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Jai Menon

@jai_menon

2 months

This is a fantastic advertisement that reveals the Gandhi mindset better than anything I've seen recently. It's a visualization of the Pidi Syndrome. We are royalty, we will give you things now and then. This should be enough to keep you happy. The clip also shows how they

Rahul Gandhi

@RahulGandhi

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घर घर आएगी ख़ुशियों की सौगात, अब हाथ बदलेगा हालात।

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3 years

In the ancient Pakistani Takshashila University, the language of instruction was ancient Urdu. Lectures on Dharma/Rajniti etc., were given by ancient Mughal scholars like Panini, Chanakya, Charaka & Kumaralatha in Urdu, then known as Sanskrit. The students were known as Taliban.

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@jai_menon

1 year

@Terror_Alarm 12 Days of what, food? Fuel? General life support? Aid? sauerkraut? curriwurst? Please tell us, so next time we can be there in a timely fashion.

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@jai_menon

2 years

@BeckyCNN @ramana_brf @HardeepSPuri Before getting stunned by honest answers to the comically obvious hypocrisy of your questions, ask your own leaders, did they consult with the largest economies of the world before imposing these absurd sanctions on Russia? That's why the US is seeing a worldsize middle finger!

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@jai_menon

8 months

Note: "Modi's India". This is a sort of mantra, along with "electoral autocracy", "democratic backsliding" and numerous others that the mainstream media repeats ad infinitum across the Western information spectrum. The objective, more than anything else, is to condition their

Fareed Zakaria

@FareedZakaria

8 months

Today’s last look: why Trudeau’s startling allegations are playing out very differently in Modi’s India

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@jai_menon

3 years

Indians may have heard of Masada - where the Jews made a final stand against oppressors in 73 CE. Before the last battle, this is what the Jewish rebel leader Eleazar included in his speech. You will not learn this, or anything similar, about Indian influence abroad in school.

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Jai Menon

@jai_menon

9 months

So that people get an idea of what's going on here. France24, like Deutsche Welle (DW), British BC (BBC), Rai Italia, Russia Today, China Global TV Network (CGTN), Voice of America (VOA), and many others, are state-sponsored & financed channels whose sole purpose is to 1/n

Abhishek

@AbhishBanerj

9 months

Lies by liberals are getting absolutely out of control 54 people died in panchayat poll violence in Bengal Crude bombs exploding in every corner of Bengal But Jyoti Malhotra tells France24 that in non-BJP ruled states you can walk and talk freely Incredible level of lying

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@jai_menon

8 months

Absolutely spot on! The lesson is this. India takes a lot of crap from a lot of people, and then one day, quite suddenly, we don't. Those who participated in the CTBT/NPT negotiations, etc., know this. The nuclear tests in 1998 are another example. Generally, India gives a lot

Jambavan

@SirJambavan

8 months

Simple lesson in current geopolitics..

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@jai_menon

2 years

An absolute masterpiece of an article by @swati_gs & @SanjeevSanskrit - spans the history of Bollywood & dissects its bigotry towards the majority of its audience & the culture they represent. Please read IN FULL. The Demise Of Bollywood via @swarajyamag

The Demise Of Bollywood

Laal Singh Chaddha, featuring two of the Bollywood’s most bankable ‘stars’ Aamir Khan and Kareena Kapoor, is proving to be a commercial disaster. Big-ticket Shamshera by Yash Chopra Films failed...

swarajyamag.com

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@jai_menon

3 years

Never forget this person. Whenever the country faces a challenge, she does whatever she can by hyperbole, lies, exaggeration & subliminal appeals for anarchic action to increase fragility & weaken confidence in the state. Her role is clearly that of the classic agent provocateur.

barkha dutt

@BDUTT

3 years

India is collapsing under the #SecondWave . Callousness and Incompetence are killing us. My piece on our national emergency - and the rage and pain of a broken nation - for @washingtonpost

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@jai_menon

2 years

This tweet is a sad acknowledgement of what drives people like this gent. When he says "India no longer commands the respect it once did", he is not really referring to India, but to himself. What he does not realise, or seems to have been oblivious of, is that he never did 1/n🧵

Kaushik Basu

@kaushikcbasu

2 years

It was evident during my 2 days at the World Bank that India no longer commands the respect it once did as a beacon of hope for democracy & secularism around the world. We must work to change this. India has enough fundamental strengths to regain that global standing.

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2 years

Win-win 1. US happy India "voted against" Russia. 2. Zelensky happy same reason. 3. India happy as we know Zelensky will make a fool of himself. 4. Russia happy India made cost-free virtue out of necessity when mutual trade now is dollar free. 5. EU happy they don't know why.

The Poll Lady

@ThePollLady

2 years

India for the first time voted against Russia during a UNSC meeting on Ukraine. Voting was over Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressing a meeting through video tele-conference. 🥲

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8 months

India is diffuse, a massed melange of multiples. The closer you look into it, the more dissimilar it gets - especially to your "Idea of India". How does it come to be then that people see a "massive and coordinated information operation"? It is because that is all that they can

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@jai_menon

4 years

@SubhashGhai1 @PMOIndia Always easy to donate other people's money right? Set an example, try giving 90% of yours, and encourage your industry to do the same. Or even 25% will do.

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@jai_menon

3 years

@sudkrish What I love is her expression after, with palm upturned questioningly, as if asking "what's the big deal that you young'uns are making of it"? Hope this sets off a trend of grandmas crowding bowling alleys. Can't think of a better "New India" look! Plus it's a family activity.

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@jai_menon

6 months

@blowersh We'll be getting bigger boots soon enough. No worries mate.

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Jai Menon

@jai_menon

8 months

And this fellow is the "chief foreign affairs commentator" of 'The Financial Times' - apparently a lot of people still read it for their business information. Good luck with that folks.

Gideon Rachman

@gideonrachman

8 months

This guy is apparently a “senior adviser” to the Indian government…Lucky them

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@jai_menon

3 years

This criminal naxal, who for decades plotted the overthrow of the state & facilitated the murder of security forces, is now being sanctified by the mainstream media as "Father Stan". Fellow died in a top-notch hospital paid for by the Indian taxpayer. Mainstream media is corrupt.

Vishnu Som

@VishnuNDTV

3 years

''I would rather suffer, possibly die very shortly if this were to go on - my deterioration is more powerful than the small tablets that they give." 84 yr old Stan Swamy had galloping Parkinsons, hearing loss, severe spondylosis, Covid. Had earlier been denied bail for 7 months.

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Jai Menon

@jai_menon

9 months

I beg everyone to read, please, this essay by Naipaul. Cuts to the bone, as everything from this great writer does. On reading an Area of Darkness, when younger, my worldview was completely undermined & A Million Mutinies Now helped in its reconstruction.

From the archives (1997) | V.S. Naipaul: India shouldn't have fantasies about the past, but face it

The celebrated author dwelt upon India and its “million mutinies” in an exclusive essay for INDIA TODAY on the 50th anniversary of the country’s independence

www.indiatoday.in

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@jai_menon

3 years

One of the forwards in a Whatsapp group in which I am a member irritated me a bit more than it should have. So I got a bit emotional...

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@jai_menon

2 years

Some unexpected learnings from the Ukraine crisis: 1. There are a lot of hyper-nationalistic, ethno-fanatics among journalists, diplomats & think-tank types from the former Soviet bloc states roaming wild, the ill-bred person from Lithuania below being a case in point 1/n

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@jai_menon

1 year

Probably the last one to see Kantara. Just saw it. Indescribable. Our gods are in this movie. You can hear them talking to you. Watch it, if by some miracle you have not. Soul-stirring. We must protect, nurture. Somehow, through the movie, the gods are telling us the time is here

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@jai_menon

5 years

The RSS/BJP know how fickle our voters are. Experience. That is why Modi is rushing everything basic through in 1st term - Electrification, LPG, Bank A/Cs, Health Insurance. At any hint of power, C3 Ecosystem has already started issuing threats. This man stands in the way. Choose

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@jai_menon

2 years

Narrative building for a potential Nobel candi... like Malala. Narrative Networks became a serious subject of study at DARPA - i.e therefore with strategic intent - by the early 1990s at least, if not earlier. The UN is basically just another instrument in this context. 1/n

United Nations Geneva

@UNGeneva

2 years

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 .

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3 months

Wait a minute! "India's government"? Not the Hindu nationalist government of Premier Modi, who turns a blind eye to lynching of minorities and is permanently on the blade-edge of a genocide "has approved $15.2 billion worth of investments in bla bla"? So you can write right? Hmm.

Bloomberg

@business

3 months

India’s government has approved $15.2 billion worth of investments in semiconductor fabrication plants, including a Tata Group proposal to build the country’s first major chipmaking facility

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21 days

Long post 🧵 This argument by Dilip Cherian is really at the core of a lot of discourse about India, emerging from the West and elsewhere if we are to be objective about it. It is a case made since British colonial times, and comfortably adopted by the so-called secular

Smita Barooah

@smitabarooah

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According to @INCIndia ’s PR man Dilip Cherian, India is a “momentary coalition of unfriendly tribes put together under one flag & we need to recognise that”. He just spelt out the INC worldview in clear terms. This view is fundamentally incompatible with our idea of Bharat.

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8 months

So the timing was very convenient then. The Interpol Red Notice for Nijjar was issued in 2014. Please recall that this terrorist was by then already wanted for multiple offences in India. The Interpol Red Notice does not materialise out of thin air in general. The key is to

Marc Miller ᐅᑭᒫᐃᐧᐅᓃᐸᐄᐧᐤᐃᔨᐣ

@MarcMillerVM

8 months

I can confirm that Hardeep Singh Nijjar became a Canadian citizen on March 3, 2015. I hope this dispels the baseless rumours that he was not a Canadian. #cdnpoli

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@jai_menon

2 years

@joerogan The truth is that India (or UP) did not hide anything. The notion that such information can be hidden in India is laughable. No, the simple truth is that no one cared to take this data seriously, just as no one bothers to examine why Covaxin is so successful 1/nb

Mythinformed

@MythinformedMKE

2 years

Dr. Robert Malone explains to Joe Rogan how Uttar Pradesh has crushed COVID with early treatment. Joe Biden met with Narendra Modi and a decision was made to not disclose the contents of the treatment. Why?

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@jai_menon

2 months

🧵It is charming when NRIs of recent vintage or first generation Indian Americans (with or without OCI status), fortuitously develop a remarkable naivete on the question of US intentions - as if they don't know that American policy includes carrots AND sticks, at all times. 1/4

Tanvi Madan

@tanvi_madan

2 months

It's almost hilarious there are some in India who think the Biden admin — which in the last 10 months hosted Modi for a state visit, & helped ensure G20 success for India with a presidential visit despite allegations of violations of US sovereignty — is backing Modi's opposition.

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Jai Menon

@jai_menon

6 months

We have all heard the umpteen criticisms of PM Modi and his sartorial sense, how he is overly focused on clothing, etc. Literally from day one. Now please read this article from 2012, just two years prior to understand how things used to be, and must never be again. Toe-curling

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Jai Menon

@jai_menon

2 years

Little by little, the American public is coming to realise what much of the world already knows. They have been fooled by their own leaders. In his book the Grand Chessboard, Brzezinski wrote in 1998 about dominating Eurasia, which you cannot do without cutting Russia up. 1/n

Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.today

@JordanSchachtel

2 years

The Beltway class wanted to launch the Russia-Ukraine war in 2016, but then Trump got elected and it screwed up their plans.

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Jai Menon

@jai_menon

3 years

I've noticed this "lack of Hindutva intellectuals" nonsense for some years now - from Tavleen's son Taseer (who at least writes decently) to this creepy crawlie here. One would think the "left liberal ecosystem" is bursting at the seam with quality minds. On the contrary... 1/n

Dr Meena Kandasamy

@meenakandasamy

3 years

Kangana, Vivek Agnihotri, Vikram Sampath (entire spectrum of hindutva intellectuals)

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Jai Menon

@jai_menon

5 months

Got this on Whatsapp. I mean, how cute is this?

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@jai_menon

6 months

@LisaCurtisDC It is likely that India will co-operate if the US co-operates by taking action on the terrorists in the US who actively engage in activity harmful to India, including threatening terror action (Pannun) and participating in it (David Headley). This is not something new. The

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@jai_menon

3 years

Panchatantra story: There lived a donkey who was sad because in the land of monkeys where he came from, they walked on two legs; but in the land of horses where he lived now, they walked on four legs. The donkey wanted the monkeys to walk on four legs. One day a horse told him...

Sadanand Dhume

@dhume

3 years

Ten years ago, India wouldn’t even have been part of this discussion. Now, sadly, it’s a widely cited example of democratic backsliding. [Video, 32m]

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Jai Menon

@jai_menon

3 years

Supreme Court Justice DY Chandrachud, son of ex-Chief Justice of India YV Chandrachud, says "Reputation in this court does not build on whose son or daughter you are". Observers noted that there weren't any visible traces of irony when he made that remark

Reputation in top court not built on whose child you are: SC judge

A bench of justices Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud and MR Shah was categorical that the judges in the apex court were not swayed by the pedigree of lawyers appearing before them

www.hindustantimes.com

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@jai_menon

6 months

@HartoshSinghBal Ah you mean Benito Mussolini, the founder of Fascism that RahulG's grandfather, Stefano Maino (below, as a fighter and as a grandfather), fought for with devotion? Or are you going to say that Stefano was not the actual father of RahulG's mother because he was allegedly in a

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@jai_menon

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@ManishTewari @Tushar15_ First: Who's the "We" that is not going to allow it? "We the people"? You need to get elected first. Second: What % of wealth is OK for the top 1% to hold? Third: From which orifice did you wrench out that statistic? Fourth: Try and tell the truth once in a while.

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@jai_menon

3 months

This is why the Communists are losing everywhere. They are unable to see the political game. The centre would anyhow pull the Communist state government's nuts out of the fire. They wanted the public to see that you were forced to beg your way out of bankruptcy. "Kerala model".

CPI(M) Kerala

@CPIMKerala

3 months

The Supreme Court urged the Union govt to give Kerala a one-time package to tide over its current financial crisis as a “special case” before March 31. 1/2

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@jai_menon

2 years

Sonia Gandhi's Son: Location currently unknown.

Srivatsa

@srivatsayb

2 years

Goyal's Son : Harvard Javdekar's Son : Boston Univ Rajnath's Son : Leeds Univ Nirmala's Daughter : NW Univ RS Prasad's Son : Cornell Amit Shah’s Son : BCCI While Vishal Jha, Shweta Singh, Mayank Rawal will be in Jail for years for spreading hate to keep Modi in power. New India!

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@jai_menon

3 months

@business Yeah, what a pity right? Darn. It would have been much better if there was no growth at all.

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@jai_menon

9 months

Only one question to ask here: Has this dude made a similar tweet about Chinese street food? I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but I doubt it. The intent is clear.

China gutter oil: Disgusting recycled oil and sewage is used to cook...

BEIJING — Chinese authorities have battled to get rid of gutter oil in the country's kitchens for years, cracking down on illegal oil production rings since ...

www.youtube.com

Ian Miles Cheong

@stillgray

9 months

How Indian street food is prepared. Would you eat it?

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@jai_menon

2 years

Every now & then you come across a tweet that turns your stomach. Man claims to have been an army officer. Maybe. Not a gentleman. Neither decorum nor decency. One can easily refute this type of nonsense, but there is no need. People reading it will get the measure of the man.

Birender Dhanoa

@bsdhanoa

2 years

A king once attempted to visit a part of his kingdom that was perpetually revolting against his edicts. It flopped due to poor understanding of the situation by his vanguard. The king got annoyed and jailed his minister for security. Grimms’ fairy tale runs out of steam😂

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@jai_menon

3 months

And there you have it. This is the vision of what we are actually dealing with here, a true fascist - in the way of the demagogue from time immemorial, picking out a minority in the crowd and hinting of violence; then showing "mercy". It would do well to see what a danger this

The Pamphlet

@Pamphlet_in

3 months

Rahul Gandhi unleashes mob on a journalist after cornering him

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Jai Menon

@jai_menon

3 years

Watch, learn, understand... exactly the same methodology - tried and tested - is being applied in India.

The Cutlass Magazine®️

@cutlassmagazine

3 years

This scene from the BBC film “The Hummingbird Tree” (1992) illustrates how the church acted as an agent of racial and religious division in Trinidad. Set in 1946, around the time universal adult suffrage was granted, it captures the prejudices towards Hindus being able to vote.

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@jai_menon

21 days

As a South Indian African of Ugandan heritage, my new name is Idli Amin

Tehseen Poonawalla Official 🇮🇳

@tehseenp

22 days

I am speechless ! Let me be blunt: everytime Sam Pitroda ji speaks- he damages the Congress! The South of India which Congress hopes to sweep their peoples look like AFRICA & peoples East of India look like CHINESE & people in the West for eg Gujarat or Mumbai or Pune look

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11 months

Wow. Indo-American relations analyst not realising that if ex-US President Obama, current president's close friend, can encourage extremists in India to push for separation, then a response from Indian politicians is to be expected. Impressive disconnect.

Tanvi Madan

@tanvi_madan

11 months

Wow. The chief minister of Assam stomping all over Indian prime minister Modi's message to the US Congress re Indian democracy & diversity.

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@jai_menon

8 months

By "the West" here, I think FT means the Anglosphere + European states, i.e. the "white majority" countries (for lack of a more suitable identifier). In other words, the title might as well be "The White World's Modi Problem". The question is this: does the FT, which is

Financial Times

@FT

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The west’s Modi problem

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@jai_menon

2 years

@ndtv This is not a church. It appears to be a new "grotto" sort of set-up. Was it located on temple land? This is the sort of "church planting" provocation that the new Evangelicals missions out of the US mainly (but not only) indulge in to generate funds in their home countries.

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8 months

@MichaelKugelman Yeah? For which actions do you get special exemption? And who's handing them out? Canada? The US, or as it seems to be these days, Britain?

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@jai_menon

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@kirthanaaaaa Its quite good you started with "Idk". I don't know You're quite right. Oh and "down south", there's more than Tamil Nadu.

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2 years

This could have been written 7 days ago, but it wasn't. It was written 7 years ago. When people tell you that the invasion is a surprise, don't fall for it. This was predictable, and it was predicted.

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@jai_menon

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Strasbourg is in France. PM Modi is the the Chief Guest at the Bastille Day (like our Republic Day) celebration in Paris. Ms. Haidar is part of the colonostalgic "comprador elite"* whose job it is to interpret India for the West & vice versa. As you can see, useless at her job.

Suhasini Haidar

@suhasinih

11 months

Hours before PM lands in France, European Parliament in Strasbourg adopts with a show of hands a strong resolution criticising India for violence in Manipur, Slams intolerance towards minorities and " politically motivated, divisive policies that promote Hindu majoritarianism in

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8 months

@TheEconomist I told you so... in May

'Disinformation' Bogie: Why US Wants 'Regime Degradation', Not Change, In India

While active programmes to influence the Indian democratic process are underway with State Department funding, Washington would likely rather deal with the devil they know than the one they do...

swarajyamag.com

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@jai_menon

1 year

Thanks for this tweet. You're quite right. India does not need a "swanky" new parliament building. Tubelighted about two years later by a Canadian (apparently), tweeting an article written by a Swede (apparently), in a a newspaper in the Middle East. If this does not speak to 1/n

Ashis Basu 🇨🇦

@BasuAshis

1 year

“Indian democracy does not need a swanky Parliament building. It needs its Prime Minister to respect the Parliamentary norms and practices and to govern the country following the principles of its constitution and adhering to the rule of law”. @ashoswai

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2 years

@karthikavk In case you missed the occasion, it is the 75th year since we were freed of colonial rule by the British. Ok, maybe not fully. They left some colons behind.

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@jai_menon

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Perfect example of what the Chinese call a "running dog of imperialism" - ever ready to highlight some typical idiocy from the Eurosphere & throw it in the face of Indians effectively saying "see, the white people are upset. You should be ashamed and change your behaviour".

Geeta Mohan گیتا موہن गीता मोहन

@Geeta_Mohan

2 months

German Foreign ministry ( @GermanyDiplo ) reacts to Arvind Kejriwal's ( @ArvindKejriwal ) arrest - "We have taken note. India is a democratic country. We assume and expect that the standards relating to independence of judiciary and basic democratic principles will also be applied

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@FaisalNaseerDGC Or, your fighter jets will land in Greece & pilots will beg for asylum. Much better than using the usual boat route. Please retain some dignity by remaining silent. "I am a distinguished General so trust me" is the last thing anyone wants to hear from a Pak officer. Trust me.

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This was the sort of inane claptrap that we used to hear for decades. First the snark: "world strategists (not Akshay Kumar)". So, presumably, Kissinger or Primakov, or perhaps Genscher - because none of ours will do. But if you had spoken to them, and knowing what Kissinger

Saba Naqvi

@_sabanaqvi

8 months

There was a time when India stood with oppressed people across the world including #Palestine . If you speak to world strategists (not Akshay Kumar) that is when India was a moral force in the world. And no matter how hard we imagine we are one with the West, and not the post

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Kissinger is dead. No comments on the man. His observation I consider useful for all: "It is a good thing the Indians are pacifists". It is a good thing for the world to keep this in mind.

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@jai_menon

2 years

Observe that those belonging to the higher tiers of the ecosystem hardly ever speak of "our country", or "my people" or "our civilization", "my civilization". They almost always refer to "India" or "Indians", "the poor" as if they are detached observers who belong elsewhere.

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The Pakistani "faux-secular" elite, in the absence of any real comparability with India in recent years, has taken to projecting through China. Instead of saying, Pakistan will defeat India, they've taken to saying China will crush India, the Indians will never catch-up, etc. 1/n

Ayesha Siddiqa

@iamthedrifter

11 months

@Cool_ravi125 Counter measure really?

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@maidros78 That's why his body was left to rot outside the Congress office. The same Congress of Saint Sonia & Brother Rahul.

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@jai_menon

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Pure spin by TOI. Read carefully. In fact, nothing of the kind was said. Zero integrity among pretty much all mainstream media in India. A shameful & corrupt mess it has become, clearly. Instead of blathering on about politicians' faults, media should look to its own failings.

The Times Of India

@timesofindia

3 years

US to raise human rights, Pegasus issues in talks with India via @timesofindia

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@jai_menon

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Took the trouble to read this article. Nothing short of idiotic. Just to see how much so, and to avoid unnecessary clicking, here are some of the gems of reasoning in it: Islamabad has sent a new Charge d'Affaires Syed Warraich. Included in his first statement: "The quest for

Nayanima Basu

@NayanimaBasu

2 months

The new government in India that comes to power after 4 June should start talking to Pakistan and allow the resumption of diplomatic ties so that it can assess where the state of play lies when it comes to Rawalpindi — My take #StrategicTalkByNayanimaBasu

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2 years

This deserves widespread viewing. It is the base of the British elite worldview & the essence of the position of their lackeys throughout the former empire. When the "Lutyens elite" systematically and relentlessly diss the present, they are justifying the past & wishing a return.

Australians for a Murdoch Royal Commission

@Murdoch_RC

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This is vile: Murdoch's commentators are calling for a return to British colonialism. They're pushing to "bring back the British Empire", saying countries like India would be better off under European rule.

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@MacaesBruno No Chinese friends?

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@jai_menon

4 months

The irony in this development is beyond incredible, and coming at this very particular moment in time!!! Remember how hard the British colonizing power made it for Jamsetji Tata to start steel production in India, the obstacles put in his way, and how a certain Upcott

GB News

@GBNEWS

4 months

‘It does now seem that Britain is going to be the only G20 country without the ability to make steel from scratch.’ Tata Steel has confirmed plans to close blast furnaces at its plant in Port Talbot, South Wales, with the loss of more than 3,000 jobs. @LiamHalligan

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WION is changing its tune on the conflict so fast, I am grateful that I'm not Sanket Upadhyay... Palki: "The loser in this is Joe Biden, he's lost the plot again"!!!

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@jai_menon

2 months

🧵An important article on COVID origins by Dr. Jeffrey Sachs which with great clarity establishes the reality that the COVID virus was manufactured for biowarfare, confirms that IIT researchers were right from the very start of the outbreak about its causes 1/3

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@robert_spalding Pariah is an Indian word. We invented the concept pretty much. If you really want you know who the pariahs in the world today are, look at the countries that deal with each other without fear and by choice, not compulsion of one sort or another.

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@jai_menon

1 year

🧵Ok here's the thing. Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore is undoubtedly a major success but comparing it to India (for obvious reasons) is the easy way out. Singapore is a city state, compare it to Dubai today, or Hong Kong. If you want to find issues, you will find them there too. 1/n

Buddhi

@buddhimedia

1 year

Charlie Munger's analysis about India is bang on. “India is grossly defective because they've taken the worst aspects of our culture allowing a bunch of idiots to scream and stop everything.”

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2 years

This should be a little bit of an education to some among our eminences in various professions who think British people are all like the characters in "Yes, Minister".

LBC

@LBC

2 years

'Rishi Sunak isn't even British!' Sangita Myska eviscerates this racist caller who says Tory party member won't vote for Sunak because 'he doesn't represent Britain'. @SangitaMyska

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If there is only one thing you read during this Sunday, let it be this. Please. In full. The author Jacques Baud, formerly of Swiss General Staff & of Military Strategic Intelligence, has demonstrated what integrity means, at likely some cost to himself.

The Military Situation In The Ukraine

Part One: The Road To War For years, from Mali to Afghanistan, I have worked for peace and risked my life for it. It is therefore not a question of justifying war, but of understanding what led us to...

www.thepostil.com

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@jai_menon

2 years

How do you tell a congenitally pro-Pakistani drone from the mainstream media to work a little & discover that Pakistani drones have been landing in India carrying drugs & weapons & that an accident at Mach 2 can remind them of their responsibility towards peace?

Jyoti Malhotra

@jomalhotra

2 years

Now imagine if a Pakistani missile had accidentally landed in India

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@jai_menon

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@RachelRizzo Well, kindly consider this: "The West" wants India to accept that Putin decided to invade Ukraine "unprovoked", i.e zero backstory, then apply suicidal sanctions we weren't consulted on, then publicly declare the righteousness of this posture. What do you think we are? Europeans?

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3 years

Here's the thing, it doesn't beg jack. Indians bristle because they are well aware of this standard operating procedure. A western observer, already credentialled by decades of brown-nosing sepoys, will write a book with a bunch of brutal bullshit on India. This will be 1/n

Sadanand Dhume

@dhume

3 years

Many Indians bristle at talk of democratic decline, but this begs the question: Why has India, long seen as an outlier for preserving democracy amidst poverty, suddenly lost its democratic sheen? [My review of new @jaffrelotc book on Hindu nationalism.]

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@YusufDFI And Russia benefits from having its investments & stakeholdings in the fastest growing economy in the world - thus creating added vested interest in the stability of the Indian state. Win win.

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Once (Australia) is an accident. Twice (Canada) is a coincidence. Thrice (UK) is enemy action. To think that ramp-up in harassment of Indians & Hindus in these 3 countries is happening without state acquiescence, then fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me, etc.

ANI

@ANI

1 year

#WATCH | United Kingdom: Khalistani elements attempt to pull down the Indian flag but the flag was rescued by Indian security personnel at the High Commission of India, London. (Source: MATV, London) (Note: Abusive language at the end)

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3 years

Light ribbing about religiosity is all right, I think. But in India we have a pointedly selective secularism. It involves testing the sensitivity boundaries of only Dharmic faiths. I have yet to see such systematic ridicule of Easter or Eid. This is why it is anti-Dharmic. 1/n

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@jai_menon

3 years

at least be original. Spare us the "Hindutva is lacking in intellectual heft" braindung. If they are so limited in capability & they're rattling you, it does not seem you will be able to handle the ones whom you don't know about yet. This is going to be fun I promise you 3/3. END

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@jai_menon

2 years

@TheEconomist A second-rate rag making a second-rate prediction without the courage to commit to "is premature" and fudging with "may be". Don't bother to read. I haven't for at least a decade and a half, and my forecasts have improved as a result.

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@jai_menon

2 years

Excellent specimen of the archetypal self-described "South Asia specialist" that the West has to offer. A cold war relic, this tweet below exemplifies the absolute disconnect & zero empathy that we must take for granted from such colonostalgic fossils.

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3 years

There are too many "journalists" who pretend they love freedom & democracy, but only want one party in power. If the people throw that party out of government, these journalists do their best to bring the government down. It is a shame. Even Harvard associate professors do this.

Nidhi Razdan

@Nidhi

3 years

There are too many middle class and affluent Indians who want India to be like China, who casually say democracy and human rights don’t matter. That’s because they don’t value the freedom and democracy India was founded on. Let’s see what they say when their rights are taken away

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@ShekharGupta Did the general actually write this, or was this an edit by The Print? There should be some elaboration. What are the shared concerns about Russia? From what is evident, hostile intelligence action by the 5-Eyes with the Khalistan history is worse than anything Russia has done.

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5 months

If it is true that the US President Biden committed to attend, and that he cancelled at this late date in a fit of pique, or because the US wanted to "send a message" over the Panun affair deliberately putting India in a tight spot, and French President Macron accepted Modi's

Rishap Vats

@VatsRishap

5 months

“Indian side was put in uncomfortable position of looking for a world leader to be chief guest for R-Day with a little more than six weeks to go for the event after the US didn’t take up the invitation"

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3 years

Virtually everything that comes out of that self-righteous gang is a recycling of Western regurgitate - just the source differs; previously, mostly the excretion of addled Maoist-Marxist minds to today's repulsive secretions of the woke crowds. If you are going to create crap 2/n

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This is the kind of mediocrity that is churned out of what they call "school" in Pakistan, I suppose. Apparently there was no "India" as a concept before British India. What did Columbus go looking for then, and once upon arriving there regarded the people as "Indians"? Not to

Nida Fatima Zaidi

@NidaFatimaZaidi

7 months

@aliamjadrizvi Pak was not carved out of Indian land. 1.There was no "India" as such n concept of British India was 565 princely states (comprising lands of present Pakistan India Bangladesh) at the time of partition which were allowed through instrument of assencion to join either dominion

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@jai_menon

4 months

@radsgops01 Nonsense. Those who need or want to use Hindi for whatever purpose, commercial, personal, political educational, or other will learn and use it. Just like they do English. Similarly, they will do the same with regional languages. Many already do.

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@jai_menon

1 year

Literally every tweet, opinion piece, by this lady can be summarised as follows: Modi/BJP/Government bad = whatever (a) they are being compared against, (b) policy they advocate, (c) reform they initiate, (d) claim they make. Tiresome and low quality.

Suhasini Haidar

@suhasinih

1 year

Tough piece by @KanakManiDixit that must be read closely "New Delhi’s response to ‘China in Nepal’ has been to stoop rather low, such as in refusing to import electricity from Nepal produced by hydropower plants built with Chinese investment or contractors. New Delhi has blocked

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@jai_menon

3 years

Received a couple of purported snapshots of the Greta-Disha dishoom dishoom on Whatsapp, below. Funny, how Greta - almost like a consultant - confuses a shit-storm with a "hate storm" & Disha, who actually faced it, is the one apologizing. White master - Gungadin relationship.

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@jai_menon

2 years

Her competence on this issue, as pretty much on any in her ministry, is not just questionable but will prove unnecessarily damaging for her country in the years ahead. Germany has no responsibility in regard to Kashmir, any more than India has in the accession of East Germany.

Abhishek Jha

@abhishekjha157

2 years

Germany calls for UN's role in Kashmir issue. German FM @ABaerbock said: "Germany also has role and responsibility with regard to the situation in Kashmir, Therefore we support intensively the engagement of the United Nation, to find the peaceful solutions in the region."

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Longish post Have been observing, for a little while now, a strange parallel between Bollywood & politicians of the Congress ecosystem - a common inability to adjust to the paradigm shift in the Indian mindset. They seem not to realise that Indians for a couple of decades now,

Sameet Thakkar (Modi Ka Parivar)

@thakkar_sameet

4 months

90% Indians don't know what Airplane is so how can they understand my cult movie #Fighter says director @justSidAnand

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2 years

You want comedy that is intelligent, subtle, incisive, family friendly, all-Indian & something every non-Indian must watch to get an idea of how India has changed, is changing and has yet remained the same? Watch @AiyyoShraddha THIS is comedic genius!

Aiyyo Shraddha

@AiyyoShraddha

2 years

Kaum Banaayega Karodpa-tea?

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@saurabhtodi Nothing paradoxical about it. Indians want to choose their leader by direct democracy, want that leader to rule with an authoritarian hand & military discipline along with technocratic expertise, and reject direct military rule. If there's a problem, it's the study methodology.

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For all the talk of Fascism, it is rather interesting to note how quickly many in Europe seem rather nostalgic for it these days. The tendency was highlighted, ironically, in the arts scene. The Munich Philharmonic & the Rotterdam Philharmonic cut their ties with conductor 1/n

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1 year

A stable and prosperous Pakistan can only be in India's interest if a stable and prosperous India is explicitly stated and demonstrated to be in Pakistan's interest over decades, not weeks, months or years. If Pakistan wants peace, all it has to do is be peaceful.

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@jai_menon

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This guy does not realize how much of a caricature of the brown-nosing Gungadin he has become. Forever finding ways to explain India to US colleagues, neighbours, family... Can't accept real India: colourful, accepting, not coordinated, not sterile, not Western! Just love it man!

Sadanand Dhume

@dhume

9 months

People get upset if you point out the obvious coarsening of Indian public life over the past decade. But it’s hard to imagine any other time when a foreign dignitary would have been welcomed to India in this manner. #G20 #G20India #G20Delhi

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@jai_menon

2 years

What a lot of people are unwilling or unable to accept is that these "thinktanks" are often directly or indirectly instruments of one state or another. Each of them - V-Dem, Freedom House, Amnesty International, Transparency International, etc. - follow a narrative that 1/n

Christopher Clary

@clary_co

2 years

You know what: it wasn’t V-Dem that installed spyware on journalists’ phones, it wasn’t Freedom House that raided a respected think tank in Delhi, it wasn’t Polity that forced Ashoka to dump Pratap Bhanu Mehta.

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@jai_menon

2 months

@NayanimaBasu Why is it in India's interest to help stabilize Pakistan, when Pakistan has demonstrated over decades its interest in destabilizing India? (5 marks)

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