"The South" doesn't care about Rama.
RamaKrishna Hegde CM of Karnataka
N. TarakaRamaRao CM of Andhra Pradesh
M.G. Ramachandran CM of Tamil Nadu
Three iconic CMs. All born and named at a time, when their parents probably didn't even travel beyond their village.
Those who wrote the songs are all gone. Those who sang the songs are almost all gone. Those who loved the songs are slowly going. Those who watched the delight in their fathers' eyes as they listened to the songs will someday be gone too. Just like that a world disappears.
You want to criticize the govt. Here's a way:
FCI has double the wheat and rice mandated by buffer norms.
FCI debt is approximately 250,000 crores. Interest on this is around 8%.
The govt should stop buying wheat and rice, until the stocks come down to the mandated level.
Q: Did Pakistan target Hindus during the Bangladesh war?
Press report from Pakistani reporter in the Times (London). "We are only killing Hindu men." Major Rathore, 9th Division Pakistan Army.
"Basically Pakistan is what happens when the Confederates win the civil war, Pakistan splits of from another country, has a slave-based cotton economy and has a military caste that runs things."
Former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan.
Gurdwara Committee, in South Carolina decides to remove Bhindranwale pictures from its premises.
Some Sikhs want Bhindranwale pictures to stay, they organize a protest outside the Gurdwara.
Gurdwara calls in the police, sheriff, bomb squad and national agencies.
When professors in New York and New Jersey abandon scholarly integrity and claim 250 million people are protesting -- is it ok to call it disinformation? Is it ok to compare it to the Russian disinformation campaign to influence American politics?
Barkha Dutt, Washington Post columnist from India is concerned about "trolling" of Shami in India.
Hamid Mir, Washington Post columnist from Pakistan is also concerned about "trolling" of Shami in India.
A tweet that defines Indian media. The complete inability to stand up for principles. Always justifying what ought to be universally condemnable because the aggressor happens to be on "our" side.
An image which perhaps defines the tv media in banana republic times. When a ‘noise’ channel hires private security to ‘protect’ their so called reporter from fellow journalists: it’s a sign of the channel having lost the most precious TRP: TV RESPECT POINTS of your peers!🙏
Selected Tweets of Dr. Sarkar, academic at Oxford University.
1.) Unable to confirm this screenshot. There are several tweets directed at Kangana Ranaut, so there is overwhelming evidence that the tweet was real.
Junior Kharge going off script.
“My grandfather’s house was burnt down and my father’s mother and sister died during that time when the Razakars went on their violent rampage...Grandfather then moved from place to place with father who was then 5 years to escape the violence."
Has Rahul Gandhi ever gone back to Amethi after losing there? If you care for the people in your constituency you should care about them whether you win or lose.
It is unfair to judge average Hindus by their religion and religious texts.
But Hinduism is one of the most disgusting religions in human history.
Yes, most Hindus have abandoned its texts and doctrines. Shockingly, they acknowledge the inferiority of their heritage and…
One day when India becomes a true Secular Progressive Democracy and Nepal declares itself a Hindu Rashtra once again -- and then when a few Hindus in India celebrate Nepal's victory over India -- then the Indian commentariat will discover nuance and insight.
Supriya Shrinate
2017
"It is not a good thing....Dynasties should not exist. There should be meritocracies."
2019
"Grateful to
@INCIndia
@RahulGandhi
@priyankagandhi
@JM_Scindia
It will be an honour to keep my late father’s legacy alive."
They arrested the culprits in less than 48 hours, because the police already knew who the culprits were because the police tried to broker a "deal" between Kanhaiya Lal and the people who wanted to kill him.
I condemn the gruesome killing of BJP Yuva Morcha leader Shri Praveen Nettaru in Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka. Even after 48 hours, the culprits are still not behind the bars. In Udaipur, the Rajasthan Police arrested the accused in less than 4 hours.
Punjabi politicians and intellectuals have let Punjabi farmers down. They have known for decades that the farming model was unsustainable. Yet none of them had the courage to speak the truth.
List of states offering vaccines for free:
Bihar
Jharkhand
UP
Punjab
Haryana
MP
Chhattisgarh
Sikkim
Bengal
Assam
Goa
Tamil Nadu
Telangana
Andhra Pradesh
Kerala
I saw the full ICMR press conference yesterday. I personally found it more reassuring than a lot of stuff I have read. And I think some of the more informed questions came from the Indian science journalists. I wasn't that impressed with the foreign journalist(s).
"He was also probably hungry because the first thing he did was to pick up some rotis lying in the cooking area and ran out with them to a nearby tea shop where he lay down. The gurudwara people found him there and brought him back inside.”
Hindus are 1.7% of population in the UK. Sikhs in India constitute 1.72%.
India has had both a Sikh President and a Sikh Prime Minister. And India made less fuss about a member of a minority becoming the prime minister.
If this does happen, I think all of us will have to acknowledge that theBrits have done something very rare in the world,to place a member of a visible minority in the most powerful office. As we Indians celebrate the ascent of
@RishiSunak
, let's honestly ask: can it happen here?
There was a tweet thread by SF CEO calling Indian-Americans parasites. Normally this sort of thing would be automatically called out by activist groups. But I did not see anything. The only person who got politicians to issue public condemnations was
@BurntOutCase
These are the facts.
GoI buys rice and wheat.
GoI has more than enough rice and wheat than India needs in case of war or famine.
The GoI India wastes a lot of money. Money that could be spent on education and healthcare for the deserving poor *all* over India.
If you speak Hindi I suggest you track down this Walmart and ask the manager what exactly the employees of Walmart intend to convey with this video.
@Walmart
Look out for how crowds in India are depicted by foreign news reports. And look at say how the Netherlands is depicted, people on bicycles and so on.
Fact: For the past 50 years the population density of Netherlands has been greater than the population density of India.
He said the budget had a lot of good ideas, but the govt should have discussed it with the people of the country before reading it all of a sudden in parliament.
Jinnah didn't see a difference between the Hindu Mahasabha and the Congress. He called the Congress the "Hindu Congress". To belabor the obvious he believed *Hindus and Muslims were two nations*. He did not say Muslims and Patel Faction were two nations.
If there is any retaliatory violence against Indian officials or Indians in Canada after Trudeau's statement today. Trudeau should be held responsible for instigation.
Mr. Varadarajan would want Indians to mimic the concern of Europeans to qualify as a first rate power. He wants Europeans to be concerned about Europeans -- and -- he wants Indians also to be concerned about Europeans.
Laws don't arrive from Mars. They are written down by people. And people don't come from Mars. They come from existing societies. Societies don't come Mars. They inhabit a place and have a history. And the laws they write reflect their norms and histories.
There is a certain kind of first generation Indian-American who can't stand other Indians but constantly trades on exotic Indianess when interacting with Americans.
This is inconvenient but true. ISI is helping Modi get elected this time around. And 26/11 was to get Congress get elected in 2009. In 2024 ISI is going to make sure AAP gets elected.
Three days after Pulwama, two "facts" and a question:
Fact 1: Pakistan Army and the ISI were behind the car-bomb attack.
Fact 2: Cross-border military retaliation by Modi cud win him an election that was otherwise doubtful.
Question: Is the ISI working to get Modi re-elected?
Sanjay Raut: Till Muslims are used as vote-banks, they have no future. This is why Bal Thackeray had demanded that Muslims' voting rights be taken away. This was right. The day voting rights of Muslims are taken away, the facade of people who claim to be 'secular' will be exposed
10. If Modi were sincere he would have stamped out hate speech without indulging in fake balance-vaad. Let genocidal hate speakers be put in prison under non-bailable draconian laws rather than getting promotions
I think Biden and Modi will get along. I think Jaishankar and Harris will get along. Because they are all -- wait for it -- adults. Real world isn't like Twitter, it has actual adults who are able to work and be respectful with people they disagree.
I believe it doesn't matter whether Faruqui makes jokes only about Hinduism. It doesn't matter whether many Muslims do not approve of jokes about Islam. It doesn't even matter even if Faruqui thinks jokes about Islam are wrong. He gets his rights, because he is entitled to them.
You are accused of discrimination by the very person you actively recruited. You have to make a public declaration of your private beliefs. You have to cross the ocean to keep your assets safe. Your name will be known by everyone while your accuser remains anonymous. Kafkaesque.
VIDEO | "We have different ideologies, but we have come together to save the diversity and integrity of the country," says former Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray after Patna opposition meeting.
#OppositionMeeting
It is the Indian media that needs to be vigilant. They know India better than any foreign reporter or activist. They shouldn't waste precious airtime and column-inches discussing the pronouncements of those who have no real knowledge of India.
When you highlight the words of inconsequential foreigners, seeing it as form of validation, it doesn't mean India is becoming more important, it just means you don't see your own country as being important.
"90% of market arrivals of rice and wheat in Punjab are
procured by the Government of India."
This paper was written in 2003. Everyone pretended not to notice the problem for two decades. Some still do.
The explanation is that the Bihari farm labor is paid better than they would be in Bihar. I wonder where the money to pay farm labor in Punjab comes from? What if GOI just procured rice from Bihar instead?
I think to commemorate the Indian dead in WW2 India should put up a statue of someone who was unambiguous about Hitler -- I am thinking a Churchill statue in Calcutta.
(Why yes, I am a South Asia Specialist, how did you know?)
"Judges are cowed. Journalists act like cheerleaders."
The way to test that assessment is to ask the following questions?
Have there been judgements unfavorable to the administration? Are there journalists who criticize the government?
The New York Times is not the promoting the Ghost of Kyiv story or similar stories. It is just not debunking them. It is also explaining why those stories are useful for Ukraine's cause.
The Times doesn't lie. It's just not in the business of giving all truths equal importance.
The quoted tweet is from a senior fellow at CFR. This tweet is from last year. Now if India is the tinderbox that it is claimed to be, one would expect ethnic warfare to have begun by now. But it hasn't.
All it would take to spark ethnic warfare inside
#India
right now is a dead cow and a Hindu "witness" who claims to have seen a Muslim hit the beast.
It's a tinderbox waiting for a 🔥 and
#Modi
is doing nothing to calm tensions.
"For six days as I travelled with the officers of the 9th Division...I witnessed at close quarters the extent of the killing. I saw Hindus hunted from village to village and door to door, shot offhand after a cursory 'short-arm inspection' showed they were uncircumcised."
In a connected world, assorted activists and self-righteous grifters are going to do what they are going to do. The wily political response can be to tar them all as the New East India Company. But the prime minister has a larger responsibility.
smh. The Canadian Defense Minister had to confirm with his people to rule out sabotage of Trudeau's airplane while it was in India.
I think it is time Indians lay off the Canadians. It is just cruel to go after people this dimwitted.
"The justification for the annihilation of the Hindus was paraphrased by Lt. Gen. Tikka Khan, the military governor of East Pakistan, in a radio broadcast I heard on April 18."
What happened to Munawar Faruqui is wrong. But people from Mumbai and Chennai offering a safe space should first look at the ways the powers that be in their state have curtailed free expression.
It's interesting she wore a kurta pajama to a local townhall meeting, and went out of her way to signal Indianness. She is the sort of Indian-American who will constantly invoke their Indian identity among non-Indians to gain some cachet but doesn't want anything to do with other…
If you had to choose the next PM, and the choice was between someone who is nice toward the maid's son or man who was the maid's son -- who would you choose?
Ten years ago in Delhi. Rahul Gandhi with our household help and her school-going son. You may disagree with him but in terms of basic decency & empathy, he is a rare politician.
4.) In this tweet thread his respondents are convinced that he is pretending to be an academic at Oxford. You can see why they doubt his academic credentials.