The Anatomy of a Indian Liberal Pre 2014 👇🏼

#Baramulla on @NetflixIndia touched me in ways I still cannot explain. Nothing at all prepares you for the end. Never again! We owe it to the little Eela Saprus in our lives.

#KashmirFiles kicked open the door for us to see what we always knew, but could not acknowledge. #Baramulla allows us to dredge the pain and weep for what we were told, we must forget. #NeverAgain Thank you @vivekagnihotri @AdityaDharFilms

And thank you @AdityaSJambhale 🙏🏼

Absolutely agree. You’ve captured the malaise perfectly — the selective amnesia, the sanctification of deceit, and the quiet cowardice that masquerades as civility. When lessons are ignored, history is doomed to repeat itself.

The team in the UK that led the fight against the Pakistani goons more than a decade ago : kapilskhichadi.wordpress.com…

Don’t discuss. Don’t debate. Don’t question. Move on. nandinibahri-dhanda.blogspot…

We have a poor and shameful record of confronting our history. Over the years, a quiet deceit has been nurtured, where any film, book, or person that smooths over facts and erases lived reality was exalted as art - beautiful, inclusive, and worthy of applause, even when it sanctified falsehood. But as we have seen in the past twelve years, any contrarian version, be it raw, lived, factual and known to a part of this country is swiftly branded as propaganda. By those very people who have never questioned, who have long accepted the convenience of an official narrative (ironically, also propaganda), and who shy away from knowing more because truth unsettles the comfort of their present. Even sheep bleat when they sense danger. But some have forgotten even that instinct, not realising that silence carries a price. For when truth finally returns, it will not come gently. It will come with fire. #Baramulla

Brilliantly said. For decades, truth was suppressed under the garb of “art” and “secular storytelling.” Now, when reality surfaces, it’s labelled propaganda. But truth has its own force it burns through deceit. The fire has begun.

In a country where people like @RahulGandhi @yadavtejashwi @MamataOfficial @PawarSpeaks @F_Abdullah01 @priyankagandhi and many more are treated as accomplished personality, until then India will never identify the real problem.

There’s a dangerous tendency among us to believe that once an irritant is out of sight, the problem is solved. We do it with garbage. We do it with slums. Both times, the problem has come back bigger and uglier. Now, the Supreme Court wants to do it with stray dogs , sweeping them into “shelters” with no plan, no standards, and no attempt to tackle root causes. Where are these shelters? Who will run them? We already know what municipal “care” looks like for humans…imagine the hellholes that await animals. The way we treat cows, monkeys, donkeys, or dogs is the truest reflection of who we are. Strays did not choose abandonment, thirst, hunger, disease, or human cruelty. Feeding them is momentary relief, not a solution. If there is a long-term policy for abandoned and stray animals, it must be clearly spelt out and rigorously implemented. Not half-baked diktats, but compassion backed by expertise should decide their fate. Anything less is not justice, it is cowardice dressed as order.

I’ll see Palestinians as people the day they see themselves as more than an expendable commodity for bloodthirsty Hamas. And as for Islamophobia - there couldn’t be a more dishonest term. A phobia implies *irrational* fear or aversion. But far from being irrational, ours is a lived experience - deeply rooted in history and undeniable reality. So shoo! Go find yourself a bunch of confused undergrads in some Ivy League college.

There couldn’t be a more misleading term than "Islamophobia." By definition, a phobia is an *irrational* fear or aversion. But far from being irrational, ours is a lived experience - deeply rooted in history and undeniable reality. As real as the mosque astride the Gyanvapi Mandir. As real as the destruction of the Kashi Vishwanath and Keshav Deo Mandirs. As real as the Jizya tax, imposed solely on non-Muslims. As real as the prohibition of Hindu festivals, along with dance, music, and art - integral to Hindu culture. As real as the torture and execution of Guru Tegh Bahadur, Sambhaji Maharaj… As real as the campaigns against Hindu kingdoms - Marathas, Rajputs, Jats and the relentless battles waged against Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. As real as the daily, deliberate acts of humiliation designed to assert power, superiority, and contempt over the populace. No, there is nothing irrational here. All rational. All real. Now sit down and taste the bitterness of your meltdown. #Chaava

The facts are undeniable. Everyone knows them except the English, Irish, Welsh & Scottish..why? Because the British (the elite clique who benefitted from the r*pe of the global south) can only maintain power, in the UK, if the majority do not know the true source of British wealth.

70% of India’s prison population not yet found guilty: Supreme Court Justice Vikram Nath | In every decade the percentage is the same and in every decade the SC laments in the same way but nothing changes. It's almost laughable now. You can check DK Basu v State of West Bengal onwards. Same stat, same lamentation, slew of directions and yet no difference. barandbench.com/news/70-of-i…

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@virsanghvi is more a propagandist than a journalist. Let’s not forget — this is the same man whose name figured prominently in the Niira Radia tapes controversy, where lobbyists and journalists blurred lines that were never meant to cross. He can dismiss those allegations as “bizarre” all he wants, but for a journalist — someone who makes a living questioning others — mere denial isn’t enough. As the saying goes, Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion. Journalists, like Caesar’s wife, are expected to be beyond reproach — not because they’re saints, but because their credibility is their only currency. When that credibility is compromised, even by perception, the profession loses its moral spine. So when a man with that baggage is commissioned to define what’s “authentically Indian,” forgive me if I don’t take the assignment — or the journalist — too seriously.