Women and Ramayana

The epic reveals deeply entrenched gender inequalities of its period. It idealizes a fundamentally unequal social structure where women's experiences are systematically subordinate to male authority

🔎Let's explore lives of Sita, Ahalya, Manodari & Surpanakha 1. Sita
Consistently subjected to male-driven decisions
Her agency is perpetually limited by male authority figures
Repeatedly tested and judged by male standards of "purity" and "honour"

🎯Her worth is predominantly defined through her relationship to men (as wife, daughter)

Tulsi Gabbard's deep ties to Hindu Nationalism, a compromising geopolitical stance

Gabbard’s political history with Hindu nationalism could make her just as vulnerable to manipulation by the Indian govt as her Russian sympathies could make her vulnerable to manipulation by Putin Since her entry into national politics, Tulsi Gabbard has cultivated & benefited from ties to United States chapters of the Sangh Parivar

An India-based network of Hindu nationalist advocacy organizations that attempt to influence policy in the UK, Australia, and the U.S.A

🇨🇳Beijing, through aggressive policies, combined with significant government investment and enforcement, led rapid improvements in air quality between 2013-2017.

What can New Delhi learn from Beijing?
A thread, if you care🧵 1. Over 1,000 polluting factories were either shut down or moved outside Beijing's urban areas.

Major industries were required to install emissions control technology, and new industrial projects faced strict environmental assessments.

"Modern India's Most Dangerous Chief Justice? How Chandrachud Masked Authoritarianism with Liberal Charm" - @pbmehta

Like a skilled actor cast perfectly for the Modi era, Chandrachud masterfully used the façade of liberal constitutionalism to legitimize majoritarianism

Notes🧵 His handling of cases from Ayodhya to Kashmir created an environment where communal tensions thrived

Under his watch civil liberties eroded despite flowery pronouncements

His delayed responses to crucial cases like electoral bonds & Article 370 effectively neutered their impact

Indian Vegetarian Fascism

Meat eating Hindus are fighting a tough battle with the powerful Brahmanical lobby

Brahmanism invented Vedic formula
Brahmanism=Hinduism=Vegetarianism

Now the only way to win this fight is to invalidate their claim that "Vedas Prohibited Eating Beef" Rig Veda does NOT explicitly ban cow slaughter

However, it does place a high value on cows, which has contributed to development of cow protection practices in later Hindu traditions.

So what were the 'practical' reasons behind the reverence for cows in the Indian society❓

‘The cow was neither unslayable nor sacred in the Vedic period’

D.N. Jha,
Historian of ancient and medieval India

🎯Cattle sacrifices can be explained in terms of both economic and cultural factors.

A thread🧵 As you know, the Indo-Aryans migrated to India ~2nd millennium B.C.

They brought along with them several traits of Indo-European life, such as pastoralism, incipient agriculture and religious beliefs and practices including the practice of animal/cattle sacrifice.

𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹𝗿𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗶

🎯Misguided foreign policy has left India friendless in South Asia

⛔️Modi has made a series of miscalculations in his attempts to strengthen the country’s ties with neighbouring nations

TORU TAKAHASHI,
Nikkei, Japan Sri Lanka's newly elected president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, has criticized infrastructure projects undertaken by India's Adani Group in Sri Lanka and called for excluding Indian fishing boats from national waters

Is milk Non-Vegetarian?

Yes, 4 Incontrovertible arguments

#1. Milk is non-vegetarian food as its molecular structure and DNA that is found only in animals. This makes it non-vegetarian by origin.

Contd...👇 #2. Milk is non-vegetarian food as it contains 9 essential Amino Acids, Vitamin B12, and Cholesterol: These are all quintessentially non-vegetarian personalities.

New India: The Unmaking of the World’s Largest Democracy

"RSS has created a network of followers who don't question authority, which is its main strength and a danger to democracy"

Partha Banerjee, Ex RSS

‘Nobody knows what I know’... long read🧵 RSS’s loyal cadre “are very honest personally”

The purity of their hatred is the result of following their own doctrines honestly. They peddle hate, but do it very, very sincerely. It was almost like God’s work

They see themselves as servants to an imaginary 'Hindu motherland'

Since #AmitShah is trending - let's discuss Sohrabuddin and Loya

Year was 2005

A small group of plain-clothed policemen pulled over a bus - escorted off Sohrabuddin and wife, Kausar. Put into separate police cars and driven 600 miles away

They would never see each other again Upon reaching Ahmedabad, Sohrabuddin and Kausar were NOT taken to a police station, instead detained in separate bungalows in a residential neighborhood

⛔️Sohrabuddin had not been charged with anything

The Gujarat police didn't have any legal grounds to detain him or his wife

🧵Thread

February 14, 1977
Prabhupāda, ISKCON

Topic: Varṇāśrama System

In "𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲" the common man is allowed to vote. He has no knowledge and he's voting. This is most condemned process

Chamara-Bhangi, a sweeper, he is voted to become Minister of Defense Varṇāśrama college is required to train people who is able to become a brāhmaṇa, who is able to become a kṣatriya...In this way division must be

There is a big scheme. They have lost

All bhangis, chamar, śūdras, they are simply given vote. That's all

Where is the training?

🎯“8 out of 10 stages of genocide are present in India”

Bridge Initiative,
Georgetown University

🚨With indicators of the ninth stage, extermination, "becoming more and more visible"

🧵Let's explore the 10 stages 1. Classification

Modi govt’s passage of the NRC and CAA can rightfully be identified as policies of classification

To redefine and restrict the notions of identity and citizenship, repeatedly describing Muslims as “foreigners,” “invaders,” “Pakistanis,” and even as “termites”.

🚨Hindutva is the Biggest Threat the Indian Society Faces Today

J Sai Deepak,👇Personification of embarrassment to the Supreme Court, wants a Journalist and two historians to leave India🤡

Why? See Next Tweets

Barkha Dutt was ONE Indian journalist who alone uncovered the mayhem that the Modi Govt tried hardest to hide under the carpet, literally — New York Times Came Later

Anyone who exposes 'Hindu Hriday Samrat' is UNWANTED by this Advocate cum Extremist

In India’s 𝑹𝒂𝒑𝒆 𝑪𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆, All Women Are Victims

Indian men may face persecution because they are Muslims, Dalits or ethnic minorities or for daring to challenge the corrupt powers that be

“Indian women suffer because they are women”

Vidya Krishnan, NYT 🇮🇳In 2011 a woman was raped every 20 minutes
🇮🇳In 2021 a woman was raped every 16 minutes

Those grotesque numbers tell only part of the story

77% of Indian women who have experienced physical or sexual violence never tell anyone, according to one study🔖

PROSECUTIONS are RARE

CAG🎯

Modi Govt spends most of the budget at improving speed & comfort — Not on the steps needed to get trains from Point A to Point B without mishap.

Modi has extolled new Vande Bharat trains, though they're likely to do NOTHING to improve the daily lives of ORDINARY commuters Overall expenditure on Priority-I works has declined from 81.55% in 2017-18 to 73.76% in 2019-20

Allotment of funds for Track Renewal works declined from ₹9607.65 Cr (2018-19) to ₹7417 Cr in 2019-20

Funds allocated to track renewal works were also not fully utilized

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29,272 Murder cases registered
NCRB, 2021

4 Permutations
Man Kills Man
Woman🔪Man
🎯Man🔪Woman
Woman🔪Woman

'Man kills Woman' has dozens of combinations
Hindu Man🔪Hindu Woman
🎯Muslim Man🔪Hindu Woman
Hindu Man🔪Muslim Woman
Muslim Man🔪Muslim Woman
Etc.,

RW Target?🎯 <0.01% RSS Family, BJP Government and the entire Hindutva brigade wants the Indian law enforcement agencies to concentrate on this mythical 0.01% of cases

Ignore the 99.99% of murders and crimes

Fearmongering was never this easy with two slogans

"Hindu Khatre Mein Hai" & "Love Jihad"

Manipur

SANAMAHI was the original religion or 'cult', if you will, of native people since ancient times

In 1704, Hindu Missionaries converted Manipur's Meities into Vaishnavism, along with the king Meidingu Charairongba

100% Hill Tribes, Christian
~80% Valley, Hindu

Enter RSS RSS Ram Madhav is deployed to Manipur

His team is making sure Manipur and entire North East India is vertically divided into Hindu vs Christian - and next few decades only BJP wins all elections in the region

Police is tamed to be worse than Bajrang Dal
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POLYGAMY

Facts to Counter the Sanghi Propaganda

🇮🇳In India, Hindus and Muslims are in a close race

☪️Fewer than 1% of Muslim men live with more than one wife in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iran and Egypt – all countries where the practice is legal at least for Muslims Fun Fact

Polygamy is illegal as per Hindu Marriage Act

It imposes monogamy under Section 11 of the act

When someone practices it he/she is punished according to Section 17 of the same Act read with Section 494 and 495 of Indian Penal Code, 1860

Beware📢

How can an 18 year old girl be an ISLAMOPHOBIC, CASTEIST and BRAHMAN SUPREMACIST- all at the same time?

This is what Hindutva does to your children She was brainwashed into making friends only with students who are "JUST LIKE" her

HIJAB? You are a Muslim - Not my friend
SC/ST? You are untouchable - Not my friend

You remove your identity and APPEAR neutral - then, only then, I will be your friend

SATI🔥

"Though banned in 1829, Sati continued to be valorised and revered in certain parts of India, especially among HINDU UPPER CASTES"

Manoj Mitta, Caste Pride

🇮🇳In 1987, Rajiv Gandhi Govt enacted a law which criminalized for the first time, "glorification of the practice" Long before Gandhi deployed moral pressure on the British, Bentinck pitted same force against Caste & gender prejudices intrinsic to sati

300 eminent Hindus thanked him for "rescuing us forever from gross stigma hitherto attached to our character as wilful murderers of females"

Yogi is a Thakur

Mafia in UP
🦹‍♂️Brahmin
🦹‍♂️Muslim
🦹‍♂️Thakur

Yogi, as CM, has eliminated many Brahmin and Muslim 'Dons'

While Thakur Dons Prosper

‘Shaktishaali’ Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh is the biggest Don among all of them - and he is a Thakur too

Sexual Allegations - No FIR🥹 ‘Don of all dons, murderer, wrestling reformer’ — WFI chief & MP Brij Bhushan’s colourful life

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