslaundry, Wire and Scroll. How does one even justify the flight tickets of these people with that kind of viewership? What is the business model of all these online rags?
This wouldn’t stand academic scrutiny before any set of professional archaeologists or historians. The report is based on conjecture and makes a mockery of scientific study. As a great scholar once said “ASI is the handmaiden of Hindutva“
Why is it that the human suffering in far away Palestine stirs the heart of our educated elites but not the plight of our own correlgionists in neighbouring Pak (and for whom we hv a much higher historical responsibility)?
A major systemic failure of Hindu society.
So let me know if I got this right - polygamy is such a terrible thing that merely showing a Muslim practising it in a movie is an act of bigotry.
But Muslims also want constitutional guarantees for them to practise polygamy untouched because that's part of their religion?
THIS!
The film ‘Animal’ stereotypes Muslims as savages. Villain Bobby (named Abrar) has 2 wives, 8 children already but is shown marrying again. After Abrar’s death, his brother Aziz - after slaughtering a man - decides to marry Bobby’s wife. Typical Hindutva trash.
Al Jazeera is a hub of venomous Islamist bigots and left-liberals - but i repeat myself.
Unfortunately, no major power in the world will want to take on Qatar, as the largest LNG exporter which is set to become an even larger one in next few yrs, that wretched cntry is just too
Personally Im against rubbing in the fact abt Muslim society's role in partition. But when ppl like him make it look like they did Hs a favor by staying back and hv been betrayed by bigoted Hs, then one is forced to point out that most of the ppl who voted for vivisection of our
In front of whom should I feel embarrassed? In front of my Pakistani relatives who always mocked the choice of my forefathers to stay back in India? Or in front of my Hindu friends who advised me not to come back to India from a stable job in the UK at the turn of the century?1/2
That's not the reason Muslims don't convert. I live in a locality in Chennai where there are both areas with poor Muslims and poor Hindus. As a rule, evangelists don't step into Muslim areas - their love for Jesus is pure, but their love for their own life is purer.
@ThalerToRupees
@sarayupani
Hello Vikram,try converting a poor muslim by you offering them money. Just try. They won't ever convert. You need to have belief in your religion.
to vacate the place because they wanted their brethren to set up a shop there. After he refused, they went into his house and destroyed his cart.
Thankfully, some RSS affiliated orgs got to know abt it, purchased a new cart for him and sternly warned the other side to back off or
You have to admire the sheer chutzpah of someone from a religion where polygamy is still practised in the 21st century to claim so emphatically that their religion is indeed the one which gives most rights to women.
Dear ANl madam,
It might sound alien to you, but in lsIam, women are not at the mercy of their husbands to end the marriage.
They can initiate the process themselves - it is called khuIa.
And lsIam didn't need any 'reform' to give women their rights. They were given 1400 years
We had a bloody civil war resulting in a community taking 1/3 of our motherland. For a politician to say that the same community deserves first right over resources is appalling insensitivity to Hs. Well, Sonia, MMS et al, phase of f*** around is over, welcome to Find Out phase.
The takeaway here is not that Modi is a coward. The u-turn was the right thing to do politically. The takeaway is that Modi and team have no effing clue how to do coalition management.
One, overcentralisation for a decade has meant that, outside of a few ministers, no one else
Innocent question: can a divine being be eligible for citizenship in India, and if not, does He have the right to vote or to contest elections? Could
@ECISVEEP
look into the question of a self-proclaimed divinity participating in the electoral fray?
Lots to be upset about the Modi's BJP but during moments of peak disillusionment, people like Arfa provide the necessary clarity. Thanks.
I sometimes toy with the idea of voting admk in the state elections but they are also aligned with a terror Islamist org, SDPI. So BJP it is.
I have read the full report now and I am truly amazed at the level of torture of data done to arrive at a preset conclusion.
Let me first summarize the claim of the paper:
A) BJP won 41/58 LS seats in 2019 where the margin of victory was <5%. The normal expectation wld be that
The BJP won the 2019 parliamentary elections in India: but was it ALL fair and square?
This astonishing new working paper by
@sabya_economist
provides scientific evidence that suggests vote(r) manipulation by BJP.
And no, this is NOT about EVMs.
Thread🧵
Imagine how bad it must be in Sandeshkhali when even
@thewire_in
is forced to report. Its a ground report - the details are horrific. I dunno why entire state isnt up in arms when a pol party is treating women as sex slaves. A woman being gangraped in party office for two days.
Question to those who support NRC & CAA:
Will you be ok if the US were to arrest all these Indians, place them in detention centers and then enact a law granting citizenship only to non-Hindus among them, citing their persecution in India?
Fellow Sanatanis, perhaps this is a teachable moment for the ilk of
@itisprashanth
about what is sanatana Dharma.
This is our Tamil God Karuppasamy. Prashant's muslim and christian tamil friends will likely call him a false god or satan. Do you, as a Sanatani see and worship the
All of us who pray karuppasamy offering him suruttu and sarakku ,
All of us who eat beaf .
All of us who fight with our muslim and christian brothers for biriyani and cake during their festivals .
All of us who think religion stands no chance infront of a good hearted human
Renowned socialist leader Bernie Sanders declares Israel has the "absolute right" to do whatever the hell it wants in the name of "self-defense" and there is "no debate" to be had on that
Govt land is being sold to fund freebies. Do you understand how insane that is? Apart from other things, what will the govt do when they run out of land to sell? Oh yea, that's for the next govt to worry about.
After hiking fuel taxes, the
#Siddaramaiah
administration is actively considering a plan to monetise at least 25,000 acres of land near
#Bengaluru
to raise resources and sustain spending that has bulged due to the five ‘guarantee’ schemes.
DMK govt announces that
#Kashmirfiles
will be tax free.
DMK sees it as an educational film for Periyarists to understand how to successfully get rid of parpaans.
Never ceases to astonish me how liberals will not even cede an inch on their moral high ground, however brazen their misdemeanors. Dhume, here is utterly convinced that the liberal academics did nothing wrong here - that they are just helpless victims of an intolerant polity.
The Ashoka University faculty revolt illustrates a fundamental division between how India’s Hindu Right and westernized liberals view freedom of inquiry. The Hindu Right believes that investigating an academic for a paper they deem shoddy and heretical is legitimate. Liberals see
What was NDA doing? They were investing so massively in safety that accident deaths dropped to 70 during the five years ending 2023. During the five years of UPA 2, it was 1155.
Even if you add the terrible record of last year, NDA is far superior. That's the data.
What were they doing for 10years? He himself said Nithish improved within few years..but given nda had 10 years and still blaming upa 🤷🏼♂️..And when was the last time Nda government gave the actual accurate data
Just two states, KA and TS, both ruled by Congress, will spend Rs. 5-6 trillion on new freebies over next 5 yrs. 5-6T. Funds which could have been used to build quality hospitals, educational system, urban infrastructure, an agri ecosystem.....the list is endless, the opportunity
Remember us when you use that free fertilizer (₹2 trillion of taxpayer money), kisan DBT (₹0.6T of taxpayer money), freely use the free electricity (₹1T+ of taxpayer money), avail low interest loan of 4-5% from our banks - again subsidized from taxpayer money.
This pillorying of NRN is going way overboard. The man has earned the right to advice the younger generation - the hard work he put in has literally provided jobs to tens of thousands of people.
And then u hv ppl who can't even buy an apartment thru honest work mocking him.
muslim popln in WB in 1941 - 22%
Hindu popln in East Pak - 22%
Muslim popln in WB in 2011 - 27%
Hindu popln in BD - 8%
This is the most compelling evidence that the Hindus who left BD were just exchanging houses with Ms in WB.
@HindolSengupta
@TapashishC
My findings based on my interviews are that many exchanged houses on both sides of the border. And it is documented in memoirs. I can give you plenty of references.
This is the unique privilege of a Muslim liberal, no other group in the entire world gets to be so utterly unapologetic for the crimes against humanity committed by their community. None of his liberal friends will question him because that will make them an islamophobe.
@HindolSengupta
Do you understand what the "ethnically cleaning" means? The real history is most Hindus had voluntarily left the then East Pakistan by exchanging houses with Muslims in India.
yrs, many muslim traders entered the market and set up shops on the roadside, mainly selling fruits/ vegs. No one objected. One day, this groundnut seller was not be seen. A few days later, he was back with a new pushcart.
Turns out, these Muslim folks had warned him repeatedly
Someone explain to these dunderheads with no concept of self-respect that this country is not some foreign visa consultancy business run catering to a few thousand customers. We are a nation of 1.4bn and our govt takes decisions which are in our collective self-interest. If that
Liberals and Muslims think RJB movement and the temple consecration is one driven by Hindu triumphalism and desire to humiliate Hindus.
But really at its heart, it is just driven by an intense devotion to our Lord among millions of common Hindus. How can you be so blind to it?
He's come to Ayodhya covering hundreds of kms like this. Just half an hour or so you spend in Ayodhya Dham and you're witness to belief and devotion of all shades
It's pointless getting into a fight with people like Squint because you are trying to teach decency to a guy who ran a contest challenging people to make funny memes based on a pic of this Palestinian kid whose face was scarred due to Israel's bombing.
How someone can take joy
And Bhagwan Ram never went after people the way you guys do. When Ravan was standing without his weaponry, bhagwan Shri Ram said, “indru poi, naalai vaa”. (Kamba Ramayanam) Even the most vicious rakshasha was not bullied. It is one thing to say you are a bhakt of ram, but quite
Not one liberal even feels the need to mention in passing that the protestors include rabid Islamists and they pose a threat to the millions of Bangladeshi Hindus.
Vir is among the very few liberals who even dares to criticize Islamists. But even he can't bring himself to say it.
Heard of a tax evasion scheme. Person donates, say, ₹10L to a political party. Gets ~35% IT benefit (for taxable income >50L). The political party returns back ₹9L. Political party converts it's black money to white. Taxpayer saves ₹2.5L. Apparently happening at a big scale.
If chennai becomes a 50%+ non-Tamil city, the kind of language agitations we will see here will make what is happening in Bengaluru look like toddlers fighting.
If Chennai didn't take off like Bengaluru did in IT services, it's in big part because Bengaluru had a more open,
To everyone coming to Chennai ,
The language you speak doesn’t matter at all , you will be served kindness in all ways possible .
Tamil is a beautiful language , if you want to - please learn . Or no issues - nobody will push you to learn it .
To be clear : we hate Hindi
This is a random appreciation post for meta -
@svaradarajan
. It takes a special level of courage and mental strength to come up to the stage and receive an award for journalism after having been thoroughly exposed for fabricating a story, and in the most hamhanded way.
If i were
Looks like Yogi has brought in major improvements to primary school education in UP. Check these figures:
The improvement in learning outcomes among std III and V studends vs 2016 is remarkable in contrast to stagnation in previous 6 years.
Just pointing how batshit crazy the charges of election rigging are - BJP did horribly in 4 BJP ruled states (UP, RJ, MH, HR) while doing phenomenally well in 3 oppn ruled states (OD, TG, Andhra).
@myraemacdonald
Siri, whats White Privilege?
The West can celebrate all kinds of genocidal imperialists from Columbus to Churchill - wreecking dozens of societies and deaths of 10s of millions of natives , but a brown man fighting for freedom of his country is guilty just by association.
Milking Sandeshkhali will not make CPIM, BJP and Congress win anymore than they actually deserve which is zero in case of the former 2 and under 10 for the latter. People of Bengal know better than the media trying very hard to push a narrative.
@Sai_Pallavi92
Impressive that you spoke for 4 minutes managing to not say those 3 words - I am sorry. Your dancing around the issue is as good as your dance on the screen.
Make no mistake, if violence against BD Hindus aggravate, Islamist bigots like Bilal and his hindu liberal allies will place the blame on Sanghis for triggering the innocent Muslims with their hateful speech.
For these rascals, Muslims can never do anything wrong.
Ok, I will say it - it may not be the worst thing to happen if India loses badly to Pak and MoM dedicates the win to the terrorists. It will be a well deserved humiliation for the person after whom the stadium is named - perhaps, at least then, he will feel some sense of shame.
This was for our brothers and sisters in Gaza. 🤲🏼
Happy to contribute in the win. Credits to the whole team and especially Abdullah Shafique and Hassan Ali for making it easier.
Extremely grateful to the people of Hyderabad for the amazing hospitality and support throughout.
Not that I need to, but just to clarify, I am critical of Modi/BJP because I care for my country and I see BJP, for all its faults (and there are too many), as the only viable option for a prosperous future.
I think a major course correction is called for and Modi and team
Ex 1 - Asim asking fellow libs to go soft on an islamist regime in a faraway country using slave labor and general absence of HR.
Ex 2 - Same Asim raining down on parade of his fellow countrymen celebrating consecration of temple at one of their holiest sites.
There must be some
Ayodhya ceremony is meant to transfer the locus of Indian sovereignty to a Hindu nationalism inspired electoral kingship. The consequences: devastation of constitutional republic & legitimization of mass violence as building block of nationhood.
My piece
A CA rankholder and an IIT topper (or even a mid.ranker) are not even in the same ballpark in terms of intelligence - the gap is so huge it's hilarious you would even compare the two.
Korea went from sh** poor to a developed country in a matter of two generations, uplifting member across society to highly productive people. And these Dravida model tools say it will take centuries even as they pretend their model is superior to Scandinavian countries.
It takes many generations to uplift a single family line. It takes centuries to uplift the whole community . That's how compounding and network effect apply for building social capital. Those who want reservation to be applicable for only one generation want a clerk's son to be a
I feel terrible for the Jews in Eur but what Muslim community in West has achieved politically just two decades after 9/11 is nothing short of spectacular. It tells you what even a numerically small but United, motivated group can achieve in a democracy.
Ditto Sikhs in Kenadda.
Oh please! All the world's best central bankers could not have controlled inflation if Modi had not relentlessly stuck to fiscal discipline despite immense political pressure. 90% of the credit for controlling inflation goes to Modi. The remaining 10%.....should also go to Modi.
Now that a decade has passed since Raghuram Rajan started the inflation targeting regime in 2013, Sanghis are trying to appropriate the credit for low inflation from RRR even though Arun Jaitley harassed Rajan to lower the rates. Historical revisionism
Dhruv lives in Germany which has one of the largest road networks in the world (adj for pop) and is a global leader in car production.
Ajunt lives in America where every household owns 2+ cars on an average.
Both want India to live out their car-free utopia while they personally
Dhruv Rathee lives in Germany and learnt principles of urbanism living there.
I'd rather listen to a German resident on urbanism than someone living in Gurgaon or Bangalore.
You need to have lived urbanism to know it.
Secularism Kerala style: 3 non-M girls commit suicide in a school in KL in 2008, a case of sexual abuse by fellow students and includes video clips. local pol ensures accused released from jail because they are from his rlgn. He is now an MLA from CPM.
I have published my rebuttal to
@sabya_economist
piece. I am specifically making the claim that the author‘s extraordinary claim that there is evidence of large scale voter deletion is not only backed by very flimsy statistical evidence, there is a possibility that he has
Easy to discredit Kaneria, but there is strong circumstantial evidence that the Pak players indeed indulged in such things - Youhana's conversion, overt religiosity of the team, Inzy inviting Lara to dawat, this video...
Haven't seen a single indian fan who bats for cricketing
I will say it over and over. Dravidianism is a mvmt which spews hatred against a small minority, directly inspired by the original nazi mvmt's hate against Jews.
Anyone who says it's a SJ mvmt is either thoroughly delusional or doesnt hv the honesty to face up to his bigotry
I'll say this over and over, Dravidianism is fundamentally about social justice and equality. It opposes supremacy in any shape, whether based on caste, religion, language or identity.
It has nothing to do with any particular community 😏 nor any particular religion. Those who
Siddharamaih is playing a very dangerous game. We saw this in TN last yr - years of building up an anti-migrant rhetoric led to a big exodus as wild rumors floated around about violence.
But unlike those poor Biharis who had no option to come back, techies are gonna ask cos to
Liberal elites to Hindus - see, this is why you don't deserve the truth. You can't handle it and will turn hateful bigots. And which is why us enlightened people hv rewritten a sanitized version of history, from Qasim'e invasion to Godhra train burning.
"...The message an ordinary Hindu is expected to take from the movie (as attested by many viral videos coming out of theatres) is another kind of “never again” – never again to trust the Muslim..."
From
@AsimAli6
's piece
I am still trying to understand the leap of logic from the people who argued just a few months back that "every inch of a female body needs to be covered from woman gaze as it's a non-negotiable religious duty" to "arrey, taking nude videos of girls is just a prank".
So the BJP govt allowed this Tarun T guy to design the outfit for the Indian Olympics team?
These guys need to be beaten with chappals in public. Shameless rascals.
Prashant K comes across as the most perceptive electoral analyst currently. Maybe I'm biased because he is predicting victory for BJP but also, strangely, his language and precision is that of a financial analyst.
Few key takeaways from his intvw with Barkha:
- Modi is extremely
Respect. They are really good at this - victim card when required and unapologetically entitled rest of the time. The liberal world has no answer (literally....check the replies)
About two months back, i thought this was going to be a very boring election and I wasnt even that keen that BJP get a big mandate.
But since then, I have received two big jolts which has me worried not just abt the election results but also the post elections landscape.
Just surreal to watch an unacceptably high number of Bengali Hindu liberals - including so many eminent ones - whitewashing or minimising the violence against Bangladeshi Hindus.
Ofc they have successfully whitewashed an actual genocide of Bengali Hindus in the past but
Let's be honest - if we had seen these many murders of Hindus in such a short span during UPA, RW would hv been gunning for the HM.Amit Shah gets away too easily.
How many Ms made this point when Islamist mobs terrorised city after city because someone said something about their holy figure and when 3 people were killed by jihadis, not even for blasphemy but just supporting that someone.
How do Ms manage this level of self-righteousness?
Also: keep a close eye on Pakistan in the coming weeks. There's tension in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, buildup of discontent in Punjab and KP Province. There are more economic cuts coming ahead and there's a good likelihood of major protests in key provinces. Meanwhile,
No fan of Amit Malviya but when congress supporters are spreading the canard that the structure was built 3 months back, what else is he supposed to say except that it was built during UPA era?
Cut him some slack on this one.
An airport terminal inaugurated barely 3 months ago crashing is a shame.
We pay an airport convenience fee for every ticket booked. Where does this money go? 1000s of crores from that alone. Plus all the retails and rentals.
Bridges are cracking. An airport terminal in the
Why is rail freight three times more expensive in India compared to China, and why is it considered the most expensive in the world? Could it be because the railway is offsetting its losses from passenger trains with their freight train operations?
Just another Muslim trying her best to mock the suffering of kafir minorities at the hands of her correlegionists.
But if someone accidentally steps on an Indian Muslim's toes in a crowded train, that is a sign of impending g€n0cide.
I was punished for being a Muslim in India, I had to pick a vegetarian restaurant for that one friend who is pure-vegetarian. We all have been there, ROFL.😂