Shirish Subramanian 🇮🇳🚩

Rashtra & Dharma || Bharat and Bharatiyata || Jai Hind || Real Estate || Bengaluru || IIT Kharagpur 2012

[Sanjay Dixit ಸಂಜಯ್ ದೀಕ್ಷಿತ್ संजय दीक्षित @Sanjay_Dixit]

Hamid Ansari was a danger that was contained.

[The Jaipur Dialogues @JaipurDialogues]

Once a legend said

[The Jaipur Dialogues @JaipurDialogues]

Ganesh Visarjan procession not in Pune but Palakkad, Kerala.

Unreal scenes of sea of Bhagwa flags with Bajrang Bali and Veer Savarkar ji. Burnol moment for communists 🔥

[Neeraj Atri @AtriNeeraj]

We don't know the real face and true history of Xianity. Credit goes to Secularism and Dumb Hindu organisations.

[The Jaipur Dialogues @JaipurDialogues]

The Guy on the Scooty🤣

[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

[Shirish Subramanian 🇮🇳🚩 @thinkshirish]

This is where I bow to the reality that circumstance can make a human, however great they may personally be, do unthinkably troubling things (maybe even to their own conscience), without coercion or force.

The strong have either fallen, or method act the role perfectly. 🙏

[K.Annamalai @annamalai_k]

சமூக சீர்திருத்தப் போராட்டங்களில் முக்கியப் பங்காற்றி, தமிழகத்தின் சமூக மற்றும் அரசியல் வரலாற்றில் பெரும் தாக்கத்தை ஏற்படுத்திய பெரியார் அவர்களின் பிறந்த தினம் இன்று.

சமூகத்தில் நிலவிய ஏற்றத்தாழ்வுகள் மற்றும் மூடநம்பிக்கைகளுக்கு எதிராக, தனது வாழ்க்கையின் பெரும்பகுதியைச் செலவிட்ட, பெரியார் அவர்களின் பொதுவாழ்வை நினைவு கூர்ந்து வணங்குகிறோம்.

[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

[Shirish Subramanian 🇮🇳🚩 @thinkshirish]

Ok, Youhana

[Mohammad Yousaf @yousaf1788]

When national pride turns into arrogance, victory brings no reward. A team may win, but a nation without humility remains a loser! no trophy, only heels on heads. #WellDone #MohsinNqvi

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Dear Mr Javed Akhtar. Alhamdulillah. The quote is from Maulana Azad's Calcutta Speech. The speech was published in Khutbat-e-Azad. Here is the link: https://t.co/yXkvYTTW1j

The Maulana is exhorting the Indian Muslims to unite with Muslims around the world and save the Caliphate. He begins by stating that all relationships in the world can break down, father can turn against son, brother against brother, mother can shun her child but the relationship of a Muslim with a Muslim can never be severed.

The Maulana then continues: if even a grain of the soul of Islam is still alive in its followers, then if a thorn enters the foot of a Turk on the field of battle, I swear by Allah that no Muslim of Hindustan is a Muslim until he feels that prick in his own heart. For the Millat of Islam is one body, and Muslims, wherever they are, are its limbs. If a finger of the hand is cut, the rest of the body cannot remain at peace until it has felt the blow. This is not rhetoric. It is the plain meaning of the well-known hadith which Imam Ahmad related: the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said that the likeness of the believers in their mutual love, mercy and compassion is that of one body: when one limb complains, the whole body responds with sleeplessness and fever. And there is the other hadith, related by Abu Musa al-Ash‘ari: The believer to the believer is like a building; each part supports the other. This is the first and last distinguishing mark of the people of Islam, to which the Qur’an itself has pointed.

Then, to reinforce Muslim unity, Maulana Azad provides his commentary after quoting the Quranic verse 48: 29.

The Messenger of Allah and those with him are severe against the Kafirs, merciful among themselves.

Whatever hardness they have is for falsehood and unbelief; whatever love and tenderness they have is for truth, sincerity, Islam and Tawhid. So be extremely hard against disbelievers but extremely sympathetic and kind among ourselves; take heed, then, and do not pass over this as if you had not heard it.

P.S. This is the second time I am enlightening you on your heroes and their lifelong sociopolitical stances. The first time was when you refused to believe that books were banned, editors sacked, films blocked, and Majrooh jailed, under Nehru's rule. Please don't ask me about Gandhi next - the Mahatma, not Rahul, though both are probably your heroes. Cheers, WDTP

[Shirish Subramanian 🇮🇳🚩 @thinkshirish]

Aaj se naam Sulagna Sherwani

Sulagti bohot...!

[Arfa Khanum Sherwani @khanumarfa]

‘Ganga Aarti’ not on Ganga river but Thames river.
Does it make any sense ? Or does it not have to make sense?

[Shirish Subramanian 🇮🇳🚩 @thinkshirish]

Tujhe wo dikhe na dikhe
Baat sasti hai
Jis din unhein tu dikh jaaye
Teri haalat khasti hai

You are speaking of the Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces. Crap your pants like your fathers did.

Maktub. It is written.

[Cyborg 🇵🇰🍁 @cyborg_reborn]

I had to turn my phone brightness up to 100% just to see her face 😭

[krithika sivaswamy @krithikasivasw]

Whoever invented the combination of coconut, jaggery and cardamom to form a poornam, deserves eternal praise till the end of time
#ganeshcharturthi #vinayakachathurthi

[Jolie 🌼 @JolsWrites1]

Ganpati Bappa Morya! 🙏✨

[The Jaipur Dialogues @JaipurDialogues]

Huge Respect for Women Cricket Team who refused to accept trophy from Moshin Naqvi

Smriti Mandhana spotted the Pak Minister on Stage, turned back and left the Ground

PKMKB FOREVER

[Deepak Prabhu @ragiiing_bull]

If you want to eat konkani style veg food, do visit this Pandal for Mahaprasadam.
Food is served to all devotees visiting the pandal with no questions asked.

[Mise en scene @tesoro_arch]

PETA will have us believe Madhuri is tortured !!!!
Madhuri 🧡🧡🧡

[The Jaipur Dialogues @JaipurDialogues]

People will say this is Ai Generated

Left, Liberals and Congress is having a Meltdown

[Shirish Subramanian 🇮🇳🚩 @thinkshirish]

Jitna random leadership KA BJP se jaana chahta ho, important to let them all go, encourage it even, and then build well in the state

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Bengaluru, Karnataka: On BJP leaders joining Congress, CM DK Shivakumar says, "A lot of BJP leaders and central leaders are on the way. They are discussing with me, my party President, and various leaders. I have authorised all the district ministers and the district office bearers to make a list of all of them. Who believes in our ideology and in the party high command, we will all work together. We will give space to them. We have accommodated them in various capacities; we will accommodate them. And we will work together. This country is very important, especially as the younger generation is looking at us...opportunity has been given to the BJP for the last 13 years...that is why the younger generation is looking at us."

[Deepak Prabhu @ragiiing_bull]

This is what all of us are saying.
Kindly listen to Panditji carefully.