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In my
@SundayGuardian
#ChicagoDiary
, I discuss the presidential debate and attacks in Hindu Mandir’s.
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India and Hindus around the world are waking up to one of their holiest festivals today - Ganesh Chaturthi. On this auspicious occasion, I am sharing a picture of this 1,000+ year old moorti of Dholkal Ganesh of Dantewada.
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India’s Bharat Biotech inactivated virus COVAXIN is a game changer. It should be made available in the US ASAP.
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“Indian journalism developed no reporting tradition; it often reported on India as on a foreign country.”
~ VS Naipaul, India: A Wounded Civilization.
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My mom, 3 months shy of her 80th birthday and undergoing chemo lights a diyā.
@narendramodi
#आओ_दिया_जलाएँ
#DiyaJalayen
#WuhanCoronaVirus
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Kid: Who demolished Kashi Vishwanath mandir?
Mummy: Pata Nahin.
Kid: Who destroyed the Somnath mandir? How many times?
Mummy: Pata Nahin. Pata Nahin.
The kid grew up and discovered Sita Ram Goel, Arun Shourie, Harsh Narain, Jay Dubashi, and Ram Swarup's book Hindu Temples: What
Some years later:
Kid (looking at Taj Mahal): Who built this?
Mummy: Pata Nahin.
Kid (looking at Lal Qila): Wow! Who built this?
Mummy: Pata Nahin
Next day, Kid meets his friends and tell them that he saw Taj Mahal and Lal qila built by Pata Nahin😂
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If you thought Vir Das, Kunal Kamra, etc., are funny, you need re-education.
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“Indian journalism developed no reporting tradition; it often reported on India as on a foreign country.”
~ VS Naipaul, India: A Wounded Civilization.
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A year ago, we discovered through the TwitterFiles expose that The Wire, an Indian news portal, had collected a list of 40,000 Twitter (now X) users. The Wire forwarded this list to Twitter, asking them to deplatform these users for being "Hindu nationalist" and BJP supporters.
#TwitterFiles
17: A chilling cocktail of
#censorship
and
#Hinduphobia
.
The latest in my
@SundayGuardian
column
#ChicagoDiary
.
A thread. 🧵1/10
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“Indian journalism developed no reporting tradition; it often reported on India as on a foreign country.”
~ VS Naipaul, India: A Wounded Civilization.
Interesting... When German Foreign Ministry issued statement, MEA issued a stern response almost immediately, summoned German DHC issued demarche about interfering in internal affairs....no such response when the US issues statement on same issue?
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"When Sardar died in Bombay, Jawaharlal issued a direction to the ministers and the secretaries not to go to Bombay to attend the funeral... Jawaharlal also requested Dr. Rajendra Prasad not to go to Bombay.”
~ KM Munshi
Indian Constitutional Documents Pilgrimage to Freedom
On 1st August 1947, Nehru told Patel, "you are the strongest pillar of the Cabinet". Patel replied: "You will have unquestioned loyalty and devotion from me in the cause for which no man in India has sacrificed as much as you have done".
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“(South) Asian” is used only when they want to hide the real identity either out of fear or malice.
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Compassionate? What kind of propaganda are they peddling ?
Tina Dabi is a compassionate officer with exceptional brilliance 🙏🏿. PM
@narendramodi
should appoint her as the cabinet Secretary of India 🇮🇳.
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History will remember the pandemic for the utter moral, ethical, and intellectual failure of our public health individuals, leaders, and institutions... We must hold our public health intellectuals accountable.
My op-ed in
@SundayGuardian
#HappyNewYear
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Remember when
@NPR
’s Furkan Khan tweeted this about Hindus?
A senior BBC employee has branded Jewish people “Nazis” and white people “parasites” in a string of social media posts.
The BBC has been informed of statements made online by Dawn Queva, who is a scheduling coordinator at BBC Three.
Posts made on her Facebook page include
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80% Hindus of India find no overt representation in this
@sanjoselibrary
initiative about India.
Hatred against Hindus has been institutionalized in the US.
@HinduAmerican
@HinduACT
@CoHNAOfficial
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BBC has no shame, no moral clarity. Never had. We Indians have been screaming about it for years. Finally they are getting exposed.
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You have to be in Bharat to understand the scale of this transformation brought about by the policies of
@narendramodi
government.
I took this picture in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, during my last visit to Bharat last winter.
One of the best happenings in the last few years is how Indians have embraced digital payments.
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From Oxford to Rutgers, and from Uppasala to Harvard -- there seems to be No Safe Place for Hindu Students
My latest piece in
@SundayGuardian
🔗👇
#AudreyTruschke
#Rutgers
#Harvard
#Uppasala
#hinduphobia
#bullying
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When you hung up your boots as RM, a senior Army officer had told me: “Antony’s eyes would look either at the ceiling or on the floor. Parrikar was different. He would straight look into you.” A brilliant tribute to
@manoharparrikar
.
@Ah_shish
@myindmakers
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You got fooled by a con artist EVR and a man named Stalin.
Please take a seat!
Sengol !! Did it make a difference??
We, in the south, are not easy to fool!!!
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An immigrant through matrimony ran India for 10 years. But hey, who is counting those years. Right?
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Review: Akshay Kumar’s Laxmii Has An Islamic And Anti-Saffron Propaganda Written All Over
@swati_gs
and
@SanjeevSanskrit
via
@swarajyamag
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Let us see how many eminent journalists will set up their cameras in front of the burning houses of the BJP supporters in Bangal. They may get a Pulitzer for selling out to the West but will remain tudpunjiya C-grader for most Indians.
#BangalViolence
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BTW, does
@Stanford
@csastanford
know that it was Arfa's disgraced portal that reported 40,000 American
@Twitter
users, including many US citizens, to a US government-funded group and tried to falsely implicate them for “disinformation” and “online harassment?”
In a few minutes from now, I will be delivering a lecture on downside of India’s democracy, declining Press Freedom and erosion of minority rights at the prestigious Stanford University
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Never trust a public health “expert” or provider who told you that the way out of this pandemic was to “mask up” and “lockdown.”
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Please remind me if they ever took the ‘knee’ to show solidarity with Kashmiri, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and Hindus?
#Decolonize
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Now that the
#CISCO
caste case has fallen flat on judicial scrutiny, I am reposting my
@IndiaCurrents
(and
@ThePrintIndia
reprint) article on this topic
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@MeghUpdates
@StringReveals
@TeamYouTube
@YouTube
@YouTubeIndia
@Rajeev_GoI
Another Padma Bhushan-worthy act from YouTube, a Google company.
Dear
@PMOIndia
Modi ji. Please rescind Padmas from Big Tech CEOs. They are antithetical to the ideals of Padma.
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@Javedakhtarjadu
@TarekFatah
Dear Javed. What is your problem with Hindi and Sanskrit? Why did you get angry with the anchor on the stage and in public when he used the word ऊष्मा a couple of years ago? The video of you berating him is in public domain. Was it to hide your incompetency or show your bigotry?
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No one is fooled by this, Madam Speaker.
BTW, does
@RoKhanna
know this? The other day he was asking India PM to “reverse” a conviction because he didn’t like the Indian court’s decision to convict his guy.
The Grand Jury has acted upon the facts and the law.
No one is above the law, and everyone has the right to a trial to prove innocence.
Hopefully, the former President will peacefully respect the system, which grants him that right.
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India wasn’t born in 1947, it was unshackled from a colonial rule. Bharat is a civilizational nation, one of the oldest living civilization. Biggest task ahead is decolonization of minds.
Happy Independence Day, India.
#IndiaIndependenceDay
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The
@nytimes
and
@guardian
kind of journalism.
Bigotry. Hatred. Hinduphobia.
Cc:
@HinduAmerican
@hindupact
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Does
@Harvard
@Kennedy_School
approve of such bigotry from its faculty? Is
#Hinduphobia
and hatred taught as part of the curriculum at Harvard?
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Why is
@ThePrintIndia
reposting this 3 year old interview? Truschke is an academic in an American university, we get it. However, Truschke’s scholarship has been questioned both in quality and in intent. She had been called out for her bigotry and racism.
Aurangzeb protected more Hindu temples than he destroyed, says Audrey Truschke. On Aurangzeb's 314th death anniversary, hear what the controversial Indologist said about the Mughal emperor, in this interview with ThePrint's Jyoti Malhotra
@jomalhotra
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@RupaliChadhaMD
@LaurenWitzkeDE
Parts of India where Hindus became a minority ceased to be India - they became Islamic Republics of Pakistan and Bangladesh.
India exists because of Hindus. Without Hindus, there will be no India.
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PM
@narendramodi
has not only united
#Hindus
as never before, but also integrated the great Indian middle class into a powerful political formation. He has given them a voice in addition to a vote, writes
@MakrandParanspe
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Calling lived experience of millions Biharis a “myth” is an insult. But then they also call Islamic plunder, destruction, desecration, and genocide a myth, and Aurangzeb a benevolent king.
In fact their myth-calling itself is a myth.
History gets rewritten, Itihāsa lives on.
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These judges have some outlandish ideas about themselves.
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A spate of anti-Indian and anti-Hindu hate speech and hate crimes in the US has sent shockwaves among the members of the Indian diaspora, especially among the minority Hindu community.
My latest opinion piece published in
@SundayGuardian
.
#Hinduphobia
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Shut down the judiciary if they don’t respect our temples, our Devi-Devatas, our texts and traditions.
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You don’t own “decolonization,” Priya (we were in a couple of JNU linguists classes together), just because you say you are a “scholar.”
Decolonization is not a monopoly of the woke leftists. We all tread our decolonization journeys differently - as a group and as an individual.
Scholar of decolonisation here.
This is not decolonisation. Quite the opposite: recolonisation.
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Dear
@elonmusk
.
@Twitter
algorithm needs a crash course on Hinduism. Perhaps
@HinduAmerican
can help.
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Danish did not just "leave."
Danish was brutally murdered by the Taliban. His body was mutilated; his head and chest crushed under an SUV by the Taliban
The day Danish was clicking these shocking pictures, I was shooting for my new documentary “THE CORPSE BEARERS” , which is coming soon !! He was standing next to me. Never thought he will leave us so early. Here is the glimpse of the same picture in video -
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What BS! Many in my family have been proud कंठी धारी वैष्णव for generation. Don’t even touch onions and garlic. We are not Brahmins. Don’t stick your neck out in things you have no clue about. And yes, we aslo do ‘namastay’ to our own mother.
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Dear
@UU_University
. Since you're so proud of your faculty and their social media following, you should also look at their timeline. And if you are not embarrassed by Ashok's racist-bigoted tweets, it is not your fault. It is part of your history. It is who you are. God bless!
Ashok Swain, Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, has 500,000 followers on Twitter. He conducts research into climate change, right-wing populism and migration. In recent years, he has reached far beyond the research community:
@ashoswai
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कैसे बेहूदे को ऐंकर बना रखा है
@IndiaToday
ने?
@rahulkanwal
को बोलने की तमीज़ तक नहीं है। इतनी तुनकमिज़ाजी काहे की भाई? किसी ख़ास मिट्टी के बन कर आए हो क्या? तुम्हें दूसरों से ऐसे बोलने का अधिकार किसने दिया? जब अपनी बात ठूँसनी ही थी तो बहस के लिए बुलाया ही क्यों?
BHU student Chakrapani Ojha Vs Professor Mahesh Ahirwar over the appointment of Muslim teacher for Sanskrit dept. Listen in.
#Newstrack
LIVE at
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Thank you
@IndiGo6E
for enlightening people about Bharat’s sacred geography. Just for that I will make a conscious effort to book my flights on IndiGo when I do my domestic travel in Bharat.
🙏🏽
An undercurrent of religion is everywhere here.
IndiGo airline captain gives lecture on the Hindu festival of Navaratri, describes flight path from Varanasi to Kolkata as the city of Shiv to the city of Shakti: "India for me is not just a noun; it's an adjective, a quality."
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It is unfortunate that media, especially in India, fails to highlight this. Kudos to EAM Dr. Jaishankar and his team. Thank you PM
@narendramodi
for your commitment to protecting Indian citizens. This āpadā management skill and attitude comes from the Sangh, no doubt.
Second batch of 44 Indian pilgrims has arrived today from
#Iran
. Our efforts to bring back the others continue.
@India_in_Iran
and our medical team - keep up the good work. Appreciate the support of Iranian authorities and their airlines.
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British MP
@BobBlackman
in UK Parliament: Hindus of UK are “concerned about their safety” going into the festival season.
Thank you, Mr. MP for standing up against Hinduphobia and bigotry.
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I have written to
@InterfaithWorld
chair and other organizers raising concerns about Dr. Audrey Truschke's participation in the convention in Chicago.
1. Dr. Truschke has her right to free speech. So do others.
2. The Parliament canceled several Hindu individuals and
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Hindutva predates Marx and his progenies. It's eternal, sanatan. It has weathered marauding invaders and fierce colonizers. It is here to stay, and it is certainly not going anywhere its adversaries want it to go.
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Such juvenile personal attack on a rishi and yogi like
@davidfrawleyved
is unfortunate. One of the essential ingredient in the Indic Knowledge Tradition is 'shraddhA' and Dr. Frawley has a lot it - for our traditions, texts, itihasa, and devis & devatas. Hence he is shraddeya. 🙏
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Hindus never die. This is how they become one billion -with immortality. They didn’t die during partition, they didn’t die in Malabar, they didn’t die in Kolkata during ‘Direct Action Day’, not in Kashmir, heck they didn’t die even in that burning train in Godhara.
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Why is the highest court of a secular india doing all this? Has it organized similar events for people of other faiths?
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#TwitterFiles
17: A chilling cocktail of
#censorship
and
#Hinduphobia
.
The latest in my
@SundayGuardian
column
#ChicagoDiary
.
A thread. 🧵1/10
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Bari is a Hinduphobe. Her commentary on India and Hindus can be described as “illiterate” at best. Now she has Rupa on her team and they she deliberately and maliciously inserted Modi in her
#TwitterFiles
.
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Seeing the tide turn against them, some South Asian Democrats are tweeting & issuing stmts about “help” to India. Not sure what is stopping them from even tag
#POTUS
& Co. Many of the same Dems were too quick to jump on the anti-CAA and pro-Khalistani
#FarmersProtest
bandwagon.
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The kind of bigotry and
#Hinduphobia
perpetrated by
@NPR
and its minions is astounding.
@HMOIndia
should take action against
#NPR
’s Dilli bureau.
@HinduAmerican
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brought him back atop the hill again, and reestablished him back in his abode.
This Ganesh is a great reminder of our vulnerabilities as well as our resolve through ages.
गणपति बप्पा मोरया। 🙏🏽
Happy Ganesh Chaturthi. 🙏🏽
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@AbhishBanerj
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Haha 🤣🤣 South Asia says it all. Nothing else need to be said.
Folks of Indian diaspora around the world - please stay away from anything South Asia. It is an euphemism for anti-India and hinduphobia. Request
@PMOIndia
to not patronize anything South Asia.
The
#CAAProtests
#CaaprotestsinLondon
were organised by the SOAS India Society and South Asia Solidarity Group
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“Indian journalism developed no reporting tradition; it often reported on India as on a foreign country.”
~ Nobel Laureate VS Naipaul in India: A Wounded Civilization.
"While Americans and Britons talk about Botox and beaches, here in India we spend each day hoping that the number of close covid-19 deaths we wake up to remains the same until we go to bed."
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Sadanand himself is a fringe. An elite fringe. Totally disconnected from the reality. He has an idea of India that does not reconcile with the reality. He not only wants all to blindly follow his idea of India but worse he is also contemptuous of those who do not follow his idea.
‘Modi Brings India’s Fringe Elements Center Stage...’
Sadanand
@Dhume
on ‘How divisive Hindu nationalism is putting the country’s reputation for pluralism at risk....’
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'Islamo-leftism' is what we call 'Mullah-Marxist Nexus' in India. We have been using this term for almost a quarter-century now. The term was in vogue when I was a graduate student at JNU.
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Precisely. Most Hindus aren't even able to discriminate between comedy and
#Hinduphobia
. This paper by Prof. Jeffery Long provides an academic framework for recognizing Hinduphobic discourse.
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@RichardDawkins
Dawkins has no idea what he is talking about. Absolutely no idea. But he is choses to talk about it. Where as here in this video, kept a mum.
He is a Hinduphobe.
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@hesivh
@authoramish
@sardesairajdeep
Prof. Meenakshi Jain’s monumental book on Sati is a good starting point. It states that a narrative of sati was cooked up by British Christian missionaries to demonise Indian civilisation and justify colonial rule in India.
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India isn’t run by Canadian “rule of law” where Nazis are honored in the parliament and terrorists are sheltered. India has its own laws and own constitution and they are not beholden to Canadian, or for that matter Western, whims.
YouTube is blocking access in India to a story by CBC's The Fifth Estate on the alleged contract killing of a Canadian Sikh separatist after the Indian government ordered the social media platform to take that action.
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What
@ANI
is not telling us (why,
@smitaprakash
🤔?) is that Harmeet is a known Khalistani sympathizer, meaning she supports the breaking up of the Indian state.
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It’s a well-known fact. Many of India’s top-notch journalists, academicians, think tankers, bureaucrats, etc., were part of the Fai Network operated by Syed Ghulam Nabi Faiz, a Pakistani American.
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What’s worse, they are creating an inhospitable environment for Indians in general and Hindus in particular in foreign lands by their biased and bigoted writing. For example, hate crimes are rising against Hindus in the US.
The communalisation of India is by Indians who defame India and Indians by their perverted articles in
@washingtonpost
@nytimes
@NewYorker
@Reuters
@BBCWorld
to an audience who do not know India. Indians live here, know India better than Lutyens Media Delhi Anchors
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Horrific Humboldt Park shooting in
#Chicago
last night.
Can’t believe that Chicago’s
#CityCouncil
was discussing and voting on India’s
#CAA
just a couple of months ago when it cannot provide the basic safety and security to its own residents.
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Sit down, Brookings fellow.
India has become a massive refinery for Russian oil. That'd be fine if Russian oil went to India on Western ships operating under the G7 cap, but lots of this oil gets shipped on Putin's shadow fleet, which means India is helping fund Russia's invasion of Ukraine. This must stop.
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“Culture of peace cannot be only for Abrahamic religions.”
A bold and welcome statement by
@IndiaUNNewYork
@shrashish
.
Thank you
@DrSJaishankar
and
@narendramodi
. 🙏🏽
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@ARanganathan72
@ramprasad_c
“Then our Musalman brothers, the Pathans, would come out as a swarm of locusts from their mountain valleys, and make rivers of blood to flow from their frontier in the north to the extreme end of Bengal”
~ Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
The language hasn’t changed.
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"Caste is an administrative construct under Indian law that resulted from colonial British censuses from the late 19th and early 20th centuries," writes
@SuhagAShukla
in
@WSJ
Good to see WSJ diversifying itself from the Dhumes and Varadarajan.
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Undergrad in economics (Delhi U).
Masters in economics. (Delhi U).
Fellowship in social history of forestry in Uttarakhand. (IIMC).
(Source Wikipedia)
And Guha is a 'distinguished historian', Fareed? What gives?
@FareedZakaria
India’s most distinguished historian downgrades the country’s status as a democracy
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What gives you the reason to trust the US government or its intel? Is it due to their success in Afghanistan or in Iraq?
To recapitulate: Today an Indian fighter pilot received a prestigious military award for shooting down a Pakistani F-16 jet that US officials would later claim was not actually shot down. 🤷♂️
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@BloombergTV
Dear
@BloombergTV
@business
- there is no country named South Asia.
It is India, that is Bharat.
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From the Aryan Invasion Theory to this bizarre Raina theory much of the intellectual capital of the Indian Left is spent in justifying the Islamic invasion and plunder of India.
Badri Raina raises an intriguing question: don't those whose flesh and bones are interred in the soil of India, to become part of its earth, have a greater claim to the matrubhumi than those whose ashes are poured into rivers that flow into the sea?
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I’m sorry, Mr. Zakaria, but you are a prisoner of your past and your ideology. While it is true that “democracy” and “secularism” are widely accepted terms, it will be a mistake to assume they mean the exact same thing across cultures. Also, to call 15% and 200 million+ formerly
Lecturing PM Modi on human rights would backfire. Far better to ally with India’s society itself, expanding ties with its businesses, press, NGOs, cultural groups and others.
My take:
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