Pawan Bhardwaj

Profession: Cybersecurity SaaS/Cloud Product Manager Interests: Music, Architecture, Technology, Social causes, Literature

[Pawan Bhardwaj @dwaj]

@palkisu All the best @palkisu 🎉🚀👏

[Pawan Bhardwaj @dwaj]

@YashicaDutt These manufactured grievances serve a purpose unfortunately (to berate and denigrate Hinduism); if that’s your agenda you’re just doing your job. The religion has been there forever and will stay forever.

[Pawan Bhardwaj @dwaj]

@YashicaDutt Stop the nonsense @YashicaDutt
An ardent devotee and born Brahmin here (Bhardwaj). Wouldn’t dare to enter the sanctum sanctorum, even if that’s my ardent prayer. It’s reserved for the learned and disciplined religious leaders who’ve dedicated their lives to serving the deity. 🙏

[Pawan Bhardwaj @dwaj]

@YashicaDutt And any place in mandirs that’s open to public is truly open to everyone. There’s no caste, etc. check for that ever.

[Shivam Vahia @ShivamVahia]

The most embarrassing part of the WaPo layoffs isn't that journalists lost their jobs. It's that they still believe they mattered. Lol.

Let's be clear: this wasn't a funding problem. Jeff Bezos isn't short on cash. If he wanted to subsidise indefinitely as a vanity project, he could. The layoffs happened for one simple reason -- the market decided these people are worthless.

Not controversial. Not ideological. Just economics.

The product under-performed. Readers don't care. Subscriptions didn't justify the payroll. And when an organisation is bloated, ideologically rigid, and increasingly disconnected from reality, the only rational solution is to cut fat. One-third of it apparently.

That's the part these farewell threads avoid confronting.

For years, western correspondents in India confused moral grandstanding with journalism. They believed their role wasn't to report India, but to lecture it from a pedestal built on outdated colonial assumptions and a nauseating superiority complex. They never served the readers...simply serviced their own sense of righteousness.

The market saw through it globally. That these foreign bureaus are "vacation postings". Sit in elite clubs, speak to a few dozen diplomats and think tanks...and keep recycling the same things over and over again. You can even "generate" beautiful stories...ask Rukmini Callimachi.

In Indian context, their favourite delusion is still Narendra Modi. Modi isn't a dictator clinging to power -- he keeps winning elections. Repeatedly. Decisively. That single fact collapses the entire narrative, so it is ignored. Instead, democracy is declared "under threat" every time Indian voters reject elite-approved outcomes. Apparently, democracy only works when it produces governments western newsrooms prefer.

Covid coverage sealed their irrelevance. India's second wave was brutal, but instead of proportion, context, or nuances, readers were fed relentless imagery of Hindu funeral pyres, curated for maximum shock value. This wasn't reporting. It was panic production. Readers don't pay for civilisational death porn masquerading as news. They switch off.

Kashmir? Misreported with utmost laziness. Terrorism softened, Pakistan backgrounded, Indian sovereignty framed as a disease. Delhi riots flattened into one-sided morality tales. Farmer protests romanticised while economic illiteracy and political capture conveniently ignored. CAA-NRC sold as genocide fan fiction. Every issue filtered through the same sneering lens: India bad, state evil, society dangerous.

Here's the uncomfortable truth they refuse to acknowledge: this framing doesn't sell anymore. Not in India. Not globally. Readers aren't stupid. They can smell ideological assembly lines. When every story sounds the same, outrage fatigue sets in.

That's what really happened here. Not censorship. Not fascism. Not silencing. Market correction.

The hypocrisy is almost comic. These journalists love lecturing India about moral failure while the West is still unearthing the Epstein files -- decades of institutional rot, elite protection, and media complicity in shielding a predator network. Maybe introspection should precede instruction.

The real reason India Inc's growth story irritates them is personal. It breaks the hierarchy and monotony. A country they were trained to view as permanently broken is growing, voting, building, and asserting itself without seeking western approval. That makes their role redundant. Nothing angers an auditor more than being ignored.

Journalism that mistakes ideology for insight, and superiority for substance, doesn't deserve infinite subsidy even from a billionaire.

The market spoke.
The product failed.
And the pedestal finally collapsed.

[The Analyzer (News Updates🗞️) @Indian_Analyzer]

Viral video: An Iranian thanks Hindus for saving them from Islam 1200 years ago. Ratan Tata was from their community.

-> They REJECTED Islam & ran to India. Hindus saved them. Now they are openly fighting against Islam to return to their own native religion: Zoroastrianism!🤯

[Glinert 🇺🇸 🏭 @StevenGlinert]

Anti Indian racism is the racism of the most pathetic and envious class of people.

Much of my visceral disgust comes from a sense that Indian Americans are the most admirable class of citizens you’ll ever meet.

Consistently hard workers and positive contributors to society. Some are doctors who serve underserved communities and others small business owners who aspire upwards. Family oriented. They raise children to be patriotic upstanding Americans. 0 crime.

Your hate for them is base bigotry. It says much more about you than about them.

[Maria Wirth @mariawirth1]

I saw #Dhurandhar today.
Had to close my eyes a few times, but unfortunately such inhuman brutality happens in reality... only a few days ago in Bangladesh Dipu Chandra Das was brutally lynched - for being a Hindu.
How can humans be so inhuman? And misunderstand the "Will of God" so badly?
#DipuChandraDas

[Sidharth @Cloudwatch199]

This is what leadership looks like.

Credit to Thomas R. Suozzi ( @Tom_Suozzi ) for formally pressing the State Department ( @StateDept ) on the murder of Hindu minorities in Bangladesh and the abuse of blasphemy laws.

This matters because silence is exactly what enables mobs and extremists.

Now more members of Congress should follow suit and demand answers from @SecRubio and the State Department.

If one Member can speak up, others can too.
Do the right thing. Step up. Speak out.

[Sidharth @Cloudwatch199]

You found endless time to amplify manufactured narratives out of Palestine but said nothing when Hindus were burned alive in Bangladesh.

That silence didn’t break this story.
We did.

Working through @IAACouncil , @RajeevSharma00 we coordinated directly with jewish allies who refused to look away and helped force this atrocity into the global spotlight including
@SloanRachmuth @LauraLoomer @HashemMelech048 @stephsvox @Yael4Hanover @AmyMek and many others from the Jewish community who stood shoulder to shoulder with us to amplify the truth.

Grateful as well to @visegrad and others on X who worked with us to push this forward.

This wasn’t accidental.
This was persistence, and refusal to be silent.

And because of that work, the world is now paying attention.

Never stop talking.
Silence is what allows atrocities to disappear.

THANK YOU!

[Sidharth @Cloudwatch199]

Dear my fellow Hindus ,

History shows one thing clearly: silence costs us.
The media won’t carry our pain.
The institutions won’t amplify our truth.
The powerful won’t stand up for us.

So we stand up for each other.
We speak. We shout.
We make ourselves impossible to ignore.

[Swati Goel Sharma @swati_gs]

Actually, it’s a terrible report

Shame on @nytimes and its biased reporters Saif Hasnat, Mujib Mashal, Suhasini Raj for their disgraceful coverage of the brutal lynching of Hindu man Dipu Chandra Das in Islamic Bangladesh

Dipu Das’s lynching is framed as part of a “wider pattern of religious intolerance in South Asia”

Even when the report is about lynching of a Hindu in Bangladesh, the report has carefully inserted “Hindu vigilantes targeting Muslims in India”

What the report omits? That just last week, an Indian court convicted 10 Muslims for brutal lynching of their neighbour Ram Gopal Mishra

At the same time, the men who lynched Dipu Das are not profiled as ‘Muslim vigilantes’ but simply as “co-workers”

You can’t hate this lot enough

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Is this Islam or Islamism?

[Pawan Bhardwaj @dwaj]

@naomi2009 Sad that you find this balanced @naomi2009
Don’t have hopes from @amnestysasia but you ought to know better…

[Pawan Bhardwaj @dwaj]

@SheetalPronamo Blessings to the kid… be an amazing human being… 🙏❤️

[Pawan Bhardwaj @dwaj]

@arifaajakia @arifaajakia ji aap yeh bhi padh sakte hain… “Dil ki Gita”… my father came across a rare printed copy and having read/lived the Hindi and Sanskrit originals before reading this, he used to appreciate this effort a lot… https://t.co/QDOktcXMad

[Pawan Bhardwaj @dwaj]

@USAndIndia Get it. You’re joking. But it’s nowhere close to 1st April.

[Pawan Bhardwaj @dwaj]

@RealPNavarro The damage morons like yourself @RealPNavarro & @realDonaldTrump are doing might not be possible to recover from ever, but it’s unfair to blame you for this fully; we Americans are responsible for giving you the authority (due to lack of proper choices). Praying for better times.

[Mir Yar Baloch @miryar_baloch]

Balochistan's patriot children singing #IndianNationalAnthem #JanaGanaMana dedicated to 1.4 billion Bharatya brothers and sisters and the victims of #Pahalgam Pakistani terrorism.

Happy #InternationalMothersDay

#BalochistanIsNotPakistan

@narendramodi @hyrbyair_marri @AadiAchint @AdityaRajKaul @AmrullahSaleh2 @LtGenDPPandey @TheParvati @VIKRAMPRATAPSIN @DrSJaishankar @rajnathsingh

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Pakistan has enjoyed decades of global indulgence, especially from the West, and particularly from the Anglo-Saxon world thanks to historical and geopolitical quirks.

The West therefore bears some culpability for building up Pakistan’s terror industry. The Islamic world is way ahead of the West in recognizing the dangers posed by Pakistan to themselves. China too, despite its master-client relationship has shown signs of uneasiness with the trajectory of the Pakistani state (Chinese workers and engineers have been attacked by terror groups there).

The United States has provided Pakistan with substantial financial aid - nearly $78.3 billion between 1948 and 2016 - making it one of the largest recipients of U.S. assistance.

This insane largesse was meant to promote regional stability and counterterrorism efforts.

The results are plain for all to see. Not only is the region a hotbed of instability. The fact that we found Osama Bin Laden hiding out in Abbottobad, just a stone’s throw away from Pakistani military and government agency HQs, is something out of an absurd comedy sketch.

This is like spending billions in education only to see US students’ reading and math scores plummet. Or increasing healthcare spending only to see chronic disease rates steadily climb while lifespans shrink.

Defence trade between US and Pakistan has been furnished since 9/11 to the tune of $20 billion. We’re talking fighter jets (F-16s), missile frigates and attack helicopters.

Why is our foreign policy like the titanic, unable to change course from its Cold War trajectory?

The calls for equivalency between India and Pakistan once again just glosses over this fact: Pakistani-origin terrorism is a problem not just for India but globally as well, and it is financed and abetted by the state which is financed and abetted by the West.