DronasArk

[DronasArk @DronasArk]

@sheiscold_ India belongs to Muslims as well. But you’re upset that 1 Muslim vote only counts as much as 1 Hindu or Christian or Parsi vote. Thats weird, undemocratic and anti-constitutional. And no sophistry can change that.

[DronasArk @DronasArk]

In the end, it’s Islamophobic not to be a practicing Muslim.

[Ibn khaldun Bharati @IbnKhaldunIndic]

Et tu, Bibi? I knew that you wouldn’t be able to restrain yourself. Good that you brought into open your “secular” thoughts and “patriotic” sentiments.

In your fanatic rage, you have likened me to Ujjwal Nikam, and Sharjeel Imam to Ajmal Kasab. You drew this parallel, not I—your inner thoughts and your moral compass, not mine. You seem to imply that Kasab was innocent, and the State framed him. Bravo, Bibi, bravo. By the way, then, the State was run by those whose dethronement has left you inconsolable.

Like many others of your ilk, you are also drawing into discussion an unrelated individual. I hope that he sues you for malicious and insidious doxing.

Look, an interview was published. It was hailed by the likes of you as a document—a veritable manifesto—of liberation of Muslims from the slavery of Hindus. It lambasted the liberal class (aren’t you one of them?) for being no different from the Hindu right wing. It called the Constitution (the book that the likes of you have lately become fond of waving) a fascist document, and condemned Nehru for myth making about India’s nationhood. Sharjeel had earlier called Gandhi the greatest fascist of the 20th century.

Being a liberal, you should have been up in arms against the contents of this interview. The whole liberal establishment should have been on its feet. But, no. Pin drop silence. Omertà. A hush-hush celebration of what he said.
(Since you wish him to be enlarged on bail early, do you think that The Quint did the right thing by publishing such a contentious piece, and that Sharjeel Imam acted in his own best interest by giving this interview?)

You expected that interview to go unchallenged. Your grouse against me is for calling out the liberal-Islamist alliance for its telling silence. I had to do what the leading lights of liberals should have done. I argued for the Constitution, for Gandhi and Nehru, and for liberalism and secularism. If you actually believed in these ideals shouldn’t you be thankful to me?

By the way, what’s your complaint against me besides my pen-name? Being a liberal-secular person where and why do you disagree with my essay?
I know, you disagree with its very existence. But then, you shouldn’t you have voiced your opposition to the publication of the said “interview” itself? But you happily lapped it up. Come, say openly that you didn’t want a counter to that.

If not, could you please tell me what’s your precise criticism of my piece? Have I misquoted Sharjeel? Have I made a tendentious selection from his speeches and writings, and reproduced them out of context so that they convey meanings other than intended? Have I misinterpreted and misunderstood him?

Ghazala, I will wait for you to write a full scale critique of my piece. Rip me apart, if you have the intellectual wherewithal and moral clarity for that. If not, keep hiding behind my pseudonym.

[DronasArk @DronasArk]

Hindus must learn shamelessness. IM commentators freely attack the basic concept of one-person-one-vote, simply because they are outnumbered. Learn to pursue a naked hunger for power like that, without any apology, in fact while abusing even your mildest critics, all while loudly crying you’re the victim. It makes for a terrible society, but the alternative seems sharia.

[DronasArk @DronasArk]

@HarrisRichard77 Yeah man, why can’t you love Pakistanis for peace gestures made 23 years ago? Is it because after that they started a war in Kargil, sponsored terror attacks in the valley and sent ISI trained jihadis to kill Mumbaikars in trains, maternity hospitals and hotels ?

[DronasArk @DronasArk]

Hindus must learn shamelessness. IM commentators freely attack the basic concept of one-person-one-vote, simply because they are outnumbered. Learn to pursue a naked hunger for power like that, without any apology, in fact while abusing even your mildest critics, all while loudly crying you’re the victim. It makes for a terrible society, but the alternative seems sharia.

[DronasArk @DronasArk]

@DrDariyaMKhan Global Moslems have provided Hindus a useful template to not GAF about mleccha opinions. Their anger is hilarious

[DronasArk @DronasArk]

@TheMuslimMatter Rohingya settlements in Kashmir cause demographic anxieties to local Kashmiri population. Their removal is demanded by local Kashmiris and agreed to by GoI

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@HasnainWizard Fastest growing religion in Kali Yuga for a reason

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@iamzappy It’s very simple. Courts are worried that constitutional protections meant for weak sections of the Hindu community, should not be diluted by applying to sections of other religious communities.

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@rizwanhuss91862 @metacolonial If Kashmiri Islam can accommodate Arab Wahhabism, then Kashmiri Hinduism can accommodate Durga Puja.

[DronasArk @DronasArk]

@iSoumikSaheb 🇧🇩 was - and ideally should continue to be - a natural ally of 🇮🇳. Not just because of dependencies, but also because India genuinely wants nothing from 🇧🇩 except to respect the border and be peaceful

[DronasArk @DronasArk]

@just_avik Sanatani minds can go a lifetime without understanding aspects of sanatan. Thats why I’m patient with the Abrahamics. We must all seem very confusing to them.

[DronasArk @DronasArk]

@IndianGeostrat Excuse me?

[Parimal @Fintech03]

An Indian eye-surgery book vanished from China. Korea kept part of it.

The operation was cataract couching: a needle goes in beside the white of the eye and pushes the clouded lens out of the way. The Sushruta Samhita describes the Indian procedure.

By the Tang dynasty it was in Chinese medicine, taught under the name of one book, the Longshu pusa yanlun, "Bodhisattva Nagarjuna's eye treatise".

In 752 Wang Tao's Waitai miyao already quotes an older Indian treatise on the eye.

Then the trail breaks. The original Longshu book was not handed down in China. A large part of it was copied into Korea's great medical compendium Uibang yuchwi, compiled under King Sejong in 1445.

It has 8 sections and 30 eye diseases. It names heat and wind as main causes. It says the cataract forms when poison and heat gather in the brain and the eye's "oil" runs down over the pupil.

And it gives the golden-needle method step by step, to be done only when the film has hardened "like white jade".

Korean scholars Kim and Kang call it a record of Indian medical ideas already lost in China.

An operation travelled from India to China. The Chinese copies of the book were lost. A Korean encyclopedia kept the text. 🙏🙏

Sources: Wang Tao, Waitai miyao (752); Yi fang lei ju vol. 64 (Joseon); Kim & Kang, Korean J. Med. Hist. 22(1), 2013; Deshpande, Bull. SOAS (1999)

Photo 1: Cataract couching in India (painting, undated). Wellcome Library, London, CC BY 4.0

Photo 2: Uibang yuchwi, volume 201 cover (Joseon, 1477 per Commons). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

[DronasArk @DronasArk]

@ShoaibDaniyal Genuinely asking- do Indian Muslims follow a caste system? Have they kept track of their old castes and still use it to discriminate against each other?

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@afgmeh When Persian civilisation emerges from Mullah rule, it’s gonna body the world. People have forgotten. Old societies like India remember.

[DronasArk @DronasArk]

@mehdirhasan Gotta admire the honesty in admitting he has no problems with discrimination against Pakistani Hindus and Sikhs. The kafir-est of religions no doubt in Mehdi’s mind.

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@dukhi_tsunoda Aamchee at Babulnath. Exceptional but simple vegetarian food with the kind of dishes you won’t find on menus elsewhere, quality ingredients and a charming ambience.