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Jul 10 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
#SriLankaProtests illustrate results when bigoted policy intersects economic incompetence.

Bodu Bala Sena appropriated non-violent Buddhism to fuel majoritarianism in #SriLanka. Various Hindutva elements appropriate syncretic Hinduism to drive supremacist nationalism in India... Image
The Rajapaksa clan patronized the BBS.

#GotabayaRajapaksa inaugurated their "Buddhist Leadership Academy" in 2013, saying it's of "timely importance” & "they are engaged in a nationally important task & should not be feared or doubted by anyone"...
colombotelegraph.com/index.php/gota…
The monks who lead the BBS have been accused of hate speech, instigating riots, leading vigilante attacks.

Sounds familiar?...
newsclick.in/monks-who-spew…
The BJP/RSS and BBS have fed off each other:

“We wish we had a leader like Modi... we are inspired by BJP/RSS... we will launch a party modelled on them to protect Buddhist culture in Sri Lanka." - Dilantha Withanage, chief executive of BBS in 2015.
indianexpress.com/article/politi…
The RSS and BJP "ideologue", Ram Madhav was pretty sympathetic in his portrayal of the Bodu Bala Sena, as far back as 2013.
rammadhav.in/articles/bodu-…

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This account, whose sources are discussions with Nana Chudasama, RSS/Jan Sangh publications, says the British "most feared and hated" RSS & Jan Sangh.

Fearing & hating Jan Sangh is anachronistic revisionism. It was founded in October 1951, well after the Brits had left..
As for the RSS and the Hindu Mahasabha, the flag-bearers of Hindutva pre-Independence: What were they doing while the Indian National Congress was repeatedly agitating for freedom?

When INC demanded independence in 1939... Image
When INC launched the Quit India Movement in 1942... Image
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Hey @ShekharGupta, you claim that WHO estimate of India's #COVID fatalities is based on zero data, just modeling.

After sifting all data compiled in this 🧵, provided by journalists who took their vocation seriously including in @ThePrintIndia, give us your undercount estimate..
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While Modi & sycophants devote themselves to guarding 56 inches, China intrudes kilometres deep into India, almost at will & with no consequences. Just a few incidents reported in Indian media (many of whom are complicit in the 56" protection plan)... ⬇️
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If today's ruling dispensation somehow seized power on #15August 1947, notwithstanding its cowardly absence from the freedom struggle, what country would it have created? This thread of Golwalkar's thoughts & Organiser (RSS mouthpiece) OpEds offers clues..
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It didn't even wait for #IndependenceDay to declare its cultural nationalism, publishing this editorial on 14th Aug 1947... Image
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Rumours, of the tapping of Indian political, judicial & media figures, using Israeli NSO Group's Pegasus platform, are circulating. The Modi govt has allegedly purchased the platform (Pegasus is only sold to govt agencies).

This thread might be worth re-visiting:
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israeldefense.co.il/en/node/44436
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Since Modi slid into the driver's seat, consumer fuel prices are "market-dictated" only on paper.

To ward off blow-back, BJP trolls peddle an Oil Bonds narrative to justify the world's worst oil & gas pricing/tax regime.

Do their 2 claims have any basis in fact? 🧵...
1. Who created Oil Bonds?

September 2000, Vajpayee-led NDA Govt's Petroleum Minister Ram Naik on fuel pricing regime:
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