Maximus

Courage is not the absence of fear

[Maximus @suprakash]

@greatbong Whether BJP will fulfill its promises to the ordinary people of West Bengal remains to be seen. However they have certainly fulfilled their promise to the TMC Rajyasabha MPs who resigned on their behest and are now being faithfully re-elected.

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@ShoaibDaniyal It’s a proof of democratic decline definitely but not of India but of West Bengal . If this is bad it was worse during TMC and worst under left rule. . WB politics was a drain for a long time covered by politically correct slabs. You can only accuse BJP of not changing it enough.

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@RanaAyyub That’s your response when the murderous attempt of a Muslim to kill about 200 Israeli people and at least one Hindu ( the pilot) without any reason was thwarted by them. WTF.

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@khanumarfa But he was just acknowledging a certificate given by his subsidy.

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@sardesairajdeep Yes it’s your take. So take it and shove it.

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@WydRomanX Barcode on the bottle?

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@xzx_slipknot Jack kallis

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@Starboy2079 Problem is that the lies he is peddling on ground is getting amplified and reach millions while this research based expose will reach only hundreds. That’s the playbook of AAP and even Congress now. Shoot and scoot.

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

Rather long but I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did:

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I lack civic sense.

They can burn streets,
and vandalize a city after a championship game.
I dance at an airport excited about my first foreign trip, and suddenly I am the face of poor civic sense.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I steal jobs.

They move factories across oceans,
shift profits through tax havens.
I study, compete, earn a visa, work 18 hours a day, sometimes multiple jobs and somehow I am the one stealing jobs and scamming the system.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I am everywhere.

I build your software,
treat your illness,
teach your children,
drive your taxis,
and open your stores.
The world became a village,
yet my presence remains a problem.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I am too loud.

The evening news screams outrage.
The internet echoes with anger day and night.
I celebrate a wedding, a festival, a victory,
and I am told my joy is too loud.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I smell of curry.

The world smells of gunpowder,
of hatred,
of division,
of endless arguments about race and religion.
I carry the fragrance of spices from my grandmother's kitchen,
and somehow that is what offends.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I have no culture.

I come from a civilization that counted the stars
when much of the world was still learning maps.
I speak languages older than nations.
I celebrate hundreds of traditions,
yet I am told I have no culture.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I am backward.

I send missions to the Moon.
I build vaccines for millions.
I run companies across continents.
Yet a viral video of one fool becomes evidence against a billion people.

I am an Indian.

I celebrate my favorite actor's success
with flowers, music, and a few glasses of milk.

Others worship influencers who sell outrage, turn every disagreement into a battlefield, and every opinion into a war.
Yet my celebration is the one that makes headlines.

I am an Indian,

and everyone says I gather in crowds.

We walk together in processions,
celebrating our faith, our culture, our traditions.

Everyone is welcome.
No shops are looted.
No neighborhoods are burned.
No one is threatened for thinking differently.

We sing.
We dance.
We pray.
And somehow our gathering becomes the problem.

I am an Indian,

and everyone says I bring my culture everywhere.

I light a lamp in a foreign land.
I wear a saree in the snow.
I teach my children the language of their grandparents.

Others build walls between neighbors,
argue endlessly over identity,
and forget where they came from.
Yet I am told I should leave my culture behind.

I am an Indian,

and everyone says I live in the past.

But my past gave me yoga,
mathematics, philosophy, meditation,
and the idea that the world is one family.

The future keeps borrowing from my past,
while telling me to be embarrassed by it.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I should be ashamed.

Ashamed of my accent.
Ashamed of my food.
Ashamed of my festivals.
Ashamed of my traditions.
Ashamed of existing.

But I am not ashamed.

I am the child of farmers and philosophers,
scientists and saints, workers and dreamers.

*I come from a land that taught the world
that truth can be many-sided,
that all paths deserve respect,
and that the entire world is one family.*

*Yes, we have flaws. Every nation does.*

*But judge me by my actions, not by your stereotypes.*

For I am an Indian.

*And before you tell me what is wrong with me, look honestly at what you have normalized in yourself.*

For I am an Indian.

The world may mock my accent,
question my customs,
laugh at my celebrations,
and judge me through a thousand stereotypes.

*Yet I stand tall. For I belong to a civilization older than empires, a culture richer than prejudice, and a people whose spirit refuses to bend.*

For I am an Indian.

[Maximus @suprakash]

@TheRightGhose @RatanSharda55 @psychiatrycal @narendramodi @AmitShah If at his level of popularity the PM has to give preference to compulsion for retaining at best one regional leader over educational needs of the new generation, then what is the point of having a nationalist government at centre? This is one of the most burning issues right now.

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@greatbong Wow is apt for the transformation. But is it for the station?

[Sadanand Dhume @dhume]

Instead of weaving and dodging and appearing weak, the Indian government should find the courage to state the obvious:
1. India has agreed to reduce Russian oil purchases in return for a removal of punitive U.S. tariffs.
2. This move is entirely rational. India can easily replace Russian oil with oil from other sources. It could not realistically hope to attract sorely needed investment and technology at scale, or be competitive as an exporter, while facing one of the highest U.S. tariff rates in the world.
3. The hard fought U.S.-India trade deal is a diplomatic and economic achievement that Indians should be proud of. No responsible government can afford to wreck the economy just so that leftist op-ed writers get to feel good about themselves.

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@_sabanaqvi There is moral outrage only when Communists or Islamists are on the receiving end of what they generally disburse.

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@pbhushan1 Ask them which international standards their country comported with when they bombarded Venezuela and removed their president and his wife.

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@Wisdom_HQ 4

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@hindookissinger Interfaith my foot . He has very loudly told Trump that he is a MUSLIM. Only these Indian seculars didn’t hear that.

[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

India vs Australia -
Zampa wins Player of the Match.
Kuldeep wins Player of the Bench.
Well done, team management.

[Maximus @suprakash]

@theskindoctor13 Corruption would be cheaper it seems

[Suhag A. Shukla @SuhagAShukla]

The Govt of India does not ask our approval for its oil policy or import duties, and so @shashitharoor and the GOI shouldn't be expecting us to champion their sovereign policy decisions with the U.S. government. They can hire lobbyists for that.

Because we care about the world's oldest and largest democracies getting along, from the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Agreement to calling out Pakistan sponsored terror in Kashmir to blocking bills that would condemn India on Kashmir while ignoring the right for Kashmiri Hindus to reclaim their homes, to pushing to protect human rights in the Indian subcontinent, to educating about separatist subversive lawbreakers in the U.S., we punch way above our weight.

And because they know we are powerful, white nationalists, anti-Hindu academics, Khalistanis, leftist Indian writers at Al Jazeera, the Nation and others endanger us almost weekly with ludicrous accusations asking the FBI to investigate us as foreign agents or deport us and worse...yet we do what we do out of deep conviction, @ShashiTharoor. Maybe walk in our shoes before you criticize us.

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@PadmajaJoshi @Ra_Bies Commendable performance by Rahul Gandhi. He remains a yuva neta for last twenty odd years. He will continue to be so probably for the next twenty too while being at an age when most government and private employees find retirement less than five years away. Some startup 🤣