Dravidian Movement’s contribution to Education in TN: Reality check

Population : 1961 in Crores

Andhra Pradesh : 3.6
Bihar : 3.5
Gujarat : 2.1
Karnataka : 2.4
Kerala : 1.7
Maharashtra : 4.0
Tamil Nadu : 3.4
Uttar Pradesh : 7.0
West Bengal : 3.5

India : 43.9 Crores

The Arhtiyas (Middlemen) of Punjab

The Arhtiyas of Punjab are political connected.

In July 2017, in a public function the Arhyiyas felicitated Amarinder Singh with the title of ‘Fakhr-e-Quam’(Pride of the Community).

Post that function, the CM had said it would be difficult to waive off the debt owed by farmers to the arhtiyas.

As many as 86% of farmer & 80% of agricultural labours are mired in debt, says a study on Indebtedness among Farmers & Agricultural Labourers in Rural Punjab.

Its authors, researchers at Punjabi University, Patiala, say over a fifth of that debt was owed to commission agents and moneylenders.

No less than 8,294 farmers took their own lives between 2000 & 2015, says a study presented last year before the Vidhan Sabha’s Committee.

6,373 agricultural labourers also killed themselves in the same period. And that was in just six of the state’s 22 districts.

The study, commissioned by the state government’s revenue department, found that 83 per cent of all these suicides were largely debt-driven.

An estimate in the year 2012-13 indicated that every Arhitya/ Middle men/ Commission agent earned on a average of 6.7 Lakh on interest payments.

Their average other income excluding commissions & MSP cuts per year is 12 Lakh/ Annum. They receive 1370 Cr in interest every year

The DMK & Congress Farmer Loan Waiver Model for Tamilnadu: How farmers were fooled!

After coming back to power in 2006, DMK announced Loan waivers for all farmers. Total loans taken in 4000 Co-operative societies was ₹6526 Crore.

TN Finance minister in his iconic Budget Speech of 2007 said the waived amount of co-operative loans would be reimbursed to the co- operative institutions in 5 instalments with 8 percent interest to ensure the continued functioning

DMK did not pay the dues to Cooperative banks. They went to UPA asking for 5000 Crores funds. Central Govt showed them the door not wanting to set a bad precedence

Early 2008, Banks still not paid their dues. Karunanidhi was still hoping centre will fund his electoral promise.

To DMK’s favour, before the 2009 Loksabha elections, UPA announced Farm loan waivers of 60,000 Crores including the ₹6526 Crores committed by DMK in 2006. Point to note: Banks not paid yet

Vedanta Vendetta: How Foil Vedanta foiled the 2019 Loksabha election in Tamil Nadu

India Copper Forum was held in March 2015 by Hindalco & Vedanta outlining the market, growth and dependence of copper in India’s Infrastructural Growth

Then the trade war between US and China Happened, and the price of copper falls affecting China largely. (2/n)

China’s loss is India’s gain. 2017, the Golden year for Indian Copper Industry. India touched a all new high in copper & copper product exports. India recorded a total export of $3481 Million with a 30% growth. (3/n)

Foil Vedanta is a NGO based out of London. They were the ones who initiated the Zambian protests against the plant’s operation in 2014. Indian plant in Tuticorin was never in their list. After India’s rise in copper exports it automatically came in. Chinese paymasters! (4/n)

In January 2018, The London based Foil Vedanta’s men visit Tuticorin and sparked initial protests in front of the plant. In March 2018, Mohan C Lazarus the man who spreads Christianity for money is instigating wide spread protests (5/n)

Disinvestments : Sale of Partial stake also qualifies under disinvestment

Department of Disinvestment was brought under ministry of finance in May 2004 immediately after UPA Government took over.

Inflation adjusted value of disinvestment over the past 👇👇

2009-10 : ₹46,981 Cr
2010 -11 : ₹40,352 Cr
2011 -12 : ₹23,776 Cr
2012 -13: ₹36,876 Cr
2013 -14: ₹22,385 Cr

UPA 2: ₹1,70,370 Crores

2014-15 : ₹32,443 Cr
2015-16 : ₹23,997 Cr
2016-17 : ₹46,247 Cr
2017-18 : ₹1,00,057 Cr
2018-19 : ₹84,972 Cr

NDA 1: ₹2,87,716 Crores

2017-18 recorded the highest disinvestment. Of the ₹1,00,057 Cr disinvested, ONGC got ₹36,915 Cr of Government stake in HPCL.

Even in 2018-19, ₹15,000 Cr disinvestment happened by virtue of Power finance corporation buying out major stake in Rural electrification corporation

There are multiple such examples of one Public sector taking over another in the last 5 years and benefiting the government by virtue of it.

In NDA 2 below are the disinvestments
2019-20: ₹50,299 Cr
2020-21: ₹19,499 Cr

So to which Crony capitalists did UPA sell out to??

Secrets of Ganapati (Author - Keshav Sitaram Thackeray)

This article is taken from Keshav Sitaram Thackeray's book 'Dharmachi Devale and Devalcha Dharma'. In it, Bal Thackeray's father is claiming how the Hindu deity of Ganesha is imaginary.
(1/20)

Buddha is Ashtavinayak and "Ganapati Bappa Morya" is "Chandragupta Morya".

In the era of democracy, the head of state is the President. But in ancient India, there was a Gana culture in the monarchy and the head of that Gana was called Ganapati
(2/20)

In ancient India, a prince named Siddharth Gautam was born in royalty. He later became the king of Shakya Gana in this Gana culture. In time, Siddhartha attained enlightenment.

Let us now understand the difference between a real Ganapati and an imaginary Ganapati.
(3/20)

Some clever Brahmin manuvadis made the real Ganapati the imaginary Ganapati.

Buddha was the king of the Shakya Gana, so people called him Ganaraja. He founded Buddhism and became the head of the Shakyas. As the head of Gana, people used to call Buddha as Ganapati.
(4/20)

But the Brahmins Brahmanized Ganapati and created a false Ganapati. When Buddha used to give the message of Dharma to the people, two words would come out of his message. Chitta and Malla.

Chitta is the body.
Malla means waste
(5/20)

The story of Indian Legion or Legion Freies Indien

Netaji's lost army.

An army which was assembled to win India's freedom eventually fading somewhere in the pages of history. They were our bravehearts who dreamt of an independent India.
Jai Hind ki sena!

(Elaborate Thread)

Raised in Germany, this force never found its place in the hall of fame like the Indian National Army (INA). The Indian legion became tainted due to its association with the German army. Soon the legion was cornered by allies and French resistance.(1)

The survivors who made it to India never received the recognition which troopers of INA did. When netaji arrived in Berlin on April 3, 1941, the Germans wanted to weaken the British and welcomed him given his status as a pan India leader.(2)

The Germans recognised a provisional "independent India govt" in exile under netaji. They also promised him an army to help liberate India. The British Indian army prisoners of war captured from Rommels north Africa campaign were the nucleus of the this army.(3)

The legion would have acted as a pathfinder force for the planned German campaign into India. This seemed feasible as Rommel’s Afrika Korps was sweeping across north Africa with west Asia as the next target.(4)

Presenting you the 1st Phase Opinion Poll of West Bengal Vidhan Sabha Election 2021 by Bongo Prokash. It's a joint venture by me & @ThePaulSaheb, 2 more such polls will be out in March. Please give your feedback. Constructive criticism will be appreciated trolls will be blocked.

In Coochbehar, BJP is sweeping all the seats except Sitai. Udayan Guha losing, so is Rabindranath. Rajbongshis stay with BJP.

In Alipurduar it's a BJP landslide. BJP maintains it's Lok Sabha strength & adds with recent defection by good organization leaders from TMC.

In Jalpaiguri too BJP sweeps, TMC draws a blank.

In Darjeeling the game becomes interesting. GJM is a divided house now in alliance with TMC. Tamang & Gurung factions heavily divided. GNLF backs BJP. BJP+GNLF ahead in Siliguri, Phansidewa, Naxalbari while GJM marginally ahead in Kalimpong, Kurseong & at the moment in Darjeeling

The insidious thing about how people gaslight Hindus about the erasure of our ancestors' oppression is that they often do it in soft and civil(izing) tones. And it always comes from people who seem to otherwise care about oppression, people who are "well read" and "progressive".

Theirs is a quiet violence, clear and flowing as if it were beautiful and natural and peaceful, even as it corrodes and expands the edges of the hollowness created by lies. Silencing is a kind of acid.

Move on, I had been told for years. The past is in the past.

Except how do people move on from something they are either never told to study or told to never study? How do they move on from a past that is far worse than what they’ve been told (or not told)? How do they move on from a past that keeps reinventing itself today?

Sometimes when I speak of the erasure of Hindu persecution, I am gently, smugly corrected (it is always done civilly), "Indu, the information is there. No one is trying to hide it."

(That's how gaslighting works, right? It is arrogant and maddening and untethered to reality.)

Because the FACT is that’s not true at all. There are innumerable, insidious, systemic ways that people are hiding the truth. Ways that are supported and sustained by institutions, by scholars, by media conglomerates, by Hindu (American) politicians, proud internet trolls...