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8 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Do you know that MSPs are transferred through DBTs everywhere except in Punjab, where it goes through intermediaries? myind.net/Home/viewArtic…
Most leftist career rabble rousers won’t tell you this about Punjab-tiller is usually not the landowner. Therefore poor farmer who toils on the field does not even get any benefit of the govt schemes. Check this report from March indianexpress.com/article/india/…
The ‘poor farmer’ image that we get from 50’s and 60’s Hindi cinema is not even applicable in Punjab. Absentee landlordism exists everywhere and most absentee landlords are NRI’s. Poor tillers are too scared to even tell you who their landowners are.
The poor farmer in Punjab is not the one who you are seeing on your TV screens. Poor farmer in Punjab is a man from Bihar who is toiling on the fields who does not even get DBT. @shwetankbhushan explains this in his piece

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9 Dec
I think at this point all negotiations should stop. Zamindari system was long abolished in India. This zamindari system that exists under cover in Punjab must go too in the interest of real tillers of the soil.
I don’t understand Left politics in this country. Haven’t Leftist parties always stood by poor and landless farmers? In this agitation they are standing by absentee landlords/neo zamindars and in a way propagating zamindari system of the yore. What kind of left politics is this?
What rich farmers and absentee landlords of Punjab essentially want is this - They want to keep growing sub- standard grains and then force the govt to buy it at a gun point. This is extortion. Farmer will have to grow what is in demand and will have to produce quality produce.
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26 Nov
There comes a time- in the life of nation as in the life of an individual, when you must make tough decisions and stand by them. It is time to say coercive religious conversions are human rights violation. No free society should accept forced conversion borne out of intimidation.
This becomes even more important in a society where majority DOES NOT proselytize. There is no point sugarcoating this. Few celebrities in South Mumbai and South Delhi cannot be a template for what is the lived reality of thousands.
Those who stand for Human Rights, those who stand for freedom, liberty and individual rights, must call out forced conversions. Those who stand for gender rights must stand for women having agency to not convert under intimidation.
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16 Nov
Thread-Seeing a lot of ‘template articles’ from Indian origin commentators who focus on India-US relationship. Here is the template 1) India-US relationship is beyond whoever occupies the White House 2) lot of progress has been made 3) Biden will ‘question’ India on Human Rights
Half of this commentary is lazy commentary.Other half is working on ‘pressurizing’ India to walk into the US camp because ‘Strategic Autonomy’ is just so ‘Indian’. India must choose a bloc -a commentator writing for a Indian newspaper made it palatable by calling it a system :)
There is no doubt in anybody’s mind that India-US cooperation is not just necessary but inevitable. There is lot of pro America sentiment in India today compared to Cold War era. No politician except loony far left, who will never come to power, promote antagonism with the US
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31 Oct
Since French secularism is sham (latest version of ‘I will behead and plead Victimhood’), I think France should be left alone with her sham secularism and those who seek true democracy and respect for all should move to Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan and China. Win-Win for all
I have no issue with Islamists as far as communication is concerned. Not once have they professed liberal values, not once have they batted for democracy. Fair enough. My problem is with leftists and faux liberals who argue with me that Muslim countries have every right to be +
Closed Islamic societies because majority wants it. Don’t force modernity on them because they have a right to be Islamic societies. Then why is France being told that their secularism is ‘brutal’. Laicite has strong approval from all French people. Right/left political spectrum
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22 Oct
If you really want to understand Kashmir issue, you must understand Pakistan’s invasion of Jammu and Kashmir on Oct 22nd, 1947. I highly recommend @rhinohistorian ‘s excellent book ‘India’s Wars- A Military History’ to understand what happened and how India emerged victorious.
Remember those who talk about plebiscite, UN intervention etc never mention Pakistan’s invasion of Kashmir in 1947- a well planned conspiracy to annex Jammu and Kashmir. This operation called ‘Operation Gulmarg’ was multi-pronged strategy to annex Kashmir with the help of Tribals
When Pakistan was formed, the very first thing it did was to launch operation Gulmarg - a conspiracy to use lashkars made up of Tribals to attack Kashmir.They were fully aided and given weapons by Pakistan army. As soon as Pakistan was formed they started using non state actors
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19 Oct
Dear @KamalaHarris Your niece hasn’t had the grace to apologize for the insensitive & offensive meme she posted and then quietly deleted.Your campaign must have assumed and rightly so that offending 1.2 billion Hindus globally and approximately 1 % of US population is no big deal
What could possibly be the downside of offending this peace loving minority in the US who are model citizens? What could be the ‘political backlash’ of trampling their emotions? None. Few angry tweets, maybe a couple of opeds, and maybe if it gets bad a peaceful protest somewhere
Your campaign has calculated correctly.Hindu minority in the US does not count for much electorally and why should you care about what they think outside of the US.These people who wake up every morning praying their intellect be illuminated (Gayatri Mantra) are hardly a threat
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