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25 Dec, 13 tweets, 6 min read

Merry Christmas! How’s your Christmas going? Here is a collection of random tweets from Indian Twitter that will do India proud. Thread 👇1/n

The run up to Christmas started with Chavhanke running his Christmas special series on conversions. 2/n

A few days before Christmas, a ‘dharmic’ influencer started a campaign about whether Hindus should celebrate Christmas. 3/n

Right-wing blog OpIndia meanwhile thought it was an opportune time to dig out a 10+ year old video of Zakir Naik on Christmas greetings. 4/n

No Christmas is complete without Indology enlightening his followers. In fact he does it every year on Christmas. 5/n

Come Christmas Day, right-wingers start calls for Eco friendly Christmas. 6/n

PM Modi sends out his Christmas greeting, much to the angst of some of his followers. Why should we celebrate Christmas, they ask. 7/n

Others wishing Merry Christmas meet the same fate. The hate is now boiling over. 8/n

The ones with red flags in their tweets and DPs are most upset for some reason. 9/n

Hashtags on ‘Tulsi Pujan Diwas’ are trending. The idea of Tulsi Pujan diwas on Christmas was the brainchild of Asaram and his followers are busy tweeting stuff like, say no to Christmas, revive Vedic festivals, etc. 10/n

The initiative to celebrate 25th December as ‘Good Governance Day’ that was started in 2014 has lost steam but some BJP handles still remember it and extend their greeting. In fact they extend greetings for everything other than Christmas on Dec 25th. 11/n

Only thing missing this year is Postcard News article on Christianity = KrishnaNeeti. So here is an old screenshot to entertain you. 12/n

Christians form <2.5% of India’s population. Yet their festival rattles a certain section of people so much every year. Feel sorry for the haters and enjoy the day. Merry Christmas!🎄🎁 13/13

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