I am a private citizen who is extremely interested in Indian history. The fact that I read Marxist historian, Romila Thapar’s, works at the age of 13, should indicate my fascination with the discipline. I used to be in awe of her work until I started examining primary sources. This made me aware of the huge gap between our history books and the facts as revealed by primary sources.

That is when I took a resolve to present history based on facts. It does not matter if people, brainwashed by mainstreamed Marxist history, treat what I share as ‘alternate history’. They are bound to be convinced when they refer to the primary sources that I share. That is why I spend my free time on Twitter and other social media sites and record history based on primary sources. That is what I do. A private citizen who utilises his personal time to share history.

I am not any political or social activist, nor do I harbour any notions of becoming one. Yet, I have been targeted by the mainstream media establishment through overt and covert ways.



Even so, I am not writing this post to cry victim. That is NOT my intent. I am writing it simply to show how a sections of the mainstream media suppresses those individuals who present facts that do not match this section’s opinions. Let this serve as a mirror to those ‘intellectuals’ who keep pontificating on freedom of expression on one hand and show utter contempt for the same freedom of a private citizen. They have no tolerance for the views of others, even if those views are based on hard facts.

This gang has, time and again, sought to defame and discredit me, a private citizen, through means fair and foul. Most of you would be aware of the daily diatribe from the left-inclined people on my Twitter timeline, which I largely choose to ignore.

However, I logged onto Twitter on Sunday, to find my handle featured in an TOI article titled - Faking history starts online

It began by ranting how anonymous handles on Twitter circulate falsehoods and cites the example of when an image was circulated all over the internet on Tipu Jayanti, as an image of Tipu Sultan. It names me among the list of handles who circulated the picture.