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[Sreemoy Talukdar @sreemoytalukdar]

"South Asian" is a term used by Pakistanis who are ashamed of carrying the baggage of a failed nation and would rather obfuscate. Pakistanis spent their entire lives justifying why they are "not Hindustanis", but abroad, the stigma is too heavy to bear.
And the "creole term" you talk about is Indian subcontinent".

[🍁 @immgkj_]

This is an age old Indian cope of posing every "religious" outbreak as a "reform movement in response to Hindu religious practices" in order to draw some kind of legitimacy from people's artificial guilt (mostly instilled in last 100 years) because no other theology has the mettle to even put up a fight against Hindu theology let alone defeat it. Not even state support helped those "reform/response" movement to win against Hinduism. Not one won. The most successful one (Buddhism) had to find refuge outside the realm of Hinduism to survive.
Aum.

[Somnath Mukherjee @somnath1978]

Nayak was made in 1966, there was no "Bangladesh" then, and it was 4 yrs before islamists carried out a pogrom of hindus there, Marx notwithstanding.

Conflation of WB and BD is darkly hilarious - everythng exalted abt bengal is of bengali hindu heritage (mostly frm the west)..

[Amit Schandillia @Schandillia]

- 1020-1140, Chaulukyas vs. Paramaras: No jauhar
- 1100-1200, Paramaras vs. Chauhans: No jauhar
- 1150-1180, Chaulukyas vs. Chauhans: No jauhar
- 1160-1180, Chauhans vs. Gahadavalas: No jauhar
- 1200-1500, Sisodias vs. Rathores: No jauhar
- 1300-1400, Sisodias vs. Paramaras: No jauhar
- 1300-1500, Sisodia internal succession wars: No jauhar
- 1300-1400, Rathores vs. Paramaras: No jauhar
- 1350-1500, Rathores vs. Bhatis: No jauhar
- 1100-1300, Kachwahas vs. Chauhans: No jauhar
- 1000-1200, Internal Chauhan branch feuds: No jauhar
- 1100-1300, Bhatis vs. Jadons: No jauhar
- 1100-1150, Tomaras vs. Chauhans: No jauhar
- 1400-1500, Rathores vs. Kachwahas: No jauhar

No fewer than two dozen major wars were fought among the Rajputs with zero Muslim involvement. Not a single episode involved self-immolation of any kind. Not one. Neither Indian, nor foreign accounts record a single instance. Now see this:

- 712-712, Dahir of Sind vs. Muhammad bin Qasim: Jauhar committed.
1232-1232, Gwalior (Rajputs) vs. Iltutmish: Jauhar committed
- 1301-1301, Ranthambore vs. Alauddin Khalji: Jauhar committed
- 1299-1299, Jaisalmer vs. Alauddin Khalji: Jauhar committed
- 1303-1303, Chittor vs. Alauddin Khalji: 1st jauhar of Chittor
- 1327-1327, Kampili vs. Muhammad bin Tughluq: Jauhar committed
- 1326-1326, Jaisalmer vs. Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq: Jauhar committed
- 1486-1486, Kuva (Kankavati) vs. Mahmud Begada: Jauhar committed
- 1528-1528, Chanderi vs. Babur: Jauhar committed.
- 1535-1535, Chittor vs. Bahadur Shah: 2nd jauhar of Chittor
- 1543-1543, Raisen vs. Humayun: 3 jauhars committed
- 1568-1568, Chittor vs. Akbar: 3rd jauhar of Chittor
- 1634-1634, Bundelkhand vs. Aurangzeb: Jauhar committed
- 1710-1710, Daddanala vs. Mir Fazlullah: Jauhar committed

Similarly, when the British came, we had a series of gruesome engagements starting with Plassey and Buxar, then going on to the Carnatic Wars, the Anglo-Mysore Wars, the Anglo-Maratha Wars, the Anglo-Gurkha War, the Anglo-Sikh Wars, the Anglo-Burmese Wars, the Anglo-Afghan Wars, and many, many more.

No jauhar.

Now, when someone like that book reviewer condemns “Hindutva” for “glorifying jauhar,” I am fully on their side. I agree it was a morbid ritual that does not belong in a civilized society, thank goodness we no longer do that. But do you see a pattern in the above lists?

Why do you think this macabre ritual was practiced EXCLUSIVELY in conflicts involving Muslim forces?

Why didn’t women feel the need to self-immolate when their kingdoms fell to any other adversary?

You can’t be dumb enough to not draw the only possible conclusion here.

Nobody glorifies jauhar, it was not picnic.

We “honor” it. No, not the immolation itself but the debilitating sentiment behind it. With the honor we keep our alive in our collective memory. Know why?

Because the demons that drove our ancestors to such extremities still live and breathe amongst us to this day.

And they haven’t changed one bit.

When someone prefers death to your touch, what even are you?

[Gourab @gourab_h7]

@Subcons_vortex @Vishvarupa23 @abasu4ever No we dont

[Facts @BefittingFacts]

As usual, ANI is misleading again.

Mithun said he was not invited to the Kolkata International Film Festival.

The last KIFF was held in December 2025, and Mithun was not invited. In fact, the last time Mithun was invited to KIFF was in 2013. He has not been invited for the last thirteen years.

When he said outsiders get invitations, he was referring to stars like Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan and Shatrughan Sinha getting invited while he does not.

ANI is trying to portray it as if the BJP is not inviting him.

The event he had just come out of was hosted by CM Suvendu.

[Soumik Sarkar @sarkar28922]

Senior Communist leader Sujan Chakraborty has openly criticized Syama Prasad Mukherjee for the partition of Bengal and ensuring that West Bengal remained a part of India. He has instead expressed support for the efforts of the Muslim League, Congress leader Sarat Bose, and the Communists to create an independent Islamic Bengal.

[Soumik Sarkar @sarkar28922]

Dr. Hedgewar founded the RSS inspired by the Hindu Nationalist ideas and traditions of the Anushilan Samiti in Bengal. However, it was the misfortune of Bengali Hindus that the Anushilan Samiti was eventually hijacked by communists during 1940s, and Bengali Hindus gradually moved towards communism. Had this not happened, the leadership of the Hindutva movement in India might have remained in Bengali hands.

The precursor to the Hindu Mahasabha, the Punjab Hindu Sabha, was founded by a Bengali, Upendranath Mukherjee. On 21 October 1909, he publicly declared that the Indian National Congress was failing to protect the interests of Hindus and was instead facilitating Muslim politics.

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay is widely regarded as the first modern proponent of Hindu nationalism in India. In his novel Anandamath, he symbolically portrayed India as Goddess Durga and called for the establishment of India as a Hindu nation.

Binoy Kumar Sarkar of Malda district, through extensive research into ancient texts and manuscripts, developed the foundations of modern Hindu economics and Hindu sociology in India, presenting a vision of what an ideal Hindu state could look like.

At a time when Nehruvian historians were, in the eyes of many nationalists, distorting Indian history and glorifying aspects of Islamic rule, two Bengali nationalist historians from East Bengal Jadunath Sarkar and Ramesh Chandra Majumdar highlighted the achievements of Hindu civilization and documented the brutality of several Islamic rulers.

I hope that Bengalis will once again play a leading role in ushering in a golden age of Hindutva.

[Splendidlydull @SplendidlyDull]

@Jairam_Ramesh Jairam Ramesh & Rahul Gandhi ensured that a contract in Kenya went to Chinese company from Indian company (at double the price)!!

Naxalism + Muslim league = Cong party under Rahul gandhi

[Gourab @gourab_h7]

@sankuthegr8 @brian_mac8419 @HSRail That is just not true.. post covid it is profitable..and not running at loss

[Aravind @aravind]

Japan suspended batches of Indian mangoes because of fruit flies. Because the Indian fruit flies are non-native to Japan. If fruit flies are eating a fruit, then the fruit is actually good, not poisonous as many have claimed.

In fact, there's a food movement that eats vegetables and fruits that are affected by insects as they seem to have more beneficial nutrients for humans.

Anyway, the point is, Japan has banned American fruit imports too over pesticides (due to more stringent requirements in Japan).

But Americans aren't making thousands of videos claiming their fruits are poisonous. Indians do it. Indians themselves do hit jobs against their own country's products due to politics and programming.

[HindolSengupta @HindolSengupta]

People are messaging me about Audrey Trushke's assertions about the Pashupati seal. The proto-Elamite imagery she talks about comes from this, the 'Kneeling Bull'. This has been compared to the Pashupati seal to suggest interaction between the two periods. Note how this suggested

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

The amount of fake references in the works of "eminent" historians is mind boggling. Whole chapters are based on claims with no primary evidence but circular referencing to each other's writings.

[Savitri Mumukshu - सावित्री मुमुक्षु @MumukshuSavitri]

People you might want to bookmark this. It’s the first time I’ve encountered someone so shameless that he is even distorting Romila Thapar’s words. 😂

I called out Neo-Buddhist supremacist Tenzing’s blatant falsification of Shree Bankim Chandra's views on the origins of Jagannatha Ratha Yatra - where he deliberately omitted Chandra’s conclusion to mislead readers into thinking that he agreed with Cunningham’s bogus theory that Rath Yatra had Buddhist origins.

But as I began reading the rest of the same thread I noticed that he has even deliberately misrepresented the words of - Romila Thapar!

He claims that Romila Thapar declared that Hindu king Pusysmitra Śunga demolished 84,000 Buddhist stupas built by Ashoka - but when you read the relevant excerpt in Thapar’s book - she clearly contradicts this theory and instead says:

“The idea of Pusyamitra being violently anti-Buddhist has often been stated, but archaeological evidence suggests the CONTRARY. Buddhist literature relates that Pusyamitra ……decided that he would gain fame by destroying these 84,000 stupas. Yet, an archaeological study of the stupa at Sanchi proves that it was enlarged and encased in its present covering during the Sunga period. The Asokan pillar near it appears to have been wilfully destroyed, but this event may have occurred at a much later date. It is more than likely that the Ashokavadana legend is a Buddhist version of Pusyamitra's attack on the Mauryas, and reflects the fact that, with the declining influence of Buddhism at the imperial court, Buddhist monuments and institutions would naturally receive less royal attention. Moreover the source itself in this instance being Buddhist, it would naturally exaggerate the wickedness of anti-Buddhists.”

Here Thapar has clearly made several important points:

1. Archaeological evidence does not show Pushyamitra as destroying Buddhist monuments - in fact it suggests the contrary, the Buddhist Sanchi Stupa was enlarged and enhanced by his Hindu Śunga descendants.

2. The Ashokan pillar was likely destroyed at a much later date after Pushyamitra.

3. The Buddhist source Ashokavadana which described Pushyamitra attacking Buddhist stupas - was a biased hagiography written by Buddhists who were angered at losing royal patronage under the Śungas. Also since Buddhist sources tend to exaggerate against non-Buddhists vastly, any such description of Pushyamitra’s wickedness is not reliable.

It’s amazing that Tenzing continues to be so brazen in his blatantly fraudulent distortion of historical sources. Imagine even falsifying Romila Thapar to push your Hinduphobic lies.

Unbelievable. 😂

[Sreemoy Talukdar @sreemoytalukdar]

This actor from West Bengal was in bed with the former regime. On 2nd May, 2021, when the post-poll violence led by TMC had just begun, he took to X (formerly Twitter) and said the day should be declared as "World Thrashing Day".
Now he claims that he was "forced to compromise for the sake of his newborn".
His son was born in 2025.

[Ankit Jain @indiantweeter]

Zubair shared personal picture of a minor girl because her grand dad trolled him online, the grandad faced rape threats for his minor grand daughter from Islamists because of Zubair

[Abhishek @AbhishBanerj]

In case you don't know

There were 28,000 political murders in Bengal under CPI(M) rule

This is not a random claim

This is the official data placed by CPI(M)'s own Home Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya on the floor of West Bengal Assembly.

[Abhijit Majumder @abhijitmajumder]

Haven’t seen Marathi identity vanish in Maharashtra, Haryanvi-ness disappear in Haryana, Assamese pride slide in Assam, or Kannadiga swag diminish in Karnataka under BJP.
But seen ‘akashi’ become ‘asmani’ and ‘ramdhonu’ turn into ‘rongdhonu’ in West Bengal textbooks under TMC.

[Monidipa Bose - Dey (মণিদীপা) @monidipadey]

Bengali Hindus don’t reject BJP !

Bengali Hindus mostly vote for BJP - in Tripura, West Bengal, and all other states where they reside.

In Kolkata it’s the non-Bengali Hindus from Marwari and Bihari trader communities that enmasse fund TMC and vote for TMC.

The vote for Momo comes from Muslims (both legal and illegals) plus some Bengali Hindus who are a part of the mafia syndicate and direct beneficiary of the loot raj; while the rest is won by violent intimidation and chappa votes/booth capturing.

It’s best to keep your mouth shut on matters that you don’t understand or know!

[Swarajya @SwarajyaMag]

In the last 12 months, Hyundai & LG together took $4.7 billion out of their Indian subsidiaries and sent it to their Korean parents.

Samsung's royalties to Seoul rose 50% in a single year to ₹3,322 crore.

All of this is legal under India's trade agreement with Korea. 🧵