As discussed earlier, I am writing a #Thread on how Swαmy entered Harvard University. As per claims, Swαmy got full scholarship frm Harvard. I took this SS from official VHS website which says Swαmy got full scholarship frm 'Rockefeller Foundation' & not frm Harvard University 🤷🏻‍♂️

Whenever we discuss about Mahabharata, we discuss same characters again & again. I thought we should discuss about lesser known but significant characters.

My #thread on Shalya, he was Charioteer of Karna & how he played an important role in the duel between Arjun & Karna. 👇🏼

Shalya was King of province called Madra. He was also known as Madra Naresh and he was the brother of Queen Madri, 2nd wife of King Pandu & Maternal Uncle of Nakul & Sahdev.

Pandavas called him Mama. Mama Shalya had pledged his supports to Pandavas, but then comes a twist.

Pandavas had gathered 7 Akshauhini Sena, while Kauravas had 9 Akshauhini Sena

According to epic Mahabarta, one Akshauhini contains four different types of armed forces
 21,870 chariots
 21,870 elephants
 65,616 horses
 109350 infantry

Pandavas knew Shalya has 2 Akshauhini Sena

With Mama Shalya joining Pandavas, things would have been squared at 9 Akshauhini Sena each. But Shakuni tricked him.

While Shalya was travelling towards Kurukshetra, Shakuni arranged excellent hospitality for him along the road for him & his Sena. Shalya was highly impressed.

Shalya was under the impression that this has been arranged by Yudhistir. After Madri went Sati, Nakul & Sahdev lived with Kunti instead of living with their uncle. Hence Shalya barely got chance to meet his nephews

He met Duryodhana on his arrival & he thought it was Yudhistir

This is slightly a different topic, but I thought this is important topic to be discussed. In my opinion Indian culture is totally different than western countries & our economy can never be compared to theirs. I may be wrong, but I am going to list out top 15 reasons in #Thread

1st

Bread vs Roti

Homemade Roti is good is taste & very healthy food, but in western countries including lsIamic countries mainly rely on bread. Bakery business in US is worth $450 billion

If Indians switch to bread instead of rice/roti then we add $1 trillion to economy 🤷🏻‍♂️

2nd

Fast Food Industry

While we Indians love our mom made & homemade food, western countries mainly rely on fast food or processed food industry for their daily meals. Fast food industry in US is worth $250 billion

With Zomato culture creeping in, but we will stick to roots

3rd

Processed food

If you are bored of eating pizza or sandwiches, just walk to the nearest supermarket and pick your favourite packaged from the shop and save your cooking efforts.
You will get almost everything you could imagine
Packaged food industry in US worth $800 billion

4th

Processed Meat

Trust me this is my last tweet on food in this thread 😐

Processed meat industry is worth almost $400 billion.

So by not cooking food at home, can fetch US around $2 Trillion 😅. We Indians will stick to homemade shudh desi food and rightly so.

I would like to present on my #Thread on highly overrated Prime Minister from Congress, PV Narismha Rao. Many BJP supporters also get carried away with some asking for Bharat Ratna 🙄

I will try to present few facts on how PVNR was nothing but yet another failure from Congress.

I would first like to start on why Rao was chosen for the job in 1991.
Forever Prime Minister in waiting Shri Sharad Pawar has alleged in his book that Arjun Singh convinced Sonia Gandhi that Rao will be lame duck Prime Minister & Rao will make way for Arjun Singh to be Cong head

But Rao, didn't step down frm the position of the Party President and this started an internal tussle between then senior Congress leaders & they all formed regional parties. There are two reasons for it, one they were against Rao & 2nd they wanted to get minority votes post 1992

Now lets looks at Rao's role in Barbie demolition, many say Rao was in favour of demolition & some Congress ppl allege that Rao could have saved the demolition by suspending the UP govt, some say he was happy with the demolition.

Its all lie, I will explain you in detail

PVNR was basically in checkmate situation in 1992, whr he had 2 options:
1- He could hav used military against Ram Bhakts, whr he feared military will not fire on ppl chanting Jay Shree Ram
2- Take strict action post demolition to pacify Mυzlims by taking action

He went for 2nd

#Thread

My Op-ed on yesterday's attack on Shobha Yatras across many states.

I will try to cover why a particular community is feeling so agitated in the present scenario.

This is my personal opinion, so you can feel free to counter, make suggestions or add your own points.

Let's look at this situation from the recently concluded 5 state elections. Whr BJP won 4 states out of 5. The 5th state which was won by AAP has very less presence of that community, so it doesn't bother them much but the biggest state which has hurt them is Uttar Pradesh.

For almost 70 years they had a dominant presence in Uttar Pradesh politics, be it Congress, SP or BSP, they had a sizeable represention in the govt & in the assembly. But in post 2017, their presence from the assembly has diminished & this pattern will be replicated across India

Recent attacks were seen in Rajasthan, MP, Gujarat which are going for state elections next. Most likely results of UP will be replicated & other state is Jharkhand whr change of guard is speculated in media. Let's see why state elections could be one of the reason of frustration

Let's look at some of their strong or so called Bahubali netas in Hindi heartland. Azam Khan, Atique Ahmad, Mukhtar Ansari, Mohammed Shahabuddin, etc

All these are criminals turned politician who enjoy tremendous support in their home constituencies & in minority dominated areas

What is Khαlιsταn..?

Through my detailed #thread I am going to make some shocking revelations to you all. It may send shivers down your spine. Conspiracy is much bigger than what you imagine

This thread is based on journalist Conor Cruise O'brien report for The Atlantic in 1988

First we need to understand where did the idea for Khαlιsταn come from. Sικhism was formed in 15th century by Guru Nanak who was a Hindu & his followers were also Hindu, to unite against Mυghαls. But it was the 6th Guru which made religion enter into politics, later into military

6th Guru 2 terms Miri & Piri, 10th Guru Gobind Singh is called as Miri Piri ka Malik, means he brought military & spirituality in Sικhism, he said God is sword & sword is God. Hence, Khαlιsταnιs chant Raj karega Khalsa
Hence these words are used by Khαlιsταnιs to justify violence

During British Raj, Sικhs started considering themselves as partners in governance. British were impressed by courage & martial powers displayed by Sικhs in Anglo-Sικh war, they recruited Sικh in military & Sικhs supporterd British in 1857 mutiny by going against fellow soldiers

During the time of independence, Sικhs were in dilemma coz MυsIims didn't want Sικhs, in independent Khαlιsταn they would have been outnumbered by Paxtαn whereas India offered them equal rights, hence they decided to join India. But they always wanted autonomy from India.

Rio de Janeiro, 1920. 🇧🇷

São Paulo, 1910. 🇧🇷

“Arpoador”, Rio de Janeiro, 1900. 🇧🇷

“Avenida Paulista”, São Paulo, 1902. 🇧🇷

Recife, 1885. 🇧🇷

THE BATTLE OF TALIKOTA and the destruction of Vijaynagar (Hampi)
26 January 1565

A tale of valor, deception and decimation.

A grim reminder that if we fail to protect our heritage, it will eventually crumble under the onslaught of "forces of anarchy".
(Elaborate thread)

This decisive battle was fought between the Vijayanagara empire and the Deccan sultanates resulting in a rout of Vijayanagara and ending the last major medieval era Hindu kingdom in south India.(1)

The seeds of 1565 encounter were sown more than 250 years earlier when the forces of the Delhi Sultanate, during the time of Alauddin Khilji and later Md Bin Tughlaq swept through southern India in an expansion spree.(2)

By middle of the 14th century, facing rebellions, Tughlaq withdrew to Delhi, leaving behind 2 empires, Bahmani, which ruled the Deccan from Kalaburagi, and Vijayanagara, which ruled most south India with its capital at Vijayanagar.(3)

The Raichur Doab, between the Krishna and Tungabhadra rivers, existed as a natural boundary between these two kingdoms, with wars often breaking out over control of this territory.(4)

Happy black history Month.

January 1st 1969, Marien Ngouabi was sworn in as the President of Republic of Congo.

But who was he? And why was he assassinated 8 years later after refusing to grant the French the oil region of Cabinda

#Thread

1.French occupied Congo Brazzaville starting early 19th century. Every European colonial power wanted a piece of the Congo so the French commissioned Pierre de Brazza to explore Equatorial Africa in October 1875.

By 1891, French had already annexed Congo Brazza

2. Like any French Colony, Congolese endured ruthless exploitation of their land for 80 years

By 1958, Congo Brazaville was on a journey to decolonization under MSA ( movement socialist African) founded by anti-colonial leaders from Tchad, Senegal, Gabon, Cameroon, Mali,..

3. On August 5th 1960,French agreed on a peaceful transition to an independent state and give Fulbert Youlou to govern the new republic.

Youlou, a liberal nationalist was seen as less of a threat compared to other anti-colonial leaders

4. Youlou's presidency was a total failure full of corruption, incompetency and catering to French multinationals for validation

This ended very bad for Youlou because when the people started strikes all over the country, France did nothing when the military overthrew Youlou

This Day in Labor History: February 14, 1940. A group of Navajos write a letter of protest against the livestock reduction program the government forced upon them. Let's talk about how the New Deal transformed Navajo work culture in a shockingly negative way.

The four Navajos were named Scott Preston, Julius Begay, Frank Goldtooth, and Judge Many Children. They wrote, in part, "The Navajo Indians are not opposed to grazing permits as such, in fact we believe they heartily approve them if the manner of issuance is fair...

....and the limits are sufficiently high to permit the family to exist.

For instance, in our own district (No.3) the sheep unit is set at 282. If a person has 5 horses, that would be the equivalent to 25 sheep; 1 head of cattle is the equivalent of 4 sheep....

... A Navajo family will consume 150 head of sheep or more per year depending on the size of the family. In addition to this amount, it is necessary to sell for their staples enough to keep the family from starvation....

.... Then each family must be prepared to meet natural losses. We understand the families with smaller than the maximum are not permitted to raise that limit, but those above must be reduced....