[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @dhume Sadanand Dhume Sadanand Dhume posts on X about pakistan, india, israel, mamdani the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and 1006 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::47685065/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXX +139% - X Month XXXXXXXXX +21% - X Months XXXXXXXXX +269% - X Year XXXXXXXXX -XX% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::47685065/posts_active)  ### Followers: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::47685065/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXX -XXXX% - X Month XXXXXXX +0.11% - X Months XXXXXXX +1.30% - X Year XXXXXXX +0.95% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::47685065/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::47685065/influence) --- **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) **Social topic influence** [pakistan](/topic/pakistan) #2213, [india](/topic/india), [israel](/topic/israel), [mamdani](/topic/mamdani), [kuala lumpur](/topic/kuala-lumpur) #58, [hills](/topic/hills), [podcasts](/topic/podcasts), [imran](/topic/imran), [par](/topic/par), [rays](/topic/rays) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::47685065/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "Caught between a rock and a hard place: For the king of the Buddhist Chakma people in the Chittagong Hills Bangladeshi nationalism represented by Mujibur Rahman posed a bigger threat than Pakistani nationalism represented by Yayha Khans army"  [@dhume](/creator/x/dhume) on [X](/post/tweet/1945336713481527400) 2025-07-16 04:16:29 UTC 174.1K followers, 2550 engagements "@furqann_125 Looks like you didnt read it. The whole point is that Mamdani is NOT an Islamist or jihadist though as an extreme leftist hes effectively allied with Islamists on the question of Israel"  [@dhume](/creator/x/dhume) on [X](/post/tweet/1946744761538211914) 2025-07-20 01:31:34 UTC 174.1K followers, XX engagements "I dont hate NPR. Ive appeared on it as a guest many times and have always been impressed by the quality of its journalism. There is nothing on right wing radio that approaches NPRs thoroughness and professionalism though the right does have some good podcasts. But its also true that some years back it began to feel like every second story on NPR was about race gender or sexuality. Old NPR came across as staffed mostly by left-of-center journalists striving for objectivity. New NPR felt like it was staffednot entirely but to a large extentby activists who had already made up their minds about"  [@dhume](/creator/x/dhume) on [X](/post/tweet/1947307719221776384) 2025-07-21 14:48:34 UTC 174.1K followers, 6233 engagements "@y2raza My sense is that Imran Khan successfully expanded PTIs base beyond the middle class as shown by its dramatic victory in last years (rigged) election. Are you suggesting that the PTI base has contracted back to its middle class core"  [@dhume](/creator/x/dhume) on [X](/post/tweet/1946936592930635866) 2025-07-20 14:13:50 UTC 174.1K followers, XXX engagements "@omarali50 Probably par for the course for an Africana studies major from Bowdoin Im afraid"  [@dhume](/creator/x/dhume) on [X](/post/tweet/1945983662769475743) 2025-07-17 23:07:14 UTC 174.1K followers, 1271 engagements "@SandipGhose Have you seen the statement that this wasnt even Rays ancestral home to begin with"  [@dhume](/creator/x/dhume) on [X](/post/tweet/1946253580714803377) 2025-07-18 16:59:47 UTC 174.1K followers, XXX engagements "Heres @pbmehta writing in 2004 on Hinduism and secularism: Perhaps secularism like cricket and democracy is a quintessentially Indian game that just happens to have been invented elsewhere. Hard to imagine any serious person making such an argument today"  [@dhume](/creator/x/dhume) on [X](/post/tweet/1942770533965193291) 2025-07-09 02:19:24 UTC 174.1K followers, 18.2K engagements "Republicans who call Zohran Mamdani an Islamist are speaking nonsense. But the mayoral candidate does represent a de facto alliance between Islamists and the left based on a shared antipathy toward Israel. My take"  [@dhume](/creator/x/dhume) on [X](/post/tweet/1945642770711904681) 2025-07-17 00:32:39 UTC 174.1K followers, 43.7K engagements "Australians Americans and Japanese all see China as the top threat to their nations. For the Indian public its Pakistan. v @conradhackett"  [@dhume](/creator/x/dhume) on [X](/post/tweet/1945146719903031574) 2025-07-15 15:41:31 UTC 174.1K followers, 4773 engagements "@ShineHamesha Because Bangladeshi is an independent country that gets to make decisions you may not like. Do you think foreign governments get to tell India which houses it ought to preserve and which it needs to demolish"  [@dhume](/creator/x/dhume) on [X](/post/tweet/1946212194628042971) 2025-07-18 14:15:20 UTC 174.1K followers, 2347 engagements "@barbarindian If you think my post suggests optimism then you really need to ask for a refund from whoever taught you how to read. :)"  [@dhume](/creator/x/dhume) on [X](/post/tweet/1946938012123709508) 2025-07-20 14:19:29 UTC 174.1K followers, XX engagements "Pakistani liberals who speak out against the horror of blasphemy killings are among the bravest people in the subcontinent. But its hard to be optimistic about this question. Maybe (at best) well reach a point where the threat of blasphemy killings becomes less common. But I cant imagine any Pakistani government civilian or military saying what is blindingly obvious to anyone living in a post-enlightenment society: Theres no such thing as blasphemy. Its a concept that belongs in our ignorant past like a belief in witches or in the medicinal power of leeches. In a civilized society you would"  [@dhume](/creator/x/dhume) on [X](/post/tweet/1946788705483559393) 2025-07-20 04:26:11 UTC 174.1K followers, 12.9K engagements "Worth reading this @ScottMGreer article if youre trying to understand why much of MAGA is up in arms about the (non-existent) Epstein files"  [@dhume](/creator/x/dhume) on [X](/post/tweet/1945112706857451688) 2025-07-15 13:26:22 UTC 174.1K followers, 1874 engagements "Unfashionable opinion: X. @rohini_sgh is right. Journalists did have much more freedom to criticize the government during UPA especially UPA2 than they do under Modi. For instance in 2012-14 Arnab Goswami was an actual journalist performing the role of holding elected officials to account. X. If you take a long view of modern Indian history then the period 1991-2014relatively free media relatively independent courts no social media lynch mobsis an anomaly born of coalition politics. All Indian governments with a single-party majority have used it to intimidate the media and the judiciary. In"  [@dhume](/creator/x/dhume) on [X](/post/tweet/1944752170458378417) 2025-07-14 13:33:43 UTC 174.1K followers, 29K engagements "Just leaving this here: Shanghai and Beijing in 2011 when Chinas GDP per capita (PPP) was roughly the same as Indias is today"  [@dhume](/creator/x/dhume) on [X](/post/tweet/1945080085410726288) 2025-07-15 11:16:44 UTC 174.1K followers, 47.1K engagements "No offense meant to PTI fans but lets be honest. In the subcontinent a crowd this small is an embarrassment not an achievement. #Pakistan"  [@dhume](/creator/x/dhume) on [X](/post/tweet/1946927666549973262) 2025-07-20 13:38:22 UTC 174.1K followers, 7120 engagements "It turns out that random Reddit dude wasnt the only Indian impressed by Kuala Lumpur. Back in 1990 Prime Minister V.P. Singh also noticed its transformation. Source: Backstage by Montek Singh Ahluwalia"  [@dhume](/creator/x/dhume) on [X](/post/tweet/1947114611951493537) 2025-07-21 02:01:13 UTC 174.1K followers, 1720 engagements "That Bangladesh sees no cultural value in the ancestral home of Satyajit Ray is a sad sign of the countrys trajectory. But I dont see why India should issue a statement about the buildings landmark status symbolising Bangla cultural renaissance. If Bangladesh chooses not to care about iconic Bengali cultural and literary figures thats their business. Its unfortunate of course. But ultimately every country gets to decide its own cultural priorities"  [@dhume](/creator/x/dhume) on [X](/post/tweet/1946209610047922218) 2025-07-18 14:05:04 UTC 174.1K followers, 47.3K engagements "This Reddit post by an Indian tourist who visited Kuala Lumpur and was shocked by how far ahead it is of Indian cities has gone viral. Protip: He had better not visit Dubai or Singapore"  [@dhume](/creator/x/dhume) on [X](/post/tweet/1944542760226197650) 2025-07-13 23:41:36 UTC 174.1K followers, 98.7K engagements "Trump: Planes were being shot out of the air. Fivefour or five but I think five jets were shot down actually. My 2: This squares with both credible international reporting and what Indians will admit to privately. Someone who follows this stuff closely told me India lost four planesincluding one Rafaleand a Heron drone on the night of May X. At this point Im not sure what purpose continued Indian government opacity about this serves. Hiding the truth only prolongs speculation"  [@dhume](/creator/x/dhume) on [X](/post/tweet/1946408535555764580) 2025-07-19 03:15:32 UTC 174.1K followers, 106.5K engagements "One of the strangest things about Pakistan is that its journalists and influencers spend 100x as much time criticizing Israels actions in distant Gaza than they do criticizing their own governments actions in next door Afghanistan"  [@dhume](/creator/x/dhume) on [X](/post/tweet/1946747203063779781) 2025-07-20 01:41:16 UTC 174.1K followers, 6984 engagements "I think @VivekGRamaswamy is right. Mamdanis opponents should focus on his batshit crazy ideas not on his race or religion"  [@dhume](/creator/x/dhume) on [X](/post/tweet/1946677776133591458) 2025-07-19 21:05:24 UTC 174.1K followers, 9824 engagements
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@dhume Sadanand Dhume
Sadanand Dhume posts on X about pakistan, india, israel, mamdani the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and 1006 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
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- X Week XXXXXXX +139%
- X Month XXXXXXXXX +21%
- X Months XXXXXXXXX +269%
- X Year XXXXXXXXX -XX%
Mentions: XX #
Followers: XXXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXXX -XXXX%
- X Month XXXXXXX +0.11%
- X Months XXXXXXX +1.30%
- X Year XXXXXXX +0.95%
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Social topic influence pakistan #2213, india, israel, mamdani, kuala lumpur #58, hills, podcasts, imran, par, rays
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"Caught between a rock and a hard place: For the king of the Buddhist Chakma people in the Chittagong Hills Bangladeshi nationalism represented by Mujibur Rahman posed a bigger threat than Pakistani nationalism represented by Yayha Khans army"
@dhume on X 2025-07-16 04:16:29 UTC 174.1K followers, 2550 engagements
"@furqann_125 Looks like you didnt read it. The whole point is that Mamdani is NOT an Islamist or jihadist though as an extreme leftist hes effectively allied with Islamists on the question of Israel" @dhume on X 2025-07-20 01:31:34 UTC 174.1K followers, XX engagements
"I dont hate NPR. Ive appeared on it as a guest many times and have always been impressed by the quality of its journalism. There is nothing on right wing radio that approaches NPRs thoroughness and professionalism though the right does have some good podcasts. But its also true that some years back it began to feel like every second story on NPR was about race gender or sexuality. Old NPR came across as staffed mostly by left-of-center journalists striving for objectivity. New NPR felt like it was staffednot entirely but to a large extentby activists who had already made up their minds about" @dhume on X 2025-07-21 14:48:34 UTC 174.1K followers, 6233 engagements
"@y2raza My sense is that Imran Khan successfully expanded PTIs base beyond the middle class as shown by its dramatic victory in last years (rigged) election. Are you suggesting that the PTI base has contracted back to its middle class core" @dhume on X 2025-07-20 14:13:50 UTC 174.1K followers, XXX engagements
"@omarali50 Probably par for the course for an Africana studies major from Bowdoin Im afraid" @dhume on X 2025-07-17 23:07:14 UTC 174.1K followers, 1271 engagements
"@SandipGhose Have you seen the statement that this wasnt even Rays ancestral home to begin with" @dhume on X 2025-07-18 16:59:47 UTC 174.1K followers, XXX engagements
"Heres @pbmehta writing in 2004 on Hinduism and secularism: Perhaps secularism like cricket and democracy is a quintessentially Indian game that just happens to have been invented elsewhere. Hard to imagine any serious person making such an argument today" @dhume on X 2025-07-09 02:19:24 UTC 174.1K followers, 18.2K engagements
"Republicans who call Zohran Mamdani an Islamist are speaking nonsense. But the mayoral candidate does represent a de facto alliance between Islamists and the left based on a shared antipathy toward Israel. My take" @dhume on X 2025-07-17 00:32:39 UTC 174.1K followers, 43.7K engagements
"Australians Americans and Japanese all see China as the top threat to their nations. For the Indian public its Pakistan. v @conradhackett" @dhume on X 2025-07-15 15:41:31 UTC 174.1K followers, 4773 engagements
"@ShineHamesha Because Bangladeshi is an independent country that gets to make decisions you may not like. Do you think foreign governments get to tell India which houses it ought to preserve and which it needs to demolish" @dhume on X 2025-07-18 14:15:20 UTC 174.1K followers, 2347 engagements
"@barbarindian If you think my post suggests optimism then you really need to ask for a refund from whoever taught you how to read. :)" @dhume on X 2025-07-20 14:19:29 UTC 174.1K followers, XX engagements
"Pakistani liberals who speak out against the horror of blasphemy killings are among the bravest people in the subcontinent. But its hard to be optimistic about this question. Maybe (at best) well reach a point where the threat of blasphemy killings becomes less common. But I cant imagine any Pakistani government civilian or military saying what is blindingly obvious to anyone living in a post-enlightenment society: Theres no such thing as blasphemy. Its a concept that belongs in our ignorant past like a belief in witches or in the medicinal power of leeches. In a civilized society you would" @dhume on X 2025-07-20 04:26:11 UTC 174.1K followers, 12.9K engagements
"Worth reading this @ScottMGreer article if youre trying to understand why much of MAGA is up in arms about the (non-existent) Epstein files" @dhume on X 2025-07-15 13:26:22 UTC 174.1K followers, 1874 engagements
"Unfashionable opinion: X. @rohini_sgh is right. Journalists did have much more freedom to criticize the government during UPA especially UPA2 than they do under Modi. For instance in 2012-14 Arnab Goswami was an actual journalist performing the role of holding elected officials to account. X. If you take a long view of modern Indian history then the period 1991-2014relatively free media relatively independent courts no social media lynch mobsis an anomaly born of coalition politics. All Indian governments with a single-party majority have used it to intimidate the media and the judiciary. In" @dhume on X 2025-07-14 13:33:43 UTC 174.1K followers, 29K engagements
"Just leaving this here: Shanghai and Beijing in 2011 when Chinas GDP per capita (PPP) was roughly the same as Indias is today" @dhume on X 2025-07-15 11:16:44 UTC 174.1K followers, 47.1K engagements
"No offense meant to PTI fans but lets be honest. In the subcontinent a crowd this small is an embarrassment not an achievement. #Pakistan" @dhume on X 2025-07-20 13:38:22 UTC 174.1K followers, 7120 engagements
"It turns out that random Reddit dude wasnt the only Indian impressed by Kuala Lumpur. Back in 1990 Prime Minister V.P. Singh also noticed its transformation. Source: Backstage by Montek Singh Ahluwalia" @dhume on X 2025-07-21 02:01:13 UTC 174.1K followers, 1720 engagements
"That Bangladesh sees no cultural value in the ancestral home of Satyajit Ray is a sad sign of the countrys trajectory. But I dont see why India should issue a statement about the buildings landmark status symbolising Bangla cultural renaissance. If Bangladesh chooses not to care about iconic Bengali cultural and literary figures thats their business. Its unfortunate of course. But ultimately every country gets to decide its own cultural priorities" @dhume on X 2025-07-18 14:05:04 UTC 174.1K followers, 47.3K engagements
"This Reddit post by an Indian tourist who visited Kuala Lumpur and was shocked by how far ahead it is of Indian cities has gone viral. Protip: He had better not visit Dubai or Singapore" @dhume on X 2025-07-13 23:41:36 UTC 174.1K followers, 98.7K engagements
"Trump: Planes were being shot out of the air. Fivefour or five but I think five jets were shot down actually. My 2: This squares with both credible international reporting and what Indians will admit to privately. Someone who follows this stuff closely told me India lost four planesincluding one Rafaleand a Heron drone on the night of May X. At this point Im not sure what purpose continued Indian government opacity about this serves. Hiding the truth only prolongs speculation" @dhume on X 2025-07-19 03:15:32 UTC 174.1K followers, 106.5K engagements
"One of the strangest things about Pakistan is that its journalists and influencers spend 100x as much time criticizing Israels actions in distant Gaza than they do criticizing their own governments actions in next door Afghanistan" @dhume on X 2025-07-20 01:41:16 UTC 174.1K followers, 6984 engagements
"I think @VivekGRamaswamy is right. Mamdanis opponents should focus on his batshit crazy ideas not on his race or religion" @dhume on X 2025-07-19 21:05:24 UTC 174.1K followers, 9824 engagements