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Nitin Joshi

@duramount

Katılım Ocak 2014
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Dr. Lavanya Vemsani Ph.D.
They can’t understand the phenomenon of multiple names: it’s our most signature feature. We have multiple names, our gods and goddesses have multiple names and our nation has multiple names. Everything in this land has multiple names. Each name represents one unique feature of the same, but they think each name is a separate divine/entity. There is inadvertent or intentional disjunction in their thought. #ColonizedMinds cannot comprehend the truth unless they remove their colonialist frameworks.
Halley@halleyji

"Yoga predates Hinduism by at least 500 years" "Yoga is evidenced in Indus Valley and then adopted by the Vedic people arriving in waves from 1500 BCE" "There's no Hinduism/Vedic religion in the Indus Valley, or anywhere else in the Indian subcontinent before 1500 BCE" "Shiva as a yogi is a Puranic construct, the Vedic Rudra, which comes before Shiva is not a Yogi" This flavour of history academics and historians in general are rattled for the past decade plus. What they have built in unison with their colonial masters for several decades is being questioned now. I really don't see how any reconciliation is possible with this lot.

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MD Umair Khan
MD Umair Khan@MDUmairKh·
There are "more Indus sites" in India because peripheries and small settlements in the outskirts during the mature period and the fall of the IVC are also documented along with the major sites. Pakistan, on the other hand, has mostly focused on documenting large sites. This puts known sites in Pakistan at 400+ (mainly large sites), while 600+ in India (large sites plus several peripheries). Rakhigarhi in India is said to be the largest Indus site, which is around 860 acres. Mohenjo-Daro in Pakistan is 750 acres, while Harappa is 370 acres. Both are from the mature period, around 4,600 years old. Recently discovered Lakhanjo-Daro, from Pakistan, is over 750 acres according to early estimates, but sadly, the 70% of the site has already been heavily damaged due to construction. It might be larger than its early estimates, provided it gets saved and further excavated. The mainstream estimate puts it around 4,500 years old, while some say it passed through various eras dating back to 9,000 years old due to similarities between it and the pottery found in the Mehrgarh. But this is debatable. Mehrgarh itself, the precursor to the IVC, happens to be in Balochistan, Pakistan, and is 9,000 years old. Overall, the known area covered by the Indus sites in India is 246,000 sq kilometres, while in Pakistan it's 345,000 sq kilometres. The oldest sites are in Pakistan, and the Indus sites in Pakistan cover more land than the ones in India. Pakistan contains the origin of the Indus Valley Civilisation and its urban heartland, and the Indus River also happens to be in Pakistan. Meanwhile, due to its decentralised nature, the civilisation continued further East, entering the bordering regions of India, next to Pakistan. TLDR: Indus Valley Civilisation is Pakistan's civilisation, and the bordering regions of India can also claim that they shared history with this great civilisation. Just like the Persian Empire is Iranian, but its sites are also in India.
Bheem 🇺🇲@TiredBhiim

> The LARGEST site is Rakhigarhi which is in Haryana, INDIA > The VAST MAJORITY of sites are in India (1000, vs 500 in Pakistan) > Major mega-cities flourished along the Ghaggar-Hakra and in Gujarat far from Indus River. If you aren't familiar with the numbers then close the Q&A, stop acting like historians and go read the book aunty.

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Ifran 🇧🇩
Ifran 🇧🇩@mohammad_i77884·
Bangladesh’s map came into existence because of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. If Pakistan had not been created, present-day Bangladesh would not have existed. Today, we might have been a state of India. In Bangladesh, we will not tolerate opposition to Quaid-e-Azam.
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Hathyogi (हठयोगी)
Oof, Audrey Truschke dropping a masterclass in selective scholarship.This is what happens when you manifest History in the "HAREM OF MUGHALS" First you admit6 you don't know the data, then confidently push the narrative anyway, and frame any pushback as "nationalism." Peak tenured historian energy. Let's fix that "not familiar with numbers" bit with actual numbers, Prof: Total sites: Over 1,000–1,500+ Mature Harappan sites discovered. India has significantly more, reliable counts put ~616 in India vs 406 in Pakistan (2008 data from ASI and different sources, with updated estimates at ~900–925 in India vs ~475 in Pakistan (India holding ~65%) Post-Partition discoveries exploded in India along the Ghaggar-Hakra (ancient Saraswati) system, because Indian archaeologists actually kept digging. "The big cities were definitely... in what's now Pakistan"? The five major urban centres: Harappa, Mohenjo-daro, Ganweriwala (Pakistan), Dholavira & Rakhigarhi (India). So already 2/5 firmly in India.But size? Rakhigarhi (Haryana, India): ~350 hectares, now the largest known IVC site, bigger than Mohenjo-daro (~250–300 ha) and Harappa (~150 ha). Excavations confirm it. Classic Mohenjo-daro (in Pakistan, iconic but no longer #1) Dholavira (Gujarat, India) is also a massive UNESCO site with advanced water management.The civilization wasn't "Indus River only", it boomed along the Ghaggar-Hakra/Saraswati too, which is mostly dried-up riverbed inside modern India. Audrey, you literally teach and just wrote a 600-page book starting with the IVC, yet "not familiar with numbers-to-numbers" on the most basic ownership-by-site-count flex that Indians have been citing for years? You dismiss site distribution as "Indian nationalism" while conveniently hyping the Pakistan-side icons that were excavated pre-Partition. Meanwhile, India has preserved, expanded excavations, and uncovered the actual biggest one. IVC is a shared Bronze Age gem that predates both countries by millennia, nobody "owns" it like a cricket trophy. But pretending the data doesn't show heavier modern Indian territory footprint + larger current flagship site, while sneering "not my problem"... that's not history. That's agenda with extra steps. Facts don't care about your narrative, and neither do the mounds at Rakhigarhi.
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Audrey Truschke@AudreyTruschke

@AnujSha27929766 I'm not familiar with a numbers-to-numbers comparison. But the big cities were definitely around the Indus River, in what's now Pakistan. Is that inconvenient for Indian nationalism? Maybe, but that's not my problem.

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KV Iyyer - BHARAT 🇮🇳🇮🇱
Did you know? During Partition in the year 1947, Muslim League mobs encircled the Golden temple of Sikhs in Amritsar. They were about to destroy the temple. It was RSS Swayamsevaks of Amritsar who fought a pitched battle with the mobs. They saved the Sikh Golden temple from destruction on March 6 1947. The Muslim League mobs marched towards Harmandir Sahib. They raised slogans like "leke rahenge Pakistan" and "let us do what Abdali did" But then, there was a surprise awaiting the jεhadi mobs. They were encircled, fiercely attacked and repelled. Muslim League had to run for their lives. The protectors were none other than RSS Swayamsevaks. The jihadis were particularly terrified of one Swayamsevak called Bijli Pehelwan. RSS stationed hundreds of Swayamsevaks around the Harmandir Sahib shrine to protect it from desecration by Mμslim League mobs. The Swayamsevaks guarded the shrine 24*7.  The Swayamsevaks were posted around the shrine for the entire year  "The contribution of RSS Swayamsevaks during Partition is no way less than that of Jawans"- Brigadier GS Singh. Amritsar, December 1947  The Muslim league mob attacked again on March 9, 1947. The Sevadars of Harmandir Sahib asked RSS for help. Durgadas Khanna, the RSS head of Amritsar, gave them assurance. RSS swayamsevaks promptly defended and repulsed the second invasion as well  Source: "The fiery saga of RSS" written by award winning journalist Manikchandra Vajpayee. Original was translated into English by Sudhakar Raje
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No Conversion
No Conversion@noconversion·
Delhi Gymkhana club was leased in 1927 for 99 years .. now GOI is asking back . Almost every church land was also leased for 99 years .. I wonder when GOI will ask them to vacate?
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Parimal
Parimal@Fintech03·
This is Audrey's pinned tweet. It is hilariously ironic that Audrey quotes Nilakantha Dikshita’s Kalividambanam (Verse 1). She clearly missed the joke. Nilakantha was satirizing fake scholars who do not know their subjects. When he wrote 'Na boddhavyam, na sravyam... jhatiti prativaktavyam,' he was mocking charlatans who refuse to understand the subject, refuse to listen to opposing evidence & just scream immediate replies to look smart. ​If she had actually read the very next verse in Nilakantha’s text (Verse 2), she would have realized she was walking into a trap. Nilakantha goes on to list the 5 ways these fake scholars try to win an argument when they lack substance: असंभ्रमो विलज्जत्वम् अवज्ञा प्रतिवादिनि l हासो राज्ञः स्तवश्चेति पञ्चैते जयहेतवः ll Remaining unbothered, sheer shamelessness, showing utter contempt for the opponent, mocking them & praising the ruling powers (the King)... these 5 are their keys to victory. This is the exact operational playbook of modern ideological historians when cornered by hard evidence. Let me further quote the verse 3 also to get the full context: अश‍िक्ष‍ितेषु वक्तव्यं सभ्येषु महता कलिना l श‍िक्ष‍ितेषु तु वक्तव्यं मध्यस्थोऽयं विमत्सरः ll If the judge is uneducated, just shout loudly to win. If the judge is smart, immediately accuse him of being biased! Whenever an Indian scholar/community group exposes a factual error in her work using hard data, the response is rarely a factual counter-argument. Instead, she immediately claims she is being harassed/attacked by nationalists. She & others use institutional victimhood as a shield to completely avoid answering legitimate, evidence-based academic critiques.
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Nitin Joshi
Nitin Joshi@duramount·
@sabeer How many pakis muslims Has the educated killed ? Thats imp All else - bakwaas
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Sabeer Bhatia
Sabeer Bhatia@sabeer·
This is for the educated ABs.
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Nitin Joshi
Nitin Joshi@duramount·
@PredatorVolk If anybody is chronically ill Early deaths Then The food = Fish cow dogs birds (mostly criws) All level animals
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Believer
Believer@PredatorVolk·
Genuine question, asked with respect. I came across this temple ritual where devotees appear to step on food/offerings placed on banana leaves. Can anyone explain: • What is this ritual called? • What is its spiritual significance? • Why are the offerings placed under the feet? I’m not judging or criticizing—just trying to understand the tradition and its meaning.
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Manish RJ
Manish RJ@mrjethwani1·
Most likely, these are Brahmins stepping on food in the name of “purification,” and that food is then served to Dalits, OBCs, SCs, STs, and other non-upper-caste communities. Such disgusting and dehumanising practices are carried out to uphold caste supremacy under the guise of tradition and religion.
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Yasser Latif Hamdani
Yasser Latif Hamdani@theRealYLH·
Next Indians are going to claim that USA was once part of Bharat Varsha and cite Christopher Columbus’s blooper about “Red Indians” as evidence.
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T@TRICHFUN·
@adimanav45 No. Sundar can go back also. We don’t want him here.
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The Indians are seething lol. They cannot stand that the average American can see through their bs!
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Darab Farooqui
Darab Farooqui@darab_farooqui·
Savarkar started receiving ₹60 a month stipend from the British government on 1 August 1929. He kept receiving it till 1937. In this same period, Chandrashekhar Azad died fighting in February 1931. Bhagat Singh was hanged in March 1931. The stipend kept coming. Now here is the thing. Savarkar was not a Gandhian. He didn't believe in non-violence or quiet suffering. His entire claimed identity was built on armed, violent revolution. He, as they Sanghis say, allegedly inspired a generation of young men to pick up guns against the British. Those young men were killed by the British. And he kept on collecting his British paycheck. And the title "Veer" that precedes his name in every BJP speech, every government textbook, every Hindutva WhatsApp forward. Nobody gave him that title. No movement conferred it. No contemporary bestowed it, Like Bose called Gandhi ji Rashtrapita in 1944. Savarkar gave it to himself. Which is, honestly, the most honest summary of a Hindutva Icon.
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Hasnain Mirza
Hasnain Mirza@HasnainWizard·
@duramount Whole India was mosque as Adam was born there. We'll take it back.
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Hasnain Mirza@HasnainWizard·
Such an historic picture. Men and women praying Eid prayer in Delhi Jamia Mosque in 1890. جامع مسجد دہلی 1890 کی دھائی سے ایک تصویر۔جس میں خواتین و مرد عید کی نماز ادا کرتے پوئے. Courtesy: Mubashir Saleem
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