Jonathan West 🌺🕉️🇺🇸🇮🇳🇪🇨

“The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it.”

[Savitri Mumukshu - सावित्री मुमुक्षु @MumukshuSavitri]

Or you could just call this “discovery” of the glow of life - the Pranamaya kosha (Subtle consciousness body) and give CREDIT to the Hindus who have observed and analyzed it for thousands of years. 🙄

[Suhag A. Shukla @SuhagAShukla]

Audrey Truschke seems to think that academic freedom means saying whatever you want about a group of people you study. And when said group objects to your interpretations, you claim they’re attacking academic freedom or have no right to talk about their own tradition since they don’t have a PhD granted by a Pollock or Doniger.

That @RDispatches still publishes their essentially self-cited, recycled work for the umpteenth time speaks to why academic credibility is as shredded & irrelevant as it is today.

[Nandini @NBDwrites]

But they had no hesitation in hurling the Nazi Christian Hakenkreuz at our door, slyly rebranding it as the Sanskrit Swastika.

Just as the Portuguese Casta was lazily equated with our nuanced Varna system and condemned ever since as “caste.”

[Nandini @NBDwrites]

It’s becoming a pattern: whatever the world embraces, celebrates, or makes part of its daily life, its Hinduness is promptly denied.

Yoga becomes ‘wellness.’

Transcendental Meditation becomes ‘mindfulness.’

Onam is reduced to a harvest festival,

Garba to a dance form.

Namaste is a trendy greeting,

Pranayama rebranded as breath work.

Ayurveda and Ayurvedic massage turned into spa treatments, and

Chakras taught as energy centres divorced from their roots.

They market the fruit but mock the tree, fearful to acknowledge its depth and wisdom.

[Savitri Mumukshu - सावित्री मुमुक्षु @MumukshuSavitri]

What’s next - Mother Mary rescuing Mahishasura at Durga Puja? Anarkali and Salim teaching Hindus how to light diyas at Diwali?

We’ve made ourselves the softest target because we won’t set clear boundaries when insulting, malicious stunts cross the line. When you shrug and stay quiet, you hand away respect for your own identity. The truth is we have only ourselves to blame for letting our festivals get hijacked from their Sanatani core.

So choose to speak up for Ma Durga, push back, and reclaim the meaning of our festivals, or sit by and watch a future where your children willingly get themselves baptized and circumcised.

Silence isn’t the dignity of the strong , when it comes to protecting our faith - it is surrender of the weak.

[Dr David Frawley @davidfrawleyved]

HINDUISM AS THE WORSHIP OF THE MOTHER OF THE UNIVERSE
No other religion or spiritual path worships the Divine Mother as Hinduism/Sanatana Dharma during Navaratri. Navaratri is the best way to connect to the Mother of the Universe in all her forms. Jai Maa!

[VAMSEE JULURI @VamseeJuluri]

"The religious right complained about Hindu 'Monkey God' statues. The supposedly anti-racist celebrity left made fun of Goddess Kali ... Left and Right, so divided these days, converged in their Hinduphobia.

... when U.S. trade officials began ranting about “madness” and “Modi’s war,” they used a photograph of him with their favorite wolf-whistle, the “dot.”

... neither liberal nor conservative news outlets published the fact that the Minneapolis school-shooter’s hate-graffiti slogans included the phrase “Nuke India” on one of the guns. .

... even the shocking act of an Indian-origin motel manager being beheaded in Texas by an employee hardly provoked a stream of outrage or commentary either outside the Indian press."

My latest essay, "It's the religion, stupid." (link in replies)

[Suhag A. Shukla @SuhagAShukla]

It is over. The BAPS investigation is closed with no charges filed.

Jai Swaminarayan 🙏

Now we pick up the pieces.

The largest Hindu temple in America was raided by a literal cavalcade of federal agents & police. Hindu monks were roused from bed in their sanctuary with guns pointed at their heads. The @BAPS community was forced to endure false, horrific allegations of forced labor & casteism. @anniecorreal of @nytimes was given exclusive access to carry the federal raid live raising serious questions as to why the media was alerted before temple devotees to ignite a trial by fire before the federal investigation even started. A fringe “Hindu” group along with a Rutgers professor and other anti-Hindu orgs piled on to exploit the “caste” angle.

Will we ever see an apology for this monstrous, catastrophic episode?

We won’t hold our breath.

[Nandini @NBDwrites]

A cousin of mine, born and bred in the UK - British in every way but for the colour of his skin, told me in 2010 :

“How bad can a people be if all they want is to pray five times a day? As long as they’re honest, hardworking, and tax-paying, *we* welcome them here.”

In 2025, the same cousin admits, dead serious, “I might need a flat in Gurgaon after all.”

Because he knows when the pushback comes, and it will, no one will stop to distinguish one brown face from another.

Not between those who came to build and belong, and those who gamed the system while clinging to a faith and culture that excuses what every civilised society condemns.

#LondonProtest

[Radharamn Das राधारमण दास @RadharamnDas]

The credibility of IIT is at stake. Let IIT teach engineering only not woke-ism. @dpradhanbjp @narendramodi

[Aravind @aravind]

Hu Shih, the Chinese Indologist and renowned international diplomat said in 1940s that, "for 2000 years India colonized China without sending a single soldier across."

Well, this is quoted a lot without context by Indians. The context he was saying it in is more important.

His belief was that Indian dharmic culture and Indianization of China has kept it backward in modern age. And China must free itself from it.

So based on his inputs and what Chairman Mao saw as backward Chinese culture, Mao went for total annihilation in the classic communist way. He called it the "Cultural revolution."

They burned down libraries, destroyed all traditional texts, killed thousands of teachers and some 35 million more later, and made the Chinese society follow modern communism as defined by the CCP.

For Deng Xiaoping to do his big developmental reforms and create a large working class in China where anyone will do any job in desperation, Mao's cultural revolution paved the way.

This led to rapid development of China on a western model. But is this the right way to go about it? Destroying your own culture and killing millions?

No.

India's culture and civilization is being revived right now as we speak to adapt to modern values. It is being transformed slowly but surely.

This kind of transformation will yeild long term highly beneficial results.

Unlike China, India was oppressed and colonized for a much longer time. But Indians, inspite of all adversities, never gave up their culture to adopt enmasse anything else.

Even Islam which forced itself on Indians worse than what Mao could have done, and for many times longer in length still is in minority after one thousand years, even in 1947 pre-partition.

I am so optimistic about the culture of India that in decades to come it will be the flagbearer for Indian advancement in a very chaotic world which China won't be able to handle. And breakdown unless they quickly adopt back certain Indian cultural values - which the CCP is trying to.

So a few decades of rapid development and showmanship means nothing for civilizational countries like India and Indians. Young people, like you see in this video, are only carried away by short term illusions.

In the long term, if we preserve our culture, its diversity, its plurality, and work in unision towards national development, we will come out as one of the top countries and cultures that have stood the test of time to be continually on top of the world directing its sustainable development.

As we have always been.

[Dr David Frawley @davidfrawleyved]

DHARMIC CIVILIZATION - BHARATIYA SAMSKRITI
Indian civilization, Bharatiya Samskriti, is Dharmic Civilization, Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Sikh. Dharmic culture is universal as Sanatana Dharma, not defined by political or ideological boundaries but by mantra and meditation revealing the light of Universal Consciousness.

[Swapan Dasgupta @swapan55]

Thank you Vivek and Pallavi for coming to Kolkata for this landmark event. As Pallavi said, this was the first show of The Bengal Files in West Bengal, but let it not be the last. The people of the state want to see the film that doesn’t meet with the approval of some. We in Khola Hawa merely broke the blockade. Now it is for others to take this bid to recover our history forward.

[Sai Deepak J @jsaideepak]

@AnupamPKher 3. I would strongly recommend watching the movie for the sincerity of the effort,the candour with which history & present have been connected & presented, and for the performance of the cast. Pls support such movies if our history has to be presented to the non-reading audience.

[Sai Deepak J @jsaideepak]

1. Just finished watching #TheBengalFiles by @vivekagnihotri. An absolute must watch to understand how the Partition is an unfinished ongoing project through illegal migration and demographic inversion. I watched the Director's Cut and it was certainly worth it.

[Pt. Satish K Sharma MBCS FRSA FRAS @thebritishhindu]

A fundamental principle of Dharmic understanding is not to destroy what Divinity has created. The taking of an unarmed, non-combatant human life, for speaking his vision of truth at a gathering of young people, is a violation, a desecration of life itself. Samuel Paty, a teacher in Batley, now #CharlieKirk. Danavs walk amongst us. Heartfelt condolences for his beautiful family. @charliekirk11

[Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri @vivekagnihotri]

Indian Motion Picture Producers’ Association comes out strongly in support of #TheBengalFiles and writes to @PMOIndia @narendramodi to intervene against the illegal and unconstitutional banning of the film by the West Bengal government of @MamataOfficial.

[Kanchan Gupta 🇮🇳 @KanchanGupta]

In memory of Hindu Bengali victims of Jinnah’s Direct Action Day, Noakhali carnage, and continuing targeted violence.
In protest against Mamata Banerjee, her #TMC and Jamaati goons.
In celebration of being a citizen of Bharat.
In solidarity with @vivekagnihotri
#TheBengalFiles

[Imperial Tiffin @Yash_Dhawan_]

@SoldierSaffron7 West Bengal is already Pakistan.

Huge radical mnslim population supported by the state machinery.

Weak trembling Bongo bhadraloks sneaking to and fro, hiding their women from r3pey Mullahs.

Mad Hindu commies siding with lslam for cash...