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The Coolture Parva Darshini is back with the 2082 Vikram Samvat edition the Visvavasu Samvatsara calendar. From 2080 VS, Parva Darshini is a unique attempt to visualise the Vikram/Shaka samvat - calendar through the prism of the first principles of the calendar...

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We are back with another Aucitya workshop! This Bangalore edition is a one-day immersive lab for creators, founders, designers and storytellers who want to build culturally resonant products and experiences. From rasa theory and storytelling to Pañcāṅga-inspired product thinking, the workshop explores how Indian Knowledge Systems can move beyond theory into living design, communication and innovation frameworks. Designed especially for Bangalore’s vibrant startup and creative ecosystem, the workshop brings together aesthetics, ethics, technology and product imagination to ask an important question: how can culture become a meaningful consumer experience? If you are a cultural entrepreneur, product storyteller, designer, founder, educator or creator working at the intersection of culture and innovation, this workshop is for you. Join us in reimagining Indian knowledge as contemporary product experience, narrative and design. Registrations are now open: brhat.in/programs/aucit… @MohanRaghavan8 @CooltureDesigns @RaoNarahari

This is a searing and beautiful piece of writing. Gave me pause and a lot to think about today. Not sure if the author - an IPS officer is on X - but thank you for this timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/civil-ir…

This person claims that Bhojashala is 'biggest fraud of Indian history'. She further claims that 'Bhojashala' was coined only 70 years ago. That it had never existed before. That there is no inscription or text predating 20th century that mentions any Sarasvati temple or Bhojashala at Dhar. Is this really true? This thread does a Fact Check

Know about the Leiden (Aanaimangalam) copperplates retrieved by India from Netherlands after many centuries: > The first copper plate to be discovered on Cholas > Excavated by Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) during the construction of Fort Vijf Sinnen around 1700 > Brought to the Netherlands in 1712 by a pastor, whose descendants donated it to Leiden University in 1862 > Deciphered in 1886 by Pandit Natesa Sastri and Burgess > Issued by GOAT king Rajaraja the first > 21 copper plates held together by a bronze ring with the regal seal > First 5 plates are in Sanskrit, rest 16 are in Tamil > Weighs 30kg, and are numbered from plates 2-21 > Mentions the lineage of Cholas starting from Vishnu till Surya, Ikshavaku and then Manu, the king who gave justice to a bereaved cow > Mentions about Devasura Manthan with Shiva becoming Neelakanta, and the Amrita being distributed to Devas by a Chola king >Records the historic grant given by Rajaraja to ruler of Sri Vijaya (Indonesia) for constructing a Chulamanivarma Vihara in Aanaimangalam of Nagapattinam district > Boundaries of the Vihara were determined by the ceremonial circumambulation of a female elephant >Sanskrit plates were written by Kottaiyur's Ananta Narayanan of Vashishta gotra > Documents in detail the 41 officials who executed the edict, the artisans who wrote out the words and the sculptors who rendered the inscription > Poetically states that only Veda Vyasa can truly capture the fully glory of Cholas, but the author is trying his best > States "As long as the crescent adorned Shiva resides on Kailasha and Vishnu does Yoga Nithirai on Paarkadal, and the earthly lamps Sun and Moon drive darkness away, may the Chola clan protect this Earth" > In the summer of 2023, the Indian government submitted a request to Leiden University to return the Chola Plates > The Leiden/Aanaimangalam Chola Plates will now go to the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) in New Delhi

Naipaul on Babri is useful to understand this phenomenon: “The people who say that there was no temple there are missing the point. Babar, you must understand, had contempt for the country he had conquered. And his building of that mosque was an act of contempt for the country...In Ayodhya the construction of a mosque on a spot regarded as sacred by the conquered population was meant as an insult to an ancient idea, the idea of Ram which was two or three thousand years old.” "Only now are the people beginning to understand that there has been a great vandalising of India. Because of the nature of the conquest and the nature of Hindu society such understanding had eluded Indians before."

Not many are talking about it, but this is one of the most underrated things India is shipping right now and every Indian must know what this is all about. Let me explain; The system is called DIGIPIN and the username layer sitting on top is called DHRUVA. Built by the Department of Posts in partnership with IIT Hyderabad and ISRO's National Remote Sensing Centre. Officially launched on May 27, 2025. Here's how it works. DIGIPIN divides all of India into 4 metre by 4 metre squares. Every single square gets a unique 10-character code like 829-4G7-PMJ8. That's down to the level of your front door, your shop counter, your hospital entrance, your village home, even a fishing boat in territorial waters. The entire country is now a digital grid. But remembering a 10-character alphanumeric code is hard. So DHRUVA sits on top of it. You convert your DIGIPIN into a simple readable handle like rajesh@dhruva. The handle stays with you for life. If you move houses, only the underlying DIGIPIN updates. Your handle doesn't change. Exactly like UPI replaced 16-digit bank account numbers with simple handles. malay@ybl instead of remembering an account number. But why is our government building this? Today roughly 20-25% of Indian addresses are unstructured. Slums, tribal areas, unplanned colonies, rural homes without proper street names. An average Indian spends 8-12 extra minutes on an average in finding an address in India versus 2-3 in the West. Ambulances reach late because nobody can describe the lane. Banks reject mortgages because they can't verify the property location. Insurance claims get delayed because addresses don't match across documents. Quick commerce loses crores in failed deliveries every day. DIGIPIN solves all of this with one open-source standard. The full source code and documentation are on GitHub. Any government department, private company, or startup can integrate it for free. This is exactly the India Stack playbook. Aadhaar (identity), UPI (payments), ULPIN (land), DigiLocker (documents), and now DIGIPIN (address) are all open public infrastructure that private companies build on top of. Of course developed countries already use a version of this. But India is building the best of the lot. > UK uses postcodes plus house numbers. Works because they have structured street planning from the 1800s. We don't. > Dubai built Makani numbers. 10-digit codes tied to building entrances. Government-only, not open. > Japan uses block-based addressing that relies on physical signage and local familiarity. India just built the best version of all of these. Open-source, geo-coded, privacy-first, with a human-readable layer that even a non-tech grandparent can use. And it's free to integrate. Once this gets rolled out, the government expects that; > Ambulance response times improve by 40-60% in unplanned areas. > KYC verification becomes instant. No more manual address proof. > Rural credit unlocks. Banks can verify property and ownership in seconds for loans. > Disaster response improves. Floods, fires, earthquakes. Rescue teams know exact homes to reach. > Insurance pricing becomes location-precise. Same building, ground floor versus third floor, different flood risk, different premium. > E-commerce delivery accuracy goes from approximate to exact. Failed deliveries drop sharply. > Privacy too gets better. You share your DHRUVA handle, not your physical address. The delivery agent gets the GPS coordinates without seeing your full address. Less data exposed, less misuse. Boring infrastructure rarely gets any hype. Everyone laughed at UPI for the first two years. Now it processes 16 billion transactions a month and seven countries have adopted it. DIGIPIN will be the same story. In 5 years we'll wonder how we ever functioned without it. In 10 years it'll be quietly running underneath every delivery, every emergency call, every loan approval in India.

This is totally false. Not an iota of truth in this. There is no question of putting such restrictions on foreign travel. We remain committed to improving ‘Ease of Doing Business’ and ‘Ease of Living’ for our people.

Historical record will be dropping later. British colonial rule, Bhojshala's sacred heritage suffered another profound wound: the removal of the Vagdevi idol to London. The marble statue was found in the ruins of the City Palace in Dhar in 1875, and formally acquired by the British Museum in 1909, catalogued under registration number 1909,1224.1. It was acquired from Major General William Kincaid. The statue, dating to 1034 CE and carved in white marble, stands 1,285 millimetres tall and weighs approximately 250 kilograms. Photo courtesy: Indian civilization (mostly) and the Trustees of British Museum.

@monidipadey @punarutthana Bhojshala was one of many temple-schools in India before the 13th-century. It is one of numerous historic sites where the alphabet, Sanskrit grammar rules, etc are inscribed. Proof:

He skipped placements at IIT Madras for 2 consecutive days. On the third day, he took a flight back to Mangalore just to avoid being forced by his family to attend placements. His desire to build an aircraft company was so intense that it made him act irrationally in front of his family. He then started building his aircraft company from Bengaluru. When he had barely Rs 20,000 in hand, he still hired an intern, promising a stipend of Rs 7,000. On one of the days when he could not make it back to his PG on time, he spent the night at the Majestic bus stand. All of this at the age of 23! That is the story of @shreepoorna365, founder of Arctus Aerospace, a company building unmanned aerial vehicles that can fly up to 45,000 feet and capture imagery for a wide range of use cases. Hear his full story on the @mundhebanni podcast, with English subtitles for those who do not follow Kannada. 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=qiXXbr…

Check Srimad Bhagavatham and Narayaneeyam (Dasakam 17) You have answers there. New Pole star Druva fights with older pole star Sishumara (crocodile) and Narayana grants Druva , a special place in the sky. King Uttanapada, had two wives: Suniti (the elder, gentle wife) and Suruchi (the younger, favorite wife). Suniti was the mother of Dhruva, and Suruchi was the mother of Uttama. The story is best known for Suruchi insulting Dhruva and denying him his father's lap, leading him to perform severe penance for Lord Vishnu. Uttanapdha is Ursa minor. The tip of it is Druva , the pole star. There is a Yoga asana in the name Uttanapadhasana(Legs stretched up) The constellation gets its name from Yoga Asana. Yoga is thousands of years old. @naa_ganesan @sarvamedha @AkhilKumarSaho8 @yajnadevam @vazhakandy @jain80247 @sanskrit1906 @Anviksiki @aravind @Ugrashravas

This forgotten history deserves attention. After 6 long years of hard work, research, and dedication, this book has finally been published. I sincerely seek the support of every proud Hindu who values our civilizational roots and hidden past. (1)

The mindf*ckery of Banabhatta's Kadambari cc - henniyaps Ancient Sanskrit literature is filled with many such stories that can make some great films but nobody wants to adapt it & make movies unfortunately!

We are introducing 3 new and exciting BTech programmes in Materials Science & Engineering, Mechanics & Computing, and Aerospace Engineering at IISc! These future-ready undergraduate programmes are designed to shape engineers who will lead across interdisciplinary domains.

Received the author copies today. Deeply grateful to @BluOneInk for the lovely production quality and Dr. Vikram Sampath Ji and FIHCR for conferring me with the Jadunath Sarkar Fellowship for undertaking this book project @fihcr_info @vikramsampath . amzn.in/d/0gqic8w6

From the GenomeIndia (2026) project, we have one of the clearest explainers of genetic diversity in Indian populations. David Reich made a claim ("it froze due to caste") on the @dwarkesh_sp podcast. The new project provides a prediction model to infer an individual's genetics. And caste is not in the variable mix at all.

Indo Gangatic plain's Copper Hoard Anthromorphic figure style anthromorphic figures in South India! But these are huge in size and worshiped as goddesses. They are also known as Visiri stones. This is from Villupuram and Tiruvannamalai in Tondai land. They dated to 1000 BCE to 100 CE.

The rocks at Nandi Hills near Bangalore are among the oldest rock structures in entire Indian subcontinent dating back to 3.5 billion years ago Humans evolved just 300000 years ago

Fantastic thread