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Saib Bilaval
@SaibBilaval
Associate Editor: Three Essays Collective; Historian. PhD@JNU: Saffron Propaganda in 1940s+50s; Journalist: Indian+US politics https://t.co/aQdhn0V7WO
May 28, 2023 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Given the inauguration of the new Parliament house by the PM on RW icon Savarkar's birth anniversary, as well as the PM's desperation to overshadow Nehru,

Here's a short🧵 of some of my published pieces on these themes: Image On the plan to create a Hindu Rashtra in all but name. 2017.
sabrangindia.in/article/glimps…
Dec 25, 2022 • 23 tweets • 4 min read
There is no such thing as a BJP moderate and short-sighted media must see that sooner than later.

A quick thread 🧵 why: Moderate politicians never really existed in the BJP, nor did they in its predecessor, the Jana Sangh, or even the Hindu Mahasabha as a matter of fact - as we shall see.
Dec 24, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
ANNOUNCEMENT 🧵 from Three Essays Collective!

Paperback reprints of The Present in Delhi's Pasts by Sunil Kumar are now available in India!

An essential book in any serious reading list on the history of Delhi.

🛒: amazon.in/dp/B0B2LRM6P6?…

#booktwitter
#publisherstory More about the book:

#BookRecommendations

Dec 6, 2022 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
Things that changed in 🇮🇳 w Ram Janmabhoomi Movt/#Ayodhya/#BabriMasjid Demolition, a thread 🧵:

1. Daily, yearlong RW propaganda from the 80s onwards finally made most Hindu school kids esp in Hindi belt communal. 90s saw an increase in slurs & discrimination against Muslim kids 2. Post Kargil War, post-Godhra and pogrom, the victim community was blamed simply for their identity and targetting in all spheres of life escalated further.
Dec 6, 2022 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
Brief reading list thread 🧵 on Ayodhya/Ram Janmabhoomi Movt and Babri Masjid demolition + communal contexts. A lil offbeat:

One of the greatest post-Ayodhya Hindi poetry collections, and of all time.

दस बरस: हिंदी कविता अयोध्या के बाद, Ed by Asad Zaidi, 2 vols, from 2002. ImageImage Slouching Towards Ayodhya: From Congress to Hindutva in Indian Politics

By Radhika Desai

[Published by us, includes a chapter on Gujarat as well]

amzn.eu/d/hc8prqc ImageImage
Dec 4, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
ANNOUNCEMENT🧵 from Three Essays Collective!

Paperback reprints are now available in India for -

Opium City: The Making of Early Victorian Bombay

By Amar Farooqui

🛒: amzn.eu/d/1XacUnY Image Opium City: The Making of Early Victorian Bombay

By Amar Farooqui

Indian paperback edition price Rs.500/-
amzn.eu/d/1XacUnY
Nov 22, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Wow I'm a UC.

Dude must be a social scientist..lemme check...oops 🤡 Data shows that Ashraf Muslims are at the economic lvl of Hindu OBCs. That's all i said.
Nov 22, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Probably bait, but nvm:

Maybe read the Sachar Committee Report & understand that Muslims don't "dominate" the informal sector (& now gig economy),

but that they're pushed to the fringes of livelihood making (esp post-Partition) & you're trying to push them out of even that? minorityaffairs.gov.in/reports/sachar…
Nov 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
End of an ara.

Prof Amar Farooqui, whose book Opium City is one of our favorite titles at Three Essays Collective, retired today from the Department of History, Delhi University. ImageImage More about the book:

Nov 20, 2022 • 14 tweets • 9 min read
ANNOUNCEMENT🧵 from Three Essays Collective!

We've re-released, in Kindle edition globally & print editions in major foreign markets (via Amazon):

The Everyday Life of Hindu Nationalism: An Ethnographic Account

By Shubh Mathur

🛒: amazon.in/dp/B0B2L7MQ28?… Image The Everyday Life of Hindu Nationalism: An Ethnographic Account

By Shubh Mathur

Tags: Culture, #Fascism, #Gujarat, Hinduism, #Hindutva, Islam, Justice, Muslims, #Nationalism

The Kindle edition in India is just ₹150!
amazon.in/dp/B0B2L7MQ28?…
Nov 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Thanks for getting it! Would love to hear your thoughts once you finish reading!

This is definitely an essential read for understanding the state response to communal mass violence, with tons of RTIs retrieving information not accessible previously to any researchers. The companion volume, Splintered Justice, is also an important read:

Oct 15, 2022 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
You can't make this up.

A top exec - head of info-security at Meta, resurrected his barely used Twitter account to spread:

1️⃣Misinformation on Twitter about Instagram
2️⃣Fake news about @thewire_in
🤯

This is precisely how tech companies compromise on their own policies. 🧵 Why do pro-Palestinian posts get taken down a zillion times faster than anything else, then?

Oct 10, 2022 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
Why is the social media game so rigged in favor of the saffron RW in India? A quick #thread of some important reads:
📌🧵 Extremely important piece on special privileges given to ppl like Amit Malviya to post what they want w/o moderation and to have posts he reports automatically and instantly removed without a content moderation process.
By @jahnavi_sen
thewire.in/tech/amit-malv…
Oct 9, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Been covering US politics for nearly 6 years now as part of my journalism work. I've been a Bernie fan since 2010. I tweet about communalism all the time - also my research theme.

Attempting to school a minority community person that "there's a lot happening in India" wow 🤡 Maybe mind your own business & mute/unfollow me instead of entitled, toxic egging on of minorities/policing their tweets? Or just read someone's bio for reasons why 🙃

Unfortunately your rona dhona is self-inflicted because i certainly never asked you to follow me. Now shoo. 😆
Oct 8, 2022 • 11 tweets • 7 min read
ANNOUNCEMENT🧵 from Three Essays Collective!

We've re-released, in Kindle edition globally & print editions in major foreign markets (via Amazon):

On Communalism and Globalization: Offensives of the Far Right

By Aijaz Ahmad

#AcademicTwitter
🛒: amazon.in/dp/B0B1ZQG24D/… Image On Communalism and Globalization: Offensives of the Far Right - Aijaz Ahmad

Available for just ₹150 for the Kindle edition in India.

Tags: #Ayodhya, Culture, #Globalization, #Marxism, #NeoImperialism, #Fascism, #SouthAsia, #AcademicChatter
amazon.in/dp/B0B1ZQG24D/…
Aug 29, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Interfaith couples and families in India are facing an unprecedented attack in India from both H and M communities. Just from the last few days till now, a small megathread:

Please amplify, just this once even if you aren't too keen - this is about equal civil and human rights: Vandalism of a mosque and majoritiarian unrest led by RSS and Bajrang Dal over an interfaith elopement. Muslim man, Dalit woman. Woman's family hostile - a thread:
Aug 29, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Interfaith couples & families often face social discrimination from both sides + even hate & "honour" crimes from their respective communities.

Now, they're being used as an occasion for saffronites to t-rr0rize minorities in the locality. Toxic notions of community conquest. “In the mob were locals & representatives of a mix of organisations like the Bajrang Dal & RSS. Shera Yadav & Shubham are still moving around freely. No arrests have been made, which is contributing to the continuation of fear in the region. Ppl are leaving temporarily..”
Aug 28, 2022 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
The irony of a 4 hr long all-Muslim Twitter space asking Mayawati to convert to Islam [instead of Buddhism] by: Image 1️⃣Randomly citing a 2017 statement by Mayawati on the anti-conversion bill to kickstart a random discussion/lafda.

2️⃣Citing Periyar (an atheist 🤣) Image
Aug 28, 2022 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
ANNOUNCEMENT🧵 from Three Essays Collective!

We've re-released, in Kindle edition globally & print editions in major foreign markets (via Amazon):

To Make the Deaf Hear: Ideology and Programme of Bhagat Singh and His Comrades

By @irfhabib

🛒: amazon.in/dp/B0B2BJQLNJ/… Tags: Congress, Ideology, Nationalism, Socialism

It's at Rs 195 for the eBook! Paperback copies are still available in India for around 315 bucks!
amazon.in/dp/B0B2BJQLNJ/…
Aug 26, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Destroy them daddy 😤😤💅🏾
Aug 26, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Bernie Sanders, the man that made abolishing student debt a popular issue in US national politics.

Read his autobiography here. Available in paperback in India, published by us:
🛒: amzn.eu/d/3wm4wSd

#StudentDebt #studentloanforgiveness Image Bernie Sanders’ campaign for the presidency of the US has galvanized people all over the country, putting economic, racial, & social justice into the spotlight, & raising hopes that Americans can take their country back from the billionaires & change the course of history. Image