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@emm_cee22 @MLakonias You are confusing Caucasian with Fair skinned. You should visit middle east to see their skin colour.

@arthabazaar @MLakonias Literally every culture portrays him as they wish because Jesus doesn't belong to any one culture. However, if you wanna be pedantic, middle easterners are still white so any description of him as white is closer to being historically accurate.

Black Panther and Wakanda were fictional and no one would dare cast white actors. There is one more difference, Wakanda is fiction the Odyssey is a myth.Let me me give you a head's up. Fiction is a made-up story created primarily for entertainment, where both the author and the audience know it is not literally true. In contrast, a myth is a sacred, culturally significant narrative meant to explain the world, human origins, and moral truths, often treated as deeply meaningful or historically valid by its originating culture. Hope that helps!

@dpinsen @bubbleboi Back then population was low. Also, hundred years of Islamic and British invasion has damaged culture in multiple regions. Hopefully success cycle is revived in next 100 years.

@bubbleboi How could they have been this advanced so long ago while India got conquered by outsiders repeatedly for the next 2,500+ years and remains mostly poor and backward today?

I’ve been reading the Vedas a lot recently, and what’s stood out is how it doubles as an encyclopedia as well as a religious text. Astronomy, medicine, mathematics, metallurgy, linguistics, are all woven through hymns and rituals as one body of knowledge. Simply calling it “religious” forces it into a Western category that didn’t have the apparatus to recognize what it actually was. It’s closer to a tradition of formalized epistemology in which metaphysics, observation, and language form one continuous inquiry, which as a result led Indian civilization to develop along a fundamentally different path because of it. You can see the effect most clearly in the sciences. Around 600 BCE, the Vedic record describes a surgical procedure that matches modern rhinoplasty and is still foundational to reconstructive surgery today. Centuries before Western Europe stopped treating eclipses as supernatural, Indian scholars had calculated the circumference of the earth within 0.2% and explained eclipses as shadows. Centuries before Plato and Aristotle rejected atomism, the Vedic tradition already held that matter is composed of indivisible particles combining into binary and triatomic compounds, transformable by heat. The first formal rules for zero and negative arithmetic appear in the Vedas, along with infinite-series derivations of π, sine, and cosine centuries before Newton and Leibniz. The interesting question is how did they get so much right, so early? My best guess is language. The Vedic tradition is unique compared to other oral traditions as it demanded letter-perfect oral transmission across generations. Around 500 BCE, scholars composed a generative grammar of Sanskrit called Panini so rigorous it anticipates Backus-Naur form, the notation that defines programming languages today, by 2,500 years. Sanskrit is recursive, rule-based, and built to minimize ambiguity. It reads more like mathematics than English. When you think in a language built like that, the precision of the language becomes the precision of your reasoning. The West didn’t formalize this until much later. Kant argued our categories of understanding shape what we can know, Wittgenstein wrote that the limits of language are the limits of one’s world, and Kripke showed that naming doesn’t just describe things, it constitutes what they mean and how we can reason about them. All three touch the same insight which is that thought is downstream of language. The Vedic tradition operated on that insight thousands of years earlier. To the point that they built a whole language first and used it to think clearly about everything else after. I find that all really fascinating.

They did, it was called America

@amitmalviya If you always praise your bully, you know what it makes you.

US President Donald Trump: “I love India… I just want to say hello to everybody. I love the Prime Minister. PM Modi is great; he is my friend…” Further praising India, he added, “We have never been closer to India, and India can count on me and our country 100 per cent. If they need any help, they know where to call. They call right here. We are doing well. We are setting records.”

@Arysangwan This visit was pre planned, Trump strategy remaiins same. We are early 2000 China for US.

Things to be noted here: the USA recently had a failed visit to China where, according to some reports, China openly disrespected Trump. Initially Trump was thinking of dumping India, hoping China would cooperate with the USA, but that clearly didn’t happen. Now they are again trying to reset relations with India. ⦿ No, that’s not how it works. You put tariffs on the wrong country — it should have been China. ⦿ You took the side of the wrong country (Pakistan) when it should have been India. ⦿ You appreciate the wrong people (including a Field Marshal who is seen by many as supporting terrorism). So who is going to trust you now?

@AdityaRajKaul @sidhant Without naming perpetrator in chief, this is just a superficial cop out answer.

Racism question to Rubio by @sidhant in the Joint Press Statement today in New Delhi . Rubio caught completely off-guard. Looks like Rubio wasn’t entirely prepared for this obvious question.

@sidhant I am curious why you did not mention directly , who are you referring too. If PM and journalist both are afraid to address it, there will be no closure ever.

"Who said that...", US Secretary of State Rubio in response to my question on racism agaisnt Indians in US. US President Donald Trump had endorsed a post terming India "Hellhole"

@SiddharthKG7 People of the era, choose leaders according to times they live in. It is hard to comment from today why was Gandhi/Sardar chosen to be their leaders. Same question will arise in future generation minds, with Modi/Shah.

Again I will say. Gandhi was obsolete in Indian politics and leaders just avoided being attached to his legacy. This movie made Gandhi relevant & cool again. Indian Govt put him on the currency in 1987 after this. Indian cultural centres worldwide started pushing Gandhi.

@ffranzi__ @elonmusk @nypost Gods are made up concept, we dont know anyone's skin color. Nolan has decided to go with this interpretation for the movie, just take it as a movie.

@arthabazaar @elonmusk @nypost It’s GREEK mythology! And greek gods or goddess‘s weren’t black.

Alec Baldwin hits back at Elon Musk for criticizing Lupita Nyong’o’s looks amid ‘The Odyssey’ casting trib.al/b281r0Q

@elonmusk @nypost This is mythology, there's no hard casting rules. Same way Jesus is cast as a white person even if he is middle eastern.

@nypost I agree that she is beautiful, but casting a Black woman to play a White woman in a foundational work of European literature is no more right than casting a White man to play Shaka Zulu!

@GBNT1952 Nolan is free to make movie according to his interpretation of a mythological story. And you are free not to watch it

Of all the disappointments that have happened recently, this one hits pretty hard. I have been a huge Nolan fan for years. His first film, Following, released back in 1998, had a $6,000 budget and was fantastic. Then he gave us gems like Memento, Insomnia, the most realistic Batman trilogy remake ever, the Prestige, Inception, Interstellar, Tenet, and Oppenheimer… Needless to say, when I heard he was doing The Odyssey, one of the best epics ever written, I was more than excited. But alas, it seems that Wokeness has infected even this great director, and will ultimately stain one of the best stories ever written… Such a shame. I guess my fanfare of Nolan is at an end, and unless this has all been a giant charade, I will likely never watch another of his films… assuming he is allowed to make any more after this travesty unfolds. At least he got one thing right: "You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain"

@CNviolations Nolan is free to make what he wants.

Do you agree with Elon?

Immigration, deportation, tarriffs, visa fraud, massive bull run in tech with cross investments, keeping open dialogue with leaders, ...some of them were overruled in courts, but he cannot be blamed for that. This is all in 1 year. Only thing I think he went against campaign promise is war.

@arthabazaar @RGVzoomin @realDonaldTrump What exactly is it other than securing the border?

I doubt ever in history, there existed a leader , where the whole world is waiting every minute either to mock him , or laugh at him , or be disgusted at him , or shocked by him and that is @realDonaldTrump for you ..It is truly amazing that it took just one man to dirty America’s image which can never ever be cleaned 🙏

Elon is over complaining, it is Nolan's movie, he will decide what he wants, even if it is incorrect. You have enough money and AI to make your own version.

@elonmusk Elon is complaining too much, it is Nolan's movie, he will decide what he wants, even if it is incorrect. You have enough money and AI to make your own version.

Chris Nolan desecrated the Odyssey so that he would be eligible for an Academy Award …

@Luca_Johnson96 Why did you bring Indians in this? Elon is complaining too much, it is Nolan's movie, he will decide what he wants, even if it is incorrect. Elon has enough money and AI to make his own version.

Then go ahead and make a film based on the Ramayana or Mahabharata without casting a single Indian in it. I'm sure the Indians would react just as politely...

@ndtv In India, thinking is more hours you work is better( this is laborer thinking). In USA, efficiency matters over number of hours.

Bengaluru Woman Questions India's Work Culture After US Visit: "At 4:30 pm, The Office Was Empty" ndtv.com/feature/bengal…

@Incognito_River In India, thinking is more hours you work is better( this is laborer thinking). In USA, efficiency matters over number of hours.

Why didn’t they mention that most people here start at 7:30 am?

@jyotiTpandey05 I think she means she has freedom to pick a counter idea. Freedom not to marry is counter thinking to current conventional thinking.

Watched Kiara Advani on Raj Shamani’s podcast. She said she would raise her daughter to have a mind of her own that she could date ten people and still choose not to marry anyone. New-age parents often try to label every unconventional idea as “good parenting.” But why is dating multiple people and never marrying automatically considered progressive or cool?