Amitabh Kediya

business of textiles, thinker, support truth, lover of art and music, RTs are endorsement/appreciation

[The Jaipur Dialogues @JaipurDialogues]

Mother Teresa was not a saint!

She ran a Conversion Mafia!

Imagine our School Textbooks had chapters on her!

What a fraud

[Trunicle @trunicle]

I finally watched Ramayana to ensure that our criticism is informed by firsthand observation rather than hearsay. Having watched the film, here are our concerns:

1. Ravana and his entire clan are portrayed as a persecuted, helpless people.

They are presented almost as a community of poor souls who have been systematically mistreated by the Devtas. This portrayal invites sympathy for Ravana rather than allowing the audience to understand the moral and philosophical dimensions of his character.

2. This is less Ramayana and more Ravanyana.

Ravana has undeniably been glorified. One need only look at the number of children who, after watching the film, have begun praising Ravana to understand the impression it leaves.

3. Ravana is portrayed as an Asura, whereas he is traditionally identified as a Rakshasa.

There is a distinction between Rakshasas and Asuras in Hindu tradition. Conflating the two is not a trivial detail, particularly in a cinematic adaptation of an epic as culturally significant as the Ramayana.

4. Sita Ji is portrayed more like a contemporary, modern-day woman than the traditional divine and dignified persona associated with her.

That said, this is something we can perhaps accommodate under the creative liberties of cinematic interpretation.

5. Sita Ji addresses Shri Ram by his name.

Traditionally, Sita Ji is understood to have addressed Shri Ram with reverential expressions such as Swami or Aryaputra. Having her casually address him by his name feels inconsistent with the traditional portrayal of their relationship.

Creative liberty is certainly permissible. However, when adapting an epic that carries immense civilisational, spiritual and cultural significance, creative interpretation should not come at the expense of its underlying ethos, characters and traditional narrative.

6. Sita Ji is shown suggesting that Lakshman was wrong in cutting off Shurpanakha’s nose.

This is particularly concerning because such a statement is not found in the Valmiki Ramayana. The scene appears to introduce a moral interpretation that casts Shri Ram and Lakshman in an unfavourable light, while portraying Shurpanakha as an innocent woman whose only intention was to marry Shri Ram.

This fundamentally changes the audience’s perception of the episode and the characters involved. There is a difference between exercising creative liberty and introducing a narrative that departs from the source text in a way that alters the moral framing of the original epic.

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Anyone defending this film on the grounds that at least Bollywood made an attempt to bring our story, the Ramayana, to the big screen is either profoundly ignorant of the epic’s cultural and spiritual significance or, one might suspect, has some vested interest in defending it.

Yes, the film deserves credit for its impressive, Hollywood-calibre visual effects, production design and technical execution. There is no denying that.

But spectacular VFX and lavish production budgets cannot serve as a licence to distort our Itihasa, misrepresent its revered characters or rewrite its foundational narrative.

We are not opposed to creative liberty. We are opposed to creative liberty being used as an excuse to distort our civilisational heritage.

The Ramayana deserves far more than spectacular visuals. It deserves authenticity, reverence and a profound understanding of the very tradition it seeks to portray.

Now in Hindi : थू है ऐसे अपने आपको हिन्दुवादी और राष्ट्रवादी कहने वाले लोगों पर जो चंद पैसों के लिए बिक गए।

[Raghu Aiyar @RaghuAiyar]

While granting protest-permission , or when protest is without permission, the individuals , or associations , liable if and when any loss happens, or who had applied for and got a rejected-permission, should sign to their liability in advance / upfront on their application - that way the individuals , and their responsibility, for the losses / damage from anarchic activities , is already known.

Very good !!

@jai_a_dehadrai
@AmitShah
@narendramodi

[Rahul Shivshankar @RShivshankar]

SC wants organisers of the anti-CEC protests made parties to traders’ pleas alleging massive business losses.
PROTESTORS TO PAY? A NEW PRINCIPLE OF ACCOUNTABILITY?
The Court is hearing complaints by traders who have claimed Rs 11,000 crore losses on account of anti-CEC protest I.N.D.I.A.
Traders have a question: WHO PAYS FOR THE BUSINESS LOST?
Though Court has not ordered compensation yet its direction could bring protest organisers directly into the legal battle over the economic cost of demonstrations.

[Āyudhika @Ayudhika1310]

Meet Nityananda Misra, a rare combination of Sanskrit scholarship, exceptional command over English, sharp wit and culinary talent!

His English puts many self-proclaimed members of the so-called upper class to shame.

His response to those who criticised Karva Chauth was a masterclass in wit; he roasted them without even having to raise the temperature!

Brains, wit and culinary skills, all in one. 😂🔥

[Sangam Talks @sangamtalks]

“A house is not truly a home; it is the woman who makes it one.”
On Karwa Chauth, we revisit a beautiful insight from our archives, where Nityānanda Miśra explains how the Grihastha Ashrama sustains all four Ashramas, with the woman of the household at its heart.
Wishing everyone a blessed #KarwaChauth! @MisraNityanand

[Point Blank by Ajeet Bharti @AjeetBhartii]

मंत्रियों के बच्चे Harvard और Oxford में पढ़कर विदेशों में सेटल, और देश के युवाओं को भारत आकर विकास का भागीदार बनने का न्योता! अपने बच्चों के लिए विदेश, बाकी युवाओं के लिए आरक्षण की राजनीति। कभी उन्हें भी गा दीजिए, परदेसी, परदेसी जाना नहीं!

[महावीर, ಮಹಾವೀರ, Mahavir @Mahaveer_VJ]

A Slap in the Face to Cinema Fanatics and to People Like CJP Who Call Themselves “Secular” While Acting Against the Nation!

A Class 10 student from Coimbatore left the multi-talented Dr. Anand Ranganathan—writer, political commentator and scientist—stunned with his pointed questions.

At a literary event organised today by the Verandah Club, in a gathering filled with elders and intellectuals, the young boy courageously took the microphone and began asking questions in English. His questions were:

🚩 If, as you say, the government has brought temples under the control of the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department, why has it left mosques and churches outside such government control?

🚩 Isn't it because the moment the government attempts to take over a church, large groups of people would gather and protest?

🚩 In my own hometown of Coimbatore, the accused Bashaa, who was involved in the 1998 bomb blasts, was given a large funeral procession. The government did not stop it.

🚩 When all these things are viewed together, CJP—which I personally dislike and completely oppose—has nevertheless acquired the courage to challenge a government that has been in power for 12 years.

🚩 We, the majority community, are opposed to all this. If nearly 80% of the people oppose it, why are we reluctant to come out onto the streets?

🚩 Right before our eyes, atrocities and injustices against our people are taking place.

🚩 The Leader of the Opposition in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly says, “Long live Tamil; Sanatana Dharma, which divides Tamils, must be abolished.” Several MLAs inside the same Assembly have expressed their support for this.

🚩 Why are we unable to do anything about them? Why are we, as ordinary citizens, unable to take any action against them?

🚩 Why do we all hesitate to unite and protest against any injustice being committed against us?

🚩 You and Sai Deepak, who raise your voices for the younger generation of Hindus, should take the lead and start a movement. We will fight, and we will follow you.

🚩 The boy's speech exploded like a string of firecrackers bursting in succession!

🚩 What clarity of thought and expression! At such a young age, what remarkable clarity he displayed regarding Hindu Dharma and the nation! The entire auditorium reverberated with applause. Even Dr. Anand Ranganathan appeared momentarily taken aback.

🚩 After regaining his composure, he said that he himself doubted whether he could have asked such questions at that age.

But, he said, this gathering must provide answers to the questions raised by the young boy.

🚩 The Coimbatore boy is an example of how the younger generation should be.

[Kanthaswamy Balasubramaniam @Kanthaswam80359]

🇮🇳 :-

Group of Politicians buy 2000 Acres land through proxies for ₹35,000 per Acre for a total of ₹ 7 Crore

They then propose to build a highway through that area and convert the land

Cost of land shoots up to ₹ 18 Lakh per Acre

Govt acquires the land for ₹360 Crore with Taxpayer money

₹353 Crores goes into the pockets of select politicians and their cronies

We could have easily acquired the land for ₹1 Lakh per acre and saved the taxpayer ₹340 Crore that could have been used for Education, Healthcare, Public Development

The Farmers would have made some money too

Instead ₹353 Crore of OUR MONEY went into corruption

A CM of a State was buried neck deep in such transactionsI

It is estimated that almost ₹65 Lakh Crore of taxpayer money over the last 20 years has enriched maybe 150,000 select people which could have improved so many lives

What a country 😤😤😤

[Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹 @angeloinchina]

Bangladesh Colour Revolution: India Should Pay Attention.

Yunus stood on a stage in New York with Bill Clinton and named Mahfuz Alam as the brain behind the revolution. His exact words: it was meticulously designed, it didn’t just come suddenly.
Two years later, Neha Bora >> the student leader the NYT and BBC are now calling the face of India’s protests >> puts out a video thanking Bangladesh’s Gen Z for showing them the way.
Same vocabulary. Same playbook.
People keep asking if there’s a foreign hand. Yunus answered that question himself, on camera, in front of Clinton.

India should really pay attention.

What is happening right now in India is exactly the same colour revolution playbook.

[Abhijit Majumder @abhijitmajumder]

Have some shame. Sit these out.
Your son and you unleashed the worst tyranny against FoE, and I’ve been a victim.

[FinSkeptics @FinSkeptics]

Bias vs Manipulation

[Abhijit Iyer-Mitra @Iyervval]

Where “youth icon” Neha Bora thanks Bangladeshi youth for “inspiration” and confirms the aim of the movement is the VIOLENT and illegal OVERTHROW OF THE GOVERNMENT with the accompanying slaughter of Hindus. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[Dr. Deepessh Divaakaran (Dr. DD) @md_deepesh]

Why is Elon Musk so desperate to enter India?
On 7 October, Starlink was ready with 20 gateways.
On 8 October, Musk went after India’s telecom giants.

He accused them of blocking Starlink.

But is this really about internet?
Or something much bigger?

Let me take you behind the curtain.
Starlink belongs to SpaceX.
SpaceX also operates Starshield.

And Starshield is no ordinary internet service.
It is built for the Pentagon and CIA.

Military communications.
Earth observation.
Intelligence infrastructure.
Secret Information gathering.

Now comes the interesting part.

A classified SpaceX programme was exposed by Reuters.

The reported contract?
~$1.8 billion.

The customer?
America’s National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).

The NRO is part of the US Intelligence.

And the mission?
Build a network of intelligence satellites.
Capable of tracking targets on Earth.

Think about that.

The same company claiming to bring internet to India...
Secretly builds intelligence infrastructure for Pentagon.

It raises a far more dangerous question.
Who controls the network?

The satellites?
SpaceX.

The software?
SpaceX.

Terminal activation?
SpaceX.

Remote updates?
SpaceX.

Network management?
SpaceX.

Then comes the data.

Terminal locations.
Connection times.
Traffic patterns.
Network information.
Subscriber metadata.

And this information is an asset for any intelligence agency.

India may legally regulate Starlink.
But can India technically control it?

That is the difference.
Legal sovereignty.
And technical sovereignty.

India already has mobile connectivity in over 98% of its villages.
We are expanding fibre.
We are building indigenous 4G infrastructure.

Yet we are giving approval to foreign satellite internet.

If the Indian Bureaucracy believes that, America is India’s partner.
Then they are just in a false dream.

We made the mistake of exposing ourselves to American Social Media.
We should never repeat that same mistake with Satellites.

[DeepDownAnalysis @deepdownanlyz]

Had China achieved this, CNN, BBC and the entire Western media would have produced documentaries celebrating it.

But India is building it with indigenous technology, and barely anyone talks about it!

Meet MATSYA 6000 — India's Made-in-India deep-ocean submersible under PM Modi's Samudrayaan Mission.**

• Designed to carry 3 scientists 6,000 metres beneath the ocean surface.

• Engineered to withstand crushing pressures of nearly 600 times atmospheric pressure.

• Features an 80-mm-thick titanium-alloy crew sphere.

• Designed for 12 hours of operations, with 96 hours of emergency life support.

• Will help India explore deep-sea minerals, marine biodiversity and the largely unexplored ocean floor.

Developed by India's NIOT, this is an extraordinary feat of indigenous engineering. Harbour trials are complete, with deeper dives still ahead.

From Chandrayaan reaching the Moon to Samudrayaan preparing to explore the ocean's darkest depths, India is building capabilities that only a handful of nations possess.

This is the magnitude of Make in India. This deserves global attention.

[Rishi Bagree @rishibagree]

This Gen Z girl destroyed CJP Bauna with hard facts

[Eminent Intellectual @total_woke_]

SIR is wrong because I hate BJP

Cockroach core!

[Priti Gandhi @MrsGandhi]

Delhi Police video fully exposes Cockroach Party's claims about Abhijeet Dipke!

CJP alleged that police denied Dipke the chance to speak to his family after his grandmother’s death.

But the video footage clearly shows police offering him the option to call his family or go home, and Dipke refusing.

Using a family tragedy for political mileage is the lowest of lows!!

[FinSkeptics @FinSkeptics]

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[Viक़as @VlKAS_PR0NAM0]

@elonmusk Indians humiliating Musk on his own app while using Ambani’s Jio Data .. loving it 🔥