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@efakir86

Films, Music, Sound. Integrated Research. Non Partisan, Indic, history, philosophy, psychology, advait. RTs and Likes are NOT endorsement.

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Reiff Penumbral@efakir86·
I fully support safeguards for people from jaatiwadi discrimination in every institution. I fully support any effort which seeks to reduce hierarchical notions amongst Jatis in India. I fully support uniform application of law for all people from all communities.
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Niks@Pivot2Centre·
I went down this rabbit hole once. It comes down to 3 things - river sediments, algae, and water currents. Assumption is no pollution. Andaman waters is this colour because there aren’t river sediments in those waters and currents don’t push sediments from south east Asia into those shores Few lakes get this colour from algae. Ganga, Godavari, Krishna, Kaveri - they run thru regions with loose soil and the sediments are heavy. So those beaches can never be this colour. Same is the case for sea coasts near Louisiana which muddy at best!
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Rāma Śēṣan Chandraśēkaran
Rāma Śēṣan Chandraśēkaran@maa_bhaishiiH·
Before all this, before it was the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, and before it was the cathedral of John the Baptist, it was a magnificent temple to the Semitic deity Baal whom the Greeks identified with Zeus and the Romans identified with Jupiter, and hence was maintained and renovated by them. For Christians, everything starts with Christianity. What came before that is irrelevant and same with Muslims. They only rant about what was done to them and not what they did before that
Tädlā Mälʿākū ☨✡@NegedeYehuda

This mosque in Syria used to be one of the holiest sites in Christianity: the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist (whose head is traditionally said to be buried there). After the Muslim conquest, Umayyad Caliph Al-Walid converted it into the Umayyad Mosque in 705 AD.

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Massimo@Rainmaker1973·
What a 7.2 magnitude earthquake looks like underwater.
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Parimal
Parimal@Fintech03·
People think the war was won with bullets, but it was actually won with Bank Correspondents. The Union govt set up a specific LWE Cell within the NIA that did not just seize cash; they tracked levy cycles. Naxals survived on taxes from mining & road contractors. By opening 1800+ bank branches & 1300+ ATMs in the deep interior, the govt forced all local transactions into the digital grid. When the contractors started paying via UPI & bank transfers, the cash only Maoist economy literally starved to death. They could not buy ammunition because they had no "white money" to pay the middlemen.
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The Emissary
The Emissary@TheEmissaryCo·
This modern myth has no basis in ancient South Indian reality. By the 3rd century BCE, the Vedic "Varuna" was already commonplace enough in Tamil Nadu to be found on a ceramic. One can assume Vedic ideas were present much before in South India to establish the worship. This goes without emphasizing localized Hinduism as Brahminism is a pedestrian & conspiratorial term framing 97% of Indians as so stupid that they worshipped 3% oppressive Brahmins for 4000+ years. Localized deities like Mayon (Vishnu/Krishna), Murugan (Skanda), & various analogous deities that you could find from Kashmir to Kerala were also worshipped in Tamil lands (which at that point included Kerala).
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Shepard (they/them)@N7_JaneShepard

Brahminism arrived in South India around the same time as Christianity. In some parts, even Islam predates its arrival. The "Hinduism" we see today in the south is Brahminism colonizing the native deities and forms of worship, further reinforced under the British rule.

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Dr. AK 🇮🇳
Dr. AK 🇮🇳@docakx·
Infant surgeries were routinely performed with minimal or no anesthesia because anesthetists wrongly believed infants felt no pain due to their immature nervous systems, dismissing their responses as mere reflexes. This barbaric practice persisted until 1987, when Dr. Kanwaljeet J.S. Anand and Dr. P.R. Hickey published their groundbreaking research in the NEJM, demolishing those outdated myths. In 1985, Dr. K.J.S. Anand had reviewed preterm neonatal surgeries and the results were shocking. He found that 76% used only muscle relaxants. This left infants awake, aware, and paralyzed during painful procedures. In 1987, the article “Pain and Its Effects in the Human Neonate and Fetus” appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine. It combined clear evidence on pain perception in fetuses and newborns. This work changed medical practice. It led to global reforms in pediatric anesthesia that required proper pain relief for infant surgeries. The paper has been cited more than 2,700 times.
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Keith Siau@drkeithsiau

Share a medical fact that would surprise most people💡

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Supriya Sahu IAS@supriyasahuias·
You’re looking at one of the most magical landscapes on earth and chances are most people have never heard of it. These are the Shola “sky islands” of the Nilgiris. At first glance, it looks like a painting, but this landscape is alive in ways most people never realize. These 'cloud forests' locally known as "Cauliflower Shola", are living water systems. They capture drifting clouds, store rain deep within their soil, and release it slowly into rivers that sustain millions of lives. They are ancient, incredibly rare, and home to species found nowhere else on Earth 🌍 like Eriochrysis rangacharii (grass endemic to Nilgiris), Horsfield"s spiny lizard etc. Photo by Meenakshi Sundaram #SholaSkyIsland #CloudForests
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All day Astronomy
All day Astronomy@forallcurious·
🚨: Christina Santhouse had half her brain removed at the age 8 to stop constant seizures. Doctors said she would never drive or live normally. She got her license at 17, earned Bachelor's and master's degrees in five years, and became a speech pathologist.
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Caught in CCTV
Caught in CCTV@Caughttincctv·
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Reiff Penumbral@efakir86·
@iabhinavKhare If you look at the growth rate, and not absolute numbers, it absolutely points towards that.
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The Kaipullai
The Kaipullai@thekaipullai·
In the olden days, when ships used to dock in Mumbai, they used to tie their boats to the door at the harbour. The Sanskrit word for tie is Bandh and for a door, is Dwar. So the place they tied a boat was called BandhDwar. The word then travelled to Persia and became Bandar or Bunder. Which meant port or harbour So any place in Mumbai which has the word Bunder in it, was a place where once upon a time boats used to dock. So the place where boats used to dock and had a lot of sacks in it, became BoriBunder The port where Palla or Hilsa fish was available became Palla Bunder, which then transformed to Apollo Bunder The port where the Portuguese traded Horses with the Arabs, became Ghodbunder And a port which had no particular significance was called Bunder. In Marathi, this became Vandre. Which over a period of time became what we know today as Bandra The word Bunder in Mumbai is not just a pointless word. It actually represents Mumbai's maritime heritage and importance
Mumbai Heritage@mumbaiheritage

Hit me with the craziest Mumbai history facts you know.

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Reiff Penumbral@efakir86·
@rishpardikar Your assumptions about men don't match psychological realities real people live in. You clearly have no idea about men.
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GemsOfINDOLOGY@GemsOfINDOLOGY·
Delhi extracted 99% of its groundwater in 2023. India uses 25% of all groundwater extracted globally. Wells that fed villages for centuries now sit dry. So we over-extracted for decades—agriculture, industry, unchecked borewells. Water table drops. GDP goes up. Then we sell packaged water in plastic bottles. GDP goes up again. India's bottled water market? ₹79,000 crore in 2024. Growing at 12.45% annually. Premium mineral water? Another ₹11,300 crore. Water purifiers? ₹8,500 crore more. The depletion economy profits. The hydration economy profits. Your aquifers pay for both while the same balance sheets celebrate. Your grandmother drank from the well. Zero cost. Now you spend ₹600 monthly on 20-liter jars, ₹40 per bottle on the go, ₹15,000 on purifiers—GDP contribution with every sip. 💧🏺💸 Who's winning here? Not the water table. #GDPTrap #16
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