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ஸம்யக் | ਸਮ੍ਯਕ੍ | 𑆱𑆩𑇀𑆪𑆑𑇀 | ಸಮ್ಯಕ್ | સમ્યક્ | സമ്യക് | సమ్యక్ | སམྱཀ | ସମ୍ୟକ୍ | 𑊥𑊠𑊡𑊄 | 𐬯𐬀𐬨𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬐 | स्वधर्म, स्वभाषा, स्वराज | UVA 2017
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In early 2024, my family and I went on a quick trip in the Indian states of Ahom and Meghalaya. It was a relaxing and pleasant trip. The two states are physically beautiful and I was incredibly happy to finally be able to visit them after years of procrastination. While we
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I learned today that when Shah Shuja (grandson of Ahmad Shah Abdali) requested Maharaja Ranjit Singh's help to reclaim the throne of Kabul, Ranjit Singh's price was the ban of cow slaughter in Afghanistan and the delivery of the gates of Somnath Temple. A true Dharmic King
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Since the United States has a Uniform Civil Code as part of its legal system, does the IAMC oppose the system in the US as well?
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This is the first tweet in a thread where I'm going to share every article I've saved from the mainstream Western press on India and Indian politics.
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Padma Lakshmi, Mehdi Hassan, now Ozil. This is clearly a Muslim Brotherhood + Turkish pressure campaign. And here's the thing, unless the
@BJP4India
and
@narendramodi
push back against this, it will work in making a lot of the world "concerned" about India
Praying during the holy night of Lailat al-Qadr for the safety and well-being of our Muslim brothers and sisters in India🤲🏼🇮🇳🕌Let's spread awareness to this shameful situation! What is happening to the human rights in the so-called largest democracy in the world?
#BreakTheSilence
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It's clear that this is their new line of attack against the current Indian regime. It's also a more coherent criticism that deserves a response. My personal realization after living in the US is that the West will do business with anyone if they can make substantial profits
"Anti-Minority" Image Will Hurt Indian Companies, Warns Raghuram Rajan
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The absentee-landlord Pak “progressive” elite’s only claim to relevance in the present and future is to act as a moral police on “intolerance” in India. This instinct exists because the convert has to be in a state of permanent justification for his conversion
Note that the Indian PM, instead of apologizing to his colleague for what transpired — as he should given he is leader of the House — is busy inaugurating a cricket stadium in Varanasi today.
The perpetrator and bigot who spewed venom in parliament ought to have resigned by now.
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I'm guessing Ms. Rashid is not talking about the dark-skinned men and women from Bangladesh. That would cause the destruction of the racial and ethnic "purity" of these special snowflakes. The casual racism of Kashmiris is a very underreported phenomenon
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This reminds me of one of Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" - make your enemy live up to his own book of rules. Our right and left limbs were cut off to form Islamic theocracies, and millions were turned into religious refugees, but WE'RE the one losing the "moral high ground"
‘India is losing leverage in South Asia as its government tries to reshape the country into a Hindu state. Its leadership role of encouraging harmony in a region of many fault lines is diminishing,’ writes
@MujMash
In NYT
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This might sound outrageous, but I think people underestimate where final decisions on Constitutional matters lies in India. To make this happen, Ms. Roy does not need to win a political election on this platform, she just needs to convince 3-4 Judges that she's right
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Naipaul addressed these Shuddho mental gymnastics years ago. As he says, stuff like this shows a "child's idea of history. The slave's idea of the ruler's mercy". The complete denial of the ravaging of North India by Turko-Afghan invaders is a key item of faith for these people.
Decolonisation was never a mainstream political issue in India. Hindu nationalists have turned it into one. But they have also fundamentally redefined it: it’s not just about de-anglicisation, it’s also de-Islamisation of India now. My long read:
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Indian Shuddho types learning the Friend-Enemy distinction lesson in real time.
Here’s an explanation for them: Subcon Moslems appeal to liberalism as long as doing so helps preserve their interests. You thought they ideologically believed the same things you did. They don’t
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The tragedy is, that even when the Bangladesh War gets the coverage it deserves today, the religious aspect of the Pakistani Army's madness (reflected in various accounts and the refugees India had to receive from east Pak) will often be ignored and whitewashed
One of the most horrible wars that few Americans know about.
An atrocity committed by our Cold War ally.
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The Aurangzeb Reformation Project is one of the most curious things about the western gaze into India. If you want to construct a Muslim-friendly narrative of Indian history, there are far better options to choose from, including the brother Aurangzeb murdered - Dara Shikoh
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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From Naipaul’s “Beyond Belief”
There’s something amazingly twisted for ideological conversion where the descendent of the slave/convert identifies themselves with the whip of the conquerer!
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I'm not really sure what the purpose of these attacks are. Can someone not grow and change their views? I can tell you for a fact that I was an edgy atheist in 2013 and didn't want anything to do with my culture. How can this movement grow if it has no space for those who evolve?
Root cause of corruption in India is people going to "Temples" and making offerings to Gods there ~ Shri Shri 1008 Sant Shri
@puneet_sahani
ji Maharaj. 🙏🙏🙏🙏
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Arun Shourie’s solo war against the Marxist eminent historians at the ICHR is an act of pure heroism. I absolutely love the acerbic and sarcastic tone of the work, and author has a kind of obsessive energy about investigative reporting that’s a treat to read
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This nonsensical belief about "Bhakt culture" did not come out of nowhere. It is the result of 7-8 years of constant mudslinging and dehumanizing of Hindus and Hinduism by the BJP's political opponents in India, the English media in India and the Western press's media coverage
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Democracy "works" until the masses vote for the results that the elites want. When the masses start voting the "Wrong" way, democracy is suddenly in danger and the whole electorate needs to be replaced to match the tastes of the elites. This is "guided democracy"
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No matter how much people might want to deny this fact, the Afghan-Turkish invasion and occupation of India means a lot to the Subcon Muslim, even to those converts who were as discriminated against by these foreigners as non-Muslims were. There is a clear transfer of Dreams
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Am always impressed at the Chutzpah and arrogance of these Pakistani Dawn intellectuals to think that they (a country built on ethnic cleansing and religious hatred) have any right to comment on how "secular" India is, or isn't.
I called Modi India’s Zia because both exploited religion in the pursuit of power, unmindful of the grave consequences. Read this “How Narendra Modi is remaking India into a Hindu state” from
@TheEconomist
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This does look and sound like their final grasp to get back power at the Center. They’re willing to plunge this nation into a race-to-bottom, purely to advance their own self-interest. This is vile stuff, and HAS to be defeated
"Greater population, greater rights": Rahul Gandhi on caste census of Bihar
Read
@ANI
Story |
#RahulGandhi
#CasteCensusbihar
#Congress
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Every time someone in India talks about how the Timurids/Mughals "enriched" India, I'm reminded of this passage by Naipaul in "An Area of Darkness". His description of the Taj Mahal is the best I've seen, and our failure to see this reality is how we lack a "sense of history"
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To nobody’s surprise, Ambedkar’s biographer Dhananjay Keer removed the passages “describing the regressive bent of Muslim mind at the instance of Ambedkar’s close admirers”
An almost archetypical example of Shuddho dishonesty and its role as a speech and discourse-limiting
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One of the funniest aspects of the Nehruvian regime is that they have managed to convince an entire group of people that being "secular" is a personal characteristic, rather than the characteristic of a State. India has a secular state, but not a secular population
Action<>Reaction
Result: Removed from Family Group.
But won't stop busting propaganda. It's our job to make sure our families & friends are not believing all the BS they are read through WhatsApp.
I want to thank
@zoo_bear
for his hardwork. I try to share his tweets with all.
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I hate to signal boost this video, but I did want to make one point: Anybody who is even slightly familiar with US politics will know that you can substitute the word "Hindu" with "White" and you'll get a discourse that is mainstream in the Western Priestly Class
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People in India VASTLY overestimate the stature of "experts" like Fareed Zakaria in the US. They are broadly seen as objects of mockery and derision by everyone except the small audiences of people who watch them and the NYC-DC circles where they frequent cocktail circuits
“India has fallen short of its democratic ideals before Modi too. But never has it fallen so far, so fast....”
Listen to this stark warning from
@FareedZakaria
, among the most influential friends of India in the global debate...
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If you still have any doubts over whether the western institutional media is an instrument of USG, or not 🤷♂️
It also shows that USG would rather have radical Islamists in-charge of a large and populous country in the Subcon than have someone in charge that they do not control
TIME’s new cover: Under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, democracy in Bangladesh hangs in the balance
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Fascinating framing of the issue. The Partition of Bengal was necessitated by the fact that the Muslim League wanted ALL of Bengal province to be in Pakistan. Interesting to see a West Bengali Muslim mock the fight for at least part of Bengal to remain with India
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If war ever broke out btw India and Pakistan in the next 10 years, how will the official Western media cover it? I personally think that the "narrative" that will be the center of the coverage will be about how this war is taking a toll on India's Muslim community
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THREAD ABOUT WESTERN MEDIA COVERAGE OF INDIA (2022-23)👇
What stands out is the "Islamocentrism" of how the West covers India. If one were to just read these articles, one would imagine that there is nothing worth reporting about the lives of 85% of the population!
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This is the best our neighboring "country" has to offer in an intellectual capacity. My man here literally accused Modi of incorrectly referring to Muslim rule in India as foreign rule, and then said that the rulers in the last 1000 years were Arabs, Moguls, Afghans and Persians.
Too bad that my hardcore friends across the border think that Muslims are foreigners / outsiders
Too bad that Modi Ji referenced the same blame on the floor of the US Congress
Too bad that I had to call him out on what was otherwise a remarkably well-delivered speech
This one
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Naipaul criticizes because he loves India. You can feel his pain in his words as he sees what the great ancient nation was reduced to in the 1960s (in An Area of Darkness). It's the same pain felt by the likes of Aurobindo and Vivekananda. Naipaul should be mandatory reading IMO
"The crisis of India is not only political or economic. The larger crisis is that of a wounded civilization that has at last become aware of its inadequacies and is without the intellectual means to move ahead."
~ VS Naipaul, A Wounded Civilization
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I'm happy that Indian leftists and Nehruvians are fully revealing their thoughts on Netaji. For years they've feigned appreciation for his achievements, using him as a convenient caricature for their ideological ends (e.g. socialism) while harboring hatred within their hearts
Netaji Bose’s dalliance with fascism is all too well known. Disappointing is the decision to install his statue under the canopy at India Gate as an icon of India’s freedom rather than of Mahatma Gandhi who captured the world’s imagination with his civil disobedience struggle.
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Properly understood, articles like these are nothing less than a narrative war against another country. Because the simple truth is, that if the NYT was an official branch of the US government, it would be the most powerful branch of USG
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Naipaul continues to rule over the crumbling Old Shuddho elite from the ashes!
@ThePlaycardGirl
. You are simply wrong. After Babur every Mughal King was the product of an Indian wife. They knew no other homeland, lived, loved, died & were buried here, spent their resources here, & left their legacies to us Indians. I certainly wouldn’t cede any of them to Pakistan.
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The only thing more painful than Indian history, is the Indian interpretation of their own history
- V.S. Naipaul, An Area of Darkness
We sang 'Lab pe aati he dua' constantly during school assemblies back in my years in Welham Girls in Dehradun. It was a popular song in my brother's school Doon as well, and still is in both schools.
Iqbal wrote it in 1902, he died in 1938. Now viewed with a bigoted lens
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Some outdated assumptions and beliefs aside, this book is a must read for any Indian trying to understand the second half of British rule in India - the POV and history of the few thousand Britishers who governed this massive country and created the forms and laws and structure
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When one reads the detailed history of India in the first half of the 20th century, one finds that the All India Muslim League had almost the exactly same alarmist, atrocity-literature tone throughout their movement to get Pakistan, and even before that
YES ITS TRUE
I AM FEELING INSECURE IN INDIA
#Islamophobia_in_india
#muslimsunderattack
#india
#muslimnations
#Qatar
#SaudiaArabia
#UAE
#Oman
#Iraq
#muftimenk
#Islamophobia
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Can't think of a single action that will completely delegitimize the Nobel Peace Prize in the eyes of the broader Indian public more than this. This is why I absolutely want them do it. The sooner these western liberal institutions lose their shine in India, the better
The director of Peace Research Institute,Oslo Henrik Urdal lists
@harsh_mander
's Karwan-e- Mohabbat and
@free_thinker
and
@zoo_bear
's
@AltNews
as worthy potential laureates of the
#NobelPeacePrize
. This is huge. A testament that the world is watching. May love presides over hate.
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There is a instinct within Hindus that I can only describe as wanting to be "eternal peacemakers". There is this weird masochistic urge to "make peace" and "achieve harmony" at ANY cost. Many elements within the INC represent this, and Gandhi is maybe the best historical example
When Mahmud of Ghazni attacked the Somnath Temple, Arabs joined in the defence of the temple and died to protect it.
The fact that Somnath was a Hindu temple did not matter to them. | Prem Shankar Jha
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Babar ruled India for 6 years and HATED the place. Humayun the Opium addict ruled for 11 years over two terms. Why should they have such an outsized place in India’s historical memory, above the Palas, who ruled over Bengal-Bihar for nearly 400 years?
.
@DalrympleWill
All those wonderful Mughal books you wrote about a period of Indian history that didn't happen. What are you going to do?
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The Department of Information has a new "South Asia" correspondent. We now know where the next 100
@nytimes
"truth updates" about love jihad, Hindutva, anti-terror laws, Kashmir, and how minorities are converting to Islam in Pakistan to improve their lives etc., will come from
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Never underestimate the liberal soft bigotry of low expectations towards Muslim people. They do not see Muslim people as capable of joining modern society's standards of treatment of women, religious tolerance, etc. In India, this sentiment is baked-into our political settlement
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The "idea of India" is the most vague concept of our legacy elite. It is something that is intentionally vague, and that ensures that they get a lot of mileage out of it. It is also another borrowed Americanism (like "founding fathers") that our comical legacy elite has adopted
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From the time I was in college, it was very clear to me that Islam is the hill that liberalism will die on. Due to various reasons (historical, ideological, compulsions of political coalitions), liberalism has carved out exceptions for Islam that it doesn't extend to others
A professor in art history has been sacked by
@HamlineU
for showing a medieval painting of Muhammad.
Here is the university’s chilling explanation as to why it has chosen to prioritise students’ feelings over academic freedom.
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Always fascinating to the see the collision of the worlds of the legacy Indian elite, who have "graduated" from India to become low-rung members of the US elite, with the anarchic democratized world of the newly educated Indian population
The statue of a man who was pals with Hitler is going to sully India Gate in New Delhi.
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As much as this can be made fun of, I think it's more imp for us to note that for a lot of Hindus in modern times, their religion *has* been reduced to empty concepts like "peace", "non-violence", and "diversity". You can blame Gandhi for it, or modernity, but you can't ignore it
I have read the Gita and Upanishads. I have never heard that Hindus should be aggressive.
Hinduism is all about self-observation, humility & compassion.
Even Lord Ram felt compassion for Ravan.
:
@RahulGandhi
Ji
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Stuff like this is important to remember when they pull out the “we hate Hindutva not Hinduism” sophistry. What they hate is any expression of the country’s indigenous ideas in the public sphere. The only “good Hindu” is a quiet, docile and religious only in private
Imagine the ruckus if Muslims pray in India. This is Hindu democracy
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The Indian foreign policy establishment probably doesn't want to hear this, but the only reason Bangladesh is not actively hostile to India today is because of the Hasina government, which is far less "democratic" than many of its admirers (myself included) would like to admit
Two top leaders of Bangladesh's main opposition party have been taken from their homes by police, a day before a major rally urging PM Sheikh Hasina to resign
Protests calling for fresh elections have erupted across the country in recent months
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Your daily reminder that journos have the worst possible combination of boundless self-righteousness + an irredeemable amount of stupidity. US journalists are bad, but Indian english-language journalists are by far the worst, because they aren't even original in their stupidity
.
@OnReality_Check
| "
#DanishSiddiqui
didn't seek
#Taliban
nod, killed in crossfire": Muhammad Sohail Shaheen, Taliban spokesperson, on the award-winning photojournalist killed in Afghanistan
#NDTVExclusive
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People are surprised by the "both-sidism" and neutrality of the legacy elite's response to this, but this is as clear an example that we can get that the Indian State and its Nehruvian ideology has no language or capability to talk about Islamist extremism and violence
The heinous killing in Udaipur is another example of where we are headed. Extremists on either side attacking & killing each other with words and action has only led to an unending cycle of violence. Every person who types out violent comments is party to it.
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How does one explain the phenomenon of even a country's cultural memory ending up as nothing but mimicry of other cultures' memories? There are no limits to the shallowness and mediocrity of India's Old Elite...
You’ve seen the gang in the comics, in books, and even in Riverdale — but this time around, you’ll see them closer to home!
Set in the 60's, The Archies builds a world that’s both familiar and new. Here's your first look
#TUDUM
!
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This is absolutely hilarious. Because the American Farmer's Unions are the primary reason for the pressure on India at the WTO to cut down on MSP. They are the main reason why there has been no agreement on an India-US trade deal. But we live in a fantasy land, so anything goes
For months, Indian farmers have been protesting policies that will cut into their income and give corporations more power.
As we fight against similar policies here in the U.S., National Farmers Union stands in solidarity with our fellow farmers in India.
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The Nehruvian way to handle the "inconvenient" parts of Indian history, is to:
1) never address the reality of these events and maintain a strategic silence on them throughout institutions
2) attack the character of those who try to compensate for institutional silence
Modi/Yogi are asking voters to feel freshly aggrieved about things that happened 350 years ago, and wipe from their memory the events of six months ago. Listening to their speeches, you'd think that Aurangzeb was still alive, and that the second wave never happened.
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I wish I could've presumed good faith and assumed this is just about the indoors or hospital part, but years of careful observation has taught me that they just have a problem with us being who we are 🤷♂️
God save us. Inside the centrally air conditioned
@ManipalHealth
Hospital in Dwarka, accompanying a patient with breathing trouble.
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While well meaning, this idea of an "all-encompassing civic nationalism" is itself a myth. Indian secularism is a ceasefire agreement, where the State employs laicite against the majority, and laissez Faire towards the minorities, and one minority in particular
@sanjukta
@kavita_krishnan
I wish that Indians can return asap to the more inclusive, all-encompassing civic nationalism of the freedom struggle, based on universal values that every human being can agree with. That's what we need rather than hasty attacks on Hinduism or Islam, essentially personal beliefs
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A great visualization of how western elite discourse is just different parties quoting each others’ works till it somehow becomes conventional wisdom. It’s an endless practice of circular sourcing, a self-licking ice cream cone. It has zero credibility
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Let me translate this into English:
"Rohit Sardana was my enemy, therefore, everything he said was narrative and I'm happy he's dead"
"Danish Siddiqui was part of my team, so the narratives he pushed were the "real circumstances" and true stories"
Rohit Sardana moderated debates,peddling opinions to create a narrative in the minds of his viewers.
Danish Siddiqui showcased pictures of real people in real places in real circumstances telling true stories as they happened.
DON'T COMPARE HOW THEY WERE SPOKEN OF POSTHUMOUSLY.
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There will be no
@nytimes
or
@NPR
articles about these attacks because this is how the Western priestly class expects Muslim-majority States and populations to act. These low expectations makes it so this is the expected course of actions, especially when the victims are pagans
This is unacceptable.The attack on
#DurgaPuja
at multiple places in
#Bangladesh
is against the secular fundamentals of a state.Worst happened at Cumilla where the pandal was attacked,idol vandalised & then immersed on
#DurgaAshtami
. It’s the job of a State to secure minorities
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No one wants to believe that the worst in people is true. But sometimes things are true in life even if we wish with all our hearts that they are untrue. Waqar Younis' comments should not be surprising to anyone who knows about the creation of Pakistan and the ideology behind it
For a person of Waqar Younis' stature to say that watching Rizwan offering namaz in front of Hindus was very special to him, is one of the most disappointing things I have heard. A lot of us try hard to play such things down and talk up sport and to hear this is terrible.
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When you read this criticism by the All India Muslim League of Gandhi’s Wardha Education Scheme, you realize that nothing has really changed in the dynamics of Indian Moslem politics, even after Partition. The demands and mindset is *exactly* the same today. This criticism could
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A big feature of "South Asian" (increasingly shorthand for Subcon Moslem) discourse is an Indian variation of "hatchling syndrome" - a pretend attitude that works on the assumption that the speaker and the audience are newly hatched birds with no knowledge of history
An Assamese mother sings about the continuous oppression of Muslims in Assam. Hemant Biswa Sharma's misrule has been highlighted there.
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I want to feel what we are feeling today again when we make Hampi, Konark, Martand, Sharda and countess other mandirs and ancient places whole again. This electric feeling cannot be allowed to go to sleep again!
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To the western liberal universalists who seek to remake the whole world in their view: India has common interests with the west, but we do not want to become the west, with all its pathologies. The sooner the priests of the west make their peace with this reality, the better
India's discourse on Ukraine is focused exclusively on a few 1000 stranded students & is seemingly unmindful of the 40m Ukrainians whose homeland has been invaded. This embarrassingly provincial outlook, combined with a UN abstention, makes India look a 3rd-rate global power.
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This request is a one way street. These same Bollywood people will go to any ends to destroy a movie they ideologically disagree with. And honestly my biggest issue with Bollywood has always been the lack of creative storytelling. LSC is not an exactly a poster child for that
Trolling a film because a cast or crew members ideology differs from yours is unfair to the other hundreds who have worked hard to make the film. They have also pinned their hopes on the success of the film to help realizes their dreams. Spare a thought. 🙏🏽
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People fundamentally misinterpret the role of young progressive protestors. They’re not threats to the US regime. They are instead the future leaders of the regime. They’re usually children of nobility and getting “harassed by a cop” is a way to prove your ideological commitments
Here is one with NRI Pajeeta getting her a$$ handed after she tried spitting on the cop. Her name is Devina Singh..a NYU Graduate. Parents must be proud of her Betiya
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India is probably the only country in the world where aspiring elites go to foreign countries to learn more about their own history
(Although it's also true that most aspiring Indian elites actually aspire to join the American elite, and "graduate" from their Indianness)
Professional update: After almost six years at ThePrint, I’m taking a study break to go to Columbia for an MA in South Asian Studies. After spending a couple of years studying India academically, I’ll be back to reporting on it :)
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I'm sure the Valley that gave the Pandits the choices of Raliv (convert to Islam), Tsaliv (leave the Valley), or Galiv (die) would love to have the Pandits back.
(Btw, the second option of Tsaliv also added that if you left the Valley, you should leave your women behind)
Question came to mind, do Kashmiri Pandits have a list of demands from Modi government? What is the road ahead for them? Do they want to go back to their homes? AFAIK the valley locals have been asking them to come back, so why don't they? What else do they seek?
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@ZaidJilani
This article is a good example of why when I was in college, I used to collectively call Depts like AA Studies, Queer studies, etc. as "Grievance Studies". It seems like their only reason for existence is to take damaged people's resentments and weaponize them for political needs
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@BJP4India
@narendramodi
It's the clearest sign yet of Indian Muslims "internationalizing" Indian politics as they've essentially understood there's no hope for their version of politics in India anymore. It is revelatory of the fact that, unsurprisingly, for a lot of these activists, religion > nation
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The Shuddho Elite’s historical illiteracy is beyond parody.
History is a weird place. Bhagat Singh and Sardar Ajit Singh came from Jatt Sikh (Sandhu) families and ALSO were dedicated activists of the Arya Samaj. Bhai Parmanand, Lajpat Rai (jail mate of Ajit in Burma), Har Dayal
From the trailer of the Veer Savarkar biopic. I can't even--
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This spontaneously coordinated outcry from the Western Priestly class is a lesson in how Power (especially Fox Elite power) works, how "friends" must be protected and enemies tarnished. All done through reputation defense and destruction in a coordinating and reinforcing way
Kudos to the Economics Department at Ashoka on speaking out clearly on academic freedom and on unacceptable interference by the university’s governing body.
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People are shocked that the Dept. of Truth (NYT) would commission a comedian to be a commentator on Indian politics. But they don't realize that they are not the audience here. This article is meant for western elites, and Indian elites who hope to one day have US passports
In Opinion
“Our government has blood on its hands,” Kunal Kamra, a popular stand-up comedian in India, says of the country’s handling of the pandemic in a video guest essay. “It is a state-orchestrated Covid massacre, and I am outraged.”
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Getting a lot of feedback from UP from family:
1) The Constitution thing worked. The opposition brilliantly targeted WhatsApp groups of reserved category Hindus with videos that reservation will be ended. The same was done for Moslems with the word “secular” being removed from
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From Book 7 (The Mughal Empire) of RC Majumdar's India series. Chapter XI: The Sikhs
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What I find most interesting in statements like these is the clarity of the "We" and the "they". And this is a self-inflicted wound. When you have separate religious, educational institutions and personal laws, separate localities and villages, this is the inevitable outcome
We are 30% and they are 70%. They will come to power with the support of the 70%, they should be ashamed. If our Muslim population moves to one side then we can create 4 new Pakistans. Where will 70% of the population go?: TMC leader Sheikh Alam (24.03)
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I hope the restoration of Martand is happening as a living Mandir with a deity, rather than as a authentically-broken ruin like what has been done to Konark by the ASI. No point of "restoration" if prayers are not happening
Great news.
The majestic Martand temple, destroyed by Abrahamic invaders and lying in ruins since 700 years, will finally be restored along with other destroyed temples of Kashmir.
A statue of Hindu emperor Lalitaditya Muktapida will also be installed in the temple premises.
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American liberalism is such a totalizing ideology, that foreigners who "graduate" from developing country elites to low-rung hangers-ons of the American elite immediately adopt every aspect of it. Suddenly, there is an "Idea of India" and Indian "Founding Fathers". Mimicry!
One can only hope all the Soros-bashing doesn't in India fuel the kind of anti-semitism it has elsewhere
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On this day, 151 years ago, the Master was born in Kolkata. To this day, I don't think any single person has developed a more coherent idea of nationalism than him. He remains, decades after his passing, ahead of us all in his ideas.
He is the river raftsman in our journey
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These guys are a percentage point away from having Marine Le Pen as President and they're worried about the Kashmir Files 😂
Indian Hindu hardliners have jumped on a new film -- endorsed by PM Narendra Modi -- on the mass flight of Hindus from Kashmir 30 years ago
Documentary filmmaker Sanjay Kak said it "strongly feeds into the current Islamophobic discourse in our society"
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Another great example of the presence of what I call "Museum Hinduism" found in "South Asian" Americans. This is a form of Hinduism where the only thing is valuable in the religion is the surface-level imagery of the tradition.
Fellow Hindus, don't succumb to this fear-mongering. There is no threat to Hinduism in India or anywhere else. True spirituality doesn't include any room for sowing hatred of any kind.
People of all faiths should be able to live peacefully together in this ancient, vast land.
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I like the blatant mimicry of these people being formalized. Mao Zedong had the measure of these people when he talked about “they who with pitiful industry have picked up scraps from the dung-heap of textbooks written abroad…”
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Naipaul is devastatingly brilliant on the issue of Indian "mimicry". People often mistake these passages as his "hatred" of India or Hindus, but it is actually a call for us to throw off this yolk and become whole men again, who do not need to mimic external "competence"
@stellensatz
People would hate me for saying this. Having lived long in East and West, no other civilisation is lower on self-esteem and suffers as badly from inferiority complex as Indians.
Sole achievement in the developed world is benefitting from asset bubble!! Everything else is noise!!
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I think most people still don't understand that the relationship that the Indian State has with its Muslim citizenry is very different from the one it has with other populations. The State's writ is very limited. The way it polices "Muslim areas" is consciously different
Video from a housing complex in Howrah.
What is Mamata Banerjee's Police doing?
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Everyone knows Macaulay's famous lines about wanting to create a class of "Brown interpreters", but I've always found this letter that he wrote to his father to be far more revealing and far more interesting
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This is a very emotional period due to the storm caused by
#TheKashmirFiles
, but I think in this moment it is also important to remember those Kashmiri Muslims who have been raising their voices in anguish, at a great personal cost.
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First, decent attempt at judging my Jaati (maybe you saw the Bangla in my name as assumed I'm Bengali?) but you're wrong
Second, while I do not expect you appreciate this, the Vedic tradition was never an imposition. It was, as the first verses of the Rig Veda says, a compact
@samyak128
@MazMHussain
Your ancestors were Adivasi Dravidians who didn't become Indo-Aryan speaking Hindus until after submitting to invaders from Central Asia.
What is Hinduism but bit-part players (masses of lower castes) in someone else's dream (Brahmins)?
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We need to understand why this is such a big deal in journo-world. For people in the western priestly setup (Indian English-language journalists are very low-status regional outposts in this system), a "finding" from the NYT is equal to a declaration by the Pope in Catholicism
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A main feature of the converted population in India is that they must justify (to themselves) the inconvenient fact that the vast majority of them are the descendants of people who left their ancient faiths either at the end of a sword, or a bag of Gold
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Invoking Churchill would work for the following:
* British Tories
* American WW2-focused narratives
Invoking Churchill really, really doesn't work among the following:
* Indians
That should tell us everything about what audience Mr. Tewari is courting with this post 🤷♂️
We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills;
We shall never surrender.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
JUNE 4, 1940
House of Commons
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The Indian political system is fascinating for formalists like me. Because if you peel away the layers of power that exists on paper, you realize that the Indian Judiciary is clearly the Sovereign body of the country. This has been true since the legal battles of the 1970-80s
CJI Ramana rues 'ad-hoc' maintenance of judicial infrastructure; pushes for financial autonomy of judiciary
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Absolutely fascinating. I’ve developed a distaste for the current lot’s sycophancy just as much as the next person, but this … This is the final stage of the development of India’s Shuddho anti-Elite. If they’re not in power, they’d rather see the nation sink and be destroyed
Admired? 😂😂😂😂😂. A German journalist told me Angela Merkel thought he was not even fit to be a city Mayor. Loved? 🤣🤣🤣 A French journalist told me his president hates Modi for all the time getting physical by hugging him.
Trusted? 😆😆😆 American journos say Biden trusts
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Our apathy to "squatting amid our ruins" is best captured in this damning accusation from Naipaul in An Area of Darkness. Even today, thousands of Hindus go to places like the Lodi Gardens and other tombs and mausoleums scattered around the North with no sense of history!
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The last line of this paragraph from the brilliant Caldwell piece sums up these people perfectly
Lokniti-CSDS media survey: 82 percent of journalists think their employers support the BJP
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These articles are important to understand because what is written here is what the liberal half of America reads about India. The American elite (Wall Street, Tech companies, Hollywood and the Political elite) all heavily skew liberal. This is what they've read about India:
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In a land where minorities have been targeted and ethnically cleansed over the last century, due to no other reason that they do not follow the majority religion, the Bezos Post obviously finds a way to blame the victims. It would be morally shocking if it weren't so expected
Global Opinions: India’s government made Kashmir even more more dangerous for religious minorities
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Hey everyone! I've just finished and published my first Substack piece about an idea that has been occupying my head for the longest time. Would love for people to check it out, and let me know what you think!
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This lazy attempt to import Black-White identity politics from the US into India by the (unworthy) legacy elite just shows how little they about the country they claim to want to rule. This only works on the future US citizens who had the misfortune of being born in India
Mohammad
#Shami
we are all with you.
These people are filled with hate because nobody gives them any love. Forgive them.
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I disagree with ST on a lot of things, but he is 100% right about this. I also think more research needs to be done about the pre-evangalization, indigenous cultures of the North-east (e.g. the Heraka religious movement to re-establish the ancient Naga religion)
There is absolutely no doubt that the
#NorthEastMatters
. It's essential that a chapter on the NorthEast is included in the NCERT syllabus.
We must know our own country better.
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The movie is made for people who remember what it’s like to fight for freedom and the price paid for it. Indians haven’t quite reached the point of western selfishness and cynicism yet where any form of love of nation (with the exception of 🇺🇦) is seen as “propoganda”
RRR might be the finest propaganda film I've ever seen.
The Vande Mataram flag literally save's Bheem's life.
The movie ends with Rama and Bheem routing the British.
Bravo.
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