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ॐ पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदम् पूर्णात् पूर्णमुदच्यते | The first ∞ is Purusha. The second ∞ is Prakriti. From one, the other arises. But from which? Who knows.

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ఆర్యప్రజ్ఞ: భారతీయ నైతికవిలువల ప్రకారంగా కృతిమమేధ పరిజ్ఞానం. పాశ్చాత్య భారతీయ తత్వచింతనలలో మేధ, #కృతిమమేధ ప్రతిరూపించిన వైవిధ్యాలను వివరిస్తూ ధార్మికవిలువలతో కూడిన బాధ్యతాయుతమైన కృతిమమేధ నిర్మించుకోవాలంటే ఎలాంటి అంశాలు చర్చించాలి అని ఈ వ్యాసంలో వివరించాను.

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ఆర్యప్రజ్ఞ: భారతీయ నైతికవిలువల ప్రకారంగా కృత్రిమమేధ పరిజ్ఞానం

లపుటా అను ఆకాశద్వీపం కృత్రిమమేధ ఆధ్వర్యంలో నడుస్తూ ఉంటుంది. హయావో మియాజాకీ దర్శకత్వం వహించిన “టెంకూనో షిరో రప్యుతా” అను జపానుదేశపు అనుప్రాణితచిత్రంలోని దృశ్యం. ఆర్టిఫిషియల్ ఇంటెల్లిజెన్…

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This bear is India after independence.

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Incredibly Heartbreaking to see this bear walking endlessly in a circle as she was trapped in a cage for years. Though she is finally free but can't even comprehend her freedom. Captivity is devastating especially in cramped environment - video via @JohnOberg

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P.T.Usha called the Indian men’s hockey players as her “sons” and that she is proud of them. She called the wrestler Ravi Kumar Dahiya as her son. Essentially, you don’t understand Indian idiom and perhaps you don’t even feel Indian. But why don’t you just let others be Indians?

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Stop calling women ‘Betiyaan’ or ‘Daughters’. Defining women by their relationships to other people is reductive and misogynistic. Recognise us as humans, women and citizens. You don’t call male hockey players ‘sons’. Why not say Women hockey players and not just ‘daughters’?

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That is Ashoka’s Empire. Your country didn’t exist at that time in history. Chill.

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The controversial mural of ‘Akhand Bharat’ in the recently inaugurated new Parliament building of India may stoke unnecessary and harmful diplomatic row in the neighborhood including Nepal. It has the potential of further aggravating the trust deficit already vitiating the

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@ShashiTharoor @supriya_sule @preneet_kaur @ThamizhachiTh @mimichakraborty @nusratchirps @JothimaniMP The spirit of Nehru is strong in you, Sir.

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Today, I realized that I know several Telugu people who talk to their children only in English. They don’t even live abroad in an Anglophone country. Just in India. The children talk to the parents in English. These are the elite section of the society. I’m pissed off man!

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In this thread, I will discuss about a language called Bhāratī भारती, that exists as a hidden river within many spoken Indian प्राकृत languages. This is the free flowing form of संस्कृतं, without strict grammatical purity. It should be recognized as the language of Bhārata भारत.

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The reason why Rajasthan is more aesthetically pleasing is because it was a collection of princely states. With very few exceptions, the princely states were cleaner and healthier than British India. We see the influence even now, even after unification under British (Nehru) Raj.

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Gems of Engineering

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Rajasthan is the most Aesthetic State of India 🇮🇳. That's it. A Normal Road in Kota, Rajasthan.

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Can we imagine a judge in the US Supreme Court visiting India and demeaning the US judiciary in a similar manner?

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San Francisco | As we celebrate 75th year of independence and as our Republic turned 72, with some sense of regret I must add here that we still haven’t learnt to appreciate wholly the roles and responsibilities assigned by Constitution to each of the institutions: CJI NV Ramana

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So apparently, Greek is “universal value” and Indian is not. This is the level of colonization in the mind of Mr. Critic of British Empire.

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Many doctors are expressing concern. I am all in favour of introducing Indian elements into Indian education, but not at the expense of universal values and standards. Why can’t the Charaka Shapath supplement, rather than supplant, the HippocraticOath that doctors worldwide take?

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This trans woman is blessing the President in the traditional Indian style. She also salutes the ground, following the practices of Indian aesthetics. How beautiful. :) This is very heartening to see, in today's era of random angry alphabet identities being imposed on India.

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#WATCH | Transgender folk dancer of Jogamma heritage and the first transwoman President of Karnataka Janapada Academy, Matha B Manjamma Jogati receives the Padma Shri award from President Ram Nath Kovind.

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In this thread, I will discuss the civilizational identity of India and its traditional understanding of the separation between the civilized (insiders) and the uncivilized (outsiders). Every civilization makes such a distinction to protect its internal norms and values.

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The Maratha Empire was the first recorded instance in the world to have abolished slavery. As Megasthenes noted, “Indians don’t keep slaves and no Indian is ever a slave”. But the situation changed dramatically with Islamic invasions. The Marathas banned the taking of slaves.

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@DrIanHall Somehow, I always assumed that the link is more to the Maratha Empire which was caste-based

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Tell me one scientific, mathematical or medical invention from India when it was under the Turkish foreign rule.

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Some of the greatest achievements of India in the centuries before the country was laid waste by British colonialism have been dismissed as "foreign rule" by @narendramodi . A disgusting statement for a prime minister to make.

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There was once an idiot who asked to point him to the moon. When shown, he said “Oh, that’s just your finger. Where is the moon?”.

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Michael O'Rourke

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@rudrabhoj Point me to India on this map:

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In any sensible country, these archives and archivists will be prized like pure gold, and given the most modern facilities for storage and digitization. Humanities departments in universities will do original research and historical data collection from these sources.

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Jay Kapoor

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9/ In this log book are details of births, deaths, marriages, divorces, adoptions, disownings and much, much more. Each entry even includes current whereabouts of major family members THIS specific book goes ALL THE WAY back to the early 1700s!! That's almost 300 freaking years!

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This is actually the greater India we must care for, not “South Asia” which is simply an Anglo-psyops. By the way, all these regions used to be called “India” just a few centuries ago.

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Germans don’t hate India as much, but the German intellectual culture definitely hates India. It has nothing to do with India or Indians, but the very genesis of German intellectual culture. Whether we like it or not, we are implicated in the birth pains of German identity.

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Why do Germans seem to hate India more then the usual westerner. There is not that big of immigration anyway. No fights, nothing.

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Silicon Valley discovering what the British Raj discovered a century ago: that Indians make good managers.

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Chandra R. Srikanth

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3 years

Twitter- Parag Agarwal Google - Sundar Pichai Microsoft - Satya Nadella IBM - Arvind Krishna Adobe- Shantanu Narayen VMWare - Raghu Raghuram So many CEOs of Indian origin in global tech!

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Thanks for the information. Ranjit Singh’s flag has Durgā prominently in the centre along with Hanumān. This was the flag of the greatest Sikh empire.

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Vikash Thakur 🇮🇳

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@vakibs Raja Ranjit Singh

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Much better alignment to our aesthetics than laser shows.

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Fantastic Drones show last night at #Ayodhya

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There was once a buffalo who went grazing into a field of Ganja. After eating a whole field of high quality weed, it came back to its shed and started ruminating, regurgitating, chewing slowly and swallowing the cud again. Then it told a story, a long story about Aryans. 👇🏼

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Here is a fun thread of cuddly animals from India which are not made as soft toys. Indian children play bizarrely with American designed soft toys made in China. So much about India’s soft power. Tell me why we don’t have a children’s story or soft toy for Malabar giant squirrel.

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2 years

Remarkable how that country has such high crime despite the massive police state and prison industry.

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Paweł Wargan

2 years

If the US police were a nation, it would have the third biggest military budget in the world, between China and India. It has nearly double the budget of Russia’s military.

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@vonbrauckmann @TIinExile Many Indian scholars, including @TIinExile , offered to debate with her in Sanskrit. She completely avoided them. Actually, why should we take her claims that she speaks Sanskrit at face value. She can also claim that she speaks Mongolian, but just use a dictionary or translator.

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China is not insulting Indian people. This is called telling an inconvenient truth. Indian population is severely deskilled, with practically all professional education available only in English - the colonial language. To compete with China, India needs a skilled population.

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Derek J. Grossman

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China insults the Indian people. MFA spox: “When assessing a country’s demographic dividend, we need to look at not just the size but also the quality of its population. Size matters, but what matters more is talent resource.”

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The British conducted a genocide in Ireland, made the speaking of Irish language punishable by death, and successfully murdered it in all the areas under their governance. Yet, they apparently came to India and taught us pluralism, claims this British gentleman.

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Tunku Varadarajan

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@dhume You might even say that, for all their imperial flaws (and there were many), they kept pluralism alive in India. Indian pluralism was put on notice in 1947, put on life support in 1984, and is now pretty much dead.

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It is infuriating to see this happen to my region. Konaseema is a well recognized name. Why do they have to change the name? What does Ambedkar have to do with this district: he is not from here! They could have named it Bālayōgi district, an astute leader from this very region.

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ANI

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#WATCH | MLA Ponnada Satish's house was set on fire by protestors in Konaseema district in Andhra Pradesh today, the protests were opposing the naming of the district as Dr BR Ambedkar Konaseema district

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In this thread, I will discuss the division of earth into continents, and how the term “Jambūdwīpa” जम्बूद्वीप, perhaps attested the most number of times in world literature as a continent, lost out to the bastard time “South Asia”. India must reclaim the term “Jambūdwīpa”.

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Contrary to popular misconceptions, the Mughals never conquered the Kalinga region above the Godāvarī river. Their hold on the Deccan region was extremely tenuous, even at places where they pretended to rule.

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Yusuf A Ahmad Ansari یوسف انصاری

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That looks more like a map depicting the geographical extent of the Mughal Empire! #TheGreatMughals

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Look at how the Indian population behaved during COVID lockdowns. Even under extreme distress and duress, minimal crime and rioting. This in a society where law enforcement is ridiculously short of functional. Only reason India functions is because it is a high trust society.

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British collaborators feel that the Indian middle class were not very loyal to the values of the British Empire.

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Abhijit Majumder

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“Indian middle class has let us down.” ~ Karan and Romila Thapar have found the villain.

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The gap is clear: it is in end-to-end technical education. The Chinese not only have the world’s best researchers and engineers, they also have the world’s best machinists, tool makers, craftsmen and hand workers. They all speak with each other in their native language: Chinese.

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Abhishek

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Chinese smartphone companies making cars while Indian smartphone companies not even making smartphones. This gap. This huge gap between these 2 economies is unreal.

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My mother tongue Telugu will disappear in a few decades. It already became a pidgin of English. On TV, barely anyone can speak Telugu without switching to English mid sentence. The reason is all university education is only in English. Especially the prized engineering colleges.

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Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ

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Despite evidence that children who study in the mother tongue (Telugu) have a better grasp of Science and Math @ysjagan is changing all Govt schools to English medium. Not based on research or data but on the collective madness of Indian decision makers.

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Look at her pronunciation. Really sweet. I don’t know how many western scholars could actually even speak Sanskrit.

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DD News

4 years

Special interview with Chinese student Zhang Yingxin, who speaks flawless #Sanskrit

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China created a first class city - Chongqing, in far more hostile territory surrounded by mountains. Practically from scratch. On the other hand, this region has historically been the cultural heartland of India. Fricking ridiculous how India operates as a country!

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Prathamesh Godbole | प्रथमेश गोडबोले

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Its crazy that this enormous region, 500k sqkm, larger than most European countries in both area and population, doesn't have a single tier 1 city.

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Any sensible country would have rebuilt this temple and not showcase ruins. If India were a sensible country, Vijayanagara (the correct name of the city) would have been rebuilt completely as a living heritage city. It was the 2nd largest city in the world just 500 years ago.

@vedicgyaanindia

Vedic Gyaan

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When the golden rays hit the iconic stone chariot of the Vijaya-Vittala temple, it turns into a GOLDEN CHARIOT. The Vijaya Vittala or Vittala Temple is the most famous and popular tourist

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India can grow massive gigantic trees, and look like the tropical paradise it really is, instead of post-colonial dump imitating some desert country aesthetic.

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Anshika Shukla

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I’d prefer streets like these. #Delhi

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In this thread, I will discuss the serious misinformation about India in the media of its allies, specifically France (one of the strongest allies today for India). I will show that this rot is very deep and can only be fixed by translating Indian language media (not English).

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Indians don’t fully understand the reaction from the British and Americans on India’s space exploration. To fully understand, we must see that they have a colonial history and see space exploration as similar to colonial exploration, about who has the rights to call first dibs.

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ಷಣ್ಮುಖ சண்முக ষণ্মুখ షణ్ముఖ 𑆰𑆟𑇀𑆩𑆶𑆒 ཤནམུཁ

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Chandrayaan3 has been a total eye-opener for India, especially Hindus. The amount of hatred for India and Hindus is far higher in UK than anywhere else, except maybe Pakistan and Bangladesh. We need to start imposing some costs. Higher education should be a no-brainer.

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We have something unique and precious in India, and we must guard it against the likes of Reverend Nariman and Reverend Chandrachud.

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In this thread, I will discuss the colonial invention of the religion called "Buddhism". I will summarize some arguments from S.N. Balagangadhara's book "Do all roads lead to Jerusalem?" I will quote some old colonial literature in parallel.

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One thing that I didn't expect from AI generative art is the amount of cringe that people will generate from it.

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Syd Steyerhart

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I finally trained Midjourney AI to draw a proper Buddha.

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In this thread, I will discuss the history of the Kalinga region, that is stretched between the Godavari and the Mahanadi rivers. Just as western civilizations refer to the whole of India by the name of the Sindhu civilization, our eastern neighbors refer to India as "Keling".

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History is already judging you, and it is judging you by the gigantic backlog of cases. An inefficient vestigial organ preserving colonial sensibilities is not what we Indian citizens want.

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Bar and Bench

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History will not judge us by our highways, but how well we preserve the Constitutional idea of India: Justice Gautam Patel report by @ShagunSuryam #ConstitutionDay #ConstitutionDay2021 Read more here:

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Chongqing is the 7th largest city in China by population. The 7th largest city in India by population is Kolkata. See the difference.

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Sharing Travel

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The first day of May Day holiday. Chongqing blocked the bridge traffic and allowed tourists to go sightseeing on foot. 77,000 tourists came here.🤣🤣🤣

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In this thread, I will discuss about gardens and how they became sacred. Gardens are termed Ārāma and Udyāna in Sanskrit. These words give clues about their origin. This picture from the Saraswati Temple in Bāli beautifully shows the Hindu symbolism of water with the sacred.

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Why do all “world class buildings” in India look vaguely the same?

@IndianTechGuide

Indian Tech & Infra

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🚨 AIIMS Jammu's world-class campus is under construction in Vijaypur.

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Pankaj Mishra is a good example of what the Chinese call a “race traitor”. Such people become persona non grata at social events, an interesting contrast with Indian society. What talent does Mr. Mishra have apart from race traitor activity? Look at all the snipes in his essay.

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The Guardian

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Britain’s first Hindu prime minister is destroying Tories’ pitiful vision of diversity

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It is as if Hindus and Buddhists, who are 1/4th of the world's population, don't exist at all !

@SushilAaron

Sushil Aaron

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India is geographically located in what one may call a Muslim cultural zone that stretches from Turkey in the west to Indonesia in the east.

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Did you know that they used to have human zoos at the start of the last century? Daintily dressed Sahebs and Memsahebs used to give them a "full house" and put their pale hands next to the dark skin of the exhibits. This is what you are doing, an updated zoo for an updated time.

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Vir Das

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Apparently, this city was called “Vijayanagara”, and the empire was referred to as “Karnāta Sāmrājya”. The city of Vijayanagar was the second largest city in the world a few centuries ago. It completely disappeared, just like the cities of the Incas. All that’s left is “Hampi”.

@hathyogi31

Hathyogi (हठयोगी)

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#Thread on HAMPI Hampi, a small village in Karnataka & according to the 2014 statistics, it is the most googled place of Karnataka. Although this village is already in ruins, but, it is still included in the UNESCO due to the extraordinary beauty of the temples & monuments.

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Really shocking to see what looks like a far right procession in Europe - faces painted with some cross representing their racist Valhalla homeland - but right in India and in the middle of Asia. So out of place! How did it get to this point? Will we see the same in other areas?

@AbhijitChavda

Abhijit Chavda

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Congratulations India. Indigenous Hindus have been successfully eliminated from yet another part of India - Churachandpur, Manipur. Kuki ZRA terrorists parade with weapons and uniforms on the streets in celebration. Note the separatist flags of the fictitious nation "Kukiland".

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Perhaps I am one of the few lucky people of the last generation who saw such shadow play in our village festival around Sankrānti time. That’s now gone, along with the hundreds of other folk art forms. The ethnic groups who developed these art forms lost livelihoods and moved on.

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A memorable puppet show at Lepakshi, beautifully showcasing aspects of the Ramayan.

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Totally rubbish racism. Pointing imaginary racial features and laughing about mulattos. What nonsense! Even Bishop Caldwell, the originator of this racist Dravidian theory, didn’t think of racial differences in India like this. 😵‍💫😖

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1 year

#Dravidan identity does not stay only with #TamilNadu its pan national: Actor Kamal Haasan ( @ikamalhaasan ) Full Session: #SouthConclave23 #Politics @sardesairajdeep

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Indians should realize that they fall below the Armenians in the value chain of the “enlightened west” on which humans matter. Fewer tears will be shed for Indians by the bleeding hearts who give lectures everyday on the Anglomedia.

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Opinion Bakery

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Nagorno-Karabakh got emptied of every Armenian in less than a week This in a world where everyone is 24/7 signalling how pious and virtuous they are and how they are always fighting Nazis and fascists and injustice.

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I guess we did enough introspection for almost a century after the creation of the Pakistan movement and came to the conclusion that no, it is not our fault.

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@UzairYounus @AsimAli6 Probably fair to say that a section of Hindu society has no interest in any kind of introspection or corrective action. It’s always and only the other guy’s fault. That said, I’m not sure that self-criticism is a great strength of any group in the subcontinent. Do you disagree?

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@CMarrewa Perhaps you don’t understand how these depictions are actually marital masculinity, due to your own pre-existing biases?

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This Rishi-mountain (ऋषिकोंड) is part of the Mahendragiri महेन्द्रगिरि mountain chain on which there were legends such as the place where Paraśurāma परशुराम meditated and where Arjuna left his miraculous गाण्ढीव bow.

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Jagan Reddy constructed this house by cutting a hill in by half. Every single rule was violated to make way for this sea-facing, hill-top ultra luxurious bungalow.

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This seems to be an error in comprehension. You see, the Portuguese not only discovered jaggery in India, they also “discovered India”. You have to appreciate the Christian concept of “discovery”. Until they are “discovered”, they are just hanging around like naked wildlife.

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So do you accept that you were wrong when you said, “Portuguese discovered Jaggery in India?” Have the audacity to be honest? Or it is too much to accept that a few things were great in India if not all?

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The native names of Bharatavarsha and Jambūdwīpa have been in use since millennia and not just in India, but widely across Asia.. far before even a continent called “America” existed. People across South and North America hate the use of “American” to refer to citizens of USA.

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This is Bhāskarāchāya’s Līlāvāti, a remarkable book of poetry as well as of mathematics. The colonized Indian state doesn’t use these beautiful books of pedagogy that come from the Indian tradition. Āmartya Sēn perhaps got lucky because he was at Tagore’s Śāntinikētan.

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Take a look at economist Amartya Sen's math book - can you read what it says? Sen used this math book when he was at school. It is written in Sanskrit, although this is not the most common language spoken in West Bengal, where he grew up.

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India doesn’t share values with USA. India is a civilization rooted in सत्य (Truth) ऋत (Cosmic cycles) धर्म (Ethics, ecology, sustainability). US is a Christian settler state believing in Divine Providence and the mandate to conquer nature. What we share are merely interests.

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DC folks have no qualms making the case for why Vietnam is an important strategic partner. Or Saudi. Or Thailand. Why? Because our shared interests trump any divergence over "values." With India, the concerns are less salient and the strategic value/convergence more substantial.

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Looking forward to a train journey to Siam Reap from India. Not possible? Let’s make it possible.

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Delighted to welcome King HM Norodom Sihamoni of Cambodia. Our nations share deep historical and cultural ties, and we look forward to strengthening our friendship and cooperation even further. May his visit mark a new chapter in India-Cambodia relations.

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In this thread, I will discuss the proselytization of Christianity in British India, and the evolution of strategy from James R. Ballantyne to Monier Williams and beyond. I will argue how Antibrahminism became central for this, and how atheism/communism became a helping hand.

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Fascinating thing about the 50 years celebration of Bangladesh’s independence is that none of the mainstream media in USA and UK did a cover-story introspecting the role of their countries played at that time, denying genocide and supporting Pakistan until the last minute.

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This is really funny. Any Telugu speaker can check how much he or she comprehends from Sanskrit vs. any other Indian language. There is really no competition here. Even without any formal training in Sanskrit, people easily comprehend 70-90%. Other languages are not even at 30%.

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Deep inferiority complex speaking. Telugu is not close to Sanskrit at all. Despite several Sanskrit loanwords used in formal Telugu. It belongs to an entirely different linguistic family. Much closer to Kannada and Tamil than Sanskrit by far.

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Indians should stop looking at tiny city states (Dubai, Singapore etc) for inspiration on how to fix problems in a gigantic country like India, but look at the most obvious source of inspiration that is actually comparable with India. Saying this doesn’t make you anti-national!

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Dubai lacks drinking water source. The climate is hostile. The city is built on desert. How is it able to maintain grandeur and attract people from around the world? Good infra, civic sense, and policies. Why can’t we create such infra in India then? Politics and Activism?

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This is stupid at so many levels. The point is not to please some idiot’s aesthetic sense. It is a religious symbol. If we are comparing, how about the church architecture in India? How does it blend in? Even Coca-Cola Santa Claus and fir trees in tropical India!

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Joe ن

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I don't object to constructing a statue. But honestly a little attempt to adapt the statue to Western aesthetics. You don't even have to make it completely Greco-Roman or something. Just hire a skilled artisan who can make the statue not look so...tacky, like a Disney toy.

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This is the stupidity of interpreting Hindu customs through the lens of Christianity. Neither Swayamvara nor Kanyādāna are about the woman becoming the property of the husband. Copy+paste criticisms of marriage from the west, because our liberals have no brains of their own.

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We were such an evolved society that women used to choose their groom in a Swayamvara (स्वयमवर). When did Kanyadan come into practice?

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Indian villages are dying. The same story is repeated everywhere. Youth migrate to big cities. Whoever left is addicted to drugs or smartphones. Cultural life is decimated. Old people lay awaiting their death. Remarkably, there is no political voice for stopping this situation.

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Visited my maternal village in Western UP after many years. Noticed a few changes : 1. A rising drug culture, including injectables, among the youth. 2. In the past, kids and young people were everywhere in the village, playing cricket, cards, and playing in tubewells, even

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May we politely remind you that, as British person, your business is not believing in the potential of India and holding it to account, but rather accept your responsibility for the partition of India and be prepared to pay reparations for your crimes.

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Haveling shared a negative opinion on India's CAA I find it fascinating how personally it is taken. Critiquing legislation and policy of a state is not an attack on a people's. Rather it is out of respect for India and belief in her potential that I hold her to account.

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"After gaining independence from Britain in 1947, India had invaded Hyderabad. Violence ensued, and Mr. Khan quickly admitted defeat". With a sleight of hand, New York Times erases the Razakar violence orchestrated at the behest of the Nizam, which resulted in the "invasion".

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William Dalrymple

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Wonderful @nytimes obituary of the Last Nizam of Hyderabad by Alex Traub and the only one I've read that even begins to comprehend his extraordinary story. Mukarram Jah, Heir to an Opulent Throne He Abandoned, Dies at 89

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This level of cultural illiteracy is only possible in India! 🤦🏻‍♂️ The Sanskrit name of Indonesia is “Dwīpāntara” द्वीपान्तर (archipelago). The native name of Indonesia is a hybrid Sanskrit compound “Nusantara” that means the same (Nusa=Dwīpa). That is also their new capital city.

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Oops! Is Indonesia to become the only legatee of the historically resonant name our rulers wish to abandon? Or should we urge them too to rename themselves Bharatdwipa?

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At some point, groups of terrorists trained by guys like him will strike within Indian cities. It is a matter of time. Probably they already have the capabilities.

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What is even more sinister. US Special forces like, Navy Seals, Delta, Green Baret, in the name of Aid, preach Evangelical Christianity and radicalise youth to fight against the state. They also give them world class cutting edge training.

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LOL, OpenAI's ChatGPT is not willing to make the basic inference on who was responsible for the Bengal famine. These language models are the next version of Wikipedia, encoding hard structural biases under the guise of neutrality.

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It will be great. He should also apologize for the Goan inquisition similar to the apology delivered to the indigenous people in Bolivia etc.

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Pope Francis Apologizes for Church’s Colonial Sins

During a speech on Thursday before the World Meeting of Popular Movements in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Pope Francis apologized directly for the “grave sins” committed…

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Good gesture to invite the Pope to visit. India has ~20 million Catholics, which is more than Ecuador, Bolivia or Portugal. The last papal visit was back in 1999 when Vajpayee was PM.

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The Congress party unilaterally dissolved my state - Andhra Pradesh, and broke it into two, despite the objection of my state assembly. A union formed by negotiations between the states my arse! This eternal boy wonder is reading out from a script handed to him by his handlers.

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Naomi Canton

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This is what Rahul Gandhi said in Cambridge: "If you look at the constitution, India is not described as a nation, rather as a union of states. The implication of that is there is an ongoing negotiation between this union of states, so in the Congress party, we view India

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What the hell is an unscientific ritual!? What does science have to do with any ritual? By the way, Halal slaughter is also a ritual sacrifice. Does the court ban it now?

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Bar and Bench

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Unscientific rituals like animal sacrifice have to be prevented; true religious practice guided by reason: Kerala High Court report by @GitiPratap

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Fully racist and stupid, but fits perfectly well with the representation of India in German media.

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German press cartoon depiction of Indian population overtaking Chinese..

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India doesn’t have its own industrial vision. It is only doing service for the Anglo-powers, with its universities being stepping ladders for Anglo-naturalization of its elite. It’s no wonder that talent like this gets depressed, derailed and wasted.

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This is Sourabh Kumar Singh. He studied mech engg. Wrote a patent for a flexible ball bearing. Nothing came out of it so he became a saas product manager. His true passion is hardware. He has the skills. Temporarily in software but he’ll go back one day. Many such cases.

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What is your stand on Twitter’s suspension of #TrueIndology ? @TIinExile is still being hounded and made invisible, while the intentionally fake and misleading account @TruelndoIogy is being promoted by Twitter’s algorithms.

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Must be said: @TwitterIndia ’s suspension on @sanjayuvacha is so obviously unjustifiable that it poses a question on algorithms, processes & politics of the company. It’s a worsening of the problem it has created.

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In this thread, I will discuss how to translate the names of chemical compounds into Indian languages. As of now, the names are being copied from English, including the names of the elements in the periodic table (see Hindi below). This is not the case for non-Indian languages.

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India’s courts are a colonial institution and work only on behalf of the colonial well-connected. Disprove this.

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We are not concerned with the assumption of her running away and not heading back from her foreign trip. Moreover, it’s not that the financial fraud runs into thousands of crores; it is of 10-12 crores. - Delhi High Court while allowing Rana Ayyub to travel abroad.

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Perhaps he whispered in the ear, “Why is there no rail and road connectivity between India and Vietnam?”

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Vietnam President broke Protocal and came out to see off @rajnathsingh And gave a warm hug 🤗

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Germans have one of the least positive impressions about India. The media representation of India is pretty bad and limited to stereotypes. I hope cross cultural travelers like Ambassador Lindner will improve this image and bring a better understanding, but it is a very long way.

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…from a 21-year old hippie-adventurer in Goa (June 1977) to someone only a little wiser (here exploring South IND Srirangam temple/Tiruchirappalli, Feb 2022) - 45 years later, but same quest…only IND holds that spell! Even after leaving IND in a few days, this journey continues

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Nordics also gave Chapātī and Pānī Pūrī to India. They brought cows from the arctic and gave Ghee to India. The cows spouted humps here because they were happy. The Nordics also gave mice to India. Previously evolved to do manicure to mammoths, the mice started eating grain here.

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Nordics gave Sanskrit to India. Nordic Sacae conquered India and introduced the Vedas, reduced to written form by the Brahmans ~300AD. From this classic Sanskrit are derived all the Aryan languages of Hindustan, as well as the Singalese of Ceylon and chief dialects of Assam

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Many western people don’t understand the appeal of Russia in the global south. This is because they never studied the history of anti-colonial movements honestly. This is a huge blind spot that is ultimately a serious liability in international relations.

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3/4 “We are proud that during the 20th century, our country led the anti-colonial movement, which opened opportunities for development for many peoples of the world - to reduce poverty and inequality, to defeat hunger and disease.

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India going lock, stock and barrel firmly into the camp of Russia and China is the worst of the nightmares for NATO. Completely unnecessary to kick Indian opinion in that direction at this point, but some seem to push for it.🤷🏻‍♂️

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Rune Linding (Slava Ukraini)🇩🇰🇩🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦🇮🇱 

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@ZelenskyyUa @narendramodi Indias lack of support is disgraceful. It will cost them a fortune. It will be game over for economic, scientific and technological collaboration. You hear me @narendramodi ?

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Interesting that US has so many more diplomats working in India than the other way round, and still the visa processing times for Indians are so atrociously wrong. We may wonder what type of “services” these diplomats are providing. 😏

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David L. Cohen

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I echo the concerns expressed by @StateDeptSpox regarding India’s demand that Canada reduce its diplomatic presence in India. Resolving differences between countries and providing services to citizens of both countries require diplomats on the ground.

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There is no Indian language equivalent for “caste”. This is a serious confusion with Indians. We have Jāti जाति జాతి (ethnic group), Kula कुल కులము (guild), VarNa वर्ण వర్ణము (type of character/virtue). None of them are equivalent to each other, and none is equivalent to “caste”.

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@vakibs What is the local translation of the word Caste?

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@Jitzy_JT @ANI What does Ambedkar have to do anything with Konaseema!!?

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If anybody has doubts that caste is just a bullshit British creation to justify their loot and extractionary state in India, here is the clarification for your doubts.

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I will stick my neck out and claim that even people who are very good at English will do better if they study engineering and other professional courses in their mother tongues. They will be more creative and more confident in their work.

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Sahana Singh

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We're seeing youngsters from villages in India who can barely speak English winning medals in sports. They have hunger & talent. I think we might witness something phenomenal if these kids get to study engg, coding & design in their own mother tongues.

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There are historical reasons for Hinduphobia and Indophobia in Germany, just like there are for antisemitism in Germany. Broadly, Germans see Indians as related to them (“Indo-Germanic” speakers) but as those who are degenerated inferiors - racially and by religion.

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@vakibs I have noticed, through regular media coverage of India in Germany & from personal experiences, that Germany is probably the most India hating nation out there. What's the reason ? Could never figure out.

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@bhAratenduH The problem is that the characters are real and have an authentic life story. I am not sure if the depiction is true to their character. People from outside Telugu speaking regions may not know about them, but Alluri Sitaramaraju and Komaram Bheem have inspired generations.

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Brushing skulls under the carpet is apparently “healing”. Ignoring a festering wound and a psychotic fundamentalist regime on the sacred Indus River is apparently “healing”. Remembering the millions of families who lost their loved ones is “polarizing”.

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This man’s capacity to polarise is extraordinary. Even Independence Day is not spared.

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The highest peak in Himalaya is called Sagarmatha. It is the correct Nepali name for the sacred mountain, which was named by the colonialists as Mount Everest. Just like the Kaiser-Wilhelm Peak in Kilimanjaro, it has no business being called by the colonial name. Say Sagarmatha.

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@JoeAgneya Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V was going on. 😀

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In this thread, I will discuss about the colonized language for teaching geography in India, and how our native literary resources like Purāṇas and Kāvyas are not mentioned at all. This is creating a large population of idiots who are clueless about their own native land.

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In this thread, I will discuss about the undeciphered script of Saraswati-Sindhu civilization. Many scholars worked on this, each of them making some nice contributions. But I think they are missing an interesting clue, from the most unlikely of places: the Greek island of Crete.

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