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Anurag Mairal

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Professor. Mentor. Entrepreneur. Global Health. HealthTech. Design Thinking. Innovation. Health Equity. Views my own. RT, ❤️ not endorsements.

San Francisco Bay Area

Joined March 2009

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Anurag Mairal

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This has been my long-standing view (have old tweets on this that may even be verbatim this): - India needs to prosper and be peaceful if the world is to prosper and be peaceful. - India will be prosperous and peaceful only if ALL its people (all classes and castes and religions

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When a country’s minister has an from an IIT, a business degree from Wharton, and deep on-the-ground work experience as an IAS officer, you can expect remarkable performance. But when the minister is also an engaging speaker, you get an audience of young

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They forgot to add “a philanthropist and a father”. And “an entrepreneur who contributed to economic growth of Uttar Pradesh”. It’s hard to read @guardian @Reuters feed, and @BBCNews with a straight face these days. For the uninitiated, these two were among the most dreaded

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Vegetarians who shun meat for philosophical, religious, ethical, or sustainability reasons have as much of a right to avoid using utensils that have touched non-vegetarian food as do Jews who can’t have non-Kosher or Muslims who can’t touch pork. Vilification of vegetarians by

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Finally watched #TheKashmirFiles by @vivekagnihotri in a theater in Hyderabad. Had anticipated being moved but not saying this: the film was very restrained. And very obviously so. Anyone who is criticizing the film as a distortion hasn’t seen the film. @AnupamPKher I now know…

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. @RoKhanna - today on, I will ask you once every week: - do you support the violent Khalistani movement? - Do you support their separatist demand to break up India, a country our President has called an “indispensable partner”. Your reluctance to criticize Khalistanis by name

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Those who are trying to dismantle Hinduism may think they are doing so brick by brick: Seattle, California, etc. They may think they are winning. So did Bakhtiyar Khalji, Babar, Aurangzeb, and even British, when they tried to divide the Hindu society in made up structures.

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It’s hilarious how hard western media is trying to burn ⁦ @narendramodi ⁩. No. of -ve stories about India & ⁦ @PMOIndia ⁩ have skyrocketed. (& +ve stories about oppo are going up). Likely aimed at elections in ‘24. But most Indians don’t read NYT.

Opinion | Modi’s India Is Where Global Democracy Dies (Published 2022)

Seventy-five years after its founding, the world’s largest democracy is in peril.

www.nytimes.com

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World Press Freedom Index: India rank slides to 161, 11 spots behind Afghanistan. I am not making this up. When I teach folks how to do market estimates, I ask them to do a bit of real-world check. This ranking fails that basic test. Just like a dozen other rankings with a

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Khalistani attack on @CGISFO is all over Indian news media. But not a peep from @nytimes , @washingtonpost , or even @sfchronicle @mercnews . No statements from any American officials. You can only imagine the response if U.S. consulate got attacked anywhere in the world. If we are

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Racist tropes about India survive and thrive in the West. Germany, 2023:

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Trudeau’s crackdown on protests while criticizing India’s stance to protests there last year is exacting why I have ZERO respect for western opinions on human rights, equity, and so on. We say one thing and do another. No wonder Russia and China are gaining on us geopolitically.

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“Muslim pupils tell Hindu classmates to convert to Islam” One of my kids was told exactly this in high school. He dropped out of the Hindu Club soon after. Bullying of Hindu kids in the U.S. tends to be subtle. But quite insidious. /1

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Muslim pupils tell Hindu classmates to convert to Islam to avoid bullying

Think tank finds religious education is ‘fostering discrimination’ against Hindus with children mocked in class

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I speak on AI (mostly in healthcare) fairly frequently. I am amazed by the clarity with which this Tamil politician, a relatively young leader and a past bureaucrat, weaves in trends in AI and other technologies with geopolitical assessment and a vision of the future. We in the

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“Role of GenAI” Annamalai Kuppuswamy vs Rahul Gandhi

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Casteism won in California today. Californian lawmakers are following in the proud tradition of British colonizers in dividing and ruling Indian people. And just as Indians did during the last three centuries of previous millennium in the colonized India, Indian Americans are

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You are a divisive journalist, @sardesairajdeep . Nearly 38% of your tweets (I have counted) try to drive a wedge between the communities in India - most of your references to caste and religion are gratuitous. You are either following a political playbook or a Bollywood

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Midnight musing: what if the MP who had given visitor pass to an intruder was Asad Owaisi or Danish Ali? Think. Good night, shubhratri.

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@SupriyaShrinate Ms. @SupriyaShrinate : It’s ok to be critical of your government - we do this all the time in the U.S. - but when your PM is visiting on a critical mission to empower India in the face of a challenging geopolitical environment, your lobbying of the U.S. lawmakers to work against

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Please sign this petition to recall this very corrupt senator whose targeting of a minority Hindu community in California is as breathtaking as it’s despicable. There is a lot of data coming that will show how deep the rot in CA is in targeting Hindus.

Republican-backed recall committee forms against Bay Area Democratic Sen. Aisha Wahab

In just four months as a state Senator, Wahab has already made waves with a caste-based discrimination bill and a lobbying reform proposal.

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Ironic that Indian-Americans, the ethnic group with the highest median income, have perhaps the least political power. The few elected officials don’t count because their room to operate in support of Indian-Americans is constrained by very effective lobbying by several

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To all Indian-origin journalists who write for global media: how does your conscience or journalistic integrity allow this. I know a major part of your job description is for you to find most egregious of things about India and make it as dramatic as possible. I understand that

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Modi wants manuscripts, not diamonds, returned to India – POLITICO

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Modi wants manuscripts, not diamonds, returned to India

Delhi would like to begin conversations about the repatriation of Indian objects, says a representative of Narendra Modi’s government.

www.politico.eu

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2 years

Hitler’s hakenkreuz is NOT Swastika. Hakenkreuz is a hateful symbol of the Nazis and is a 102-year old symbol of anti-Semitism. Swastika (the actual spelling is “Swastik”) is thousands of years old and is a symbol of divinity and spirituality. More below: #ReclaimSwastik

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I went to an excellent Hindi Medium school. I was also fortunate to have a great teacher in my father, who instilled the love of all languages in me (Sanskrit, Marathi, Chhattisgarhi, Hindi, and English) and who provided deep immersion in English through newspapers and classics.

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Himanta Biswa Sarma

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I went to an Assamese medium school and am trying my best to learn Hindi and English in my own humble way. I must admit that I do not know English and Hindi very well, and I have no hesitation in admitting it.

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.⁦ @BBC ⁩ batting for child marriage is despicable beyond credulity. The narrative here is that a poor girl child should be allowed to be married (sold?) off to a much older man who has money. ⁦⁦ @k_satyarthi ⁩ ji: would you support this?

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Assam: India child brides desperate after mass arrests

Women in Assam are protesting after thousands of men were held in connection with child marriages.

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One cannot be more condescending than this. Can one, @MyRansomNotes ?

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1 year

I want to thank @Twitter (and @elonmusk as it’s current custodian) for giving me an opportunity to engage with many folks whose negative views about Hindu-Americans have bothered me for a while: not so much for the bigotry as for the disconnect from the truth, the facts. I had

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The terms that derogatorily contain “gobar” or “gobbar” (or for that matter “cow piss”) is as despicable and racist against Hindus as “nig**r” for african Americans or “kat**” for Muslims. Please refrain from using it, @zoo_bear . Takes way your credibility. Just a polite

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Is Gobbar Singh ko lagta hai Senators were chanting "Modi Modi" in the US Congress and not by Indian Diaspora present in the visitors gallery. 🤡 🤡

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I have said this before. Caste activists are not after caste-based discrimination (whose existence in America is rooted in questionable evidence from these same anti-Hindu activists) but after Hinduism, Hindu scriptures, and Hindu customs like Diwali and Holi. I am amazed that

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Hindu On Campus

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BREAKING: Who is behind caste legislations in America? cc: @EqualityLabs @dalitdiva WATCH to hear their words for yourself 👇🏾 @RoKhanna @RepRoKhanna @aishabbwahab please listen to your Hindu constituents (we're students!) and hear our concerns. #HOCExposesHate

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Clarifying Thread: Why I speak up for #HinduAmericans and #Hinduism . My friends and colleagues are often surprised by how vocal I am in speaking up on #HinduAmerican and #IndianAmerican issues on @Twitter (only). They are surprised for a number of reasons. /1

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Clearly, Pakistani-American donors get a better return on their contributions. Most of Indian-American donors are just happy with pictures with the President. Despite all wealth and professional accomplishments, Ind-Americans are still unsure that they belong, and are scared of

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Why does @RoKhanna badger #India so much? @USIRCOnline uncovered that Ro gets money from Pakistani-American businessman & Democratic Party mega-donor Tahir Javed. Ro visits Javed’s condo. He’s pictured in 2019 talking to Javed while standing w/ Pak PM Imran Khan. Follow the money

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Newsmen of New York What a difference ten years make! (None, as a matter of fact.) @nytimes , September 2014 @NewYorker , April 2023

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. @narendramodi ji: in this group of seasoned leaders of academia, including presidents and Vice chancellors of major American universities, it was your ideas that everyone was engaged in. And the chance to give back by contributing to educating future minds of India. At scale.

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In New York City, held an extensive interaction with a group of academics. They shared their views on how to further strengthen the education sector in India with a focus on skills and innovation. I talked about the transformative potential of our National Education Policy.

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When @npr peddles disinformation: /1

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Follow this heartbreaking thread. EVERYONE please. @aishabbwahab and @RoKhanna and all the elected officials. Aisha: your bill will create a FLOOD of such frivolous lawsuits where guilt will be presumed. Reputations will be unduly sullied. STOP. Please. For my kids’ sake.

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#BREAKING | #Dismissed ! A 3-year ordeal for @cisco engineers Suresh Iyer & Ramana Kompella comes to an end as @CalDFEH dismisses its case that the two harassed another engineer who self-identified as Dalit. Vindication! 🧵 Our statement:

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Dev Patel’s supposed Hanuman is a caricature of India, seen through a deeply colonial lens. That Dev channels his inner Brit is not surprising. Nor is the effusive praise by western media. A Kantara will not get the same praise because it is too foreign for their sensibilities.

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Let me ask as politely and with as much love as I can, @dalitdiva and @aishabbwahab . And I will ask these questions every week until you clarify: 1. Why are you/your supporters against Hindus? Why is there so much hate in your comments - recorded and written - against Hindu

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No humanity left in the newsroom at @nytimes . By labeling the violence against Hindu minority in Bangladesh as “revenge attacks”, @nytimes is suggesting that there is a rationale for targeting Hindus, that the brutality is not random or genocidal. Word by word, global

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The @nytimes justifies violence against Hindus in Bangladesh as “revenge” for just being Hindus. Hindus have been reduced to less than 8% of the population ( from 27%) in the past 5 decades.

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“I don’t know, I am not an expert on these issues”, said Prof. Rajan, an economist, on the legal points of the court judgement and Mr. Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification (he calls it expulsion, another error). Despite the lack of expertise, he goes on to criticize the government

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"Cant go to G-20 and present yourself as the fount of democracy and then.."- Raghuram Rajan on the Rahul Gandhi Disqualification. "It's a free speech issue and its not about BJP or Congress, It's an Indian Issue.". Full conversation @themojostory

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Guess who gets it right? @DailyMail . Not @nytimes , not @BBCWorld , not @washingtonpost . But a supposed rag. It’s a topsy-turvy world we live in.

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I have been a witness to this. I, as an American, feel so behind the curve when I see during my India visits even daily wage laborers making payments worth a few cents using their phones. The financial inclusion & the friction-free transaction are a sight to behold. (1/2)

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Narendra Modi

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One of the best happenings in the last few years is how Indians have embraced digital payments.

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"She was taken aback when she was told that patients in India had the freedom to schedule medical tests at any time. Further, the blood report would come the next day, and the doctor would suggest the course of action depending on the findings.”

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"Incredible": US Vlogger Says She Is "Blown Away" By India's Healthcare System

The entire process cost her $14 (approximately Rs 1,100). "I'm blown away, this is incredible," she said.

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Do Indian people realize that politicians like @KapilSibal suggesting India do an illegal plebiscite or referendum on J&K are setting India up for failure on a major geopolitically strategic issue? It goes straight to the sovereignty of India. In any other country, such a

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. @RahulGandhi legitimizing @IAMCouncil is like an Israeli leader working with an antisemitic, far right organization in the U.S. I urge him to steer clear of fringe groups who have stoked #Hinduphobia in the U.S. Our kids are paying the price, Mr. Gandhi. I hope your team is

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Why is India's key opposition leader @RahulGandhi going to events being hosted in New York by IAMC activists? Is he not aware of IAMC's anti-India campaigns. Is opposing @PMOIndia reason enough to find common cause with openly anti-India organizations? Hope the @IndianNationalC

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. @monkeymanmovie is as much about Hinduism as is The Exorcist about Christianity. @CNN journalists like @harmeetkaur could benefit from some education in Hinduism before writing about it.

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In recent weeks, scores of high-profile as well as anonymous trolls that represent a set of strange bedfellows (both from India and here in the U.S.) - Islamists, khalistanis, anti-Hindu journalists and caste activists - have threatened me here on Twitter with not-so-subtle

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Struck by stark differences between the way global media is covering protester violence and response by French officials and the way it covered various Indian protests and government response: two very different yardsticks. It was the same for coverage of Canadian protests and

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“A group of Israeli investors issued a joint statement calling for a boycott of the event.” On the other hand, Indian corporate leaders & Indian-origin business leaders show no such spine when India is targeted. Please tag them in the thread below.

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Google and Meta join growing list of companies quitting Europe's biggest tech conference after the...

The head of Web Summit criticized Western support for Israel after the Hamas attacks.

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Problem with anti-Hindu activists (who are a motley crew of ultra-right Christian, Islamist, ultra-left, casteist, and atheist groups) is not that they are critical of Hindu nationalists (whatever that means). The problem is that they are counter-factual. Hinduism is one of the

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In the DC press conference called by anti-Hindu forces, Ria Chakrabarty of Hindus for Human Rights (HfHR) says "Hindu nationalism in misogynistic... theologicallay Hindu nationalists erase Hindu goddesses, they resist queerification of Hindu gods regardless of gender".

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Voters of @RoKhanna (which ironically includes me - three times) may want to read this important thread on the disingenuous and dishonest criticism by @RoKhanna of Indian government and judiciary, all while ignoring violent #January6th -like #insurrection by his own Khalistani

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The Pamphlet

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#Thread | US Lawmaker Ro Khanna Claims Rahul Gandhi’s Suspension From Indian Parliament A Betrayal of Gandhian Philosophy! The Christian Indian American has tweeted a misleading claim! Read this thread! 1/n 1/n

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Flying in India is an experience unlike in any other country. I just flew sitting next to @RajkummarRao , one of the best actors of this generation. He was so unassuming and looked so young (I thought he was a college student) that I did not recognize him until a flight

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“Caste” as an issue is being weaponized against Indian Americans. Even a presidential candidate is not being spared. Here is my prediction: in coming years, every successful Indian American will be targeted with a hate campaign using this manufactured issue, whether it’s an

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Suhag A. Shukla

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Here’s @nytimes @jonathanweisman saying it out loud: @VivekGRamaswamy ’s liability is that he “maintains his Hindu faith” and oh, there’s this “Hindu hierarchy”? We keep saying caste is a stereotype only used to target Hindus. No one else. Who would #SB403 target? #SayNoToSB403

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This error-ridden ⁦ @nytimes ⁩ piece by ⁦ @meganspecia ⁩ had vitiated an already tense situation in Leicester. Megan Not only got many facts wrong, but also liberally quoted an “activist” who was arrested by the new labor government on terror charges. Poor journalism.

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So much for honest debate and constructive engagement on ideas.

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#KhalistanReferendum Some facts to consider: - 90% of the Sikhs live in India - Over 90% of these don’t want Khalistan (several surveys on this) - Majority of Punjab territory is in Pakistan - Referendums by separatist orgs (esp violent ones) against sovereign nations never

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. @tmkrishna conveniently hides the fact that all of these rulers considered themselves not as “sons of the soil” but representatives of dynasties with roots outside India or defenders of their superior faith against native ones. They did make India their home and built their

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T M Krishna

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Until Indians develop the historical nuance, cultural maturity to realise that the Tughluks, lodis, Akbar, Tipu were all people of the sub-continent, statements like "...75 years of freedom after thousand years of foreign rule in one form or another... will sell.

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This bill is one of the most frivolous bills to come in front of CA legislature. My prediction: By 2030, self-appointed “caste experts” from ⁦ @EqualityLabs ⁩ would have made millions. ⁦ @dalitdiva ⁩ would have recd many awards. Lives helped: 0

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If this had happened in India, every single global newspaper would publish stories of impending genocide and complete destruction of religious freedom. Because it happens to Hindus in places like Pakistan and happens EVERY DAY, no articles in the mainstream media. No

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CoHNA (Coalition of Hindus of North America)

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Heartrending scenes as a sobbing 14-year old child is taken away from her father - by state fiat, simply because she happened to be born #Hindu in the Islamic state of #Pakistan . A similar fate awaits 1000-2000 girls from religious minority communities each YEAR. That is 3-6

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Last week, I was part of a meeting of top American academic minds in democracy and political leaders of Indian origin. They agreed on something that top American media has been saying for decades. But now the clamor has reached deafening decibels. “India is a sh!thole country;

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If you ever needed evidence of #Hinduphobia , Ms. @cmkshama provides it for us. It is people closest to us who are able to inflict greatest pain on us. I supported Ms Sawant’s politics for years. But this dark, opportunistic, bigoted underbelly of politics is FAR from the idealism

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Kshama Sawant

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Shame on Democrats @LilyMei4Fremont @RajSalwan & Fremont City Council for a proclamation on the right-wing Hindu American Foundation. HAF strongly opposed the ban on caste discrimination from my office. Our movement won coz we fought back & defeated right-wing groups like HAF.

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Picture of India! President of India is greeted by President of Indian Olympic Committee. Indians don’t look at their castes. These and millions of other Tribal and Dalit folks are not identified by their caste status, they are not judged by it, nor do they like Indians

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Honoured to meet Honorable President of India, Smt. Droupadi Murmu Ma'am this morning, at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

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Please add @FRANCE24 , @barronsonline , and @trtworld to the mix. They too have no idea how brutal these criminals were. TRT even adds religion to the mix. These titles should be preserved in ether forever as exemplars of how pitiful global media has gotten. It’s hard to be

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Ironic that Ayurveda gets most pushback within Indian “allopathic” healthcare system.

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Ram

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Ayurveda for gut health is quite something. Aaron Rodgers is a Super Bowl winner, 4 times NFL Most Valuable Player.

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Are you retracting this discredited story, ⁦ @washingtonpost ⁩? You are calling ⁦ @thewire_in ⁩ out but what about your role in promoting fake stories by ⁦ @andymukherjee70 ⁩, ⁦ @RanaAyyub ⁩, etc.

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“Don't vote for BJP in the Karnataka Assembly polls; vote for any other party you like. I would be happy if BJP's downfall starts with Karnataka," says @MamataOfficial I see many problems with this appeal: - it feels like a Hail Mary wish. Feels desperate and with a hint of

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This is how you promote #Hinduphobia : by visually & narratively associating an auspicious symbol, such as Swastik, revered by Hindus, Jains, and other communities with Hitler’s Hakenkreuz. And being blatant about it, fine-print disclaimers notwithstanding. ⁦ @derspiegel ⁩ /1

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Until India’s opposition finds a way to bring Indian people onboard a constructive alternative to BJP and until it stops running to international media and stakeholders to aid in its quest for power, it will remain on the margins of Indian politics.

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Ashamed to see this from my alma mater @UCBerkeley . Entire Academic Senate aligns in support of gun-wielding terrorists whose movement in the past has killed tens of thousands of innocent Sikhs and Hindus in Punjab. Is this the value system we want to teach our next generation,

@HinduHate

Stop Hindu Hate Advocacy Network (SHHAN)

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University of California, Berkeley's Academic Senate has passed a resolution "condemning arrest of Sikh activists". Western universities calls #Khalistanis who've killed 20,000+ #Indians as "Sikh activists", you still want to educate your children in such Universities?

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Someone should inform ⁦ @Independent ⁩ editors that NDA was a PRE-POLL alliance. Mr. Modi didn’t form it after the fact. It already existed. That’s how the elections were fought. Sheesh! Can’t even do basic research. Are the budgets at The Independent that tight?

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This is shocking to hear - the fact that international community so blatantly sided with aggressors (Pakistani militia supported by regular armed forces) and tried to contain India since the very beginning is a travesty of the spirit and the letter of global community charters,

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Vijay

1 year

EAM Jaishankar on Western meddling in Kashmir. Part 1

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Anurag Mairal

1 year

This labeling is despicable. @NewYorker keeps spiraling down the journalistic ethics ladder! :( I am sorry that you are subjected to such anti-Hindu bigotry, @SuhagAShukla ji. Not to sound overly alarmist but The U.S. is rapidly becoming a country not for a micro-minority

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Suhag A. Shukla

1 year

If I'm going to be trolled by a New Yorker staff writer, is it too much to ask that he not retreat to overused Irish alliteration? "Sinister sectarian"? Really, Isaac. But at least he didn't assign me a caste as the New Yorker does to all Hindus of late. Small mercies.

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She could have learned from other women in India, which has a long history of very vocal, intelligent, opinionated women. I grew up around them in small-town central India. Seems like one has to say something negative about India as a fee to enter these colonial clubs. :)

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I don’t know who made this tongue-in-cheek map. But the political bent of programming and research at Centers for South Asia in American universities match with this map. :)

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Anurag Mairal

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I have been following the awards given to journalists and writers of Indian origins by global institutions. With few exceptions (I mean really few, most of these awards have been given to folks who have taken an explicitly negative view of India or its government. Being negative

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#HindustheNewJews Hardworking, successful, law abiding, peaceful, stereotyped, persecuted globally, attacked. One difference. Jews learned to organize and protect themselves from complete erasure. Hindus haven’t yet. But there is an opportunity. India, home to 1B+ Hindus,

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3 years

Please read this whole thread. As a Hindu professor who teaches at an academic campus of a top university, I am shocked at how easy it is to make such an allegation and to force a witch hunt based entirely on innuendos and without an iota of evidence.

@hinduoncampus

Hindu On Campus

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THREAD: Did you know that a student filed a complaint against Hindu professors at @Dartmouth just bc they were Hindu? Didn’t hear about it? Our team investigated the biggest Hinduphobic scandal in Dartmouth’s history. #Hinduphobia #AcademicTwitter

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Personal Note: I grew up eating no meat, started to eat some while at IITB, have tried all kinds in last few decades of travel, but have returned to mostly vegetarian diet for health, sustainability, and cultural reasons. While I personally don’t have issues with sharing

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⁦. @Nature ⁩ ⁦ @RichardDawkins ⁩ Your anti-India news sources are pranking you by feeding really stupid, easy-to-disprove rumors. It took me just an hour to check from two diff sources: one primary and one secondary. Next time, you may want to do some basic research.

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Anurag Mairal

1 year

“You have already passed it without listening to us.” Says a caste activist with @EqualityLabs . Ironically, they and @aishabbwahab are doing that to Hindu-Americans with their bill. NO consultation or engagement with the community that they are targeting with their bill.

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Suhag A. Shukla

1 year

#Hinduphobia proclamation just passed. A meeting that saw children shoved is adjourned. But see how they harangue/hector Mayor @LilyMei4Fremont & @RajSalwan demanding a “caste” bill. How much of this performative outrage is for the two apparent documentary filmmakers in tow?

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. @BarackObama - I am a fan. But it’s horrific the way you responded about internal issues of India - a partner and a sovereign nation. It sounded like a threat: that India will break apart if those internal issues are not resolved. Do you see ANY head of state - past or present

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the exDem and exRepub 🇮🇳🇺🇸

1 year

Imagine US Secretary of State meeting the Chinese President and the US President back home calls him a “dictator” Imagine hosting the Prime Minister of worlds largest democracy and the former POTUS calls for balkanization of his country on CNN interview. That’s America for

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Ouch! As a Hindu American, I am hurt but have to agree with his assessment of my community. ;)

@HinduAmericans

Indian-Americans

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1 year

Hindu-Americans are a joke politically inside the US. No one takes them seriously. Some stupid poor Afghan woman was able to so quickly ram through a ridiculous bill targeting Hindus with overwhelming support.

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Hindu Americans must take a greater interest in what their kids and their kids’ peers are being taught. Is there any surprise that these kids are then bullied?

@JaipurDialogues

The Jaipur Dialogues

@JaipurDialogues

1 year

Class 12th Students in USA are taught this Woke Propaganda. USA is on the verge of Heroic Downfall.

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Canada @JustinTrudeau is really playing with fire here. This sort of intimidation has long-term impact on the society. We have experienced this in the Bay Area. The damage to Canadian society will be immense. If one thinks France happened overnight and would not be replicated in

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Terry Milewski

1 year

Turning up the heat. Targeting three Indian diplomats as alleged "killers," Canadian Khalistanis begin their "Freedom Rally" day by posting a sign overnight at a Hindu Temple in Brampton, Ontario. It calls the area a "War Zone."

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A Swiss cartoon and a note at a Swiss hotel for tourists from India. Not even an attempt to hide racism. Caveat: I have not experienced this personally in my trips. h/t: @alpinelad

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why you encouraged us to watch the film when you visited us @stanford . Truth is painful but so important to witness and remember. Especially the truth about genocides. Every one of those. What happened to #KashmiriPandits was genocide.

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🙏🙏🙏 I must offer my kudos to @RepRoKhanna @RoKhanna for being clear on Khalistan issue. I find the last comment about human rights an attempt to respond to some of his constituents who see India through a colonial lens, thanks to poor reporting by mainstream media in the

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@mairal Thanks for the civil tone. Of course, I have condemned violence, reject any separatist movement in India, and have worked to strengthen the strategic partnership. I also believe India needs to uphold human rights and a free and open internet.

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I will not go into merits of the debate. There are better scholars of the history of civil rights in the U.S. to speak on that. I do want to reference what @donlemon said. He said (I am paraphrasing) folks who don’t have the lived experiences of a group of people should defer

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Aaron Rupar

1 year

according to the NYT this interview that Don Lemon conducted last week with Vivek Ramaswamy played a role in his firing. Note co-host Poppy Harlow sitting silently while Lemon goes after Vivek.

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My question to all luminaries who seem to speak for 200 million Indians: You want these 200 million Indians of a community to vote en masse against one party - any party but that one party, want every one from that communjty to boycott the government events and programs, call

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Anurag Mairal

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Try this: Type “India” in the Google Search bar and click “news” tab. Tell me if you find any story that’s positive. In a county of 1.4 billion people, soon to be 3rd largest economy of the world, global news media find nothing positive to report. (And I refuse to pin this on

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This is another in a series of documentaries that aim to elevate pedestrian “journalists” in India with long history of biased coverage of Indian politics on the left. To be frank, there are similarly pedestrian journalists on the right. Only difference is that... /1

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I completely agree with @elonmusk . We should eliminate autonomous driving in @Tesla . The risk of being hacked by humans or AI, while small, is still too high. And while we are at it: We should eliminate use of surgical robots. The risk of being hacked by humans or AI, while

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We should eliminate electronic voting machines. The risk of being hacked by humans or AI, while small, is still too high.

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@AatishTaseer @JoeBiden @DNC @RoKhanna Are you living in the same universe, @AatishTaseer ? The world is moving on to more important global concerns and there is no patience for your kind of politicking and ideological bias. Humanity requires that U.S. and India partner closely. No @nytimes , @washingtonpost , and

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Anurag Mairal

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I am starting to see the effects of a playbook (which I originally thought was brain dead but am starting to see evil genius of it) by a Nexus of certain Indian politicians, global media, and think tanks. The playbook is simple: A. Ignore actual data of India becoming less

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Repeat with me: South Asian is a made up, colonial-minded term. And using the term for Indians is ill-intentioned (or charitably, ill-informed) in MOST cases.

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I just saw a video I can’t unsee. A Bangladeshi man in his underwear who has been tied up with restraints and likely killed in that state. The mob is celebrating. One member of the mob uses a wooden stick to lower the underwear to confirm that the man was indeed uncircumcised.

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Anurag Mairal

1 year

United States, 2014:

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1 year

British Raj never ended. India just got handed over to Brown Sahibs.

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Gabbar

1 year

There was no widespread hatred against Britishers post independence coz a lot of Indians secretly wanted to be that Gora sahib.

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Please call @aishabbwahab and tell her to withdraw her bill. If she persists with her bill after seeing two engineers victimized for many years under false accusations of caste discrimination, then she is COMPLICIT. The less I say about bigotry of caste activists like

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I am having to block a large number of anonymous trolls who are posting in support of @aishabbwahab - they have been using abusive language on my timeline and threatening me. Warning to trolls - you will be reported. @aishabbwahab - will you denounce these trolls? No place in

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Then why is he asking the @PMOIndia to intervene in the actions of Indian judiciary and @LokSabhaSectt ? That will be illegal and autocratic, except during #Emergency , which gives the PM a lot of powers. Much like what Mrs. Indira Gandhi had during 1977-79. The same time period

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State of the Union

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. @RoKhanna : "I never speak to my local district attorney about what he should do. It would be an outrage if politicians started to do that."

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