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May 26 7 tweets 3 min read
#8YearsofModiGovt : India is in a state of 'policy stasis'

⛳️The government’s policy to control inflation is wobbly and jerky, it is raising export duties, and reducing import duties

⛳️The economic populism of #AatmanirbharBharat has dragged India into a quagmire

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⛳️Tariffs were raised and imports banned in the name of #AatmanirbharBharat

⛳️The government has banned the export of wheat despite India carrying large surplus stocks

⛳️The government is now running one of the largest fiscal deficits in India’s history

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⛳️Wholesale inflation is at its worst in 30 years

⛳️Consumer inflation is well above tolerable limits, and is likely to stay there for many months

⛳️Foreign portfolio investors have withdrawn their investments in droves

⛳️India’s foreign exchange reserves are dwindling

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⛳️It seems quite likely that remaining two years of the Narendra Modi government will be 'low growth' and 'high inflation' years

⛳️Even if one assumes growth of 7 percent a year, India’s GDP would grow at about 3.5 percent a year in Modi’s second five-year term

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⛳️Indian economy never recovered since #demonetization master stroke

⛳️The government’s privatization program floundered

⛳️Scars of unimaginative lock-down in 2020 are still visible on economy

⛳️It will be the lowest growth performance of any government in many decades

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🇮🇳Unemployment - Check✔️
🇮🇳High Inflation - Check✔️
🇮🇳Slow Economic Growth - Check✔️
🇮🇳Mounting Debt - Check✔️
Deep Recession - On the way⏱️

India elected Modi out of a policy paralysis-era in 2014, today, staring at lowest growth performance in decades
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Sanātana Dharma🛕

𝐓𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 wasn't a Vedic institution

Temple's origin was intertwined with the evolution of pooja, a form of idol worship based on the agamas and tantras, different from the sacrifice-based worship of the Vedas

Vedic orthodoxy resisted Temple worship

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100s of temples were built across India during 12th century by various kingdoms

Focus of religious life shifted to the temple.

With inheritable land endowed for its maintenance, the temple became an economically autonomous institution, wielding great power and influence

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Temple helped in cementing the agrarian and other economic relations of the day as well as in forging new ties of trade, kinship, matrimony and fealty

The making and consolidation of inheritable religious identities was part of this temple-centered process

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Dec 31, 2021
A word regarding the ideal of life, Manu has sought to place before a woman

It had better be stated in his own words in 5 verses
(In contrast, before Manu, Atharva Veda clearly states that a woman was entitled to Upanayan)

(5 tweets) #manusmritidahandivas
V. 150. She must always be cheerful, clever in the management of her household affairs, careful in cleaning her utensils, and economical in expenditure
V. 151. Him to whom her father may give her, or her brother with the father’s permission, she shall obey as long as he lives and when he is dead, she must not insult his memory
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Dec 31, 2021
Women in Pre-Manu days were highly respected in India

Public disputation between
Janaka & Sulbha
Yajnavalkya & Gargi
Yajnavalkya & Maitrei
Shankaracharya & Vidyadhari
Shows that Indian women in pre-Manu’s time could rise to the highest pinnacle of learning and education

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The study of the Veda was forbidden to women by Manu as it was to the Shudra

II. 66. Even for a woman the performance of the Sanskaras are necessary and they should be performed. But they should be performed without uttering the Veda Mantras

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IX. 18. Women have no right to study the Vedas. Their Sanskars are performed without Veda Mantras. Women have no knowledge of religion because they have no right to know the Vedas. As women cannot utter the Veda Mantras they are as unclean as untruth is

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Dec 29, 2021
‘The Woman and the Counter-Revolution’
Riddles in Hinduism

A small thread from Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
I urge you to retweet if you like what is said here

Manu can hardly be said to be more tender to women than he was to the Shudra.

He starts with a low opinion of women

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Manu proclaims

II. 213. It is the nature of women to seduce men; for that reason the wise are never unguarded in the company of females

II. 214. Women are able to lead astray in this world not only a fool, but even a learned man, and to make him a slave of desire and anger

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Manu proclaims

II. 215. One shouldn't sit in a lonely place with one’s mother, sister or daughter; for the senses are powerful, and master even a learned man

IX. 14. Women don't care for beauty, nor is their attention fixed on age; they give themselves to handsome and ugly

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Nov 8, 2021
"Corruption & Black money are accepted as a part of life. This thinking has afflicted our politics, administration and society like an infestation or termites. None of our public institutions is free from these termites"

Now is the time to change this
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125 crore Indians fought a decisive battle and WON #AntiBlackMoneyDay. Tell me what do you feel about the efforts to uproot corruption & black money?

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𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐦

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In spite of insurgencies in Punjab, Kashmir, Ladakh, Assam and Arunachal, Entire Indian public's attention was on a dispute over the status of certain mosque in a small town in UP

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Reason why this dispute took central stage over national security and social welfare is the result of relentless political campaign by BJP RSS VHP for decades that the past, present and future of Indian nation be considered around a notion of 𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘵𝘷𝘢, "Hinduness"

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This campaign of Political Hinduism became possible with the imagination of "India" starting 19th century British Colonial India

During the freedom struggle, political leaders imagined a nation, "India, that is Bharat", to unite people

We will see how this led to Hindutva

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