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Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ Profile picture
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Jul 31, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
They keep talking about "structural discrimination." (Of course as copy cats of Western theory.)

But they are mum about the biggest state-based structural discrimination. Where by LAW, a non-English speaker can't plead in High Courts, SC, study in IIM, IIT, AIIMS, be a doctor...
It's a fraudulent argument to preserve English hegemony.

How does saying non-English speakers must be able to plead in Higher Courts, be able to study to be a doctor, engineer deny anyone? It is about creating access.

They don't want that access.

People don't *want* English medium. They want good jobs, they want access to technology, to Courts, to competitive exams. The govt denies them this.

The elite don't want them to rise. So instead of access, they say "let them learn English." That preserves English supremacy.
English-medium in rural areas *doesn't work.* Ask English elite if they'd send their kids to Chinese medium schools, where they don't know language, can't help.

Rural children in English medium are *worse* off. It *ensures* hegemony of English elite.

Parents are "wanting" English because in India's #EnglishApartheid system they see English as the barrier. But they don't know their kids will be worse off since they won't understand anything; will merely be fit to be chaprasis of the English elite.

Two candidates. One studied in a small town English-medium school in UP for 10 years, other in Hindi medium (UP Board).

Even in English the Hindi-medium one did better, let alone in math or science.

But the one on the left wasn't stupid. Just wasted 10 years of schooling. ImageImage

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Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ Profile picture
Dec 16
This is a direct quote from Sahih Al Bukhari.

Sahih means it is an authenticated hadith.

The terrorists are being authentic to what their prophet said.

Either your reject the prophet, or you follow this. Image
This is exactly the verse quoted in the Hamas charter.

This is what "from the river to the sea" means. It is a call for genocide. It's what all the pro-Palestine crowd is about.

You can check the verse yourself here:

sunnah.com/bukhari:2926
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Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ Profile picture
Dec 5
People keep saying—one day Islam will have its Reformation & become modern.

Wrong. The Islamic Reformation already happened.
The name: Sayyid Qutb (hanged 1966).

The result wasn’t modernism—it was Tehran 1979, Taliban, ISIS, al-Qaeda, and the biggest U-turn in 500 years. ↓ 1/Image
1970s → 2025

Women students in University in Teheran→Iranian morality police dragging a woman by her hair (2024)

Kabul University women graduating unveiled→Taliban padlocking a girls’ school (2023)

This is what “the real Islamic Reformation” looks like.

Who is Qutb?
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Sayyid Qutb

1940s: respected literary critic, and school teacher

1950: two years in America → came home convinced the entire modern world was a new paganism (jāhiliyyah)

1954-66: tortured in Nasser’s prisons → wrote the manifesto that lit the fire.

I read it for you.

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Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ Profile picture
Nov 30
China systematically demolished narratives of Islam and Christianity in China. It declared Islam a mental illness and made sure it controlled all Churches and Church appointments, only authorized sermons could be taught.

It colonized Tibet, inter-married, indoctrinated a Chinese-nationalist Tibetan generation.

India fanned separatism. It allowed false histories in Kashmir, separatism of language, promotion of Urdu and Persian script. It allowed mosques to preach hate and separatism. If it were acting like China, it would have outlawed Persian script and controlled every mosque and sermon. It would have taught the history of Islamic conquest and barbarity to every child. China can promote false narratives in Tibet for integration; India cannot even promote true narratives for what was always part of us.

Similarly in Punjab, India treated Khalistan as a law-and-order problem rather than a narrative war. It allowed fake separatist narratives to flourish. Rather than promoting scholars and narratives which show the unity of Sikhs and Hindus it allowed separatist narratives to flourish. What would China have done?

Same story in the North East. India gave a free reign to Baptist missionaries who converted the indigenous people and taught them to hate India. Separatism come downstream of that. There was no attempt by India to reverse the narrative.

The narrative soft war and the hard war must go together. If you ignore the soft war, you get stuck with constantly fighting the hard war. And the hard war victory will only be temporary tell the false narrative is overturned.
Absolutely, Dravidianism is another false narrative.

All great civilizations were bound by a common narrative. "Secularism" is not a narrative that can bind anything. Minoritism and appeasement create centrifugal forces which split the nation apart.

China's new set of XUAR Religious Affairs Regulations, 2024.

In this it is required that religions promote content for social harmony and interpret religious teaching and rules in line with China's requirements for development and "in line with traditional Chinese culture."

What if India said, mosques and Churches can only teach and promote what is in line with traditional Hindu culture of pluralism and teaching hate and separatism is a cognizable offence?Image
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Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ Profile picture
Nov 28
Reading the book "Hindu polity" and remembering that India has tried, experimented with, and forgotten more forms of governments than the West can remember.

And yet we think "democracy" was this great Western innovation to civilize us. Image
The A-rajak are non-ruled states. There is a Western fantasy of "egalitarian" society where all are equals with no rulers. (It's a fantasy because nowhere in the world it exists).

Well India tried it a few times. It doesn't work. It's where the word "arajakta" comes from.
The "Arajaka" state with the "rule of law" rather than of a person was a subject of derision, because it inevitably failed. But what evidence did we crown it as the best? Image
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Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ Profile picture
Nov 12
Reading "Two Centuries of Silence"—the lament of the Persians in having the barbaric Arab Muslims impose their religion and culture on the advanced Persian Civilization.

We are not the only ones with this lament. This happened across the world. We are the ones who survived. Image
There was really nothing much of value in Arab lands, and the little that was useful was ruled by the Persians who were looked up to by the Arabs. Image
This is the environment in which Islam emerges from.

"These Bedouin tribes led predatory lives and on their minds there was nothing but greed, profit worship, and what satisfied their most primitive desire...their life’s sole interests were lust, wine, and fighting."Image
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Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ Profile picture
Nov 1
Till people realize the level of violence Christianity brought to the world, it will continue.

Here are the killings from just the 20th century, setting aside medieval horrors and indigenous genocides.

Over 130 million dead. Image
Hitler was born and died a Christian. He was elected by Christians. His “final solution” was to the Christian problem of the existence of Jews.

But yeah, the spin to deny is real.
Non-Christian countries simply did not indulge in that scale of killing whatever the motivations.

Wouldn’t it be worth introspecting why Christians have created so much unending violence in the world?
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