In Kathmandu Nepal for the World Sanskrit Conference.

Struck by how this Hindu country, poorer than India, is still so much cleaner.

We have we utterly failed in local public amenities in India and why does no one care enough? India has been turned into a vast garbage dump.

I assign 60% of the responsibility to dysfunctional local government and 40% to the apathy of people who do not demand accountability and change.

https://twitter.com/sankrant/status/1671880021584281602

An Indian Muslim @ShoaibIND put out this tweet.

How did other Muslims respond to it? A 🧵 Can't be happy cope.

If you seek to be happy, loved and prosperous who have failed the "main mission" of a Muslim.

How can we stop insulting others' gods, even prophet did it.

How @theliverdr pushes ideologically motivated garbage.

In a long post he claims that “science says” Giloy caused liver toxicity; in the same post he dismisses a study on Ashwagandha as garbage.

For the case against Giloy his reference is the propaganda rag, @thewire_in! 😏 The Wire article further references an “observational study” which has a total sample size of 6 people!

No doubt this study is conducted by other Liver doctors trained in allopathy alone; and specifically targeting Giloy “twigs.”

Other than the limited sample size, the AYUSH response states that it is very easy to confuse Giloy with a similar, but toxic, plant; the “scientific” study didn’t actually even check if the correct plant was used.

Europeans, particularly Germans, were so desperate for an “Aryan” identity based on Hindu texts because they had very little history or identity of their own.

The Germanic tribes were barbarians with little durable language or culture. To lay claim to Sanskrit and related knowledge allows them to attach to a glorious history. The Germans weren't successors of Rome. The Italians had history, the Greeks had history, even the British could harken to a Celtic history, what did the Germans have?

This is how they became "Aryan" laying claiming to Sanskrit and Indo-European origins.

https://x.com/StrikingCrayon/status/1879905398075105538

Some direct excerpts from the translation of "al-jabr" by Mohammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, from which the term Algebra comes.

Note this translation is from 1831. After 1857 British and Western scholarship started denigrating Indian knowledge as an explicit policy. Firstly, the translator Frederic Rosen makes explicit that Al Khwarizmi did not invent Algebra, and that this was "well-established" in scholarship, but that he was the "first Mohammedan" to write upon it. 2/

45 years ago “science” said ghee was terrible and my father switched us to dalda, marketed as a substitute, from ghee.

Now science tells us ghee is good and hydrogenated oil is the worst.

Lesson: Don’t follow 2-year old “science” studies. Follow 1000-yr old tradition.

https://twitter.com/alok_bhatt/status/1868977607355908460

See my thread on this.

https://twitter.com/sankrant/status/1053913607468068864

Medical arrogance.

Many "modern" medicine are also extracts of herbs. But the pharma industry relies on dismissing the original because it can't be patented and yields much less profit.

And they'll attack scientific studies which don't fit their prejudice and pocketbook. Here is an example of @theliverdr misleads and misreads even their own research in even simple things like whether drinking more water is helpful for health.

With his initial list of "debunking" why drinking water doesn't help, he cites the following article:



Let's dive into it.mcgill.ca/oss/article/he…

This is path-breaking if validated.

The IVC is Sanskrit script with Puranic references!

https://twitter.com/yajnadevam/status/1846263392677286031

I will post explanations and queries from the paper. It uses a unique cryptographic approach to decipher the IVC script. More technical people need to do history. @yajnadevam

It makes the case that the script maps to a language, and uses regex to map it to Sanskrit.

Over 50% of White Liberal Women have a Mental Health issue.

This thread is not to mock them, mental health issues are serious and real. But here are some insights into why "progressives" may disproportionately suffer from mental health issues. 🧵 Evie has a somewhat conservative take on this: "Progressivism is an ideology that supposedly demands quality for all, and one that keeps score to an exhausting degree.... that isn't just unrealistic, it's unsustainable."

U.S. has world’s highest rate of children living in single-parent households.

If this the society to emulate? “Older adults in the U.S. are more likely than those around the world to age alone: More than a quarter of Americans ages 60 and older live alone (27%), compared with a global average of 16%.”

You want this for your life?

pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…

BJP has a great fear of doing something for "their own" in case they're accused of favoritism.

So they consistently bend over to woo those who hate them and do very little for those who vote for and support them.

It's virtue taken to an extreme where it becomes its opposite.

https://twitter.com/UshaNirmala/status/1816662406971474129

Congress otoh starts its agenda on Day 1. It is very clear about its constituencies and its supporters and always takes care of them first.

The BJP is keen to appease the "opposite camp" instead and scared to do anything that might upset them. It doesn't mind riding roughshod over its supporters. They can even be killed, as in WB, and it won't act. Because someone could perceive it as "favoritism." It's a mental liability.

https://x.com/sankrant/status/1661629709732462597

Many manual scavengers of today can be traced back to the Muslim invasions.

"scholars such as Malkani (1980) among others established that the Bhangis (manual scavengers) were warriors who made captives after they became the prey to the enemy, particularly Muslim invaders..." So warriors aka kshatriyas, became bhangis due to Islamic force. So much for Islam being "emancipatory"—they created dalits.

"The people who were made captives were
forced to clean indoor latrines and to dispose of the night soil. When these captives were set free, they were not allowed to live in society, and they thus formed a separate caste of Bhangis and continued the work of scavenging.

I don't come from a Brahmin jaati. But I find the hate against this small minority of Brahmins in India appalling. And it is mainstreamed by the Left today though its origins are in colonial missionary scholarship which saw Brahmins as the biggest impediment for conversion of Hindus. This is why they created fake narratives of "Brahminical oppression." Naturally conversion by the White Christian saviors was the antidote to this oppression. It was the solution for which the problem was created.

Ultimately Brahmin-hate is a proxy for Hindu-hate. We must speak up against it. Unfortunately, many on the Left who propagate this hate are also (jaati) Brahmins as part of intellectual fashion. But in Abrahamic conflicts, they will be strung up just like the others. That's who we need to wake up.

Have you noticed you how Indian restaurants are getting so generic. They all have the same menu. Every one has palak paneer and tandoori roti and dal makhani, from a dhaba to a 5-star. With some "hot and sour soup" and "chili manchurian" thrown in for good measure. All in English only of course, even in a dhaba in UP.

Only Mughlai and Chinese food in English is "Indian"?

I was reading the manuscript of an upcoming book from @GarudaPrakashan, "Hindi Medium Types" and this phrase struck me: “No Indian home has a tandoor, but Indian food has tandoori roti.”

How did we get so lost? Yes, but imagine a country where no "upscale" restaurant has anything you'd eat at home. And the only place you'd get tawa roti and regular daal is at a very poor man's stall. (the middle class dhaba would have the "standard" menu).

https://x.com/bijnor2/status/1801270360996028694

How is caste a British creation? People
cite traditional references to dispute this.

But the rules and mapping of varna/jati were dynamic and there was no centralized enforcement. The British took a disparate system of social norms and bureaucratized it into a “caste system.”

https://twitter.com/TheEmissaryCo/status/1781765784995315995

This caste system was created through institutions like the caste census, combined with colonial scholarship that fabricated narratives of the “static Orient” with “5000 years of caste oppression.”

This was based on cherry-picking references, ignoring counter-evidence and then teaching this “theory” via academia and the bureaucracy.

I was among the first to criticize the BJP for not doing enough for Hindu civilizational issues and also for its minority schemes.

This critique is from 2016.

However the alternative is *much* worse. If the Congress alliance comes to power, it will take us decades back—economically, socially, civilizationally—and viciously target Hindus even more than it has done before.

There is only one choice in this election for Hindus and indeed for all Indians who care about India. Set your doubts aside and go out and vote.

swarajyamag.com/amp/story/idea… I'd say in the list of achievements:

1. Article 370 repeal
2. Bifurcation of J&K
3. Ram Mandir (though I give only partial credit to them, but they created the "mahaul for SC judgment.)
4. Start on Indian languages in Higher Ed
5. IKS initiative

https://x.com/SwayamTewari/status/1782630628154085689

I asked @google Gemini an identical question about 3 different religions.

"What are the problems with x (religion)"

Check its answers.

In the case of Islam, it found the question itself problematic and refused to list any problems. In case of Hinduism, it goes on to list specific things after a generic disclaimer.

Apparently, while Gemini has no problems listing "caste system" and "gender inequality" among problems of Hinduism, it does not dare to list even "gender inequality" as a problem with Islam.

When M K Gandhi died, Congress slaughtered Brahmins in Maharashtra in community revenge.

When Indira Gandhi died Congress slaughtered Sikhs in Delhi in community revenge.

It's always taken two eyes for an eye. Now it preaches with an eye to a vote bank.

https://twitter.com/priyankagandhi/status/1718118033527607429

Congress is the mother of rioting and collective punishment in India.

After a legacy of communal riots, it is now into engineering anti-caste riots like it did in Haryana.

https://x.com/Deus__Maximus/status/1718301143187775636?s=20

What are the actual causes of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict and why do Muslims worldwide rally to the Palestinian cause?

Often there is a lot of obfuscation around this topic, but the clearest exposition of the Islamic position comes from the Charter of Hamas. A thread 1/n One of the features of the Left apologetics for Islamic movements is to secularize them to to assign to them causes and aims that are at variants with their own clear objectives.

As #JihadCoolies, the Left obfuscates goals of Hamas to make it more palatable to a wider audience.

Savitribai Phule is a recent 'discovery.' She was created as a propaganda icon in the 1980s, there is negligible references to her before that in books/academic papers.

She was created to support missionary propaganda of "bringing Jesus" and "emancipating Dalits." See spike. In 1981 in Lok Sabha issues is raised to make a documentary on "great revolutionary" Phule. (Parliamentary Debates, House of the People, 1981 <- where can we find who this is).

At the same time "Savitrabai Phule Foster Parent Scheme" is started in Maharashtra. Who orchestrated?

So, I dug into the Press Freedom Index by RSF.

1. The Index comprises of two parts:
a. A quantitative score based on various incidents against journalists
2. A qualitative score based on a survey and 'opinions' of 'specialists.'

Both are flawed. Why? 1/n twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1. See formula for abuses score. It will be higher (better) if x is lower. (x=0, 100 is perfect score, no abuse).

Now x is calculated by summing the product of the number of instance of abuse (xᵢ) weighted by the kind of abuse (kᵢ), divided by the log of the population. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…