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A jack of all trades still trying to understand what he is a master of. Tech alter ego - @uzves_tiriato. Princely States - https://t.co/Z1IXbsEKy1
Joined January 2016
A new thread. I will list down all the books I read here from now on. The Prisoner's Gold - Chris Kuzenski.Truth be told, I carried this book with me over the last 9 years reading a few pages at a time. The plot and narration is gripping but for some reason, I failed to complete.
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Ambedkar is a really tricky topic. He was born with a silver spoon - his family was the traditional palanquin bearers of the village temple in his place and he spent most of his childhood in a cantonment where his father was a teacher - what persecution are we talking here?.
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I am confused. If Great Wall of China is built to protect China from foreign countries, what exactly is it doing in the heart of China?
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You want to know how fragile Bangladesh is? Feni, the small red patch of 1000 sqkm connecting Tripura to Bay of Bengal is 30 km from Indian border to Bay of Bengal at it's nearest. That's all India needs to do to make the whole of Chittagong a big mess. How will you counter that?
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The less we talk about her, the better. Well connected with Amreeki higher ups, she did everything to destroy Sikkim, her husband's relationship with India and his family. Not just that. When all the mess she created royally backfired, she fled India.
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So, I type jesus with a small J and a Mizo asks me to respect her religion. I said, I need not learn respect from those who call Hindus as tuikuk. 15 Mizos, they shifted topics but not one was ready to give out the meaning for two long days when people asked. That's how they are.
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Documents exist to prove that these extra areas are de jure India's.
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Manipur problem in three images.1. Inner Manipur(Gen) vs Outer Manipur LS(ST) Constituencies.2. Hindu vs christian.3. Kuki(South), Meitei(Centre), Naga(North).So, what does all this mean? Meiteis don't have access to 80% of the state because they are Meetei, Hindu and not ST.
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Documents exist to prove that these areas are de jure part of India. Any idea what those documents are? Old tweet.
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Today is Mahashivaratri. And did you ever hear about this false Sivalinga? When Pandyan Empire collapsed and was open to plunder by the Muslims, Antaralayas of both Srirangam and Madurai were sealed with a false wall to hide the Moola Virat.
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Three kingdoms which every Indian should remember or know about -.Kabul Shahis - held off the invaders for 350 years .Musunuri Nayaks - the first ones who forced the Muslims to take a retrograde march.Kalinga - probably the only big kingdom which stood unconquered for centuries.
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When Bhakra Nangal was being built, an American diplomat came to visit. He saw people using spades and asked, why can't you use heavy equipment. The escorting officer said, if we do that, how will people get jobs. Irritated, the American said, use spoons. You can give more jobs.
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When Kashi fell in 1193, 3000 temples were destroyed. On the other hand, Ayodhya resisted for 27 long years leading to more than 25000 Muslim casualties. Their special treatment for those two cities reflect their position - Kashi was the capital city, Ayodhya for its resistance.
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The best statement I read today. "The Meitei are refusing to become Kashmiri Pandits.".And naturally, the ecosystem is angry.
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I really love the fact that countries like Libya, Pakistan, Turkey and Afghanistan are safer to journalists than India. I guess we need to parcel off our whining journalists to those countries.
#India’s ranking falls 11 places to 161, from 150 in 2022, on Reporters without Borders’ latest World Press Freedom Index.
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words. What is that small patch of Saffron doing in the heart of a sea of purple?
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Let me tell what religion means for these people. There was this Georgian queen who was arrested and taken to Persia. She was ordered to convert and upon refusal, she was executed. Now, there were some christians there, they decided to do something and.
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When Indira Gandhi was killed, Saddam Hussein ordered all Sikhs in Iraq to be arrested. Indian Ambassador had to rush to the President's Palace to get the order cancelled. Question is, what went wrong with him. Same case with Gaddafi.
India & Saddam Husein had a great relationship:.>upto 120 Indian Air force instructors were deployed in Iraq at any one time.>1975 IA sent training teams .>Indian Navy established a naval academy in Basra. Apparently IAF pilots even took part in the 1975 offensive against Kurds!!
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Now, as like many of the aspiring class of that India including a bulk of Indian freedom fighters, he went to England to study and returned back exactly how the main names like Jinnahbhai or Gandhi or Sardar Patel returned back. But, unlike the rest, he had another baggage with.
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One of the first things Marathas did after they took Ahmednagar was to take the head to Kashi and ceremonially get it cremated. They had their priorities.
The sculpted head of Rama Raya was exhibited near one of sewers at Bijapur as attested by Colonel Briggs, writing in 1829. The real head was exhibited at Ahmednagar, & at each anniversary of the battle, the descendants of the executioner would cover it with red pigment and oil.
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How many of you know that Mahmud's father was a Kyrghyz Buddhist caught in childhood and converted forcibly? How many know that Mahmud is called Zabuli because he was born out of a forced union between that slave Sabuktegin and a Zabuli Princess?.
#ExpressOpinion | History as a discipline is about time, place and people. There is a problem with cherry-picking facts from history. Narayani Gupta writes:
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His own son is a priest and a judge, that too who behaved evangelically. Just look at his wording on Sabarimala and how that changed when Parsi fire temples were included in the judgement.
'The govt should be asked if we are heading towards a Hindu state. A head priest being CM is a little odd' — Watch what jurist Fali Nariman told Editor-in-Chief @ShekharGupta at ThePrint #OTC in March 2017.
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This is the problem I have. Everyone assimilates into Indian society. Except for those two cults. I really don't understand where the problem is.
The Han Chinese diaspora in Assam. They're largely concentrated around tea belts where they were brought in for cultivation. Makum in Tinsukia houses a small Han Chinese community even today, who have largely assimilated into the local populace.
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Chanakya said actors should be housed outside the city and shouldn't be allowed to interact with public much.
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him - caste. Many worked for the British and many openly sided them because it would hurt their career. How do you suppose great Congress leaders like Tej Bahadur Sapru made their money? Now, Ambedkar was the first legislator from his caste and people looked towards him as.
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Was reading Travancore State Manual. The author refers to the king of Venad defeating Aryans in battle. Who are Aryans? Surprise. Chola Armies. If Tamils themselves are Aryans, who are Dravidians, then?.
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an inspiration and an idol. It was a two way street - people expected him to live up to their expectations and he needed to give something to the people. Bad news, he decided to bank on upper caste atrocities and not on rapprochement. He was in a pressure and simply put, he had.
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@UN_Photo @UN @LodhiMaleeha - so, you will get AC in your office now because of Indian solar panels. One more thing free for you now.
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Huge feat? That joker was staring cluelessly near Mombasa when an Indian guided him to India. The only thing he introduced to the civilized world was high sea piracy as a way of life, slavery as entrepreneurship and loot and stay as a form of government.
Vasco da Gama was the first European to reach Asia by sailing around the southern tip of Africa. This was a huge feat in world history and considered the root of today’s Globalization.
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to do something. He chose the Battle of Koregaon Bhima. In fact, it was a British victory against an Indian army, it's not a victory of his caste against the upper caste Peshwa(as late as 1795, Shindak Mahar was a prominent commander under the Peshwas - it's not as if they.
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Now, the situation is this. Meetei is 55% of the state and have no control of what's happening in the state unless they have access to their whole state. If they want better privileges, they need ST status. And when a 90% Mizo christian community can be ST, why not Meetei?.
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Let's not be deluded. No one is a saint here, especially not the imperialistic Lushei. They should pray to Pathian(before he was appropriated as Jesus) that had it not been for the British, they would have been absorbed into Fenai, an even kattar tribe.
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Total number of Sikhs and Hindus known to be left in Afghanistan officially: 1.And you call Hindu Taliban? I guess shame is not a word which is there in their dictionary.
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Explain me this. Taliban conquered the whole of Afghanistan in 10 days but it's been two weeks and they are not even able to enter Panjshir, Afghanistan's second smallest Province - that too with a quarter of their army in the theatre led by their best commanders.
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1525-1575 is the worst for Hindu civilization and very few realize that. 1527 - Conquest of Majapahit Empire.1527 - Battle of Khanwa.1556 - Battle of Panipat.1564 - Battle of Damoh.1564 - Siege of Marwar.1565 - Battle of Talikota.1568 - Battle of Gohira Tikiri.
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Bangladesh will compete with Zanzibar for the record of the loser in the shortest war it that happens. And if India does that when both Ganga and Brahmaputra are in flood, what exactly is Bangladesh going to do? The Chakmas will be really happy if that happens, though.
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I just can't understand. How can one be so stupid? For Murshidabad, India surrendered Khulna. Siliguri Corridor became leaner. Chittagong Hill Tracts were written off. Are we really saying India didn't have a visibility for all this or are we saying people had zero clue?
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Ambedkar too fell into that trap. Hard truth - he is not as great as an intellectual he is projected to be, especially in matters dealing with anthropology. Nothing can be a better example than how confused he was on this matters.
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Unpopular take: Any idea why caste is demonized that much? Because that's the only thing which stopped both the abrahamics in their tracks. Just show me one another country in the world which was as accessible as India but resisted conversions tooth and nail and succeeded.
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Koregaon Bhima as their loyal service to the British and that they needed a better deal. You see, it was never about this caste or that caste or some kind of oppression. It was just a bunch of forcibly retired soldiers trying to undo their retirement, that's all.
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How many of you heard about a certain Hope Cooke, a filthy rich, politically connected American woman who married the widowed crown prince of Sikkim and in lust for power, poked repeatedly at India and when India annexed Sikkim, left her husband for good, with her children?.
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Go and check why those two Kuki waves happened and how it is related to Bru and Chakma. Go and check why Mizos surrendered all of a sudden to the British. Go and check why they converted. Go and check why they rebelled. There is much to learn. Hiding or whitewashing won't help.
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othered the castes). Why Koregaon Bhima, one may ask. After 1857, the British need for soldiers really went down. When they started reorganizing their armies, for whatever reasons, the Mahar regiments took a hit. So, as an attempt to keep their jobs, the Mahars projected.
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By the way. Some facts. Mizos were never headhunters. And Mizo is an artificial word. What we have is something called Kuki in India and Chin in Myanmar. Both mean same. Bru, Meitei, Garo, Mizo - all are Kuki. Find out who is a Mizo and how is he different from a Kuki or Chin.
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This single map is enough to depict the whole of Chinese history. All history, China and it’s interactions with the world is dependent on that narrow strip of land, what is known as Gansu corridor or Hexi Corridor. North of it ruled the Steppe Tribes –
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Poor men, can you blame them for what they did? Ambedkar had to do something to show the greatness of Mahars. His father was actually involved in those petitions. He simply projected Koregaon Bhima as a case of Mahar pride. That's where the real slide started. He is a politician.
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and he needed a loyal base. He created Samata Sainik Dal. He decided othering is the route. He burnt Manusmriti(in fact, that single act made it the most famous Hindu book after Gita). Was that a case of malice or was that a case of stupidity or was that simply immaturity,.
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I will also say this. Compile the good he did and the good he proposed. Compile the bad he did and the bad he proposed. Have sane and educated discussions on them - be it his Foreign Policy, his views on Hindu Code Bill, his caste politics, everything.
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who knows? The British created Congress but sensed it's slipping out of their hands. They had to create counters to Congress. Akali Dal, Justice Party and even Muslim Conference of Jammu and Kashmir. Many fault lines were invented in that timeframe.
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Forget everything. Read the three main circulars issued by Assam Government today to get a perspective of what's happening. Follow what Zoramathanga was saying over Myanmar for the past few months. Its not tough to get a hang of what's happening.
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My preferred option, however is the erstwhile Chakla Roshnabad - the Current Comilla. This will bring Dhaka Cantonment to 35 km of Indian borders. A real fun to watch seeing them going into a brainfreeze. By the way, this territory is de jure India's.
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This is exactly similar to that of Sri Lanka Tamil issue - Tamils and Sinhalese are racially different, have different religions, have different languages and have different geographical concentration. And that always creates a friction especially when one of them is aggressive.
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By the way, did you notice the boards "Only Hindus Allowed" in Srirangam, Madurai, Kanchi and other places? Before questioning the need for them, remember Sudarshana Bhatta and others who died trying to protect its sanctity.
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She restricted access to the children to their father and thr deposed Chogyal almost committed suicide out of depression. Heartless, opportunistic and remorseless - that's what she is. Even after her husband died she didn't have even a single iota of remorse for what she did.
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By the way, how different is this from the half baked theories which our politicians come up whenever they get into a mood? Do we take them seriously? Other words, should we take Ambedkar's words on caste seriously? He just tried to grow big and didn't know of the implications.
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Oh. by the way. When her husband was dying of cancer, she divorced him. Some real piece, I would say.
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So, this marriageable age for girls from 18 to 21, have a few questions. 1. Will POSCO also extend to 21 years?.2. If POSCO doesn't get extended, are we saying consensual sex for those between 18 and 21 is fine but marriage is not?.3. What happens to the 16 year Muslim marriages?.
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In Madurai, they planted a false Sivalinga just outside the wall and the Muslims fell for it. The testimony of their brutality is clearly seen through the number of blows this idol got. Remember and cherish what your ancestors did for you make you a proud Hindu.
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And when the Lords tear the earth and emerge out, all we are going to have is that earth shattering noise which sends shivers to the high and mighty and the repercussions of which no one is going to miss. Hara Hara Mahadeva!!.
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If you want to know why India should never forget the Shahis, these three maps will tell you why. 350 years, that small, puny kingdom refused to yield to the greatest powers of the era in spite of regular attacks. The powers collapsed trying to subdue it, but it didn't budge.
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When the false wall was broken open on the orders of Kumara Kampana after killing the last Madurai Sultan, they found the flowers which garlanded Sundareshwara still afresh and Chandrahasa, the ceremonial sword of the Pandyans was placed before him.
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But then, let's not forget, besides this caste thing which muddled everything he did, he is a jurist par comparison and an unadulterated patriot and pragmatist. The fact that he supported Sanskrit as the national language, fought with Abdullah I of Kashmir and the way.
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of the mess he created - either he didn't understand the implications or he didn't care of them. Below image is one such. His split with MC Rajah is another. There are many.
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We are having this discussion a decade after BJP came to power? Let's be frank. BJP wasn't even able to achieve in a decade for its core vote bank what Congress was able to achieve in ten months in Karnataka. That's the hard truth.
IMO a loss in seats will basically put Kashi & Mathura in the freezer. Very little incentive to spend massive political capital just to get rewarded by Hindu society with a seat loss.
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Before glorifying Pakistan over Kartarpur, remember what it did to the Gurudwaras and Sikh legacy of Pakistan. I will try to share the images of some Gurudwaras in their pristine Pakistani Glory.
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For all those claiming Raja Raja Chola is not a Hindu, you should also note that Tamil Nadu didn't exist before 1969. We had Tondainadu, Kongunadu and even Madras but Tamil Nadu is only 50 years old.
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Wow!! Never expected Irfan Habib to be that well connected. He is the grandson of Badruddin Tyabji's brother and the family has got close relations with Nawabs of Dhaka(Iskander Mirza of Pakistan) and Janjira, Hyderabadi bigshots like Ali Yavar Jung and Akbar Hydari and many more.
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Chandravanshi descends from Chandra who is born before Muhammad and is a god for Hindus. Why are these Pakistans that confused a lot? What exactly do they want to do and achieve?.
Hey MP @Tejasvi_Surya .I’m a proud Pakistani Muslim Chandravanshi Chib Rajput. Meet me in-person at your given destination and try your baboonic theory on me. Morons like you are the real threat to interfaith harmony!.
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he destroyed Nehru in his resignation speech are some things which someone rarely comes across. I see him a bit like Jinnahbhai - Jinnahbhai tried to become the leader of Indians, he was rejected and then, he became the leader of Muslims. And he put his heart and soul into what.
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Paucity of time. This is not going to be regular. My name is Bianfu Tang. I am from Mojiang in Yunnan, a mining town. My family is very poor and I had no option but to enroll in the army. The default posting for any person from my area is Western Tibet. It is a happy job.
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Amidst all this hullabaloo, we missed one news. China sacked it's Western Command Chief yet again - fourth one after the Ladakh Fiasco. If anyone is talking about Chinese military capabilities in the west, they should first look at what's happening in Ladakh.
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How exactly did it happen that Supreme Court of India with it's huge backlogs decided to allow an ad hoc bail petition of a nobody fact checker and UN and Foreign Governments expressed concern over arrest of that potential criminal whose name 90% of India don't know?.
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Again the same mistake. A New Zealander of Indian origin is not an Indian. He is a New Zealander. Let's get the facts correct.
There's a lot of talk on foreign fighters in 🇺🇦 & many are surprised to find Indians joining the war. In 2016, I tracked Ravi Singh, a communist from Punjab who was one of the first pro-🇷🇺 Indianfighter. Had no combat experience but was driven by ideology & social media .Thread🧵
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Butterfly Effect - the flutter of a butterfly's wing can cause a tornado half the world away. How many of you know that Turkey became the Sick Man of Europe because of what Marathas did? So, the story goes thus. Kara Mustafa Pasha's arrogance and Jan Sobeski's daredevilry.
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Let me tell you the story of a British Commander who commanded a huge contingent during the storming of Srirangapatna and was a part of it's general loot and sacking - James Darlymple. But before that, it is important to note there is a formal definition for the word mercenary.
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All I say is this. He is a mortal and he made his mistakes. Look at things from his prism and try to understand what exactly was he trying to do and why - and if he understood the consequences of what he did.
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Broken politically, derided personally, he refused to stand up and simply fled Hinduism. And took his supporters with him across the Rubicon. Bad news - that's also as confused as his caste anthropology.
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Two crimes against humanity happening in parallel - one is a crime, other is just an unavoidable accident.
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@CHOPS1955 No. Chittagong should be a part of Bangladesh. They should spend their whole lives thinking of what will happen to Chittagong if they poke India.
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So, @BharadwajSpeaks handle gone now. Kudos to our Cancel Culture and Disregard for Right to Freedom of Speech in the name of Political Correctness.
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a relic. Different thing, it was lost for a few hundred of years and recently discovered again. If that is the definition of their worship and piety, my gods are far better. Far better than the worshippers of that cult who don't even understand what piety is.
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There is a obscure kingdom on the extreme end of Saurashtra by name Saindhavas about him almost nothing is known. Why do they matter? They crushed the Arab Navy, not once, but twice - a defeat that devastating that the Caliph, ordered no more naval raids of India.
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From the angle of Muslims, Kashi deserved contempt, Ayodhya deserved hatred. And that's exactly what is reflected there. Nothing exists in Ayodhya except ruins. The Lord of Kashi still exists in a way it is insulting to Hindus.
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the other, something with Jogendranath Mandal put to devastating consequences. On the other hand, the more powerful he became, the more othered he became and the more othered he became, the bigger the rift became. End result? He decided Hinduism is not for him and fled.
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They relinquished their kingdom but not the right to rule. That proud Hindus they were. Srirangam was another epic saga. Everyone took to arms - including the old scholars who can't flee - they picked arms not to fight and live but to fight and die so that those who are.
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the Muslims cherished. Ambedkar was similar but was different - he wasn't aiming for a vertical in Indian society, but a horizontal in the Hindu society. The only way he can run his show and be politically relevant is by pandering them and giving them an identity - an identity as.
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My Collection of some random historic snippets. Lord Virupaksha and the end of Vijayanagara
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Kashi was not conquered when Gahadavala Jayachandra fell at Chandawar. But the Muslims destroyed everything there and fixated on the Lord of Kashi to send a message to the Hindus. After all, the Dala Pangula was the mightiest one in the North!!.
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The Nizam wanted to receive #SardarPatel in King Kothi. But, Patel wanted him to receive him in person at the airport. Looking at the dejected king from the plane, Patel quipped, His Exhausted Highness is here. This photo is one of the most iconic from Telangana.
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A small funding campaign by volunteers to support Sadhvi Pragya Thakur's election campaign in Bhopal. The plan is to distribute 300 copies of Hindu Terror by RVS Mani in Bhopal and make people aware of the real story behind the narrative of Hindu Terror.
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In 1971, Russia stopped the Americans from interfering in East Pakistan and the scene repeats now again - America locks down Chinese assets in the East compromising their position in the West against India.
BIG : As Countries in South China Sea object to aggressive PLA-Navy Drills in SCS , US orders USS Nimitz and USS Ronald Reagan to Forward Deploy with their Fleets (terming it as routine pass). Will reportedly reach late Saturday (today).
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tasked to take the Utsava Vigraha away to safety can get a few more minutes of breather. Great scholars like Sudarshana Bhatta died that day, with weapons in hands. You may ask who he is. It doesn't matter. But, what matters is that his work is taken away along with the idol to.
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