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"Shockwaves on the Field: Muhammad Rizwan Face-Off with 'Jai Shri Ram' Chants – Unveiling the Spectacular Video!"

Muhammad Rizwan faced a hostile reception from cricket fans during the high-profile ICC World Cup 2023 match between India and Pakistan at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. While batting, Rizwan showed promise with an 82-run partnership with captain Babar Azam. However, Azam’s dismissal triggered a dramatic collapse, resulting in Pakistan getting bowled out for 191 in 42.5 overs. Rizwan…

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"Shockwaves on the Field: Muhammad Rizwan Face-Off with 'Jai Shri Ram' Chants – Unveiling the Spectacular Video!"

Muhammad Rizwan faced a hostile reception from cricket fans during the high-profile ICC World Cup 2023 match between India and Pakistan at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. While batting, Rizwan showed promise with an 82-run partnership with captain Babar Azam. However, Azam’s dismissal triggered a dramatic collapse, resulting in Pakistan getting bowled out for 191 in 42.5 overs. Rizwan…

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essays been requested so here ya go. no i dont take criticism. only cash and credit. long post ahead. [edit made at the end of essay: this was supposed to be a criticism of people who think hinduphobia is real but ehhhh i kinda lost track along the way. still all of it is source verified and linked and whatnot.]

this is a very surface level rant, by the way. it's introductory and does not fully delve into all of the issues do your own damn research and stop dickriding bjp

if anyone reblogs this post with some hidden malicious interpretation i may have accidentally implied i am killing you. some people dont have english as a first language mayhaps.

introduction: why you're a dumb fucking cunt

firstly you think hinduphobia is a real actual thing that is happening to you in present day in this country. no it's not <3 hope this helps <3

no, but seriously. when your arguments start sounding like something arnab goswami would say on his stupid fucking debate show then it's time to reconsider your views idk.

you kids come on here with your right wing propaganda about pakistan and muslims and your heads so far up modi's ass that you think that you are being oppressed for literally following the majority religion in this country. absolutely no work done to unlearn this too. like actually do some extensive research instead of listening to shit like aaj tak and india tv.

ever since we were kids we'd been conditioned towards an idea of 'deshbhakti', patriotism and nationalism. we glorify the military, we boast of our progress, we're continuously taught about how we gained our independence from our colonizers.

this, in and of itself, isn't bad. we SHOULD be aware of our history, we shouldn't just forget the brutal colonization our country suffered. there is absolutely nothing wrong with feeling a sense of pride towards our culture and heritage! but we need! to be critical! of the government!

because the government isn't gonna be completely transparent with you!!! it's gonna twist the narrative in its favour they're fucking politicians!!! what do you fucking expect you need to be critical of them!!!

on that topic read The Politics Of Culture by Ahmad A.

when your pride turns into hindutva, there's a problem. which brings me to my next topic!

chapter 1: what is hindutva? well it's definitely not hinduism

HINDUTVA ISN'T REGULAR HINDUISM YOU STUPID SLUT.

"oh but hindutva literally means hinduness-" SHUT THE FUCK UP

hinduism is (crudely put) a religion. hindutva is a political ideology.

hindutva is hindu nationalism. it's a right wing political ideology. it's fucking communalism (you will know what this word means if you paid attention to 10th grade pol sci ❤️) plain and simple. it's the ideology that guides BJP, the current ruling party as of 22nd Jan 2024, when i type this. like if you agree with BJP i have nothing left to say to you goodbye please block me on the way out

hindutva was first used as a word in the 1890s by Chandranath Basu in his book Hindur Prakrita Itihas. but hindutva as we know it today, as we use it today, was coined in... 1923, in V.D. Savarkar’s (who, by the way, was a right-wing nationalist) book Hindutva. wow. such an ancient concept guys. slash sarcastic.

Savarkar's book, may i inform you, outlines criteria for indian-ness based on "citizenship, common ancestry, common culture and regard for India as fatherland (pitrbhu) and sacred land (puṇyabhu)." to him, christians, muslims, and tribal people could never be true indians. do you not see what's wrong with that?

and hindu nationalist groups like the RSS and VHP were inspired by, what? hindu teachings? ancient scriptures, like our beloved hinduphobia truthers love to claim?

WRONG BITCH IT'S NAZI GERMANY AND MUSSOLINI'S FASCISM IN ITALY.

india has seen hindutva extremists kill a muslim man, Tabez Ansari, for not saying jai shri ram. but yeah hindus are totally getting oppressed by muslims

ooh, can you hear that? it's time for us to address-

chapter 2: your FUCKING islamophobia

there are. so many examples of this i couldn't cover them all in a 100 page document even if i wanted.

muslims are a marginalised group in india. this is a fact that everyone who paid attention to 7th grade pol sci knows. unfortunately for some of us middle school education has worn off.

guys. the literal vitriolic islamphobia i have seen in hindublr spaces. genuinely i dont know what you guys are doing on THIS website of all things but i digress- your hatred of muslims has overshadowed your humanity. the disgusting things they say, the complete disregard for palestinean lives, the patronizing tones they adopt when talking about their supposed 'solidarity' for jewish people. im going to be fucking sick you assholes are literally hindutvadis. read that part abt yalls ideology being literally derived from nazism again.

muslims are regularly lynched in india for the crime of following their religion.

for the crime of existing in the same place as hindus.

you can literally look it up and find a frankly horrifying amount of results.

the roots of hindus' islamphobia are grounded in the times of liberation of India from British colonialism and the nation-state building. read this cause im not typing it all out.

actually i know a lot of you aren't clicking on the goddamn links. here's the excerpt.

The roots of Hindus' hostility toward Muslims are grounded in the times of liberation of India from British colonialism and the nation-state building. Under the influence of nationalist movements, two types of nationalism waves were embraced in the country: moderate and radical. Both were inviting Indians to return to "their own self-identity" and included religious reforms to make Hinduism attractive. The moderate community, Brahmo Samaj, was pro-Western and founded by Rammohun Roy. The other clique was the Arya Samaj community founded by Svami Dayananda Sarasvati and, unlike Brahmo Samaj, embraced radical Hinduism. It constructed an anti-Islamic Indian identity and was the founder of ethnic and offensive “Hindutva” nationalism. First the moderates, then the radicals became active at the Indian National Congress.   Radicals constructed an anti-Islamic Hindu civil religion through religious rituals. In the 20th century, anti-Islam sentiments in India were revived on these roots as well as with the help of the Hindutva manifesto written by Vinayak Savarkar. The resurrection wave has brought forth lobbies protecting Hindu interests against Muslims such as the Hindu Mahasabha or Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). RSS was one of the most dangerous aggressive armed organizations founded on Hindutva ideology. In addition to promulgating their ideology in society, they also provided military training and spread it in India by constantly opening new offices.

grips you by the shoulders bc i am haunted by tumblr reading comprehension. by the way in the article gandhi is mentioned as a 'leader struggling in well with Pakistan and cooperating with Muslims' but that does not mean he was a good person okay. he sucked. he super sucked. but we're focusing on hindutva rn.

islamphobia in india spiked around 2014 under narendra modi's influence. BJP is an islamphobic party (among many other shortcomings), end of. hostile hate speech towards muslims spike around election times.

some articles:

vigilante violence against muslims continues without rest

muslims in india generally bear the brunt of misinfo

imposters posing as muslims: a sinister ploy to further stigmatise

RSS leader says muslims should hand over all disputed religious sites to hindus

muslims continue to feature as main characters in hate speech

(all of these articles are recent, from late 2023 to yesterday, Jan 21st 2024. just a bleak fucking reminder.)

speaking of marginalised groups getting lynched by hindutvadis for daring to breathe air, let’s talk about something related

chapter 3: caste is not in the past dip shit

never mind post cancelled we found hinduphobia in india folks it’s called CASTEISM and you seem very reluctant to talk about it wonder why that might be

i can guarantee you that your upper caste ass has never been discriminated against for being a fucking hindu lol

"oh but our pm and president are not UC people-" yeah and they fucking suck

thats an extremely simple-minded and naive view of how caste works in our country. do you seriously think that's all there is to it? like oh pm and president are not UC people magically all of casteism in india has perished shut up i will genuinely kill you

im bulleting this now for easier readability

the police force in india absolutely has a casteism problem. see here and here for examples of police brutality against dalits. for a more gruesome example here's uttar pradesh police allegedly covering up the horrifying murder of a dalit woman.

some EXTREMELY HORRIFYING examples of dalit women getting raped and killed here, here and here

violence against dalits is still persistent

untouchability, exclusion, systemic discrimination is still practiced (1, 2)

Arti Harle, a dalit scientist at a top institute, has been having her merit based promotion being unjustly withheld since 2014, along with lots of caste based harrasment.

as a UC person myself, i can't speak with much authority on issues such as casteism and discrimination against SC/ST people. what i CAN do is spread awareness, amplify their voices and BELIEVE THEM WHEN THEY SAY THAT CASTEISM STILL EXISTS, at the very least.

there's tons of dalit and other SC/ST people on here talking about their lived experiences with casteism in the hindu community and in general and you fuckwits refuse to believe them or tell them they're lying of attention and whatnot

but here's a more important reason on why i mentioned being brought up in a supposedly progressive UC household, because i think i have a theory for why we think that casteism is a thing of the past.

as i mentioned earlier, most of us in 'progressive' UC households are brought up, conditioned to be patriotic and nationalistic. and since our households are hashtag not casteist, matters related to caste are NEVER discussed at home. when it IS brought up, it is treated as a thing of the past that those ancient indians used to do but we outlawed it so it's okay now :) casteism doesnt exist :) turn your eyes away from the lynchings we are either ignorant of that or not acknowledging it :) isnt our country so great :) we are so hashtag secularism hashtag progressive hashtag everyone is the same in our eyes

and we grow up thinking oh ya ur right :) casteism isnt a problem :) we are so proud of our country :) and when we see a dalit person going 'actually, casteism IS still a problem this country isn't as great as you think it is' we get all hurt and upset like wdym our country is perfect why are you lying (this is something that i will circle back to in my conclusion)

"we didn't talk about caste in my progressive house" that is a sign of privilege. you didn't have to.

my point is, LISTEN TO DALIT PEOPLE. LISTEN TO SC AND ST PEOPLE. THESE ARE THEIR LIVED EXPERIENCES. you need to understand that LAWS DON'T MEAN JACK SHIT UNLESS THEY'RE IMPLEMENTED WELL. you need to unlearn that nationalism that tells you that everyone criticising the country is wrong!! i dont care if it's something you grew up with!! so did i!! but you need to move past it and THINK FOR YOURSELF. uphold your fellow citizens, especially those who are less privileged than you!!

AND DON'T PUT YOUR BLIND TRUST IN THE GOVERNMENT.

chapter 4: the land back chronicles

i have seen so many hindutvadis and hindublr users (synonymous atp) argue that since hindus are the indigenous people of the land they should get to do whatever they want

to that i say take your STUPIDASS ahistorical argument and shove it so far up your ass that i may never see it again

adivasis are the earliest inhabitants of this subcontinent not u

and they are being displaced from their homes. like, the link is just one example. and as usual BJP sucking ass.

and they're demanding recognition for their religion as seperate from hinduism - 1, 2

whew, more articles:

Adivasi v/s Vanvasi, an identity imposition on India’s indigenous

How just is the idea of Uniform Civil Code for India’s Adivasis and Indigenous Peoples?

Protest in Delhi: Indian state unleashing ‘undeclared, undocumented’ war on Adivasis

so where am i going with this? firstly, and very importantly, this information is important to know so jot that down.

secondly, armed with this new information, i think we are finally ready to move into the grand finale. the final chapter-

chapter 5: that fucking ram mandir

fr main tere khopdi ko phod dungi

i tend to avoid linking social media as a source, but here's a really well written post on insta (i can access it without having an account so lmk if theres any issues) and here's something outlining it on tumblr.

im gonna preface this with the fact that firstly, there is neither any SOLID evidence that there used to be a temple under the babri masjid nor is it confirmed that he even ordered a temple demolition to build a mosque.

but i know that you're not gonna believe me on that one and even if you don't, please tell me how this is just.

allegedly, roughly 500 years ago around 1527, babur demolished a temple to build a mosque.

now, in 2024, we are doing the same thing. hell. we're making it a national celebration. government offices closed. AIIMS closed. stock market closed. for a hindu temple built on the ruins of a mosque in this supposedly secular country.

this is not just. this is not fair.

the demolition of the masjid resulted in riots between hindu and muslim communities. this temple was built on thousands of graves.

i look at this lavish temple and i think, how much of this money could've gone towards development? towards eradicating poverty and homelessness in our country? how much has violence against non-hindus spiked today?

secular country indeed.

conclusion: so how does this all tie to 'hinduphobia'?

in all truthfulness i lost the plot in the middle, but i do still have my original point!!

have you, as a UC hindu, ever experienced anything as i've listed above? have you experienced systemic discrimination- and i mean DISCRIMINATION, not criticism- because of the mere fact that you're a hindu? or do you just want to be oppressed?

i mentioned earlier and in the original post about how we're raised to be patriotic and nationalistic. maybe it has such an effect on us due to our group loyalty. psychology tells us people connect the groups they're in to their social identity and that may be what’s happening to us here. we think that ‘our’ group is the UC hindu nationalists and we feel angry and upset whenever someone challenges our worldview.

so here’s a plea to everyone reading this: be alert. be critical of what you see and hear. be alert towards why you’re feeling and whether it is impartial, because we as humans are very biased, whether consciously or subconsciously. ive never been an eloquent person but i hope my point is clear.

don’t be a dumb fucking cunt.

’Hinduphobia’ is literally not a thing in India, you just want to be oppressed because your entire life you’ve been conditioned to be patriotic and nationalist and that almost always means Hindu nationalism and you’ve been conditioned to such a degree that you cannot hear marginalised groups criticise mainstream Hinduism without spontaneously combusting. In this essay I will

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पाकिस्तान में चल रही थी ऑनलाइन मीटिंग, भारतीय हैकर्स ने हैक करके लगाए 'जय श्रीराम' के नारे

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Kangana Ranaut says 'Pakistan' as first photos of her office being torn down emerge - Times of India

Kangana Ranaut says ‘Pakistan’ as first photos of her office being torn down emerge – Times of India

As workers of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday began demolishing “illegal alterations” at Kangana Ranaut’s Manikarnika Films office, the actress shared photos from the site and simply captioned it as “Pakistan”.

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राम मंदिर शिलान्यास से बौखलाया पाकिस्तान, कहा- भारत अब रामनगर हो गया है

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U.S. Media Covers Up Muslim Atrocities Against Hindus in Reporting on Delhi Riots

The establishment media is inundating us with fake news about India. Don’t take their bait.

By Robert Spencer

Fake news is international. “Over 200 million Muslims call India home,” Bernie Sanders tweeted Wednesday. “Widespread anti-Muslim mob violence has killed at least 27 and injured many more. Trump responds by saying, "That’s up to India. This is a failure of leadership on human rights.” Bernie is, as usual, wrong. His tweet reflects the American establishment media’s position that the riots in India over the last few days are examples of Hindu violence against Muslims, but they only maintain that position by an extremely selective, misleading, and inexcusably irresponsible presentation of what is going on in India.

The disinformation begins with the establishment media description of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which is the cause of the rioting. In an article entitled “Trump declines to condemn India’s anti-Muslim law,” the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday that President Trump had “declined…to condemn India’s controversial new citizenship law, which discriminates against Muslims.” The law, said the Times, “excludes Muslims and has helped fuel a new wave of communal violence….The law passed by India’s parliament last year prioritizes citizenship for Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians while excluding Muslims.”

That’s partially true. Gulf News is closer when it says that “the Citizenship Amendment Act allows for the fast-tracking of applications from religious minorities including Hindus and Sikhs from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, but not Muslims.” Why would these religious minorities be given preferential treatment? Because they are being persecuted in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. Who is persecuting them? Muslims. So the Citizen Amendment Act offers refuge to these persecuted minorities, and not to people among whom may be their persecutors.

What exactly is wrong with doing this? Are non-Muslims not actually being persecuted in those three Muslim countries? They are, and as The History of Jihad shows, the Islamic jihad against Hindus is a 1,400-year-old war. The LA Times' headline shows how the charge of being “anti-Muslim” is used to intimidate and silence anyone who dares stand against the jihad or with its victims.

In reality, every nation on earth should offer a similar refuge. Muslims in India made that abundantly clear as far back as December, when they first began rioting over the CAA, throwing stones and torching vehicles. The riots got a new impetus when President Trump visited India; apparently the Muslims in India determined that the best way they could show that there need be no law protecting victims of Muslim persecution was by brutalizing innocent non-Muslims. The rioters don’t seem to be aware of the irony.

But you’d never know any of this from the media in the United States. One telling incident took place on Monday night, when a 51-year-old Hindu named Vinod Kumar was murdered by a Muslim mob in Delhi for the crime of having a sticker reading “Jai Shri Ram” on his motorcycle. The whole thing was captured on a video that went viral, featuring a crowd screaming “Allahu akbar” as Kumar is killed. But the tragic story of Vinod Kumar has not been reported in the Western media; nor have the stories of other Hindus who have been murdered by rampaging Muslim mobs.

Even worse, there appears to be a concerted effort to conceal such stories. Wikipedia has a page on the Delhi riots, but it has been systematically scrubbed of any mention of Muslim-on-Hindu violence. Compounding the impression that the violence has all been against Muslims, the Wikipedia entry on the riots features a photo not of the riots themselves, but of a Hindu leader.

Even worse, the Wall Street Journal reported that the brother of one of the people who was killed in the riots, Indian official Ankit Sharma, was killed by a mob that was chanting “Jai Shri Ram.” This was implausible on its face, because Ankit Sharma was not a Muslim, but it perpetuated the media narrative that Hindus are entirely at fault for the violence – that is, it perpetuated that narrative until Ankit Sharma’s brother himself denied the Wall Street Journal report and accused the WSJ of lying.

Maybe the Journal was just following the lead of the Leftist Indian media outlet NDTV, which was caught having edited out of its riot coverage images of a pile of stones, ready to be used as weapons, on the rooftop of a mosque. Or on the other hand, it could be that NDTV figured that if the venerable Wall Street Journal could do it, so could they.

In light of all this, it’s no surprise that Bernie Sanders would not have all the facts and rush to condemn those who are being attacked. But Bernie is not excused from the responsibility to be better informed; nor is anyone else. The establishment media is inundating us with fake news about India. Don’t take their bait.

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Shri Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir in Karachi is around 1500 years old One of the oldest surviving mandir of Pakistan, It's world's one of the mandir has the Natural Swambhu murti of Hanumanji and locals believed that Swambhu murti is from the Era of treta yuga Jai Shree Ram 🙏 #TeamLostTemples #Pakistan #JaiShriRam #hanumanji #ancient (at Tiruchchirappalli) https://www.instagram.com/p/CeOYg3vJCEgs7Bq4FzFdxAxvmd1qv85I66eFYM0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Kashmir Traders Allegedly Attacked In Jharkhand, Forced To Say Jai Shri Ram

Kashmir Traders Allegedly Attacked In Jharkhand, Forced To Say Jai Shri Ram

The Jharkhand Police on Sunday said it has detained three persons who were a part of a group that allegedly forced Kashmiri traders to chant ”Jai Shri Ram” and ”Pakistan Murdabad” in Ranchi. A 34-year-old man from Kashmir, who makes a living by selling winter clothes, lodged a complaint with the police on Saturday stating that a group of around 25 people attacked him and some other traders from…

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J&K men made to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’, attacked

J&K men made to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’, attacked

RANCHI: Three Kashmiri traders doing business in Ranchi were allegedly beaten up on Saturday after being waylaid on their way to work and asked to chant “Jai Shri Ram” and “Pakistan Murdabad”. Based on a complaint, the police arrested three out of the 20 to 25 people accused of targeting the traders near Kadru bridge in Ranchi’s Doranda area. This is the second time in just over a fortnight that…

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Two Kashmiris assaulted, forced to shout ‘Jai Shri Ram’ in Ranchi

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Two Kashmiris Assaulted, Forced To Shout ‘Jai Shri Ram’ In Ranchi

Two Kashmiris Assaulted, Forced To Shout ‘Jai Shri Ram’ In Ranchi

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Suprio Basu, Jyoti prasad Chatterjee, Shreyas Sardesai and Suhas Palshikar

There is no denying that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has massively increased its vote and seat share in West Bengal compared to the 2016 Assembly election, and this has largely been on the back of a strong Hindu consolidation behind it (50%), as per the Lokniti-CSDS’s post-poll survey. But the party failed to retain the level of Hindu support (57%, or nearly three-fifths) it had secured in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, thus ending up faring way below its own expectations and its performance in the last general election.

The Trinamool Congress was a direct beneficiary of this erosion of votes, with the party registering an increase in Hindu support from 32% in 2019 to 39% this time. This seven-percentage-point shift from the BJP to the Trinamool happened despite the former running a high-pitched Hindutva campaign that was aimed at exciting Hindus through Jai Shri Ram slogans, talk of illegal migration, allegations of ‘Muslim appeasement’ against the ruling party, and anti-Muslim dog whistles, such as raising the spectre of West Bengal becoming a ‘mini-Pakistan’ and calling Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ‘begum’ and ‘khala’.

The post-poll survey conducted by Lokniti-CSDS and data from our study after the 2019 Lok Sabha election together point to the story of limited Hindu consolidation. This has also to do with the way the Hindu mind in West Bengal seems to be working at the moment.

In our 2019 survey, we asked respondents in West Bengal (and the rest of the country) a set of questions to gauge their views on secularism, the temple-mosque dispute and minority rights. Surprisingly, despite political polarisation, full-fledged communalisation had not occurred in the State, as it was found that many Hindus, including those who voted for the BJP, gave highly secular and pluralistic answers to most of these questions, and far more so than their counterparts in other regions of the country.

For instance, on a question on the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition, only one in every five Hindus in Bengal had said that demolition was justified, as opposed to two-fifths in the rest of the country. Similarly, a huge majority of Hindus in Bengal (81%) held that India is a country of all religions, and not just Hindus. The same figure among Hindus in the rest of the country was 74%.

On the issue of protecting minority rights, 38% of Hindus in West Bengal agreed with the proposition that even if it is not liked by the majority community, the government must protect the interests of minorities. This sentiment, in fact, strengthened further to 58% this time, when we repeated this question in our survey.

What these responses indicate is that even as average Bengali Hindus may have supported the BJP in large numbers in 2019, the reasons for doing so were different and not necessarily an endorsement of the BJP’s Hindutva agenda. This perhaps explains why the BJP’s support among Hindu voters declined this time instead of increasing. Heavily polarising rhetoric by the BJP in the recent election may well have alienated the liberal tolerant section of the Bengali Hindus from the BJP, particularly the traditional Left voters, who had shown interest in the party in 2019. It also seems to have had the effect of scaring Muslims who consolidated in even larger proportions (75%) behind the Trinamool Congress than they had in 2019. The Trinamool, thus, ended up benefiting both ways.

The story, of course, has another side. There is some traction to the idea that the government accorded undue favours to minorities. While a majority of the Hindus in the rest of the country had no problem with it, in West Bengal, the support for the idea was lukewarm, with many being ambivalent on the issue. In fact, in the 2021 survey, most Hindus, even the ones who ended up voting for the Trinamool Congress, agreed with the proposition that the party had given undue favours to Muslims during its tenure, an issue that the BJP had raised. It is nonetheless interesting that many of them continued to vote for the Trinamool despite holding this view.

None of this is to say that there was no polarisation on religious lines in this election. But the divide was mostly restricted to seats where the Muslim population was higher in proportion. It is also important to note that the Hindu share in the Trinamool’s votes was 57% this time and the Muslim share was 42%; in 2019, it had been 50% for each.

In sum, the BJP, which prides itself on knowing the Hindu mind, may have failed spectacularly in deciphering the Bengali Hindu psyche. It has been unable to transform the majority community into a minority-hating monolith.

Moreover, the majority community was also divided on the basis of caste, class, gender and other social identities, and the Hindutva campaign clearly fell short in catering to everyday concerns around development and livelihood. In the cultural rubric of Bengal’s politics, there was limited room for uni-dimensional religious polarisation, a fact that the BJP took very lightly.

Suprio Basu is with the Department of Sociology, University of Kalyani; Jyotiprasad Chatterjee is Associate Professor of Sociology at Barrackpore Rastraguru Surendranath College; Shreyas Sardesai is a Research Associate at Lokniti-CSDS, Delhi; Suhas Palshikar is the Co-Director of the Lokniti programme

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Danish Kaneria Wishes Ram Navami: Pakistani cricketer Danish Kaneria said 'Jai Shri Ram', then people taunted Virat Kohli's team

Danish Kaneria Wishes Ram Navami: Pakistani cricketer Danish Kaneria said ‘Jai Shri Ram’, then people taunted Virat Kohli’s team

New DelhiFormer Pakistan leg-spinner Danish Kaneria has congratulated the people on the occasion of Ram Navami. Kaneria has wished everyone on this occasion by posting a video. After this, if you are praising them on Twitter, then Indian cricketers are getting taunts too. Rama Navami is the festival on 21 April i.e. Wednesday. According to beliefs, Lord Rama was born on this day. On this…

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Arnav having relinquished the assignment of

Arnav having relinquished the assignment of Editor in Chief at Times Now and thereafter launching his own channel Republic and Republic Bharat has been an epochal event in recent Indian Media saga. Why did Arnav quit Times Now and started his own channel becomes crystal clear from the content comparison between Republic (both Hindi & English) and other channels including Times Now.

Where Arnav has become his own boss now, certain brilliant media persons who were otherwise languishing all this while, have been able to rise up the ladder; Navika and Rahul getting what they deserved anyway but couldn't get their due to Arnav's overwhelming, domineering and aggressive presence.

Certain tagline seen and heard on Times Now will explain why did Arnav start his own channel. Navika now in the same capacity as Arnav use to be in Times Now some times back, asks a question in an interview with Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad," Whether Jai Shri Ram is more important or providing jobs to the people more important"?. Will she show similar bluster and field similar questions to Muslim clerics or to a Muslim leader; bet she dare not and that has been her survival elixir. On similar lines, to re-establish her secular if not anti-Hindu credentials, she is shown stating CAA & NRC having been enacted to oust Muslims from India. On one hand such a comment being repeated day after day adnacium to showcase the impartial journalistic DNA of the present media hierarchy, it on the contrary smacks of being divisive, seditious and anti-national as well.

Pakistan was created as an Islamic state by tearing Bharat into two; Bharat for Hindus and all others including even Muslims not willing to be part of Islamic state of Pakistan. Erudite that Navika is, does she have a cogent answer to the question as to how come a religion which started just 1500 years or so back has spread to 54 states. Earstwhile Bharat on the contrary, just a few decade back had reach upto most South East Asian countries and in the west had its boundaries to include even Afghanistan has shrunk to within the boundaries of India with good enough presence of Muslim all across. Iidia's boundaries shrunk inwards, in the east and west both; having been torn into two; Bharat and Islamic state of Pakistan.

One wonders, but that's a reality that impartial journalistic credentials are not proved by Hindu bashing alone, but that is what Times Now channel owners supposedly wanted. Arnav could not subscribe to such rules of the game but Navika does happily. That, makes Arnav different; like it or not. Remember those days when TV debate and discussion between India and Pakistan representatives were held on Times Now on regular intervals if not frequently. And during those debates Arnav could never maintain impartial and non-committal stance, a stance desired of an anchor, on the contrary, in allmost all the debates with Pakistanis, he had to be retrieved to the anchor's centre lines repeatedly. Arnav almost regularily flaunted his patriotic credentials then and does it more frequently and much more loudly even now.

Has his Army blood and cantonment upbringing something to do with the nationalistic splurge visible so often in his debates and his point of view. It is this quality which makes Republic and Arnav different, different as a channel and as an anchor, both.

Not very long ago Republic took upon itself to report, highlight and pursue the case of lynching of Hindu Sadhus at Palghar. The lackadaisical approach of the Maharastra police and administration was highlighted by Republic very forcefully for a very long period of time despite much annoyance of Maharashtra government. The death/suicide of Shushant Singh Rajput; an upcoming film star was pursued equally forcefully despite the Maharastra government going hell for lather after Arnav and his channel. Republic raised the issue of drug menace in the Bollywood very forcefully despite likely involvement of high and mighty politicians. Maharashtra government, went on a revenge course to incarcerate Arnav in a foolhardy manner. This act of Maharashtra government was severely criticized by various sections of the society and resulted in release of Arnav and egg on the face of Maharashtra government. The recent victimization of Republic alongwith it's founder Arnav and high officials of the channel only smacks of revenge by Maharashtra government on the purported ground of TRP ratings scam. This allegation or charge against the Republic to falsely earn extra bucks will also not be able to stand on its own for much longer. Republic and Arnav will remain on hit list of Maharashtra Administration and competing media channels for a long time. The longer the Maharashtra government hunts for Republic, it is the government of Maharashtra which will suffer injury at "critical joints". The manner in which Republic has targetted Vadra Congress which is already on ventilator support, having lost much of political clout is already on the way to further decline and will only prove to be a liability with little or no usefulness at all.

There is no loking back by Arnav and his team.