Eskay R

he/hindu. Internet User. not your usual. Retweets not necessarily endorsements Speaks 5 languages “Bloody Indian”

[Eskay R @nyusual]

@ShrivastavAni Proper role model for CJP-

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@AdeshSanatani @neha_laldas I want to smoke that thing he does!!

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@neha_laldas Dance karo ya Maro.. if everything else fails blame Brahminism.. easy trope learnt from Bollywood/ Congress ecosystem ..

[Eskay R @nyusual]

Exactly

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

Awesome!!!

[Rakesh Krishnan Simha @ByRakeshSimha]

Benefits of living as a Hindu
- Joy Mathew, Kerala movie actor

_No need to go to learn religion from childhood.

_No strict rules on what to do, what not to do, or how to live...

_No need to wear a cap...
No need for circumcision...
No need to get baptized...

_No need to wake up early and go to the temple... Only those with faith need to go.

_When you feel like going, you can go to any temple without checking caste, language, or worship rituals.

_Even if you go or don’t go, the temple priest or committee members won’t glare at you...

_Won’t be branded as someone without fear of God... Won’t be excommunicated... Won’t be condemned to a “rogue’s grave” when dead...

_No need for a good conduct certificate from religious heads to get married...
No need for recommendation letters...

_No one goes to the temple to inquire “what kind of guy he is”... The bride’s family won’t check if he’s a religious believer...

_No one checks if the girl is a religious believer, a “916 Hindu”, or lives by Hindu customs...

_You can live peacefully with one or two children as you wish.

_Since there’s no ban on drinking alcohol, no need to go crazy using ganja or drugs.

_You can watch movies, dance, sing — with no restrictions.

_You can lend money at interest, or borrow it.

_You can vote for anyone, live however you want... no rules...

_No scaring about the afterlife.

_No need to waste a lifetime dreaming of rivers of wine and hooris. No need to fear being made firewood in hell...

_From creation to the structure of the universe — nothing here is against modern science.

_If you have time and study the Vedas, you can answer any atheist’s question.

_No separate laws for women...
No special prohibitions for women...

_If a woman dances, no crowd will gather to abuse her... They’ll clap and encourage her...

_From childhood, send her for dance... send her for music... send her for sports...

_No need to cover the face or head. Can wear clothes of choice...

_No separate dining area for her... No bans in crowds... no rules... no prohibitions...

_You can pray to the God of any religion. Can hang a star, set up a crib, celebrate any festival,

_Even if you don’t get them in return, you can send Christmas, Easter, Eid, Nabi Day wishes to friends. No one will question you;

_And you don’t have to fear anyone to share this!

Pleasant, beautiful, peaceful, free... Life as you like!!

_If asked “Do you have a religion?” — Yes... If asked “Don’t you have a religion?” — No.

Missed one thing...
No need to fight for a spot in the cemetery for the funeral... Just need some firewood.

[Gargi #Decolonization 🇮🇳 @gargiuvacha]

Every single time I see Audrey Truschke speak about Hindu civilizational continuity, there is this unmistakable pattern:

Anything that suggests continuity, sophistication, indigenous development, or spiritual depth in Bharatiya civilization is immediately treated with suspicion, ridicule, or external attribution.

And honestly, it is NOT “neutral scholarship.”
It is a vile poisonous agenda!

Now she claims the Pashupati seal is “more likely adapted from proto-Elamite iconography” and not Shiva.

The audacity!!

Even mainstream historians and archaeologists admit the connection.

John Marshall - former Director General of ASI - identified it as a Proto-Shiva/Pashupati figure because of:
• the yogic posture
• association with animals
• ascetic symbolism
• horned deity imagery
• and continuity with later Shaiva iconography

Thomas McEvilley specifically discussed the posture as resembling Mulabandhasana - the not just random sitting.

Even scholars who disagree with Marshall STILL acknowledge:
• yogic symbolism
• ritual significance
• “lord of animals” motifs
• and striking parallels with later Shaiva imagery.

Even after this, what Audrey does repeatedly is present speculative external-origin theories with an air of certainty while portraying Hindu continuity arguments as primitive nationalist fantasy.

That is not balanced scholarship.

And this is where many Indians are exhausted.

Why is Bharat perhaps the ONLY civilization where continuity itself becomes controversial?

Egyptians can speak of continuity.
Chinese civilization can speak of continuity.
Greco-Roman continuity is endlessly explored.

But if Indians point to continuity between the Indus civilization and later Hindu traditions, suddenly:
“dangerous nationalism”
“appropriation”
“myth-making”
“revisionism”

Why?

Because for decades Indian civilization has been filtered through frameworks that instinctively distrust native memory while privileging external explanations.

But dismissing the Shiva interpretation as though it is some laughable WhatsApp theory is historically dishonest and frankly vile considering now their reasons behind doing so are exposed.

It has existed in archaeology and Indology for nearly a century.

What makes this worse is the sheer arrogance with which these claims are delivered to Indians - as though Indians themselves are uniquely incapable of understanding their own civilizational symbols.

And then comes the funniest part.

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Why?

If the argument is so academically robust, why shut down public scrutiny?

Afraid people may respond with:
• ASI references?
• archaeological counterpoints?
• Shaiva continuity studies?
• @IndicMeenakshi ’s work on civilizational continuity?
• counter-evidence from iconography?
• or simply point out how selectively “skepticism” gets applied?

Because that is what many of us are noticing now:
the skepticism is never neutral.

Hindu interpretations are interrogated aggressively.
External-origin theories are treated as sophisticated by default.

And over time, this constant framing creates something poisonous:
a civilizational inferiority complex.

An entire generation of Indians is subtly taught:
• your memories are myths,
• your traditions are appropriations,
• your sacred symbols came from elsewhere,
• your civilization is mostly borrowed,
• and continuity itself is suspect.

That is why people react strongly.

Not because debate is unwelcome.
We are a civilization who invented Debate.
But because the contempt underneath these narratives has become impossible to miss.

Indian history IS amazing, wonderful, and fantastic.

Which is exactly why people are no longer willing to silently accept ideological distortions masquerading as objective scholarship.

[Eskay R @nyusual]

High time!

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@RShivshankar Such an unprofessional person from the so called first world !

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The Voice Of The Cholas Returns From Leiden — Let's Hear What It Says https://t.co/UJBqNBUtoD

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@GabbbarSingh People cut their nose when they spite their face

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Gold

[Mohan Sinha 🇮🇳 @Mohansinha]

The man is so bereft of any shame that he actually admits that the last time he spoke about the political violence by TMC was in 2021! Well done @smritiirani for cornering this weasel.

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@sagarikaghose People’s will is 206. The only people who fight after results are Goondas. We saw them in 2021… we see them again

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All cry babies in West Bengal - election results in 2021 showed their goondaism - now a different version of goondaism- so we know what is common - win or lose! #WestBengalLegislativeAssemblyelection2026 #crybabies #bournvita

[Rohit Jaiswal @rohitjswl01]

Turning point for Bengal Election -

There was a day during the RG Kar protests when people tried to march across Howrah Bridge towards
Nabanna and the state responded with barricades, tear gas, and water cannons.

And then one old man stood there.
No shield. No fear. Just defiance.

The water slammed into him with full force, but he didn’t move an inch. Instead, he raised his hand and mocked the very system trying to crush him questioning their courage in the most humiliating way possible….

That image burned into the minds of Bengal’s youth. That was the day many realized enough is enough…..

I don’t know his name. But that old man did more in a few seconds than most leaders do in years. That wasn’t just a protester standing tall. That was the moment fear lost and Bengal began to change….. #WestBengal #ElectionResults

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@ShefVaidya @derekobrienmp Drinking bournvita and thinking of his daddy “Narendra”

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@derekobrienmp @MamataOfficial Narendra ban Gaya Tera Daddy … go drink some bournvita

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Come on Mumbai Indians https://t.co/aAG6kTtovl
This is not the team we knew #tataipl #t20 #rcb