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Decolonizing Indians - check how de-colonized you are
Colonized - De-colonized
1. RIP - Om Shanti
2. Mythology (RamayaN, Mahabharat) - Itihas
3. Soul - (is NOT same as) Atman
4. South Asia - Indian-subcontinent
5. HinduISM - Sanatan Dharma
6. Religion - (is NOTsame as) Dharma
7. Caste - (is NOT same as) VarNa
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@HinduStudentsC @CoHNAOfficial @HinduAmerican @HinduAmericans @hindupost
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A Sikh family should NEVER have to choose between their faith and their safety in Britain.
Harman Singh Kapoor has every right to run his restaurant according to his religious convictions.
You can disagree with him. You can boycott him. You can protest peacefully.
But threats and intimidation? Absolutely not.
Since when did religious freedom require the permission of those most easily offended?
To Britain's Sikh community: your faith, your traditions and your right to practise them are worth defending.
You have stood proudly by Britain. Britain must stand proudly by you.
An attack on one community's freedom is a warning to us all.
I stand with you. 🇬🇧
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My wife is a heritage American. Her mother is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Her ancestor was a constitutional delegate. As a patriot and a conservative I reject everything about this movement.
My family are German, Maygyar, and Romani who all came here in the late 1800s and early 1900s to help build this country. These people would think my family aren’t real Americans.
This stupid rhetoric is sabotaging the Republican’s ability to deal with illegal immigration and VISA abuse. It’s also making Republicans look like blood and soil Christian fanatics. If this rhetoric doesn’t stop now the defeat in 2028 will be shocking.
Islamic imperialism is literally threatening non-muslims
🇬🇧 The word 'Halal' is written on countless restaurants in Britain to signal that the food is suitable for consumption by Muslims, without any issue.
This is what happened when a restaurant eliminated the need for any questions on the matter by specifying that the establishment is 'non-halal.'
Writer: Mhedi
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Sikh separatists want to rewrite history. But can they erase centuries of shared Sikh-Sanatan heritage?
From Guru Nanak’s family roots to Banda Singh Bahadur’s legacy, Harinder Singh Sikka challenges separatist narratives and recounts the backlash he faced for highlighting their Hindu roots. @sikka_harinder
Sikhs have moved away from Sikhi
Khalistan will destroy Sikhi first
I am married to a Sikhni for more than 30 years. Nevertheless, I think Sikhs have lost it: to make saints of Indira Gandhi's bodyguards, who shot a defenceless woman lying on the ground they had sworn to protect & an other saint of Bhindrawale, who occupied for two years the holiest shrine of Sikhism, with weapons and explosives and had numerous Hindus and moderate Sikhs assassinated, is madness. As far as for #Khalistan , its an insult to #Bharat and Indians who love #Sikhs so much
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swaahaa retweeted
Here’s handwritten letter by Guru Tegh Bahadur, asking the congregation of Pak Pattan to visit him for DIWALI!
He was the son of Guru Hargobind. So you know, but 9th Guru didn’t, that there was some Bandi Chorr Divas regarding his father. Really?!
swaahaa retweeted
To all families coming together to celebrate the Festival of Lights, may light triumph over darkness and may we continue to find hope and strength in one another.
Happy Diwali, California! 🪔
swaahaa retweeted
.@SaraGonzalesTX and her minions seem absolutely TERRIFIED of the legal scrutiny they may face over their harassment of innocent American business owners, allegedly with the backing of the Texas Attorney General’s office.
Now, in a desperate attempt to intimidate me into silence, they’ve resorted to falsely identifying and attempting to doxx someone they claim is me.
Here’s what they need to understand: I AM NOT GOING ANYWHERE.
I intend to pursue every lawful avenue to ensure Sara Gonzales, BlazeTV, and everyone involved face a thorough investigation into their conduct and any potential abuse of government power.
You don’t get to weaponize the Attorney General’s office against private citizens and then intimidate your way out of accountability.
The days of operating without scrutiny are OVER.
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1. Ranbeef's Ramayan has turned a mega box office disaster given its budget.
2. Paid reviews, increased marketing efforts, freebies, corporate bookings is making things worse.
Who knows this was the real plan?
3. Brahmastra of Ranbeef also followed same strategy - invest heavy in marketing and corporate bookings. Call it the greatest blockbuster ever. Then silently sell Dharma Productions showing heavy losses.
4. We @GemsOfBollywood had declared right when film was announced that we oppose it. And for exactly the same reasons, all influencers who refuse to sell themselves are condemning the Islamic- leftist Ravanayana.
5. Today and tomorrow, Ranbeef remains more famous as Big Beef Guy than a stone-faced Ram- pretender.
6. Demise of Urduwood is inevitable. Gems of Bollywood is proud to have been part of this Yajna against Kaalnemis without compromise.
इदं न मम।
swaahaa retweeted
It’s a good thing that this tweet on Audrey is getting seen.
People ask why we should pay attention to her TL.
The answer is simple:
1) Audrey is an activist actively working to undermine Hindu American advocacy under the guise of scholarship;
2) her work is emblematic of a deep rot in academia over Indic and Hindu studies.
See this panel at the upcoming @AARWeb conference. See the topic, see the caste obsession & see who is on the panel.
Think of how far Hindu Studies in the Academy has fallen from the days when Diane Eck, Arvind Sharma, Vasudha Narayan, Francis Clooney, Edwin Bryant, Jeffrey Long, Gavin Flood and other icons were the guiding minds at the AAR. Those giants viewed academic rigor not activism as the core ethic for scholars.
When groups like @HinduAmerican push back at the precipitous fall in academic integrity & performative spectacles (think DGH conference), they & their minions run to vandalize the @HinduAmerican @Wikipedia page & cry that we’re “attacking” their academic freedom.
Tweets like the latest from Audrey simply shine a light on the lack of scholarly seriousness, their derision for the subject they claim to study & machinations just beneath the surface.
Critique should be welcome in academia. To those like Audrey, it’s always an attack.
Ramayana is in the news so Audrey is “loosely translating” with her lurid takes again…
Valmiki never wrote "harem pet" or "furniture cover." Just as he never said Sita calls Rama a “misogynist pig.”
Here's what the text says.
On the living deer, Aranya Kanda 3.43.16:
अन्तःपुरविभूषार्थो मृग एष भविष्यति
antaḥpura-vibhūṣārtho mṛga eṣa bhaviṣyati
"This deer will be an ornament of the inner palace." Not “harem.” Sita is talking about after the exile, when they're back in Ayodhya. The word is vibhūṣā, ornament. It's a marvel to bring home to Bharata and the queen mothers. It isn't a "pet," and it isn't a harem plaything. We also know that Rama never took another wife, let alone kept a harem.
On the slain deer, 3.43.19:
शष्पबृस्यां विनीतायामिच्छाम्यहमुपासितुम्
śaṣpa-bṛsyāṃ vinītāyām icchāmy aham upāsitum
"I wish to sit on its golden skin, spread over a seat of tender grass." A bṛsī is an ascetic's grass seat. She's a forest-dweller in exile, picturing herself sitting beside Rama. That isn't upholstery or a "furniture cover." Rama even pictures the same scene himself a few verses later (3.43.34).
So "harem pet" and "furniture cover" aren't translations. Each one picks the most lurid or trivial reading available so that Sita comes off as decadent and vain. The text doesn't support either.
We've seen this before. In 2018 Truschke "loosely translated" Sita at the agnipariksha as calling Rama a "misogynist pig." Robert Goldman, the translator she cited, disowned it.
She starts from a Sanskrit word, takes the most loaded English you can find, and presents it as scholarship. That's academic malpractice.
And it’s a pattern.
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She was also a Sikh. A Jatt Sikh. But no word of condemnation from any Sikh organisation against Khayalistanis! Coward they’re.
🇨🇦 8 months later, and Canadian police still haven’t charged a single #khalistani for the #murder of #NancyGrewal .
Nancy was stabbed to death in LaSalle, #Ontario , after publicly criticizing Khalistani extremism. She had received threats. Her home was firebombed. Police themselves called it a targeted killing.
Yet the Khalistani culprits are still walking free.
Canadian police are protecting murderers.
Who is pressuring #Canadian authorities to stay silent and take no action ??
swaahaa retweeted
Ramayana is in the news so Audrey is “loosely translating” with her lurid takes again…
Valmiki never wrote "harem pet" or "furniture cover." Just as he never said Sita calls Rama a “misogynist pig.”
Here's what the text says.
On the living deer, Aranya Kanda 3.43.16:
अन्तःपुरविभूषार्थो मृग एष भविष्यति
antaḥpura-vibhūṣārtho mṛga eṣa bhaviṣyati
"This deer will be an ornament of the inner palace." Not “harem.” Sita is talking about after the exile, when they're back in Ayodhya. The word is vibhūṣā, ornament. It's a marvel to bring home to Bharata and the queen mothers. It isn't a "pet," and it isn't a harem plaything. We also know that Rama never took another wife, let alone kept a harem.
On the slain deer, 3.43.19:
शष्पबृस्यां विनीतायामिच्छाम्यहमुपासितुम्
śaṣpa-bṛsyāṃ vinītāyām icchāmy aham upāsitum
"I wish to sit on its golden skin, spread over a seat of tender grass." A bṛsī is an ascetic's grass seat. She's a forest-dweller in exile, picturing herself sitting beside Rama. That isn't upholstery or a "furniture cover." Rama even pictures the same scene himself a few verses later (3.43.34).
So "harem pet" and "furniture cover" aren't translations. Each one picks the most lurid or trivial reading available so that Sita comes off as decadent and vain. The text doesn't support either.
We've seen this before. In 2018 Truschke "loosely translated" Sita at the agnipariksha as calling Rama a "misogynist pig." Robert Goldman, the translator she cited, disowned it.
She starts from a Sanskrit word, takes the most loaded English you can find, and presents it as scholarship. That's academic malpractice.
And it’s a pattern.
swaahaa retweeted
🇨🇦 8 months later, and Canadian police still haven’t charged a single Khalistani for the murder of Nancy Grewal.
Nancy was stabbed to death in LaSalle, Ontario, after publicly criticizing Khalistani extremism. She had received threats. Her home was firebombed. Police themselves called it a targeted killing.
Yet the Khalistani culprits are still walking free.
Canadian police are protecting murderers.
Who is pressuring Canadian authorities to stay silent and take no action?
swaahaa retweeted
Excellent summary of identity politics in the United States - who can wear their religion on their sleeve and who cannot. Nithya Raman, a Hindu, is expected to distance herself from her religious identity and meet a higher bar of religious neutrality, almost to the point that criticizing her own faith is viewed more favorably than embracing it. By contrast, Sayed and Mamdani wear their faith as a badge of identity and win elections despite fairly bigoted religious associations - a case of a lower bar for religious reform and neutrality being applied to them.
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Reminder that Ro Khanna’s grandfather, Amarnath Vidyalankar, aided the destruction of democracy in India by supporting Indira Gandhi’s Emergency.
An event which not only suspended democracy in India on the whim of the Nehru-Gandhi family, which Khanna is associated with, but also includes horrors such as:
-8 MILLION forced sterilizations with 1,774 deaths linked to it
-110,000 mass arrests without trial
-Various police firings on democracy activists killing hundreds
-Suppression of the press
-Subversion of the Constitution
CC: @Iyervval
swaahaa retweeted
Hey Ro, can you clarify this again? Your Grandad voted for the 2nd amending of the Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA) in 1975, which legalised
1. indefinite detention without warrant
2. suspended Habeas Corpus
3. arbitrary punishment (torture)
4. arbitrary property seizure
Document Source: teapawt.net/Iyervval/status/164062…
Or is lying with confidence a special superpower you have?
swaahaa retweeted
Bengali sisters are different level nationalists.
They are giving sleepless nights to Commie clowns.
They raised slogans like
- MUKHE MISTI,DANTE BISH,TAR NAME COMMUNIST (Talks sweetly but poisonous in nature-they are communists).
- Sabse Bada Atankwadi/ 'Marx'Vadi!
Unreal😭
MAGA woke right hates Anyone who is not the right kind of white evangelical Christian male
Make no mistake: Latino voters helped power this blue wave.
Young Latinos showed up, many voting for the first time to protect their parents, their families, and their communities.
Trump tried to silence our communities. Instead, Latino voters rose up, showed their power, and made their voices heard loud and clear.
This election made one thing clear: Latino voters are not a constituency to take for granted.
Yes, they showed up in response to the cruelty of masked ICE agents tearing our communities apart. But Latinos also showed up because of the rising cost of living, the struggle to make ends meet, and the same kitchen-table issues facing families across America.
As we look toward 2028, Democrats would do well to remember that.
We won the majority. Now we have to deliver.
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Texas was not Red; it’s not Blue now, it’s Hispanic.
Hispanics embraced Republicans. Republicans never embraced us back.
As a result:
Starr County — 97% Hispanic, carried by Ted Cruz just two years ago — swung harder than any of Texas's 254 counties. Democratic turnout in the Rio Grande Valley doubled.
And look at who's going to Austin and Washington:
🔹 Gina Hinojosa — Governor of Texas. First Latina. First Democrat in 32 years.
🔹 Bobby Pulido — flipped TX-15 from Monica De La Cruz.
🔹 Johnny Garcia — won TX-35, a district the GOP redrew specifically to take it.
🔹 Katy Padilla Stout — flipped TX-23, the border district from San Antonio to El Paso.
🔹 Henry Cuellar — reelected in Laredo by more than 2 to 1.
🔹 Vicente Gonzalez — reelected in the Valley. Sixth term.
🔹 Veronica Escobar — reelected in El Paso with 71%.
In 2024, Hispanics gave Republicans the biggest opening they've had in a generation. Two years of being treated like a problem instead of a partner — and the door closed.
Nobody owns the Hispanic vote. We just proved it. Again.