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Actor- turned Sunil Dutt remembered fondly for playing a key role in slumification of Mumbai. Seems to build a strong vote bank by normalisation of illegal settlements as permanent political constituencies.

I'm aghast reading the full Bhojshala verdict. It's riddled with historical inaccuracies, there's no citation of sources for so many claims, vague terms such as "history speaks" and "it is known" are used, but where is it known?? What source of history *speaks*?? They have all but ignored Dilawar Khan's inscription on the mosque that documents its repairs under him. Shockingly shoddy stuff to say the least!!!

India’s judiciary helped turn a 500-year-old mosque into a temple. Imagine the outrage if Bangladesh did this to Hindu temples.

Btw, when did Ganga or any other river become vegetarian?

🚨Amul’s sugar-free chocolate is India’s top seller : Amit Shah

Sanskrit origins r in Pakistan. The oldest form of the language Vedic Sanskrit, was used to compose the Rigveda along the banks of the Indus. Furthermore, the scholar Panini, who standardized Classical Sanskrit grammar in was born in modern-day Pakistan too.

One of my favorite quirks of "secular left" intellectual culture in India is that the same people who rail against the evils of "Brahminism" are quickest to parade their credentials as a priori evidence of superior qualifications, regardless of the argument. plus ca change, I guess

she wearing traditional dress of indus valley 🇵🇰

A decade of BJP rule has done overwhelming damage to public discourse in India. It's not just Whatsapp university, but even serious scholarship that has gone to shit. Never has independent India's intellectual landscape, which was not exactly overflowing with rigor to begin with, looked this degenerate. The article below is a typical example. Until a decade ago, this sort of civilizational fan-fiction would've been dismissed as fringe crankery, and laughed out of respectable publications. Today, it has become mainstream and is marketed as serious scholarship. Putting aside the unstated (and false) claim of this article that Hindu rulers and dynasties were all saints, unlike those evil Mughals, note the other equally horrific implication: that the old Nehruvian obligation to appease Muslims has expired. Of course you can't say "Muslims" directly, whether in a speech in Gujarat in 2002, or in an online history article in 2026. At least not yet. So you use euphemisms, like "Mughals". In 1947, the logic goes, when India was a newly independent country, we had to tolerate those pesky Muslims for the sake of national unity. We had no choice but to put up with their shenanigans (i.e. treat them as equals). But now, the time has come to remind them of their "proper" place in the hierarchy.

Suvendu Cabinet has approved to discontinue Imam Bhatta. 🥳