Why pick on one person?

Probably the biggest damage done by the BJP-RSS fanboys is spreading total defeatism and negativity in Hindu ranks. They have thoroughly run down Hindu confidence, undermined their courage, and tried to create a self-fulfilling prophecy of another partition in the next 50 years.

https://twitter.com/maidros78/status/1222703899187929088?s=19

Inflating Muslim numbers, making Hindus think that they will become a minority in the next 50 years, playing up Islamist power in the streets, and insisting Hindus are finished, and that voting BJP can only delay the inevitable demise of Hinduism in India. All of which are false.

One of the biggest misconceptions Hindutvavadis have is that most average H don't know M rulers were evil and need to be told endless dreary stories to show that they more. What H need to be the told about & what Hindutvavadis themselves need to be told about is pre-Islamic India

https://twitter.com/ArmchairPseph/status/1155090335162179585?s=19

The biggest barrier to H political identity is the lack of pride or prestige associated with the 'Hindu' label, which itself comes from being told by both Hvadis and secularists that their ancestors were losers.

Most people know that the numbers we use today originally came from India. But very few people wonder how the words that we use for these numbers came to be. Are they just random? No.

In this thread, I will argue why it is so. I will develop a theory for how these words arose. https://t.co/kZXkesb1at

https://twitter.com/vakibs/status/1139589009422901251?s=19

Rajaji was first one to moot / accept this - then Sardar Patel - n then किसी ... n still would not have happened in CWC but for the intervention by your Mahatmaji, sir. So stop peddling these inane innuendo please, sir.

https://twitter.com/gopimaliwal/status/1225363583443197953?s=19

And @PMOIndia may like to read this book by someone who certainly can't be accused of being a "Nehruvian "Liberal": https://t.co/qMuufWR5nx

Shri Arun Shourie extensively quoted from this book - in defending book by Shri Jaswant Singh who was expelled from BJP for that - allegedly upon the demand by a certain BJP CM! Here is a sample: https://t.co/iIrycpoule

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HVS:

Patel was so fed up with League’s tactics in interim govt that he saw endless intrigue/troubles ahead in working with League, so it was better to have a clean separation rather than pinpricks everyday. Nehru too had lost all hopes of a joint action with the Muslim League.

AS:

Sheshadri’s book is not the only one that documents lapse of Congress leaders. Prof RC Majumdar nailed lapses in his lectures published by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, and in his "History of the Freedom Movement in India"...2

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All these books and many more can be stretched to cast the same doubts on the role of Patel, as one of principal leader of Congress...

agree... but why pick on one person?

yes; agree.. their fault was not taking this - partition based on religion (Cong was party too that) - to its logical end.

https://twitter.com/gopimaliwal/status/1225367715981848576?s=19

Absolutely. The usual half-literate intellectuals try to make a distinction between "nationalism" and "patriotism" based on something Orwell wrote—and of course, they didn't have the patience to read his full essay. 

https://t.co/hQZvJhlFxu

https://twitter.com/sandipanthedeb/status/1210078193379528704?s=19

Then they quote Tagore. Tagore wrote so much that he can be quoted to suit anyone. Eg: "(Christianity and Islam) have distinct enmity against all other religions. They are not just satisfied with observing their own religions, but are determined to destroy all other religions."

"The Muslims cannot confine their patriotism to any one country. I had frankly asked them whether in the event of any Mohammedan power invading India, they would stand side by side with their Hindu neighbours to defend their common land. I was not satisfied with the reply I got."

https://twitter.com/sandipanthedeb/status/1210080730954399744?s=19

Another tiring quote. People like Gandhi and Tagore spoke and wrote so much that they can be quoted to try to prove any point at all. Here's one from Tagore (next tweet) that is "clear evidence" that he hated the Abrahamic religions. 1/2

https://twitter.com/sandipanthedeb/status/1217340599646355456?s=19

"There are two religions in earth, which have distinct enmity against all other religions. These are Christianity and Islam. They are not satisfied with observing their own religions, but are determined to destroy all other religions.” Works. Vol 24, Pg 375, Vishwa Bharti; 1982.

Tagore was so much concerned about ecology and its direct relationship with freedom! "Re-reading Tagore to Become Human" by Aseem Shrivastava raises some grave questions in the Freedom Issue of @Openthemag https://t.co/y3Mcogrk7B

https://twitter.com/vibhuarora/status/1029387989493972992?s=19

“The danger to us is not so much external as internal. Reactionary forces & communal organizations are trying to disrupt the structure of free India. They do not realize that if disruption comes they will also be swept away” Nehru in 1947. Echoes also of Tagore’s view.

https://twitter.com/kaushikcbasu/status/1223072307951886336?s=19

Mahatma Gandhi, in a statement addressed "To Gujaratis", 14 January 1948:

"All Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Parsis, Christians and Jews who people this country have an equal right to it. No one can say that it has place only for the majority and the minority should be dishonoured."

https://twitter.com/Ram_Guha/status/1217044732284526595?s=19

It was only Manmohan Singh who tried to change the words of Mahatma Gandhi, saying that Muslims have the first right to the resources of India, and the Dimmis have to be contended with what the Muslims give them. But he could not do that.

https://twitter.com/mvnair212/status/1217045624366891008?s=19