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In 1950, a newly independent India was running low on food. India requested the US for help.
It wasn't provided immediately. After much debate in the US congress on why they should help India, Truman signed the India food relief act to provide India with $190 million of assistance to help it buy US wheat.
But that US wheat came with a weed. The weed known as Parthenium or also called "Congress grass." This weed destroyed any plant around it. Till today, India has not been able to get rid of this weed.
Some 35 million hectares of arable Indian farmland has been laid waste by this weed. Including, and as far as, Andaman & Nicobar Islands.
This weed is one of the biggest causes of losses for Indian agriculture and productivity. American experts still say it came into India "accidentally."
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Diwali in Bastar…all thanks to our security forces!
Naxalism is history.
Development is the way ahead.
Today was special and memorable.
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Heading to Bastar to celebrate Diwali with our brave security forces.
This is an area where Naxalism once held sway and now, development is flourishing.
I am going to salute our brave security personnel for their sacrifices, selfless service and unwavering devotion to the nation.
दीपावली के पावन अवसर पर बस्तर जा रहा हूं।
कल तक जहां नक्सलियों का कहर था वहां आज विकास की बहार है।
वीर जवानों, उनके बलिदान, त्याग और तपस्या को नमन करने जा रहा हूं।
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Everyone was Librandu in 2010? No wonder Manmohan won despite Mumbai attack
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Harsh Goenka, an Indian billionaire industrialist and the chairman of RPG Enterprises, with millions of followers on Social Media
>> Posts against Gujarat’s local “Sant-Vani & Bhajan” culture, calling it a vulgar display of wealth
>> Gets called out by hundreds of people, who explain that the money goes towards Gaushalas and girls’ hostels
>> After realising that his tweet was wrong, what did he do?
Just replied with “Hmm” but
didn’t delete the tweet….
>> Then I posted about the vulgar perversion in Kolkata, his birthplace, where money is spent on “Baar Balas”
He blocked me 😭😭
>> Bro couldn’t handle the vulgarity being exposed in his own birthplace
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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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One thing I have noticed, and I am not exaggerating: In many ways, America follows India in democracy.
- be it women as top leaders (Kamala decades after Indira, still no woman as president),
- be it universal voting rights (india had it on day 1, 15 years before the US did),
- or be it minorities in top positions (the US still has not seen top native-American leaders).
But some low self-esteem Indians who suck up to the west will always get excited based on some new thing in the US.
Like when Americans get excited about their "first woman VP", "first Muslim mayor", "first black president".
These Indians will get excited as well and start lecturing India in a patronizing way about how to follow that.
They forget India already achieved those things decades ago.
And even if you point this to them, they will still feel somehow the US has done it first and it did it better.
They are suckers for western narratives. You really can't reason with them. It's part of the epigentic brown sepoy syndrome.
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We have to be frank here & admit that there is no significant upside for India in having more Indian-Americans in office.
For Indian-American Republicans, they have to look the other way & explain away 50% of their intern class lamenting that a groyper’s gun jammed trying to conduct a mass shooting event at a Hindu temple along with performative cruelty in immigration policies.
For Indian-American Democrats, they must conduct the Shahada of condemning an ideology that oversaw lifting half a billion humans, forget even Indians, out of poverty as Ro is doing here in addition to tabling insane caste legislation to harass Indians.
The sheer spinelessness & at this point we must admit – striverism – of Indian Americans who seek power means that they will do anything to impress & outdo their peers, which results in comical signaling attempting to surpass their white counterparts in ideological brownie points.
Every Indian-American in power must either signal anti-Indianism in some way or be meek & silent about their identity.
I say this as a 2nd Gen Indian American FWIW.
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Rajdeep - did you forget to take your meds again?
You said "Not to forget, we have a Parliament with not a single Muslim MP from the ruling party and no Muslim cabinet minister."
Well Genius - NONE of the Muslim candidates who won in the US elections - including your idol Abdul El-Sayed are from the ruling Republican party either.
They are all from the opposition Democratic Party!
It's time to retire when you become so senile and unhinged.
NOTE: With due respect, I think you get this horribly wrong, @priyankac19, as do many others. Show me how many (if any) mainstream Indian Muslim politicians have been elected in the last decade from Hindu-majority constituencies. And yes, the reverse is also true, though there are far too few examples of that either.
That is precisely the point: faith, rather than the real issues that Abu El-Sayed has so powerfully raised, has increasingly become central to electoral politics in India. Not to forget, we have a Parliament with not a single Muslim MP from the ruling party and no Muslim cabinet minister.
That is why we need an El-Sayed moment today: a reminder that India’s diversity in society must find expression in its politics too.
And please don’t take us back to an era of nominated Presidents and Vice-Presidents. I am talking about a popular electoral mandate, won in Michigan through a cross-community, cross-class coalition.
Perhaps it is time we looked in the mirror and acknowledged this reality. Hope you agree.
Regards, always.
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Oh Man - Elon moved Tesla all the way from California to Texas to get away from the Democrats - what is he going to do now after tonight’s results of the state turning blue? 🫢
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The ToI social experiment continues. The landing page is essentially obscure international news. I have pointed this out a few times before. This is not click bait farming as it cannot possibly be attracting more clicks. Even an algo would have figured this out by now.
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A ZERO that speaks volumes.
@crpfindia
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GoI’s Mission Karmayogi now offers a course on “Process Reforms: The Art of Government Re-engineering” on the iGOT Karmayogi platform. Have personally delivered the lecture.
The course explores the importance of rethinking and redesigning government processes to enhance administrative efficiency, simplify procedures, and strengthen public service delivery.
It encourages civil servants to reflect on how process reforms can reduce complexity, improve institutional effectiveness, and promote a more responsive, efficient, and citizen-centric approach to governance.
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In this day and age, to argue that Diwali is a 'South Asian' festival is an extreme disservice to the millions of Hindus who preserved and kept traditions alive because they were Hindu Traditions.
They did this outside "South Asia" because they were Hindu and that identity meant something.
You won't melt by calling Diwali a Hindu festival.
Hi! Friendly reminder Diwali is celebrated across SOUTH ASIA by Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and more.
It was a beautiful event in which the Democratic Michigan ticket lit a diya, @AbdulElSayed spoke about the foiled terrorist attack in Aurora and the need for us to come together to light the way forward, and several community members (and yes, Hindu ones too) spoke in support of the Democratic ticket.
We are so sorry you feel left out. Unlike some, we hold a broad world view that is accepting of all people. We’ll be sure to invite you to our next community event with Senator El-Sayed!
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I feel sorry you were never loved as a child and feel you need to spew hatred towards others. Great example to the world.
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Modern AI images can be nearly indistinguishable from real ones via visual inspection alone. This aerial photo is AI-generated/fabricated, not an original of the Nov 1 Ramlila Maidan rally.
Reasons:
1. Fact-checkers (BOOM) detected hidden OpenAI SynthID watermarks.
2. Surroundings (open fields, water body) mismatch Ramlila Maidan's urban Delhi layout on maps.
3. Crowd density is unnaturally uniform without real gaps or variations.
4. No matching authentic drone/news footage exists for this exact view.
5. Repetitive textures and composition show generative AI hallmarks.
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Khalistanis are a Canadian problem.
I've said it before and saying it again.
From November 1 to 7, flags at #Brampton City Hall will be lowered to half-mast in recognition of Sikh Genocide Awareness Week.
We remember those who lost their lives in the 1984 Sikh Genocide, honour survivors and recognize the lasting impact on Sikh communities.
