A well-planned divisive misleading narrative is being circulated to divide people on the basis of caste. For past few years misinformation related to a fictional topic #Mulakaram or #BreastTax spreading with help of western media (1/11)
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Hate & Misinformation spreader "The Dalit Voice" said during the Travancore Kingdom, Dalit/OBC women were not "allowed" to cover their breasts unless they paid a tax. The fee was determined by the size of their breasts. This is absolute #Fake narrative and fictional .(2/11)
The News about "breast tax" is being circulated occasionally since 2016, when Anti-India BBC reporter Divya Arya reported on a series of paintings by artist Murali T on Nangeli. But magically original blogpost of his deleted after .(3/11)
A portrayal by the Dutch traveller Johan Nieuhof, paying a visit to the Queen of Quilon and showed her with her breast uncovered. In his book "Voyages and Travels to the East-Indies" a Malabar man and woman can be seen with naked upper body.(4/11)
George Woodcock in his book ‘Kerala: A Portrait of the Malabar Coast’wrote -Vasco da Gama & compatriots’ visit to the Malabar Coast in the 15th
Century & detailed the natives as“They are all black-skinned and go stark naked,both males & females except for gay loin-cloths.”(5/11)
A similar scene is painted by Captain Alexander Hamilton in his travels in the 17th
Century recorded in the book ‘A New Account of The East Indies’. Here he describes the Queen and her daughters as being "all naked above the waist and barefooted".(6/11)
John Henry Grose in his book‘A Voyage to the East Indies’written in 1776,“The women of those countries are not allowed to cover any part of their breasts,to the naked display of which they annex no idea of immodesty, which in fact ceases by the familiarity of it to the eye”(7/11)
Italian traveler Pietro della Valle visited Calecut,1624 wrote "two girls about twelve years old enter’d at the same Gate whereat we came in: they were all naked, saving that they had a very small blew cloth wrap’d about their waist".Girls were the King’s nieces(princesses)(8/11)
F Fawcett carrying out an anthropological study in his book "Nayars of malabar"in 1901,wrote about the dresses of Nair women-"A short cloth is worn somewhat tight round the loins,and over it is worn another cloth from the waist to below the knee. Nothing is worn above waist(9/11)
Superintendent of Cochin State Ethnography of British India, Diwan Bahadur L.K. Anantha Krishna Iyer wrote "the absence of any covering for the bosom in ordinary female dress has drawn much ridicule on the Nayars, and this custom has been much misunderstood by foreigners."(10/11)
During the times even the Royal ladies(Cochin Rani < 100 years ago) cared less if their upper body was uncovered. In fact,nobody seemed to be minding.Numerous pictures(even Brahmin family) in travel diaries are prove of that, hence #Nangeli story is nothing but fiction(11/11)
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FACT: A video of people fighting with each other is being spread with a misleading claim that a Kashmiri Hindu family who dared to go back to Kashmir and build their house at Verinag were attacked by their Muslim neighbors. (1/4)
District administration Anantnag clarified the situation arose from a minor dispute between two neighbors over the use of approximately 3 Marlas of state land. This portion of land was being used for private parking by the parties involved. (2/4)
The conflict emerged when one party attempted to erect a boundary wall on this state land, which the other party objected to, leading to a heated exchange.
The civil and police administration promptly reached the spot, and mediated between the parties (3/4)
South Asia Solidarity Group (SASG) an anti-India organization based in the UK, part of SOAS University, working against India's interests. Summarizing their propaganda against India and highlighting the key people tarnishing India's image on the global stage.(1/11)
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Nirmala Rajasingam, SASG member and the founder of the Sri Lanka Democracy Forum (SLDF) claims Narendra Modi forced Sri Lanka to accept Gautam Adani. Fact is that India helped Sri Lanka during the financial crisis & US invested $553 million in Gautam Adani’s Sri Lanka port.(2/11)
SASG founder Amrit Wilson is known for her anti-India stance, her OCI card was canceled last year, and her daughter Kalpana Wilson is the head of SASG, which is known to be a partner of several anti-India organizations like ICIM, The London Story, IAMC etc. (3/11)
FACT: News is being circulated claiming that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his 92nd episode of 'Mann Ki Baat', had said that conducting bhajans can be part of the solutions to reducing malnutrition. Fact is that this claim is fake and baseless. (1/4)
PM Narendra Modi said "Can you believe that devotional songs can be used to fight malnutrition? In Madhya Pradesh's Datia district, under the 'Mera Bachcha Abhiyan', this was successfully done. ‘Bhajan’ events were organized, and teachers dubbed 'Poshan Gurus' were invited. (2/4)
A 'Matka' program was also organized, in which women brought fistfuls of grain to their Anganwadi centers. The grain was used for cooking the Saturday 'Bal Bhoj.' This not only helped increase the attendance of children at Anganwadi centers but also reduced malnutrition. (3/4)
"Intellectual and professor" Nitasha Kaul was barred from entering India and deported to London. She claims this happened because the Congress-ruled Karnataka govt had invited her to speak on democratic & constitutional values.
But everyone should know the truth.(1/13)
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This denied entry of a so-called journalist of Overseas Citizen is no accident. From testifying against India in the US Congress about Kashmir to having connections with anti-India organizations HfHr, IAMC, and Stand with Kashmir, she has it all in her resume. (2/13)
Nitasha Kaul is secretly married to Gay rights activist Dibyesh Anand, who gained popularity by claiming himself as a gay activist. He is very vocal about India, like giving an Aljazeera interview about the CAA protest or attending anti-India seminars with spouse, Nitasha. (3/13)
A #Fake account circulating old videos from different locations claiming to be from different places and targeting a particular community (Hindu) using false narratives against Ram Temple in Ayodhya and caste. Here are some fake claims from her timeline. (1/11)
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A video circulated of community meal claiming Cow dung and urine being served to devotees in Ayodhya. This video was uploaded on Reddit 9 months ago, as per Reddit user, free food was served in a village in Bangladesh. (2/11)
Video shows teacher beating student for throwing flowers at the girls in "Gita Jayanti Samaroh" in Faridabad, shared as Organizers beat Dalit boy Vishnu for throwing flowers during Ram temple function in Ayodhya. (3/11)
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FACT:A news making rounds claiming that mainly Muslim sculptors are making the idols of "Ram Lala" at Ayodhya Ram Mandir. Fact is that this news is deliberately used to hide that regardless of any religion,sculptors are hired for #RamMandirAyodhya (1/4)
As per reports, mainly three famous sculptors have been sculpting idols of "Ram Lala" in Ayodhya since April this year. Ganesh Bhatt and Arun Yogiraj of Karnataka and Satyanarayan Pandey of Rajasthan were among the sculptors who created the statues. (2/4)
Ganesh Bhatt is making the idol from Karnataka's Nellikaru rock (black stones). Mysore's famous sculptor, Arun Yogiraj, makes the statue from another rock obtained from Karnataka. This rock is also dark in color, as per Shri Ram. Satyanarayan Pandey is sculpting (3/4)