shree

[PV Sindhu @Pvsindhu1]

I’ve always loved writing. Sometimes, it’s the easiest way to say what you feel. This year, Modi ji, I wanted your birthday tribute to come straight from the heart. ❤️

I’ve seen changes in Indian sport I could barely have imagined growing up. The support, the opportunities and the belief have meant so much. Across fields, a generation of Indians has learnt to take on the world’s biggest names and believe we belong alongside them.

But it���s the personal moments I treasure. Sharing an ice cream with you. Watching you laugh with my then coach, Park, and knowing he would remember it for the rest of his life. You have an innate ability to make people feel warm, welcome and loved.

I remember your hour-long conversation with my husband, Datta, about identifying unique citizen records, or “golden records” at 10:30 in the night. Back in the car, he couldn’t stop wondering how the Prime Minister knew so much about such a deeply technical subject. Your curiosity stayed with him as much as your warmth.

Happy birthday to our beloved Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Damodardas Modi ji.

With a daughter’s affection, I wish you good health, happiness and many more years of service to our great country and its people. Thank you for always making us feel that our dreams matter to you 🙏❤️

@narendramodi @PMOIndia

[Hindu Voice @HinduVoice_in]

Anti-Hindu #Pogrom is going on in #Bangladesh.

In #Hathazari of #Chattragram district, unidentified miscreants put fire on Hindu homes.

6 homes of the Hindu minorities were completely turned into ashes.

[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

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

She dared to remove her chador before Ayatollah Khomeini. In October 1979, Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci traveled to Qom, Iran, to interview the Islamic Revolution's supreme leader.

To get inside the room, Fallaci was forced to cover herself from head to toe in a heavy black chador, leaving only her face visible.

The conversation inside the room was tense from the very start. Fallaci did not hold back her questions.

She pushed the Ayatollah on political executions, the sudden shutdown of independent newspapers, and the sharp loss of rights for Iranian women under the new regime.

When she asked about the forced wearing of the veil, Khomeini dismissed her concerns and claimed the garment was meant to protect young and respectable women. He then added,

"If you do not like the Islamic dress, you are not obliged to wear it."

Fallaci took his words literally and replied, "Thank you, Mr. Imam. Since you tell me so, I am taking it off right now."

With a quick move, she pulled the chador off her head, leaving her hair completely exposed right in front of the Supreme Leader.

Khomeini was furious.
He stood up without saying another word and walked out of the room. The room fell silent, and the interview was abruptly stopped. However, Fallaci refused to leave Iran until he returned a day later to finish the conversation.

This confrontation became legendary in the history of journalism.
It showed a reporter refusing to bow down to authority, even in one of the most dangerous settings imaginable.

Fallaci proved that real journalism requires standing up to power, asking hard questions, and refusing to be silenced by fear or tradition.

When journalists trade raw courage for easy access and comfortable silence, we lose one of our strongest shields against tyranny.

In an era where true courage in reporting feels rare, her brave stand reminds us that honest journalism still has the power to light up the dark, giving a voice to the voiceless and inspiring future generations to speak truth without fear.

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Congratulations to the legendary Anant Nag Ji on being conferred the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.

For several decades, his effortless performances, remarkable versatility and brilliance have left a very strong mark on Indian cinema, particularly Kannada cinema. In whichever role he has played, he brought rare depth and authenticity.

This is indeed a richly deserved honour for a truly distinguished artist.

https://t.co/V1qtFp0ZkB

[Namo🇮🇳🚩 @Nationalist2575]

Good depiction

[Swati Goel Sharma @swati_gs]

IMPACT: MINOR GIRL SAVED

A 14-year-old went missing from her Delhi home in August

Trafficking-forced conversion-rape motive suspected

Despite FIR, police didn’t trace her for weeks because family had no community support

We, along with @BhaiPreetSingh, intervened

Took the matter to Delhi high court, got urgent hearing, secured ordered for recovery

IMPACT: THE GIRL WAS TRACED AND BROUGHT HOME TODAY

We will now counsel her, ensure her rehab, and jail for perpetrator under strictest charges

Such crimes won’t stop until every such predator is brought to task, and we are building systems that ensure precisely that

This is a video of the girl’s parents when they approached us

[Anshul Saxena @AskAnshul]

According to the FIR, Aparna Kurup faces charges including provocation to cause riots, outraging religious feelings, hurting religious sentiments, and promoting enmity between groups.

All this for questioning and criticizing Islamic scholar Kanthapuram A.P. Aboobacker Musliar, who said that women should remain confined to their homes and that public appearances by women lead to great destruction.

From facing death threats to facing an FIR, the so-called feminists and "Smash the Patriarchy" brigade have gone completely silent.

It seems her leftist friends and ecosystem have also left her.

The loudest champions of free speech suddenly discovered the value of silence.

[Savitri Mumukshu - सावित्री मुमुक्षु @MumukshuSavitri]

Bangladesh is built upon a desecrated legacy of the ruins of hundreds of ancient Hindu temples & Buddhist Viharas with sites like Mahasthangarh, as old as 3rd BCE Mauryan era.

A fanatic Islamist state built on top of a graveyard of a shattered culture, broken temples and the genocide of millions of innocent Hindus, like Chinmoy Das.

Bangladesh is living proof of how Islamic fundamentalism reduces great civilizations to dust. The extremists carrying out pogroms & destruction today are spitting upon their own ancestral legacy.

[Keh Ke Peheno @coolfunnytshirt]

Fans at US Open, Arthur Ashe Stadium, complained about a strong sewage/human-waste smell, while another match was disrupted after Aryna Sabalenka noticed a cannabis smell.

Who should resign?

[Bodpa Warriors @BodpaW]

Former CTA minister Gyari Dolma, "Beijing tried to pressure India into keeping Tibetans out of sight during Xi Jinping’s visit, including restricting their ability to hold visible protests."

But India did not let Beijing decide what Tibetans could say on Indian soil. Tibetans came out, raised their voices and peacefully protested against the repression they have faced for decades.

That matters. India is a democracy, and peaceful protest is a basic right. A visiting Chinese leader should not get to decide which voices Indians or Tibetans are allowed to hear.

Xi Jinping came to India. Tibetans spoke. And they were heard.

#Tibet #FreeTibet #India #XiJinping #BRICS2026 #GyariDolma #TibetanRights #TibetanFreedom #RightToProtest #FreedomOfExpression #Democracy #CCP #China #Delhi #TibetWillBeFree

[Bangladeshi Hindus Community🚨🇧🇩 @Hindubd49346]

Never FORGET AND Never Forgive..🇧🇩🙏

[Faraz Pervaiz @FarazPervaiz3]

🇵🇰 The court claims that the #Hindu girl Chanda converted to Islam of her own will.

Shockingly, the court handed Chanda over to her Muslim abductor who is Raping her.

Please Repost & Raise your voice for Chanda.

[OpIndia.com @OpIndia_com]

📌 The Man Who Defied the Leftist Narrative: The Dharampal Story

80% Shudra students in pre-colonial schools? @ashu_nauty breaks down how Gandhian historian Dharampal used British records to destroy the "upper-caste educational monopoly" myth, and why the establishment kept him invisible. Watch now.

#Caste #IndianHistory #Dharampal

[India First Post @ifpost47]

US Open is smelling less like a Grand Slam and more like a sewage plant.

Fans at Arthur Ashe Stadium have complained about a strong sewage/human-waste smell, while another match was disrupted after Aryna Sabalenka noticed a cannabis smell.

Yet somehow, the world’s favourite lecture circuit still loves lecturing others about “standards.” Fix your own backyard first.

[garuDa vAhana @goghritaM]

Collective global H failure.

[Preet Sirohi @BhaiPreetSingh]

करोड़ो बांग्लादेशी मुल्ला घुसपैठिये पालने वालो देख लो आँसुओं से रोता परम कृष्ण भक्त चिन्मय दास

मुल्ला तारिक़ रहमान जवाबी कार्यवाही होगी

पूज्य मातृभूमि भारत से अवैध घुसपैठियों को खदेड़ा जाएगा बहुत जल्द

[Nupur J Sharma @UnSubtleDesi]

Chinmoy Krishna Das was given 5 hours to perform the last rights of his mother. He then fell to the feet of Shri Krishna, crying profusely, before being taken back to jail.

My heart aches watching these videos. Fuck Jihadis. Fuck Bangladesh. Fuck their Jihadi govt.

[Hussain Saddam @saddamhussainbd]

A dying mother’s final wish was simply to see her son one last time. Chinmoy Krishna Das was denied even that, and was granted only five hours of parole after her death to perform her last rites.

This revered Hindu monk has spent years in jail for speaking up for the rights of Hindus in Bangladesh. A man who never harmed a living being has falsely been framed in a lawyer’s murder case and locked away without justice. He remains behind bars to this day.

Those responsible for keeping him behind bars and denying him basic human compassion must be held accountable. The facsist Yunus administration and the current BNP government cannot evade responsibility for the consequences of the injustice inflicted on Chinmoy and his family.

Release Chinmoy Krishna Das.

[Nick Collins @nickcollins1953]

Mesopotamia was never the cradle of civilisation. India was.

I spent forty years in international shipping, not academia. When I began researching the history of maritime trade, I had no orthodoxy to defend. I followed the evidence, and it kept arriving in the same place: the Indian subcontinent.

Nineteenth century archaeologists dug in Mesopotamia because the climate preserved artefacts, the biblical sources pointed them there, and the Ottomans allowed the excavations. That is the entire basis for the myth of Mesopotamia as "the cradle of civilisation."

Nobody applied the same rigour to India. Mohenjo-daro was not discovered until 1922. By then the narrative had already hardened.

What was actually there was the largest civilisation of the ancient world. Three hundred cities. Fifty thousand people in each, by 2600 BC. Two thirds of them stood on the banks of the Sarasvati, the central and greatest of the seven rivers described in the Rig Veda, flowing down from the Himalayas before the river vanished entirely by 1900 BC. The Vedic kings claimed territory stretching "sea to sea," from Afghanistan to Maharashtra, some 1.5 million square miles, against Egypt's 13,000. A dock at Lothal built to handle thirty ships of sixty tons, unmatched in Europe for four thousand years. When it was first excavated, it was recorded as a bathing pool.

When the scale became impossible to dismiss, the theory was not corrected. It was replaced with a story of pale-skinned nomads from the steppe who supposedly arrived around 1500 BC and brought civilisation with them. There is no evidence. The chronology doesn't work. The Vedas describe no invasion.

In 2019 a Harvard-led genetic study revived the claim, and the press reported it as confirmation. It was not. The same study found the builders of these cities were indigenous. The Sarasvati river that the Rig Veda described had already dried up before these newcomers arrived. What the study also found is that a small group of men, arriving after the Sarasvati had already dried up, interbred with the existing population and left a genetic signature. That is all.

So, where they chose to dig was mostly an accident of climate and access. The Aryan invasion theory was constructed because an Indian civilisation that owed nothing to Caucasians was a fact the late nineteenth century could not accommodate.

Link to full Substack essay with sources in the comments below.