MANISH K Sarswat

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It’s been 25 years since Al-Qaeda launched a horrific attack on our nation, killing nearly 3,000 Americans in the World Trade Center and the first responders who ran into those crumbling towers to save others.
Remembering those lost on this tragic day is not enough. We must act. The radical Islamist ideology that motivated the jihadis who launched that attack remains the greatest near and long-term threat to our freedom and western civilization. It is the same ideology that fuels Hamas, ISIS, al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, al-Shabaab, al-Nusra, and others. Too many of our leaders have forgotten who the enemy is. We cannot afford to. We cannot allow ourselves to be terrorized into silence.
We must never forget.
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[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Javed Akhtar claims Sholay's temple scene where Lord Shiva and Hinduism were mocked can't be screened in today's India.

Wrong, Javed saab. You can screen it even today, just that in today's India, Hindus will ask you why you never had the guts to mock Allah or Islam similarly.

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Dear @Javedakhtarjadu. I'm afraid your response is as boring and overloaded as your similes and metaphors. When countered with facts, you shift the goalpost, bring in the RSS, berate the right wing, take refuge in context, cushion the bigotry, and claim Kafirs were Colonialists not Hindus.

I know countering you again is like watering a cactus and praying for leechis, but in the hope that all that knee massaging with Doctor Ortho would have sprouted some neurons, here goes:

You asked for a source because you said the quote was “quite unlike” Azad’s “lifelong sociopolitical stances.” I gave you the source: Calcutta, 27 October 1914, published in Khutbat-e-Azad. The words are his. That should have ended the enquiry. It did not. So let us walk through your new script, line by line.

1. “The khutbats were about Khilafat and British colonialism.”

Yes. That is what I wrote. Maulana Azad was telling Indian Muslims that a Turk’s battlefield thorn must be felt in a Hindustani Muslim’s heart; that Millat-e-Islam is one body; that friendship and enmity are for the religion of Allah. Then he quoted Quran 48:29 and added his own gloss: be extremely hard against disbelievers, extremely kind among yourselves, and do not pass over this as if you had not heard it. You asked for the when and where. You received both. “It was about Khilafat” is not a rebuttal. It is the context in which he said it.

2. “To claim he was quoting this about the Hindus of India will not be true. The Kafir here was the colonialist.”

I did not say the 1914 speech was a municipal circular against the Hindus of Howrah. I quoted what Azad quoted: a Quranic verse about kuffar, and his commentary on unbelief, Tawhid, and hardness toward disbelievers. If Azad had meant “kafir = only the British officer,” he knew Urdu enough to say Angrez. He did not. He used the Book’s word, then told his flock not to skip it.

And if “kafir” in Azad’s mouth was a temporary colonial nickname, kindly explain the 1920 Hijrat fatwa, published in Ahl-e-Hadith of Amritsar, in which he said Indian Muslims had no choice but to migrate, and that those who stayed and kept connection with “the enemy of Islam” would themselves be counted as the enemy of Islam. That is not a lecture on income-tax collectors. That is a theology of the land.

3. “When Ataturk took over, Azad called it a closed chapter and condoned the secular government.”

Men change. Texts do not. If later Azad made peace with the death of the Caliphate, good for the later Azad. It does not unsay 1914, nor the Khilafat years, nor Masala-e-Khilafat, nor the call that any government hostile to Turkey was hostile to Islam, not the belief in the Quranic verse damning the Kafirs. You began by saying the paragraph was unlike his lifelong stances. Lifelong includes the years he spent as a pan-Islamist firebrand. Evolution is not an eraser. It is a timeline.

4. “Read his Calcutta High Court statement. An honour no member of the Mahasabha or RSS was ever given.”

Sedition charges from the Raj are not a unique family heirloom. Tilak got them. Aurobindo got them. Savarkar was given two life terms and sent to Cellular Jail, where the honour included the oil mill, the lash, and years in a cell the size of a cupboard.

And of course, knowing your pitiful knowledge of Indian History, I guess you would not know legendary RSS names like Devipad Chaudhary, Jagatpati Kumar, Anna Saheb Deshpande, Ramakant Keshav, Vasantrao Oak, Narayan Singh, Chandrakant Bhardwaj, Dada Naik Chimur, Baburao Begade, Lala Hansraj, Balaji Raipurkar who participated in our freedom struggle and were jailed or shot.

5. “Azad was in British jails for nine years. Name one from your right wing who can match that.”

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar: roughly a decade in Kala Pani, further years in mainland jails, then thirteen years of internment in Ratnagiri. Sentence on paper: fifty years. Conditions: not Ahmednagar Fort with time to write Ghubar-e-Khatir.

By the way, you might know that your great-great-grandfather Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi was also incarcerated at Kala Pani. What you might not know, or would want to hide, is that he wrote a grovelling mercy petition to the British, pleading to be released.

6. “In 1946 Jinnah refused to shake Azad’s hand. He hated Azad for his patriotism.”

How does this turn “be severe against the kafirs, merciful among themselves” into a sonnet about communal harmony? A man can spend 1946 refusing Partition and still have spent 1914 telling Indian Muslims that their first body is the ummah. Fairness is holding both pages open. What you are doing is hiding the 1914 page and waving the 1946 one like a flag.

7. “Your reference to Rahul Gandhi was unnecessary, I expect decency and class.”

And I expected you to have some sense of humour. The PS was a reminder that this is the second time I have had to fetch your hero’s paperwork. Last time it was Nehru’s India: books banned, editors sacked, films blocked, Majrooh jailed for a couplet.

You lecture me on class after moving from “this cannot be Azad” to “it is Azad but you must read kafir as colonialist” to “anyway he went to jail” to “Jinnah was rude to him” to “please don’t mention Rahul.” That is not class. That is a guided tour of every exit except the text.

Look, Javed sahab, let us end this here. I like you. Doubtless a lot of your work is incredible, truly it is. So in that spirit, permit me to pen an ode to you:

Javed Akhtar ko dekha toh aisa laga, jaise chhal ka nawab, jaise jhoot ki kitaab, jaise dhong ki kiran, jaise adambar ka van, jaise kapton ki baat, jaise pakhand ki raat, jaise janpath mein ho ek jalta diya.

Alvida, Shabba khair. WDTP

[PallaviCT @pallavict]

Need of the hour!

Any elected party that switches alliances & leaves ideology after being elected should be barred from contesting again

Example-

Shiv Sena leaving pre poll ally BJP after 2019 Maharashtra assembly election results came out & forming MVA with CONgis & Sharad Pawar’s NCP to make Uddhav Thackeray CM

CONgis leaving DMK & allying with TVK after Tamil Nadu assembly election results 2026

Arvind Kejriwal taking CONgis support in Delhi in Dec 2013 after coming to power on anti-corruption plank against CONgis to become “Delhi ke Malik” & keep largest party BJP out of power

Aur examples de du ?

[MANISH K Sarswat @msarswat]

@Qantas Not properly done. Pls check DM. Luggage allowance missing

[MANISH K Sarswat @msarswat]

@Qantas i had booked reward ticket for my wife on Jetstar SIN to amel . It is showing as confirmed but it is not issued.

Over last 3 days, I have spent time on wait plus calls with agent. Each time I was told it is coming later today or tomorrow.

Ticket has not been issued.

[MANISH K Sarswat @msarswat]

@Qantas Today i am on third call of the day. Overall 6th call to get ticket issued. No success, no response from you on messages either.

Everything I call. It takes time to explain after in queue for 10 mins and then call drops and takes me to IVR for feedback.

[MANISH K Sarswat @msarswat]

@Qantas i had booked reward ticket for my wife on Jetstar SIN to amel . It is showing as confirmed but it is not issued.

Over last 3 days, I have spent time on wait plus calls with agent. Each time I was told it is coming later today or tomorrow.

Ticket has not been issued.

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Today On EID Tawseef From Kashmir Sl@ughtered Gau Mata In Broad Daylight And Uploaded The Video Of The Crime On Instagram To Spread Communal Hatred In J&K.
I Request Sleeping BJP Jammu, J&K Administration And J&K Police To Kindly Look At The Video And Immediately Arrest Tawseef And Others Who Are Seen In This Video.
Last Time I Checked J&K Was Still Under Constitution And Not Sharia Law, Lets See If Its True 🙏 #Jammu #Kashmir

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In a taxpayer-funded campaign to push 'woke' ideology onto the world, the UN is advocating for the decriminalization of adults having sex with children regardless of the child’s age so long as the child “consents.” At the very least, American taxpayers should not be underwriting the UN until it stops all promotion of pedophilia and sex trafficking.

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