Akshay Bhagwat

Nehru Fellow at Mindshare. Ex-Environmental Researcher. Interested in Public Policy, Politics and History | Often found at history walks and karaokes.

[Akshay Bhagwat @BakshHai]

@DeepikaBhardwaj @bareillypolice @DeepikaBhardwaj careful, you’ll lose your carefully curated following of misogynists

[Akshay Bhagwat @BakshHai]

@Schandillia Don’t be wilfully stupid. Intent does not equal outcome. They leave Hinduism because they don’t wish to remain in a religion that sees them as sub-human. Their conversion doesn’t magically stop Hindus (and upper-caste converts) from discriminating against them. Not hard to grasp.

[Akshay Bhagwat @BakshHai]

@IPEwithSBB @elonmusk I don’t think he understands the quote

[Akshay Bhagwat @BakshHai]

@JoshuaMuscat11g @BumpsGoss @Mrknowner @ParikPatelCFA So you’re a quack? And you’re announcing that because you’re proud of fleecing vulnerable people?

[Akshay Bhagwat @BakshHai]

@SomeLatinWord @twst12612648 Didn’t you say “meticulously argued, with a lot of scholarly citations and analysis” ?

[barathi @squarehaunting]

Does casteism make you incapable of thinking a single logical thought? Poverty and caste are deeply interlinked in India. Surely, even the most normie discourse on the subject will tell you this much.

[News Algebra @NewsAlgebraIND]

BIG NEWS 🚨 Bollywood Actor Naseeruddin Shah said that "Muslims are worried about Hizab, length of Sania Mirza's skirt"

He said "Muslims should be worried about Education, enlightening, modern idea instead of madrassas"

He said "It is very easy to oppose Modi. The fact is that there was plenty wrong in this country even before Modi came to power. There has always been an undercurrent of hostiIity among religions in our country" ⚡- NASEERUDDIN SHAH
(Video below the Post) 🔥

[Congress Kerala @INCKerala]

Modiji is staring at the second defeat of his life, the first being 8th standard.

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

I like my daughter’s analogy of caste hierarchy.

“That’s like the topper became a topper by murdering the rest of the students for multiple generations, and the ones that survived are made to live in ghettos, forbidden to touch drinking water, and shamed at every opportunity.”

[Dalit a la mode @dalit_alamode]

Can we stop calling meat “non-veg”?

Nowhere in the world is it called that.

We don’t call rice “non-bread”!

Let’s debrahmanize language.

[Karthik 🇮🇳 @beastoftraal]

A BJP devotee's Electoral Bonds counter Q&A:

1. "Our FM says that it shouldn’t be assumed that those visited by the ED bought bonds to save themselves. Isn't that valid?"

A: Indeed. But there are enough examples of raids and subsequent bond purchases, sometimes within days of the raids. Clearly, those should count for something, right?

[Narayani Basu @narayani_basu]

Clear, crisp explainer on why electoral bonds are the antithesis of democracy. Absolutely superb stuff from @ptrmadurai 💯

[Akshay Bhagwat @BakshHai]

@sabe3h @AntiHypocriter @championswimmer @rishabhm The people don’t want them to be held accountable. They are given a free pass to loot, cheat, threaten violence, and as long as they’re “showing Muslims their place” they will continue to win. That’s the sad reality today.

[Shashank @ShashankSArora]

In India, we designate a separate elevator for labourers and house help, only for the reason that we’re deeply, passionately and disgustingly classist.

[United Communist Front (India) @BolshevikSpeaks]

A CEO of an Indian company arrived at work in a brand-new Lamborghini

One of the employees said, "Wonderful! That's a superb car, sir".

The CEO replied: "If you work even harder, almost 70 hours a week and strive for excellence, I'll get another one next year."

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

I used to be pro-Palestinian. I thought Israel was wrong for carpet bombing Gaza and using siege warfare on civilians.

But then I ran into a very wise Israel apologist who changed my way of looking at things forever.

I was walking down the street and I saw him leaning against a lamp post, smoking a pipe as wise men do.

“Your shirt says Free Palestine,” he said from behind a plume of smoke.

“Yep!” I replied.

“So I guess that means you love Hamas then?” spake he.

I stopped in my tracks. I’d never thought of it that way before.

Could it be? Could my opposition to murdering civilians really be indicative of a deep affection for a Gazan militant group? Maybe I really did love Hamas and think everything it did on October 7 was great and wonderful?

“Is this really how I want to live my life?” I thought to myself.

“I — I — I…” I said out loud.

“Or perhaps,” he said with a raised eyebrow, “you just HATE JEWS??”

I fell to my knees.

Oh my God. He really had a point. What possible reason could anyone have for opposing military explosives being dropped on buildings full of children besides a seething lifelong hatred of adherents to the religion of Judaism? How could anyone possibly oppose siege warfare tactics which cut off civilians from food and water and electricity and fuel and medical supplies unless they harbored a dangerous hostility toward members of a small Abrahamic faith?

“Who… who are you?” I asked.

“That’s of no consequence,” he said, casually blowing a smoke ring through another larger smoke ring.

“But… but the children,” I stammered as my entire worldview crumbled before my eyes. “The civilians! They’re dying! Isn’t it bad that they’re dying?”

And then he went for the coup de grâce.

“Have you considered,” he said before a pregnant pause, “… that all of those deaths are the fault of Hamas?”

I fell flat on my back. The world was spinning. A trickle of blood ran down into my hair from my ear.

I felt all the anti-colonialism leaving my body. I suddenly could no longer remember why I thought it was bad to rain down military explosives on a densely populated concentration camp.

Everything went black.

When I finally came to, the mysterious stranger was gone. But his wisdom and profound insights into Israel and Gaza will always live on in my heart.

[Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad]

I don't believe that there are two sides to the Israeli conflict. There is only the occupation and the war imposed by the apartheid Israeli state.

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

Simple fact is "Israel" is a Euro-American settler-colony where a master-race minority rules by sheer brutality an Indigenous majority in permanent revolt. As such it cannot survive. "Israel" knows this, which is why danger of it committing ethnic cleansing and genocide are grave

[atra 🇵🇸 @_bilaire]

“My grandmother did not die [in the Holocaust] to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza.”