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@h_tejas
Tejas
2 years
This is how Brahmins kids would speak in class — extra confidence, great articulation, zero substance
@Anurag_Office
Office of Mr. Anurag Thakur
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When our PM @narendramodi introduced a micro economy & digital currency there was a furore…it is going to be a disaster. In a couple of years the whole story changed & India became one of the largest users of micro economy in the world. This is #NewIndia - @ActorMadhavan
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I know you might get annoyed at constant references to Dharmashastras but this is literally what those texts prescribe — much less punishment for Brahmins than other groups, unless the victim also is Brahmin.
@themojostory
Mojo Story
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“They are Brahmins,Men of Good Sanskaar. Their conduct in jail was good": BJP MLA #CKRaulji who was on the panel that recommended release of 11 convicts who gang-raped #BilkisBano & killed her child. @ashish_ramola from the ground. Full interview here:
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2 years
I think Twitter gave me a blue tick because Sai Pallavi replied to me with a heart.
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2 years
Terming poor people's huts and shops as 'encroachments,' 'illegal' just because they don't fit within the parameters of your bourgeois aesthetics and laws is insensitive to say the least and doesn't sit right with me.
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2 years
Open-source civilisation, vasudhaiv kutumbakam but Aurangzeb who was born in Gujarat and died in Maharashtra, was a foreigner...
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7 months
Pure veg = pure casteist
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2 years
I can die happily now I guess?
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@h_tejas Thank you Tejas ❤️
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3 months
The Indian government has no excuse to postpone the decennial census anymore. The work must start right away. It cannot treat the well-established constitutional processes in such cavalier way and take the people of this country for granted.
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"An important intervention by Periyar was the earliest translation, in any Indian language, of Ambedkar’s The Annihilation of Caste as soon as it was published in 1936." Periyar was one of few contemporary leaders who understood greatness of Ambedkar and gave him due respect.
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It is sad that Indian students have to learn research methods outside the university classrooms. A friend who is a third year PhD student is planning to enroll for a short-term methods course costing more than ₹15K because she didn't get the required training in her PhD program.
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2 years
Manish Sisodia attributes his resistance and bravery to him being a Rajput. Caste apparently dictates your intrinsic qualities. How do we fight caste when top politicians normalize casteism so brazenly?
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Manish Sisodia
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मेरे पास भाजपा का संदेश आया है- “आप” तोड़कर भाजपा में आ जाओ, सारे CBI ED के केस बंद करवा देंगे मेरा भाजपा को जवाब- मैं महाराणा प्रताप का वंशज हूँ, राजपूत हूँ। सर कटा लूँगा लेकिन भ्रष्टाचारियो-षड्यंत्रकारियोंके सामने झुकूँगा नहीं। मेरे ख़िलाफ़ सारे केस झूठे हैं।जो करना है कर लो
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When upper castes say they grew up in poverty, it usually doesn't mean the same when Bahujans say they grew up in poverty. 'Poor' is a relative term and the reference point for upper castes is actual rich people while for Bahujans it's someone with Class 4, Class 3 job.
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2 years
Even though from a distance, I saw @Sai_Pallavi92 today.
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The aesthetics😂(Photo from Guwahati hotel)
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Since people were asking for reference, this is from Stewart Gordon's book on the Marathas but you will find this information in almost all history books on Marathas.
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Upper caste liberals have suddenly woken up to the fact that Adivasis exist and that their issues need to be taken seriously when an Adivasi person is becoming the president of the country for the first time.
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Happy birthday, @Sai_Pallavi92 !
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Do tell me your age in terms of vada pao price. What is the lowest price at which you have had vada pao in your memory. In my case it was one and half rupees.
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We are a democracy: we should be able to tolerate sarcasm, mockery and even derogatory language, especially against political leaders, etc. I wouldn't always condone such language but
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Despite growing research and evidence, what is it that makes upper caste Muslims deny that Indian Muslims are also very much within the confines of the caste system?
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If you needed more proof that Hindu rashtra is Dharmashastra-bound rashtra. And ya'll know what Dharmashastra means — varnashram dharma
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The insistence on calling food 'pure' and ensuring such complete separation between vegetarian food and meat that you decide to have different restaurants and assign different workers to the two, has its roots in caste.
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Deepinder Goyal
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Update on our pure veg fleet — While we are going to continue to have a fleet for vegetarians, we have decided to remove the on-ground segregation of this fleet on the ground using the colour green. All our riders — both our regular fleet, and our fleet for vegetarians, will
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Sharad Pawar referred to parts of Jawahar Rathod's poem in a speech. Maharashtra BJP took objection saying it insults good, that it is casteist. How can a Marxist poem that speaks about the struggles of labourers, about revolution, about equality, about justice, be casteist?
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2 years
The only Queen I recognise is @Sai_Pallavi92
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Life update: Today was my last day at The Quint. In my two years there, I got a chance to edit copies, write/report and commission articles, and am grateful for all the things I learnt in the process.
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एकनाथ शिंदेंना आमदार बनण्यापूर्वी रिक्षाचालक होते म्हणून हिणवनं किंवा त्यांची लायकी काढणं साफ चूक आहे. तुम्हाला लोकशाही कळली नाही असा ह्याचा अर्थ होतो.
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Andhra Pradesh government has recently named districts after such personalities as Alluri Sitarama Raju, NTR, Tallapaka Annamacharya and Satya Sai Baba. Then why protests over only Dr BR Ambedkar's name?
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Student body claims bias as seats for SC/ST/OBCs go unfilled at FTII
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Love the detailing... All the boys seem to be Brahmin going by their sacred threads and shendis. These Vedic study gurukulas were meant for Brahmins, never mind the inflated number pulled out of someone's ass
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Anagha
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आधी से ज़्यादा आबादी को पढ़ने तो देते नहीं थे वर्णव्यवस्था के चलते। इतने गुरुकुलों में क्या रखते थे, गैया?
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Raj Thackeray recently mentioned Bal Tilak in his speech and said people oppose him just because he is a Brahmin. Guess when a priest refused to recite Vedic mantras for Rajarshi Shahu Maharaj calling him a Shudra, who supported that priest?
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Posting some photos from the collected volumes of Jotirao Phule and Savitribai Phule's works published by Maharashtra govt on #150thAnniversary of #SatyashodhakSamaj
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Ali Anwar Ansari writes stern letter to Narendra Modi on BJP’s Pasmanda outreach
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Satyashodhak Samaj was founded on September 24, 1873. Today is the #150thAnniversary of that event. My immense gratitude to Jotirao Phule, Savitribai Phule and their colleagues for starting the first organized struggle against Brahminism and caste. #SatyashodhakSamaj
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A longform piece on Telugu film industry, star fandoms and caste. If you are into movies, you wouldn't want to miss this
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People assume that under Hindu rashtra, the 'Hindu' identity will be a given — you just have to be born a Hindu. That won't be the case. People will have to 'prove' themselves Hindu again and again, against the ideals of Dharmashastras.
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I write about the demand for the construction of a memorial to 'Mother of Education' Savitribai Phule at Bhide Wada in Pune where the Phules opened their first school for girls
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arresting people over such tweets and Facebook posts isn't right. People whose remarks are a clear incitement to violence face no repercussions while people like Ratan Lal and Jignesh Mevani are promptly arrested. In this regard, I feel even Ketaki Chitale's arrest was wrong.
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Some love stories start with a hello, some with 'reply my SMS'
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I think I just lost a few brain cells after reading this. What the actual fuck?
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Sadanand Dhume
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Has Rahul Gandhi learnt nothing from two consecutive electoral thrashings? This photo suggests that Congress fights not for the rights of ordinary Muslims, but first and foremost for fundamentalist Islam. Regular Muslims don’t sexualize little girls by covering them up.
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Interesting how mainstream media doesn't know the teacher's caste yet. Which otherwise names middle castes if they are involved (as they should) and calls them dominant caste in every para of the news copy.
@Bipashaa
Bee
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Most media do not mention the caste of the teacher. The caste of the teacher is Rajpurohit, which is a Brahmin community in Rajasthan. I got to know of it thanks to Dalit media. The same community was involved in the caste murder of Jitendra Meghwal as well.
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Even though the photo is taken from the internet, the house does actually exist, unlike her "friend"
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Anuradha Tiwari
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This house belongs to my friend who comes from a lower caste family He got admision to NITs based on quota despite scoring less He again used the same reservation 2 get job in PSU He was not happy with his job, so he used the same reservation for IIM. #independenceday
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The sexual tension between the speed of pani puriwala and your eating speed...
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Aiyar takes this opportunity to flaunt his Brahmin caste and also praises shastras and Brahminism.
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A new project makes Ambedkar’s writings easy to access, search and use
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Some photos of Anna Bhau Sathe from Maharashtra government's volume of his collected works
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2 years
Am avoiding talking about PhD applications here but really need to ask this. Will my age work against me in PhD admissions (to US specifically)?
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So I am happy that that there is where I am going next. I will be joining the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication for PhD. I'll, however, continue to follow news media closely.
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Schrödinger's cat is not dead or alive but a secret third thing
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Shudra when doing own chores and menial work... Which is literally how majority of Bahujans live. Top three varnas are freeloaders and live off the labour of Bahujans
@Ankit_Kawade_
Ankit Kawade
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'While we say, "Bravery is a virtue," the Hindoos say, on the contrary, "Bravery is a virtue of the Cshatriyas." Humanity generally, human duty and human feeling do not manifest themselves [in the Hindoo religion].' Hegel, The Philosophy of History, p 165.
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It is interesting that we were taught American, French and Russian revolutions in school but not Haitian revolution. I actually never heard about it until very recently: it doesn't exist in public imagination.
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'I brandish a book' by @Nagrajmanjule (translation by me)
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Here's the translation of Jawahar Rathod's poem 'Patharvat'
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Didn't realise so many of my teenage favourites were by KK 💔
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My sister is doing cool things
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Savitribai Phule (3 January 1831 — 10 March 1897)
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As an anti-dote to the new Bollywood movie trailer, here is a book recommendation: 'The Last Hindu Emperor: Prithviraj Chauhan and the Indian Past, 1200–2000' by Cynthia Talbot
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Highly disappointed by this piece by @tmkrishna . It is one thing to say people have to make compromises in life etc and another to justify Brahmanical rituals and even Brahmanism, including sacred thread.
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Great that @KotwalMeena and @The_Mooknayak have been featured in the New York Times. Well deserved!
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It's a great poem and I am about to finish translating it to English. Will post it here soon. Meanwhile, for those who read Marathi, here's the original (Courtesy: @Sudeshspeaks )
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On Mahaparinirvan Din, I write about the tradition of book stalls at Shivaji Park in Dadar as part of the event to pay homage to Babasaheb Ambedkar on his death anniversary
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Upper castes (and their media, academia, etc) assume that anyone who is from a (caste) marginalized position and criticizes the caste system, must be a Dalit. This has created the impression that Dalits are the only constituency in the anticaste movements.
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#WATCH | On Lok Sabha LoP and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi's statement in the Parliament, Dilip Mandal, Journalist and prominent Dalit voice says, " During his address, Rahul Gandhi made an objectionable statement that a lot of atrocities are happening against Muslims and Christians
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I'm acquainting myself with the history of slavery and racism in the United States, mainly through videos. Sharing a list of things I have watched so far in case it'll be useful for someone.
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Wonder if this guy was the one who sent Harvard emails to Nidhi Razdan 😂
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anpaure
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recently an indian student was deported from us because he forged the transcripts, rec letters, achievements, state exam results, and sent them through a school domain he bought to apply to college he was granted nearly a full scholarship at a top college but decided it wasn't
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Tilak believed in Varnashram Dharma: Brahmins and other Dvijas should be entitled to Vedic rites/rituals/mantras, while Shudras should only be entitled to Puranic rituals. Caste hierarchy was important for Tilak.
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Transgender activist Disha Pinky Shaikh honoured with poetry award
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Why caste among Muslims must be studied
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Marriages as a solution for oppression is surely absurd. But you know what is not just absurd but also oppressive? Not letting young people decide who they want to have relationship with.
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Mehreen.
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The only solution to casteism and communalism is for the oppressor to introspect and stop oppressing the marginalised. I don't know what made you think that marriages can be a solution to oppression. This is absurd to the core.
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When the rice gets burnt because I don't turn off the stove on time, feels like such great personal failure.
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JNU VC says that feminism in ancient India was a myth, literally
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Press Trust of India
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Feminism integral to Indic civilisation; no greater feminist than Draupadi and Sita: JNU VC
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Says the person who counts number of GSBs in public life
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Rajdeep Sardesai
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Late night musing: THINK
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Gulamgiri was published on June 1, 1873 while #SatyashodhakSamaj was founded on September 24 the same year. I keep wondering if the publication of Gulamgiri played any role in Bahujan intellectuals and
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Brahmins are finally showing their true colors instead of pretending to be "casteless" in public or gaslighting everyone that casteism doesn't exist anymore.
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Anuradha Tiwari
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Proud Dalit/Muslim/Tribal - Okay Proud Brahmin - Not okay There is an entire system working to make Brahmins feel guilty for their very existence. Time to change this narrative. Be an unapologetic Brahmin. Wear it on your sleeve. Let the so-called social justice warriors burn.
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Note to self: it's water cannon, not canon. Unless the water was touched by our lord Jesus — then it's definitely canonical.
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Which also means your 'proper place' in the varna vyavastha.
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The original 1950 order said only Hindus can be part of Scheduled Castes list. The order was amended in 1956 to add Sikhs and 1990 to add Buddhists. Now it is time to delink the list from religion altogether.
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" #Dalit Muslims and Dalit Christians have long been demanding #SC status for themselves. However, the Union government and Indian courts have paid little attention to their demand," writes @h_tejas .
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44 billion dollars for a toy that you ruin in a week is a bit too much
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The first frame of 'Dhammam' — standing on the shoulders of giants 😍
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So we have been doing this stationery distribution event every October for 10 years straight. This year we have collected enough funds for notebooks, pencils, crayons, pens, etc. But now looking specifically for funds for schoolbags.
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Filling up vacancies in government institutions is a regular practice, right? Why is it being marketed as 'creation of jobs?'
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Big decision by govt -10 lakh jobs in the next 1.5 years ..
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@JainMaggii 1. Population numbers aren't the basis for affirmative action policy, nor is religion. 2. Why would a privileged group need to take to the streets? 3. Do google the favours Jains asked from the Mughal emperors.
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Not even gonna go into the anachronism of nation, nationalism etc
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Many people helped me in the application process and I'm supremely grateful to each of them. I won't name any names because the list is very very very long. Though I must thank my parents for their unflinching support for everything I do despite they not understanding any of it.
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Rahul Sarwate is translating Sharad Patil's book that synthesises Phule-Ambedkarism with Marxism. An exciting news
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@vibione @Advaidism Tukaram was a low caste saint but not "Untouchable". Brahmins persecuted him for his radical views about Brahmanical knowledge, scriptures and supremacy, not for singing praises of the Lord.
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“We wanted to make authentic BAWS content searchable and shareable across volumes, just like Google search, without the need to download or open any of the BAWS volumes,” Takshak Chahande told The Satyashodhak.
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मुखे सांगे ब्रम्ह ज्ञान । जन लोकांची कापितो मान ॥१॥ ज्ञान सागतो जनासी । नाहीं अनुभव आपणासी ॥ध्रु॥ कथा करितो देवाची । अंतरी आशा बहु लोभाची ॥२॥ तुका म्हणे तो चि वेडा । त्याचे हाणूनि थोबाड फोडा ॥३॥
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The wall falls
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Tell that to the 19 children who were just murdered
@mattyglesias
Matthew Yglesias
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For all its very real problems, one shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that the contemporary United States of America is one of the best places to live in all of human history and there’s a reason tons of people of all kinds from all around the world clamor to move here.
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मार्क्सबाबा जिंदाबाद!
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@DalitOnLine
Ashok Bharti
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#ब्राह्मण_महासभा को इस #ब्राह्मण कथावाचक की बात का पुरजोर खंडन करना चाहिए, अन्यथा समाज इसे सच मानेगा। ऐसे कथावाचक का तो पता नहीं, ब्राह्मणों की खूब फजीहत होगी।।
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