Founder @garudaprakashan. Author, Meditator, Drummer. Advocacy for plural world, indigenous cultures. Book: The English Medium Myth निज भाषा उन्नति grpr.in/emm

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Colonial consciousness turns every crime into a crime of native culture. In the master race a crime is an aberration, merely a criminal act.
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The Indian colonial state which calls this “justice” wants to socially engineer society for the cause of “social justice.” Instead it should get out of ruining people’s lives and fixing roads and the toxic air and water its policies have created.
Ranveer Singh Yadav, former bus conductor with the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC), waged a legal battle spanning 40 years over a sum of just 5 paise—and ultimately won. In 1973, Ranveer Singh was accused of issuing a 10-paise ticket instead of a 15-paise one to a female passenger and pocketing the remaining 5 paise. Following this allegation, a departmental inquiry was conducted, and he was dismissed from service in 1976. Ranveer challenged this action by approaching the Labour Court. In 1990, the Labour Court ruled in his favor, declaring his dismissal wrongful. However, the DTC challenged this verdict in the Delhi High Court, causing the matter to drag on for decades. Finally, in 2016, the Delhi High Court dismissed the DTC's appeal. The court ordered that Ranveer Singh be paid ₹30,000. Additionally, the court directed the payment of ₹1.28 lakh as gratuity and ₹1.37 lakh towards his Contributory Provident Fund (CPF).
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We have no access to govt libraries; the govt hasn’t lifted a finger to get our books into libraries, though it helps the pro-India narrative. When we submit them the gatekeepers expect bribes. And they will take absolute garbage if someone pays them.
Peruse govts to provide in govt libraries. There are only leftist books available
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While Britain and the West had chattel slavery till the 19th century and the Islamic world till the 21st, we’re still debating whether Drona refused to teach Eklavya 5000 years ago because he was a “tribal.” 😌
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The post was not about Eklavya. But nonetheless:
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There is a CLEAR reference that Ekalavya is a prince of royal lineage; Drona was employed by the Pandava/Kuru dynasty. Eklavya's father was aligned with a rival. It would be inappropriate to teach him as a loyal employee of the Kuru kingdom.
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Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ retweeted
This is exactly what happened today at Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute. A hall was booked by nationalist organisations for a programme. A group of Urban and Dimagi Naxals then stormed the venue, raised “Go back RSS” slogans, tore down posters and, as the video shows, tore apart and kicked posters bearing images of Bharat Mata and Swami Vivekananda. And yet, these naxals are now trying to play the victim. This has become a familiar pattern: create disruption, insult symbols revered by Bharatiyas, and then portray oneself as the victim when questioned about it. What is equally disturbing is the attempt by sections of the so-called liberal and intellectual establishment to indirectly justify or overlook such behaviour. The people of Bengal and India deserve to see this for what it is: an insult to symbols that represent India’s civilisational and national consciousness. How much longer will such open disrespect for Bharat Mata and Swami Vivekananda be tolerated?
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How did the story about a Royal Prince Ekalavya and political alliances of his father become a staple in the "caste atrocity" narrative. The same way that the story of "Bali" and Vamana was weaponized. Let me explain. Dharma is transmitted via stories. These stories are a pedagogical tool; not of commandments but of exercising the ability to wrestle with contradictory dharmas in every human life. Ekalavya's story poses one such question. Here is a boy showing skill and devotion. On the other hand there is an employee's loyalty to his employer who is paying him. What would someone choose? The answer isn't the point. The question is the point. Developing the moral reasoning helps us wrestle with our own conflicting responsibilities. The fact that we are drawn to Ekalavya and Mahabali, sharpens our emotional investment in this question. Life poses exactly such difficult choices. The Left's narrative inverts it. It takes the act of learning out and weaponizes our emotional resonance into an oppression story. This is why Ekalavya's story is turned into a story about caste. The agenda is important, not truth or learning.
Replying to @sankrant
There is a CLEAR reference that Ekalavya is a prince of royal lineage; Drona was employed by the Pandava/Kuru dynasty. Eklavya's father was aligned with a rival. It would be inappropriate to teach him as a loyal employee of the Kuru kingdom.
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Before the industrial age all societies had various hierarchies, with varying rigidity often tied to professions and birth. The industrial age changed much of that. It was at this time that British got a hold of India and de-industrialized it. And they also created a state-driven "caste system" rather than allowing the natural change that was happening across the world to happen. The post-independence colonial Indian state made it even more institutionalized and widespread; determining all aspects of life based on the caste lists which were first drawn up in British time. This caste system is created and sustained by the Indian state.
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There is NO reference in the Mahabharata that Drona refused Ekalavya because he was a "tribal." The entire vocabulary of "tribal" is post-colonial; their favorite Christian colonizers were wiping out people they called "tribals" around the world. It's plain transposition.
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You have the absolute audacity to lecture me about "utter ignorance" while building your entire rant on an English spelling error. Read your own provided text: King Nala ruled the "Nishadhas", an elite, mainstream Kshatriya dynasty. Guha and Ekalavya belonged to the "Nishada" forest tribe. Confusing a mainstream royal house with a marginalized tribe just to pretend you know the epics is a spectacular self-own. Cherry-picking Lord Rama’s personal grace toward Guha doesn’t erase state-enforced segregation. Guha was a respected ally who stayed in his designated forest lane. But look directly at the Hastinapur throne: Vidura was universally acknowledged as the most qualified Kuru, yet he was legally and permanently barred from the crown strictly because his mother was a Shudra. The blind and the diseased got the empire, while the most capable man was structurally suppressed by birth. Calling Ekalavya a "Royal prince" is a massive cope. If the establishment actually viewed him as an equal, Drona wouldn’t have legally barred him and mutilated him purely to protect Kshatriya supremacy. Stop projecting a "nauseating casteist agenda" onto others to protect your historical denialism when you cannot even distinguish between two different Sanskrit words in your own screenshots.🤦
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Nishada is a name attribution, just like Kuru vansh. Where does it state that it is a “status” of some kind which disqualifies him: In fact the Mahabharata says it is Dorna’s moh for Arjuna. It does say Ekalavya is a prince. His father is a General. He is elite.
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If we are playing the vocabulary game, the word "Hindu" doesn't exist anywhere in the Vedas, the Ramayana, the Vyasa Mahabharata, or the Bhagavad Gita. It is a Persian geographical term. Even the phrase "Sanatan Dharma" is used in ancient scriptures to mean "eternal duty," not as a title for a unified religion....that was a 19th-century revivalist rebrand. By your own logic, did our entire religion and civilization not exist until foreigners and modern reformists gave it a label? Playing semantic games with the English word "tribal" to dodge actual Sanskrit texts is a pathetic deflection. Vyasa didn't use the English word "tribal"; he used the exact word Nishada. Adi Parva (Section 132) explicitly states Drona rejected Ekalavya: Naiṣādir iti matvā .... "Knowing him to be a Nishada." Drona weaponized his birth.
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There is a CLEAR reference that Ekalavya is a prince of royal lineage; Drona was employed by the Pandava/Kuru dynasty. Eklavya's father was aligned with a rival. It would be inappropriate to teach him as a loyal employee of the Kuru kingdom.
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The English ran an oppressive and hierarchical society. The oppression was not reserved for the colonies but for their own people and the people around them. Serfs had far fewer rights than the supposed atrocities on "low caste" in India. They couldn't even hunt or be free to tend their cattle. Most of the aristocracy was by birth + some promotion by the king. This hierarchical society we mapped, when colonized, into a fantasy of a an egalitarian society in contrast to "backward" Indians.
For 300 years the English government in Ireland tried to make it illegal for an Irish family to spend the summer with its cows. The practice was called booleying. Every May the household left the winter village and walked the herd up into the hills, to a cluster of huts on the summer pasture, and lived there until October. Grandparents, children, the lot. The men came and went. The women ran the booley, and the booley ran on milk: fresh, soured, curdled, buttered, and eaten as the day's meals. The grass was free because it was up a mountain, and a family that owned 8 cows and a mountain wanted for nothing until the frost. The English could not stand it. A people that walked away every summer could not be counted, tithed or made to plough. The Statute of Kilkenny, 1366, forbade the Irish to booley their cattle on any land held by the English, and licensed the English to seize the herd if they did. By 1612 the King's attorney general in Dublin could report that it had been made penal for an Englishman even to allow it. Edmund Spenser, who had been handed 3,000 acres of confiscated Cork, wrote a whole pamphlet on what was wrong with Ireland, and this was near the top of it. Living out with the herd, he said, taught the Irish to be wild and to feed themselves without a master. That was the objection, in his own words. Booleying was outlawed because it worked. The remedy, over the next century, was to take the hills, fence the grass, put the family on a rented acre in the valley, and hand it a potato. The last booleys in Ireland were still walked up the hills of Achill in the 1940s, by people who had been told for 600 years that their summers were a crime.
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No, it just shifted. The peasants became low-wage factory workers. The landowners controlled the capital.
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But that ended when they industrized right
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The only way a strategy like this can work is if the terrorists know the Israelis wouldn't fire at a child.
❗️ CHILDREN IN GAZA EXPLOITED: Footage shows a terrorist using a child to transfer weapons into a civilian home in central Gaza, using him as a human shield to transfer the weapons, in an attempt to prevent the IDF from striking & thwarting their transfer. Upon identifying the presence of a child, the IDF refrained from carrying out any strikes against the terrorist.
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Absolutely disaster of service from @urbancompany_UC They double charged a pack and the AI help app goes in a loop when trying to cancel with NO way to reach a human. Isn’t this a violation of basic Consumer Protection for ECommerce, having no number to call? @UC_Assist @jagograhakjago
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Absolutely disaster of service from @urbancompany_UC They double charged a pack and the AI help app goes in a loop when trying to cancel with NO way to reach a human. Isn’t this a violation of basic Consumer Protection for ECommerce, having no number to call? @UC_Assist @jagograhakjago
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Urban Company is particularly disastrous in this. I have not seen another paid app whose customer service is this bad, with no way to reach a human.
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Every government scheme of social engineering with financial incentives will create perverse outcomes. But Indian govt continues. Guess how.
When the British colonial government in India tried to control the cobra population they ended up with more snakes than they started. What happened became one of the most famous - and grotesque - lessons in economics, and explains why so many policies fail because they don't take account of incentives. In an attempt to reduce the number of venomous cobras in Delhi, the authorities introduced a reward for every cobra killed and handed in. At first, the policy appeared to work: dead cobras were brought in and payments were made. However, local entrepreneurs quickly realised there was easy money to be made. They began breeding cobras specifically to kill them and claim the bounty. When the government discovered the scheme and cancelled the programme, the breeders were left with thousands of now-worthless snakes. Rather than keep feeding them, they simply released the cobras back into the wild. The cobra population, which had been temporarily reduced, ended up larger than it was before the bounty was introduced. This episode became known as the “Cobra Effect” - a textbook example of perverse incentives. By creating a financial reward for dead cobras, the government unintentionally created a market for live ones. The policy did not account for how people would respond to the incentive it created. This same pattern appears whenever governments try to engineer outcomes through crude rewards or punishments without understanding how individuals will adapt and without considering second and third order effects of their policies. When policy ignores human ingenuity and self-interest, it often produces the exact opposite of what was intended.
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If you are a professor in a univ/school/college, do prescribe @GarudaPrakashan books for your courses and for your library. We have amazing books debunking the Left narrative, we all need to do our part in changing things. Our full catalog is at grpr.in/catalogue
THIS IS WHAT STUDENTS ARE BEING TAUGHT AT OUR UNIVERSITIES🚨 From patriarchy to Caste Annihilation to Debrahmanising the history to Curse of Manu we are feeding young minds with a poison which our leftist cabal use a apprenticeship for grooming their future rank and file 🧵
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