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Raminder Ahluwalia

@raminder_a

A healthcare IT professional, travel enthusiast and one who believes in social justice.

Waterloo, Ontario Katılım Haziran 2010
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Raminder Ahluwalia
Raminder Ahluwalia@raminder_a·
@hiddensyntax001 @Pivot2Centre Where are the vessels required to pull this off? Do you know we have not enough vessels to protect the vast Indian shoreline? And Nicobar is being developed as an Adani port not a Naval asset.
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HiddenSyntax@hiddensyntax001·
@Pivot2Centre India can block the Malacca Strait using Southernmost GreatNicobar Island . By positioning subs & P-8I aircraft near the 6° Channel, India can choke ~70% of China's oil imports. Fact: Great Nicobar is just ~150km from the strait's mouth.
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Niks@Pivot2Centre·
The black cross is Nicobar. That small gap between Nicobar and Banda Aceh is where all the ships cross. Congress handles are pointing Nicobar as the Red Cross on the map (that’s 150kms North West). They really want India not to have a transshipment port or a major establishment in Nicobar. I wonder why!
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satya@SThinkTnereffid·
This is the exact reason, why chinese agent @RahulGandhi doesn't want India to build a port..!!
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Darab Farooqui
Darab Farooqui@darab_farooqui·
What we are witnessing is the birth of a Hindutva nation, one court sentence at a time.
Darab Farooqui@darab_farooqui

Hindutva Hate Speech vs Gandhian Satyagraha Speech On April 29, 2026, the Supreme Court of India ruled that no cognizable offense was made out in the speeches of Anurag Thakur and Parvesh Verma. Six years. That is how long we waited. Six years of faith, however fragile, that the highest court of the land would look at what happened in Delhi in February 2020 and call it what it was. Six years of believing that the institution would hold. That the Constitution these men had weaponized as a prop would be honored by the court sworn to protect it. The Supreme Court delivered justice. Just not natural justice. A special type of Hindutva justice. No FIR. No prosecution. No cognizable offense. Clean chit, handed down by the one institution that was supposed to be beyond the reach of the men who needed it most. Umar Khalid has been in jail for more than five and a half years. Read that again slowly. In the winter of 2019, India's Parliament passed the Citizenship Amendment Act. The law did something no Indian law had done before. It made religion an explicit criterion for citizenship. It offered fast-tracked naturalization to persecuted minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists, Jains, Zoroastrians. Every persecuted minority from every neighboring country. Except Muslims. The message was not subtle. Across India, people poured into the streets. At Shaheen Bagh in southeast Delhi, Muslim women, grandmothers, mothers, daughters, sat in peaceful vigil for months. They held the Tricolor. They read from the Constitution. They sang the national anthem. They were asking, simply, to be recognized as citizens of the country they had always called home. The BJP was fighting a Delhi assembly election. Into this atmosphere, of protest, of anxiety, of a minority community asserting its constitutional belonging, BJP leaders arrived with a different kind of speech. On January 27, 2020, Anurag Thakur, a sitting Member of Parliament and Union Minister, stood at an election rally and led a call-and-response chant: "Desh ke gaddaron ko", and the crowd roared back "goli maaro saalon ko." Shoot the traitors of the nation. He did not stumble into it. He led it. Deliberately. At a microphone. In front of cameras. The very next day, Parvesh Verma, another BJP leader campaigning in Delhi, told voters what would happen if the protestors were not stopped. They will enter your homes, he said. They will rape your sisters and daughters. They will kill them. Both speeches were filmed. Both were broadcast. Neither man has spent a day in jail. Days later, Delhi burned. Fifty-three people died. Forty of them were Muslim. Numerous mosques were burned and desecrated. A Muslim man was forced by Delhi Police to sing Jana Gana Mana as he lay beaten on the ground. He died two days later. Homes were looted. Families were displaced. It was the worst communal violence the capital had seen in decades. Scholars who study such events called it, plainly, a pogrom. The Supreme Court looked at this chain of events and found nothing worth prosecuting. Now read what Umar Khalid actually said. On hate: We will not respond to hate with hate. If they spread hate, we will respond by spreading love. On violence: We will not respond to violence with violence. If they beat us with lathis, we will hold aloft the Tiranga. On resistance: If they fire bullets, we will hold the Constitution and raise our hands. Khalid delivered these words at a protest in Amravati on February 17, 2020, six days before Delhi burned. His declared weapons were ahimsa and satyagraha. He said this explicitly. He named Gandhi. He named the Constitution. He asked people to stand peacefully, flag in hand, against a law that had told Muslims their belonging was now conditional. CONT++

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Priyamwada
Priyamwada@PriaINC·
This entire Andbhakt narrative of Great Nicobar Project is for India’s security is a joke. You can’t even buy oil without US permission. You don’t even utter the word China, what security are you talking about. Can you even lift a finger without China and USA permission ? #GreatNicobar
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Raminder Ahluwalia
Raminder Ahluwalia@raminder_a·
@sabsezyadaa Did you know there are Sikh Bharadwajs as well? We have close friends here in Stratford that are Sikhs! And one of my classmates (from Punjab) had a Sikh mom and Brahmin dad. He had that courage to save me from bullying, now he is VP in Cisco (San Francisco).
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Manoj Rawat🇮🇳
Manoj Rawat🇮🇳@SeaSkipper·
I am a Naval Veteran and Merchant Navy officer, and this is why I think @RahulGandhi is wrong on Great Nicobar. From an Indian national interest standpoint, Great Nicobar is not a “scam”; it is a strategic port located astride one of the most critical maritime chokepoints on earth, close to the Strait of Malacca, where a huge share of global trade moves every day. India cannot afford to treat Great Nicobar as a sentimental issue when it is a rare natural asset for maritime power, deterrence, and economic security. Yes, Great Nicobar is ecologically sensitive. India respects that. But national strategy is about balancing environmental safeguards with long-term security, logistics, and sovereignty. The current project is designed around an international container transshipment terminal, a dual-use airport, power infrastructure, and a planned township -all of which strengthen Indian Navy’s ability to monitor international sea lanes, improve military response times, and reduce commercial dependence on foreign transshipment hubs. To dismiss this as “destruction dressed in development’s language” is politically convenient, but strategically shallow. This kind of language suits our adversaries rather than us. India’s maritime future cannot be secured by empty slogans. It will be secured by developing ports, airfields, logistics nodes, surveillance, and persistent military presence in the Indo-Pacific. That is exactly why Great Nicobar matters. The real question is not whether development should happen, but how to execute strategic development responsibly while protecting our National interest. We can and should demand strict environmental compliance, tribal safeguards, and transparent implementation not reject a project that strengthens India’s maritime security simply because it is complex and uncomfortable. Great Nicobar is not just an island. It is a test of whether India can step up to its destined role as a great maritime power or remain trapped in slogan politics.
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I travelled through Great Nicobar today. These are the most extraordinary forests I have ever seen in my life. Trees older than memory. Forests that took generations to grow. The people on this island are equally beautiful - both the adivasi communities and the settlers - but they are being robbed of what is rightfully theirs. The government calls what it is doing here a “Project.” What I have seen is not a project. It is millions of trees marked for the axe. It is 160 square kilometres of rainforest condemned to die. It is communities that have been ignored while their homes have been snatched away. This is not development. This is destruction dressed in development’s language. So I will say it plainly, and I will keep saying it: what is being done in Great Nicobar is one of the biggest scams and gravest crimes against this country’s natural and tribal heritage in our lifetime. It must be stopped. And it can be stopped - if Indians choose to see what I have seen.

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Raminder Ahluwalia
Raminder Ahluwalia@raminder_a·
All of a sudden, some Naval "experts" have emerged out of nowhere to defend the destruction of Nicobar island, and handing vast amount of land to Adani. We do not have enough Naval assets to protect the Indian mainland, and they want to scuttle china in the "strait".
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Rakhi Tripathi
Rakhi Tripathi@rakhitripathi·
If doing this helps win elections, then the problem isn’t with them, it’s with the voters.
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Raminder Ahluwalia@raminder_a·
@rubabbx I remember Jahangir Khan from my youth days when I got attracted to Squash. The one game where Pakistan was always the champion.
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Rubab@rubabbx·
Did you know the longest winning streak in ALL of professional sports history doesn't belong to Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, or Roger Federer? It belongs to a boy from Karachi who doctors said should never exercise. Jahangir Khan. Pakistani squash player. 555 consecutive wins. 5 years. 8 months. Undefeated. The world forgot to tell his story. We won't. 🇵🇰
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PunsterX@PunsterX·
After videos of Jitu Munda carrying his sister's skeletal remains went viral, the bank completed all the formalities in a single day!! Video below: Bank officials handing over the money.
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Raminder Ahluwalia@raminder_a·
@gauravsabnis Not a bad business idea. But import of Dairy products was restricted till now to protect the Indian farmer, but who knows what has been negotiated by the master "stroke" in the recent trade talks.
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Gaurav Sabnis@gauravsabnis·
I was recently asked if I wanted to invest in a company that plans to sell American made paneer in India. Their positioning is going to be, this is paneer from America, so you can be sure it is made from milk, not palm oil. They see a real market for American paneer in India.
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Raminder Ahluwalia@raminder_a·
@darab_farooqui Her post is typical fear politics. Instill fear of the "other", in this case, a minority community that is not even 20% in the whole state, that they somehow will snatch your homes from you.
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Darab Farooqui
Darab Farooqui@darab_farooqui·
Dayan. The word is doing precise work here. It isn't abuse, it isn't hyperbole. It is a specific historical license to destroy a woman. Women accused of being daayans have been lynched, stripped, paraded naked, beaten to death, even raped and driven from their villages. It's not metaphor. It has a body count and it lands hardest on Dalit and Adivasi women, used to grab land, settle scores, eliminate inconvenient women. Mamata Banerjee is an inconvenient woman, though not an adivasi or a dalit. She has held power in a state they desperately want. She has refused to be moved So Sanghis reach for the oldest tool in the kit. Calling her a daayan isn't an insult. It's a wish. A very specific one, a very specific need to destroy her whole existence and make an example out of her. Though when a woman called Shefali delivers it, it makes it more palatable. And therefore far more insidious and lethal.
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Rahul Gandhi
Rahul Gandhi@RahulGandhi·
I travelled through Great Nicobar today. These are the most extraordinary forests I have ever seen in my life. Trees older than memory. Forests that took generations to grow. The people on this island are equally beautiful - both the adivasi communities and the settlers - but they are being robbed of what is rightfully theirs. The government calls what it is doing here a “Project.” What I have seen is not a project. It is millions of trees marked for the axe. It is 160 square kilometres of rainforest condemned to die. It is communities that have been ignored while their homes have been snatched away. This is not development. This is destruction dressed in development’s language. So I will say it plainly, and I will keep saying it: what is being done in Great Nicobar is one of the biggest scams and gravest crimes against this country’s natural and tribal heritage in our lifetime. It must be stopped. And it can be stopped - if Indians choose to see what I have seen.
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