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@GorwayGlobal
Jan 17, 2023 • 11 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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Hindu pride and India's 'Soft Power must not be based on and cannot be built upon lies and fakery. Hinduism is bigger and better than that. A thread.
@NDTV ran this story
It showed a tweet on the occasion of #Pongal (#Sankranti) by British Prime Minister @RishiSunak (see pic), and claimed that the PM hosted a meal for his staff that was served by men in #veshti on banana leaves in the traditional style.
The original source for the story in @ndtv appeared to be a tweet by the BJP Rajya Sabha MP, Sonal ManSingh.
She is a noted Odissi classical dancer. She tagged the Indian prime Minister and her Party's official handle. It uncertain who she meant by "UK PM Office and defence"
Not just NDTV but many other Indian news outlets ran similar stories. here's Money Control and India Today's
Shubhi Mishra.
Free Press Journal fell for it too. No body seemed to ask why Rishi Sunak did not himself appear in the video. They obligingly posted a file picture of Mr Sunak along side to create the illusion that it was his party
Indian and Indian origin Twitter users were delighted to be fooled
Until boom live pricked the balloon. With this story.
boomlive.in/fact-check/fac…
Reporter Hazel Gandhi told us that the video that had by now gone viral in desi websites and internet and whatsapp chats was part of an elaborate hoax. yes there was a pongal meal served on banana leaves but it was in Waterloo, in Ontario Canada in a community hall!!
Conclusions of the story: quite a few.
1. If the story is too good to be true it probably is
2. Thai Pongal is an important festival in the Hindu calendar. Our culture is our culture. We do not need the white man's valdiation of our culture.
3. Important people like @sonal_mansingh got taken in and in their haste to curry favour with Power tagged the Prime Minister.
4. More to the point several news outlets got carried away and did not do basic sense checks.
Now I fully expect some dumbfuck ass-hole to ask me: "So You bloody Urban naxal what is so wrong if @RishiSunak serves @10DowningStreet staff a #Pongal meal on a #bananaleaf? Um UMM?"
Answer: Nothing, except that it didn't happen.

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An imprtant 🧵Communal harmony may have been put at risk by mischievous elements in India
There's a rumour circulating on @X which claims that beef and pig fat may have been used in the making of the famous Tirupati Temple Prasad Laddus.
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I.N.D.I. Alliance or INDIA alliance? Why is India's R/W ecosystem going insance over the @RahulGandhi clip where allegedly he was caught out when he said that the term "INDI Alliance was a BJP framing" that it was INDIA. So what's the truth?
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What is the dumbing down force that makes even people of some eminence put out stupid posts on social media. Posts that mislead, misinform and pander to a prejudice? Like this one from @sanjeevsanyal ? Mr Sanyal is not some cheap troll. He served as India's Prin Econ Adv 6 yrs Image
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1. The substance of the tweet suggests that Sweden is rethinking its policy on taking in refugees and migants, and is seeking to send them back.
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Of all the claims that @palkisu made in her fanciful @OxfordUnion debate on India under Modi, the most egregious was the claim about how, in the much dreaded queue at the UK Border Agency at Heathrow she observed throngs of Indians proudly presenting their INDIAN passports.
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what utter bollocks! what balderdash!
If at all any Indian traveller arriving at Heathrow is not so knackered and bushed after a 9 hour flight that he presentes his Indian passport with a proud flourish its because of pride that he has obtained a Visitor Visa
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Mar 11
This #50WordEdit from @ShekharGupta really takes the biscuit. He seems to have swallowed the usual Govt hype and self-praise about the recently concluded India-EFTA trade deal, and its description as a 100 billion USD deal. Let's delve behind the deal a bit shall we? Image
I presented an analysis of this deal in this twitter thread done a few weeks ago when it was still under negotiation.
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EFTA may have Europeean in its name - European Free Trade Association - but for avoidance of doubt it is not the European Union. EFTA is a customs area of 4 countries, Switzerland, Norway, Lichtenstein (a tiny city state of a mere 40,000 people)
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Tucked away in the new Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita is Sec 148, under which a policeman can order
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