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@AssociateChrons Why does ECB mandate a Irish player to Play in ILT20????Isn't it CI

Cricket Ireland(CI) ☘️ have announced partnerships with UAE & Nepal With UAE, Ireland will play a men’s white-ball series every year. In return, ECB will mandate 1 Irish player per ILT20 squad I have also signed a deal with Nepal 🇳🇵, where both teams will play regularly. 1/2

@mcdowellmurthy2 There is a long cultural connection For Example Akkana-Madanna saw Shivaji as bringer of Dharma to South India nd is said to hv financed Shivaji's South expedition Some deep buried cultural brotherhood

Why do Telangana people feel culturally closer to Marata’s than to some other regions? This MH born woman, now a TG daughter in law is a good example of those cultural similarities.

@Biryani_Babai @Lokanand6 Set Chesindi ICC BCCI Kaadhu Avunu Ind-Pak set cheyakudadhu but Jay Shah Chairman unna adhi ICC body chala countries untayi Normal Paki cricketer 💵 venakal tiruguthadu but Abrar direct Indian Army ni antadu,Terrorist supporter Idhi support cheste repu evadaina 🇮🇳 ni thidtadu

@Lokanand6 Atlaithey Pak tho matches ey pettodhu after pahalgam Endhuku set chesirru?? Ind Pak okatey group la evaru set chesirru wc la?? First govt ne manaki anyaayam chesthundhi raa Kallu thervandi

Could care less about the outside noise. Once a SunRisers fan… ALWAYS a SunRisers fan. 🧡 SunRisers Hyderabaaaaaddd 🧡🧡🧡 #SRH #IPL2026

@anilarava6360 @InvalidCricket Employing a Terrorist sympathizer nd Indian Army mocker is different from normal Pakistanis Normal Pakistanis go after money.if u encourage this Behaviour they will also think it's ok to mock U nd ur army Use Brain

This is my Last Day as Sunrisers Fan if they brought him

@MumukshuSavitri Didn't Akbar let his wives practice their faith?and isnt it agreed that they might have a role in his tolerance? What abt Jarokha Darshan and Tula-Dan?? Maybe Jizya abolition might be politically motivated but these might be Tolerant aspects compared to other Mughal rulers?

It's not just as simple as Akbar later showing a “steady drift away from orthodoxy.” The evidence shows that Akbar began curbing his orthodox Islamic views out of sheer necessity to retain power - he was losing the support of the Islamic clerics and the Turanis, because he tried to consolidate all the power around himself and become the de-facto supreme religious authority. Akbar abolished Jizya in 1564, but in Badauni’s Muntakhab-ut-Tawarikh he points out that in 983 AH (1575) Akbar AGAIN ordered his officials to reimpose Jizya tax on Hindus. It was abolished again around 1580 when Akbar needed the Hindus on his side after almost getting dethroned during the crisis of the revolt by Turanis aided by orthodox Ulema. So the unfair oppression of Hindus changed depending on whatever suited Akbar's ambitions at the time. It's not like the 1570s were some mellowing down phase of his fanaticism - more like a desperate Akbar was forced to change his policy after failing to politically maneuver and project himself as “Badshah-i- Islam”. In 1579, Akbar issued a Mahzar giving himself supreme authority to choose between competing interpretations of Islamic law, placing his judgment ABOVE the Ulema. His attempt to project himself as Badshah-i Islam was due to his eagerness to be recognized as the sole head of the orthodox Muslims of India. It was Akbar's most blatant attempt to win over orthodox Muslim opinion. But this theological justification of his sovereignty angered the Ulema, to the point that they imposed a "Fatwa of Kufr" against him. Akbar quickly figured out he had made a huge mistake with the Mazhar and withdrew it. The Turanis who were already mad at Akbar's reforms undercutting their power and the Muslim Ulema who saw the Mahzar as a direct threat to their religious authority, both became hostile. So in 1580-81 they rebelled against Akbar completely & openly proclaimed Mirza Hakim as the legitimate ruler, accusing Akbar of abandoning all Islamic norms. Akbar ruthlessly purged and defeated the rebels. He also dismissed key clerics like Shaikh Abdun Nabi & Makhdum ul-Mulk. This is when he was forced to turn towards Rajputs, Indian converts & Persians because he urgently needed new support. By then he also came up with a new framework to assert his "divine" power. So he started interreligious debates. Abul-Fazl started describing him as the one with farr-i izadi (divine radiance) illuminated by God. Akbar had become the “Perfect Man” (Sufi insān-i kāmil). When he established Din-i Ilahi, as a new religion, all adherents had to pledge absolute personal loyalty and moral devotion to him. He was the ultimate spiritual guide whose ethical authority transcended all the existing religious figureheads. In the Mahzar the king's title as head of the orthodox Muslims (Amir ul-Muminin and Badshah-i Islam) rested on the sanction given by the Ulema, but with his new religion Akbar wanted his kingship to be recognized as a divine attribute which was communicated by God to him without any intermediary (like a Prophet). By now he fully believed the delusion that he was a divine figure, chosen directly by the gods to rule. Muslim scholars like Badauni started accusing him of daring to compete with the prophets or saints. Then Akbar sponsored Tarikh-i-Alfi, to frame his reign as the start of an entire new "sacred era". Basically by the 1580s-1590s, Akbar knew he had lost the support of Ulema and had placed all his bets on his legitimacy resting not on Islamic orthodoxy but on his own status as the divinely ordained ruler of all people. This universalist imperial kingship project was solely his delusional & opportunistic attempt to assert power and project himself as the ultimate holy figure, not some blossoming of tolerant secularism or rejection of Islamic orthodoxy. What's pathetic is that such crucial points are never raised in the history books about Akbar, that so-called academic scholars put out. Instead we are always fed the ridiculous, unidimensional view that he was some kind of civilizational savior & secular messiah of religious tolerance & syncretism. The reality is that Akbar was just another ambitious, savage, Islamist fanatic in disguise, who projected himself as a "universalist" to retain his power, motivated by his delusion that he was some divinely ordained Messiah sanctioned directly by God to rule over India.

@samyak128 Give Freebies Give Uni Seats ,Administrative seats on Low marks,low cutoff,low everything Condition 60-70% Population into not paying basic taxes Population takes it out of Country,tries to search the same outside Racism gets normalized who equate it with culture

More jugaadoo low-trust behavior from Indians who’ve been invited into High Trust Societies. A lot of the callous, selfish, dishonest behavior we tolerate as “street smarts” in India is simply incompatible with civilized societies, which expect everyone living in them to adopt a certain standard of behavior. Nothing will create more anti-Indian hate than behavior like this. And it will be deserved…

@SaruNiru31 @Tarun113344 Yes only this is Real

@Tarun113344 You guys are still crying over some fake mythology?

The reason why Shri Ram ji chose monkeys over Tamils.

@ilustratedIndia @kausikgy @grok Explain why this "punishment" shouldn't be taken literally comparing it to a Punishment to Brahmins like "drinking Boiling liquor" for touching Alcohol and also if the Manusmriti was ever implemented as a wide enforced State Policy in India?

@kausikgy Sir, it is secondary if this is practiced in reality or not. The very fact that such harsh punishments have been 'Prescribed' for no fault of the shudra itself is a morally bad point.

Why was Manu Samhita so cruel to Shudras like ordering to cut his tongue or thrusting iron nail in his mouth for only insulting a Brahmin? This is quite a valid question, but cannot be understood without understanding the context. I present the issues in a Q&A format. A. Was this punishment really given? No, there is no evidence of this punishment ever being given. As a matter of fact, Indian justice system was generally against harsh punishments. Usually only fines were imposed, observed Fa-Hien (Chinese traveler to India about 1,500 years ago). [1] Scholar Beni Prasad and Ramesh Chandra Majumdar, the doyen of historian, observed [2], "It is more than doubtful if these brutal punishments were ever actually awarded." They have also found that in the actual situations, monetary fines were imposed. The punishment prescribed was actually notional to show the enormity of the act. As an analogy, the Western judicial system sometimes awards to an accused hundreds of years of jail, which is entirely notional. B. Why was such a punishment even being prescribed? The Brahmins were prescribed to live a life of poverty (without being allowed to pursue any business and profession but teaching and that too without asking for compensation). But they were given the moral authority to prescribe ethics for society. This verse was the defamation act of those times. Defamation acts tend to be asymmetric. For example, a Supreme Court judge can move against me for the Contempt of Court but not vice versa. C. Was there also any Brahman-specific punishment? Yes. The Manu Samhita prescribes trial of a Brahmin for theft for merely receiving payment in lieu of teaching and performing rituals from a thief after knowing shadiness regarding his client’s source of income [3]. How many professors would agree to such a rule in today’s world? D. Were Shudras debarred from having knowledge? The Shudras can learn or teach any knowledge targeted to skill enhancement and income. [4] The right to pursue Vedas (high level spiritual/moral knowledge) was only with the Brahmins who were expected to do rituals and penance (unlike the Shudras). The Shudras had access to all secular knowledge, but not to higher spiritual knowledge. [5] Caveat: I am not implying that everything written in the Manu Samhita is correct or beyond criticism but only doing a nuanced reading of the situation often missed by the critics of the text. References: 1. James Legge (translator & annotator), A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms: Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Hien of his Travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399–414) in Search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1886. Chapter XVI. "The king governs without decapitation or (other) corporal punishments. Criminals are simply fined, lightly or heavily, according to the circumstances (of each case)." 2. Majumdar, Ramesh Chandra (Ed.) (2001). The Age of Imperial Unity: The History and Culture of the Indian People , Volume II. Mumbai: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. p. 888. Beni Prasad and R. C. Majumdar write, “It is more than doubtful if these brutal punnishments were ever actually awarded. Perhaps they only embody the ultra-orthodox theory of the superiority of the twice-born and the supremacy of the Brahmana. Vishṇu [The Vishnu Samhita] lays down practically the same penalties and procedure of justice as Manu, but his treatment of insults and offences is extra-ordinarily minute. For example, a fine is prescribed for omitting to invite a Brahmana neighbour to a feast or for offering him no food when he has been invited. On the other hand, if the guest having duly accepted the invitation, refused to eat he should pay a gold Māshaka as fine and double the amount of food to the host.” 3. The Manu Samhita, 8:340. 4. The Manu Samhita, 2:238, 240, 241. 5. The Manu Samhita, 2:16. Also the Gautama Dharmasutra, 12 : 4-6. This is the famous "molten lead" law.

@JhalaZalimSingh Book?

Open the damn article; before 2017, "Counted electrified” means the village was classified as electrified under the govt’s criteria, such as electric poles, wires, & a transformer reaching the village, or only a small portion of households needing electricity, not all residents. In 2017, Saubhagya changed the benchmark: electricity was pushed to every household until the last mile.

@AntoThaliath @SagasofBharat Kerala Story talks abt "Love Jihad"."The Kerala Story 2 " doesn't talk abt Kerala,it's only building upon the Traction on the prev movie I.e., "Love Jihad".After all,the 1st case of Love Jihad was mentioned in the Kerala high Court of 2009

Syrian Christians were getting persecuted which made them flee their own homeland. Hindu kings in India not only provided them with safe refuge but also land grants for them to start their lives afresh. How did they return the favour? By killing the one animal Hindus of the land held sacred & introduced recipes that shameless Hindus like the one below gobble with delight along with their self respect.

@WG_RumblePants The World hasn't been broad-minded for quite some time

There is an old Indian proverb: अयं निजः परो वेति गणना लघुचेतसाम् । उदारचरितानां तु वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम् ॥ I understand that it translates: “This is mine, that is yours — such thinking is for the narrow-minded. For the broad-minded, the whole world is one family.”

@WG_RumblePants Weren't Pakistanis unsold in the previous edition?? Ahhhh must be da wind....

It would be an interesting development if Hundred teams that don’t bid for Pakistani players were investigated for a breach of the Equality Act 2010… I wonder if a mischievous person might bring the matter to the attention of Equality and Human Rights Commission.

@ClinkWrites Naaaaaaah Eng didn't even announce the Playing XI as they always do,it's sooooooooo overrrr

Italy vs England, all hopes on this game. If Italy win today, it could redefine cricket in the nation and beyond. They need this win to keep their hopes alive. Scotland will be rooting for you, go and give your best. Forza Azzurri! 🇮🇹

@rahuldhowan1994 @ReddyMnc16 When Ireland Cricket was made a Test Nation,the ECB Declassified all the Irish Cricketers nd removed them from their 1st Class System.......

When West Indies cricket was going through it's worst phase and were hardly getting any tours at home it was England who stepped in and scheduled an annual tour, sometimes even 2 tours in the carribean in a calendar year. They even invited them home to play a full 3 match test series, something both Australia and India were unwilling to do. How many players from Ireland have moved alliance to England ? Can't blame the ECB for Irish cricket being stuck.

ENG not getting enough hate among big 3 is baffling, neither they win trophies like AUS nor they help associates like BCCI do(who gets all the hate online). They are the first ones poach generational talent from associates. Ireland not getting world class players is due to Eng

@BdJcricket Previously Countries chose to not participate in World cup matches citing security concerns.Pakistan has decided to Boycott the India match even after asking to hold it in SL.....Wonder what the ICC will do now

UPDATE: word is the '26 playing conditions are indeed identical. Which is to say, ambiguous and poorly-written.

@ClinkWrites Time is ripe with BCCI nd Pak,Ban tensions and Politics.Maybe a Super 8 Qualification nd maybe....just maybe😌

Netherlands have qualified for the Women’s T20 World Cup 2026! 🇳🇱 Massive achievement for Dutch women’s as they book their place on the global stage after strong Qualifiers campaign. Years of steady progress and belief finally paying off. Well deserved, Oranje! 🧡 #Cricket

@ClinkWrites Imagine if 2 European Associates Qualify We can see Spain in Regional qualifiers......

Updated ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 groups and Scotland’s fixtures! 🗓️ February 7: Scotland vs WI February 9: Scotland vs Italy February 14: Scotland vs England February 17: Scotland vs Nepal Excited to see when Cricket Scotland release the squad and jersey! 😍 #Cricket

@BdJcricket More Associate Teams,Better Cricket nd a assured Associate in the Super 8 🤩

This is going great. Just need another 9 teams to drop out and we can do basically the Global T20 Qualifier instead - which was a better tournament anyway.

@_Avykt Shuddho-Ashuddho 2.0

So the new ret@rded discourse on RW is that Mughals weren’t actually anti-Hindu It’s all a Maratha conspiracy to paint them as villains to further their agenda Mughals did nothing wrong. The temples in Kashi, Mathura & Ayodhya all fell by themselves