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True Indology is back with a bang! Person behind handle reveals identity

After the episode where True Indology and D Roopa IPS engaged in a spat over the issue of historical references to bursting crackers for Deebavali, and the subsequent suspension of the former’s Twitter account after D Roopa said ‘your time is up’, True Indology is back with a bang and in a brand new avatar.

In this yet another virtual re-birth, the person behind the prominent Twitter handle has revealed his identity in a sly rebuttal to D Roopa IPS who had called him a ‘nameless and faceless troll’.

True Indology is now back on Twitter as ‘Bharadwaj’ (@BharadwajSpeaks) with the bio saying  “Man on a mission. Personal account. Tweeting in personal capacity. Not affiliated with any other account or entity.”

Within a few hours, the account crossed more than a lakh followers without a single tweet put. Netizens on Twitter gave a rousing welcome to True Indology er.. Bharadwaj with the hashtag #TrueIndologyIsBack.

Several noted personalities too took to Twitter to express their delight. Author and Professor at JNU, Anand Ranganathan confirmed that the handle belongs to original person behind True Indology.

(Note: Initially, the handle’s ID was @TheTrueIndology which was later changed to @BharadwajSpeaks).

Former IPS officer M Nageswara Rao welcoming Bharadwaj called his return on Twitter as “extraordinary solution in extraordinary situation”.

Following his suspension from Twitter, True Indology received massive support to the extent that a few members of the public filed a case against Twitter India for suppressing freedom of expression and arbitrarily suspending his account. The hashtag #BringBackTrueIndology trended worldwide at number 4 for a day.

During the time he was suspended from Twitter, True Indology remained active on other social media like Facebook where the account has more than 1.3 lakh followers. In a Facebook post on November 27, True Indology mentioned that no reason was given by Twitter for suspension of the account, not even a mail intimating of the suspension. Bharadwaj stated that Twitter has not responded to his appeals despite the fact that #bringbacktrueindology had trended at #4th worldwide

“This is a long drawn out battle and I am not giving up. I am sending a legal notice to twitter and two criminal cases have been filed against them for unfair suspension of my account. This is going to take long. In the meanwhile, please follow @bharadwajspeaks for a lot of insightful posts on Indology and for keeping the battle up with against anti Indic propaganda on that platform. I am thankful for your support.”, Bharadwaj wrote.

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