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@ainajkhan The intro is incredible and got to learn something new. Earned a follower. Thank you for sharing.

“Pashtuns? Pukhto? Are you Afghan? Are you Pakistani? Isn’t it AfGANiSTAN?” These are the questions I get constantly when I post videos speaking in Pashto or when I’m filming from Pakistan. So here’s a quick explainer about who we Pashtuns are.

The Balcony, by Édouard Manet, 1868-69, 📸 by Sarah Stier

@isaacrrr7 The video is not of Ernie as he died in Africa, while this video is from India.

¡Así murió el millonario Ernie Dosio, brutalmente aplastado por una manada de cinco elefantes enfurecidos junto a su cría! Mientras cazaba antílopes, los gigantes se sintieron amenazados y, en una estampida de furia salvaje, lo pisotearon sin misericordia hasta dejarlo destrozado bajo sus toneladas de músculo y rabia. Un final tan cruel como inesperado para un hombre que lo tenía todo. @Jhonffonseca

MAPS REDRAWN FOR ADANI | Between 2020 and 2021, corals vanished from the maps of Great Nicobar island’s coastline while vital green zones were dramatically reduced in size. Modi did this to sanction the Great Nicobar islands project to Adani. Think of their planning of scams. Read the full story @_Vaishnavi_R who took the pain to travel to the island despite all hurdles Govt gave and wrote the story about the great loot of Nicobar. scroll.in/article/108791…

@thevirdas I wouldn’t say structurally impossible, but would rather call it… un-motivational on bmc and political level as there will be no recurring revenue for them.

So…is it structurally impossible to build a Mumbai road that lasts more than one monsoon? God forbid we avoid an annual dig.

Dockyard, Kolkata, 1990 • Raghu Rai •

@atishbazi @VarierAravind True, Tipu was the true nationalist from all of them, if one tries to super impose non existent Indian border and historical evidence.

Forget the politics. If you equate Tipu to Shivaji Raje ……you are a moral vaccuum. A normal human being without serious brain damage knows genocidal acts are aborrhebt. At best you are a sociopath. At worst…..an Indian Leftie…..the most vile of all creatures in all geological history.

The Republic of India came into existence only on 26 January 1950, and Shivaji Maharaj NEVER identified himself as an Indian citizen. I am a Malayali, and I do NOT see any difference between Shivaji Maharaj of the Maratha Kingdom and Tipu Sultan of the Mysore Kingdom, because both of them were foreigners to Malayalam civilization.

Kolkata, my hometown, through the lens of Raghu Rai. Rest in glory. Deepest condolences to ⁦@avanirai⁩

More than a decade ago, in an interview with Indian photojournalists, I asked Raghu Rai which two images from his vast and brilliant repertoire he considered iconic, both personally and for the nation. Hear his answer and see the images (around 12 min): ndtv.com/video/india-ma…

Guanajuato, Mexico, 1996 - David Alan Harvey

‘Raghu Rai An Unframed Portrait’ documentary is a daughter’s ode to the famous photographer scroll.in/reel/888435/in…

Raghu Rai … your frames will always light the fire. Thank you and RIP. 🙏🏼📷

Trees per person in India vs Rest of the world… If it isn’t alarming right now, it will be in a few years from now…

On Raghu Rai: of his many unforgettable frames, I keep returning to Age and Innocence - that 1982 Baroda photo essay where a blind Muslim beggar and a mentally challenged Hindu girl share a beautifulf, wordless companionship. This is Rai at his most tender- and devastating. 1/4

Bhopal Gas Tragedy as seen by Photojournalist Raghu rai, 1984

Same is happening in India with the minority.

@woachtung The 24 hour markers are actually very useful. I don’t know why they removed it. The older version is my daily wear and is near perfect. I would have just added anti magnetic feature in it.

All hail the new King! *Hamilton ~ Khaki Field King #hamilton

Since another Hindutva film is set to be released, based on Shivaji zamindar of Raigarh, here are two contemporary accounts comparing his rule with the Muslim rule. English factory letter (Karwar to Bombay), dated 1 July 1675 CE, informs about the pitiful condition of his subjects and their wish and prayers for liberation through the establishment of Muslim rule. “... under Sevagees (Shivaji's) government, they have robbed all the country people soe much as to the seed they should sowe, soe that the next year the men will be ready to eat one another for the new crop will be very small, all people pray that the moores (i.e., Muslims) may come and regaine (i.e., rule) the country and there is a rumor that they will come after the raines, Timmanna waited their coming to joyne them a few dayes more will discover that certainty...” Dr. John Fryer, an English traveller to India (c. 1673–1682), observed the brutality committed by Shivaji's administration on his subjects and contrasted it with the Bijapur Sultanate's milder taxes and more prosperous rule. “... It is a general calamity, and much to be deplored, to hear the complaints of the poor people that remain, or are rather compelled to endure the Slavery of Seva Gi (Shivaji): the desies (desais, or Shivani's revenue collectors) have land imposed upon them at double the former rates, and if they refuse to accept it on these hard conditions (if nonied men) they are carried to prison, there they are famished almost to death; racked and tortured most inhumanly till they confess where it is: They have now in limbo several Brachmins (Brahmins), whose flesh they tear with pincers heated red-hot, drub them on the Shoulders to extreme anguish, (though according to their Law it is forbidden to strike a Brachmin.) This is the accustomed Sawce all India over, the Princes doing the same by the Governors, when removed from their offices, to squeeze their ill-got estates out of them; which when they have done, it may be they may be employ'd again: And after this fashion the desies (desais) deal with the combies'; so that the great fish prey on the little, as well by land as by sea, bringing not only them, but their families into eternal bondage. However, under the King of Visiapour (i.e., the Muslim Sultan of Bijapur) the taxations were much milder, and they lived with far greater comfort...”

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by @TTomTToro.