"It is incredible how much mass slaughter one can get away with when you have the protective cover of the intellectual class."
This is the most important line about Bengal from another post by @IndiaSpeaksPR. As @jsaideepak documents below, after the 2021 election, BJP voters and even some CPM voters were murdered or raped, and the "intellectual media" looked the other way because they wanted to "save" Bengal from a party they disliked. That was it.
Bengal was a heroic win for the BJP, paid for with blood. I cannot imagine the sacrifices made.
My salute to the brave warriors who fought hard to get here🙏
1. Just got off a call with @UnSubtleDesi. I couldn't be happier for her and both of us couldn't help but discuss the harrowing days of post poll violence in West Bengal in 2021. So I am going to share what happened five years ago just so ppl know what happened. #WestBengal2026.
Why aren’t we talking about this enough? How could a corporate BPO office&that too a big one like TCS continue to function without any accountability despite several women complaining about the harassment and abuse besides religious conversion attempts. https://t.co/kX4Ie2YEql
Justine Musk, Elon Musk’s ex-wife, sharing valuable insights into Elon's success
She observed two key traits that set him apart: relentless hard work and the strategic use of the word “No.”
Saying “No” is a way of protecting your time, energy, and focus so you can direct them toward your own goals. Behind every “No” is a deeper “Yes” to what truly matters
Source: @TEDx, @justinemusk
Every one of us Bharatiyas should hang our head in shame at the attack on the student from Tripura in Uttarakhand. The nation must apologize to the family as this is not just an assault on an individual but on the idea of Bharat itself. The government must ensure justice is served and no such incidents occur in future. -Sg #AngelChakma
“No Place in a Civilised Land”: Congress President Annie Besant on Khilafat, Islam, and the Idea of India
When Ummah Comes Before India: Besant’s Warning
Excerpts from her book 'The Future of Indian Politics' (1922).
"Since the Khilafat agitation, things have changed and it has been one of the many injuries inflicted on India by the encouragement of the Khilafat crusade, that the inner Muslim feeling of hatred against ‘unbelievers’ has sprung up, naked and unashamed, as in the years gone by.
We have seen revived, as guide in practical politics, the old Muslim religion of the sword, we have seen the dragging out of centuries of forgetfulness, the old exclusiveness, claiming the Jazirut-Arab, the island of Arabia, as a holy land which may not be trodden by the polluting foot of a non-Muslim,
we have heard Muslim leaders declare that if the Afghans invaded India, they would join their fellow believers, and would slay Hindus who defended their motherland against the foe:
we have been forced to see that the primary allegiance of Musalmans is to Islamic countries, not to our motherland;
we have learned that their dearest hope is to establish the ‘ Kingdom of God’, not God as Father of the world, loving all his creatures, but as a God seen through Musalman spectacles resembling in his command through one of the prophets, as to the treatment of unbeliever—the Mosaic JEHOVA of the early Hebrews, when they were fighting as did the early Muslims, for freedom to follow the religion given to them by their prophet.
The world has gone beyond such so called theocracies, in which God’s commands are given through a man.
The claim now put forward by Musalman leaders that they must obey the laws of their particular prophet above the laws of the State in which they live, is subversive of civic order and the stability of the State; it makes them bad citizens for their centre of allegiance is outside the nation and they cannot, while they hold the views proclaimed by Maulanas Mahomed Ali and Shaukat Ali, to name the most prominent of these Muslim leaders, be trusted by their fellow citizens.
If India were independent the Muslim part of the population; for the ignorant masses would follow those who appealed to them in the name of their prophet; would become an immediate peril to Indian’s freedom.
Allying themselves with Afghanistan, Baluchistan, Persia, Iraq, Arabia, Turkey and Egypt and with such of the tribes of Central Asia who are Musalmans, they would rise to place India under the Rule of Islam, those in ‘British India’ being helped by the Muslims in Indian States, and would establish Musalman rule.
We had thought that Indian Musalmans were loyal to their motherland, and indeed, we still hope that some of the educated class might strive to prevent such a Musalman rising; but they are too few for effective resistance and would be murdered as apostates.
Malabar has taught us what Islamic rule still means, and we do not want to see another specimen of the ‘Khilafat Raj’ in India.
How much sympathy with the Moplas is felt by Muslims outside Malabar has been proved by the defence raised for them by their fellow believers, and by Mr. Gandhi himself, who stated that they had acted as they believed that religion taught them to act I fear that that is true; but there is no place in a civilised land for people who believe that their religion teaches them to murder, rob, rape, burn, or drive away out of the country those who refuse to apostatise from their ancestral faiths, except in its schools, under surveillance, or in its gaols.
The Thugs believed that their particular form of God commanded them to strangle people, especially travelers with money.
Such ‘Laws of God’ cannot be allowed to override the laws of a civilised country, and people living in the twentieth century must either educate people who hold these Middle Age views, or else exile them."
This is the true story of the youngest martyrs in human history: the younger sons, aged 6 and 9 years old, of my Guru.
Exactly 320 years ago today, they chose martyrdom over conversion to Islam.
I’m proud to be a Sikh.
Why every monotheistic religion was born in the desert. Nomadic pastoralists invented monotheism. Nomadic pastoralists have higher rates of violence - both within group and between group. Monotheism is violent because in the desert there's a single focus on survival - basically how to raid your neighbour's herd. On the other hand, rainforest cultures are polytheistic. If you are living in a rainforest with 10,000 types of edible plants out there, it doesn't take a lot of work to come up with the notion that there are lots of spirits and Gods out there.
TISS report on Mumbai Demography:
The Hindu Population was 88% in 1961 and is projected to be reduced to 54% by 2051.
While the Muslim population will significantly rise from 8% in 1961 & will be 30% in 2051