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After encroaching on Platforms 2 and 3 of New Delhi Railway Station, a mosque has now allegedly been built there.
Why are such mosques and dargahs always found on railway station and railway land?
Is the Railway Department so deeply asleep that it does not even realize when its land is stolen or occupied?
Or they deliberately allow these encroachments?”
I remember accompanying my relative to Apollo in Chennai for a specialized treatment years ago. The hospital was chock full of Kanglus getting treatment. Each one was accompanied by half a dozen bearded family members. Who knows how many stay behind and never go back to Kangludesh.
Don’t know why they get so many special medical visas. In the name of humanitarianism we are taking on a huge security risk.
🛕Do you know K.M. Munshi went against Jawaharlal Nehru for the reconstruction of Somnath Temple? Nehru wrote “I don’t like your trying to restore Somnath. It is Hindu revivalism", Munshi replied “It is my faith in our past which has given me the strength to work in the present and look forward to our future. I cannot value freedom if it deprives us of the Bhagavad Gita or uproots our millions from the faith with which they look upon our temples and thereby destroys the texture of our lives. I have been given the privilege of seeing my incessant dream of Somnath reconstruction come true. That makes me feel,makes me almost sure, that this shrine once restored to a place of importance in our life, will give our people a purer conception of religion and a more vivid consciousness of our strength, so vital in these days of freedom and its trials.” On 24 April 1951, he wrote this powerful, detailed letter to Nehru (later published in his book Pilgrimage to Freedom).
🛕Munshi also invited President Dr. Rajendra Prasad to perform the prana-pratishtha (installation of the deity) ceremony. Despite Nehru’s vehement protests, Prasad kept his word and conducted the sacred rites on 11 May 1951, marking the triumphant rebirth of the temple.
🛕Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi (30 December 1887 – 8 February 1971), popularly known as K.M. Munshi or by his pen name Ghanshyam Vyas, was a towering figure in modern Indian histor, a freedom fighter, constitutional lawyer, politician, prolific writer, and cultural visionary.
🛕A key leader in the Indian National Congress and later founder of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (1938), he played a pivotal role in nation-building. Yet one of his most enduring legacies remains his tireless, courageous leadership in reconstructing the ancient Somnath Temple (Somanatha) at Prabhas Patan, Gujarat after centuries of destruction and desecration.
🛕Following the integration of Junagadh State into India in 1947, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel publicly declared the reconstruction of the Somnath Temple during a visit on 12 November 1947, calling it a holy task for the people of Saurashtra. Munshi, along with N.V. Gadgil and others, was deeply involved from the outset. After Sardar Patel’s death on 15 December 1950, Munshi who was then Union Minister for Food and Agriculture and Chairman of the Somnath Temple Trust became the principal driving force behind the project.
🛕He oversaw the clearing of the ruins, the preparation of plans by government architects, and the construction in the traditional Māru-Gurjara style by Sompura craftsmen. The new temple was built entirely through public contributions.
🛕A passionate chronicler of Somnath’s history, Munshi authored Jay Somnath (1940, in Gujarati) and the seminal English work Somnath: The Shrine Eternal (1952), which detailed the temple’s ancient glory, repeated invasions (including Mahmud of Ghazni in 1026 CE), and the story of its modern resurrection. These books remain essential references on the subject.
🛕K.M. Munshi’s unwavering conviction turned a dream into reality, proving that cultural restoration was integral to India’s post-independence identity. His efforts stand as a testament to faith, perseverance, and the power of historical memory.
#somnathamritmahotsav
#SomnathVirasatK75Varsh
As many as eight Hindu majority States have had at least one non-Hindu Chief minister, but not a single non-Hindu majority State has ever had a Hindu Chief minister.
India is safe, secure, prosperous, plural, and empowering for non-Hindus only because India is majority Hindu.
I watched @narendramodi ji’s Hyderabad speech very carefully. His appeal for economic self-reliance, sustainable living, and reduced import dependency was much needed, and people listen to him. But his govt and the @BJP4India state govts should lead by example. Here are a few of my asks from the govts.
1) Shift to online inaugurations of ALL projects. No city needs a massive VIP entourage and 30 police cars blocking traffic every 15 days because a minister has to come to inaugurate a bridge/road/tunnel/hospital. This is also non-essential travel. VIP entourages are going out of hand and that’s a waste of public money.
2) Most politicians, from all parties, spend huge amounts of money on lavish weddings. There should be a ceiling on that first. At least here @BJP4India can take the lead.
3) Prioritising Made-in-India and locally manufactured products is a very necessary ask, but again, should be started from the top. What stops @BJP4India politicians from wearing a made-in-India watch, carrying a made-in-India phone, wearing made-in-India textiles?
People listen to you @narendramodi because you usually practise what you preach, but what about the rest of your govt and the state BJP govts? When will they walk the talk?
Her name was Subhadra Kumari Chauhan.
She was born on August 16 1904 in Nihalpur village, Allahabad. At nine years old she wrote her first poem. It was published in a national magazine.
At 16 she married and moved to Jabalpur. At 18 she was pregnant and leading protesters through the streets of Nagpur holding the Indian flag.
She was arrested. She became the first woman satyagrahi to be sent to jail in India.
She delivered her first daughter Sudha safely at home after her release. Then went back to the streets.
In 1942 the British came for her again. Her husband had already been arrested. She had five children. The youngest was a toddler with a cleft palate who could barely speak.
She prepared her eldest daughter to look after the younger ones. Left food for them. Then walked to prison carrying her sick youngest child in her arms.
Inside jail she gave up her own food to prisoners facing harsher punishment. She was released months later with a life threatening condition and underwent immediate surgery.
She later described all of this with humor. She said the garlands placed around her neck on the way to jail were so many that she made a pillow of them in her prison cell. They reminded her of the flowers on her wedding night.
Between arrests, pregnancies, court dates and protests she wrote 88 poems and 46 short stories.
Her most famous poem was Jhansi Ki Rani. The one every Indian child has read in school.
Khoob ladi mardaani woh toh Jhansi wali Rani thi.
She wrote it about a queen. She lived it herself.
On February 15 1948 she died in a car accident near Seoni, Madhya Pradesh, while returning from a legislative assembly session in Nagpur. She was 43 years old. A mother of five. A poet. A prisoner. A freedom fighter.
Today is Mother’s Day.
Most Indians know her poem. Almost none know her name.
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This is the respect @INCIndia led @revanth_anumula govt in Telangana has for Hindu heritage. They wouldn’t dare to demolish a single dargah or a mosque even if it is in the middle of the road, but a 800 year old temple UNDER state archeology protection is razed to the ground to build another concrete monstrosity of a school!
Congress Telangana Govt demolishes 800 years old temple
It took the Kakatiyas years to carve. It took a single bulldozer one day to erase. In Khanapur, Warangal, an 800-year-old Shiva temple from the Kakatiya era has been razed to the ground.
The justification? To make way for a new integrated school. What is the point of a school built on the literal erasure of our heritage?
We are teaching the next generation from textbooks while destroying the primary sources of their history right outside the classroom window.
India possesses a density of heritage that no other nation can claim, yet we often treat it with a unique brand of apathy. Why is the political class so consistently indifferent to these anchors of our culture? This isn't just a "planning error." It reflects a deeper, systemic desire to disconnect the masses from their roots. When the state treats native Hindu civilization as an obstacle rather than a foundation, this hatred flows down into our institutions, leading to the "extraction" of our shared memory. Restoration was an option. Designing the school around the heritage site was an option. Instead, the path of destruction was chosen. When we level these structures, we aren't just losing stones; we are losing the physical evidence of our ancestors' engineering, art, and spirit. We must ask:
Who is being served by this erasure? And what will be left for us to inherit once the bulldozers are done?
1. Just got off a call with @UnSubtleDesi. I couldn't be happier for her and both of us couldn't help but discuss the harrowing days of post poll violence in West Bengal in 2021. So I am going to share what happened five years ago just so ppl know what happened. #WestBengal2026.
My god - read this thread. The horrors that TMC perpetrated are blood curdling. It’s as if India had returned to the dark days of medieval Islamic rule under TMC - when thousands of Hindu women were sexually violated and subjected to violent humiliation by Mamata’s minions.
It is unbelievable that all this was happening under our noses as late as 2021. Bengal was smothered under a dark cloud of pure evil. Thank god for the courage of such luminaries as @jsaideepak, @JethmalaniM & @UnSubtleDesi that hope for justice was kept alive.
May a new dawn of peace and justice finally break over Bengal.
1. The spread of Christianity has been extremely violent and through fraud, deceit, in most parts of world - irrespective of whether you call it ancient or modern.
That is history and present, not an opinion.
2. Tribals in India cannot read Bible. They convert because missionaries hold Miracle-healing-camps.
3. Francis Xavier says he enjoyed destruction of Hindu idols.
4. Western civilization itself has been most brutal, corrupt and unethical in history to force its domination in economics and geography.
5. The bible of capitalist economy - Wealth of Nations of Adams - was about exploiting small children for production.
6. Its counter - communism - killed more people than world war 2. World wars themselves were western madness of modern times.
7. On contrary, Vedic civilization was and remains till today the most sensible and reasonable philosophy that is non exploitative
When Kohinoor is mentioned, you think of Delhi sultanate, Babur, Nizam, Nadir shah, Afghans and British royal family and now Zohran Mamdani. Even now the Wikipedia entry is 99% all this.
There is never any mention of who mined it and where was it used. Because it goes against the agenda of our history writers.
It was mined by Kakatiyas.Kakatiya dynasty owned the only diamond mine in the world. Were insanely rich and ruled for 3 centuries as independent kings. They have proudly written in multiple inscriptions they were Shudra (what Shudras had kingdoms?). Proud Hindus they built amazing temples (like thousand pillar temple) and Kohinoor was also kept in a temple before it was looted by Islamic invaders. Under Kakatiyas any person of any Varna could become Nayak and some of their infra like water tanks etc are still in use after 800 years. They used Telugu, Sanskrit and Kannada.
None of this finds place in history or on Wikipedia. Only what Christians and Muslims do is history, Kafirs are just a footnote. So why write about great egalitarian technologically rich Hindu kingdoms ravaged and looted by Islamic and Christian barbarians, right? 1/2
Before the world knew the power of Big Pharma, a journalist in a tiny lab in Bombay created a substance so potent it triggered a trade war with London. It was a yellow grease that did not just soothe headaches but funded a movement, bypassed British blockades, & became 1 of the few Indian products to make the Empire's own medicine look like scented water.
Unlike other brands started by chemists, Amrutanjan was founded by Kasinadhuni/Kasinathuni Nageswara Rao, a man who was primarily a journalist & a freedom fighter. In the late 1800s, the pain balm market in India was a British monopoly. If your head throbbed, you bought imported ointments. Rao saw this as a tax on pain. He retreated into a lab & perfected a formula that was significantly more potent than anything coming out of London.
The British tried to push their own balms like Vicks/early menthol rubs as sophisticated & odorless. They attempted to smear Amrutanjan as primitive because of its overpowering scent. Rao leaned into the scent. He realized that in a country where literacy was low, a brand could not just be a name, it had to be an experience.
He distributed free samples at music concerts (Sabhas) & religious festivals. By the time the British tried to patent the market for pain relief, the entire Indian public had already associated the smell of camphor & menthol with trust. The British balms felt alien & weak compared to the sensory explosion of the yellow tin.
The smell of Amrutanjan... that piercing, camphor-heavy aroma became the literal scent of the freedom struggle. If you walked into a room & it smelled of Amrutanjan, it was a silent signal: A patriot is present. It was a scent the British police could not arrest, yet it was everywhere.
The British had a Patent Medicine Tax that made imported drugs expensive. However, by classifying Amrutanjan as an Ayurvedic Proprietary Medicine, Rao managed to navigate a complex legal gray area. He essentially used the British legal system against itself. By proving his ingredients were ancient yet his manufacturing was modern, he avoided the crippling taxes that applied to purely Western drugs, while maintaining a price point (initially 10 annas) that made British imports look like daylight robbery Rao fought back not just in the market, but in the press. He used the profits from the balm to fund Andhra Patrika, 1 of the most influential anti-British newspapers.
The British were literally paying for their own downfall. Every time a British officer’s wife bought a jar of Amrutanjan for a migraine (because it worked better than the London balms), she was inadvertently funding the printing of revolutionary literature that called for the end of the Raj.
By the 1930s, this Indian yellow grease was being exported to Indian diaspora & locals in South Africa & Ceylon. It became a global symbol of Eastern Wisdom defeating Western Chemistry. It was 1 of those few occasions, an Indian OTC (Over the Counter) product achieved cult status internationally w/o a single pound of British investment.
In fact, the yellow tin became so iconic that it did not need a label in the villages. The color & the smell were the brand. It was a biological Swadeshi. While others were fighting with words, Rao was fighting with molecular relief.
NIA is raiding GULSHAN COLONY in Kolkata? Anyone from Kolkata knows how notorious Gulshan Colony is. Murders, rapes, widespread encroachment - a hub for Bengal’s worst criminals. In the recent years, it has been increasingly taken over by illegal Bangladeshis and Jihadis.
I don’t think people realise how serious this is. Local police simply refused to take any action because they’re petrified.
NIA isn’t messing around.
When we think of Indian history, we rarely think of colonial Mexico. But did you know that in the 16th and 17th centuries, thousands of Indians were kidnapped from places like Portuguese Goa and shipped across the Pacific Ocean as slaves?
Prepare to learn one of the darkest, most shocking chapters of our history.
Most of us know about the Atlantic slave trade, but the Portuguese also ran a horrific trafficking network. Portuguese slavers kidnapped Indians from the western coast and Goa, trafficked them to the massive slave market in Manila, Philippines.
From there, they were packed onto the massive “Manila Galleon” ships to Mexico.
Goa acted as a massive concentration hub where our people were gathered before being shipped across the world. From Indian ports, enslaved men, women, and children were exported across the Atlantic Ocean, ending up in places as far away as Lisbon, Mexico, Portugal, and Salvador, Brazil.
Around 1610, a young girl was violently kidnapped from the western coast of India and sold into slavery in Puebla, Mexico. Stripped of her freedom, she was renamed Catarina de San Juan and lived her life as a domestic servant. She became a Catholic visionary, and when she died in 1688, this enslaved Indian girl became a highly revered popular saint in Mexico.
Today, she is widely considered the historical inspiration behind the China Poblana, a legendary figure credited with inventing Mexico’s vibrant, sequined national costume. A piece of core Mexican identity was inspired by a kidnapped Indian girl!
In colonial Mexico, native indigenous people were legally protected from slavery. When enslaved Asians managed to run away, they were readily welcomed by local native Mexican communities, allowing them to “pass” as free locals. Terrified of losing their property, slave owners began branding our ancestors directly on their faces just to ensure they couldn’t blend in and escape.
The enslaved Indians of the Manila Galleons endured horrific transatlantic & transpacific voyages, faced face-branding, and had their identities erased. Yet, they fought for their freedom and left a permanent mark on Latin American culture. History forgot them.
It’s up to us to remember them. Share this to spread the hidden truth of the transpacific Indian slave trade.
Hey frog why don’t you crawl out of the well for once?
Even among Western scholars, there’s a huge shift happening in the history of Mathematics where the lens is widening way beyond the traditional European narrative and giving much more weight to Indian contributions. Modern scholars are acknowledging the foundational contributions of ancient Indian mathematicians like:
Aryabhata - clearly credited with earliest trigonometry, place-value system usage, and astronomical constants.
Brahmagupta - acknowledged as first to formalize rules of zero and negatives and considered a foundational algebraist.
Bhāskara II - is now recognized for earliest calculus ideas like rates of change, cyclic methods, etc.
Madhava - now acknowledged for discovering infinite series expansions many centuries before Europeans.
Nilakantha - advanced planetary models & refinements of trigonometric series.
But you keep whining & doing your vidhwa villap while the rest of humankind discovers the immense value of India’s civilizatiinal contributions to math.
The only thing even more irrelevant than your hissyfit is your brainrot.
In Barra village of Kanpur district of Uttar Pradesh, the bride's family was surprised by the demands of the groom's family!!
☆The groom's demands are being discussed all over the city.
☆These demands are not about dowry but about the method of solemnization of marriage and improper traditions!!
The demands are as follows:-
1- There will be no pre-wedding shoots.
2- The bride will wear a saree instead of a lehenga in the wedding.
3- Instead of absurd obscene deafening music in the marriage lawn, light instrumental music will play.
4- Only the bride and groom will be on the stage at the time of the garland.
5- Those who lift the bride or groom at the time of the garland will be expelled from the marriage.
6- After Panditji started the marriage process, no one will stop him, no one will interrupt him.
7- The cameraman will take pictures of the rounds etc. from a distance, not by interrupting Panditji repeatedly.
Because it is a marriage ceremony being performed in the presence of the gods by invoking them. Not shooting a movie.
8- The bride and groom will not pose directly on the instructions of the cameraman.
9- The marriage ceremony should be held during the day and the farewell should be completed by evening, so that no guest has to worry about the problems caused by eating food from 12 to 1 o'clock in the night, such as insomnia, acidity, etc.
Apart from this, it does not take the guests till midnight to reach their home and there should be no inconvenience.
10- Anyone who asks the newlywed to embrace in front of everyone will be immediately expelled from the marriage.
11- Any kind of meat and liquor will be prohibited in marriage, gods and goddesses are invoked in marriage, seeing meat and liquor, the gods and goddesses get angry and leave without blessing the bride and groom.
The result is that the girl's family has gladly accepted all the demands of the boy..!!
A very beautiful suggestion to improve society..! Exemplary to all..!!
🙏🏻Marriage is a sacred bond. Stay within the limits. 🙏🏻
Lenskart cannot respect your bindi.
Not because they hate you.
Because they literally cannot afford to.
Let me show you exactly why.
Peyush Bansal tweeted:
"We are proudly built in Bharat, for Indians."
Beautiful line.
Terrible lie.
Start with the factory.
Lenskart's India plant opened in 2023.
Before that, China joint venture.
That JV still runs today.
Frames.
Raw materials.
Supply chain.
All from China.
Indian factory mostly assemble.
Now look at who owns this "Bharatiya" company.
Peyush Bansal: 10.28%
Neha Bansal: 7.74%
Amit Chaudhary: 0.98%
Sumeet Kapahi: 0.96%
All four founders combined: 20%.
The remaining 80%?
SoftBank: Japan.
Temasek: Singapore.
ADIA: Abu Dhabi.
KKR: New York.
Fidelity: Boston.
Now here is what nobody tells you.
Every foreign investor runs ESG compliance.
Before writing a cheque.
ESG = Environmental, Social, Governance.
A scoring system that has nothing to do with Environment.
Built in New York and Amsterdam.
It decides who gets capital.
Inside ESG lives another animal.
Called DEI.
Diversity. Equity. Inclusion.
DEI was designed in America.
Built on American horrors.
Black minorities.
Gender wars.
LGBTQ rights.
Never designed for India.
Does not understand India.
Here is what DEI scores as "positive":
Hijab at work = Positive signal.
Turban at work = Positive signal.
Here is what DEI marks as risk:
Bindi = Majority religion marker.
Tilak = Majority religion.
Kalawa = Majority religion.
In Western DEI logic,
The majority is the oppressor.
Majority does not need protection.
So when Lenskart's HR writes a grooming policy,
They are not writing for you.
They write for their colonial masters.
Because Lenskart is chasing a $10 billion IPO.
Does your bindi sit anywhere in that number?
Their first customer is not you.
Their first customer is SoftBank.
Their first customer is ADIA.
Their first customer is an ESG agency in Amsterdam.
You buy one pair of glasses.
They invest $500 million.
Do the math on who Lenskart listens to.
Now the government.
You think they don't know?
They know everything.
Every ministry understands how foreign capital
erases civilizational identity.
SEBI approved the DRHP.
Not one clause protecting Hindu identity.
Because the government also wants the IPO.
GST. Tax. Economic headline.
Your kalawa / kada is not in that equation.
This is not a Lenskart problem.
This is every unicorn in India.
Swiggy.
Zomato.
Ola.
Meesho.
Zepto.
Check their cap tables.
Check the ESG reports.
Check the grooming policies in their HR folders.
Every company 60-80% owned by foreign capital
is a branch office of Western values.
"Built in Bharat" is a tagline.
"For Indians" is a marketing campaign.
The policy document tells you who they serve.
Your Bindi.
Your Kalawa.
Your Kada.
Your 5,000 years.
Irrelevant to billionaires chasing an IPO.
But minority appeasement?
That scores points in Amsterdam.
And we call ourselves an Independent Nation.
@TheEconomist What sort of journalism are you idiots into? Read this you dimwits 👇
Many idi0ts, and sadly, most of them Hindu by name are spreading the canard that the campaign against @Lenskart_com is about forcing all their employees to wear bindi/tilak. I don’t even know how to respond to this stupidity, but I will.
The campaign is about correcting the systematic discrimination done by Lenskart against Hindu employees. No one is forcing any Lenskart employee to wear a bindi/tilak, but if a Hindu employee wants to wear bindi/tilak/kalawa to work, it is their right to do so, especially when Lenskart gave their Muslim employees the right to wear hijab. It is also about the pathetic lies of @peyushbansal #AntiHinduLenskart
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