Are memes and doctored videos needed to mock Mamata Banerjee? Her unadulterated speeches serve the purpose every other day!

A thread 🧵 of 20 bloopers
1. Invited by Oxford University and London School of Economics 2. Speaking Tamil

Why I Support the Renaming of the Mughal Gardens as Amrit Udyan while I Opposed the Renaming of Victoria Memorial after Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

When it was proposed, I had opposed the renaming of Victoria Memorial in Kolkata. Because… … the monument has a clear un-Indian history. Post-1857, patriotism had vanished in thin air except in small, scattered pockets. The Congress was a letter-writing house. Dadabhai Naoroji, Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee et al were jokers in the name of freedom fighters.

The US-led Nato will attack every Islamic country that is less fanatic, where women are free-er, where the economy is better etc until these countries latch on Islamism with the hope other Muslim countries will come to their aid.

Thread begins…

https://twitter.com/Africa_Archives/status/1579422285756522496

By war (Iraq, Libya) or sponsorship for disruptive elements (Egypt, Tunisia, Iran), they will devastate the countries and see elected leaders or dictators replaced with fundamentalists and terrorists who will need weapons from the very West that caused their countries' misery…

Mulayam Singh Yadav

The killer of karsevaks was also one of the prime killers of the Congress, wiping it away from the Hindi heartland. Once he rose, the INC never came back in UP, bringing BSP and BJP as SP's replacement at times. Bihar followed in the footsteps. Mulayam Singh Yadav formalised caste politics. Many Yadavs still vote for the SP due to his appeal rather than his son @yadavakhilesh's. With Muslims, the vote-bank made an unbeatable combo until recently when Yadavs began to realise the futility of banking on their identity.

Challenge to all who say casteism is great:
Make some Dalits say what you're saying. I'll accept casteism is great.
Disclaimer: Members of all castes by and large may be casteist but SCs don't intellectualise casteism,saying it has preserved Hinduism,Hindu society & economy etc… … If castes had been successful in preservation, today we wouldn't be concerned about conversions nor would we complain about caste-based reservation, and SCs wouldn't even be called SCs, let alone demand quota. They would rather say the caste system has…

Yesterday, the Durga Puja organisers in my housing society invited on stage a singer who rendered "Chhaap tilak sab chheeni re". It was Amir Khusro's way of telling Indians Hindus worshipped false gods and Allah and his 'agent' Nizamuddin Auliyah were true… … This was hardly Bengali wokery at play. The female singer, who was trying to copy Abida Parveen's style, was a Punjabi. I still thought there could be wiser Hindus around…

सुभाष चन्द्र बोस के बड़े भाई शरत बोस के घर मोहनदास गांधी का अद्भुत कृत्य — नीरद सी चौधरी की पुस्तक से

मूल लेख — @sandipanthedeb
अनुवाद मेरे द्वारा

1930 के दशक के अंत और 1940 के दशक की शुरुआत में नीरद सी चौधरी शरत बोस के सचिव थे… देश/आनंदबाज़ार पूजा विशेष में शायद 40 साल पहले प्रकाशित एक लेख में चौधरी ने गांधीजी की कलकत्ता की सप्ताह भर की यात्रा का वर्णन किया जब उन्होंने 'बोस हाउस' में रहने का फैसला किया (मेरे पास पत्रिका की कोई भौतिक प्रति नहीं है और कोई डिजिटल प्रति उपलब्ध नहीं है…

Gandhi, Father of the PAKISTANI Nation

His policy created Pakistan

2 October 1869 - 30 January 1948
… The real Father of the Nation: Bharata, the son of Shakuntalā and Dushyanta

उत्तरं यत्समुद्रस्य हिमाद्रेश्चैव दक्षिणम्।
वर्षं तद् भारतं नाम भारती यत्र संततिः।।
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Another Sadhguru gem.

I desist from guru ninda, which includes ninda of others' gurus, but this man isn't one. The fall of the man with a gift of the gab is irreversible. From Arya Rama defeating Dravida Ravana to Yashoda as Krishna's lover to Yoga isn't Hindu to Ali Maula… In 2016, I, along with a few peers, met some intelligence officials who had confided in us that the global leftist cabal, disturbed by the formation of a regime supported by several gurus, was struck by this idea that their trademark atheism and disdain for indigenous culture…

There were issues even with state control. State governments would appoint Muslim ministers to adjudicate in waqf matters (like minority affairs ministers). While all waqf boards are thoroughly corrupt, the solution cannot be government intervention. The law must be repealed…

https://twitter.com/RituRathaur/status/1570804550369681409

… the Waqf Act 1954, amended in 1995, goes against the spirit of strict secularism (separation of religion and state) too. It is letting a religion (Islam) decide the fate of a property. It is inspired by the Ottoman Turk law, meaning we must bear with a mediaeval regime…

Allowing girls to wear hijab to school may be viewed as an opportunity for children to learn about India's "diversity", the #SupremeCourtOfIndia says.

Do children of yesteryears (today's adults) have no idea of diversity, as they didn't witness this circus in their classrooms? Foresee the cascading effect if this observation shapes the verdict. Different groups will demand their respective attires be accepted in school. The argument that their scriptures don't mandate it won't hold because that was not the basis in the #hijab case either.

Shocked to know that a person I had interviewed in 2013 in the course of helping a journalist-activist friend write a biography of Narendra Modi, whom the then Gujarat CM and current Indian PM follows on Twitter, is a terror suspect.

Asma Khan Pathan's story follows: I happen to know Asma Khan Pathan. There is a reason behind the prime minister following her. Her entire family was a traditional supporter of the Congress. During the 2002 riots, her brother-in-law had been untraceable for about two days…

[News of yesterday attached]

Don't stop him and see Hosni Mubarak replaced by Mahmud Morsi in India.

That's what Ford Foundation-sponsored activists do worldwide.

CC: @madhukishwar

https://twitter.com/Amitjanhit/status/1561553742633189377

Hosni Mubarak was considered a moderate, progressive ruler of Egypt (as was Muammar Gaddafi of Libya and Saddam Hussein of Iraq). The US sponsored a rebellion in that country that helped extremist Muslim Brotherhood seize power; …

कैसे आम आदमी पार्टी जनता को बेवक़ूफ बना रही है

'आप' ने 2024 के चुनाव का प्रचार शुरू कर दिया है। सत्तारूढ़ पार्टी पर हमला अपेक्षित है। नरेंद्र मोदी ने भी 2013-14 में यही किया था। एक मुद्दा था महंगाई। आज भी है…

थ्रेड ― … पर चीज़ें सस्ती करने का वादा करना और न कर पाना एक बात है, वर्तमान स्थिति पर झूठ बोलना अलग बात।

मोदी ने कहा था मनमोहन सिंह को महंगाई की चिंता नहीं है। वे सत्ता में आएं तो इसका निराकरण करेंगे। इसके लिए 2017 में उनकी सरकार GST ले आई…

Hardeep Singh Puri did not slip up. If he had, he would have deleted his tweet about Rohingyas. Those two tweets are still there.

#Rohingya

Thread begins… Both Puri's assertion and the MHA clarification are correct. The MHA used the adjective "illegal" before refugees, who it said would not be given state privileges but instead be kept in detention centres until their deportation, which implies…

With no disrespect to Independence Day, it must be said 15 August 1947 was astrologically inauspicious. And the argument that astrology is superstition would not apply because the insistence on 15 August was not 'scientific' either.

Thread begins… 15 August 1947 was inauspicious for Independence or as one of the several official dates of the transfer of power. I say "one of the several" because Louis Mountbatten continued to be the governor-general even after that day and the post was then retained by C Rajagopalachari…

Tagging me, a friend wrote on his Facebook wall he couldn't have foreseen what a vile creature Aamir Khan was while watching #Sarfarosh as a college student in 1999. I was stunned by the Hindu naïveté. Sarfarosh was underwhelming.

Short thread begins… … I got a hint of where Aamir Khan was headed from the character of Mukesh Rishi, Inspector Saleem Ahmed. This was typical Bollywood fare where either the villain will be a Hindu or, …

Is it true that Gaurav Pradhan morphed the original Facebook display picture of Rahul Bhat and added the message "Stop killing Rohingya Muslims" to make the poor Kashmiri Pandit guy an object of hate among Hindus?

Rahul Bhat was eventually killed by Muslim terrorists. Rahul Bhat's Facebook profile URL:

facebook.com/rahul.bhat.923

सीख
कंगना रनौत की '1947 में भीख मिली थी' वाली टिप्पणी पर बहस जारी है। भाजपा ने भी पुरस्कृत अभिनेत्री से कन्नी काट ली है। कंगना कह सकती थीं कि 15 अगस्त 1947 में सत्ता का हस्तांतरण हुआ था, कह सकती थीं कि उस वक़्त देश को स्वतंत्रता नहीं बल्कि डोमिनियन स्टेटस दिया गया था। … "भीख" क्यों कहा? भारत सदैव ही हमारा रहा है। हमारा देश, हमारा राष्ट्र कोई हमें भीख में कैसे दे सकता है? मुद्दा यह भी है कि इस बेतुके बयान के लिए हम भी ज़िम्मेदार हैं। हमने कंगना को सर-माथे पर क्यों बिठाया? …

Calling Diwali 'Jashn-e-Riwaz' is part of an old linguistic tactic that Abrahamics have been employing for ages to belittle us. To begin with, they added 'ism' to 'Hindu' but 'ity' to 'Christian', implying ours is dogma, theirs is faith. Islam stays Arabic, … [thread begins] … bearing no English language influence.

To say Diwali is a riwaz (custom) is to make the subtle point that the festival has no religious roots. Just as it is customary to greet people when we meet, we observe Diwali. No more serious than wishing 'good morning'!
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