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Aug 13 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Tagging me, a friend wrote on his Facebook wall he couldn't have foreseen what a vile creature Aamir Khan was while watching #Sarfarosh as a college student in 1999. I was stunned by the Hindu naïveté. Sarfarosh was underwhelming.

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… I got a hint of where Aamir Khan was headed from the character of Mukesh Rishi, Inspector Saleem Ahmed. This was typical Bollywood fare where either the villain will be a Hindu or, …
… if he is a Muslim (Gulfam Hassan/Naseeruddin Shah), it will be balanced by a Muslim character who would be too good to be true…
… And there will be several Hindu villains to further 'balance' it: Govind Namdev as Veeran, Akhilendra Mishra as Rambandhu Gupta aka Mirchi Seth, Rajesh Joshi as Bala Thakur, etc.

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Aug 14
With no disrespect to Independence Day, it must be said 15 August 1947 was astrologically inauspicious. And the argument that astrology is superstition would not apply because the insistence on 15 August was not 'scientific' either.

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15 August 1947 was inauspicious for Independence or as one of the several official dates of the transfer of power. I say "one of the several" because Louis Mountbatten continued to be the governor-general even after that day and the post was then retained by C Rajagopalachari…
… Astrologers had advised not to accept the date and defer it by two more days, as they had waited for many years anyway and two more days wouldn't make the waiting significantly longer…
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May 17
Is it true that Gaurav Pradhan morphed the original Facebook display picture of Rahul Bhat and added the message "Stop killing Rohingya Muslims" to make the poor Kashmiri Pandit guy an object of hate among Hindus?

Rahul Bhat was eventually killed by Muslim terrorists.
Rahul Bhat's Facebook profile URL:

facebook.com/rahul.bhat.923
Original (left) and Fake (right)
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Nov 13, 2021
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कंगना रनौत की '1947 में भीख मिली थी' वाली टिप्पणी पर बहस जारी है। भाजपा ने भी पुरस्कृत अभिनेत्री से कन्नी काट ली है। कंगना कह सकती थीं कि 15 अगस्त 1947 में सत्ता का हस्तांतरण हुआ था, कह सकती थीं कि उस वक़्त देश को स्वतंत्रता नहीं बल्कि डोमिनियन स्टेटस दिया गया था। …
"भीख" क्यों कहा? भारत सदैव ही हमारा रहा है। हमारा देश, हमारा राष्ट्र कोई हमें भीख में कैसे दे सकता है? मुद्दा यह भी है कि इस बेतुके बयान के लिए हम भी ज़िम्मेदार हैं। हमने कंगना को सर-माथे पर क्यों बिठाया? …
कोई सेलेब्रिटी हमारे पक्ष में कुछ बोल दे तो हम उसके इशारों पर नाचने क्यों लगते हैं? यह प्रवृत्ति हमारी सोच की दीनता और हीन भावना दर्शाती है।
सेलेब्रिटीज़ को यूथ आइकन बनाना या ब्रांड अमबैसडर बनाना जोख़िम का सौदा है। ये बॉलीवुड वाले कब क्या बक दे, कोई भरोसा नहीं। …
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Oct 19, 2021
Calling Diwali 'Jashn-e-Riwaz' is part of an old linguistic tactic that Abrahamics have been employing for ages to belittle us. To begin with, they added 'ism' to 'Hindu' but 'ity' to 'Christian', implying ours is dogma, theirs is faith. Islam stays Arabic, … [thread begins]
… bearing no English language influence.

To say Diwali is a riwaz (custom) is to make the subtle point that the festival has no religious roots. Just as it is customary to greet people when we meet, we observe Diwali. No more serious than wishing 'good morning'!
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… Have you noticed that chaste Urdu speakers never refer to the script for Hindi, Devanagari, as Devvanagari? They call it Nagari ― implying there is no godly aspect to it. This is another subtle show of disregard for our culture…
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