Amit Kumar Goyal

this can be traced back to the PIE reconstruction *médʰu, still meaning honey. some of the Indo-Europeans that migrated west instead of east would end up as Germanic peoples - Proto-Germanic would use the word *meduz and then *medu to refer to mead specifically.

So why does "indigenous vs. colonizer" almost always mean Europeans, and almost never Bantu, Turks, Arabs, Slavs, or Han Chinese? A few reasons, in descending order of how much they actually explain: 1. Recency and documentation. European expansion happened in the era of the printing press, photography, census records, and treaties. The Bantu expansion left no paperwork. The Arab conquests are 1,300 years old and mythologized as religious destiny rather than conquest. When the receipts exist, the case is easier to make, and Europeans left receipts. 2. The winners wrote the framework. Modern human-rights language, postcolonial theory, and the very category of "indigenous peoples" were built in Western universities after WWII, primarily to process European guilt over European empires. The tool was designed for one job. Asking it to evaluate the Arab conquest of Egypt or the Turkic conquest of Anatolia is like asking a tax form to diagnose a disease. It wasn't built for that. 3. Christendom is critique-able; other civilizations aren't. You can write a bestseller attacking Western Christian civilization from inside a Western university and win awards for it. Try writing the equivalent book about Arab-Islamic conquest from inside Cairo or Istanbul. The asymmetry isn't about history. It's about which societies tolerate self-criticism and which punish it. So the critical literature piles up on one side and barely exists on the other. 4. The Soviet inheritance. Cold War-era anti-colonial framing was deliberately shaped by Moscow to delegitimize the West while giving its own empire and its allies' conquests, a pass. That framework outlived the USSR and still structures a lot of academic and activist vocabulary today. 5. Race makes it legible. European colonizers usually looked different from the colonized. Turkic conquerors of Anatolia, Arab conquerors of the Levant, and Bantu expansionists in Africa generally didn't look dramatically different from the populations they absorbed. The visual contrast made European empire easier to narrate as racial, and once a story has a clean visual, it travels. 6. And finally, Jews. The framework's selective application reaches its most absurd point when a people indigenous to a specific land, with continuous presence, language, religion, and archaeological record tying them to it for three thousand years, get labeled "colonial settlers", while the actual seventh-century conquerors who Arabized the region get labeled "indigenous." At that point the framework isn't describing reality. It's laundering a conclusion. The label isn't tracking who got there first. It's tracking who it's currently fashionable to blame.

Insane how far this graph has shifted towards the Democrats since Trump took office. A majority of anesthesiologists supporting Democrats feels so wrong

One of the worst predicaments of being a professional historian today is that you are expected to engage with this mediocrity. The Print has a habit of publishing pieces that no respectable scholar in the field will even read. Not surprised they carried this to create some noise!

One of the worst predicaments of being a professional historian today is that you are expected to engage with this mediocrity. The Print has a habit of publishing pieces that no respectable scholar in the field will even read. Not surprised they carried this to create some noise!

🚨BREAKING: For the first time, the original Pakistani cypher — cable I-0678, the document that triggered the removal of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan — is being released in full by Drop Site.

Went out for dinner in Niagara-on-the-Lake. No mains. No steaks. No pasta. No seafood. Just focaccia, beef carpaccio, tiramisu, and wine. Bill: $170. At this point Ontario restaurants aren’t serving dinner anymore. They’re serving financial literacy lessons.

So NEET 2025 paper was also leaked. The BJP leader brothers arrested in Rajasthan allegedly bought the paper because one of their children was appearing for NEET this year. During the investigation, it reportedly surfaced that four students from their family had already secured top government medical colleges last year. And this was despite NEET 2025 being tougher than both 2024 and 2026. This is not just “corruption.” This is the destruction of an entire generation’s trust in the education system. Millions of students study for years, sacrifice their mental health, isolate themselves, and families spend their life savings only for politically connected people to buy access from the backdoor. We are talking about a national examination here, not some school or college test. If papers can be leaked, sold, and manipulated this easily, then merit in this country is becoming a joke. The system is rotten, the people protecting it are worse, and students lives clearly hold no value to any of them. But our dear PM Modi will never talk about these issues in “Pariksha Pe Charcha” instead he’ll ask aspirants to meditate. How many more innocent lives will be compromised to stop this rotten system ?! We are doomed as a nation fr

Contra view —there is no better time to get in to Ivy with a GC stapled Plebes are not applying so far lesser competition + they won’t be able to work due to immigration issues On a long enough time frame, spending just 18 months ( net of internships ) to get a Harvard MBA is way better than doing some random analyst job or Infosys job out of college Your Harvard graduate tag is forever + a 1 way door, you can’t go back to college in your 30s

Justice Department dropping fraud charges against the richest man in India after he hires Trump's old lawyer and promises to invest in the American economy. God what a sick joke MAGA is. "Indians are all scammers" when they're doing honest work. When they're actually scammers, it's through dealing with the most corrupt administration in history, like everyone else.

You would be shocked by how many Indians believe Western nations are Christian theocracies by default. They really do believe if you make a joke about Jesus in USA, you're going straight to jail for the rest of your life and are mad that doesn't happen in India.

It’s said about Blood Meridian that if you have read the book, and you see two lines decades later, you will immediately recognize where it’s from. It’s stylistically that unique. Similarly this. Unique. Immediately recognizable in an instant.

Cathie Wood’s ability to collect management fees will be studied for decades. Truly one of the worst investors of all time, while making tens of millions in fees. Some of the worst trades include: - TDOC: made it ARKK’s largest position at ~$80/sh.; today: ~$7/sh. - Zoom: loaded up around ~$300/sh.; today: ~$110/sh. - Nvidia: sold almost all of it in January 2023 at ~$20/sh.; today: ~$220/sh. Amazing track record.

Anant Ambani has launched Vantara Creamery, a new ice cream brand from A2 Gir cow milk, including Malai Kulfi, Guava Chilli, Filter Coffee, Kesar Peda, and Butter Caramel. Indian billionaires has massive wealth and capital, yet most big business families still can’t move beyond campa cola, chai, masala, namkeen-type businesses. Meanwhile, Western billionaires are building companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX, and Meta that are shaping the future. For a country with this much talent and money, we still think too small.