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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
sentinelassam.com/national-news/…

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

theprint.in/india/don-of-a…

India's Rich Medieval Period

There are moves in many universities to not teach India's medieval history

We know why that is the case🧐

Medieval period is synonymous with the period of Muslim rule—Delhi, Deccan and Bahmani Sultanates, and then, of course, the Mughal Empire☪️ The problem with RSS & BJP people who are now beginning to manage our universities and institutions is that they have this idea that our medieval period is like the Dark Ages or Middle Ages of Europe

They take the template of European history and they just plant it on to India

Why is China looking to stir up border tensions with India again?

Chinese words and actions are unrelated and quite often the former is used as a subterfuge mechanism to mislead the adversary

Joining of seemingly disparate yet coordinated dots leads to an unsavory conclusion🧵 🇷🇺Russia, an important cog in India's China strategy, is getting increasingly beholden to Beijing.

🇺🇸The United States, meanwhile, is distracted by the war in Ukraine and the need to punish and degrade Russia.

🇹🇼Washington is simultaneously casting a wary eye out for Taiwan.

Why India "Downplays" China’s Border Threat?

India recognizes the danger China poses to its security, and Modi government has taken some steps to meet the challenge—BUT it remains reluctant to publicly acknowledge them

It is more than a military question, It is complicated
👇 It’s complicated by political and business interests for India vis à vis China

BJP’s culture of hyper-nationalism prevents it from purposefully addressing the threat emanating from China

But without a shift in approach, China’s looming influence is only likely to keep building

Rewriting History

Sangh Parivar vs Intelligentsia

Many historians swearing allegiance to Sangh Parivar attempt to rewrite history

Attempts in this vein are evident in a move to term ‘Harappan civilisation’ as ‘Saraswati civilisation’

Why is there no opposition against this? Why is the Hindutva brigade so attached to this idea?

One of the many reasons is, they want to dismiss the idea that "Aryans were foreigners"🏇

They, in fact, want to claim that India is the source of all Aryan migrations, BUT the evidence doesn’t suggest that

Why Modi wants to demolish India’s mosques?

The necro-economy of Hindu nationalism relies on making history its most important site. Muslim shrines must suffer

Destruction of structures using bulldozers in India has become a banal occurrence and has already lost its shock value The rule of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP is increasingly marked by a destructive urgency

Recent examples...
500-year-old Mosque in Shahi Masjid, Prayagraj
300-year-old Mosque in Muzaffarnagar
800-year-old Shamsi Jama Masjid in Budaun

Nov 9, 2016:A day after announcing demonetization, Mr. Modi tweeted this poster

Caption: "A historic step to fight corruption, black money and terrorism"

Let's review the four highlighted 'benefits', shall we? Claim#1: "This historic step will open up new opportunities for poor, neo middle class & middle class"

India is currency based economy. Even farmers and daily wage earners are paid in Rs 500 and Rs 1000 denomination. Many MSMEs and small businesses collapsed without cash flow

Is India the world’s next tiger economy?

It could be, ONLY if it faces up to three major challenges:

👩‍🎓It needs to improve Education
👩‍🏭Boost Women in the Labor Force
🌉Improve the Business Climate to increase Manufacturing

Nicholas Kristof Opines, NY Times

Thread🧵 India’s education system was failing its children long before covid-19

Only 55% of the country’s ten-year-olds can read and understand a simple story

Absenteeism is a national problem, teachers too

50% of Indian children attend private schools — a huge strain on family budgets

After Modi’s election In 2014, India became an “ethnic democracy”

In the sense that the minorities were second-class citizens in their own country.

Mostly because of the support of vigilante groups by the government, a very important dimension of national-populist regimes

🧵 You have groups of activists making the lives of minorities very difficult.

For instance, in India, Muslims and Dalits have been attacked because they were accused of taking cows to slaughterhouses. You had many, many cases of Muslim lynching

Never condemned by the government😱

Has Modi Pushed Indian Democracy Past Its Breaking Point?

“The recent conviction of his primary challenger means that Indians are in an authoritarian regime where the man in charge is supposed to rule forever”

Christophe Jaffrelot

Conversation @ Isaac Chotiner
🧵Q&A Thread BJP is changing rules of the game too quickly

Regional parties feeling existential threat, realize that they need to close ranks

They may do what we’ve seen in Turkey, Israel, Poland & Hungary; where finally the opposition leaders realize that if they do not unite they’re done

𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚’𝐬 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐈𝐬 𝐚 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐌𝐲𝐭𝐡

“India is barreling down a perilous path. All the cheer-leading is based on a disingenuous numbers game”

Ashoka Mody, Princeton University (Formerly at World Bank and IMF)

🧵A easy-read thread on the article Those who believe that India stands at the cusp of greatness usually focus on two recent developments

1. Apple's investments to assemble high-end iPhones in India may lead to broader move away from China & benefit India

2. Indian government’s Production-Linked Incentive Schemes