So why did Indira Gandhi (and her Chief Economic Adviser Dr. Manmohan Singh) let inflation run to 28% in 1974?
One explanation of course is deep incompetence
But another explanation is ideology
In 1970s, Indira Gandhi was almost becoming Communist ... nationalized banks, seized grain supply, concentrated all power in her hands.
Creating hyperinflation is a way to implement Communism without officially announcing it. Hyperinflation makes your savings worthless, wipes out your wealth.
This was actually done by the Communists in Hungary in 1946. Deliberately causing high inflation, so that everyone was suddenly equally poor!
Contrary to Faruqi's pathetic attempt of rationalizing Jizya as a tax on wealthy non-Muslims, the rate of Jizya imposed hit the poor hardest who had to pay ~6% while the richest had to pay only 0.48% or less. Simultaneously, he was spending recklessly on Muslim religious grants.
Egypt and Italy were not carved out of an existing civilisation by explicitly rejecting it.
Pakistan was created in 1947 through the Two-Nation Theory, which said Hindus and Muslims are two separate nations who cannot share a common civilisation. Your founders deliberately rejected the Indic past to build an Islamic state.
Egypt still has Coptic continuity with its pharaonic heritage. Italy built on Roman legacy through language, law, and culture. You don’t get to reject a civilisation at birth and then claim it as ‘ancient Pakistan’ when it suits you.
That’s not continuity. That’s opportunism.
@Fintech03@anujg Lovely reply - while Sanathana Dharma has many paths, progress in a path requires 100% commitment - until you realise that either this is not a path for you or that you've outgrown this one. But the commitment does not imply condemnation of other paths.
I was never a practising, observant Muslim.
Yet, even I wanted Islam to take over Europe and the West until I was a teenager.
We are taught that Islam's greatest achievements are conquest and colonialism.
We are taught that the greatest thing we could ever do is enable the invasion and conquest of non-Muslim countries.
This is a fact that only a former Muslim would tell you.
Darlymple blocked me for simply saying that to us Indians, Aurangazeb is as much a monster as Hitler is to Europeans. Worse.
He can block Indians for having a view of our own history but @MEAIndia allows him into this country.
Shameless lit fests pamper him.
MENTAL SLAVERY.
🚨 I'm not going to sugarcoat it, I think about this tweet from the Education Secretary. A lot.
Confronting terrorism is an ugly business, but the NY-DSA win due to college students overwhelmingly voting for socialism should scare the sh*t out of 77 million Trump voters.
The Education Secretary assumed her role on March 11, 2025.
52 days later, the Qatari Ambassador slithered his way into her office for a meeting and an intentional photo op.
I have no evidence on record of any other Ambassador in the world coming into the DoE for a meeting with our Education Secretary. If there is one, I'm open to proof.
Qatar has sunk over $6 BILLION into our education system, but it's more likely up to $9-10 BILLION, due to the fact that we truly have no clue what "gifts" they hand to universities.
Before this meeting, 60 universities were under investigation for rabid antisemitism and terror support by the DoE. Campuses had federal funding halted.
After this meeting, I began to notice that the funding faucet began to flow again. Investigations became public figures complaining and the university president's lying.
President Trump signed a bold Executive Order, (E.O. 14888) demanding the DoE to implement stronger enforcement against universities receiving federal funds.
Terror support and radical organizations such as the DSA, the PSL (Party for Socialism and Liberation), and the SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine) have grown exponentially on American campuses since this meeting happened between Linda McMahon and the Qatari Ambassador.
I have one question as an American and as a taxpayer: Why?
Qatar is all over our government. A nation of 330,000 and 1 million indentured servants, biggest funder of terrorism, destroying our schools, etc., has the run of DC. The Qatari lobby has a massive presence. It has spent hundreds of BILLIONS in our country. It’s ubiquitous.
Thoughts.
How is it that Marco Rubio @SecRubio repeatedly wanted to deport @tparsi (an Iranian national and non- US citizen) but now Trita Parsi is advising “White House officials”?
How does that even happen?
A lot of questions need to be asked.
A lot.
That’s because the high priestess of Indian history said, “India has no maritime history”. Heard from a direct witness who worked at JNU in those days. #ColonizedMinds
Chanakya the Great studied at Pakistani university of Taxila, The knowledge he gained there shaped him into one of history's greatest strategists, helping Chandragupta Maurya build the Mauryan Empire. Even today, his ideas continue to influence politics, governance, and leadership.
DUTCH WOMAN SHOCKED BY INDIAN CULTURE AND NEVER WANTED TO VISIT INDIA AGAIN
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