Eashwar

Love classical Indian music but most of all an ARSENAL FANATIC

[Eashwar @eashwarajan]

@UEFA Europe wants to ensure football's riches only remains in Europe. Ask for a single match to be played in a different country and these same guys will cry tradition. Fifa's globalist policy will always be rejected by uefa

[Eashwar @eashwarajan]

The perfect antidote to CJP is BJP. Cockroach ko toh baygon hi maar sakta hai

[Eashwar @eashwarajan]

@David_Ornstein @TheAthleticFC Possible chant for him 'f*ck the police, call tzolis'

[Eashwar @eashwarajan]

@TheHost_ Happened to me when I was 13. Got the topic 'adult education' in an examination. I thought it was sex education at the time

[Eashwar @eashwarajan]

@SagasofBharat Absolutely. Even tigers should have the right. They choose to live away from humans because of fear, not because we tell them to not live with us

[Eashwar @eashwarajan]

Who gave humans the right to live in cities and not let other animals live in them? Why does a dog need to be adopted for it to earn a life amongst us?

[Eashwar @eashwarajan]

Either all lives are equal, or even among humans, lives are unequal. There's not a huge difference between homeless human and a stray. If a dog without a home, deserves to be jailed, so do homeless people

[Eashwar @eashwarajan]

@ChrisWheatley The comments on this thread shows that most people have no idea how businesses run and are all willing to kill the golden goose for short term benefit. Thank god MPs are smarter than their constitutents

[Indu Viswanathan @indumathi37]

Don't tell me what Zohran Mamdani's victory means for me as a "South Asian" New Yorker.

I am a lifelong liberal New Yorker. I grew up in Westchester, and I've lived in the city since 1997. I love this messy place. I believe in our particular spirit and expressions of democracy, pluralism, and human dignity that push against the towering impulses of this town. I love our viewpoint diversity, the push and pull of approaches, how our irreverence can be subtle, and our kindness can be tough. And probably more than anything else, I love the intolerance of bullshit inherent to being a New Yorker. And that's why I am finding it so frustrating to see the gleeful, starry-eyed glorification of Zohran Mamdani, a person who glibly distorts facts, manipulates identity politics, and imports conflict like a commodity for political gain.

Let me be very clear. This isn't about his faith, his ethnicity, his birthplace, the languages he speaks, or his code switching, all of which I have seen used in attacks against him. This is New York, a city that actually thrives on and embraces diversity. Those attacks are not even worth addressing. What I do find questionable, however, is the veracity of the words coming out of his mouth, regardless of the language or accent he is using at any given moment. That is the issue. His words belie a character that is performative, opportunistic, and deeply undemocratic. He is not a truthful voice of the marginalized, although this is exactly the story he has crafted to rise to power.

Mamdani is a projection of an illiberal, anti-intellectual left-wing authoritarianism that has sunk its teeth into progressive politics. The kind of authoritarianism that makes me feel deeply pessimistic about the future of my party.

One of the most striking examples of how Mamdani does this is his recent claim that there are no more Muslims left in Gujarat, India. This isn't just inaccurate or a gentle exaggeration to land a larger, more important point. It IS the point, and it is a deeply irresponsible falsehood. Gujarat is home to over 7 million Muslims today, nearly 10 percent of the state’s population. To put that in perspective, there are more Muslims in Gujarat than there are in the entire United States.

Mamdani's lie isn’t accidental or something that can be dismissed. It is central to the larger fabrication of his own victimhood status in the world. Mamdani uses the false claim of Muslim “erasure” as supposed evidence that Narendra Modi committed ethnic cleansing of Muslims in the state. One lie props up the other. (I don't know why I have to talk about Modi in the context of NYC mayoral elections, but here we are.) Modi was investigated and cleared by India’s Supreme Court–appointed Special Investigation Team. To be clear, the violence in Gujarat was real and tragic. But it also began with the horrific killing of 59 Hindu pilgrims in Godhra, an inconvenient part of the story that Mamdani ignores entirely. Instead, he offers a selective, inflammatory version of events that erases facts, weaponizes suffering, and demonizes Hindus. Of course, every other "South Asian" that has risen to the top of progressive left American politics has more or less made the same false claims, so this doesn't raise any red flags.

But no one else, as far as I know, has gone the extra fictional step by erasing over 7 million Muslims from Gujarat. Bear in mind, Mamdani's own father is Gujarati Muslim. Mamdani erased his own people for political expediency. With that charming twinkle in his eyes.

You can see, immediately, how this gives him authority in a political landscape that equates narrated victimhood with authentic knowledge and insight. Exaggerated rhetoric becomes fact through repetition. And his victimhood story is premised upon erasure and silencing of inconvenient contexts. The maternal side of Mamdani's family tree is Hindu, and while he's free to practice whatever religion he wants, he never registers or acknowledges the very real oppression of Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh or Kashmir. If he is going to bring up religious-based conflict in "South Asia," why isn't he bringing any of this to the conversation? In fact, he openly dismisses any discussion of these facts.

And if he’s willing to erase 7 million members of his own community of Gujarati Muslims for political expediency in New York, what does that mean for 200,000 Hindus living in New York? What does it mean for the 5 million Jews living here? Shouldn’t we all be concerned when a public figure casually erases entire communities to score rhetorical points?

Mamdani's troubling track record is not limited to his lies about Gujarat. He has openly aligned with Khalistani separatists, a violent movement responsible for attacks on Hindu temples in North America and other horrific terrorist acts. Though it is cloaked in the language of liberation, Khalistan is not about civil rights. It is a geopolitical tool of destabilization, which has roots across the United States, including on college campuses. By sympathizing with its narratives, Mamdani has chosen to align himself with forces that openly target Hindus here in the United States. Doesn't that matter?

I support liberal values that are rooted in truth. But what Mamdani represents is not liberalism or progress. It is a distortion and spectacle crafted to fit perfectly into the small maximalist tent that the progressive left has come to herald as "radical liberation from oppression." I find it very hard to take the moral grandstanding and admonitions of the American progressive left about critiques of Mamdani with even a grain seriousness when they seem to be either oblivious to Mamdani's blatant lies (in which case they're ignorant) or if they are not oblivious, it doesn't seem to matter to them (in which case they are unethical). This does not reflect a commitment to justice and truth-telling by Mamdani or the people who support him. This is something else entirely.

It's very easy to reduce the critiques of Mamdani to racist, xenophobic ramblings of white, Christian supremacists. I'm not asking for him to be deported or questioning his integrity because of his religion or race. I question his integrity because he blatantly lies, and he blatantly lies because he will be rewarded for lying. His lies fit neatly into a narrative that he can ride to the mayor's office. The ease with which people are willing to reduce entire groups of New Yorkers to immoral actors, unless we acquiesce to their narrative about us, is the kind of bullshit that no real New Yorker would or should put up with. Nor should anyone who believes integrity still matters in public life.

Moreover, a NYC mayoral campaign should not be a referendum on foreign conflicts, especially when people from all sides of those conflicts live here, work here, and raise families here. Yet Mamdani consistently brings international flashpoints into local politics, whether it’s Palestine or India, because his goal is to evoke a version of facts that paints him as the victim, because his goal is not the truth or justice, but a particular agenda that benefits from him being the victim.

This is not the kind of leadership this city needs, regardless of ethnicity or religion, or immigration status. It is narrative manipulation masquerading as moral clarity, and it makes me nauseous.

This is the danger of identity politics and the culture wars. They dampen critical thinking and replace honesty with posturing. They reward performance over principle, allegiance over integrity, and reductive meme-like narratives and slogans over complex facts that the average New Yorker can actually handle. In this landscape, truth becomes secondary to optics and there is a real cost, not just to the informed decision making of voters in a democracy, but to the lives and communities of New Yorkers erased and demonized n the process.

And of course, the great irony in all of this is that I know by speaking out, I’ll be accused of being a mouthpiece for an imaginary Hindu supremacist movement that Mamdani and other "South Asians" have conveniently prepared as a way for you all to "legitimately" doubt me. Listen, I'd rather not talk about Indian politics or South Asia in the context of the New York City mayoral race. But somehow, the very act of asking for factual accuracy, viewpoint diversity, and just a shred of dignity when it comes to those conversations will be spun as evidence of how dangerous I am. If you are Hindu American and speak something other than the fixed narrative, you are suspect and possibly even a double agent. If you are Hindu American and stay silent, you are demonized by the narrative. Either way, the narrative remains intact. That is what makes what he and other "South Asians" on the progressive left are doing so profoundly illiberal and so profoundly undemocratic. So un New York. And if you're going to question my veracity because I am a Hindu American who refuses to say the "right thing," you can go kick rocks. I am an American and a New Yorker and I have a right to ask questions, to ask for receipts, to check sources, and to question what a candidate for public office is claiming. It is not just my right, it is my responsibility.

It has been nauseating to be on social media this week. I haven’t felt this politically orphaned, socially isolated, or sickened in a very long time. To watch people I once admired as proponents of justice and fair-mindedness now cheer on a public figure who is so clearly performative, who so brazenly distorting and leveraging his manufactured victimhood is disheartening and isolating.

What sickens me even more is that some people will read this and will still support him with full enthusiasm, as if he is a progressive messiah of truth and honor. Even some Hindu Americans. Even people who know the facts and say they care about things like truth, justice, and inclusion.

It doesn’t seem to matter that Mamdani has been recorded using anti-Hindu slurs. It doesn’t seem to matter that he erases 7 million Muslims to fit his narrative. It doesn’t seem to matter that he ignores the persecution of Hindus, aligns with violent separatist rhetoric, and recycles dehumanizing tropes about entire groups of New Yorkers.

His performance is too good. He has the look, the vibe, the story, the charisma. The narrative is too comforting, especially for the white guilt-ridden, identity-obsessed, New York Times-trusting crowd. His schtick is addictive and it is built upon an established landscape of factual distortion that started long before he arrived on the scene. I can see it all around me. Mamdani is just riding the wave.

But don’t tell me his victory represents me in any way. I’d gladly take a white person who doesn’t lie about genocide over someone who vaguely shares my background but manipulates it so grotesquely.

Representation without integrity and honor is nothing to celebrate. Hopefully, the rest of New York City will figure this out. We still have time to see through this and call bullshit.

PS. While the topic of divestment is on the table, let's divest completely from petrodollars and see what happens to American institutions, "progressive" consensus, and political campaigns.

[Yottachad @GS05445168]

The correct solution is to partition the land between Christian and Muslim britons

[The Chronology @TheChronology__]

Chakravyuh in Canada (Thread)

PM Modi will visit Canada, from June 15th to 17th for G7 meeting, at the invitation of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. But Carney isn’t the only one awaiting his arrival, many others are eagerly preparing their own Chakravyuh for Modi.

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[Eashwar @eashwarajan]

Imagine this macron episode happened genders reversed. Would any memes have been created? What a feminazi world we live in

[Eashwar @eashwarajan]

Animals should be given right to personhood and a guardian. Stop treating them as property

[Eashwar @eashwarajan]

A person who's pushed to the wall, if he pushes back to threaten every element of society, that person actually does deserve to be pushed to wall by the society and hence eliminated

[OsintTV 📺 @OsintTV]

A more sensible and articulated response from Former Indian Ambassador France Jawed Ashraf

[Asra Nomani @AsraNomani]

“Bahawalpur.”

I still have chills in my heart from when I first heard that town’s name in late January 2002. For the 23 years since, I have reported on how Pakistani intelligence and military leaders have used that city — Bahawalpur — in the southern province of Punjab as a base for its homegrown domestic terrorists.

When I heard India bombed training camps in Pakistan this week in Operation Sindoor, in response to a Pakistani terrorist rampage in India’s Kashmir state, I had one city’s name on my lips: Bahawalpur.

Did India bomb Bahawalpur?

It did. I knew then India was striking actual hubs for Pakistan’s homegrown domestic terrorism.

Why do I know?

My friend, WSJ reporter Danny Pearl, went to Bahawalpur in December 2001 with a notebook and a pen. Gen. Pervez Musharraf had just promised he was shutting down Pakistan’s militant groups after a strike by Pakistan’s terrorists against the Parliament in India, and Danny reported on the militant offices in Bahawalpur.

He literally knocked on their doors. Dear Dr. @yudapearl, this story is a window into Danny’s reporting enterprise. And because people will wonder: Danny was no cowboy. This was a calculated low-risk reporting trip because no journalist had been targeted for kidnapping in Pakistan. Around that time, Danny sent me an email: “I’m anxious to go to Afghanistan, but I’m not anxious to die.”

What did Danny learn?

The militant training camps were open for business in Bahawalpur.

On Jan. 23, 2002, Danny left a home I had rented in Karachi, Pakistan, for an interview.

I learned Danny’s fixer, Asif Farooqi, had arranged an interview for Danny through a man named “Arif.” Danny didn’t know it but Arif was the PR man for a militant group, Harkutul Mujahadeen. What was Arif’s hometown? Bahawalpur.

The police launched a manhunt to find Arif in Bahawalpur. We learned Arif’s family faked a funeral for Arif. Police found him trying to board a bus in Muzaffarabad, across the country by Pakistan’s border with Kashmir.

It is another town India said it bombed terrorist training facilities.

Arif had handed Danny off to Omar Sheikh,a British-Pakistani dropout from the London School of Economics, radicalized in the 1990s in London mosques. He went to Pakistan to train in these militant training camps. Then he kidnapped tourists in India. He was caught and jailed but on Dec. 31, 1999, he was traded for hostages in the hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight 814.

Omar Sheikh was freed with Pakistani terrorist leader Masood Azhar, whose family was allegedly killed this week by India’s air strike in Bahawalpur.

Did Pakistan jail Omar Sheikh and Masood Azhar when they returned to Pakistan with a third terrorist, freed from India’s jails?

No. Pakistan’s military and intelligence gave them safe passage. They used them as weapons against India. But in fact these domestic terrorists have waged war against innocents in Pakistan, like civil society activists, Benazir Bhutto, Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, schoolchildren and countless others.

Their extremism has ruined Pakistan, and Pakistanis can’t blame America for creating the mujahideen to fight the Soviets in the 1980s.

Pakistan has had a duty to dismantle those terrorist bases — for even the safety of its own people. What India is doing is a strategic attack on terrorist bases Pakistani military and intelligence should have eliminated but never did in their obsession to take over Kashmir.

You will see parallels in the propaganda messages against India and Israel. Like Hamas, Pakistani terrorists crossed a border to kill. Now, Pakistani propagandists call themselves victims of their “fascist” “colonizer” neighbor.

It’s the Reverse Uno strategy of moral inversion, just like @stoolpresidente got from the Temple student who won’t take responsibility for promoting the “HATE THE JEWS” sign. Don’t fall for it. Nations, communities and people must own up to their extremism, from Bahawalpur to beyond.

[Eashwar @eashwarajan]

@prvkhvr @IndiGo6E My indigo horror story
Reached 2 hrs before check in, tried self check in on a 45 min queue, failed due to baggage being 2kg extra, went to manual check in, agreed to pay for 2kg, but still could not check in as manual check in queue took me additional 45 mins. Had to rebook

[Eashwar @eashwarajan]

@WelBeast Cesc is the biggest judas who never got his share of boos. He was the only one who wore another club's jersey while playing for us

[Eashwar @eashwarajan]

@tom_ricco @TalkCPFC Stop deluding yourself. By your logic, the only way a club can dream of winning the PL is if they get a rich sugar daddy

[Eashwar @eashwarajan]

@Gogetit04709426 @theskindoctor13 Road tax is paid for internal roads in the city, not for highways
Tax on fuel is for the government to build/maintain the pipelines
Which vehicle is giving 20km/l? More likely you'll be spending around 800 on fuel.
3rs/km toll is a nominal toll rate compared to rest of the world