જિગર પટેલ

Working to fulfill a great desire to leave a dent in the future of India.

[જિગર પટેલ @JigerPatel]

Suitcase phenomena have gone global - I have a hunch India is a laboratory for Islamists' sick experiments. From grooming gangs to suitcases, all were experimented with first in India.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

This is Elizabeth Ross
She went to Greece to help illegal migrants cross into Europe
There she met an Afghan man and spent time with him
The Afghan man murdered her and put her body in a suitcase
He also used her bank cards to rob money

There is a valuable lesson here

[Riccha Dwivedi @RicchaDwivedi]

Classic 70s/80s Bollywood trope.

The actual accused in the Ram Mandir donation case are members of the cash counting team, not the priests. Yet the protest optics are intentionally designed to target saffron attire and Hindu priesthood.

[જિગર પટેલ @JigerPatel]

When there is riots every month with curfews, and you only see #Hindus going to jail - obvious reaction would be to go to alternative which was BJP.

[P. 🇵🇸🇺🇦🍁 @Enbyyreturns]

Does anyone have readings about why Gujarat became an utmost Hindutva laboratory? Hindutva sweeped into other states much later. What made Gujarat so fertile for the RSS project?

[The Emissary @TheEmissaryCo]

EVERY time India's Left is emboldened, they go down the path of completely nonsensical & unnecessary anti-Hindu rhetoric.

What is even the point of this honestly? Like who is this catering to?

Even worse, many Hindus go back to voting for this party!

[sushant sareen @sushantsareen]

Pakistan's "journalists" commenting on Cockroaches in India remind me of a joke from Cold War years. A Russian and an American are discussing who enjoys more freedom. The American says "I can stand in front of the White House and abuse the American president and nothing will happen to me". The Russian says "Big deal. I too can stand in front of the Kremlin and abuse the American president and nothing will happen to me". These alleged journalists who haven't had the guts to cover protests in PoJK and the brutal disappearances of Baloch and Pashtun students in their country, are "bravely" and breathlessly reporting on Indian cockroaches. Salute to your "journalism" and your courage.

[sushant sareen @sushantsareen]

You clearly haven’t heard of Operation University Blues in US and how rich parents arranged for cheating on tests for their kids. The difference…cases were filed against the parents and some of them were sentenced. Here it seems GOI is only going after the leakers and not those who bought the papers.

[The Emissary @TheEmissaryCo]

It's just bizarre how a protest over a completely non-religious issue has anti-Hindu sentiments forcefully inserted into it not just in a planned manner but also organically.

As I've said, Indian Leftists cannot help themselves in their hatred of Hinduism. It just oozes out.

[The Emissary @TheEmissaryCo]

India can only progress with the will of iron, not constant tinpot protests.

This whole culture of constantly letting groups vent their anger like they’re Gandhi in 1942 is exactly what holds India back from advancement.

It is the epitome of Indian Tamasism – an unending need to complain, point fingers, leer in envy, expect others to build for you, wallowing in anti-agency, eulogizing whiny aesthetics, & just being a negative bore.

More LKY, Less Gandhi is needed.

[The Emissary @TheEmissaryCo]

The theology of India's Left-Liberal compradoriat is rooted in the idea that India is only good if India is poor.

Emerging from Western progressivism yet clothed in a perverted rendition of the ancient Indian ascetic ideal, this penchant for self-harm is now extended to general suicidal Third Worldism – where all who those who lose are good, and all those who win are evil.

This is precisely why they envisioned an India where half the population was defecating in the open as a more "moral" country than one which builds semiconductors.

It's why they prefer a nation that quivers its bottom lip in response to terror attacks to one that answers that same terrorism with a quiver of Brahmos missiles.

For them, India, along with any country they "support," is just an aesthetic piece. A signal of virtue showing that they side with the less fortunate rather than the dominant.

And that is why it is India's audacity of ascendancy that sends them into a whinging rage because it ruins their performative play.

[Nick Collins @nickcollins1953]

For four thousand years, the Indian subcontinent was the centre of world trade. Sumerian tablets record Indian ships reaching Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC. Rome ran a permanent trade deficit with India. By 1600, Surat was the richest port on earth.

Then, within a single lifetime, India lost its maritime supremacy almost entirely.

The conventional explanation is that Europe arrived with superior ships and weapons. It is a comforting story and it is largely wrong. The deeper cause was internal.

Indian commerce was extraordinarily sophisticated. Surat's leading merchant, the Jain financier Virji Vora, was reputedly the richest man in the world; the East India Company borrowed from him. Merchants of every religion and origin traded together because the system rested on two foundations: religious toleration, established by Akbar, and predictable, low-tariffs. Customs duties were around five per cent. Contracts were honoured. Trust was the real currency.

There was one structural weakness. In Venice, Amsterdam and London, the state and the merchant class shared an interest in trade and invested in it together. In Mughal India, the ruling elite was indifferent to commerce. Merchants financed the state; the state never encouraged merchants.

When Aurangzeb became hostile, merchants had no protection. Religious toleration was abandoned. Temples were destroyed, punitive taxes on non-Muslims reimposed, the Sikh Guru executed. Forty years of war followed. East India Company imports from India fell ninety per cent in seven years. Eight thousand merchants abandoned Surat in a single exodus.

They relocated, many of them to an insignificant island Britain had received as a royal wedding dowry, because it offered the security and toleration the Mughal state had destroyed. It also offered English Common Law. Within a generation Bombay was the commercial capital of India. The Wadia family built the Royal Navy's finest ships there. The Tata dynasty traces its origins to this migration.

Europe did not defeat Indian commerce. It inherited it, by providing the conditions Indian merchants needed and their own rulers had thrown away.

This is not an argument about colonialism. It is an argument about something more fundamental, and it is the thread running through all three of my books on maritime trade. The second ‘The Millennium Maritime Trade Revolution’ is subtitled ‘How Asia Lost Maritime Supremacy.’ It is hardly ever lost to a stronger rival but when a society stops valuing the openness, toleration and commercial purpose that made it great. Portugal did it. The Dutch Republic did it. Britain, in the 20th century, did it too.

The conditions of prosperity are always a choice. And they can be unmade by a single generation that comes to value something else more.

Link to the full Substack essay with sources is below.

[Akash Dixit | ಆಕಾಶ್ ದೀಕ್ಷಿತ್ @dixithru]

Stop saying that i am from South India or i am from North India, Instead say that you are from the South Part of India or the North part of India. This small correction will make a difference and it unifies the Nation.

- Jagadguru Sri Sri Vidhushekhara Bharati Sannidhana.

[Hindu American Foundation @HinduAmerican]

Kudos to @avatans for bringing this important and often overlooked conversation into the mainstream in @WSJ on religious freedom from the perspective of non-proselytizing religions.

When does sharing faith cross into coercion? A vital conversation. 🧵https://t.co/stdjIP472q

[Subhash Kak ☀️𑀲𑀼𑀪𑀸𑀱 𑀓𑀸𑀓 . सुभाष काक @subhash_kak]

An important opinion on religion in WSJ

The Right to be Left Alone by @avatans

https://t.co/Olm9YiIMER

[Wall Street Journal Opinion @WSJopinion]

Major religions like Hinduism—the world’s third-largest faith—are excluded from human-rights discourse, international bodies and religious-freedom monitoring organizations. This asymmetry needs to be addressed, writes @avatans
https://t.co/PxEVYcwG5i

[જિગર પટેલ @JigerPatel]

If someone has been to Dang District in Gujarat, one would realize how this is not the truth.

It is surprising even with decades of BJP rule in Gujarat, the conversion is at its peak in Dang.

[The Emissary @TheEmissaryCo]

Why did tribals in Gujarat & Madhya Pradesh not convert?

I know in Gujarat, Hindu monks go toe to toe with missionaries in establishing basics like schools, hospitals, etc… & proselytize to them to join their sects.

Not sure about MP tho.

[જિગર પટેલ @JigerPatel]

It would be the second great tragedy in India’s history if Amit Shah were to be skipped over as the PM of #India, the first one being Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel being skipped over for Nehru.

[Hindutva Knight @HPhobiaWatch]

Amit Shah won't become PM due to this fact only

Someone like Yogi Adityanath or Devendra Fadnavis will take over after Modi

Yogi Adityanath has started visiting foreign countries in the last 2-3 years. Fadnavis is an English speaking diplomatic administrator

Another option is Himanta Biswa Sarma due to the region. BJP has ick to do something first and differently. He can be presented as first PM from Northeast, a region almost surrendered by Nehru and ignored by Congress

[Indian Kissinger @kissingerspeaks]

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[Sahana Singh @singhsahana]

Bringing the Punjab angle into Dhurandhar was the best thing Aditya Dhar did with the movie. I have never been able to get over how Punjab has brought hell to itself with the drug menace, the lawlessness, the deranged anti-Hindu mindset, the support to Pakistan, the descent into bigotry. I am a Delhi girl and grew up in largely Punjabi neighborhoods before moving to Kolkata. So many Punjabi women have worked for me in Singapore and gone beyond the employer-employee relationship to become like sisters. The loss of Punjab hurts me personally (as much as Bengal). Somehow the pain of all that came out when Jaskirat came face to face with Pinda, the man he had trusted to take care of his family after marrying his sister Jasleen. Here was Jaskirat putting his life on the line as a spy for the sake of India and there was Pinda who had become a drug addict and what's worse, he had come to Pakistan to get the next supply of drugs to spread in Punjab. The ruin of Punjab was staring at Jaskirat and there's nothing he could do except kill him and continue to work on his mission for dismantling the terrorist networks in Pakistan. Some consolation came at the end when Jaskirat saw his family living comfortably in the midst of green fields, but still there was separation. I don't know if we will ever again have that old Punjab again that I grew up with or ever meet people like those who gave me my pet name that my parents still call me by. To be honest, the tears I shed while watching Phir Se on the screen was not just for Jaskirat but for the Punjab we have lost.

[Ram @ramprasad_c]

Pakistan hiding Osama Bin Laden is history and therefore irrelevant as far as America is concerned. This is a great take by a Retd Pakistani diplomat

[Sandeep Parekh @SandeepParekh]

India is one of the best countries in the world period. Ethical, strong, safe (inside and out). 🇮🇳

Yes, we are relatively poor, but we will get there in a generation. Everything else will follow.