Harsh Gupta Madhusudan
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The Chinese may not say it (they have a different political system too), but it is very clear for long that their aim is to be the #1 global power. They may have pulled a fast one on some Americans earlier, albeit briefly, but even during their "bide and hide" phase it was.
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If you are a vegetarian in Boston, you are enlightened. If you are one in Bangalore, you are a casteist! :).
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The new SUVs from Mahindra and Tata look quite nice to be honest.
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Honest confession: as a kid when I first heard the term "Dravidian", I thought it was a Rahul Dravid fan club.
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Nalanda toh jhaanki hai, Takshashila abhi baaki hai.
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I think @NupurSharmaBJP should be given top security. If it is difficult to justify for whatever reason then give her a promotion. Make her a minister - do whatever is required. But she must live and live fearlessly. Enough with this intimidation 75 years after Partition. Enough.
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If you call a NATO country a terror haven, stare down CCP, buy as much Russian oil as you want, water down Western points for G20 statement, bankrupt Pakistan, are a nuclear/space power and world's largest polity, soon 3rd largest GDP: you already are a great power. More to come.
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“Monisha Beta, South Asia bolo. Akhand Bharat is too Middle Class”
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India has been fighting Western colonialism, Islamism, Maoist Communism for decades - for effectively all her time as a free democracy, and mostly completely alone. It takes some chutzpah, shamelessness, solipsism to lecture India on freedom, democracy, rules based global order.
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"You may call me a fool, you may call me anything, I may not live to see it but I can tell you one thing – India will overtake China in the next 25 years”. Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, Legendary Big Bull of India, said this last year. And India will overtake both China, USA. Om Shanti 🙏🏾.
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Live in bungalows and ask others to live in slums - Nehruvian socialism summarised.
Dharavi belongs to you & will always remain only yours. No broker can snatch your home from you, Dharavi is the pride of India. — Rahul Gandhi to the people of Dharavi 🔥
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“Films are not working - it's our fault, it's my fault. I have to make the changes, I have to understand what the audience wants. I want to dismantle the way I think about what kind of films I should do.".@akshaykumar . Kudos. This is a healthy attitude. Accept, learn, try again.
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600 million doses done in India. That is almost every American receiving two doses in ~half a year. There are many problems we have in India, and we are working on them. But there are also some advantages despite us being per capita poor. We should celebrate our achievements too.
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The daughter of former Indonesian President Sukarno, Sukmawati Soekarnoputri, will undergo the ritual of converting from Islam to Hinduism. The ritual will be held at the Sukarno Center Heritage Area in Bale Agung Singaraja, Buleleng, Bali.LT @lalashwa .
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'Nagpur riots of 1923 caused when members of Hindu Mahasabha took out a procession and passed in front of a mosque, playing loud music. Muslim community objected, starting a skirmish. These riots had a profound impact on K. B. Hedgewar, prompting him to form, in 1925, the RSS. '.
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India is the hungriest country indeed. For success, for glory, for Dharma, for shaping the world. You don’t need any indices to see that.
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All right-thinking Hindus must come forward and own the term “Hindutva” which is the idea behind a united, democratic, diverse Indian civilisational state. One can disagree on nuances (like Zionism) but there is a global attempt to discredit any political Hindu awareness. Own it.
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Article 370 abrogation, Ram Mandir construction finally done. UCC next. The economy and military on a strong wicket, terrorists afraid. Thanks to BJP, RSS, PM Modi, HM Shah, all earlier leaders. This is the value of your vote. Do not let anybody tell you all parties are the same.
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Finally, some are getting it. The BBC hit job is not against Modi - it is against Sunak. The dog whistle is crystal clear. Sunak’s discomfort on this was also clear even as he said the right things by disagreeing with the hitjob. He has not backed off his Hinduness so far though.
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You do not mess with the Prime Minister's security, irrespective of politics. This does not end well for anyone, definitely not for India, as our relevant tragic history shows. Let us stop playing with fire, focus on harmony, and concentrate on our duties/jobs. Enough is enough.
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I hope the UK nuclear weapons are safely secured as the kingdom goes through very turbulent and uncertain times. The international community must ensure that these strategic assets do not fall into any unsavoury hands and that the command-control structures are not compromised….
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India restoring Angkor Wat temple complex in Cambodia, says MEA Jaishankar. The Angkor Wat temple complex in Cambodia is being restored because our civilisation is not limited to India but is spread across countries, Jaishankar said.
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Our religious festivals are our religious festivals. Be it Bengal or Gujarat or Kerala or anywhere else. Partaking in them for outsiders is a privilege not a right.
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Given brazen attacks against FM - with a clear sexist undertone - let me share this. A new editor of a very prestigious pink paper went to meet her with his team, and the first thing he said is “you did not formally study economics”. But she did! He didn’t even do that research:).
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Dear @vivekagnihotri, a big thank you. People will talk about the success and endorsements but all that is ex post facto. The fact is that you, your team, the producers all took a physical, financial and reputational risk by making #KashmirFiles . Thank you for telling the Truth.
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Pakistan does not want Afghan refugees. Bangladesh does not want Rohingya. Egypt and Jordan do not want Palestinians. They call it a red line. So much for their humanitarian or even Islamic fraternal concern. But India wanting to deport illegal immigrants becomes Islamophobic.
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Bharat is an ancient civilisation, but to the extent our modern nation has a "father" it must be Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. It is fitting that our navy's new ensign is inspired by Shivaji's royal seal - and is revealed on the day we launch our first indigenous aircraft carrier.
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“I am part of the East, I am part of the South, I am part of the West. I am universal. I am India.”. - @DrSJaishankar . This isn’t just banter. There is a deep truth embedded here.
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It is no secret that I support the BJP. I am not a member, but as a citizen it is my right to support a party and to voice that support. However, I do try to be as objective as possible. Again, as a non-member I have the freedom to do so. I have now read the manifestoes of both.
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The Supreme Court should mind its own business and remain within its constitutional boundaries.
Supreme Court asks Centre to give one time package to Kerala to bail out State from financial crisis. #SupremeCourtofIndia #Kerala . Read more:
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Lived in the UK for sometime. Anybody with any honesty will know where the actual intolerance and violence comes from. You do not need to go by anecdotes (I, like others, have a few), you can just go by prisoner demographics and other socio-economic metrics. It is not even close.
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Kejriwal has mocked The Kashmir Files movie- and calling it “jhoothi”, a bunch of lies. All who stand by Dharma must politically punish his party in coming elections. If someone can laugh at your genocide - and it was the genocide of Hindus in Kashmir - imagine what they can do.
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The Turkish Lira has lost 55%+ of its value vs the US Dollar year-to-date. Can somebody please go and ask Ertugul sorry Erdogan his views about Jammu and Kashmir? Haven’t heard him on this one for some months.
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The contribution of Shri Rahul Gandhi ji to the Indian civilisational renaissance is almost unparalleled.
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Modiji, when back in his room.
Got to taste the all-veg menu for the state dinner tomorrow. Thanks @FLOTUS for the gesture. Nod to millets. Saffron, and colors of the Indian and US flags. #ModiVisit
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Kamlesh Tiwari was booked under NSA. What for? Violence? No. But for words. Just a reminder. Of course, that is before he was murdered. Those accustomed to privilege will always find equality to be oppressive.
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I cannot emphasise how tricky these times are for the world, including India. We are very fortunate to have a sensible, solid leadership during this transition. Make no mistake - many are trying to destabilise this government so that they are forced to "adjust". War of attrition.
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Elon Musk is encouraging racist comments against Indians.
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The attacks on Sudha Murthy ji remind me of this.
If you are a vegetarian in Boston, you are enlightened. If you are one in Bangalore, you are a casteist! :).
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Confirmed that indigenisation push is causing problems in the right quarters. Which means it has expanded in scale and scope - and global vested interests know about the firm resolution and political stability which powers this critical push. Thank you for sharing this good news.
EXCLUSIVE: India's military is running out of weapons due to Narendra Modi's push for locally made arms
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The 'New' Idea Of India At 100 | #IndiaAt100. Here is the full video. Around 50 minutes. Discussion with @ShashiTharoor moderated by @sardesairajdeep . Organised by @businesstoday @IndiaToday . Please share the video widely. Also please do share feedback.
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Hindu India keeps getting compared to Nazi Germany by so called secularists here and abroad while Hindus keep getting killed or beaten by minorities for explicitly religious motives.
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Reminder: Indian soldiers have made the ultimate sacrifice to repel Chinese aggression (and extracted that sacrifice as well.). That cannot be said for any NATO soldier against China or Russia, certainly of late. India is a major power-it needs no certificates for that from you.
India’s careful, avoid angering Putin at all costs response despite Russia’s blatant aggression vs Ukraine highlights that it remains unprepared to step up to major power responsibilities or be a dependable partner. Disappointing as well as short-sighted given rise of China.
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We will become a 5-trillion-dollar economy, and we will become 10-trillion-dollar-economy. We can only argue about whether it happens in 2025 or 2027 or whether in 2030 or 2032 -- Mukesh Ambani. I think even Mr. Ambani is likely to be pleasantly surprised by the growth of India.
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Just Saudi Aramco earns more than entire listed India Inc. Just Permian Basin in US produces as much oil as India consumes. Just tiny oil-rich Norway’s sovereign wealth fund is twice+ as large as Indian forex. Difficult to over-emphasise how key energy transition is for India.
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They were furious with Gandhi for shaming UK, Bose for fighting UK, Patel for integrating India, Nehru for liberating and annexing Goa, Indira for liberating Bangladesh, Vajpayee for testing the nukes, and so on. Do not worry, PM Modi will give many more opportunities for “fury”.
Western leaders furious at India's Modi over his support for Putin.
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The UK has a psychological issue with India’s rise. Racism is a part of it but not the main driver. Deeper issue is they have not had a proper reckoning with their colonial past. India’s rise upsets its benign Raj self-image. Plus their own diminishing has made them more anxious.
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India's target was 600 million doses by August if I remember correctly. Almost everyone mocked us. As August ends reality is we have achieved it, and indeed beaten the goal by 5-10%. This is the power of our scientists, companies, hospitals, leaders, nurses etc. Celebrate them.
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Never forget. Never forgive. 14 years ago. 26/11.
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Do local executives now need the highest court’s permission to raze illegal structures? What kind of jurisprudence is this?.
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Almost every single Hinduer-than-thou person who abuses (not criticises, but abuses) RSS/BJP/Modi turns out to be a caste supremacist. Almost every single one.
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Shafii would have given Hindus only two options: convert or die. Hanafis gave Hindus the “additional” option of paying the Jaziya tax, be humiliated, but you may survive without converting. Of course this was no generosity. Shafii would have meant end of Muslim rule even earlier.
90% of misinformation on this app comes from Indian Hindus, the Mughals should’ve adopted a Shafi’i solution.
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If argument against Ranbir Kapoor to not be allowed to do Darshan at Mahakaleshwar is that he eats beef by that logic there are other Hindus in the movie industry who eat beef and are currently loved by those who make this argument. Or may be there is no argument, just vandalism.
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Nobody has gotten under Xi's skin as much as Modi. This will be the first G-20 meeting Xi skips in over a decade. Flip side is whatever CCP can throw India's side to confuse it will be done, especially before 2024 elections. This winter will also be key to watch China w.r.t LAC.
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I think we are all being rather uncharitable to Robert Clive here. For India to overtake the UK, the UK had to overtake India first. Think about it.
If anyone gets credit for India overtaking UK’s GDP, it’s Narasimha Rao & Manmohan Singh’s govts. India’s growth spurt from 1994 & even faster growth from 2005 made this inevitable, despite the sharp slowdown since 2016. It’s like a relay race won inspite of the last runner.
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Just everyday anti-Hindu bigotry by verified handles. Praises ‘pagan slayers’.
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Prabhu Shri Ram is returning to Ayodhya with Sita Ma and Lakshman after 14 years in exile. Celebration is due. Bought firecrackers. Tonight is going to be fun!.
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40% of India’s three wheelers are already electric. Source: Bloomberg NEF.
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Savarkar’s 7 shackles of Hindu society. 1. Untouchability.2. No interdining.3. No intermarriage.4. No occupational mobility.5. Selective ritual permission.6. No seafaring.7. No reconversion. All have been weakened, will be further weakened. This is Hindu modernity. Deal with it.
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Rajya Sabha was India’s ‘elite space’. Modi has breached it with Dalit artist Ilaiyaraaja. Congress always had an elite bias towards Rajya Sabha nominations. took 70 years for the Union government to nominate a Scheduled Caste artiste for the Rajya Sabha.
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Nothing - and I truly mean nothing - is more pitiable than a Brit analyst/journalist sanctimoniously unloading on India. It has been 75 years. Let it go. For your own sanity. It does not even cause anger here. Not even humour. We just look at you as clinical patients. Let it go.
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IIMA dude in finance. Hindu by name - not sure how he identifies himself. Lack of a larger constructive purpose in life and material plenty can do some really weird things. Like calling for "consequences" for civilians kidnapped by terrorists. I hope he faces career consequences.
"Go live in Israel. Go back to your country!". The Jewish person who encountered these two covering-up photos of civilians kidnapped by Hamas with "OCCUPIERS FACE CONSEQUENCES" flyers sent me this video. It was recorded on Nov. 9 in Manhattan's Upper West Side at 68th St. and
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George Soros is an extraordinary trader but he forgot his own theory of reflexivity. Tipped his hand. Soros who wants a “democratic revival” is publicly unhappy that the poor in India are getting energy at reasonable costs thanks to Modi’s independent policy in national interest.
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Some “liberals” are saying if you do not allow girls to wear religious garment X, some parents will not send daughters to some schools and will not agree to them wearing uniform like others. The only people who are regressive here are these parents. Yet liberals gaslight others.
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Yesterday, I met a taxi driver. He started talking. I said can you please just drive - I need to type out my "yesterday I met a taxi driver and he said. " tweet.
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If Beijing was smart, it would make Delhi an offer it cannot refuse w.r.t. LAC. But do not assume Beijing is smart. Neither is DC. To try to humiliate Delhi just because we would not kowtow on Moscow, it is mollycoddling Pindi - same Army that killed its soldiers in Afghanistan. .
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All three BJP states. As someone who has openly supported the party all my life, this is a tragic waste of resources. Are all illegal Bangladeshi immigrants out of India? Can women's safety not be enhanced? Is hooliganism and big threats of mobs, often religious veto based, over?.
Maharashtra Police.Assam Police.Rajasthan Police. 3 state police forces from 3 states with no shortage of law enforcement needs. They’re chasing Beer Biceps. And then people have a problem when I say banana republic.
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In Eastern Europe, they are all first and foremost Indian students who are being evacuated - not Tamil or Bengali or Punjabi or Bihari or Gujarati. I hope MEA denies clearance to this deliberately mischievous request.
Wrote to Hon'ble @DrSJaishankar requesting him to increase the number of Tamil students to be evacuated from #Ukraine by focussed intervention and sought MEA clearances for the team proposed by GoTN to coordinate with the Indian embassies in Romania, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia.
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“At least 25 conversions of young Hindu girls and women take place every month in Umerkot's Kunri and Samaro talukas alone” from a Dawn report in 2017. Almost no one bothers in Pakistan. Sit down. Have shame. Your country is complicit in mass rape, forced conversions. Like ISIS.
I genuinely thought humanity knows no borders but it's telling that hardly any Bollywood stars have posted about the devastating floods in Pakistan - raise awareness, share links, just show sympathy. They know how popular they are and how much that acknowledgement would mean.💔.
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There are many people who do not have the stomach for geopolitics and geoeconomics at the highest level. But Modi’s core team does. Mao and Deng acted like a superpower even when they were dirt poor. The world is not just what is, but what can be indeed what is willed into being.
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Foreign Minister S Jaishankar in 2019 said that the British took away $45 trillion during their rule of two centuries in India. He also said that India faced two centuries of humiliation by the West.
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The whole Trudeau melodrama going nowhere, after India’s independent stand on Russia-Ukraine, after India’s deft handling of the pandemic, after India’s strong counter to China on the border, after Afghanistan withdrawal also working in India’s favour, after ongoing Western.
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What is happening in Bangladesh to Hindus is so terrible that even NYT has been forced to report about it albeit with their usual spin:. “At least four people have been confirmed to have died and more than 100 others wounded…reported in at least 10 of the country’s 64 districts”.
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I just read an opinion piece in WSJ which said that India’s political values are more like that of “Asian” Vietnam and not that of democratic France - and hence the US can only have common interests with India, not common values. Of course it is by an Indian-American, who else :).
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In June 2020 at the height of Chinese aggression against India, the EU asked “both sides” to “show restraint.”. To be fair, we were not expecting anything else in terms of statements. Also, Russia said something similar. Again, we did not expect anything else. Just the way it is.
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The New York Archdiocese deleted a simple tweet wishing people Diwali because of the backlash by online Catholic moral police. This is the “respect” that the proselytising monotheistic Abrahamic faiths have for pluralist spiritual systems such as Hinduism-more broadly for Dharma.
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I agree with @asadowaisi that @myogiadityanath will not always be UP CM. He will be India’s PM whenever @narendramodi decides to retire. Credit where credit is due: Owaisi’s preternatural perspicaciousness here.
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India will decisively surpass France/UK in market exchange GDP this year (and interestingly should surpass California as well). Next stop Germany and then Japan both of which will also not take much time. Then a big gap is there with China and the United States. That is the race.
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It is deeply unfortunate that we do not teach our epics such as the Mahabharata in our schools and colleges. We have the most precious of gems and due to our self-imposed confusions, we do not share it with our youth. There is no substitute for being comfortable in your own skin.
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Now think of Thoothukudi and the Vedanta Sterlite Copper plant, and many more such big and small cases. It is very easy to meddle in a democracy where state capacity is very weak and the judiciary is often arbitrary. This is what the NSA was hinting at when he spoke of threats.
#Foxconn expanding recruitment at several plants in the Chinese mainland with higher wages and bonuses amid extended closure of Indian plant for iPhone13 after a mass food-poisoning incident.
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Shinzo Abe at one point followed only one foreigner on Twitter - Narendra Modi. The only foreigner that US of A denied a visa for so called religious intolerance reasons - Narendra Modi. I am a big defender of engaging with and not essentialising the West. But Japan is special.
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With due respect, I still find it strange that the CM of a very important state was named after the most brutal dictator of the USSR.
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I was worried about Uttar Pradesh when I read about Swaminathan Aiyar talking about massive crowds at Samajwadi rallies. Then I read his next piece about the Ukraine crisis reviving Rahul Gandhi’s political career and I did a Bayesian downgrade of Aiyar’s Uttar Pradesh estimates.
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Musharraf’s family claimed to be from Arab and Iran. He grew up in Turkey. Born in Delhi he retained that visceral Pakistani hatred of the Hindu Kaffir. A Mohajir with a faux Punjabi-accented Urdu, he was just one more wannabe Ghazni and Ghori. He lost. Pakistan’s Jihad has lost.
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Supreme Court suggests lockdown, AAP happily agrees. Children and families long suffering from the pandemic further lose out on education, earnings etc. Marginal discussion of the burnings in Punjab Haryana which led to spike in Delhi pollution apparently. New ‘odd-even’ gimmick.
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Former Australian PM Abbott writes about India:."The democratic superpower we need". ". people who should know better are questioning the quality of India's democracy. My strong instinct is that if there is to be a free world decades hence it will be India that's sustaining it. "
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The petty attacks against FM @nsitharaman and her team (including @sanjeevsanyal) show that this budget has confirmed worst fears of the political opposition. Indian economy is reviving and the government is so confident that it can prioritise long term investments such as infra.
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By 2047, India will likely be the world’s largest economy. A new India where affirmative action won’t be needed because of prosperity, opportunity, inter-mixing as educated women make their own personal decisions. People will join Dharma globally!.#IndependenceDay2022 #IndiaAt75.
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Ignore the government vs private job angle, and just focus on the mother's happiness.
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Even if farm laws are replaced by something equivalent, enemies have smelt weakness. Mob has prevailed. Privatisation will also face renewed opposition. Separatism/religious/caste arrogance has won for now. I support our PM but this is a big mistake IMO. May the Gods bless India.
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Shashi, with all due respect, I am asking again - where were the 1930s mass Jewish rallies against German Gentiles calling for the beheading of the latter for just a few words? This constant comparison of Hindu organisation to Hitler, Nazis and Fascists is inaccurate and devious.
An excellent, thought-provoking analysis by @AsimAli6 that worries me greatly. If he is right, we are repeating what happened in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. And that did not end well….
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The idea of Pakistan represents an evil mindset. India is the morally superior one. There is absolutely no comparison. We must be very clear on this.
The court didn’t allow Chanda, Hindu girl to go with parents — her tears tell you everything. After decision, she ran to parents and hugged them. She was in tears. Hindu girls don’t matter
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No GoI, no Prime Minister, no Finance Minister has worked with so much determination to industrialise India - whatever it takes - and build hard physical infrastructure for logistics, as much as @narendramodi and @nsitharaman. One can always do more, but no one else comes close.
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As I often say, even if you 10x the spend on the PM’s security it could potentially be the best taxpayer rupees ever spent. This is irrespective of whoever is PM. India’s democracy has already lost Bapu and two Prime Ministers (at least) to assassins - we do not need any more.
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