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Distinguished Univ Professor@SSU multi-award Fulbright Honorary Prof@JNU 8Books Board:OAH,HAF,HUA,ICHRRF; Editor-in-Chief, Intnl Jrnl of Indic Rel;Pres,OAH,AAIS

Joined November 2013
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AHA Member Spotlight: Lavanya Vemsani blog.historians.org/2013/10/…
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Very combative! Concerning!
'A revenge fest': Body language expert breaks down Abdul El-Sayed's 'divisive' victory speech nypost.visitlink.me/7tvd0l
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Keralam tourism! It has a ring to it though!
For everyone out there: Keralam is the noun, now officially adopted as the name of the state. Kerala is the adjective, so “Tourism to Keralam” (noun) but “Kerala Tourism” (adjective). Got it? Analogy: “Malayalam” is a noun (“Our language is Malayalam”) but “Malayala” is the adjective (“Malayala Manorama”). Hope that ends the confusion, @ramblingarun ( unless you enjoy rambling!)
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Great clarity! Financial sovereignty is important. When that’s lost all is lost. That’s what happened in Europe when they went for Euro. Now, they cannot rescue their nations- they are part of the globalist machinery- they must burn until there is no independence or sovereignty left.
This is an excerpt from UNELECTED. I didn't promote it at the time because it is a radical chapter written after 350 pages of buildup. The Truth About DOGE. americanmind.org/salvo/the-t…
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They know nobody will watch it in India. So, they are trying to hype up outside India. There is only one authentic Ramayana that is Valmiki Ramayana. This type of corrupted versions are bound to fail.
#JustIn: Ramayana Movie hoarding in Riyadh Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦!
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What “fire” is he threatening? Thanks @AsraNomani for the context. That threat is graver than first look with this context.
WHO IS WAJAHAT ALI? AND WHY IS HE THREATENING AMERICA WITH "FIRE" IF ABDUL EL SAYED LOSES? I have been tracking Wajahat Ali for 23 years, ever since he first reached out to me as a young 20-something lawyer-playwright to pitch columns to the Daily Beast and other liberal media outlets. Over this long game, he has embedded himself deep inside liberal Democratic politics, MSNBC, the New York Times and John Podesta and @neeratanden's Center for American Progress. He is the symbolic political "monster" of the red-green aliance's Dr. Frankenstein (to mix just a few metaphors). Wajahat Ali is a protege of Hatem Bazian, the academic at UC Berkeley who co-founded Students for Justice in Palestine and American Muslims for Palestine with one agenda: the destruction of the state of Israel. This will interest you @shaunmmaguire: Wajahat Ali is the son of immigrant felons from Pakistan who were found guilty of stealing MILLIONS of dollars from Microsoft as part of a transnational FBI investigation called OPERATION CYBERSTORM. They are out of jail now after serving years in prison. The case was so big that then-FBI Director Robert Mueller himself appeared at the press conference. Wajahat grew up in a life of luxury in Fremont, Calif., because of his parents' stolen wealth. I drove by his former house. Most Americans couldn't afford the life he knew. Wajahat has claimed his parents were the victims of "Islamophobia" America's redemptive story means that a child wouldn't be held responsible for his parents' crimes but the threats in Wajahat's new post reveal that he is a man who isn't extending any form of redemption to his political enemies. My reporting reveals that the Democratic Party is at this moment of threats expressed against it by a keyboard warrior called Wajahat Ali because the party fails to understand the dangers of placating the rabid anti-Israel demands of Linda Sarsour, Hatem Bazian, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Hasan Piker and the rest of the anti-semitic lobby that has one goal: "FREE PALESTINE" by replacing the state of Israel with a state called "Palestine." Here is the link to Wajahat's parent's criminal case: justice.gov/archive/criminal… Wajahat Ali is a prominent figure in my book WOKE ARMY because he is a leader in the Honor Brigade of the Woke Army, threatening and intimidating anyone who dares to defy the narratives of the status quo establishment Muslim groups of Muslims as victims and non-Muslims, Israel and Jews as oppressors.
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Listen up Hindus!
As a brown man, I’m following Congresswoman Haley Stevens’ lead and voting for Mike Rogers over Abdul El-Sayed. Not everything is about skin color. I don’t want someone that downplays terrorist attacks occurring in my own state in the U.S. senate. I don’t want someone that pledged to profile Hindu Americans in the U.S. senate. I want a person who speaks to both sides of the aisle and actually listens to Hindu American concerns.
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Who cares? Nobody reads legacy media. They lost legitimacy a long time ago.
Personally, I think it was a mistake for the @BJP4India Govt, to stop all the perks and housing benefits received by the Indian media from the govt, after it came to power in 2014. It has earned the BJP & the RSS, the unremitting hostility of the legacy media and its Woke counterparts abroad!
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Steven’s is composed and confident! This takes guts! Michiganders think and vote wisely! Her endorsement of Rogers is important.
I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate today.
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Can’t believe you are saying this! Yes, that’s another false claim. Read this thread: xitter.gq/profvemsani/status/204…
Replying to @ProfVemsani
In the Konkan area of Maharashtra, a device to fetch water from a well with a roped bucket is known as 'Persian wheel.' Is it also falsely attributed to Persians?
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Too low to go after a woman for her dress sense!
Replying to @PadmajaJoshi
A normal citizen of India today can only afford such a sari for her own wedding . You got me wrong Padmaja. I would wear a normal cotton for a wedding . It reflects how wealthy you get when you favour the rich BJP who has stolen every right of our citizen. I feel cheated by the media today as a normal citizen.
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Showing his true colors already! Wow, can’t even wait until election night!
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Enjoy your retirement @heeraman98 thank you for your service to academia, great warmth and friendship!
A delightful afternoon celebrating Prof @heeraman98 retirement, with a wonderful lunch graciously hosted by Prof Indivar Kamtekar. Warmth, friendship and great conversation. Thank you, dear Indivar, and warmest wishes to Heeraman for a fulfilling new chapter!
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I am glad you’re trying to bring facts, but all these ideas originated in India. Persians brought it to the West! All the while copying from the Sanskrit manuscripts stolen from India without giving credit to Indians.
Let me tell you another fun fact. Muslims love to claim they invented algebra, revolutionized medicine, and made all the major contributions to science. What they leave out is that the people who actually did the work were Persians. -Omar Khayyam was a Persian mathematician and astronomer who developed systematic ways to solve cubic equations and helped create one of the most accurate solar calendars of its time. -Ibn Sina (Avicenna) was a Persian physician whose Canon of Medicine shaped medical teaching across Europe and the Middle East for centuries. -Al-Khwarizmi was a Persian mathematician known as the father of algebra; the word “algorithm” comes from his name, and he helped spread the Hindu-Arabic numeral system, including zero. These were the same people Muslim invaders forced to convert, mocked as “Majoosi” for being Persian, tried to push into speaking Arabic, and whose libraries and cities they burned. The contributions came from Persian minds, not from Islam. Islam’s historical pattern is simpler: invade, slaughter, and destroy.
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Lower taxes and lower bills! Vote wisely, Ohio!
Lower property taxes by cutting bureaucracy. Lower electric bills by producing more energy. Lower healthcare costs through price transparency. All we need is a competent governor in the driver’s seat.
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How cute! Wannabe Arab thinks his religion is race! How silly
If only blatantly racist shit like this got even 1% of the media coverage and bipartisan political outrage that random ads criticizing Israel do.
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Looks like Durga to me with her eight arms and weapons. Very symbolic though
Love this mysterious adivasi-inflected piece in the Assam State Museum. It is labelled as the Mother Goddess Durga, worshipped locally as Burhi Gossani, but who knows what tribal deity it actually represents? Either way, it is a thing of great and striking beauty and simplicity
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Folks, it’s a warning when Bill Maher is having a hard time defending a candidate. Don’t vote for someone based on his dosa making skills! Don’t be innocent chicken-lickens following the fox to his den!
Bill Maher opens the floodgates when he asks, “Why?” James Talarico is a “very weird dude.” Ted Cruz spends the next 2 full minutes going down the list. Maher gives Talarico the benefit of the doubt until the “I really love trans children” quote drops. Then he folds. CRUZ: “I’m not going to convince you to love Ken Paxton. But you got to admit, Talarico, I think, is a very weird dude.” MAHER: “Why?” CRUZ: “Because he is like the ultimate woke social justice warrior. This is a guy who stands in front of a church... he says God is non-binary. He says there’s six genders. He stands in front of a church and says he weeps for his whiteness and weeps for his masculinity.” MAHER: “That’s just weird. That is weird. I couldn’t agree with you more.” KID ROCK: “Maybe he’s gay.” MAHER: “What?” KID ROCK: “Maybe he’s just gay.” MAHER: “But why are we inferring — because he thinks Jesus is non-binary, which I don’t think he means as —” [Kid Rock’s face isn’t buying a word of Maher’s explanation] KID ROCK: “I know what he meant!” MAHER: “What do you think he meant?” KID ROCK: “Yeah, he’s trying to go into this whole ‘what’s a woman.’ Like, are we really talking about this 250 years later?” MAHER: “No, I just think — look, I don’t know that much about it, but I have heard those quotes. I think what he meant by the Jesus is non-binary thing is that, you know, there are a lot of people who believe in God. I mean, your whole album is about Jesus, but in a more sort of ethereal way, more spiritual way. You know, he’s not the man in the sky with the beard, that kind of thing.” CRUZ: “So Bill, all of these, he’s on video. He was asked, ‘Who do you really love?’ And his answer is, ‘Trans children.’ Well, I don’t know anyone else who would answer that question that way.” MAHER: “Is that the full answer?” CRUZ: “Yes, I promise you. You can pull up the video. He was asked, ‘Who do you really love?’ And he pauses and thinks and says, ‘I really love trans children.’ ... He also says on video that his objective is to, quote, ‘dismantle capitalism.’” MAHER: “Look, I am not for any of that sh*t.” CONTEXT: Talarico really did say it. On a 2023 podcast, he was asked what he loves other than family and friends, and his answer was the “trans children” who had rallied at the Texas Capitol the day before.
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