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[The Penguin @Pengutaai]

Dear Indians, please listen to these and most importantly give to youngsters so we don't end up ashamed of ourselves https://t.co/Fcz3V2caFh

[S Gurumurthy @sgurumurthy]

Many have been asking for my entire lecture at IIT. Here is the entire 2014 classes. https://t.co/EkgR50pdsE

[KishoreIyer @KishoreIyer5]

I don't understand why my tax money has to go to Palestine!

There are 56 muslim countries ask them no!?

[Arvind Singh 🇮🇳 @arvindsingh_dev]

Nehru’s girlfriend Padmaja Naidu goes to Hyderabad after unification and meets several Razakars. Her heart bleed for them. She presses Nehru to issue an amnesty for them. Nehru send the proposal to Patel to consider it. One of them was Mir Asghar Ali who had burnt a village and shot Hindus while they were escaping from the burning. A court prosecuted him and Ali was sentenced to death. Patel fumes and refuses to relent. He writes to Nehru: ‘It was not advisable to interfere with the course of justice. As you say, Padmaja is very sensitive. I found her almost hysterical, though frankly speaking, I cannot see any justification for hysteria.’ Patel’s letter to Nehru on 13/10/50.

[The Penguin @Pengutaai]

@_Namrataa The purest of motives 🤣. Although it’s interesting how in India, I looked at anyone with a third child as a criminal and it took a lot of unlearning to change that. We need to decriminalize fertility rate in Hindus.

[Mr. SN Bhalla @sivabhalla123]

If they can change this 1 case with so much propaganda imagine the horrors of middle age Islamic invasion white washed by Irfan habib and his father along with Kanjri Romila Thapar. Maulana azaad never let us study the riots of rawalpindi, lahor sargodha peshawar. Waheguruji 🙏🏻

[Phield Martiall Jambavan @SirJambavan]

Because we don't care if they are sent to gallows. No one says "sons of school teacher" ..

[The Penguin @Pengutaai]

@DrPyaricetamoI I can’t differentiate between the two women. They look so alike

[Nandini @NBDwrites]

Perhaps we don’t remember the policemen, the investigators - the countless, unnamed individuals who actually did the hard, unglamorous work of bringing these monsters to justice.

But they will remember how readily we erased them, just so a filmmaker’s politics and preferred narrative could take centre stage.

[The Penguin @Pengutaai]

@thechaudharis @NBDwrites @godbole_shilpa Exactly

[The Penguin @Pengutaai]

@NBDwrites @godbole_shilpa The point is, it never works the other way. I have never seen them “factionalize” in favour of the other community. That’s why isn’t propaganda

[Nandini @NBDwrites]

Chak De
Section 15
Sherni
Mission Mangal and so many, many more ….

Where our filmmakers took ‘real events’ and mangled them with faith and caste to take dishonesty to another level.

This is not creative interpretation; it is selectively sly storytelling.

…And that is precisely why such cinema struggles to be taken seriously.

Audiences can accept fiction, even bias but they instinctively reject dishonesty
packaged as ‘real events.’

[Savitri Mumukshu - सावित्री मुमुक्षु @MumukshuSavitri]

Winston Churchill’s actions during the Bengal Famine of 1943 were not just negligent - they were deliberate acts of genocidal cruelty fueled by racism and imperial greed. Claims by apologists attempting to paint Churchill as innocent collapse under the weight of historical evidence. Here I debunk their lying claims:

Claim 1: British government found out about the famine’s severity in August 1943.
Truth: Churchill’s administration knew of the impending famine 8 months before it unfolded. On December 18, 1942, the Food Department of India sent a desperate telegram to the British Secretary of State, warning of catastrophic food shortages caused by monsoon failure (Image 1). The plea was unequivocal - India faced a shortfall of 1.4 million tons of rice, 650,000 tons of millets, 400,000 tons of wheat, and 200,000 tons of gram. The message was clear, immediate assistance was required to avoid absolute disaster.

Instead Churchill not only withheld aid while the famine raged - his administration FORCED India to export 360,000 tons of wheat and rice in 1942-43. This grain, which could have saved two million Indian lives, was diverted to support British war efforts. Churchill had 8 full months to act but deliberately did NOTHING to prevent the oncoming famine crisis in India.

Claim 2: Churchill worked hard to “save the people of Bengal.”
Truth: Churchill’s policies were rooted in contempt for Indian lives. Viceroy Wavell’s journal reveals that during a September 1943 Cabinet meeting, Churchill raged against sending food relief to India, insisting that supplies should instead be stockpiled for liberated European nations like Greece (Image 2). Wavell’s damning words capture Churchill’s callousness:
"Apparently it is more important to save the Greeks and liberated countries from starvation than the Indians."
Churchill clearly commanded that relief should be restricted ONLY to those directly contributing to British war efforts, such as British army soldiers and factory/railroad workers, while leaving millions of the most helpless ordinary civilians to starve.

Claim 3: Churchill authorized around 1 million tons of grain to be shipped to India between August 1943 and December 1944.
Truth: This is a deviously misleading calculated half-truth. While approximately 900,000 tons of grain were sent, Churchill did not intend this food for Indian starving civilians at all. Viceroy Wavell’s June 24, 1944 telegram makes it clear that this grain was needed to feed the British Army stationed in India (Image 3). He warned Churchill that bases were “liable to starvation” if food was not imported. The British military alone required over 1 million tons of grain annually for its operations, leaving NO meaningful relief for starving Indian civilians. Churchill’s shipments were not humanitarian aid at all - they were clinically heartless logistical measures granted only to sustain Britain’s war machine. By late 1943, when he finally reluctantly sanctioned some aid at the insistence of Wavell & Amery, even that relief was conditional. In a further act of cruelty, Churchill agreed to send 150,000 tons of wheat to India ONLY if India supplied an equivalent amount of rice to Ceylon. Churchill FORCED India to export more than 70,000 tons of rice to Ceylon between January and July 1943 exactly when the worst part of the famine was setting in.

Such policies reveal Churchill’s true priorities: maintaining imperial dominance, no matter the human cost of Indian lives. This demolishes the argument that it was just a problem with shipping due to the war. Apparently there was no problem with shipping when sending food grains OUT of India during the height of the Famine!

In December 1943, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) was created. Friends of India lobbied the USA for famine relief through UNRRA. But Churchill sent his representative Llewelyn to argue AGAINST any aid to India with the outrageous claim that the Indian famine had NOT been caused by war efforts. The corpulent tyrant ensured starving Indians could not even get UNRRA aid despite thousands of Indians fighting for the British in the War. And to add insult to injury he made India PAY $24 million while Indians starved!

Worst of all, Viceroy Wavell’s June 24, 1944 telegram makes it clear that there was a SECOND FAMINE impending in India in 1944 (Image 4), and grain was desperately needed to feed the British Army stationed in India. He warned Churchill that bases were “liable to starvation” if food was not imported. But Churchill did NOTHING. It was only by a huge stroke of luck that the monsoon turned out to be better than expected and Indians were able to avert a SECOND deadly famine in 1944 - otherwise we would be talking about 10s of millions murdered.

The Bengal Famine of 1943 was not an unavoidable calamity - it was a man-made atrocity, orchestrated by Churchill’s racist and imperialist policies. Under his leadership, 3–5 million Indians died, not because of natural disaster but because Churchill mercilessly prioritized British interests over Indian lives. His infamous comment to Leo Amery that “famine relief would do no good because Indians breed like rabbits” lays bare the contempt he held for millions of Indians dying in agony after Britain had sucked all of India's resources dry. To Churchill, the death of millions of Indians was not a tragedy - it was pest control of the Indians he held in such contempt.

Churchill’s actions were not only cruel but genocidal in intent. He deliberately exacerbated famine conditions by denying vital food shipments to India, exporting vital resources from India, ignoring urgent warnings, desperate pleas for help and hoarding grain for British soldiers and European allies. The evidence is irrefutable: Winston Churchill was no hero. For India, he was a murderous tyrant whose policies inflicted unspeakable suffering. The Bengal Famine remains a permanent and horrific stain on Winston Churchill's legacy, a chilling reminder of the horrors of imperialism, and an indictment of those who seek to glorify it.

Had it had been a Western country with millions of white Christians that starved instead of brown Hindus, then none of these apologists would make a peep to defend Churchill’s murderous actions.

[The Penguin @Pengutaai]

@RapperPandit @MulaMutha 😊

[Parimal @Fintech03]

A cartoon being circulated on X says Indians should thank the British because James Prinsep deciphered the Brahmi script & helped recover our history. :))

Do you know before he became a so-called expert on our ancient scripts, Prinsep’s primary day job was serving as the Assay Master (chief metallurgist & currency controller) at the Banaras & Calcutta Mints. He was not an academic; he was an economic agent sent to fundamentally alter India's wealth distribution system.

Until the 1830s, India had a beautifully diverse, highly resilient decentralized currency system. Local kingdoms, merchant guilds & regional mints issued their own silver and gold coins. Local money-changers (Shroffs) evaluated coins based on pure metal weight. James Prinsep was the literal architect who destroyed this system.

Using his position as Assay Master, Prinsep spent yrs systematically studying the purity of native Indian coins. He did not do this out of cultural curiosity, he did it to calculate how the East India Company could completely monopolize India's money supply.

His efforts directly culminated in the Coinage Act of 1835: The Elimination of Indian Heritage: Prinsep spearheaded the policy that completely banned all local Indian regional coins & traditional designs. He personally oversaw the design of the new, uniform colonial Silver Rupee. He forced the removal of traditional Indian symbols, replacing them with the cold, imperial face of British King William IV.

What makes this a financial "thug" operation is how the transition was enforced on ordinary Indians. By passing laws that declared traditional regional currencies invalid for tax payments, the British forced Indian merchants, farmers & citizens to bring their centuries-old ancestral coins to Prinsep's mints. Under Prinsep's direct technical supervision, the British mints engaged in massive institutional exploitation:

- They took the pure, high-quality silver coins of Indian states.
- They melted them down in giant cauldrons.
- They charged the native Indians a heavy seigniorage (a minting fee/tax) just to exchange their own ancestral silver for the new British currency.

This artificial bottleneck triggered a massive shortage of circulating cash in rural India, causing local economies to crash while systematically vacuuming pure silver out of Indian hands & placing it directly under East India Company control. It was 1 of the largest state-sanctioned currency manipulation schemes in world history.

But what is often sold to us is the idea that Prinsep was a polymath who single-handedly deciphered our ancient scripts. Ask the same people who Rathnapala was & you are likely to be met with complete silence. :(

[Rahul Tyagi @rahulastic]

So, Prime Video made a series inspired by Ranga and Billa the infamous killers and kidnappers called Raakh. In this series the chief investigator played by Ali Fazal is shown as a Dalit whose father is a retired hawaldar who faced caste discrimination. Ali Fazal's character keeps photos of Ambedkar and Phule in his house. His main assistant officer is a Muslim but the lazy hawaldar is a Brahmin and the honest journalist is a Muslim woman.

But in the real life case the chief investigator was VP Gupta his assistant was Ram Chander and the Police Commissioner was JN Chaturvedi.

I have nothing against showing caste oppression through cinema but my problem is with propaganda. Prime Video India is a serial offender in this regard..they often make such series and completely twist real life characters. I have no issue with Dalit or Muslim police officers but why show an unnecessary oppression angle when it's not required especially in a series based on true events?

[Hindutva Don @HindutvaDon_]

Amarnath Yatra is starting and 80000 soldiers are deployed to protect it

You Know Why - Bcz Hindu & Muslims are brothers.

[JyotiKarma🚩🇮🇳 @JyotiKarma7]

Ram Puniyani forgets that Indonesia was once a Hindu majority nation. The ones who didn't want to convert fled to Bali to practice faith, and Bali is still 99.9% Hindu population, gives the highest tourist revenue to Indonesia and maintained its culture till date. Nobody can threaten Balinese Hindus now

In other places, Hindus don't exist. Am I right?

[Suren @zeneraalstuff]

Navodaya schools are targeted at rural students, have reservations for ST,ST, OBC and for girls. Funding is from Central Govt, only the land has to be acquired by State Govt.
They only administer a scholastic test to admit students. https://t.co/jaVZnRW4rD

[Phield Martiall Jambavan @SirJambavan]

What did she achieve?

1. PoK / GB still with Pakistan
2. Kashmir unresolved
3. Bangladesh became another Pakistan
4. 93000 PoW released with zero costs to the enemy

Sometimes, the brains in the dog matters more than the fight in the dog.

[Phield Martiall Jambavan @SirJambavan]

Across the world.

Ever wonder why the Brits used the Tamizh word kattumaram for catamaran, but didn't appropriate Sanskrit words of jāti or varNa and used a proper European word Caste for this system?

[Eminent Intellectual @total_woke_]

Why liberals love Nehru