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@KumarSeshadri
Jun 21 • 11 tweets • 15 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
There's no news of #Modi's visit to the #US when you turn on #CNN on TV in India.

So I looked up #NBC online.

I had to scroll past 11 screens to find any news of Modi's visit.

#XiJinping, on the other hand, was on the first screen.

These are the first six screens.

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Things more important than #Modi to the #USA:

1. Missing #titanicsubmarine
2. #Biden calls #Xi a dictator
3. Two people killed in #Georgia
4. Charges against #HunterBiden
5. Sweltering heat in #Texas
6. Judge strikes down #Arkansas ban on transition care for minors

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7. House vote on impeaching #Biden
8. Supreme Court #Alito
9. Limit #Chinese purchase of #US farmland
10. #Sanders to investigate #Amazon safety record
11. NH senator assaults employee
12. #Iowa building collapse
13. #Idaho man shoots 4
14. US ranks 43rd on #gender parity

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15. Pilot arrested in Scotland for showing up drunk
16. Search for actor #JulianSands resumes
17. #Biden warns #Putin nuke threat is real
18. #AndrewTate to face rape trial in #Romania
19. #ParisOlympic corruption

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20. #Italian prosecutor demands cancellation of birth certificates for #lesbian #couples
21. #American woman who was pushed into ravine near #Neuschwanstein castle is out of hospital
22. Man threw phone at #BebeRexha
23. #PaxtonWhitehead, "#Friends" actor, dies at 85

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24. "#PriceisRight" contestant celebrated so hard he dislocated his shoulder
25. #Kesha almost died after egg freezing complication
26. #TaylorSwift added 42 stops to her tour
27. #Smosh co-founders reunite to acquire comedy brand from #RhettLink

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28. Bipartisan commission on #AI: too late?
29. Ex-influencers speak about their lives after leaving social media
30. Boaters make daring rescue after houseboat capsizes
31. #RFKJr's anti-vaccine crusade
32. #Blackmermaids at #ConeyIsland parade
33. Sales of e-cigs soar

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34. HCA hospitals accused of pushing patients towards hospice
35. Screen all adults under 65 for anxiety, health panel says
36. #NovoNordisk sues clinics allegedly selling copycat versions of #Ozempic and #Wegovy

And, finally, at #37:

#ElonMusk meets with #NarendraModi

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So, basically, nobody in the US cares about #Modi.

That's not his fault, though. It's because #India is a lightweight, underdeveloped country.

Of course, he had nine years in power to change it. He didn't, because his priority was religious polarization, not development.
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Jun 23
It was too late to watch #ModiInUSA's address to the joint session of the #USCongress last night, so I saw the recording today.

First impressions: #boring and #stale. #Modiji, please get some better speechwriters. I found myself drifting as the speech went on and on...

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...and often had to rewind because I had missed some of the mind-numbing speech as my mind drifted to more interesting things.

But then, this is an important event, I reminded myself, and forced myself to watch the speech that should have, at most, been half as long.

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My deepest, heartfelt sympathies to the members of the US Congress.

Coming to the content: this was one of the most dishonest speeches yet written.

1.
 India the mother of #Democracy??

No. #India was a land of absolute monarchies before the #British conquered it by 1857.

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Jun 22
Indians are an interesting group.

At a personal level, 99.99% of Indians despise their country and will do everything they can to leave India and settle abroad.

But nobody should talk about it. Because it embarrasses us.

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reuters.com/world/us-ease-…
"Indian citizens are by far the most active users of the U.S. H-1B program and made up 73% of the nearly 442,000 H-1B workers in fiscal year 2022."

In fact, in the Indian marriage market, a bride or groom with a job in the US is in extremely high demand.

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"Each year, the U.S. government makes 65,000 H-1B visas available to companies seeking skilled foreign workers, along with an additional 20,000 visas for workers with advanced degrees. The visas last for three years and can be renewed for another three years."

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Jun 22
Anyone who has seen my timeline knows that I am not a fan of Modi or the BJP. I think they are ruining India with their brand of bigotry and will cause India to be Balkanized.

BUT...I also believe that this is a problem for the people of India to solve. We are a democracy.

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We may be a flawed democracy, but we are a #democracy nevertheless, which means that ours is a government elected freely by the people of India.

Democracy does not ensure fairness or #HumanRights. This is true everywhere in the world. The #US was founded as a democracy.

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But the #USConstitution did not hold women equal to men, and allowed #slavery for nearly a hundred years after its founding.

Even after slavery was abolished, it took another 100 years for #Coloured people to have the same rights as #White people in America.

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Jun 21
And, just as Nehru paid the price for his hubris (Mao actually later said that he thought Nehru was strutting about too much and wanted to bring him down a notch or two), Modi today is paying the price for his hubris.

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Xi clearly wants to deflate Modi, especially because Modi refuses to stop provoking China. So China will not even consider vacating the area they have occupied since 2020 and, if India continues its hostile posture, Xi will continue to punish Modi, maybe by taking more.

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And, because Modi completely controls the media in India through his industry cronies, he is able to manage his people's anger or deflect it, just as Nehru and his successors could control the narrative after 1962.

The losers, sadly, are the people of India.

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Jun 21
Many liberals are amazed that people believe the obvious lies that the Modi government puts out about China. There's a clear inconsistency between Modi saying that China didn't take any territory and army commanders regularly meeting their Chinese counterparts to negotiate.

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They're practically begging the Chinese to leave, and the Chinese are refusing. If that were not the case, there would be no need to talk.

Also, the #Indian #Military position MUST BE WEAK, otherwise we would have kicked out the #Chinese. We simply cannot.

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So why isn't the Indian public angry with #Modi?

For the same reason they were not angry with #Nehru in 1962.

#Heroworship.

Indians have a tendency to place their heroes on a pedestal and worship them. As long as they are on that pedestal, they can do no wrong.

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Jun 19
This is why I do not think much of #SubhasChandraBose

Read this thread about the brutal treatment of #Malaya #Tamils by the Japanese in building the #DeathRailway

Bose wanted to take help from the Japanese in "liberating" #India.

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Why would the Japanese ever care about "liberating" India from #British rule?

The #Japanese were imperialists. They wanted to conquer all of Asia and the Pacific.

They had already annexed #Manchuria in 1931, and everyone knew about their brutal treatment of the #Chinese.

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The Japanese followed this up with the #RapeOfNanjing in 1937. This was followed by the establishment of #Unit731 in the city of #Harbin in Northeast #China, scene of one of the most egregious #CrimesAgainstHumanity in history, carried out by the #ImperialJapaneseArmy

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