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Twitter says its users have a choice to either agree to its terms and conditions or not join the platform.
India just told Twitter it, too, has a choice. To either agree to India's terms and conditions (our laws) or not be in India.
Narendra Modi did not file a single lawsuit against all those media personnel who spread lies and conducted campaigns of calmuny for decades.
He did not need to.
He didn't need the media to be an intermediary between him and 130 crore Indians.
That is SPINE.
College principal speedily concludes recording girls in bathroom in an Udupi college was just a ‘prank’ because, yup, the girls who did the recording say so.
Karnataka Police then speedily concludes there is no communal angle here.
Islamist fact-checker speedily posts
Did she fly to the U.S.?
If so, what visa did she seek/get to teach at Harvard? [You can't go on a teaching assignment on a tourist visa]
If she got a visa, did the phishing people fool the U.S. Embassy too?
A mystery.
Adani-Ambani are dragged into these Farmer Protests at a global scale because, on behalf of India, those are two of the few who have the might and the appetite to stand up to China's threat (eg, Huawei).
Useful Wokes don't understand that.
I am glad Modi fearlessly backs them.
When Modi started his term as Chief Minister, many Gujaratis from many regions told him: Charge us for electricity but ensure proper, uninterrupted supply.
Arvind Kejriwal got a taste of that today when most Gujaratis in the audience said no, thank you to free electricity.
Thank you
@anandmahindra
ji for the new set of wheels with some very special customisation! I'm looking forward to taking the car out for a spin very soon. 🙂
Vivek Agnihotri eats beef. His movie is the biggest hit of the year.
Kangana Ranaut eats beef. She is a true sherni.
Ranbir Kapoor, in an interview with a food vlogger, says he likes beef. Banned from our temples.
Be conscious - what you fight, who you fight and how you fight.
All it took is one minute speech by Anurag Thakur for them to do a 180 degree drift and say “we must rise above caste and religion”.
What absolute clowns 🤡
You may entirely dislike Modi and may pray he doesn't come to power again.
But if what Arvind Kejriwal, Uddhav Thackeray, Rahul Gandhi and his mother are doing doesn't enrage you (secretly, of course), you probably don't have even an ounce of integrity left.
Government proposes increase in marriage age from 18 to 21.
"No! How dare you! She is an adult."
Government enacts a law protecting girls from being duped into marriage and conversion.
"No! How dare you! She is an adult."
Law applied against Disha Ravi.
"She is only 21."
P.V. Sindhu's dad is excited that she, after making 1.3 billion proud, may get to eat ice-cream with Narendra Modi.
Endearing, simple middle-class joys. This is why India is beautiful.
Those who too hurriedly say Yogi > Modi:
PM Modi is what PM Vajpayee would've loved to be, but couldn't due to coalition dharma.
CM Yogi is what CM Modi would've loved to be, but couldn't due to a hostile UPA.
Vajpayee's toil enabled a Modi and Modi's toil enables a Yogi.
I'm on a Republic TV debate and Rais Khan, former aide of Teesta Setalvad, exposed how Rais and Teesta met Ahmed Patel in 2002 to secure funding for their "efforts" with regard to 2002 riots.
We all knew it, but he is a DIRECT witness to it.
Watch!
Went around the couple to specially greet and congratulate the bride’s parents when it seemed like he didn’t need to do that.
Very thoughtful and respectful. 🫡
Before he became PM, Modi must have been itching for decades to do something about restoring Kashmir’s rightful integration with India.
He could’ve been rash and taken a decision in bravado with a clear majority government.
Or, he could’ve let the status quo remain, enjoying
To prevent Kulwinder Kaur from being a Member of Parliament or MLA, ensure a fast-track conviction for assault and several other sections under the IPC. That will disqualify her.
Make an example out of this gross insult of national duty.
Their real problem isn’t that PM Modi & CJI DY Chandrachud are seen together in one frame praying.
Their real problem also isn’t that PM Modi was at CJI’s official residence.
Their real problem is - it was a HINDU festival. If the two were at an Iftaar, they would be delighted.
Adani Group entered into a Rs. 800 crore deal with Food Corporation of India for agro logistics.
Not when Modi was in power.
It was in 2005. [Pics 1 & 2]
In 2007, a bulk supply chain solution set up in Punjab [Pic 3]
All during tenure of *UPA* when Left parties were allies.
He apparently got Covid on or before April 16th (as per Royal Family reporter)
He cancelled his rallies in West Bengal on April 18th in an act of remarkable sacrifice.
He announced he had Covid only on April 20th.
Aap chronology samajhiye
Many flashes in the pan routinely propped up as the ‘next big thing’. Kanhaiya Kumar, Hardik Patel & now Tikait.
Why don't they last enough to erode Modi?
Worried about the continuous onslaughts nonetheless & what we can do about it?
Read on..
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@ReallySwara
Hindutva is "terror" only to those who are mentally unable to understand that it is Hindutva which stands in the way of a Taliban-type rule in India. It is Hindutva which provides you an enabling environment to speak your mind (however shallow) & act in movies (however lame).
@ShashiTharoor
When you say "an omission of 8 crore", you omitted 4,385 people. This omission is worrying to many, after anti-Sikh riots which killed many thousands.
If inadvertent, a correction would be reassuring.
Two police officers arrest a journalist for asking tough Qs to a minister in
@JustinTrudeau
government.
They arrest him for ASSAULT of one police officer who clearly came in his way!
NOTE: Canada ranked 15th in the World Press Freedom Index 2023. *15th!*
Singapore needs to calm down.
Before they apply POFMA on Arvind Kejriwal, he needs to face punishment in India for his online falsehoods, manipulation and misinformation within India.
He can't be extradited just yet. Singapore would have to wait their turn.
This is a MASTERCLASS in how to have a conversation.
Ann tells Vivek she wouldn’t have voted for him because he’s of Indian ethnicity (basically, not white or white mix)
Vivek’s conversation with her is pure GOLD
Much to learn from this temperament 💯
#WATCH
| "There was no threat to the PM here. He was completely safe. No one went near him... I had a conversation with Priyanka Gandhi ji and I had briefed her on whatever happened here," says Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi
They so desperately want Modi to talk about the issues THEY want, in the manner THEY want, at a venue THEY want and at a time THEY want.
They build tremendous pressure from multiple angles which any lesser man would crumble under.
He then goes to Maharashtra, accepts the
I pay homage to Lokmanya Tilak on his Punya Tithi. I will be in Pune today, where I will accept the Lokmanya Tilak National Award. I am indeed humbled that I have been conferred this award which is closely associated with the work of such a great personality of our history.
Had Kasab not been caught alive and, back then, Twitter was as it is today, it might just have applied 'This claim is misleading' label to tweets holding Lashkar-e-Taiba responsible for 26/11.
Their biggest mistake is, they don't understand Modi.
Their second biggest mistake, they don't understand India.
Their third, they don't understand the anatomy of their hatred for Modi and how easily it often transmutes to a hatred for India.
A few Pakistani cricketers maligned Aishwarya Rai’s motherhood.
Yet, we won’t have usual feminists & liberals utter a word.
Why? Because those cricketers are Muslims.
When a Muslim rubbishes a woman, the Liberal Rule of Intersectionality™ states you must support the Muslim.
Much noise on
@narendramodi
's mention of detention centres.
There ARE detention centres in Assam to deport illegal Bangladeshis.
WHO set them up? UPA & Tarun Gogoi's
@INCIndia
government.
Sources:
1) 2012 White Paper on Assam, by Gogoi govt
2) UPA's affidavit in Gauhati HC
It's 1946. Muslim League tweets about Direct Action Day.
@ Jinnah: "I want either a divided India or a destroyed India."
25K RTs, 95K likes.
@ Sardar Patel: "Muslim League found out that two can play the game though it may be started by one."
Sardar Patel's account suspended.
The names of the 199 Kashmiri Pandit teachers who Kejriwal government appealed against in the Supreme Court.
They suffered because Arvind Kejriwal would not put his ads on YouTube for free.
1/2
Watching Yogi Adityanath's interview with Lallantop reminded me of Modi's days as Gujarat CM. They both have a gigantic memory, an on-demand recollection of facts and figures, and a tremendously deep understanding of every governance and political issue.
Remarkable!
Why Punjab & Canada don't like farm laws:
India a *top importer* of pulses. Canada a *top exporter* of those pulses.
Farm laws --> crop diversification --> aatmanirbharta in pulses.
Punjab likes wheat & paddy, because MSP.
Had pulses for dinner? Thank a [Canadian] farmer.
Appreciation tweet for
@Tejasvi_Surya
. He is going into several lion dens & roaring louder than the resident lions, espousing his party's cause & widening its appeal, especially among the youth.
This isn't easy; it's scary at times, as we saw yesterday.
Wish him the very best.
In that case,
Reservations for SCs, STs and OBCs are "Brahmin-filtering" laws.
Minority scholarships are "Hindu-filtering" benefits.
Your analysis here is a "common-sense filtering" one.
National Population Register (NPR) by itself is useful and harmless and not unprecedented. Problems arise because the Modi government has passed a Muslim-filtering CAA, not formally withdrawn its NRC threat, and it has led to much loss of trust.
• Kids (Leftist historians):
Mughals built these magnificent monuments.
• Adults (Audrey Truschke):
Mughals protected more temples than they destroyed.
• Legends (Naseeruddin Shah):
Mughals were refugees.
Those hating on Modi for a 'new house' and 'new car' see him as Modi, the individual.
For seven and a half years, they haven't digested the fact that he is the *PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA*.
@DerekJGrossman
Basically, “how dare a brown nation respond to a white nation even if its Embassy officials are literally sitting ducks in that white nation with bounties declared on their head”
Just drop the pretense, Grossman.
This outrageous number - "250 million" Indian farmers are protesting - seems to originate from the infamous Toolkit.
Latest pawn in this game - Trevor Noah - used it too.
Everything was ready.
Plan to use Shami as a ruse was ready.
Outreach messages were ready.
Rahul Gandhi's tweet was ready.
Columns were ready.
Quite an impressively fixed match.
Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Vadra tour around the country enchanting locals the same way as the British Royal Family does in colonized countries in The Crown.
Twitter needs to stop assuming that, if it isn't allowed to operate exactly how it wants, free speech is under threat.
Free speech in India was very much there before Twitter and it will very much be there after Twitter.
We Gujaratis are often called miserly / kanjoos.
We are not. We are economically judicious.
We only like to pay proportionate to the value we assess. Hence, we often bargain.
But we sure as hell don't like free lunches because we know they are a trap.
Indians succeed in U.S. because the system lets them define their own value.
Indians didn't succeed as much in India because the system defined their value for them.
India haters: Why is India spending so much money on Central Vista when there's widespread poverty and millions of children go to sleep hungry?
Same India haters: Tucker Carlson is right. Why hasn't India built something as grand as the terminus built by the British?
🤡
Narendra Modi has the unique capability of delivering hard-to-digest reforms, risk losing political capital, but end up gaining more political capital by the time the hullabaloo ends.
His heart beats for India. His mind, a very very shrewd one, thinks for India.
Opening remarks on
@republic
debate.
Indian journos petddling fiction in Western media may sleep on a bed softened by the USD or British pound, but their lack of honesty is DEMONETIZING their conscience. West must stop getting its facts from the CHOR BAZAAR of Indian journalism
#ExposeWesternMedia
| It is an informational warfare started by the Western Media, they have never appreciated India as a force to reckon with: Kartikeya Tanna, Political Commentator & lawyer
Never forget that, this day, 19 years ago, March 1, 2002, Modi government asked three neighbouring States for additional police forces to quell Gujarat riots.
All were Congress-ruled States at that time.
All three refused.
Watch till the end to see letters sent by GoG.
Mahua Moitra's entire tenure as a Member of Parliament has looked like an extended season of Big Boss.
Her behaviour today is as if she got eliminated from the Big Boss house.
@rihanna
1) As Vikram Sood said, this is a globally concerted attempt. You're sadly one more pawn.
2) Some vandals destroyed cellular towers.
3) If at all you care about the Men and Women in Blue (in India, they wear khakhi), do talk about this too.
4) Understand before talking 🙏🤷♂️
Western commentators of Indian origin don't like India's ascent because the country they chose to leave behind is rapidly ascending.
They're stuck with that image of India they were dissatisfied with when they decided to leave India.
Hence, a confident Modi irks them.
When Amit Shah was arrested, he resigned as Home Minister.
Modi patiently answered SIT for nine hours, refusing even tea.
Both are fascists.
In 2021, Mamata Banerjee showed up at CBI office, carrying on her intimidation tactics.
She is a beacon for the idea of India.