I've been trying to reduce my Twitter presence/tweeting for some time now, but a recent occurrence has had an impact so profound on me that I could hold back no more. So here's a long tweet series, please indulge at your own peril :) 1/n

It's related to the D. Roopa case. If there ever was a bigger proof needed in our lives about "Karma" and its implications, this has to be it. 2/n

Let's clear some facets of this whole scenario at the outset - that she is honest and incorruptible is beyond doubt, at least for me. That she has stood up to the powers-that-be in the past is also non-debatable. However, in the process of all this, what started taking shape 3/n

Within herself is this inflated sense of self-worth and consequently, her ego. Add to the mix the fact that her opinions were rarely questioned IRL (given her position) and/or on S.M (mostly left alone and thought to be leaning right, though contentiously), and what 4/n

she had was unquestioned reverence, at least in her mind - which pushed her and allowed her to take liberties with facts and historical anecdotes. Till the day when she pushed it too far and was rightfully debated upon and contested by the ocean of Dharmic knowledge that is 5/n

@BharadwajSpeaks , probably the man I respect *the most* on Twitter. His depth of knowledge is astounding, to say the least, and rarely does he argue w/o indisputable facts on his sleeves. He, in his Dharmic righteousness, could not sit down and take whatever fiction that 6/n

madam was peddling under the guise of "knowledge". She was contested and defeated point by point, with surgical precision by @BharadwajSpeaks . Remember, this all happened on S.M, in front of potentially millions of the "praja" that she had assumed moral superiority over -7/n

Her fragile ego couldn't take it- the backlash from the very praja that her ego had made her the queen of, were now asking her qns, doubting her claims - all because of @BharadwajSpeaks - and then began *the* meltdown of the year 2020, bettered only IRL by Bengal's Mamta and 8/n

her shenanigans. Roopa's ego now had firmly gotten better of her, of her common sense, of her sense of right and wrong - which led her to target @BharadwajSpeaks - all because he had dared to qn her claims, backed by hard facts. Remember "your time's up"? 9/n

That one tweet, followed by @BharadwajSpeaks' @trueindology being suspended almost instantaneously, led to many believing there was more than met the eye, much had happened behind the scene,info that we, the praja, were not made privy to.Nt hat this selective hounding ws new 10/n

for @BharadwajSpeaks - he's been subjected to multiple such attacks (even death threats, recently)- just that all this happened in a matter of 1 day is what surprised us all. Madam could've simply accepted her follies and moved on, but no, she was counter debating with any1 11/n

who was supporting True Indology's p.o.v, for obvious reasons of course - her unnecessarily dragging @ARanganathan72 into the debate followed by Ranga sir's memorable rebuttal being a classic case in point 12/n

This meltdown went on for weeks - madam was legitimately spending more time on Twitter *STILL* trying to defend herself rather than do her actual work. All this while, the wheels of Karma were turning, until this week, when she got transferred from her current dept to a 13/n

one apparently less relevant dept(given her s.m. rants about the trf non-stop) because she supposedly red-flagged a deal which could involve corruption at the higher levels of governance. Now, we don't know the complete facts of the case, not much is out 14/n

in the public domain anyway- though I am willing to err on the side of her previous blemish-free record and believe in her claims, such is Karma that most of the same praja who used to revere her, won't anymore-not w/o asking qns at least. And even if they do, it would be 15/n

overshadowed by her previous shenanigans and subsequent meltdown. @BharadwajSpeaks came back, stronger than ever, his followers and believers almost all intact. Can we say the same about Roopa madam? Not sure. 16/n

Lesson - There is no shame in admitting losing to a person more knowledgable than you on every possible level - there is no shame in accepting defeat in such cases. One shouldn't lose their sense of Dharma to protect their fragile egos. And yes, Karma does bite back. Hard. n/n