Is this guy stupid or what? After first escalating things to the extent of accusing the #Indian govt on the floor of Parliament of carrying out an assassination on Canadian soil, he says he doesn't want to provoke or escalate! Then what was he doing all along? Firstly it is...

https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1704130603132809692

incumbent on him to establish the basis on which he has made the allegations. Second, he must provide proof, clear & incontrovertible. Third, he must answer a series of Qs starting from how a man who entered #Canada on a fake passport got citizenship & continued to be sheltered..

What #Savarkar got was not a 'stipend' or 'pension,' as Congress alleged, but an allowance from the British Raj. Others who got such an allowance from the British Raj were the Bose brothers Subhas & Sarat Chandra, Mahatma Gandhi & so many other Indian freedom fighters. A small 🧵

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When the #British imprisoned #Indians or held them as detenus or internees, usually in cases where there were no charges & no trials (as when Savarkar was interned in Ratnagiri from 1924 to 1937), they paid a monthly allowance to them for 'loss of income' so they (in terms of..

There were 2 deities at the centre of Chhatrapati Shivaji’s religious & spiritual consciousness. One was Lord Shiva, whom he invoked in his battle cry of ‘Har Har Mahadev.’ The other was Goddess #Bhavani. One of the avatars of #Durga, Bhavani was Shivaji’s patron goddess. A🧵 Her temple at Tuljapur - where she also takes the name ‘Tulja Bhavani’ or simply ‘Tulja - was for him the holiest of holies. Before every battle & before every campaign, small or big, Shivaji prayed to his Mother Goddess. His contemporary chronicler Parmanand wrote that just...

#SC says no stay on proceedings before the Election Commission in case related to #Maharashtra politics
#EC Application by Uddhav Thackeray faction dismissed by apex court

As a biographer of Balasaheb Thackeray & chronicler of the Shiv Sena's history, the most fascinating thing I've seen over the past year is how the very same people -- from Bollywood, media, academia, society's so-called 'elite' -- who could never stand the sight of the Sena...

https://twitter.com/RuhiTewari/status/1295660597888000000

... and those who refused to grant it the most basic legitimacy as a political party, those who never described it as anything but a bunch of lumpens undeserving of any engagement & believed it to be politically untouchable, and those who would never even utter...