M Pramod Kumar 🇮🇳

Asstt. Prof, Amrita Darshanam Centre, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore.
Convenor, Indica Coimbatore.
Sec Gen, Ekal Sansthan CBE, Joint Secretary, BISS TN

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Hello @kritisanon,

1. Don't play the woman card. You were not criticized for your gender, but for your choice of clothes in an ad. You are bringing gender into this to make it a women's issue and seek wider support from women and male feminists. It's not a gender issue. Even Ranveer Singh was criticized on Twitter for a nude photoshoot. He didn't play the gender card.

2. Personal choice stops where public commercialization begins. What you wear off-camera is entirely your prerogative. You've been in this business for years. Until now, nobody bothered you about your choice of clothes. You know why? Because nobody actually cares what you wear. The outrage here comes from a commercial choice: sexualizing a deeply sacred festival celebrated by millions. Context dictates appropriateness. If a male actor appeared bare-chested while portraying the brother in that exact scene, the public pushback would be identical. The issue is sacredness and context, not gender.

3. Claiming "clothes don't define culture" directly contradicts human history. Attire is a foundational visual language of every global tradition, you cannot wear a Kimono and call it Indian ethnic wear, nor can you strip a festival of its sacred aesthetic without altering its significance. If attire truly has zero bearing on cultural respect, then tomorrow is Eid. Can you wear that exact same outfit you wore in that ad and wish Eid Mubarak? You said clothes don't define the respect you have for culture in your heart. So do it and we'll take our criticism back.

Respecting a tradition means honoring its context, not commodifying it under the guise of fashion.

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

@alok_ajay This video should be shown in colleges as a textbook example of what gaslighting actually looks like.

[True Indology @TrueIndology]

पूरे इतिहास में सवर्ण समाज ने ऐसे अभिजात वर्ग को भी जन्म दिया है, जिसने अपने ही समाज और राष्ट्र के साथ विश्वासघात किया। प्रस्तुत है भेड़ की खाल में छिपा एक और भेड़िया।

यह वही व्यक्ति है जिसने कभी बसपा के प्रत्याशी के रूप में निर्वाचन लड़ा था, उसी राजनीतिक परंपरा से जिसका उद्घोष था: “तिलक, तराजू और तलवार, इनको मारो जूते चार।” तब इसने अपनी सवर्ण पहचान भुलाकर उन लोगों से गठजोड़ किया, जो सवर्णों को अपशब्द कहते थे और उनके अस्तित्व को मिटाने की राजनीति करते थे।

आज राजनीतिक वेश परिवर्तित कर भाजपा में आने के उपरांत इसे सवर्ण पहचान तभी स्मरण आती है, जब उसका उपयोग सवर्णों पर प्रहार करने और भाजपा के शीर्ष नेतृत्व की चाटुकारिता करने में हो।

यह सवर्ण आंदोलन को राष्ट्रविरोधी बताता है और स्वयं को सवर्ण समाज का प्रतिनिधि प्रस्तुत करता है। इसका नवीनतम तर्क तो और भी अद्भुत है: सवर्णों को संपन्न वर्ग अथवा उपवर्गीकरण की चिंता क्यों हो, क्योंकि उन्हें आरक्षण नहीं मिलता।

अर्थात् सर्वाधिक कर दो। उन्हीं करों से संचालित योजनाओं का दासों की भाँति वित्तपोषण करो। अपने ही धन से व्यवस्था चलाओ। परंतु यह प्रश्न पूछने का दुस्साहस मत करो कि तुम्हारा धन कहाँ जा रहा है। भार वहन करो, जातिगत भेदभाव सहो और मौन रहो।

और यह महोदय हमें त्याग का पाठ पढ़ा रहे हैं।

इसका पाखंड यहीं समाप्त नहीं होता। इसके अपने बच्चे अमेरिकी नागरिक हैं। भारत की जातिगत राजनीति से इसके पास खोने को कुछ नहीं, पाने को बहुत कुछ है। यह चाहता है कि भारतीय नागरिक अपने बच्चों के भविष्य की बलि दें, ताकि यह और इसके राजनीतिक स्वामी उस राजनीति से लाभ उठाते रहें।

अर्थात् स्वयं का भविष्य सुरक्षित रखो, अपने बच्चों को विदेश भेजो और फिर भारत में रहने वाले भारतीयों से कहो कि वे अपने बच्चों का भविष्य जातिगत राजनीति की वेदी पर चढ़ा दें।

वाह रे त्याग!

जिस व्यक्ति का इस व्यवस्था के परिणामों में कोई वास्तविक हित नहीं है, वही चाहता है कि उसके समस्त परिणामों का भार आप उठाएँ।

यह सामाजिक न्याय नहीं है। यह सिद्धांत का मुखौटा धारण किए राजनीतिक अवसरवाद और विश्वासघात है।

[The Spectator @spectator]

We can reveal that a former supporter of Hizb ut-Tahrir, now banned as a terror group, has been appointed assistant research professor of education at Cambridge, in the same faculty as Arday.

Farah Ahmed has explicitly attacked 'western education' as a 'threat' to Muslims, condemned democracy and integration, and criticised British schools for teaching pupils that child marriage is wrong.

During her time at Cambridge, she has written that the Islamic concept of education is sharply opposed to 'gaining literacy and numeracy and other disciplinary skills demonstrated through qualifications'.

These statements are part of her long record of bigoted, extremist and separatist views on education.

✍️ Andrew Gilligan

Article | https://t.co/ZMTPAZ3Sbk | @mragilligan

[The Spectator @spectator]

This is the fourth in our series of articles about Farah Ahmed, a former activist in the racist, extremist and separatist group Hizb ut Tahrir, now banned as a terror organisation, who has been given a senior role by Cambridge training the future leaders of the teaching profession.

✍️ Andrew Gilligan
https://t.co/DuXXlmgC6G

[Rahul Shivshankar @RShivshankar]

SC JUDGE PRASANNA VARALE: 0.1% OF KUMBH SPENDING COULD HAVE SAVED 125 MARATHI SCHOOLS

This "virtue signaling" will be applauded as some thing profound.

BUT WHY MANUFACTURE A FALSE CHOICE BETWEEN HINDU FAITH AND EDUCATION.

Crores flow into India every year for proselytisation activities. Do the same voices demand that this money be diverted to building schools?

No.

The problem, apparently, begins only when the expenditure is on a Hindu religious festival.

If Marathi schools are closing, ask why they are closing and fix those structural problems.

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

When your core voters are disillusioned with you, the last thing, the absolute last thing, you should do is shame them.

This is Ajay Alok, BJP's national spokesperson. Today, he made a video criticizing, in a condescending tone, those GCs expressing anger with the BJP. If he was told by the party to do it, God help the party. And if he did it on his own initiative, thinking he would get noticed by the high command by attacking GCs despite being a GC himself, thereby getting better positions, then the party must show him the door to control the damage he has done.

The funny part is that he joined the BJP only in 2023. Before that, he was in the LJP, BSP, and JDU, and now he is preaching faith in the party to GCs.

What is even more ironic is that both of his children are US citizens. They will not be affected by the reservation politics here, and yet he is gaslighting GCs who are speaking out against reservation. In his follow-up tweets, he even called those GCs disgruntled with the BJP "nasli bewafa."

[richa anirudh @richaanirudh]

ब्राह्मण की बेटी का "दान", ब्राह्मण की बेटी से "संबंध" - ये सब बोलना जायज़ है इस देश में क्योंकि वो ब्राह्मण की बेटी है? बढ़िया है🙏

[M Pramod Kumar 🇮🇳 @mpramodkumar]

Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, Second Series, Vol. 28, pp. 468–478.
https://t.co/qHPXsnH6VE

[M Pramod Kumar 🇮🇳 @mpramodkumar]

“Manu and Yagnyavalkya, very great men in our history, who have shaped India’s destiny. We admire them. They are among the heroes of our history...It is very unfair for Manu or Yagnyavalkya or anybody else to be brought in as a witness as to what should be done in the present...

[Nitesh Rane @NiteshNRane]

मुंबईतील माझगाव परिसरात 'माझगावचा मोरया' गणपती आगमन मिरवणुकीदरम्यान घडलेल्या घटनेच्या पार्श्वभूमीवर पत्रकारांशी संवाद!

📍२४-०८-२०२६ | मुंबई

[Himanta Biswa Sarma @himantabiswa]

Rahul Gandhi is NO champion of women’s rights. He is simply a Hindu baiter, using the cause of women’s empowerment as a convenient smokescreen to target and discredit Hindu Dharma.

Consider this: how many times has he spoken with the same outrage against patriarchal and medieval practices that persist under Sharia ? NEVER.

While Sharia is foundational to Islamic jurisprudence, Manusmriti has no comparable scriptural authority in Hindu Dharma. It is not even a universally binding code for Hindus.

Yet ask yourself: how many times does Rahul Gandhi attack the Manusmriti, and how many times does he attack Sharia with the same fervour?

The enduring strength of Hinduism lies in its unique ability to evolve, reform and adapt with time- as it has for millennia, and as it will for eternity.

Every Hindu must therefore ask: what is Rahul Gandhi’s real intent- championing women’s rights, or using them as a pretext to malign Hindu Dharma?

Cong rhetoric on women’s rights rings hollow when measured against its own record.

They betrayed our mothers and sisters by reversing the effect of the Shah Bano judgment.

It opposed the law against Triple Talaq. And just to cling to power in Karnataka, Rahul Gandhi ensured that not a single woman found a place in the State Cabinet.

So here is a simple challenge to Rahul Gandhi:

If women’s equality truly comes before politics, will he unequivocally support a Uniform Civil Code that guarantees equal rights irrespective of religion?

Or will his idea of “women’s rights” continue to begin and end with attacking Hinduism?

[Anupam K. Singh @AnupamNawada]

No sir, you are completely wrong here.

This is precisely how civilisations surrender their intellectual inheritance: first you are told a text is irrelevant, then that defending it is regressive, and finally that the respectable thing to do is quietly abandon it.

Today it is Manusmriti. Tomorrow someone will drag a few verses out of the Ramcharitmanas and tell us Tulsidas has accumulated too much historical baggage to be defended. The day after that, someone will cherry-pick passages from the Vedas and demand that we distance ourselves from them as well.

Where exactly does this logic stop?

The Corpus Juris Civilis, compiled under Emperor Justinian I in the sixth century, belongs to a world radically different from modern Europe. Nobody argues that every provision in it should govern twenty-first-century society. Yet Roman law remains an object of serious study across universities because it is part of the intellectual ancestry of modern legal systems.

Civilised societies do not preserve old texts because they agree with every sentence in them. They preserve them because they refuse to become historical orphans.

I am not arguing that every injunction in Manusmriti must become law today. I am arguing against this astonishing proposition that once political activists have successfully demonised an ancient Indian work, Hindus themselves should concede the battlefield and announce: “Fine, this book is irrelevant anyway.”

Absolutely not.

Our Manishis produced an enormous civilisational corpus. Vedas, Upanishads, Dharmashastras, Itihasas, Puranas, philosophical schools, commentaries and countless other works. They should be read, preserved, debated, contextualised, criticised where necessary, and defended against dishonest caricature.

We cannot allow our relationship with our own intellectual heritage to be dictated by whoever shouts the loudest against it.

If its popular image has been constructed through selective quotations, polemics, mistranslations or political campaigns, then challenging that image is exactly what scholarship is supposed to do. History is not a public-relations verdict that becomes permanently binding once enough activists repeat it.

A civilisation that becomes embarrassed by its books every time someone attacks them will eventually be left with no books worth defending and no civilisation worth inheriting.

[Suvendu Adhikari @SuvenduWB]

The Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) has received concerning videos and photographic representations through the CM’s Grievance Cell from conscientious Students of Jadavpur University, reporting instances of objectionable, sociopathic, violent and Anti-National wall graffiti & drawings inside the Arts Division Boys Hostel premises.
Educational Institutions are sacred spaces of learning, academic excellence and nation-building. Under no circumstances will Campus premises be permitted to be used as platforms for spreading deranged propaganda and Anti-India sentiment.

I urge Vice Chancellor, Jadavpur University, Principal Secretary Higher Education Department and other competent Authorities to initiate an immediate inquiry into the matter, firstly by conducting an on-ground physical verification of the Arts Division Boys Hostel area to ascertain the existence of these inappropriate wall graffiti and if found then proceed to identify the individuals involved.

The West Bengal Government strictly follow Zero Tolerance Policy towards Anti National Activities anywhere in the State, especially in Campuses of Educational Institutions. The concerned Department and University Administration must ensure stringent compliance and the preservation of academic integrity. If the presence of such Anti-National messaging and deranged psychotic drawings is verified, immediate steps must be taken to remove the graffiti, fix accountability and initiate strict administrative and legal action against those responsible.

West Bengal’s educational institutions must remain centers of merit & discipline, not grounds for divisive rhetoric and unsocial activities.
@b_uchchashiksha

[BhikuMhatre @MumbaichaDon]

OMG! .@PadmajaJoshi has actually roasted Rahul Ghandy & going to have "Tandoori RaGa" tonight for dinner😂😂

And I'm sure, CONgress will declare Mr MK Gandhi as "Sanghi" after watching this.

[News18 @CNNnews18]

Gender Equality in Hindu Texts: A Call for Contextual Understanding

'Women happiness and their well-being is understood as at most importance' Nithin Sridhar (@nkgrock)– Director, INDICA Moksha and Author of Chatuh Shloki Manusmriti

'I condemn any shloka in Manusmriti that I believe should condemn. I do it' Anand Ranganathan (@ARanganathan72) – Author

@AnchorAnandN | #TheRightStand #RahulGandhi #WomenEmpowerment #Manusmriti

[Megh Updates 🚨™ @MeghUpdates]

Class 9 NCERT now teaching:
– The 4 Ashramas & Gurukula education
– Fluidity in Vedic society via Rig Veda verses
– The true status of women in ancient India

=> 70 years of institutional rot and slave mentality, SHATTERED in a single textbook revision. Deal with it, Leftist 🎯

[Upword @upword_]

One verse of Manusmriti followed by endless noise. If Hindus won’t read their texts, politicians will interpret them as per their will!

[Sann @san_x_m]

In 1954 a young professor in Madras walked to the leather institute down the road and asked them for a piece of kangaroo tail.

With it he worked out the structure of the most common protein in the human body.

Then Francis Crick, who had just cracked DNA, told the world he was wrong.

His name was Gopalasamudram Narayanan Ramachandran.

He was born on 8th October 1922 in Ernakulam. His father taught mathematics. He topped the physics honours course in the whole of the Madras Presidency, studied under C V Raman at the Indian Institute of Science, and took a second doctorate at Cambridge under Lawrence Bragg.

At 29 he was made a full professor and the founding head of the physics department at the University of Madras.

He decided to work on collagen. Collagen is the protein that holds you together. It is in your skin, your bones, your tendons and your muscles. It is the most abundant protein in the animal body. Nobody knew what shape it was.

The tools he had were not the tools of Cambridge or Caltech. He needed a sample rich in collagen, so he got kangaroo tail tendon from the Central Leather Research Institute nearby, and studied how X rays scattered off it.

In 1954, with Gopinath Kartha, he published a model in the journal Nature. 3 chains, twisted around each other. Europe and America started calling it the Madras Triple Helix.

In 1955 Francis Crick and Alexander Rich published a criticism. They said certain atoms in his model sat impossibly close together. Crick said the idea was basically correct but the actual structure was wrong.

He was competing against Cambridge, King's College London and Caltech, from a new department in Madras, and the most famous molecular biologist alive had just said he was mistaken.

He did not write a rebuttal.

He went back to first principles and asked a much bigger question. Forget collagen. What shapes can any protein chain physically take, and which are impossible because the atoms would collide.

In 1963, with C Ramakrishnan and V Sasisekharan, he published the answer. It is a simple graph, and it is now called the Ramachandran plot.

Every structural biologist alive uses it. When any new protein structure is published anywhere in the world, it is checked against that plot to see whether it is physically possible.

He turned an attack on one model into the rule that governs all of them. And his collagen model, in its essentials, is accepted today.

C V Raman nominated him for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

He never received it. He was never given the Bharat Ratna either.

He gave most of his prize money away. He funded a bed at the Adyar Cancer Institute in his parents' names and gave one award entirely to the Prime Minister's relief fund.

In his sixties he developed Parkinson's disease. He retired in 1989 and died on 7th April 2001.

A scientist writing in The Hindu called it the prize that missed the master.

The leather institute that gave him the kangaroo tail named its auditorium Triple Helix.

[Colonel S Dinny (Retd) @sdinny14]

23 Malyalee workers employed in Abrico Fright Company Dubai were sponsored by its owner Shaji Nilambur to join the student protests in Jantar Mantar. Flight tickets, food, accommodation... all expenses taken care of by the 'sponsor'. They were told to continue till the protests lasts. What do migrant workers in Dubai have to do with students protesting for NEET in India? Why this sponsored participation?