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GDP Growth in % between 2004-14
India: 180%
World: 80%
China: 450%
Brazil: 265%
Russia: 250%
South Africa: 50%
Vietnam: 414%
Indonesia: 248%
GDP Growth in % between 2014-25
India: near about 100%
World: 34%
China: 78%
Brazil: -10%
Russia: Stagnant
South Africa: Negative
Vietnam: 110%
Indonesia: 55%
Relative to the world and peer economies, we performed badly in the 2004-14 era compared to the 2014-25 era... and I had done the same relative comparison for the Nehru-Indira era….
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This is Audrey's pinned tweet. It is hilariously ironic that Audrey quotes Nilakantha Dikshita’s Kalividambanam (Verse 1). She clearly missed the joke.
Nilakantha was satirizing fake scholars who do not know their subjects.
When he wrote 'Na boddhavyam, na sravyam... jhatiti prativaktavyam,' he was mocking charlatans who refuse to understand the subject, refuse to listen to opposing evidence & just scream immediate replies to look smart.
If she had actually read the very next verse in Nilakantha’s text (Verse 2), she would have realized she was walking into a trap. Nilakantha goes on to list the 5 ways these fake scholars try to win an argument when they lack substance:
असंभ्रमो विलज्जत्वम् अवज्ञा प्रतिवादिनि l
हासो राज्ञः स्तवश्चेति पञ्चैते जयहेतवः ll
Remaining unbothered, sheer shamelessness, showing utter contempt for the opponent, mocking them & praising the ruling powers (the King)... these 5 are their keys to victory.
This is the exact operational playbook of modern ideological historians when cornered by hard evidence.
Let me further quote the verse 3 also to get the full context:
अशिक्षितेषु वक्तव्यं सभ्येषु महता कलिना l
शिक्षितेषु तु वक्तव्यं मध्यस्थोऽयं विमत्सरः ll
If the judge is uneducated, just shout loudly to win. If the judge is smart, immediately accuse him of being biased!
Whenever an Indian scholar/community group exposes a factual error in her work using hard data, the response is rarely a factual counter-argument. Instead, she immediately claims she is being harassed/attacked by nationalists.
She & others use institutional victimhood as a shield to completely avoid answering legitimate, evidence-based academic critiques.
In June 2024, i discovered that the below article on "British loot of India" had been hacked. it was replaced with a long paragraph critical of India.
i put it up again.
yet when i put the link on Facebook after restoring it, FB removed my post.
yet soon after, Zuckerberg 'regretted' publicly FB's censoring during Covid and then, the link on the British loot could also be posted.
X had allowed it to be posted. it only restricts how many see the post. usually only few... link👇
https://t.co/ikaK8zFMrJ
This is rubbish. The poor get foodgrain free and many other freebies. Most items of everyday consumption are also GST free. You pay GST only on packaged or branded goods. So no. The poor dont pay more GST unless their consumption pattern is moving towards middle class goods.
Every single Hindu must be taken out of this hellhole called Bangladesh .
If the wails of this child don’t shake our consciousness , don’t know what will.
Can someone please share the details of this incident so that we can reach out to this child and his family ?
Bollywood bias!
A study by IIM Prof. Dheeraj Sharma analyzing films from 1960 to 2010 reveals a fixed code of demographic stereotypes:
> 58% of corrupt politicians were given Brahmin surnames.
> 62% of corrupt businessmen were associated with Vaishya surnames.
> 84% of Muslim characters were portrayed as strongly honest and religious.
> 78% of Christian women were hyper-sexualized and portrayed as promiscuous.
> 74% of Sikh characters were reduced to mere comic relief.
> 90% of films featuring Pakistan projected them as welcoming and courteous.
Cinema is not just reflecting reality, but it is actively shaping our biases.
What are your thoughts on this?
One mother forbade medicines to the dying, converted them, then laughed at the death count; the other mother has provided free treatment to 5.9 million, built 13 million sqft, 95 OT, 101 speciality, 4050 bed hospitals employing 1540 doctors.
The first mother got the Nobel Prize.
Mughals are good because after coming and taking over India, they stayed in India. ✅
Jews are good because after coming and taking over Palestine, they stayed in Palestine. ❌
Mughals are good because they adopted India as their motherland and buit lot of good stuff and made India rich, despite upsetting the demography of India. ✅ Jews are good because they consider Israel as their holy land and built lot of good stuff and made Palestine rich, despite upsetting the demography of Palestine ❌.
Mughals did not commit genocide because Hindus are still there. ✅
Israeli Jews have not been committing genocide because the population of Arabs has only been exploding in Gaza and the West Bank. ❌
Muslim rulers enforced jizya on Hindus for centuries but that is okay and was a process of empire building. ✅
Israel’s security checkpoints or barriers to stop suicide bombings are a process of their nation building.❌
Mughals destroyed thousands of temples and built mosques on many sites, this is just "political necessity” and a process of settling political scores and even some Hindu kings did that.✅
Jewish construction in disputed areas of the West Bank is just "political necessity" and just a process of settling political scores and even some Muslim rulers did that. ❌
Mughals had Hindu wives who had full religious freedom and had many Hindu generals. ✅
Israelis give Arabs full citizenship rights including voting and Arabs even form a part of administration. ❌
No decent historian of the early modern world should have anything to gain from the heroes vs villains, wrt Mughal history. To be stuck in this framework is to not think like a historian. The Mughals matter bcz of the world they built and its relevance today, not their excesses! ✅
No decent historian of the modern world should have anything to gain from the heroes vs villains, wrt the history of Israel-Palestine conflict. To be stuck in this framework is to not think like a historian. The Israelis matter bcz of the world they built and its relevance today, not their excesses! ❌
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Nice different perspective 👌
"If eating goat meat is not wrong, how does eating cow meat become wrong?" questions modern secular writer Shobhaa De!
Shobhaa De is a well-known writer, often celebrated for her opinions. Her argument here is:
*"Meat is meat, whether it’s from a cow, a goat, or any other animal. Then why do Hindus discriminate between animals? Why is killing a goat acceptable but killing a cow considered wrong? Isn’t this hypocrisy and ignorance?"*
Let’s address her logic with these responses:
**Response No. 1:**
Shobhaa De ma’am, you make an interesting point!
But let’s consider this:
Your *father, husband, brother, and son*—aren’t all of them men?
Yet, why do you behave differently with each of them?
For reproduction, you need your husband alone, don’t you?
Can you behave with your father, brother, or son the same way you do with your husband?
If intimacy is reserved only for your husband, wouldn’t it be *hypocrisy* or *ignorance* on your part not to extend it to others?
Relationships such as a father, husband, brother, or son are defined by emotions, respect, and social beliefs, not merely biological identities.
Similarly, the way we regard animals like cows and goats is shaped by cultural, emotional, and spiritual significance, not just their physical existence.
**Response No. 2:**
Here’s another question for you:
You and your family likely consume milk from cows or buffaloes in the form of coffee or tea, right?
But would you prepare coffee using milk from a dog, pig, or monkey?
If, according to your logic, milk is milk regardless of its source, why wouldn’t you do this?
Doesn’t this make your argument invalid and hypocritical?
The issue here isn’t about *meat*. It’s about *beliefs* and *sentiments*.
Just as familial relationships are built on values and trust, the way we treat cows, goats, or other animals reflects our cultural beliefs and emotional attachments.
**Response No. 3:**
A British man once asked Swami Vivekananda, *"Which animal produces the best milk?"*
Swamiji replied, *"Buffalo milk is the best."*
The man then asked, *"But don’t you Indians regard the cow as supreme? Isn’t it the best?"*
Swami Vivekananda smiled and said, *"You’re asking about milk quality, but we consider the cow as our mother, not merely as an animal."*
Likewise, while the cow may seem like just another animal to some, for Hindus, it holds sacred value as a *mother figure*.
**A Final Question for Shobhaa De:**
*"Save the tiger!"—the person advocating for it is seen as a *social servant*.
*"Save the dogs!"—that person is hailed as an *animal lover*.
But *"Save the cow!"—suddenly, that person is labeled a *religious fanatic*. Why?*
The real tragedy is that such criticisms often come from our own people, who fail to respect the values and sentiments embedded in our culture.
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