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Unveiling of Sushrutha’s statue at the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh. What a great event, a historical event in the histories of both India & the U.K.
@SamaHoole lactase persistence is also high in Punjab more than any other state in India. that also helps
As an Indian woman from Muslim heritage, I write this rebuttal with the clarity and directness that comes from living the reality @Ilhan only tweets about from afar. Ilhan Omar’s claim that India has reached the “eighth stage of genocide” against Muslims is not analysis. It is reckless, fact-free propaganda that insults every one of us who actually live here, work here, raise families here, and exercise our rights every single day.
If there were even the beginning of genocide, our population would not have exploded. In 1951, Muslims were about 9.8% of India. By 2011, we were 14.2%. Today we are estimated around 14.5–15%, heading toward 18% by 2050 according to Pew projections. From roughly 35 million in 1951 to over 200 million now. Absolute numbers have multiplied nearly six-fold while the country’s overall population grew far slower in percentage terms. Genocide does not produce the world’s largest Muslim-minority population that keeps growing faster than the national average for decades. It produces mass graves and fleeing refugees. We have neither.
We vote in every election in the world’s largest democracy. We contest seats, win them, become MPs, ministers, judges, IAS officers, doctors, engineers, and business leaders. Three Presidents of India have been Muslim. We serve in the armed forces and police. We own businesses, run hospitals, produce films, and dominate segments of entertainment and sports. This is not the signature of a community facing extermination.
We are thriving and prospering — with real data and real lives. Yes, like every large community, we have internal challenges — lower average literacy and educational enrollment in some metrics, pockets of poverty, and the need for better skilling. But the narrative of uniform victimhood is a lie told by people who have never walked through a Muslim-dominated area in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Lucknow, or Kerala and seen the middle class, the professionals, the entrepreneurs, and the young women studying medicine and engineering.
Prominent Indian Muslims — from business (Wipro’s Azim Premji built one of India’s largest companies), to cinema (generations of stars and directors), to sports, academia, and medicine — show what is possible when talent meets opportunity in a free society. Millions of ordinary Muslim families have moved from villages to cities, from informal work to formal jobs, from one generation of limited schooling to the next pursuing professional degrees. That is prosperity in motion, not persecution.
We enjoy specific rights and accommodations that Hindus as a group do not. This is the part Omar and her echo chamber never mention. Indian Muslims operate under a parallel personal law system for marriage, divorce, inheritance, and maintenance rooted in Sharia. Hindus do not.
After independence, Hindu personal law was comprehensively reformed and codified into a uniform framework (Hindu Marriage Act, Hindu Succession Act, etc.). Muslims retained the right to follow their own religious laws — including provisions for polygamy (up to four wives) and differential inheritance rules that the Hindu majority surrendered decades ago.
We also have constitutional minority protections under Articles 29 and 30 that allow us to establish and administer our own educational institutions with significant autonomy — rights the Hindu majority does not claim as a group because it is not classified as a minority. The Waqf Act gives Muslim institutions unique control over vast religious and charitable properties in a manner unparalleled for any other community.
In short: the Indian state has gone out of its way, through personal laws and minority safeguards, to preserve and accommodate Muslim religious and cultural identity in ways it has not extended equivalently to the Hindu majority. These are not “equal rights” in every narrow sense — they are deliberate accommodations that give us more space to live according to our traditions than the majority community receives under the same Constitution.
As a woman from Muslim heritage in India, I have the full protection of the Indian Constitution plus the framework of personal law. The criminalization of instant triple talaq in 2019 removed a specific vulnerability that existed under uncodified practice. I can study, work, vote, travel, criticize the government, wear what I choose (or not), and practice my faith openly — all while living in a country where my community’s population share has steadily risen for 75 years.
@Ilhan Omar’s “eighth stage of genocide” rhetoric is not solidarity. It is the lazy export of American culture-war talking points onto a country and a people she does not understand. It erases the agency of 200+ million Indian Muslims who are neither cowering nor waiting for rescue from Washington. It cheapens the word “genocide” while real atrocities happen elsewhere.
Stop peddling foreign fantasies about our lives. We are here. We are visible. We are voting. We are building. And we reject your narrative with the facts of our own existence. That is the view from inside — not from a podium in the United States.
A French moto vlogger "Frenchy" was traveling through India on his bike, He had a lump on his neck. Curious about the cost and process to remove it, he inquired locally and was quoted just $500 for the treatment.
Stunned by both the price and the short waiting time, he went ahead with the procedure. Within a week, the lump was removed. He documented the whole journey on camera.
He later shared that the same type of surgery in Australia after an accident had cost him $12,000.
If manufactured online hate and negative perceptions in the West didn’t exist, India could easily be earning hundreds of billions of dollars every year from medical tourism alone.
And this is why India needs to fight bad image/perception, that is being promoted by India's adversaries.
Indian and Swiss snowboarders Urmila and Linda hitting the slopes of Gulmarg, India in traditional sarees.
M.D. and a Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology from the University of Tennessee Memphis at Memphis College.
Neurosurgery training (7 years) at University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Spine fellowship program at the Semmes-Murphey Clinic in Memphis.
Graduated despite participating in fewer than 100 surgeries during his residency and fellowship; (neurosurgery residents typically participate in over 1,000 surgeries)
Maimed 31 patients, killed 2 others.
Now serving a life sentence in Texas.
😂 Achmed the Dead Terrorist in Abu Dhabi hits different.
“Silence! I kill you!”
Crowd cheers and claps.
Then he sees the front row living in mansions with hot wives and starts rethinking the whole “blow myself up for 72 virgins” business plan.
“I had no idea these options were available!”
Jeff Dunham cooking the audience in their own backyard.
Absolute legend. 🤣
In 2014 a Sudanese court sentenced a pregnant Christian woman to hang.
Her crime: apostasy. Born to a Muslim father, raised Christian her entire life. She gave birth to her daughter in chains in a Khartoum prison cell.
Her name was Meriam Ibrahim.
This was not ISIS. Not a failed state. This was Sudan's official judicial system functioning exactly as designed under the sharia architecture embedded into the state in 1983 and reinforced for 30 years by the Brotherhood government that followed.
Meriam was eventually released under global pressure. She now lives in America.
The legal architecture that sentenced her never left.
And right now in 2026 the movement that built it is actively attempting to recapture full state power in Sudan.
The Brotherhood's militia recaptured Khartoum last year. Its officers are embedded throughout the SAF. NCP figures are being quietly restored to judicial posts. The US designated the Sudanese Brotherhood a global terrorist organisation in March 2026 precisely because it identified this revival in real time.
This is not history repeating itself.
This is the same people. The same institutions. The same ideology. Attempting to rebuild the same state that sentenced Meriam Ibrahim to hang for being Christian.
The EU is being asked by its own MEPs to designate the Brotherhood a terrorist organisation.
Meriam's daughter is 12 years old. Born in chains in a Khartoum prison.
Europe is still deciding whether political islam is a threat or not.
https://t.co/rMSOuxCfAz
His name was Paan Singh Tomar.
He was born on January 1 1932 in Bhidosa village near Morena in Madhya Pradesh, in the ravines of Chambal. He joined the Indian Army in 1949 and was posted to the Army’s athletics programme.
He discovered steeplechase, the 3,000 metre obstacle race with water jumps that demands both speed and endurance.
He was built for it.
Between 1955 and 1964, he won the national steeplechase championship seven consecutive times. His national record stood unbeaten for fifteen years.
In 1958, he represented India at the Asian Games in Tokyo. He was a Subedar in the Army, a decorated athlete and a man who had given the country a decade of his life.
He took voluntary retirement and returned to his village in Chambal.
His cousins had seized his ancestral land while he was away. He went to the police. He showed them his gold medals, newspaper cuttings and photographs from national competitions.
He went to the panchayat. He filed complaints.Nobody helped him.
He picked up a rifle.
By the late 1970s, Paan Singh Tomar had become one of the most feared dacoits in the Chambal Valley. He operated across Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan with a bounty on his head.
When a journalist finally tracked him down in 1979 and asked why a national champion had become a criminal, he said this:
“There are no dacoits in the ravines. There are only baaghi. And a man becomes baaghi when the system gives him no other choice.”
On October 1 1981, police surrounded his location. He was killed in the encounter.
He was 49 years old. He had won seven national championships for India.
India gave him nothing when he needed it.
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A woman was walking along the beach when she stumbled upon a genie's lamp...
She picked it up and rubbed it, and lo-and-behold a genie appeared.
The genie said, "I can only grant you one wish. So, what will it be?"
The young woman pulled out a map of the middle east from her back pack.
"See these countries, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Palestine and Israel etc. Well I want them all to live in peace" she said.
The Genie studied the map.
"WTF lady, they've been fighting each other for hundreds of years, that's impossible, try another wish,"
the Genie grunted.
Well said the young woman, "then I want a perfect man, one who is kind, compassionate, gentle who likes children and housework, loves to cook and will help clean the house even if the Super Bowl is on."
The Genie stares at the young woman and finally says,
"Show me that map again."
A little boy goes to his dad and asks:
'Dad, what's Politics?'
Dad says, 'Well son, let me try to explain it this way:
I am the head of the family, so call me The Prime Minister.
Your mother is the administrator of the money, so we call her the Government.
We are here to take care of your needs, so we will call you the People.
The nanny, we will consider her the Working Class.
And your baby brother, we will call him the Future.
Now think about that and see if it makes sense.'
So the little boy goes off to bed thinking about what Dad has said.
Later that night, he hears his baby brother crying, so he gets up to check on him.
He finds that the baby has severely soiled his nappy.
So the little boy goes to his parent's room and finds his mother asleep.
Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny's room.
Finding the door locked, he peeks in the keyhole and sees his father in bed with the nanny.
He gives up and goes back to bed.
The next morning, the little boy say's to his father,
'Dad, I think I understand the concept of politics now. '
The father says, 'Good, son, tell me in your own words what you think politics is all about.'
The little boy replies,
'The prime Minister is screwing the Working Class while the Government is sound asleep. The People are being ignored and the Future is in deep shit.'
Three men were buried under a landslide in China...
They're inside a car when it happened, and miraculously still have a mobile phone connection.
The first man made a phone call to the police:
"I'm a good citizen and husband, please come save us!"
The police tell him they will come for them in 24 hours
The second man made a phone call to the army:
"Comrade, I served the country as you do, please get me out of here!"
The soldier tell him they will come for them in 12 hours
The final man made a phone call to someone, and made a whisper which the other two man can't hear
Within an hour, the men were dug out and rescued
A group of police officers walk up to the weary men and ask,
"Alright, which one of you said Taiwan is a country?"
Around 1,950 years ago in Pompeii, a weaver named Successus fell in love with a barmaid named Iris.
She did not love him back.
We know this because his rival, a man named Severus, decided to humiliate him publicly. He grabbed something sharp and carved this into a wall for the whole city to read:
"Successus the weaver loves the innkeeper's slave girl named Iris. She does not care about him at all. But he begs her to have pity on him. His rival wrote this. Goodbye."
Imagine walking to work and seeing that with your name on it.
Successus found it. And instead of letting it go, he carved his reply directly underneath:
"Envious one, why do you get in the way? Yield to a man who is better looking and being treated very unfairly."
Severus came back one more time to end it:
"I have spoken. I have written. You love Iris, but she does not love you."
Then, in 79 AD, Vesuvius erupted and buried the wall, the tavern, and the entire argument under 20 feet of ash. The thread was frozen mid-beef for almost two millennia until archaeologists dug it up and translated it.
We will never know who got the girl. We do not even know if any of the three survived.
Pompeii has over 11,000 of these inscriptions. Bar reviews. Bragging. Bad poetry. A bakery wall that says "Welcome, hungry people." Two guys fighting over a girl in the comments.
The technology changes. We do not.
While in China, an American man is very sexually promiscuous and does not use a condom the entire time he is there...
A week after arriving back home in the States, he wakes one morning to find his penis covered with bright green and purple spots.
Horrified, he immediately goes to see a doctor. The doctor, never having seen anything like this before, orders some tests and tells the man to return in two days for the results.
The man returns a couple of days later and the doctor says, “I’ve got bad news for you, you’ve contracted Mongolian VD. It’s very rare and almost unheard of here in the US , we know very little about it.”
The man looks a little perplexed and says, “Well, give me a shot or something and fix me up, Doc.”
The doctor answers, “I’m sorry, there's no known cure. We’re going to have to amputate your penis.”
The man screams in horror, “Absolutely not! I want a second opinion!!!”
The doctor replies, “Well, it’s your choice. Go ahead, if you want but surgery is your only option.”
The next day, the man seeks out a Chinese doctor, figuring that he’ll know more about the disease.
The Chinese doctor examines his penis and proclaims, “Ah, yes, Mongolian VD. Very rare disease.”
The guy says to the doctor, “Yeah, yeah, I already know that, but what can we do? My American doctor wants to cut off my penis!”
The Chinese doctor shakes his head and laughs.
“Stupid American doctors, always want to amputate. Make more money that way. No need to amputate!”
“Oh, thank God!” the man exclaims.
“Yes,” says the Chinese doctor. “Wait two weeks. Fall off by itself!”
Kim Jong-Un walks into a school in North Korea...
He asks a student, "Who is your father?
The student replies, "The Supreme Leader, infinite in wisdom and kindness, provider and protector of the Koreans, he is our only father."
Kim Jong beams, "Excellent. Now tell me who is your mother?"
The student doesn't hesitate.,"The Land of True Korea, outstanding in her beauty, international superpower, and redeemer of all civilisations, she is our only mother."
Kim Jong applauses, "What a diligent student you are. What do you want to be when you're older?"
The student replies, "An orphan."
250 years of continuously extinguishing the bottom ~2% of men who could not behave produced the modern Englishman and Anglo-American , who from the early 1700s to early 2000s almost entirely created the modern world.
When People's Democratic Republic of Yemen declared itself a Marxist-Leninist state in 1967, it promised to transform the Arabian Peninsula's poorest region into a socialist paradise. By 1990, South Yemen had achieved something remarkable: it remained the poorest Arab state while managing to make its already dire economic situation substantially worse.
You can trace the socialist experiment's failures through the numbers. Per capita GDP stagnated at roughly $500 throughout the 1980s while North Yemen's market-oriented economy grew. South Yemen's government employed 75% of the formal workforce by 1989, creating a massive bureaucracy that produced virtually nothing of value. The state controlled all major industries, from fishing to agriculture, and predictably drove productivity into the ground.
The human cost tells the real story. Over 300,000 South Yemenis fled to North Yemen and Saudi Arabia during the socialist period, voting with their feet against central planning. Those who stayed endured chronic shortages of basic goods while party officials lived comfortably in Aden's government quarters. The state's agricultural collectives destroyed traditional farming methods that had sustained communities for centuries, replacing local knowledge with Soviet advisors who knew nothing about Arabian Peninsula agriculture.
Compare this disaster to the Gulf states' experience during the same period. While Kuwait, UAE, and Saudi Arabia built modern economies through market mechanisms (however imperfect), South Yemen's planners allocated resources according to ideological fashion rather than economic reality. They built a steel plant in a country with no iron ore, subsidized unprofitable fishing cooperatives, and maintained a bloated military that consumed 20% of GDP.
The 1990 reunification wasn't a merger of equals. North Yemen absorbed a failed state whose currency had become worthless and whose infrastructure had crumbled under central planning. Socialism doesn't eliminate scarcity. It ensures that scarce resources flow to politically connected bureaucrats instead of productive entrepreneurs.
A German walks into a bar and orders a beer...
The bartender tells him, "20 euros!"
The German is shocked, "20 euros? yesterday it was only 3 euros !"
"Well, today it is 20 euros."
"But why 20, damn it?"
Bar tender, "I'll explain it,
3 euros is beer,
3 to help Ukraine,
4 assistance to European countries who have imposed sanctions and are not members of the EU.
4 euros in aid to the UK, for successful implementation of sanctions against Russia.
Then 3 euros are sent to the Balkan countries as aid to buy furnace coal.
and finally, 3 euros for a gas subsidy for the EU and fund to help maintain sanctions!"
The German silently took out the money and gave the bartender 20 euros.
The bartender took them, entered in the cash register and gave him 3 euros back.
German in disbelief : "Wait, you said 20 euros, right? I gave you 20, why are you giving me back 3 euros?"
"Ahh... We have no beer!"
In 1997, Brazilian soccer player Roberto Carlos took a free kick from 35 meters against France that seemed to defy the laws of physics as it curved around a wall of defenders at an angle that seemed impossible.
This “miracle goal” led a team of French physicists to publish a study in the journal New Journal of Physics, in which they explained that the extreme spin and speed created a “spinning spiral of the ball” that overcame gravity and air resistance.
A White (Anglo) Indian citizen shared an amusing anecdote about his experience at Heathrow Airport.
When he handed over his Indian passport at immigration, the officer was visibly shocked and asked if he was actually Indian.
Chuckling at the irony, she pointed to a group of Sikh Indian origin passengers ahead of him holding British passports and said, "Now I've seen everything!"
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