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[indian in oregon @OregonIndian]

@Harjeetsahdra @IndicSociety @ColinBloomCBE @reachind_uk @FISI_UK @INSIGHTUK2 @thebritishhindu @SunilSharmaUK @kingkapoor72 @AdityaRajKaul @SGPCAmritsar @SGPCPresident @sushantsareen your name is literally har- jeet like a loser- jeet 🤪🤪🤪

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

A close friend of mine is cancelling his voter registration today. He is convinced Spencer Pratt was robbed of the election. I explained to him that in California we count absentees first (which skew older and more conservative) and election day voters are younger and more Democratic. The slow count is largely because of policies to maximize participation, including postmarking a ballot on Election Day.

Regardless, we need to figure out in California how we can get the vote counted faster and results tabulated so it does not drag on. We should make the investments in operational improvements and resources in the wealthiest state in the nation. It is worth spending the resources to get the vast majority of the vote counted within 48 hours. Right now the system is eroding trust and spawning conspiracy theories.

[indian in oregon @OregonIndian]

@carlwheless @KumarXclusive Being from Goa where many western people buy property, i can tell you that woman is an idiot! Most Goans love foreigners in fact treat them as superiors to locals. Though it’s changing slowly now Indians to a large degree have adored fair skin

[indian in oregon @OregonIndian]

@vacchu @SirShahAnalyst @thangapushpam03 Richie Benaud double role main? at number 1 &4?

[indian in oregon @OregonIndian]

@S45991Sachai @MeghUpdates as gays gandu khalistani! unless face par likha hai kya ki they are all sikh khalistani and not normal sikhs or hindus?

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Pretty damn impressive.

[indian in oregon @OregonIndian]

@Breaking_9ews @HinduAmericans “Kirpan”

[indian in oregon @OregonIndian]

@Breaking_9ews @HinduAmericans they need kiran wielding turbaned monkey?

[Ashley Rindsberg @AshleyRindsberg]

For years, major institutions have framed India and Hindus through the lens of nationalism, extremism, and suspicion. But what we've uncovered on @Wikipedia raises a deeper question: who gets to write the public record?

Our investigation found that a small cluster of anonymous editors controlled more than 80% of the @HinduAmerican page. Among the findings:

Blatant Conflict of Interest: The editors aggressively shaping HAF’s page were the exact same people controlling the Wikipedia profiles of HAF's legal adversaries and academic critics.

Inserting False FARA Allegations: Editors laundered complaints from HAF's opponents into "facts," using demands for a DOJ investigation to falsely brand HAF as a foreign agent

Administrative Silencing: An admin with supreme platform permissions deleted quotes from HAF's leadership, stripping the organization of its right to reply to allegations.

Over four years (2021-2025), editors systematically erased HAF’s identity as an American civil rights group, transforming its Wikipedia page into a heavily curated dossier of accusations. Our report from @npovmedia documents how it happened. 👇

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

There are no shortcuts for mastering your craft.

[indian in oregon @OregonIndian]

@SassySamosaSF @rishilectual agree! nerdy people migrate and they marry nerdy spouses to maximize the household income

[indian in oregon @OregonIndian]

@suspected_n00b @DanielDiMartino for a high with “high resolution” you are exceptionally dumb! This rant is just pure nonsense and probably made a lot of sense in your mind 🤪

[indian in oregon @OregonIndian]

@jasbir_pradhan @I_am_Vedvrat Pradhikaran is better than any other place in Pune and cooler too due to the greenery

[indian in oregon @OregonIndian]

@jeetsidhu_ @razibkhan How sad that the british did not know what the esteemed Sardarji way back on Dec1, 1600 when they formed the East India Company. Probably Sardarji is a time traveler from the 15th century 😂😂😂😂

[Muthukumar Subbaiah @smkumarlakshmi]

Let us revere and worship Savarkar. We must live like Savarkar.

[indian in oregon @OregonIndian]

@Kakah_39 @Indian_Analyzer be patient you have to cry for another fifteen to twenty years! 😂😂 real bengalis are now ruling and duplicates like you can FO

[indian in oregon @OregonIndian]

@RohanFernande16 @ForgingOpinion @authoramish Obviously you have comprehension issues! your forefathers were dumb enough to convert to non native religion but you are not only equally dumb but completely dense and pathetic at sarcasm as well 😂😂 ask yourself local padre or your international madre Audrey to translate

[Randeep Hooda @RandeepHooda]

"आसिंधु सिंधु पर्यन्ता यस्या भारतभूमिका।
पितृभूः पुण्यभूश्चैव स वै हिंदुरिति स्मृतः॥"

28.05.1883

[indian in oregon @OregonIndian]

@RohanFernande16 @ForgingOpinion @authoramish you can ask yourself that. the minute you started shitting on your forefathers culture to justify a unhinged proselytizer with random images , you proved our theory correct.

[Devamritasya Putra - देवामृतस्य पुत्र: 🇮🇳 @whiffofreshair]

@AudreyTruschke , spare us the patronizing tweet about "getting Indian history right." Your dismissal of the Pashupati Seal excavated from Mohenjo-daro in undivided India, ~4,300 years old as "more likely adapted from proto-Elamite iconography" showing some vague "Eurasian deity 'lord of animals'" is not scholarship. It's ideological sleight-of-hand from a Mughal-era specialist with zero expertise in Harappan archaeology, seals, or proto-historic iconography. It reeks of the same diffusionist erasure that reduces Indic genius to "borrowed Eurasian bits."

Let's stick to facts, primary excavation reports, and peer-reviewed analysis - the kind you skipped in your 280-character hot take.

John Marshall, the man who actually directed the ASI digs at Mohenjo-daro, published the definitive analysis in his 1931 report (and earlier notes). He identified the central figure as proto-Shiva/Pashupati for four explicit, evidence-based reasons:
1. The figure is tricephalic (three faces, or headdress implying it), matching later Shiva depictions with three (or five) faces.
2. The horned headdress evokes bull horns and the trisula - core Shiva emblems.
3. The posture is a classic yoga asana (Mulabandhasana: heels together under the groin, toes downward, hands on knees) - Shiva as Mahayogi, prince of yogis. This is not some generic seated pose; it's a precise yogic lock still taught in India today.
4. The figure is surrounded by wild animals (elephant, tiger, Indian rhino, water buffalo; deer/ibex below) - the literal Pashupati, Lord of Beasts, with pashu encompassing wild creatures in Vedic usage.

This wasn't fringe speculation. It shaped two generations of scholarship on IVC religion. Alf Hiltebeitel (2011) noted that "nearly all efforts at interpreting [IVC] religion have centered discussion around [this] figure."

Yes, there are debates - real ones, in peer-reviewed journals. Doris Srinivasan (Archives of Asian Art, 1975/76; her 1997 book) critiqued the tricephalic reading, arguing for a divine buffalo-man based on bovine features, horned masks from Mohenjo-daro, and other Indus artifacts. Asko Parpola floated a Dravidian/Varuna interpretation and noted the pose might echo Proto-Elamite depictions of seated bulls - not a full "lord of animals" deity copy.

But here's the brutal truth you ignored: No peer-reviewed study, no primary Proto-Elamite seal, and no archaeological evidence shows the entire Pashupati iconography as a direct adaptation of some Elamite "Eurasian lord of animals." Proto-Elamite "Master of Animals" motifs (common in Mesopotamia/Iran) typically show a hero grappling two beasts - lions, bulls - not a yogi in Mulabandhasana enthroned amid specifically South Asian fauna (tiger, elephant, rhino). Trade existed, yes. But claiming "more likely adapted" is unsubstantiated speculation that erases IVC's unique synthesis: yogic posture + horned lord + Indian animals + possible ithyphallic/linga echoes.

You, a Rutgers professor whose wheelhouse is Persian-Sanskrit Mughal court literature and Aurangzeb apologetics, aren't dropping new primary research or citing a single IVC excavation report here. You're tweeting performative deconstruction - the same pattern that has drawn criticism for elementary errors in Sanskrit handling and framing Hindu history through lenses of perpetual victimhood and external derivation. Your "Indic credentials"? Fluent in later texts, sure. But lecturing on Harappan continuity from afar while the Ministry of Culture, Indian archaeologists, and the living yoga tradition recognize the seal's resonance? That's not "getting it right." That's gatekeeping.

Indian history is amazing, wonderful, and fantastic - precisely because it demonstrates unbroken civilizational threads: from IVC yogic seals, pipal worship, and possible lingams to Vedic Rudra-Shiva, Puranic Pashupati, and today's temples. 1/2