Author: The Land of the Wilted Rose (Rupa). Love & Honour; The Rat Eater (Bloomsbury). Soufflé (Penguin). Consulting Editor: Swarajya. RTs, Likes ≠ Endorsements
Hello everyone. Announcing the publication by
@BluOneInk
of my new book Hindus in Hindu Rashtra: Eighth-class citizens and victims of State-sanctioned apartheid.
All royalties from this book will go to the Hindu Refugee cause. Thanks so much. Order Link:
So this happened yesterday. Taiyari CoVID ki thi, out of syllabus aa gaya! Suffered a bad heart attack yesterday. A long stretch of the major artery 100% blocked. Angioplasty done & stent inserted. Let's see how it goes.
Keep me in your thoughts and thank you for all the love.
One mother forbade medicines to the dying, converted them, then laughed at the death count; the other mother provided free treatment to 5.1 million and built a 10 million sqft, 2600 bed, 64 OT, 81 specialities hospital employing 800 doctors.
The first mother got the Nobel Prize.
As the blindfolds came off Ram Lalla, revealing a face as brilliant as a thousand moons, 300 miles west, buried under the steps of the Jahanara mosque, bearing the weight of a million feet as they strode in to offer namaz, the idol of baby Krishna stirred. Soon, it smiled. Soon.
75 years ago we could not even make a safety pin ourselves. Today we can bring together 510 Indian companies to build a ship that is a thousand feet long, carries 1700 crew, endures an 8000 mile run, generates 88 MW power, and holds 30 fighter planes.
Say hello to INS Vikrant.
We won! I refused to apologise for standing up for free speech.
Grateful to everyone who stood by me but above all to
@jsaideepak
. Oh, the way you fought - words fail me, Sai. The feeling overwhelmingly is of pride; pride in the realisation that with you Bharat is in safe hands.
Ketaki Chitale tastes freedom after spending forty days in jail for forwarding a post critical of Sharad Pawar.
Forty days. Of her life gone. Just like that. And she still has the courage to smile. Bravo.
“I was 8 when a stove exploded in my face. I suffered 50% burns. I lost my neck. I told the man who saved me that I would one day become a doctor myself.”
Not only did she become one, Prema Dhanraj went on to treat 25000 burn patients. She is this year’s recipient of Padma Shri.
1959. 80 rupees in hand Jaswantiben started making Lijjat papads. Next year she bought a cot & a stove to dry & package them. Today her turnover is 1810 crore. She employs 46,500 women. They make 4 billion papads.
I can't believe we waited this long to honour her with Padmashri.
Lata Mangeshkar. She was not a queen or a president; she did not rule oceans or command armies; her only possessions were a cotton saree and a silken voice; and yet, the flag representing a billion people flies half mast in her honour.
Don’t ever ask again what is real power.
The Prime minister of a nation that once boasted of the greatest empire known to man.
Show this to the lady who wants India of the future to be an India without Hinduism. Hinduism has outlasted great empires. It will outlast you, me, her - it will never die. Hinduism is eternal.
The only thing that hurts the Thackerays more than a Chief minister from the BJP, is a Chief minister from the Shiv Sena who is not a Thackeray.
Revenge is a dish best served cold. But this cold? Take a bow, Devendra Fadnavis.
On the night of May 2, 2021 when the TMC won Bengal, thousands were assaulted, raped, killed, and forced to flee their homes in retributive violence.
Tonight when the BJP has won UP, not a single incident of disturbance has been reported. Not one.
And yet the BJP is communal.
Suspending
@NupurSharmaBJP
is a cowardly act by the BJP. The party has thrown her to the wolves.
Nupur, we want you to know: The strength of this nation rests in the hands of her people, not any party, and We, the people, stand with you, always, every step, every breath.
Meet Ms Ketaki Chitale. She mocked Mr Sharad Pawar. She was arrested. Today marks thirty days since she has been rotting in jail. Thirty. Three zero.
No one has spoken for her. No feminist. No democracy tabulator. No human rights activist. No free speech activist. No one.
Nupur Sharma will now have to appear in Kolkata where Mamata promised at a rally: "We won't leave her"; in Hyderabad where Jameel thundered at a crossroad: "We will hang her"; and in Kashmir where Adil screamed from a mosque "We will behead her".
Thank you, Supreme Court.
Dear
@NupurSharmaBJP
. We know you cannot step out of your home; we know you were betrayed by your friends, the free speech advocates, and the Supreme court; but we want you to know that you are in our thoughts. One diya will be lit for you. Tonight. By every Indian. Happy Diwali.
Dear
@AmitShah
. Don't leave it for your Police Commissioners to tweet inanities assuring strict action against the rioters. Go to Jahangirpuri. Right now. Visit the Jagjivanram hospital. Assure the severely injured. Take back control of Delhi. Please.
Show some spine. Or resign.
Fact-checker
@zoo_bear
is begging for donations. I will make sure he gets his entire year’s requirements.
All he has to do is to fact-check publicly whether what Nupur said is derived from Sunan an-Nasa'i 3378; Vol. 4, B 26, Hadith 3380.
Take the challenge, Zubair. "Be a man."
You may mock Zelinsky and call him a standup. You know what? Yes, he is. He is standing up to a military superpower. He has rebuffed America's offer to evacuate him even though he can hear the rumble of the approaching Russian tanks.
He who does not fear death dies only once.
1500 years after Brahmagupta discovered gravity, 1000 years after Bhaskara invented calculus, 500 years after Nilakantha provided the heliocentric model, 100 years after Chandra gave his limit, and 50 years after India ventured into space, we have got our finest hour.
My views:
He invented the ORS sachet that, next only to vaccines, saved millions of infants from certain death. Lancet termed it the greatest medical breakthrough of the twentieth century but leave alone the Nobel he never even got a Padma.
He was Dilip Mahalanabis. And he died yesterday.
I knew Gandhi better than most because he opened his real FANGS to me and I could see the inside of the man. If I DISLIKE him, it is because I LOVE India more. - BR Ambedkar
Dismantling Sainthood: Ambedkar on Gandhi. My column in
@SwarajyaMag
. [Long read]
Knee deep in snow, finger on the trigger, facing a howling blizzard, he guards. You don’t know his name or his religion or his mother tongue; all you know is that he is from the Indian Army.
Our heroes make us feel so inadequate without ever wanting to.
You can demolish anything, but not truth. You can crush anything, but not spirit. You can prevent anything, but not justice. You can erase anything, but not memory.
You can subjugate twenty generations, but not the twenty-first. Not the twenty-first.
This is Ketaki Chitale. She criticised Sharad Pawar in an FB post without even taking his full name. Black ink & rotten eggs were thrown at her. She was manhandled. She was arrested. She has been in jail for a week. And today, bail has been denied to her.
BUT MODI IS FASCIST.
Congress says Smriti Irani cannot be a Minorities Minister because she is not a minority. Makes sense.
After all, Defence Minister AK Antony was a Field Marshal, Science Minister Kapil Sibal was a Nuclear Physicist and North East Minister Mani Shankar Aiyar was a Naga warrior.
The criminal contempt of court case against me - for standing up for Free Speech - comes up for hearing tomorrow. Whatever the outcome, jail or otherwise, I will respect the decision of the hon’ble judge; but I will not apologise for my stand.
Thank you for your love & support.
This is Mudasir of
@JmuKmrPolice
. The braveheart confronted 3 terrorists enroute to Srinagar & neutralised them. Sadly, he lost his life. "I am proud of my son," said his father Mr Maqsood Ahmad.
This is the India, and these are the Indians, that Yasin Maliks of this world hate.
No, I won't give exiled Kashmiri Hindus any money - every politician promises that. I will, instead, make sure their children never have to ask for money. 5% seats in Maharashtra colleges will henceforth be reserved for Kashmiri Hindus - Balasaheb Thackeray b. January 23, 1926.
I have a dream. That one day thousands of citizens of another nation would tweet with uncontrollable joy their newly procured five Tejas fighter planes escorted by two Rafales flying in formation over that nation's airspace.
I have a dream.
830 years after 9 million books in Nalanda were burnt by Islamists, the largest public library in the city of Marseille in France has been set on fire.
Knowledge is everything. The villain understands this more than the victim.
Yes, Captain, we are proud of Rohidas of Odisha who pushed the ball to Lalit of UP who drag-flicked it to Sanglakpam of Manipur who dribbled it to Prasad of MP who scooped it to Sreejesh of Kerala who drove it to Dilpreet, Gurjant, and Hardik, all of Punjab, who scored. Jai Hind.
Stellar performance by the Indian Men’s Hockey team at
#TokyoOlympics
to beat Great Britain by 3-1 & entering Olympic top 4 after 41 years. Happy to note that all 3 goals were scored by Punjab players Dilpreet Singh, Gurjant Singh & Hardik Singh. Congratulations…go for Gold! 🇮🇳
Largest Lithium reserves, 2023 (million tonnes):
Chile: 9.2
Australia: 5.7
Argentina: 2.2
China: 1.5
USA: 0.7
Yesterday India announced the discovery in Jammu of 5.9 million tonnes of Lithium, an essential component of EV batteries. Congratulations, Jammu. May you prosper.
Every waking day these past six years I have criticised, mocked, blasted Modi for not bringing in reforms.
I am now beginning to realise how impossibly tough it is to bring reforms in this country, when even all those who earlier promised these very reforms are now against it.
Meet Harekala Hajabba. He sells oranges in Mangalore. From his earnings of Rs 150 a day he built a primary school. “A foreigner asked me the price of an orange and I couldn’t understand. That day I vowed to make a school.”
Today Mr Hajabba received India’s fourth highest honour.
From tomorrow till March 12 the Supreme Court is shut for Holi.
Because dispensing justice is as vital as saving lives or defending the nation, the Chief Justice must order all hospitals to be shut and all Jawans defending our borders to return home for the week-long Holi break.
You may hate his guts but Akbaruddin Owaisi was absolutely right. Even with the police present the Hindus had to run today for their lives, and this in the heart of India’s capital. Imagine if it was absent for 15 minutes.
Hearing the terrible news that
@TajinderBagga
has just now been arrested by the Punjab police for his tweets on
@ArvindKejriwal
.
I stand with Tajinder. And so should YOU.
History repeats itself, first as Nupur Sharma, then as Prathamesh Shinde.
Lift your head and stand with Prathamesh today, or you will not have a head to lift up and legs to stand on tomorrow.
The absolutely stunning discovery by Tata memorial that a local anaesthetic costing just Rs 75 reduces breast cancer recurrence post surgery by as much as 30% should have been front page news for days. Instead, we don’t even know the names of the discoverers.
Value your doctors.
This is a senior ED official. He just survived a murderous attack on his life. He had gone to Bengal's Sandeshkhali to raid the premises of a TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh accused in the multi-crore Ration scam.
No media outrage. Because Democracy is alive and kicking in Bengal.
Nupur Sharma's effigy hangs above a road in Karnataka even as normal life carries on as usual below.
A request to the authorities: Please do not remove it. Nothing else can ever be more symbolic of the tragedy that has become India. This is our future and we want it displayed.
On June 4, 2015, NSCNK terrorists killed 18 of our Jawans. Just 5 days later, a man planned, steered, and executed a surgical strike deep across the Myanmar border. 102 terrorists were neutralised. We suffered 0 casualties. Zero. The man was General Bipin Rawat.
Gone too soon.
Ambushed with clubs wrapped in barbed wire, attacked with iron rods, 20 of India’s bravest held their ground, until they were swallowed by the freezing Galwan river, but not before they took down 45 intruders.
Don’t let your hatred for Modi transmogrify into hatred for India.
Ms Pooja Singhal, an IAS officer, is in custody for embezzling MGNREGA funds meant for the poorest of the poor. She has properties worth 83 crore.
At her UPSC interview that, at age 21, she was one of the youngest to clear, she pledged she will work for the poorest of the poor.
This is Shivam. He was part of a Ram Navami procession on that fateful day of arson and stone pelting in Khargone, Madhya Pradesh. Shivam was shot in the head. What was his fault?
Shivam is on a ventilator, battling for his life. Pray for him.
As we neared Gyanvapi, a sea of skullcaps encircled us. I looked nervously at Babuji. Son, he said, dead or alive, we are going to meet Mahadev.
Some day, when we resolve to remember our heroes more than our tyrants, the name of
@Vishnu_Jain1
would be at the very top. Some day.
Thailand has chosen Lord Hanuman as the official mascot of the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships. "Lord Hanuman exhibits strength, courage, and wisdom," said the official communique.
If India had done this for a sports event, we'd have been declared a fascist Hindu Rashtra.
It took twenty years for Modi to finally clear his name, and in those twenty years, tens of thousands of people - from politicians to film stars to activists to cops to judges to journos - made their name by falsely accusing him. Today, shutters come down on an entire industry.
China is threatening Taiwan, Saudis are bombing Yemen, Russia is invading Ukraine, Hamas is firing rockets at Israel, Africa is reeling under Famine; and the one Agency whose job it is to address all this, is busy outraging on a bona fide judicial process against legal fraud.
Relentless misogynistic and sectarian attacks online against journalist
@RanaAyyub
must be promptly and thoroughly investigated by the
#Indian
🇮🇳 authorities and the judicial harassment against her brought to an end at once, stress
@UN_SPExperts
.
Spine always grows in the back that is against the wall.
To hell with America. Bharat Biotech has already sourced all its raw materials for COVAXIN locally, with Indian manufacturers rushing in to help; and I am sure SII will follow suit.
We stand alone; but WE stand together.
How dare that Agnihotri fellow make money! Yes, his film was privately funded, and yes he didn't put a gun to our heads to watch it, but he better donate every penny into funding roads, homes, hospitals, and independent journalism of Wire, Caravan, Scroll. Profit is a dirty word.
Police under the
@AamAadmiParty
have filed an FIR against
@TajinderBagga
for his remark on Kejriwal.
This is the same party that has slandered and abused every man, woman, and child under the sun. So much for Freedom of Expression.
I stand with Tajinder. And so should YOU.
The true mark of a civilisation is this unquenchable thirst, to deliver justice to your ancestors wronged and ridiculed, to restore their pride, to forget yourself in remembering them. धर्मचक्र-प्रवर्तनाय।
Some advance to greatness, others return to it. We Indians do both.
The more worrying part of Rahul Gandhi's speech was not his stupid assertion that India is not a nation, it was his claim that, with the country now doused in kerosene, all you need is a spark. What is he planning?
This man is not dumb, he is dangerous.
Madrassa, the word itself, should cease to exist. Teach Quran at home, for hours, if you want, but at school a child deserves to be taught science and maths. In fact, for a child to be admitted to a madarasa is a violation of his human rights:
@himantabiswa
Any person convicted of rioting, arson, and stone-pelting should have his or her passport, ration card, insurance, voting rights, and all other government benefits cancelled.
If you damage property paid for by the tax-payer, you don't deserve benefits paid for by the tax-payer.
Leftists and dynasty doormats after watching Biden walk over to greet Modi: Oh don’t worry, Biden still hates Modi. He just thought he spotted Santa Claus.
All BJP leaders are actively supporting
#TheKashmirFiles
. This is laudable - the suffering of Kashmiri Hindus must be mainstreamed.
That said, one hopes this is not just a cynical attempt at lip service. Seven lakh Kashmiri Hindus have to be taken home. That must be the goal.
9 years of Modi. 9 of his most spectacular achievements, ranked:
1. Vaccinating a billion Indians, twice
2. 170 million new LPG connections
3. 370 Abrogation
4. Balakot
5. 112 million Swachh Bharat Toilets
6. Ayushman
7. 50,000 km Highways
8. Air India privatisation
9. CAA
1/2
Please don't tweet Ankita's dying declaration; I watched it accidentally and haven't recovered since. Her calmness & poise in the face of unbearable pain - she must have been such a happy teenager. Hope her tormentor Shahrukh Hussain, who was forcing her to convert, rots in hell.
Terrible day for India. Exit polls predict fascists are winning Gujarat. Yet again. No hope left for democracy. I feel nauseous. Numb. Sick. Time has finally come to leave these shores forever and set up a Media house in my own country.
No mindless sex or drugs or item songs with bikini-clad women astride buffaloes, just a forgotten story based on events that transpired a lost generation ago. And yet
#TheKashmirFiles
makes 45 crores in 4 days.
Don't ever doubt or mock Indian audiences. Give them good content.
Spielberg, a jew, made Schindler's List. Polanski, a jew, made Pianist. Kramer, a jew, made Nuremberg. They had a moral duty to not water down the crimes against their community and they didn't.
Vivek Agnihotri has made what Vidhu Vinod Chopra, a Kashmiri Hindu, should have.
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj built from scratch one of the largest and most feared naval fleets. Today, his seal is reflected in the ensign of one of the largest and most feared naval fleets, that of India.
Some advance to greatness, others return to it. We do both. शं नो वरुणः
Modi is delivering growth, Soros is delivering anarchy; Modi is strengthening rural economy, Soros is strengthening mobocracy; Modi is building highways, Soros is building media houses; Modi is funding urban centres, Soros is funding urban naxals.
Trust Indians. Ignore Soros.
He hails from a small village. He sold his house and with the money wove this flag. It is totally jointless and without a single stitch, and it took him four long years to make it.
He is
@Satyana17522644
and he wants PM
@narendramodi
to unfurl it from the Red fort on August 15.
Supreme court when Nupur says what is written in Islamic scriptures: You have ignited the whole country. You possess a loose tongue. Power has gone to your head. You should apologise to the nation.
Supreme court when Udhay Stalin says Sanatan Dharma must be eradicated: Silence.
Number of Rohingya refugees currently living in:
USA: 5000
Europe: 3000
Jordan: 1300
Indonesia: 1200
Canada: 1100
Japan: 560
Qatar: 20
India: 50,000
But Modi is anti-Muslim.
Shocking disclosures by a Pak journalist cum spy on his interactions with our former Vice President Hamid Ansari.
Both Mr Ansari and the GOI must issue a clarification; the matter is of national security and a constitutional post.
What does it tell you when both the Oscars and the Grammys don't even mention in passing Lata Mangeshkar, certainly one of, if not the, greatest playbacks ever?
It tells you that the West is racist. It also tells you that soft power means nothing if not backed with hard power.
I was looking for a similar factcheck video you must have done in the case of Nupur Sharma just like you did here, to prove what she said was derived from Hadiths 3380 & 5134. It would have prevented Muslim mobs going after her.
I couldn’t find it. Could you help please? WDTT
Looking forward to Germany, that continues to buy 53% of its coal, 32% of its gas, and 34% of its oil from Russia, lecturing India, that buys 1.9% of its coal, 0.2 % of its gas, and 0.9% of its oil from Russia, on morality and ethics.
President Kovind’s term to end on July 24. While he has been a marvellous President, let us not forget the many selfless contributions of Ms Savita Kovind, most notably her stitching face masks for days & nights and lasting a week during our worst CoVID wave. Thank you, ma'am.