Shivansh Tyagi

Mughals are good because after coming and taking over India, they stayed in India. ✅ Jews are good because after coming and taking over Palestine, they stayed in Palestine. ❌ Mughals are good because they adopted India as their motherland and buit lot of good stuff and made India rich, despite upsetting the demography of India. ✅ Jews are good because they consider Israel as their holy land and built lot of good stuff and made Palestine rich, despite upsetting the demography of Palestine ❌. Mughals did not commit genocide because Hindus are still there. ✅ Israeli Jews have not been committing genocide because the population of Arabs has only been exploding in Gaza and the West Bank. ❌ Muslim rulers enforced jizya on Hindus for centuries but that is okay and was a process of empire building. ✅ Israel’s security checkpoints or barriers to stop suicide bombings are a process of their nation building.❌ Mughals destroyed thousands of temples and built mosques on many sites, this is just "political necessity” and a process of settling political scores and even some Hindu kings did that.✅ Jewish construction in disputed areas of the West Bank is just "political necessity" and just a process of settling political scores and even some Muslim rulers did that. ❌ Mughals had Hindu wives who had full religious freedom and had many Hindu generals. ✅ Israelis give Arabs full citizenship rights including voting and Arabs even form a part of administration. ❌ No decent historian of the early modern world should have anything to gain from the heroes vs villains, wrt Mughal history. To be stuck in this framework is to not think like a historian. The Mughals matter bcz of the world they built and its relevance today, not their excesses! ✅ No decent historian of the modern world should have anything to gain from the heroes vs villains, wrt the history of Israel-Palestine conflict. To be stuck in this framework is to not think like a historian. The Israelis matter bcz of the world they built and its relevance today, not their excesses! ❌

@Schandillia Somehow there are very few organically built mosques. I’d be very interested in knowing which ones though

Here’s a simple flowchart: Was a temple converted into a mosque? If yes, mosque reverts to temple. If no… Was a temple elsewhere demolished for materials to build the mosque here? If yes, the mosque goes and the temple is rebuilt. If no… Were materials from an already abandoned/derelict temple used to build the mosque here? If yes, the mosque still goes and materials recovered and placed in a museum. If no… The mosque stays. But that’s just my idea of fairness. Your mileage might vary.

@Schandillia America returning I get but them accepting? That’s something I don’t

At this rate, they might as well beg to merge back into India. Not that we have a single reason to want it.

WHY DID INDRA FADE? Many today might find it hard to believe this but there was a time Indra was not the timid womanizing drunkard chief of lesser gods, but an absolute primordial supreme. The Lord of all Creation. The Protector of all realms. The Cosmic Punisher. The Maintainer of Order. Until no more. What happened? Why did Indra fade in significance, to the extent that he’s freely ridiculed as a no-gooder and has barely a temple to his name? Indra faded because the religious world that created him faded. He was the ideal god for a semi-nomadic, pastoral, warlike Bronze Age society: - cattle raids, - tribal warfare, - storm dependence, - sacrificial rituals, - heroic masculinity, - prestige through conquest. In the Rigveda, that world is still alive. Indra is supreme because rain means survival, war booty means wealth, and the warrior chief is the center of society. Indra embodies all of that...thunder, battle fury, soma intoxication, victory, destruction of enemies, release of rivers and cattle. But that was more 3,000 years ago. Over centuries, India changed fundamentally. As Indo-Aryan society urbanized and stabilized in the Gangetic plains, kingdoms grew, agriculture became central, and bureaucracy and social hierarchy hardened. A drunken storm-warrior became less suitable as the highest cosmic principle. People increasingly wanted moral order, metaphysics, salvation, continuity, legitimacy of kingship, and personal devotion. Indra was too tied to an older heroic world. The biggest blow to Indra’s dominance arguably came from the Upanishads. The epic and Upanishadic age shifted attention from ritual success to “ultimate reality.” Questions became: - What is consciousness? - What is the self? - What survives death? Compared to “Brahman” and “Atman,” Indra began to look provincial. He survives in the Upanishads, but often as a seeker or a student, not as the “primordial supreme.” That is a major downgrade from the Rigveda. By the time of the epics, Indra was already nudged out of relevance by Vishnu and Shiva, who absorbed larger functions hitherto assigned to Indra. Originally, Vishnu is surprisingly minor in the Rigveda. Shiva barely exists there in recognizable form, Rudra is present but his identification as what we call Shiva is a much later interpolation. Later Hinduism transformed both. Vishnu became preserver, cosmic king, avatara-bearing savior. Shiva became ascetic, destroyer, yogi, cosmic consciousness. These gods could operate simultaneously at village level, philosophical level, emotional devotional level, and cosmic metaphysical level. Indra could not scale upward in the same way. By the time of the Guptas, this downgrade had intensified to the extent that in Puranic literature, he’s deliberately humbled and shown as terrified of sages, threatened by tapas, defeated by Krishna, tricked, and worst of all, morally compromised. By the end of Antiquity, Indra had comfortably been relegated to the position of a king of the lesser gods, almost a cosmic bureaucrat, if you will. This is not a uniquely Indian feature either. Across Indo-European cultures, the old thunder-warrior gods often lose centrality over time. Zeus, Thor, Jupiter, Perun, Tarhunna...all lost relevance once man learned to better manipulate the world around him. Only Indra had it sooner than the others, that’s all. The archaic storm gods were deeply tied to warrior aristocracies, ritual sacrifices, tribal politics, and weather. As civilizations became more urban, philosophical, imperial, and morally universalizing, those gods either evolved radically or declined. Indra simply preserves an older layer of Indo-European consciousness more transparently than most later Hindu gods do. The final nail in Indra’s dominance, or whatever of it remained, came with the Bhakti Movement. The Bhakti paradigm favored emotional intimacy, grace, devotion, and salvation accessible to ordinary people. Indra was not “lovable” in that sense. By the dawn of the second milennium, the old order had conclusively been dismantled. The reins of the Vedic tradition were firmly in the hands of the “Hindu Trinity” now: Brahma the distant Creator, Vishnu the very involved Preserver, and Shiva the sometimes involved Destroyer. With pockets of Shakti stronghold where the Mother Goddess still reigns supreme, just as she did millennia ago. Hinduism isn’t “Sanatan” because it never changes. It’s Sanatan because it does. To the extent that a Rigvedic Aryan teleported to today’s India will find himself in this “uncanny valley” of theology where things will look absolutely unrecognizable and yet... vaguely familiar.

@NewsAlgebraIND Duggal sahab Aap?

Mamata Banerjee reaches Calcutta High Court in Lawyer's attire.

@readswithravi I don’t recommend my favourite books. I don’t like them being disrespected.

What’s a book that you will never stop recommending?

@Preetam_M_Rao I don’t understand the hype of the former at all. Too expensive and no taste.

Whoever says Banganapalli is better than Alphonso is either straight up lying or has no taste. Alphonso's richness and taste are unmatched. The best of all. The king of all mangoes. I said what I said!

@Indian_Analyzer Consumer choice jaaye Maa ch********

🚨 HUGE! Maharashtra Government bans bike taxi services of Ola, Uber & Rapido 🤯 — Cyber Crime Department has been directed to register cases against the companies Govt rationale: "App-based bike taxis do not follow SAFETY regulations, posing serious threat to public safety. They are also adversely affecting the livelihood of licensed auto-rickshaw and taxi drivers."

@erbmjha Last I checked it was a BJP govt

Nalanda, Bihar - 12 yr old Shubham picked up a fallen lemon from his neighbor Gorakh Mian's tree - Mian attacked Shubham with sticks; Shubham died due to head injuries - Angry Hindus marched towards Mian's house with "murder for murder" chants - Police lathi charged them, force from 60 police stations had to be called This reason wasn't a lemon, it was him being Kafir!!

Socialism is like polio, it comes back when people forget about the horrible damage it did last time.

@SiddharthKG7 Well it’s not chhapri when South Korean dramas do it.

Chhaprification of an app which has HBO classics and some of the most awaited shows of world needs to be studied. What they try to do is beyond my understanding.

@ItzBDHindus So you do want to leave your hellhole of a country for India.

“We want to tell India that there is no place to intimidate a country like Bangladesh with barbed wire. The people of Bangladesh are not afraid of barbed wire,” :- Prime Minister’s Foreign Affairs Adviser Humayun kabir.

@coolfunnytshirt Nothing

What did he eat?😳

@PadmajaJoshi Glad to see his legacy being carried on. Him not being forgotten is the best we could all hope for.

Finally went to Avijit Sarkar’s house, 5 years after he was lynched during post poll violence in 2021. Even today, his brother runs a shelter for rescued strays. He has built a little memorial to the murdered puppies right next to Avijit’s memorial. 3 murdered puppies were laid to rest under a Tulsi plant. Bishwajeet told us how Avijit’s killers’ family still lives next door to them, but they never hurt them even when BJP came to power. Because violence is NOT ‘political culture of Bengal’

That’s the message.

@UnSubtleDesi @Sanjay_Dixit @MamataOfficial Waiting for it

I am going to make it one my life’s mission to document the crimes of @MamataOfficial and her evil regime. She should never come back to power. TMC should never come back to power. Nowhere near power.

@_pallavighosh I ask again. What’s the obsession with caste?

This is the break up of the cabinet - Suvendu Adhikari (Brahmin) Dilip Ghosh (OBC) Agnimitra Paul (Kayast) Ashok Kirtania (Mathua) Kshudiram Tudu (Tribal) Nishit Pramanik (Rajbonshi)

@MarioNawfal Immigrants in my country.

A man saved a cobra, gave it water, nursed it back, and the first thing it did was try to bite him. Nature stayed in character.