20% of Pakistan’s entire Hindu population is present in just one district along the border in Sindh. It’s a shame that no one thought to barter that in four wars fought 😢
Should avoid pandering to low IQ folks on this site beyond a point. Most of them have axes to grind rather than any sort of genuine difference of opinion.
Unpopular opinion: Acceptance of Sengol shows broad mindedness of North Indian Hindu then that of India. For instance Had it been presented from Dwarka/Mathura & inscribed with couplet of say Meerabai in Gujarati or even Hindi it would have been outright rejected by many in south
What I feared has started. Now because one of the alliance partners shooting his mouth off, every alliance partner of I.N.D.IA will be put on the mat by their opponents! Is this really required?
At some point retrospectively, people will note this time period as the one in which the Hindutva movement took on new properly religious aspects beyond the original political and community based focus
It is interesting to see Dharumai Adheenam presenting the image of Sarabeswarar to
@annamalai_k
ji at Tirubuvanam. Sarabar is a fierce deity who has the powers to annihilate the opponents. Kulothunga III was a great devotee of Sarabeswarar and personally donated this Vigraha to
Several think
@jsaideepak
did a great job in Sabarimala case. In fact he screwed up.
His argument was not on religious denomination but on naishtika brahmachariyam of Aiyappa.
It is a religious denomination temple which no one wanted to prove and thus they lost the protection
The one good thing about Adipurush is that it will hopefully sound the death knell for 'modernist' interpretations of our epics and 'updating them for the new generation'.
I personally know at least 5 people who want to settle in Canada and get a PR. If Canada fires back the same ballistic missile, it would be disastrous for a lot of Indians.
They were lost in 1021 when the Hindu Shahis fell. Not recovered barring a brief reconquest by Marathas and a more sustained rule under Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Wierd that people take British conquests as some sort of baseline from which we 'lost' anything.
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In the Partition of India we also lost our sacred rivers. Indus (Sindhu), Raavi (Iravati/Parushni),Sutlej (Shutudri),Jhelum (Vitasta),Chenab (Asikni); all lost in the creation of Pakistan - Sandeep Balakrishna
@dharmadispatch
in this Atharva Talk.
anyway, the exact word "hindu" was used by medieval kings too. the emperors of vijayanagara called themselves 'hindu-rāya-suratrāṇa' meaning "protector of the gods of the hindus"
People who spent the last many years making mocking tweets about CAA/Amit Shah's statements that rules will be notified will now seamlessly move on to new talking points.
#RamMandirUtsav
What would you like to say to the people of our country, and politicians, especially to the I.N.D.I.A Bloc, regarding the event on January 22?-
@NavikaKumar
asks
@harbhajan_singh
"I would only say, there are many other topics to discuss politics on, but there
Fun to see ppl demanding Ashwini Vaishnaw be replaced. Railway ministry is likely to end up in populist coalition partner hands anyway like it used to be in the 90s and 2000s. The result has provided an automatic solution to the problem - and many others tbh.
The North-South divide in Tamilnadu stems from one man and one man only - E V Ramasamy, otherwise known as Periyar who was a Dalit & very strong leader of the CONgress Party.
But what was his purpose to sow the seeds of hatred in Tamilians towards North Bharat?
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I wonder if there is a vested interest in trying to start a war of words with Poland when all the video evidence shows it is Ukrainians ill-treating our kids and not allow them through.
Muhammad Rizwan offered Namaz on the field in
#Hyderabad
during the Pakistan vs Netherlands match during break.♥️
What if he does the same in
#Ahmedabad
, will the lakhs of Hindutva thugs barge into field to stop him?
#PAKvsNED
#PAKvNED
#NEDvsPAK
Lots of wierd reactions re Shela Rahid. Defeating your enemies so thoroughly that you can redeploy them for your own purposes is a through victory. Be happy in it and move on.
The seeress of this hymn is Sachi Devi, consort of Indradeva, it's quite distasteful to interpret it in such base terms by dislocating it from the person saying it.
Rig Veda has an entire hymn which seems to be written by a woman that wishes to get rid of other rival women in competition for her husband. It is so honest, the primal hatred a woman will have for someone who has stolen her alpha mate.
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99.99% of people posting 'Manipur is being but Indians/PM/BJP is busy with something else wouldn't be able to provide the most elementary info on want is happening in Manipur if asked.
Shankaracharya of Dwarika Peeth won’t attend the Pran Pratistha event on January 22. He gives his blessings for the event.
But why he is also not attending the grand event of Pran Pratistha? Please do not start abusing him also 🙏🏻
Literally the reverse happened in truth. Brutal retaliation was extracted on British civilians for the British massacring whole villages to destroy rebel supply lines, despite the Peshwa attempting to restrain them.
Partition would still have happened, after a violent civil war. Probably we would have ended up with more territory vis a vis Pakistan as compared to what actually happened, though
If Bose won the battle, partition of India would not have happened. The whole of Indian subcontinent would be one state, with potentially a few princely states embedded in between which surrender their foreign policy to the super-state.
It would be a very different world.
Everything a politician does is of course political but that does not mean that all political acts are *merely* or *only* political, even in intent let alone substance.
If Steve Bonta's decipherment proves correct, it implies that the archeological remains of the Suryavamsha lie still unexcavated beneath the Gangaetic plains.
I'm very proud to share the fruits of my linguist brother Steve Bonta's 33-year effort to decipher the Indus Valley Script. Despite studying Dravidian languages out the wazoo, he ultimately found it to be an early form of Sanskrit.
Also multiple generations of Prithviraj's ancestors slaughtered invading Turk armies wholesale and boasted of it in their official records. No reason to suppose Prithviraj would have a different approach.
He never captured Ghori so pardoning is out of the question. Mostly likely Ghori escaped coz he had swifter horses. The unreasonably strict Code of War listed by Manu had gone out of fashion by the time of the Mauryas itself.
A Sanskrit text, from South Indian lands, of 1700s CONFIRMS Marathas were credited with *saving* Hinduism, despite all and any unfavourable opinions!
The Text is Vishvagunàdarsha of Veṅkatārya Yajvā Arisānaphāl.
Presenting it for the FIRST time in Mainstream 👇🏻
While arguments about currency being placed/discarded in inappropriate situations/put to inappropriate uses certainly have some merit, it's a fact that historically almost all Hindu Empires or Kingdoms marked their currencies with images of Devi-Devatas.
The point of staging these events in foreign lands and inviting foreign potenates there is to showcase Modi's legitimacy and the depth of organic mass support he commands. It serves as a vital counter to any arguments libs domestic or foreign make abroad.
Accha. How many South Indians objected to Vaishnava Jana To on linguistic grounds? This sort of imagined victimhood is no different from what Dravidianists do. It's the very mirror image of it.
People should seriously consider why NYAY didn't work in 2019 but all the political conversation over the last few years has been about revdi, apart from caste and unemployment.
I will be meeting PM Modi and presenting the 'Sengol' to him on the inauguration of the new Parliament building: Sri Harihara Desika Swamigal, the 293rd head priest of Madurai Adheenam
The historic sceptre 'Sengol' was received by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on August 14, 1947, to
Even six months ago, the rajadanda was not to be found. When the time was nigh, it manifested itself. What more indication of extra-worldly workings does one need?
Shivaji's caste matters only because if he were a sudra then that very sanatana dharma which he had sworn to protect, itself would not give him adhikara to become a king.
This reminds me of a Marathi movie in which a woman marries into a modern family and her traditional aunt +
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A mosaic at Villa Romana del Casale (Filosofiana), Italy (4th c.) shows India personified as a lovely goddess adorned with a Tilak, holding an elephant tusk, surrounded by a tiger, an elephant & a "phoenix" (peacock?). She also holds a tree like the classical Hindu Salabhanjika
This is not some circus for the public to voyeuristically receive daily updates. for their entertainment. The curse of democracy is that everything is turned into a reality show.
@AmitShah
महोदय अगर यह सत्य है कि इतने प्रयास किए गए तो यह सब बातें सार्वजनिक तब क्यों नहीं की जाती पर दिन रात सुबह शाम टीवी, प्रिंट मीडिया, सोशल मीडिया पर सवाल किए जाते हैं कि सरकार चुप क्यों है? जब आम नागरिक तक सवाल करते हैं कि क्या हो रहा है? हो भी रहा है या नहीं? कोई कुछ बताता क्यों
The genius of India isn't that everyone loves each other. It's that there are so many ways we all hate each other, no large group can cohere to overthrow the State. Why India shouldn't balkanize; the States are more coherent, it would easily descend into dictatorship or civil war
There are a lot of idiots for whom it does not seem to have registered yet that the democratic politics of Maldives is essentially an India-China proxy conflict with domestic forces aligned to one side or the other, and stupidly wondering why some hapeless island is being bullied
What is it w RWers forever trying to play the 'I am smarter than you' card on each other? It's irritating and only shows you in bad light rather than whoever you are trying to disparge.
Thats why i say making Film doesnt make agnihotri a kashmir expert.
@mehdizafar
is right, Al Zulfiqar Mujhideen , hezbolla Islami Jamhooria kashmir were two dreaded shia terror outfits 1989-93
Being very close to many Shia families ( as friends, and my father taught many) 1/2
If Indians are lower IQ than whites and have less people over 130 IQ than whites, then no higher IQ subset of Indians will have more people over 130 IQ than whites.
This is because the total number of Indians over 130 IQ is less than the number of whites over 130 IQ.
So there
This obsession with legislation as the be all and end all to the extent of quasi-worship of a Constitution is just another fundamental incompatibility between American and Indian values
@akshayalladi
What aspects of the culture you regard as superior can be legislated? What would be the equivalent of something like the First Amendment in the US that protects the (Western/universal) value of freedom of speech?
#WATCH
| Tamil Nadu: Locals shower flower petals as ambulances carrying the mortal remains of CDS Bipin Rawat, his wife and other personnel who died in the Coonoor Helicopter Crash, leave for Sulur airbase from Madras Regimental Centre in Nilgiris district
Funny to see ppl copy this from dumb gora academics- neither was this unique to India - no one raises such Qs when it comes to Roman/Achaemenid maps- it's also irrelevant- like saying Naxal hideouts, Sentinelese etc shd be marked out on modern Indian map
very wrong picture, it should be clusters in forests, trade routes and geo features. india wasnt fully cultivated like other civilizations before modern times. its only now that jungles have disappeared
Muslims have the power of Oil
Jews have the power of Banking, Gold, Big Pharma, and the weapon industry.
Christians have power similar to Jews plus private Vatican City.
What power do we Hindus have?
Ganesh Chaturthi isn't the creation of Tilak, he only made it an outdoors and social rather than family observance. People should avoid speaking in ignorance. Also, Ganesh Chaturthi is 'ritual-free'? LOL
Tilak had launched Ganesh festival as no-frills / ritual free celebrations for commoners to consolidate the fragmented Sanatan religion who had lost its confidence under British subjugation. Now our priests have hijacked it n are advising “ muhurats “ for the स्थापना of the diety
Praveen Mohan offers literary and architectural evidence of the use of guns, rockets and bombs by the ancient Hindus of India. A Greek writer wrote 1,800 years ago about a battle in which the Kashmir army was devastated by time bombs.
If my people were destroyed, I would prefer humanity to be as well over it reaching the stars without my people. A future that excludes my people is of no value to me.
@arya_amsha
I would rather world history be created by others than live and die in stagnancy of our own people. And we got to partake in,benefit from and witness this world.
There is a popular belief deriving from Victorian era assumptions, that "Dravidian" people are those of South India, and that Dravidian languages are native to India. However there is a theory that rather than coming from native Indian hunter gatherers (AASI), Dravidian languages
While we need to do way more for H refugees, Afghan refugees are a handful of wealthy dissident elites who fled, one can't compare the two. The wealth of Afghan refugees doesn't come from any special treatment by the govt.
The Rajkunwar Chauhans are direct descendants of the main-line Chauhans of Ajmer and later Ranthambore, who migrated to Awadh after Hammiradeva and Ranathambore fell
Abandoned Raj Mahal of Diyara Taluk of Rajkunwar Chauhans, Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh.
The Estate was established by a Birbhaddra Shah who led the first of the six colonies of Rajkunwars across the Gomti and planted himself at Diyara on the banks of the river.
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We defeated him and Nixon in 1971, that's worth celebrating. Nothing worth celebrating in his death, he died old and comfortable after a successful career.
South Asians should be celebrating the death of Kissinger. He's responsible for helping orchestrate a genocide of countless Bangladeshis in the 1970s.
At one point, he joked about how "the last Hindu massacre" was a fun experience for Yahya Khan. An absolute ghoul.
There actually was such an effort in the 1040s which went into ghaznavid territory and there were pan-kindom coalitions even against counter mahmud's ancestors not just him. The bitter truth is that the simplistic 'lack of unity' formulation isn't true.
Uncomfortable Introspection:
Why did Hindu states not enact a crusade-like endeavor?
As Hinduism’s holiest shrines fell. As tales of asuric actions in Hinduism’s holiest lands were told. As a dark threat loomed from the north.
Answered with silence & introversion.
With the recent Maldives incident, a few things stand very clear:
1. For the first time after Independence, Bharat has witnessed a Prime Minister who has done so much on the Int’l relations front that foreign countries have to suspend their ministers as a show of apology to
Alexander (“the Accursed”) won a kingdom the size of Tallahassee when he came to India.
That’s it.
That’s all.
He literally ran for his life upon seeing the army of Magadha.
He lost his way, so terrified was he.
Napoleon needed better role models.
Adherents of Abrahamic religions are the majority of the world's population, a conflict over their Holy Land involves the entire world by default even if you aren't part of the ingroup. No point trying to make trite comments about it.
The greatest “miracle” of the Abrahamic religions is to involve people who historically had nothing to do with the Israel and Palestine to be more invested in the celestial land dispute then their own homeland.
@PadhegaIndia_
@dharmadispatch
@BloomsburyIndia
That’s not the point. Point is you have charged me Rs. 70 more for the same book. Either you reverse Rs.70 or please be known that this will be my last purchase from you.