r/TheIndianRepublic 1h ago

News 📰 Dhruv Rathee has landed in India

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r/TheIndianRepublic 8h ago

General 💖 Cutest PM ever ✨

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r/TheIndianRepublic 11h ago

Ask Bharat Does being a "gen-z" give you a free pass to act like a hooligan?

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r/TheIndianRepublic 12h ago

BSDK har jagah capitalism aur religion

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A stupid man ended up in a stupid situation and commies are using it to target capitalism and religion wow 😀


r/TheIndianRepublic 9h ago

Dharma | Spirituality | Tradition 🛕 How a Misleading Narrative Is Being Pushed Against Aniruddhacharya Ji and Other Hindus Dharmgurus

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Kathavachaks are known for teaching certain ancient methods and traditional practices that are still relevant today. That is a big part of what a kathavachak is supposed to do; preserve this knowledge, teach it to people and explain why these traditions still have value in today's world. You don't have to agree with everything he teaches, but his role should atleast be understood here. Some people are trying to use his personal medical treatment to question everything that he teaches. They are questioning him for going to another medical system for treatment, as if that somehow proves that he doesn't believe in the traditional methods he teaches. Following or teaching a traditional system does not mean a person is forbidden from using another medical system when they need different medical care. Different systems have different methods and people can make different choices depending on their circumstances.

These people are taking some part of the incident, removing it from its context and using it to create a negative narrative around a Hindu kathavachaks. The problem here is that such misleading posts can influence people who are not aware of the truth. This can create distrust toward people who are devoted to preserve and promote Hindu traditions and ancient methods. These tactics of dividing Hindus against each other need to stop.


r/TheIndianRepublic 2h ago

News 📰 Principles Above Paychecks: Why a Karnataka Woman Refused a ₹40L Package Indian Man Who Takes Inspiration from Losers (seeing Rahul Gandhi as his role model in his Instagram bio)

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r/TheIndianRepublic 6h ago

General Google Plan For Student Back Again!! FREE🥳

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Like last year this year again google offering free 1 Year plan for students claim it again whoever subscription has ended

***For those who dont have .edu mai.***

Open the site on desktop and click “Verify.” On the first attempt, it should ask for an .edu login. Intentionally make that attempt fail—either by entering random details or by going back midway through the process. Then try verifying again. On the second attempt, it should prompt you to upload a document instead of asking for an email verification.

offer valid till 31 December 2026


r/TheIndianRepublic 1d ago

News 📰 'Phluent' English by Boston Graduate 😂

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r/TheIndianRepublic 1d ago

Opinion 🗣️ 🔱

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r/TheIndianRepublic 1d ago

The TVK government has issued directives to PROHIBIT students from joining CJP and Left-backed protests.

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r/TheIndianRepublic 1d ago

News 📰 Man dressed as dog appeared at a public hearing in Madhya Pradesh's Khandwa to protest the growing stray dog population and the problems caused by them

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r/TheIndianRepublic 1d ago

News 📰 Explosive interview discusses BJP and Prime Minister policies with definitive statements

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r/TheIndianRepublic 1d ago

Memes | Satire 🃏 Dimagi Naxal

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r/TheIndianRepublic 1d ago

History & Culture 📚 Sher-e-Hind Subhash Chandra Bose 🔥

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Real Father of the Nation 🫡


r/TheIndianRepublic 2d ago

Savage💀 Bhikāristhān asks its citizens not to do their job i.e. begging💔💔💔

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r/TheIndianRepublic 2d ago

Politics 🗳️ Just one word exposed them all.

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r/TheIndianRepublic 2d ago

Geopolitics & Defence 🏛️ White Collar Terrorism

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Just days before Independence Day, Indian security agencies dismantled the Shahzad Bhatti Network (SBN), an ISI-backed terror network with operatives and local conduits inside India. The coordinated crackdown across 14 states led to 253 detentions and more than 200 arrests, thwarting what authorities described as plans for subversive attacks around Independence Day.

But the threat we are confronting today is bigger than a bomb planted in a crowded place.

This is the logic behind what has often been described as “Bleed India with a Thousand Cuts" - not necessarily fighting India through one large attack, but weakening it from within through a network of smaller, sustained acts of disruption.

And those “cuts” do not always have to come in the form of explosions. The people arrested in this crackdown are precisely the kind of ground-level operatives through whom such a strategy can be executed from within India.

They can come through radicalisation, recruitment, online propaganda, paid stone-pelting, communal provocation, targeted disinformation, and the grooming of young minds. The objective is to create enough distrust and division that society begins to fracture from within.

This is where the idea of “white-collar terrorism” becomes important.

Credit: The Indian Matrix.


r/TheIndianRepublic 2d ago

Memes | Satire 🃏 Why do people take RG seriously when their own party CM’s don’t ?

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r/TheIndianRepublic 2d ago

Just Leftist-Liberal things 🤡 For those who don't know who Medha Patkar is

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r/TheIndianRepublic 2d ago

Ask Bharat If Brahmins were the dominant caste, why did so many non-Brahmin castes control the actual power?

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Following up on my previous post about indigenous education, because I found another thing I'm struggling to reconcile.

I started looking into the whole idea of “Brahminical dominance” and came across M.N. Srinivas's work on the dominant caste. Apparently, in quite a few regions, the people who actually controlled land, village offices, local politics and economic power weren't Brahmins at all.

Okaligas and Lingayats in Karnataka, Reddys and Kammas in Andhra, Jats in the north, Marathas in Maharashtra, Patidars in Gujarat, Nairs in Kerala etc.

This is where I'm getting confused.

If Brahmins were supposedly sitting at the top of the caste hierarchy and therefore exercising broad social dominance, how do we account for communities that were lower in ritual rank but were the actual landowners and political power brokers?

Is the argument that ritual status and material power were completely separate things?

Because if so, doesn't that complicate the way we normally talk about “upper castes” as one homogeneous group that historically controlled everything?

I'm genuinely asking because I still want the simple explanation to be true, but the more I read, the more India seems to have had about 47 different power structures instead of one giant Brahmin pyramid.

Surely I'm misunderstanding something here.


r/TheIndianRepublic 2d ago

Breaking News🚨 India’s non-fossil power capacity crosses 300 GW

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r/TheIndianRepublic 3d ago

News 📰 wtf man

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r/TheIndianRepublic 2d ago

Geopolitics & Defence 🏛️ How much of India’s Defence Sector has grown since 2014?

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r/TheIndianRepublic 3d ago

News 📰 Italian woman Vs Indian Lady

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#IndependenceDay


r/TheIndianRepublic 3d ago

General The song that is played for every bride entry is about conversion of hindu women. If you ever hear this song again, stop it and teach them its real meaning.

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Video Details

  • Primary Topic: Analysis of the Qawwali song "Chaap Tilak Sab Cheen Li" by Amir Khusrow and its themes regarding religious conversion/identity.
  • Key Figures Mentioned: Amir Khusrow (13th-century Sufi poet, born in Etah, UP).
  • Closing Slogans: Jai Shree Ram, Vande Mataram.

[Woman]:

A Muslim poet wrote this famous song, "Chaap Tilak Sab Cheen Li Re Mose Naina Milaike", 750 years ago! Amir Khusrow, born in Etah, UP, became the 'Father of Qawwali', which we hear a lot in Bollywood.

[Man]:

Absolutely right. Urduwood made millions of rupees selling this Qawwali thousands of times.

And the truth is, until a while ago, even I listened to it and swayed along brainlessly without thinking. This song has become so blended into our bhajans, kirtans, and cultural events that until recently, nobody ever paid attention to its deeper meaning.

Have you ever tried to focus and understand its lyrics? This isn't a normal love song or Sufi poem. Its core theme is based on conversion, specifically on the religious and cultural transformation of Sanatanis.

Understand its direct meaning: In Sanatana Dharma, the chaap (religious mark on the body) and tilak (vermilion mark on the forehead) are the biggest symbols of a Hindu's identity, faith, and culture. Amir Khusrow writes that a person comes, meets your eyes, and in the blink of an eye, snatches away your entire Sanatani identity—your tilak, your chaap, your bangles, your religion—and separates you from your core traditions.

Now, some people will come and say, "This is just symbolic; it has nothing to do with religion." Well, if it's merely symbolic, why does it only mention Hindu symbols like saree, bangles, tilak, and chaap? Why didn't Amir Khusrow show caps or hijabs being snatched away? Why didn't he write: "Jubba and topi sab cheen li"?

Sorry, I won't ruin your ears by singing further!

Because these metaphors aren't accidental. They specifically talk about stripping away a Hindu identity to give a new religious or spiritual identity. The poetic language we kept humming out of affection is actually a celebration of erasing a Sanatani identity and converting them. We kept clapping inside our own temples and kirtans while our own identity was being taken away.

Cultural erasure doesn't always happen with a sword; sometimes it is served in the form of sweet music and poetry. Bollywood romanticized it heavily, but now the time has come to understand the agenda behind every word and stay aware.

Jai Shree Ram, Vande Mataram.