Neetu Mehrotra

Proud Sanatani. Retweets are not always endorsement.

[Revant Himatsingka “Food Pharmer” @foodpharmer2]

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5 Indian packaged foods that fool the public.

Request to food companies to reduce misleading labels!

Label Padhega India!

[Parimal @Fintech03]

Someone shared this on SM, mocking our priests. They have every right to, freedom of speech... :((

But here is the irony nobody posting it seems to have caught: the joke is actually on them.

Because the priest in that cartoon is not breaking his own rule to shame someone else. He is doing exactly what he is required to do, standing at that same doorway, held to a stricter version of the same standard, chest bare, in nothing but a plain unstitched cloth, before he is even allowed near the sanctum himself.

The cartoon needs you to assume hypocrisy to land...

The actual rule is the opposite of hypocrisy, it is the same standard, applied to him first, harder.

The rule long predates any modern idea of "modesty." In Vedic and Āgamic ritual practice, worship is done in avastra form, unstitched garments only: dhotī, uttarīya (a single length of cloth over the shoulder), no needle, no seam, anywhere on the body during the ritual.

This applies to priests performing pūjā and, in many temples, to devotees entering the garbhagṛha itself, never gender-specific / class-specific in origin.

It is a ritual-state requirement, not a dress code for appearance's sake.

Traditional ritual purity (śuddhi) standards treat a stitched garment as harder to fully purify, a seam traps oil, sweat, dust in a way a single flat cloth, boiled and sun dried, does not.

In a tropical climate, across hours long rituals involving direct physical contact with the mūrti, abhiṣeka, ārati, garlanding, a sweat soaked stitched shirt brushing against the deity during worship is exactly the contact the rule exists to prevent.

It is the same logic as a surgeon scrubbing in before touching a patient, direct, close contact demands a higher, verifiable standard of cleanliness than everyday clothing can guarantee.

The priest dresses like the one he serves, not like the audience watching him.

Walk into almost any Śiva / Viṣṇu temple and look at the mūrti itself: bare-chested, adorned only with ornaments and a draped uttarīya, never in a stitched garment.

The priest is simply matching the form of what he is approaching.

A silk shirt and a torn one look identical the moment both are removed. Bare chested, dhotī clad, a wealthy man and a poor man are visually indistinguishable at the threshold of the sanctum.

Rank stopped being legible right at that door.

It is the same instruction Krishna gives in the Gītā itself:

विद्याविनयसम्पन्ने ब्राह्मणे गवि हस्तिनि I
शुनि चैव श्वपाके च पण्डिताः समदर्शिनः II

vidyā-vinaya-sampanne brāhmaṇe gavi hastini I
śuni caiva śvapāke ca paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ II

"By viewing a learned brahmana, a cow, an elephant, a dog, and an outcaste with an equal eye, true wisdom transcends superficial material distinctions like species, social status, or birth."

Honestly, the man in that cartoon is not demanding something of others that he is not already demanding of himself, first, in a harder form.

The mockery mistook a shared rule for a double standard and that mistake is the whole joke, just aimed the wrong way. 🙏🙏

[Shilpa Godbole @godbole_shilpa]

Kudos to Medha Tai Kulkarni for doing what too many elected reps are incapable of doing, taking a clear stand.
She has called for a ban on DJs & strict limits on Dhol Tasha &
has gone on record to add that restrictions on loudspeaker driven public nuisance must apply across the board, Eid, Dahi Handi, Ganeshotsav, Jayantis, every religious celebration.

And what do we say about our brave Punekar, Vidyanand Bapat?

By staying focused on the actual issue, refusing to get dragged into identity politics & not getting rattled by the ridiculous personal comments thrown at him, he is setting an example.

For the last 10/15yrs many of us simply assumed that loudspeaker tyranny was our fate, that there was no point questioning it because those supporting it had enough political muscle to drown out every sane voice.

Turns out we do have a choice.
We can say NO.

[Sann @san_x_m]

On the night of 2nd June 2023, 3 trains collided beside a small village in Odisha. 296 people died and more than 1,200 were injured.

The official rescue teams reached the site about 30 minutes later.

For that half hour, the people pulling passengers out of the wreckage were villagers using the torches on their mobile phones.

One of them was 17 years old. His name is Subhransu Panda.

He is from Bahanaga, a small block town in Balasore district. The Coromandel Express entered the wrong line at full speed and hit a stationary goods train. Coaches were thrown across the adjacent track and a second passenger train ran into them.

It happened metres from people's houses.

Villagers from Bahanaga and from the surrounding hamlets, Kamaripur, Ichhapur, Daradia and Krushnapur, ran to the tracks. Hundreds of them. Men, women, teenagers.

It was dark. There was no lighting at the site. They climbed into the coaches holding up their phones and worked by that light.

Subhransu has described how it was organised, without anyone organising it. The older boys and young men did the lifting and the pulling. The younger children ran to the tube wells and carried buckets of water, because the bottled water in the market had run out within minutes.

Injured passengers were taken away on motorcycles and auto rickshaws because there were no ambulances yet. Someone dialled 108. Within about half an hour, 3 ambulances arrived and started carrying people to Soro, a bigger town 10 to 12 km away.

The village high school was turned into a temporary morgue.

Among the first people to reach the wreckage were Ranajit Giri, Biprada Bag, Asha Behera and Ashok Bera. All of them lived beside that track.

Days later, journalists who went back found the villagers still unable to sleep. They talked about the smell that would not leave the air, and about the sounds they had heard from inside the coaches before they could get to them.

Odisha has a scheme that trains villagers as first responders for cyclones and earthquakes. It is called Aapada Mitra.

Reporters found that most people in Bahanaga had never heard of it and could not say who in the village had been trained.

They did it anyway, in the dark, with the torches on their phones.

[True Indology @TrueIndology]

We live in an India where:

Birthday of Prophet Muhammad is a national holiday.
Birthday of Jesus Christ is a national Holiday.
Birthday of Gandhi is a national holiday.

But Birthday of Shri Rāma is NOT a national holiday.

[Neetu Mehrotra @MehrotraNeetu]

@Astrotherapist1 Got extremely angry and annoyed at work .Followed by depression. Much better by evening.

[Vivek Agarwal @AgarVivek]

@TrueIndology India has 3 National Holidays (26.1, 15.8, 02.10) and 11 Gazetted Holidays, 4 of which are on Muslim festivals. Hindu festivals have just 2. Buddha, Mahavir, Nanak, Jesus, and Mohammad all have a holiday on their birthday, but not Ram, Krishna, or Ganesha.

[Rishi Bagree @rishibagree]

This New India never forgets 🔥

[Neetu Mehrotra @MehrotraNeetu]

@godbole_shilpa Om Shanti

[Tattvam Asi ( तत् त्वं असि!) @Brahamvakya]

I am attaching two pictures. People can figure out who stayed in which room + one person got the following...
a. Daily newspapers
b. Morning Tea
c. Badminton court for maintaining weight
d. Italian cook
e. Indian cook
f. Wrote his memoirs
g. Rose garden
h. Sweeper
Barely 3 years but Bro.."… he went to jail…"

While the other person used to stay in other room, got the following
a. 300ml of water/day
b. 400 grams of food
c. had to Press 16 pounds of Mustard oil through heavy oil grinder every day
d. Only a loin cloth
e. 4.5 meters by 2.7 meters cell in complete isolation
f. 27 years - lost his teeth, lost 40kg of weight
g. Shackles and Handcuffs 24Hrs

& the person mentioned first with facilities is mahan. Other parties have supporters but CONgress has retards as slaves

https://t.co/44DHroTPit

https://t.co/8tZQKul5xK

[Keh Ke Peheno @coolfunnytshirt]

"Hum ko India bolo.. India.. Chinese mat bolo"😍

Little girl from Arunachal wins the internet!

[Rahul Shivshankar @RShivshankar]

CONG EXPOSED.
Here's the unfiltered audio. Does the Congress has a problem with Bharat's national song?
The audio picks up this line:
"OUR VERSION OF VANDE MATARAM"

How bizarre. Vande Mataram is the song of We The People, A full throated ode to our one and only motherland.

HOW CAN ANYONE CLAIM EXCLUSIVE OWNERSHIP OVER VANDE MATARAM?

DOES THE CONGRESS WORSHIP SOME OTHER MOTHER INDIA?

[Shilpa Godbole @godbole_shilpa]

It’s heartening to see that Punekars don’t let an important day like Aug 15th India’s Independence Day stop them from doing what they do every other day. Parking 4 wheelers on both sides of the road, riding on the wrong side, jumping signals… in Pune the spirit of independence means freedom from traffic rules.

[Parimal @Fintech03]

Source: Śānti Parva of the Mahābhārata

It is the story of the Cat (Lomaśa) and the Mouse (Palita)...a masterclass on the anatomy of manufactured narrative, bad-faith warfare, and algorithmic weaponization of untruth.

It reveals how a lie is not meant to convince you of a fact; it is engineered to fill the void of immediate attention before truth can mobilize.

In a dense forest, a hunter laid a tightly woven wire-net (Jāla) to catch wild animals. A cat named Lomaśa, hunting carelessly, walked straight into the net and got trapped.

Seeing the cat helpless, a small mouse named Palita came out of his hole to feast on the hunter's leftover meat. But as Palita looked up, he realized he was caught in a lethal matrix:

- Ahead of him was the trapped cat, waiting to kill him.

- On the branch above was a mongoose (Luluka) watching him.

- In the tree hollow nearby was an owl (Candraka) ready to swoop down.

Palita was completely surrounded by predators. He realized that the owl and the mongoose were waiting for him to make a single move, while the hunter was approaching in the distance with drawn weapons.

Palita did not appeal to morality. He walked directly up to the trapped cat, Lomaśa, and offered a cold, strategic deal:

"I will gnaw through the hunter's ropes and free you from this trap. In return, you must shield me from the owl and the mongoose under the false pretence that we are allies."

The cat agreed instantly. Palita crawled under the warm fur of the trapped cat.

When the owl and the mongoose saw the mouse sitting comfortably under the cat's belly, they saw a "narrative" that defied all natural laws: The cat and mouse are friends.

They did not know the net was there, nor did they know the mouse was gnawing the ropes. The illusion was so immediate, loud, and jarring that both the owl and the mongoose assumed the alliance was absolute, panicked, and fled the scene.

The lie worked instantly....

It filled the cognitive space, scared away the immediate threats, and gave Palita time to operate.

As Palita sat under the cat's belly, he gnawed through every single rope of the hunter's trap except for the very last strand. Lomaśa, seeing the hunter approaching in the distance, began to panic and hissed at the mouse:

किं सौम्य नाभित्वरसे किं कृतार्थोऽवमन्यसे I
छिन्धि पाशानमित्रघ्न पुरा श्वपच एति सः II

O gentle one, why are you not hurrying? Why do you neglect (your duty), as if your purpose has been accomplished? Cut the snares, O destroyer of enemies, before that dog-eater arrives!

Palita gave an answer that should be carved into the walls of every modern intelligence agency and digital war room:

"A wise man performs an action only at the exact microsecond of its strategic alignment. If I cut your final rope now, while you are hungry and strong, you will eat me before you flee. I will hold the final truth until the hunter steps into the clearing."

Palita waited until the hunter's bow was drawn and his shadow fell over the net. Only at that final microsecond did Palita bite through the last strand. The cat bolted up a tree in sheer terror, the mouse darted into his hole, and the hunter was left standing with an empty, broken trap.

Modern SM algos are hardwired to amplify high-rage, simple, shocking narratives...they act like the forest animals, reacting instantly to the illusion before checking if the net exists.

When political bad-faith actors launch a coordinated lie, they know fact-checkers will take 24 hours to research, verify, and publish a detailed report. By the time the truth arrives, the "owl and mongoose" (the voters/public opinion) have already reacted and moved on. The lie achieved its immediate tactical goal.

Palita teaches us that you do not try to counter a fast lie with slow, defensive explanations while you are still inside the enemy's trap.

The counter-strike must be a structural, high-precision release of ground truth that shatters the entire framework at once.