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Jai Menon
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For Dharma
Aug 11, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
The whole thing, the Ukraine gambit & the Niger side-play, makes total sense if you understand that "the West" (i.e. the white world) is a 2-tier hierarchy: the Anglosphere & Continental Europe (CE). With a GDP of $30+ trillion the Anglosphere is well ahead of the EU in all 1/n aspects of power. Brexit happened in 2nd half 2013. Ukraine exploded by the end of that year, leading to the coup of 2014. The mistake that the Europeans made at that point was assuming that "white world brotherhood" (i.e. being part of "the West" club) meant they were blood 2/n
Jul 25, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
🧵An insightful observation. But it is not only the US. It is much the same over the rest of the world except for parts of Asia east of India. I'll get into some reasons why, and it'll be a longish thread. Only for those with any real interest. There won't be many. Here's why 1/n The ground reality is as follows: India, or rather what it truly represents, was palatable so long as it was distant, or colonized, and/or immersed in poverty and degradation. Sort of like Africa lite. What the people who lived there "believed", 2/n i.e.
May 16, 2023 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Time for a parable, a Eurotantra based on the ancient Indian Panchatantra which travelled westward with genes, language and mice.

Once upon a time, in a quaint village in the Saxon lands, there lived a baker whose bread was popular and cheap. The the baker was rich and had 1/n large plots of land on which he farmed his wheat to make the flour to make the bread. The villagers liked him, but some were jealous. It is usually so when someone is blessed by the land and accumulates wealth. The baker minded his own business, but kept a close eye on the 2/n
Feb 11, 2023 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
An interesting tweet, more for the reference to the Unabomber than for the insight. This champion of anarchy is basically the heir-apparent's - no pun intended - latest avatar and it was evident as he walked across the country in the "Unite India" journey, though in literally 1/n every speech along the way it was evident that the objective was quite the opposite. This appears to be the Congress gambit - seed anger and anarchy, feed disaffection & disillusion, and out of the chaos a new Gandhi will arise, as the only possible saviour of the nation. 2/n
Dec 8, 2022 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Been reading this gent's tweets for long, noting the general tendency of this type of Congress leader. Usually, the underlying tone is a sort of condescending sarcasm. This one seems genuine. So, here are some straight observations on "When will things turn around for us"? 1/n 1. When you recognize that you no longer represent the Indian money elite, let alone the people. The rich people of India today are varied, conservative because they know how hard they struggled as middle class nobodies under Congress, and crystal clear about how BJP rule 2/n
Oct 9, 2022 • 21 tweets • 8 min read
Little by little, the American public is coming to realise what much of the world already knows. They have been fooled by their own leaders. In his book the Grand Chessboard, Brzezinski wrote in 1998 about dominating Eurasia, which you cannot do without cutting Russia up. 1/n That strategy began to unfold in earnest in 2008 when the US, through NATO, declared Ukraine & Georgia would become part of the alliance - something which Russia had repeatedly stated was a red line. Even the US ambassador to Russia at the time, William Burns, now the CIA 2/n
Sep 16, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Following up from yesterday's tweet here:

This is a perfect example of the Anglosphere setting the stage for future direct action against the BJP/Modi etc. Started not recently, but it has intensified after Biden took office. Note there has been no US 1/n ambassador in India for 18 months. The "democracy backslide" theme has been emphasised quite strongly - with articles on both sides of the Atlantic in the mainstream media, with thinktanks & NGOs acting in tandem, often speaking the same language - and mainstreaming it. 2/n
Sep 15, 2022 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
What a lot of people are unwilling or unable to accept is that these "thinktanks" are often directly or indirectly instruments of one state or another. Each of them - V-Dem, Freedom House, Amnesty International, Transparency International, etc. - follow a narrative that 1/n is guided by the interests of the powers that be - at the moment, that is the Anglosphere - which forms the majority of what the Chinese call the "golden billion". The sophisticated manner in which this is done, by influence, advice and money - what Chanakya called 2/n
Jan 13, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Xi is not dumb in trying to break up India, neither are those countries to our west, and the West itself, in attempting to do the same. Their objective is to weaken a potential challenger and end its existence in any form, and that includes civilizational. It is our response 1/n that needs to be calibrated to ensure our survival. This does not mean knee-jerk opposition to everything, or support of everything. It is to understand that, notwithstanding the general interest in our disappearance, a similar approach applies among & between other 2/n
Jan 5, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Few tweets display the mindset of the mentally colonized slave better than this one here. Three things are sought to be established: (1) The British had a moral compass; (2) They were not as bad as the Nazis; and (3) the "saffron fascists" are like the Nazis. Think about that 1/n Here is an Indian "journalist, author, academic" making the case that the "saffron fascist" must not be engaged with. But who are the saffron fascists? Are they the people who voted Modi to power? Who in the government articulates for fascism, which incidentally is an Italian 2/n
Jan 1, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
@joerogan The truth is that India (or UP) did not hide anything. The notion that such information can be hidden in India is laughable. No, the simple truth is that no one cared to take this data seriously, just as no one bothers to examine why Covaxin is so successful 1/nb Here is why that is so. The West, in general, have conditioned themselves that India has nothing to teach them, but they cannot explain why. With China, it is easy: they are ungodly Conmunists. With India, they're polytheists, who have been demonised for 1,600 years or so 2/n
Nov 18, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Panchatantra story: There lived a donkey who was sad because in the land of monkeys where he came from, they walked on two legs; but in the land of horses where he lived now, they walked on four legs. The donkey wanted the monkeys to walk on four legs. One day a horse told him... ...that his name would henceforth be Donkeybliss. Where he came from, the land of monkeys, he was known as Gadhanand. The horse, a clever creature who could only ever walk on four legs, told Donkeybliss: If you teach the monkeys to walk only on four legs, you too can be a horse.
Aug 26, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Here's the thing, it doesn't beg jack. Indians bristle because they are well aware of this standard operating procedure. A western observer, already credentialled by decades of brown-nosing sepoys, will write a book with a bunch of brutal bullshit on India. This will be 1/n rapidly followed and supplemented by a bunch of English speaking Indians & Indian origin people living mostly in the west, praising this from multiple angles (ignoring that some of them were providing the ideas to Jaffrelot in the first place). They do this because they have 3/n
Aug 23, 2021 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Ah. WASP-Sunni premi is something that we use to name something which we cannot properly describe, a "mystery" of sorts. Ditto Lara Logan. In that interview (must be watched in full), she asks the question "Why"? Why is the US so indulgent towards Pakistan? 1/n She is exasperated: "the 64 million dollar question" or whatever. The answer is a simple one, one that most will deride immediately. It is India, which cannot be allowed to become a peer. Nor can it be allowed to become so weak that it cannot help against the new enemy China. 2/n
Jul 12, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Perfect clip. It shows the exact dynamic of what seems to be a small businessman has to face in Kerala. The guy with the beard has no authority (other than that of implicit threat of present or future violence) and is demanding right to unload, even ordering the employees 1/n not to unload. The business representative there is arguing with legal points about rights, etc. to no avail as the man holds his position. Now it is important to know that this applies for everything, not only businesses. If someone is building their own house, then these 2/n
Jul 10, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
True, his case is not unique & the cacophony of yelps that amount to "what will the world think?" is not surprising. It is the same mentality that underlies the mocking of @mansukhmandviya & opines in opinion columns about how "India has lost its standing" 1/n with the international community, etc. An important thing to note is that this declamation is never specific: it is never "what will Britain/USA think"? Or "India has lost its standing with Britain, France, Germany, USA". It is just a vague notion of losing credibility 2/n
May 9, 2021 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
OK @kw841 this calls for a rather long explanation, which I hope you have the patience to read. If you do, you will understand at least to some extent why they are up in arms against the new buildings of the houses of government. So, here goes: 1. Please understand that they are not against the Central Vista building work, or architecture, or anything of the sort. They are against it being built by the BJP's NDA, under Modi. If it was Rahul who happened to be PM (excuse me a moment, while I run to the loo to retch)...
Mar 18, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
@lsab17 1/n Here's what I think: (1) Identity issues - wouldn't call it a crisis. It is difficult to reconcile the non-stop subliminal conditioning about non-monotheistic faiths with the reality of the Dharmic imagery which they encounter, in some measure at least - at home & perhaps @lsab17 2/n with family even in the US. (2) The lifestyles enjoined by what many of them understand as "Hinduism" does not seem consonant with the desired reality - arranged marriage, familial obligation, ritual worship, or even daily clothing. These they naturally resist & they get