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When people think a quick Google search and AI generated content will become THE truth, such posts come up.
First thing, the so called miniature of Akbar is not a contemporary work, but posthumous, hence can't be 'authenticated'.
I am attaching 3 images of Akbar here, first two by artist Govardhan (contemporary of Akbar) and third from Akbarnama. Look how Akbar is painted in all three.
He clearly had central Asian features.
Devina Mehra@devinamehra
Does this man look Chinese to you? This is an authenticated contemporary painting of Emperor Akbar At a Lit Festival yesterday, @authoramish said that it was absurd that we think Akbar looked like Prithviraj Kapoor. As per him, to our eyes, he would've appeared Mongolian or Chinese Also that his language wasn't Urdu but Turkish/Persian Nobody had asked him about this! He said it on his own as an example of the historical absurdities we believe... and repeated it about three times. According to him Akbar was Central Asian, looked nothing like an Indian Now I see this as a real problem when we've left history in the hands of so called history narrators instead of history scholars, because make no mistake, it is a scholarly discipline If Mr Tripathi had done even a bit of research on either history or geography he would have come to know that while Akbar's court language was Persian, by his generation, the spoken language in the royal household was close to what is now Brij Bhasha & Haryanvi - what later evolved into Hindustani. Akbar incidentally also was very interested in Sanskrit and Sanskrit texts. Of course, he was famously illiterate so could not read/write in any language Back to geography and Prithviraj Kapoor. Mr Kapoor was born in Peshawar probably in the same mohalla my grandmother (my parents are both Peshawar born) If only Tripathi had picked up a map of Asia, he would have found that even Babar's birthplace is only about 700 km from Peshawar - about 30% less than the distance between say, Delhi and Patna. The world is, surprise surprise, a continuum where faces don't magically transform at borders of modern nation states. That is why many in Mumbai persistently mistake me for a Parsi or Irani. Or why Prithviraj's son had blue eyes 😊 The burden of Mr Tripathi's song was that all history is biased with an unstated corollary that therefore any made up version of history is as good or valid as an academic's This is a dangerous slope in any field History ultimately has to be based on original (preferably contemporary) accounts if available, as well as other sources like archaeology, architecture, sculpture etc A close friend of mine, a world renowned business strategy professor, once said to me, "I've more in common with a Ph D in History or Physics than I have with a management practitioner. My mindset is that of an academic". He has the discipline of researching everything from original research papers so much so that during Covid all of us in the batch gave up trying to keep up with the fast changing medical research & delegated it entirely to him to read the papers properly and advise us on the latest research, along with the caveats That is the discipline of #academics! This whole thinking that no rigor is required to start spouting your version of history or anything else at all makes me wince Even assuming earlier #history writings are biased they've to be refuted by proper #research, not made up stories!
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Arundhati Roy has said that she stands unconditionally with Iran. Standing with Iran, in this sense, means standing with Iran’s clerical regime. So was she also with Iran’s clerical rulers when, during the anti-hijab protests, the regime reportedly killed tens of thousands of progressive people who opposed the hijab? Was she not with the countless Iranian women who removed their hijabs, waved them in protest, and burned them? Surely she believes in women’s freedom. Surely she does not believe in the hijab—if she did, she would wear it herself. Then why does she side with those who enforce strict compulsory hijab laws?
Although she has received awards and recognition from the United States, it is expected that she would oppose Republican governments in America—and that is her choice. But why, then, support Iran’s religiously dogmatic, anti-women government? The fall of Iran’s authoritarian regime is necessary. What Iran needs more than weapons is democracy, equal rights for women, freedom of expression, and human rights. I am not saying that the United States has to deliver these. Ideally, the people of Iran themselves would remove the clerical regime. But every time they have taken to the streets, they have been killed. So are they to remain silent forever, facing death whenever they speak out? Will the world of the twenty-first century continue to watch in silence the misrule carried out in the name of Islam?
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This happens when momma dear does all the shopping and beat just warms the chair at home.
For the last ten years the average vegetable price has remained the same. Blinkit and Instamart are selling potatoes for 17/kg. Onion hasn't breached 50 in last 5 years. Those days of artificial shortage of onions are a distant memory when Maharashtra mandis would manipulate prices because they could.
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A newly discovered fossil ape from northern Egypt is reshaping the understanding of early hominoid evolution, researchers report in Science.
The fossil finding suggests that the closest ancestors to modern apes may have emerged in northern Africa, outside the traditionally studied regions of East Africa. scim.ag/4szvRIS
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I think even the 12 zodiacs are a Greek influence. We had tithis, pakshas & masa as the unit of time.
AFAIK, the first mention of seven days appears fifth century onwards. Rigveda doesn't mention the seven days or even the twelve months by their name. This shows how our timekeeping system got enriched over a period of time.
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Just a reminder that 7 days week was never part of our culture or traditional Hindu Calendar. It was borrowed from Greeks.
We didn't have concept of week.
Days were recognized by the name of Nakshatras and Paksha (~15 days) was the unit of measurement instead of week.
Tehxi@yajnshri
संस्कृत में दिनों के नाम सीखे और सिखाए
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There is a Bangal idiom, দুই দিনের বৈরাগী, ভাত কে বলে অন্ন. This means, someone fresh in the field starts using jargon (as a means to show off). This guy here has no real knowledge of what Tagore actually said and wrote. He has no idea that Tagore's views on nationalism, religion, communism are polar opposite of the modern Left (even ancient Left). He has no idea that thanks to Ray's (not discounting his brilliance) Maganlal Meghraj, an entire genre of Bengali TV & Cinema has villainised the Marwadis and the business community. And does this even today. This was probably one of the earliest forms of xenophobia in Indian cinema.
The Commies like this guy have zero idea of the real world, mostly because they come from extremely brainwashed families and communities where all they heard since their childhood was, how great they are and how inferior everyone else is.
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Today is Maha Vijay Diwas.
On this day 820 years ago, led by Maharaja Prithu, Assam resisted the advance of Bakhtiyar Khilji and decimated him.
This wasn’t just a military triumph. It preserved the identity of Kamarupa and safeguarded Assam’s civilizational heritage.
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These Commie leeches have always read Tagore wearing their red glasses; hence, they fail to understand that his definition of secularism was primarily based on ‘Hinduism first’ notion, and would in no way match the Commitards’ undying love for Islamists.
In fact, Tagore did not like the two Abrahamic religions, and he clearly said, “There are two religions in earth, which have distinct enmity against all other religions. These two are Christianity and Islam. They are not just satisfied with observing their own religions but are determined to destroy all other religions. That’s why the only way to make peace with them is to embrace their religions.” (Original works of Rabindranath Vol. 24, page 375, Vishwa Bharti edition 1982).
In an interview with the Times of India in 1924, Tagore said, “An important factor which is making it almost impossible for Hindu-Muslim unity to become an accomplished fact is that the Muslims can not confine their patriotism to any one country. I had frankly asked (the Muslims) whether, in the event of any Mohammedan power invading India, they (Muslims) would stand side by side with their Hindu neighbours to defend their common land. I was not satisfied with the reply I got from them… Even such a man as Mr Mohammad Ali (one of the famous Ali brothers, the leaders of the Khilafat Movement-the compiler) has declared that under no circumstances is it permissible for any Mohammedan, whatever be his country, to stand against any Mohammedan” (also quoted by Sita Ram Goel in his book ‘Muslim Separatism – Causes and Consequences’ 1987).
In “Swamy Shraddananda’’, written by Rabindranath (Magh, 1333 Bangabda), he asked the Hindus to get rid of their inherent weakness ~ “Weakness harbours sin. So, if the Muslims beat us and we, the Hindus, tolerate this without resistance: then, we will know that it is made possible only by our weakness…We can appeal to our neighbour Muslims, ‘Please don’t be cruel to us. No religion can be based on genocide’ ~ but this kind of appeal is nothing, but the weeping of the weak person… if weakness is cherished and be allowed to exist, torture comes automatically; nobody can stop it.”
He also said ~ “Possibly, the Hindus and the Muslims can make a fake friendship to each other for a while, but that cannot last forever. As long as you don’t purify the soil, which grows only thorny shrubs you can not expect any fruit.”
FYI @GhoshSamyak … if you had read and understood Tagore fully, I doubt if you would have called him ‘brilliant.’ You would have labelled him a ‘Sanghi’ too!
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The recently concluded META theatre festival @METAwards has given prizes to an in-your face political propaganda play, 'je janlagulor aksh chilo'.
In the play, on more than one occasion, there were pro CPI(M) scenes/dialogues. One dialogue literally told people that CPI(M) is better than TMC.
No doubt the production and acting were amazing, but imagine platforming and awarding a blatantly political agenda driven play on the eve of elections in West Bengal.
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@puneet_sahani And named Mathra (Mathura), Krishna's birth place?
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Beautiful Khalsa College in Gujranwala (now in 🇵🇰) that was turned into Islamia College after partition.
Although built at time when evangelical Singh Sabha movement - that wanted to divide Hindu-Sikh - was fervent, one can still see Sikh mothers had DEVI in their name; NOT Kaur!
Puneet Sahani@puneet_sahani
Ajay Banga (President, World Bank) in his ancestral village of Kushab (now in 🇵🇰). Holding plaque put by his grandpa in local Sikh temple. Grandpa had typ Hindu name: Ish(v)ar. Not the modern -jeet, -preet, -meet. Grandpa’s mother is Ram BAI. Not Kaur. Sikhi before Islamic SGPC.
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Kodiyakkarai was the first spot surveyed by Sri Rama to build a bridge as it was just 48km from Sri Lankan coast. The hillock he surveyed is called Shri Ramar Paatham & is an ASI protected monument. On a clear day, you can literally see the Lankan coast from here.
It was perhaps discarded due to ocean being too deep here compared to Setu Karai, which had oceanic ridges causing a shallow ocean floor.
Happy Sri Rama Navami!
"We are from Tamilnadu and we obviously know who Sri Ram is, we worship Him"!
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Antiquity of Rama worship in Bengal ~
Two murtis from the early Pala period.
The first murti is still in worship by a family in their temple in Bishnupur.
Niharranjan Roy in his book “Bangalir itihaas- Adi parbo” (pp 634-636), also mentions terracotta plaques depicting narratives from the Ramayana in the Paharpur temple remains, which are dated to early Pala period (around 8th century CE).
According to Roy, worship of Sri Vishnu and His avtars was well in place in Bengal even in the pre-Gupta era.
So Rama is not a bohiragoto in Bengal. He’s present in Bengal from ancient times.
Those who are claiming Ramanavami is unheard of in Bengal, seriously need to get their heads checked by a psychiatrist!
#ramanavami
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Not any film or filmmaker, but the one-man army that has shaken and destroyed old Bollywood is @SanjeevSanskrit
And it all happened in full public view
He started Gems of Bollywood in 2020 and, tweet by tweet, tore apart Bollywood’s communal legacy. None could refute. None could defend. None could counterattack.
His work was that sharp and that irrefutable
He single-handedly kicked off an entire cottage industry of “Gems” pages - Gems of this, Gems of that. But he himself remained too busy studying the Vedas and doing sewa work to chase camera attention or personal limelight. And still, some of his videos on Bollywood have gone viral, even crossed millions of views
Thousands have lifted Gems of Bollywood content and started their own YouTube/Instagram pages around Bollywood criticism. Some gave credit, many did not. That too says something about our society - people steal original work and pass off as their own
But giving credit to any one film or filmmaker for destroying old Bollywood is either plain ignorance or a paid PR exercise. At most, they can say that thanks to Sanjeev ji, an ecosystem is created where film themes starkly opposite to the old ones are being made
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If one has money and a few contacts in the incestous Bollywood circle, one can organise such award functions every month.
Like the incestous circles of Bollywood, these awards are Of Them, For Them and By Them. Only a few notches above the Mohalla Kitty Party.
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So many mistakes in this chart! Chini- doesn’t come from China! It comes from Sanskrit word- Chinna-broken- for the broken Pieces of hardened cane sugar. Which moron said that- China didn’t know sugarcane until it went from India. Telugus also call it - panchadara- Shakkara/chakkara comes from Sanskrit term sarkara - so also panchadara/panchasara. All Indian languages use Sanskrit derivatives-
akshay joshy☭🔻@aksha_y_joshy
Mallus be like "nah we ain't mediocre"
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These people have been practicing zee hard for so long that wishing the extermination of a country, a people, comes naturally to them. Then they hope their god will help the cause.
Iltija Mufti@IltijaMufti_
Israel doesn’t have the right to exist. Nor do they deserve a homeland. Praying for Iran’s swift victory Inshallah.
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