Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois) @MakrandParanspe Twitter profile

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

4 years

#परशुराम_जयंती The moral of the story: those who live by the sword will die by the axe? Excessive & immoral use of violence will be countered, if required, with even greater violence to re-establish dharma. @davidfrawleyved

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5 years

"Made in India" @milindrunning : "When I read today all the subversive, communal propaganda the media attributes to @RSSorg shakhas, I am frankly baffled. My memories of what happened at our shakha...are completely different. @AdvaitaKala @RatanSharda55

My memories of being in RSS shakha are very different: Milind Soman

In his memoir, Made in India, Milind Soman writes about how being part of the RSS shakha at young age was like being in a ‘desi Scouts’ movement.

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

2 years

Hon. Supreme Court must set limits to detention without bail/trial in such cases. Else, aren't we making a mockery of civil liberties & freedom of expression? @ARanganathan72

Monica Verma

@TrulyMonica

2 years

Ketaki Chitale. One month and counting. Put in jail over a Facebook Post. Everyone knows whose daughter is Afreen Fatima but no one knows what Ketaki’s parents must be going through

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

4 years

Today remember #GuruTeghBahadur 's martyrdom. He lived & died to oppose the religious & political tyranny of Aurangzeb. Where his decapitated head fell is commemorated by Gurdwara Sishganj, Chandni Chowk. Gurdwara Rakabganj is where his body was cremated. @BJP4India @capt_amarinder

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

4 years

A tale of two clashing eco-systems...

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

4 years

Mr @jack , can you please explain how & why this is trending? "Politics · Trending #Islamophobia_In_India 467K Tweets" 467,000 tweets, with the same images being circulated from many handles? Who's paying for this @Twitter What's going on?

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

6 years

Sir, your tweet admits that Aurangzeb DID destroy Hindu temples--right? Hope there's no debate on that? Now, if he "protected more Hindu temples than he destroyed," who was he protecting them from? Who ELSE was destroying them? Please name them too?

Shekhar Gupta

@ShekharGupta

6 years

Aurangzeb protected more Hindu temples than he destroyed, says historian @AudreyTruschke in conversation with Jyoti Malhotra @jomalhotra

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

5 years

She says, "We're not changing our ideology, only our strategy." And what is that ideology? She calls it mazabi pehchaan. This is the soft (or hard) Islamicism that is masquerading as inclusiveness.

Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri

@vivekagnihotri

5 years

Strategist of #ShaheenBagh Islamic Caliphate Chief strategist @khanumarfa explains how to fool people with words like ‘inclusive’ in order to establish an ideal Islamic Society in India. Just write #SHAME in reply if you condemn her strategy.

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@MakrandParanspe

5 years

The energy is electric, crazy! It’s a carnival out here.

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@MakrandParanspe

2 years

This magnificent temple, built by Lalitaditya in 8th century was destroyed by Sikandar Shah Miri (reign, 1389-1413). Isn't it time to repair, restore & have it recognized as a @UNESCO World Heritage site? @PMOIndia @AmitShah @kishanreddybjp @ASIGoI @bjpsamvad @vivekagnihotri

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

5 years

Shameful from a man supported by the Taliban who heads an Islamic state, better known as "Terroristan." In 1947, 23% of Pakistan was Hindu; today it's 1.85%. Didn't you kill, drive out, or convert most of them? Aren't Hindu girls still being abducted & converted?

Imran Khan

@ImranKhanPTI

5 years

I am afraid this RSS ideology of Hindu Supremacy, like the Nazi Aryan Supremacy, will not stop in IOK; instead it will lead to suppression of Muslims in India & eventually lead to targeting of Pakistan. The Hindu Supremacists version of Hitler's Lebensraum.

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

4 years

"Some Indians are more Western than the West; if you go far enough West, you reach India." - @SadhguruJV

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

3 years

You can't have it both ways @Twitter @TwitterIndia : either you are responsible/liable for the content you post or as a non-partisan intermediary, you get it fact-checked/certified by a neutral third party You can't escape indemnity when it suits you & take sides as you please

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

6 years

Hope folks are noticing how cleverly spin doctors are trying to shift the narrative from "martyred CRPF jawans" to "Kashmiri students in danger." By all means, let's protect all Indian citizens, but never succumb to machinations of anti-India forces.

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

4 years

You wouldn't do a cartoon on India's supplying #hydroxychloriquine to much of the rest of the world, would you?

BBC News Hindi

@BBCHindi

4 years

CARTOON OF THE DAY: बचने के लिए बचा हुआ भी चला गया :( #BBCHindiCartoons #lockdown

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

6 years

"Which Balakot?"--how come all birds of the same feather, including @OmarAbdullah & @sagarikaghose , are asking this same question?🤔

Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri

@vivekagnihotri

6 years

Another doubt-creator.

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

5 years

'Narendra Modi has buried Nehru's India'! Never imagined it would come to this--Pak foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi laments the death of Nehru's India. If they miss it while we don't care it's obvious who it benefited the most.

Narendra Modi has buried Nehru's India, says Pak minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi

Contrary to reports of the UNSC consultations ending without an outcome, Qureshi said at Saturday's press conference that result of the meeting is a big success for Pakistan.

www.indiatoday.in

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

5 years

Shame! @TrueIndology was a well-researched & sincere effort to counter falsehood & propaganda. @jack @Twitter What are the grounds for suspending this handle?

mAndhata

@Mamdhata

5 years

Dear @Twitter We would like to know why you suspended @TrueIndology yet once again? What was the tweet the broke your rules? Can you post the same from your handle so that we may judge the veracity of the same.

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

5 years

Also, don't forget who modified the Constitution to introduce the words "socialist," "secular" & how it was done--42nd Amendment by Indira Gandhi during the most undemocratic phase of our republic, the Emergency!

Rana Ayyub

@RanaAyyub

5 years

On our 71st Republic day, Read the Constitution of India to remind the powers that be, that we shall always remain a just and secular democracy.

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

6 years

Ma'am, "Brahminism" was an Orientalist & "patriarchy" a feminist construct. "Brahminical patriarchy," a pseudo-Marxist fabrication of recent provenance, is utterly devoid of whatever truth-value or utility the former two might have. Let's stop peddling such hate-filled garbage.

barkha dutt

@BDUTT

6 years

While I had no knowledge of the poster, Brahminical Patriarchy is a fair & entirely mainstream phrase in the way that we now know the intersectionality of Feminism & the critique of upper caste hegemony. It is NOT an attack on Brahmins but on hierarchy much like White Privilege

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

5 years

Sir, don't worry about the Manusmriti; Hindus weren't afraid to burn it. In the Mahad Satyagraha, it was a Hindu Brahmin, Gangadhar Nilkanth Sahasrabuddhe, not Dr Ambedkar, who burned it. Worry about other scriptures, full of hate & violence against "non-believers."

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

4 years

Since when did you start attending @RSSorg shakhas, Sir?

Javed Akhtar

@Javedakhtarjadu

4 years

@TVMohandasPai @Aabhas24 @TarekFatah Mr Pai before finding me uncivil why don’t you find a civilised ideology for yourself . Let me reduce your ignorance by an iota . An extremely distorted and communal false history is taught in Shakhas .

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

5 years

Is Faiz a "God" that he can't be questioned or critiqued? Would you cry "shame" with equal vehemence at those who object to Vande Mataram? Islamic symbolism permeates many a progressive Muslim poet; then why shout & scream about Hindu symbolism in Hindu poets? Be impartial, Sir.

S lrfan Habib एस इरफान हबीब عرفان حبئب

@irfhabib

5 years

Extremely shameful that an institution like IIT can’t comprehend the intent and context of Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s revolutionary nazm ‘hum dekhenge’. Worst is that a panel will decide if it’s anti-Hindu or not. Remember it’s about Faiz. SHAME

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

6 years

Sir, you're mistaken: alone, the "king of the jungle" is vulnerable to a pack of wild dogs, but a pride of lions is no easy target. You can flip the inferred referents & the point still holds? So it's not about Hindus vs others but unity vs isolation? Why distort (deliberately?)

Shekhar Gupta

@ShekharGupta

6 years

Shocking, the use of “wild dogs” for others as enemies of “lion” Hindus by RSS Chief. His RSS controls the party in power in a Constitutional Republic. He has to watch what he says. Which feral beasts are threatening India’s Hindus?

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

3 years

Let's get one thing straight: Who killed Danish Siddiqui? #Taliban or India #RW ? If the answer is the former, why is blame being re-directed at the latter?

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

4 years

For all these years, Indians were kept in the dark about early warnings received from the @RSSorg on China. An impartial examination of the documents shows that RSS was right about China and the Congress wrong. @friendsofrss @AskAnshul

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

6 years

On I-Day @narendramodi quotes Sri Aurobindo: "What is our mother-country? It is not a piece of earth, nor a figure of speech, nor a fiction of the mind. It is a mighty Shakti, composed of the Shaktis of all the millions of units that make up the nation...." (Bhawani Mandir)

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

5 years

For those who only quote Savarkar, here's Comrade Dange pleading to get out of jail: "I beg to inform Your Excellency that those years are unnecessary, as I have never been positively disloyal towards His Majesty in my writings or speeches nor do I intend to be so in future

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4 years

Ram Swarup: "Many Hindu elites go about condemning Hinduism in order to prove their Indian nationalism and make it more convincing to the Muslims and to themselves."

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

4 years

Utterly butterly India vs. utterly @twitterly Chinese?

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

3 years

JNU community welcomes our new Vice-Chancellor, Prof @SantishreeD . Herself an alum, she is also the first woman to head JNU as we celebrate our 50th anniversary. Congratulations Ma'am. Wish you a successful term! @dpradhanbjp @SunilAmbekarM @ArunKumRSS @ABVPVoice @ABVPDelhi

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

6 years

Sir, don't tell me you haven't heard of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, the 'original' proponent of the idea? He also founded the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College in 1875, rechristened Aligarh Muslim University in 1920. Oh well, I guess, we all need to brush up our history a bit?

Tehseen Poonawalla Official 🇮🇳

@tehseenp

6 years

Actually the 2 nation theory was 1st proposed by savarkar..U may want to stop reading WhatsApp history & read real history .

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

3 years

Says @SadhguruJV : Sanatana Dharma is not our past, it is the world's future. Make it attractive to everyone. Because the youth today will not fall for what is illogical. Strengthen what you have, remove discrimination. That's all you have to do.

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6 years

I want as many people, including haters & detractors of @RSSorg , actually to hear this speech. Don't go by propaganda. Listen for yourselves & make up your own minds. Demonising the RSS is a political ploy & must be exposed.

RSS

@RSSorg

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Sarsanghchalak Dr Mohanji Bhagwat's address at the World Hindu Congress at Chicago, USA.

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

6 years

Madam, what Pakistan did & what Bangladesh is doing to Hindus, what happened to Armenians, Kurds, Yezdis & Christians in several parts of Middle East--that is what we do not want for Hindus in India.

Arfa Khanum Sherwani

@khanumarfa

6 years

So what if Hindus become a minority in India ? Why do you fear being a minority so much ? What exactly are you doing to the Minorities that you don’t want to be in their place ?

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

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4 years

Well, @republic doesn't need any other subjects for its stories for now--Arnab not only reports the news, or is in the news--he makes news; he is the "news."

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

3 years

M'lord, justice is justice. Where is the question of 'majorities' & 'minorities' when it comes to justice?

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

4 years

Not clear what the charge against @sudhirchaudhary is. In the Quran, '17 derivatives of jihād occur altogether 41 times in 11 Meccan texts & 30 Medinan ones' (Ahmed Al-Dawoody, The Islamic Law of War). Meanings include striving for religious belief, war, solemn oaths & strength.

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

6 years

How silly, if not stupid. How can thanking one's parents, sister & yes, girlfriend too, be a "blow 2 Manuvadi patriarchy"? Such is the warped thinking of JNU-trained Marxists with PhDs--incredible!

Kavita Krishnan

@kavita_krishnan

6 years

UPSC topper Kanishka Kataria thanks parents, sister & girlfriend 4 his success. This heartwarming gesture is a blow 2 Manuvadi patriarchy that says students shd study not love, pours hate on inter caste & inter faith love. Love Zindabad! Congrats Kanishka!

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

6 years

91.2 % of girl students in India want to be psychologists? Unbelievable! What is the sample size, methodology & area of the survey? Another unreliable, if not "fake," international poll?

ThePrintIndia

@ThePrintIndia

6 years

Most girls in India aspire to become psychologists or journalists: Cambridge survey Kritika Sharma @S_kritika reports:

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

6 years

Are we a nation of thieves? Shocked that temple lands in Tamil Nadu have reduced from "5.25 lakh acres to 4.78 acres in the last five years with nearly 50,000 acres lying with encroachers and land grabbers." Kudos to Justice Mahadevan for HC's directive.

HC for drastic action to retrieve temple lands

Issues slew of directions to HR&CE department

www.thehindu.com

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

6 years

But don't you know that vanaspati is really bad for health unlike ghee? In any case, how did you suddenly turn vegan at #Janmashtami2018 ? I won't even ask what happened to your animal-love at #bakrid .

PETA India

@PetaIndia

6 years

Celebrate the joyous occasion of #Janmashtami by using vegan ghee and other non-dairy products to keep cows happy too!

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

7 years

Hungry? come to our bakery for freshly served fakery. 🤣 No bullet trains or virtual gains, only ideological pain--all in vain.

Shashi Tharoor

@ShashiTharoor

7 years

Are you hungry, are you in pain? Come, I’ll feed you the bullet train. BadriRaina at his savage best:

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

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#CAA "You may dislike the Act, you can even say, change it, but you can't burn buses or destroy public property. That is not democracy. But now they are waving Indian flags, holding the Constitution & saying 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai.' So who's changing, who's winning?" @DrMohanBhagwat

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

5 years

Sir, is this a misken inference or mischief? Did you forget Babur's fatheh-nama? "For Islam's sake I wandered in the wilds/Prepared for war with pagans & Hindus/ Resolved myself to meet the martyr's death/Thanks be to Allah a Ghazi I became." Babur-Nama, tr. Beveridge (pp 574-75)

William Dalrymple

@DalrympleWill

5 years

If you mention Babur on twitter a million sanghis pop up to say Babur was a terrorist jihadi... In fact he never uses the word Allah, prefering the term Tengri- the sky deity worshipped by steppe peoples. According to his biographer Stephen Dale, "Babur scarcely refers to Islam."

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

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6 years

In 1954 Hindu Religious & Charitable Endowments Board tried to take over Ramanasramam--it saved itself by claiming it was not a Hindu entity. This is the plight of Hindu institutions in India--they can escpate Govt. control only by "proving" they are not Hindu. @davidfrawleyved

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Guruji's early warning (1951): “China is expansionist by nature & is very likely to attack Bharat soon.” The point of reference was that of the military activities of China in Tibet. “It has been a terribly blunderous act to gift away Tibet to China."

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

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Mixing illogic with reverse discrimination @jyotiyadaav ends up being casteist herself. Had #rajputboy @imjadeja displayed caste bias on the playing fields she might have a case. Instead, she implies that if one is a Rajput one can only be ashamed or risk giving offence. Absurd!

Shekhar Gupta

@ShekharGupta

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Ravindra Jadeja must stop being a ‘Rajput boy’ and grow up to be a cricketer... @jyotiyadaav writes In #PoV , the sharp opinion feature from the millennials in ThePrint newsroom..

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Isn't that so rich coming from a nation whose Prime Minister is in #ICU from #WuhanVirus #COVID19 . @BBCWorld you haven't found Indians publishing cartoons on that, have you?

BBC News Hindi

@BBCHindi

4 years

CARTOON OF THE DAY: बचने के लिए बचा हुआ भी चला गया :( #BBCHindiCartoons #lockdown

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

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5 years

The ‘early warning signs of fascism’ Moitra attributes to BJP apply more aptly to Mamata's rampant misrule in Bengal. Moitra deliberately turns a blind eye to them. Had she even mildly acknowledged TMC's failings, we should have respected her the more.

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What happened to the great doomsday prophets? Instead, we're leaing the vaccine rollout: Even @BillGates has congratulated India for this. @PMOIndia @narendramodi @narendramodi_in

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

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Breaking news: Odisha assembly passes a resolution to forgive @Iyervval Thank you @Naveen_Odisha Now please free this competent & intelligent defence analyst & let him do the work he's so good at.

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

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Why the tag of “Hindu terror” is a flimsy contrivance, if not an outright tissue of lies. “Hindu terror” is a bogeyman, a fake monster, created to prevent a Hindu consolidation of votes. “Hindu terror” is invented to delegitimate Hindus from seeking & holding on to power in India

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

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Privileged to see @vivekagnihotri - #PallaviJoshi 's #KashmirFiles . A hard-hitting & heart-rending movie. What a brave film! Only someone with real guts & grit could have dared to tell this story which the whole world needs to see & hear. #Kashmir @amitmalviya @ARanganathan72

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

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Why @narendramodi is a great unifier, not divider. My response to @TIME Asia's cover story. @AatishTaseer 's denunciation is an unexpected fillip: the more the media slams him, the more people will say "phir ek baar Modi Sarkar" (one more time, Modi in power).

Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

5 years

Shows how Western media persists in its predictable distortions & prejudices deploying re-Orientalists such a @AatishTaseer as "hit-men." But the backlash from "right-log" is bound to benefit @narendramodi . The more he is pilloried by critics the more he is admired by the masses.

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Your "top intellectual" offers "theories" such as “vegetarianism is anti-nationalism....West Indies won all the games...because they eat protein rich food." His PhD on "God as Political Philosopher-Buddha Challenge to Brahminism" suggests why he's been so promoted & rewarded?

U.S. Consulate Mumbai

@USAndMumbai

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#CGKagan and Deputy Principal Officer Jennifer were honored to meet one of India’s top intellectuals Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd.

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4 years

Sir, the lobby is so strong that we mustn't be too surprised if she actually gets it?

Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri

@vivekagnihotri

4 years

Noble Prize for Dadi.

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#WHC2018 @AnupamPKher : We Kashmiri Pandits have become exiles in our own country but we practiced tolerance like nobody else...ask yourselves why Hindus never went on crusades outside or converted millions...we know the value tolerance & universal acceptance (Swami Vivekananda)

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8 Shiva temples in a straight line--same longitude: Kedarnath 79.0669° Kalahashti 79.7037° Ekambaranatha- Kanchi 79.7036° Thiruvanamalai 79.0747° Thiruvanaikaval 78.7108 Chidambaram Nataraja 79.6954° Rameshwaram 79.3129° Kaleshwaram N-India 79.9067°

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

5 years

Does someone pay you to say stupid things? If so, I'm sorry for you. If you do it for free, I feel sorrier still. You were way nicer when you invited me to @newslaundry to do a programme with @ARanganathan72 . What's happened to you? You forget the art of civilised disagreement?

Abhinandan Sekhri

@AbhinandanSekhr

5 years

@MakrandParanspe @ShefVaidya 😄 and what about you prof? What are you? A bigot and a coward to top it who likes firing off other's shoulders?

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

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6 years

Such rubbish isn't expected from you, Sir; the fact is that an alien, humiliating, despotic, & oppressive form of government was imposed upon the conquered. Let's put an end to negationism on this issue. Hindu subjects were most(ly) unhappy under Muslim rulers. Period.

shahid siddiqui

@shahid_siddiqui

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Muslim rulers in India adopted the Brahminical ways & made a coalition with Upper caste.They continued to oppress lower caste Indians who converted to Islam, as a result the spirit of egalitarian message of Islam was lost. A coalition of Hindu Muslim upper caste ruled India.

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@MakrandParanspe

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Sita Ram Goel: "Did Hindus survive as a majority in their own homeland because the Islamic invaders did not employ sufficient force to kill or convert them, or because, though defeated again & again by the superior military skill of the invaders, Hindu princes did not give up?"

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6 years

Devastating & merciless takedown of @BDUTT by @UnSubtleDesi : How the paragon of women empowerment has been reduced to a victim-playing attention seeker To imagine that she was once thought to be India's answer to @Oprah !

Barkha Dutt: How the paragon of women empowerment has been reduced to a victim-playing attention...

For the past several days, while the country mourned our braves and ached for retribution, Barkha, was busy declaring to the world that she is a victim. | OpIndia News

www.opindia.com

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

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5 years

Ma'am, it seems you've read neither the #AyodhyaJudgment nor the Constitution carefully. Why should "faith" in the latter contradict faith in Sri Rama? It is this apparent incommensurability that the judgement renders infructuous. At l(e)ast, we've transcended a false opposition.

Malini Parthasarathy

@MaliniP

5 years

Certainly a regressive day for India with the Supreme Court upholding religious faith & claimed prior antiquity in deciding in favour of Ram Janmasthan. The faith of millions of Indians in the Constitution hangs in the balance as vigilante vandalism appears to have been rewarded!

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No, Godse did not hate India or it's people, but I think he was mistaken in thinking that killing Gandhi was either the right or even desirable thing to do. It was definitely a mistake & set the Hindu cause back by decades.

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3 years

When I circulated this letter among my LeLi friends, I was met with a deathly silence.

Dr. Vikram Sampath, FRHistS

@vikramsampath

3 years

British Intelligence letter confirms Yashpal as a spy on revolutionaries who is a "loyal & faithful fellow" & "covers both the RSPI & CPI". His autobiography Singhavalokan often used to malign Babarao Savarkar & he incidentally won Padma Bhushan in 1970 & Sahitya akademi award!

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@MakrandParanspe

4 years

Just wondering: this verse from the Quran: "Do not obey the disbelievers, & struggle against them with it a great struggle" (Al-Furqan 25:52) explains Jihad means struggle; here it is enjoined against "disbelievers." Doesn't @sudhirchaudhary 's flowchart qualify under the above?

Nupur J Sharma

@UnSubtleDesi

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FIR registered against Sudhir Chaudhary of Zee News in Kerala for explaining different types of Jihad through a flow chart in his TV show

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@MakrandParanspe

5 years

He is bellowing & belting out a stream of expletives--Arnab @republic & @sudhirchaudhary are "kutte" & @BJP4India "suwar"! But if anyone calls this out as "hate speech" won't @billyperrigo & his ilk accuse them of #Islamophobia ?

Sudhir Chaudhary

@sudhirchaudhary

5 years

क्या #coronavirus से भी ज़्यादा ज़हरीला कुछ हो सकता है? इस मौलाना के दिमाग़ में इतना ज़हर कहाँ से आया? मीडिया ने जब तबलीगी जमात का सच दिखाया तो ऐसे मौलानाओं से बर्दाश्त नहीं हो रहा।ऐसे लोग नफ़रत की महामारी फैला रहे हैं।क्या इनके लिए कोई क़ानून नहीं?

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6 years

Sir, are you seriously deluded or merely mischievous? Where did you find the caste angle in this? I suppose you mean that a Bharadwaj, Navlakha or for that matter, Rao, Ferreira & Gonsalves immediately become "de-casted" &"Dalit" when they turn Maoist?

ashutosh

@ashutosh83B

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Arrests of activists are signal that Dalits assertion is getting dangerous for the Hindutva forces. This episode will further intensify Dalit movement. And will prove Waterloo for those who want to win 2019...Mark my words.

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

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6 years

Don't forget to tell them that it has been reliably reported that between 1957-59 Che ordered 144 executions without due process in Cuba, often signing death warrants himself.

Rahul Easwar

@RahulEaswar

8 years

Icons like Che Guevara need be Indianised & will be a Great Role Model for Youth in Social Commitment

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

5 years

Fake News about RSS Sarsanghchalak: Press Council of India rejects ‘apologies’, censures ‘The Indian Express’ and ‘Loksatta’: Apology on the front page in a box with a bold border is the minimum rectification following such a censure.

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6 years

"Illegal Bangladeshi migrants pay Rs 3,500 for entry into India and Aadhar card." Great sting; most popular destination is Bengaluru. Come to Kadugodi (near Whitefield); there's a whole settlement. Soon it may be called "Kadirgram"?

Illegal Bangladeshi migrants pay Rs 3,500 for entry into India and Aadhar card

It takes just 2,000 rupees to cross the border and step into India and 1,500 rupees is enough to get an Aadhar card. A sting operation carried out with the help of an activist is very evident that...

www.mynation.com

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4 years

Well done @OpIndia_com --it seems more & more dirty tricks against @republic are coming to light. @UnSubtleDesi @rahulroushan

Nupur J Sharma

@UnSubtleDesi

4 years

Exclusive: Conversation that shows how Mumbai Police is trying to coerce witness into naming Republic TV in TRP scam #OpIndiaExclusive Note: We have already emailed CBI about this conversation. Do read and listen to this shocking conversation

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Let @DalrympleWill come clean. Did he or did he not pressurise @BloomsburyIndia @BloomsburyBooks to withdraw @advmonikaarora 's book? How can an organiser of literary festivals lobby for the banning of books?!

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

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5 years

Indian voters are the greatest proponents of democracy, the real stars of this massive victory for @narendramodi . When you don't even live in India, how dare you call them "culprits" or accuse them of "stupidity"--just mind your own business & get well soon after your meltdown.

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4 years

Don't forget that @BloomsburyIndia has published several so-called RW books-- @anirbanganguly 's opus on @AmitShah , @RatanSharda55 's @RSSorg , & most recently @vivekagnihotri 's on Lal Bahadur Shastri. If they withdraw @advmonikaarora 's book how do they hope to keep their authors?

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

4 years

Simple: France is an easy target, as all open societies are. They dare not take on an authoritarian regime like China, which cares two hoots about what they think.

Palki Sharma

@palkisu

4 years

France's @EmmanuelMacron cracks down on Islamic extremists. @RTErdogan & @ImranKhanPTI see this as an opportunity to position themselves as custodians of the Islamic faith. They denied & defended China's persecution of Muslims. What moral authority do they have to preach France?

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‘No Hindus will be left after 30 years’ The sad reality in Bangladesh? Prof. Barkat: 'On an average 632 Hindus left the country each day and 230,612 annually.'

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5 years

When the history of modern Indian eloquence is written, @narendramodi will be known as a great master of rhetoric. His 24-minute address to the IRSO scientists & the Indian public is a memorable feat. @PMOIndia turned a setback into a resounding success.

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

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4 years

FCRA amendment restricts NGOs from using more than 20% of the foreign contributions on administrative expenses & debars any public servant from receiving any foreign funds. Why is this a 'devasting blow,' Sir?

Amitabh Behar

@AmitabhBehar

4 years

Devastating blow. Red carpet welcome for foreign investments for businesses but stifling and squeezing the nonprofit sector by creating new hurdles for foreign aid which could help lift people out of poverty, ill health and illiteracy. @ingridsrinath @vani_info @tajmahalfoxtrot

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5 years

We are winning the war against Left-extremism. Casualties are down from 1000/year in 2010 to less than 100/year now. What is more, Gadchiroli-Chimur reported 71.58% voting on 28 April. Naxals will gradually go extinct like the Chambal dacoits.

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

5 years

#Sankranti with @DrMohanBhagwat -ji, presenting my new book on Swami Vivekananda. He asked, "How long did it take you to write this book?" I replied, "About 5 years." "Good! It's well-brought out," he observed, as he blessed both the book & its author. @AdvaitaKala @RatanSharda55

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

5 years

Celebrities like @deepikapadukone shouldn't jump on the bandwagon of dubious causes. Leftist JNU students are known not for championing free speech, democracy or dialogue, but aggravating & negative anti-administration & anti-state campaigns. @ARanganathan72 @gchikermane @Iyervval

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

6 years

There you go, Sir, refusing to attend, then saying it's all one-sided? Unfortunately, the days of "pancha bakaar" (brainwashing, bullying, boycotting, browbeating, bullshitting) won't work anymore. But don't be unhappy; burnol still works.

Saurav Datta

@SauravDatta29

6 years

@MakrandParanspe Thanks but no thanks. Go, peddle more bile and curry more favour.

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6 years

You can be sure that this campaign of 100 filmmakers to vote against @BJP4India will backfire. They should try to make better films--or keep quiet. @narendramodi will be very thankful for the reaction this "appeal" will produce in his favour.

Over 100 filmmakers issue public appeal against voting for BJP

Our country is going through the most testing times ever, the statement said

www.theweek.in

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@MakrandParanspe

4 years

Sri Aurobindo's early warning on 11.11.1950: "take a firm line with China, denounce openly her nefarious intentions, stand without reservation by the USA and make every possible arrangement consonant with our self-respect to facilitate an American intervention in our favour...."

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

3 years

#DGH claims that '“Hindutva” wasn’t even used until 1923, when it was first mentioned in V.D. Savarkar’s book Hindutva.' What about Chandranath Basu? Also, if they have quoted Savarkar, why have not invited his biographer, @vikramsampath to offer his views?

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

5 years

Shows how Western media persists in its predictable distortions & prejudices deploying re-Orientalists such a @AatishTaseer as "hit-men." But the backlash from "right-log" is bound to benefit @narendramodi . The more he is pilloried by critics the more he is admired by the masses.

TIME

@TIME

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TIME’s new international cover: Can the world’s largest democracy endure another five years of a Modi government?

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

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5 years

This is a classic test case--why is this mob attack not condemnable? Why aren't the likes of @deepikapadukone here to show solidarity with those locked up? Why the double standards in dealing with student violence & hooliganism?

Swapan Dasgupta

@swapan55

5 years

How does it feel to have a mob attack a peaceful meeting on CAA and intimidation students? This is what is happening to a meeting I am addressing at Vishwa Bharati now. Locked into room now with mob outside.

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

4 years

In 11 minutes the number of tweets went up to 503,000. Fake/rigged & coordinated, besides being sponsored? @jack @Twitter I reported the trend & presto! It's disappeared. Check for yourselves, folks!

Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

4 years

Mr @jack , can you please explain how & why this is trending? "Politics · Trending #Islamophobia_In_India 467K Tweets" 467,000 tweets, with the same images being circulated from many handles? Who's paying for this @Twitter What's going on?

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

7 years

Sir (or should I say "Pandit Hegde"?) would you also agree that Mother Teresa must be called Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu? For that would be a more apt analogy to @myogiadityanath being called Ajay Singh Bisht?

SANJAY HEGDE

@sanjayuvacha

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No Pandit Paranjpe you are no one to hold me guilty of anything. If it is the UP Government's policy to insist on birth names, I think it should apply to all, irrespective of office.

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

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👍A student brought homemade besan laddus, did tilak & aarti--first time in my 17 years in JNU: so touching & humbling. Vandeguruparamparam🙏

senthil kumar🇮🇳

@sen_sindh

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@MakrandParanspe Happy Teachers day ji

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

6 years

By "spl" did you mean spelling by any chance, Sir? It's (Dassault) Rafale, you know, not Rafael (רפאל), whether of yore or of the contemporary tennis player fame. But why waste Parliament time on spellings?

Arvind Kejriwal

@ArvindKejriwal

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PM shud call a spl session of Parliament to discuss Rafael.

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@MakrandParanspe

5 years

The days of selective outrage are over: A welcome corrective to one-sided & false narratives?

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

6 years

Wonder why Left-Libbies are so alarmed by this proposed quota, Sir? Many other reservations exceed constitutional caps, not to mention fail backwardness criteria--I wonder if the fear is the electoral gains that may accrue to @narendramodi & @BJP4India ?

Shekhar Gupta

@ShekharGupta

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Modi govt’s 10 per cent quota for upper caste poor doesn’t stand the test of Constitution Anurag Bhaskar @anuragbhaskar_ , Harvard Law School writes:

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

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Shockingly uninformed bilge by #anishkapoor ! No building earmarked for demolition is a heritage structure or of "Islamic origin." To call the #CentralVistaProject "Modi’s hate-filled campaign to de-Islamify India" is false, libelous & stupid! @HardeepSPuri

Modi’s bulldozing of parliament shows him as the architect of a Hindu Taliban | Anish Kapoor

Flattening buildings in the area is the latest stage in a hateful, vanity-fuelled campaign to de-Islamify India

www.theguardian.com

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

6 years

Oh, now I remember--you are the confused & intellectually challenged "PhD scholar" who doesn't understand the meaning of most of the words you spew out. Unfortunately, there's too many like you nowadays--political promotees, quite jobless except for @twitter activism. Good luck!

Dr. Sanjukta Basu, M.A., LLB., PhD

@sanjukta

6 years

This man is either incompetent and mediocre placed at top of an educational institution for his religious and political leaning. Or he is a hypocritical bigot who peddles one thing on Twitter and believes another in academics. Below tweet cannot be his real thought otherwise.

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

6 years

Wow! Shows how @cpimspeak thinks, that too on the day of the martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur. Aurangzeb, believed to have killed millions, also destroyed thousands of temples. But he was the greatest Moghul emperor because he stitched caps!?

Republic

@republic

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#GaaliDebate | Aurangzeb was the finest of the Mughal emperors: Suneet Chopra, CPI(M)

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4 years

W.C. Smith, 'Modern Islam in India': Indian Muslims are taught “to vote communally, think communally, listen only to communal election speeches, judge the delegates communally...express their grievances communally.' Excerpt From: Arun Shourie. “Falling Over Backwards.” iBooks.

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Makarand R Paranjape, Ph.D. (Illinois)

@MakrandParanspe

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‘True Indology’ Responds via @swarajyamag There is only one solution: @trueIndology needs to come out in the open, get a blue tick & target falsehood even harder?

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