Mradul Yadav @_mradul__

@prattweets10 Dhoka will look you dead in the eye and ask for 900 rupees from the airport

@anjaliydotcom Do nothing basically

Dear @gautambhatia88, I read it, the whole of it, several times, because I thought I'd write a long rebuttal. I couldn't, because I was too busy. But since I had most of the material ready, I've converted everything into bullet points for easy reading. Everything I say about what Sharjeel Imam says is from his interview. The history and counterpoints are mine. So here it is. What I disagree with, what I agree with, and why I have deep reservations even where I agree. 1. His foundation is faith - He says his politics comes from his faith. - He bases liberty, justice and equality on tawhid. He calls justice and equality "transcendental values". - He calls nationalism, materialism and even despotism and casteism branches of shirk (idolatry). Some of these he's right to oppose, but the frame is theological. Political questions become questions of faith. - In a republic, laws have to make sense to every citizen. If the base is theology, everyone who doesn't share that faith is left out. This is where I part ways with his politics completely. For me, citizens' rights must come from citizens. Once you bring God into it, things get convoluted and murky. Whose God? Whose interpretation? And what happens to the citizen who doesn't believe? Most of what follows comes from this disagreement. 2. No place for fraternity - He treats Muslims as a separate nation, like Iqbal and Jinnah did. - He calls the idea of an ancient, united Indian nation a myth, and dismisses the idea that Indians are "all brothers." - He wants a deal between communities. I want a fraternity of citizens. Ambedkar said without fraternity, liberty and equality don't mean much. - He calls the Constitution a "roadblock" and says he's not part of the "Save the Constitution club." 3. He never answers the obvious questions He never calls his position political Islam. But it starts from the same place: politics based on faith. Classical Islamic jurisprudence already has positions on non-Muslims, law and governance. If you build your politics on tawhid, you have to tell us where you stand on these. He doesn't. - Nothing on dhimma or sharia. Nothing on how a tawhid-based order would treat non-Muslims, atheists, ex-Muslims, women or LGBTQ people. - In his religious framework, he lists allying with "people of the book" and monotheists as a Qur'anic mandate. - Would he give minorities in a Muslim-majority country what he demands for Muslims in India? He never asks. 4. Selective history - He says "two nations" never meant two territories. But Iqbal's 1930 address proposed a consolidated North-West Muslim state, and the 1940 Lahore Resolution talks of "independent states." - He treats Perry Anderson's The Indian Ideology as the final word, and dismisses its Indian critics (like Chatterjee, Kaviraj and Menon, all from the left) as weak attempts. I'm not a scholar. I simply read the critiques of Anderson, and found enough in them to have serious doubts. - He uses Azad against Nehru, but Azad was a firm opponent of the League's two-nation politics. - He calls the 1946 vote an "ijma" of educated Muslims that still carries weight. But only a small, propertied section could vote. And "Muslims voted for Partition" is exactly the line the Sangh uses to question Indian Muslims' loyalty even today. - He's right that Bihar 1946 is forgotten. But he skips Direct Action Day. And he says nothing about the women abducted and assaulted by Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs alike in 1947. CONT+

Dheere hazam karo yaar sab

Rajat Jain @RajatJain

3 days ago

SHEER AUDACITY! PM Modi: “JO MILA VO HAZAM,AISA NAHI CHALTA HAI” Hon’ble PM @narendramodi This is not how a democracy talks to its taxpayers. This framing clearly treats taxpayers like subjects under British or Mughal rule — “grateful” for scraps. Meanwhile, Indirect Tax like

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That way there's no sacrosanct text that can do "shit". Ultimately, a constitution is only as noble as its custodians. No institutional framework, regardless of its design, can endure if it is perversely weaponised while the judiciary and the citizenry acquiesce.

Nilim Dutta @NilimDutta

3 days ago

The Constitution could do shit when Kashmiris had been raped and killed for decades, when tribal North Easterners had been raped and killed for decades under the AFSPA, when Sikhs were killed and disappeared under the AFSPA, when Adivasis have been killed as Naxals. The

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@kabhinietzsche Ye shaheen bagh ke video ka transcript hai bhai

@kabhinietzsche Interesting to see sangh recruiting gays for better outreach and PR. It's quite like the CIA pride month bs

Lmao beautiful

vrunda @kaurXvibe

a week ago

This Hindu Rakshak Leader was trying to stop feeding Chicken rice to bcz of Navratri.But Ladki ne muh tod jawab dedya iss gunde ko

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@bekbekagain Chal confirm kar lete hain. @grok is the above clip real footage

@kabhinietzsche I'm always baffled by a few college seniors who are gay and soft Sanghis. I often wonder what developmental injury led them to have such cognitive dissonance. They are even deluded enough to believe that the Sangh is becoming progressive and will accept them someday.

*State* imposes restrictions and shut-downs, but *protesters* are allegedly responsible for business losses — in most courts, if you tried to make such an absurd argument, you’d be laughed out of the room. However…

Bar and Bench @barandbench

a week ago

Supreme Court hears a plea concerning restrictions on traders and hawkers in Connaught Place, Delhi. Justice Joymalya Bagchi observes that "someone wants to sell moongfali, someone wants to exercise the right to protest, while others seek maintenance of law and order". All such

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@bekbekagain Why are you lying to give your audience this false copium?🤣 Even the yadavs you know ain't voting for BJP and I'm talking at least 5 here lmao. Even across the state your statement is verifiably false

Yes of course people-led protests are only a thing in western nations. Only they have agency. Anything happening anywhere else is a foreign funded plot.

Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹 @angeloinchina

2 weeks ago

Regime change attempt in India and full backing of Western media. Keep a critical mind, even for the ones who despise Modi and his pro-Zionist stance. Colour revolutions start with legitimate claims/grievances and then are gradually hijacked by NGOs and foreign powers. There

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@Cric_Stark @ShivAroor You know it

And are these “specific Court orders for restraint” in the room with us now?

Suhasini Haidar @suhasinih

2 weeks ago

The last two days in Delhi have changed the paradigm of how police will deal with protests across the country, despite specific Court orders for restraint. There are precedents set in terms of the numbers of security forces deployed, the size of area domination, the freedom given

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😭😂????

Rahul Shivshankar @RShivshankar

2 weeks ago

NOIDA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TO BE RENAMED NARENDRA MODI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT: CM YOGI

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Tell me who won gold here?

VG @Diggerxtra

3 weeks ago

No one remembers the second man that landed on the moon ❤️

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@mrviolinfane @mungoroncel @GoldenJuventino @kabhinietzsche We’re both doing that, idiot ☺️

@Blackbeard62596 @kabhinietzsche oh forgive me for I didn't count rwpi in these internet bickering MLs, I didn't think they'd fit the criteria but you do you