Decentralized Dharma

My comment about ISKCON actually dovetailed nicely into a great discussion about mandir economies Village temples vs street side shrines vs grand temples Need an economic model for all of these to thrive that doesn’t always rely on donations

@TheEconomic_X @_chAyA_ @QuitYourMeds @Nigrahacharya A lot of Hindu temples think exclusively in terms of donations but don’t have operating models. BAPS, for example, has restaurants, food, groceries, gift shop etc. The Broome Street Ganesh temple In Brooklyn, NY sells merch. Have to get creative in America

@_chAyA_ @QuitYourMeds @dharmadecentral @Nigrahacharya Man thats so fkn sad. Even if a small community dilligently pays a small amount each monthly per family(an amount like a hundred dollars and a few dozen families), that itself shojld cut the deal. I recently gave 20000 to the community hanuman mandir priest.

ISKCON really has contributed the gold standard of Hindu aesthetics in the 20th century As much as I love Abrindranath Tagore, the Hare Krishnas art is just everywhere, in every home and in every temple

@RogueScholarPr @QuetzalPhoenix Everyone goes through a Bukowski phase. You’re in denial

Charles Bukowski is the most overrated writer in American literature. He has the odd good line here and there, but nothing that justifies his reputation. People who revere him are almost universally mediocre

@CivitasSameer RW won’t have that discussion for the same reason it wasn’t discussed in 1947. There is a real fear of Balkanization of a fragile unity. Hindutva is a project to build a Hindu nation above caste. Without that, I think it’s dangerous to oppose the democratic consensus

Delimitation this, delimitation that. Our entire parliamentary democracy is built on the myth of liberal universalism. If anything, lets start with discussing alternatives

TIL: The earliest known inscription in the Mongolian language, dated 6-7th century AD, had been written in... the Brahmi script. Source: unesco.org/en/memory-worl…

Congratulations to all of our contributors who have new books out this week! Celebrating work by @AmitMajmudar, Chrissy Martin, @SaraFarag, and Matthew Buckley Smith.

@arya_amsha @MJaadugar Their bargain is always the same: “We give you poverty wages and a few pats on the back from white people and you also get Islamic extremism”. This is the fair trade their talking about

Hindutva upper middle class built this country and pay your salary. Tumhari namak harami hi nahi khatam hoti.

@Venu_7_ What metrics are you using that are specific to space companies (if any)?

space theme is setting up for a bigger move weekly charts + SpaceX $2T IPO + clear accumulation across names something is cooking here $LUNR $RKLB $BKSY $FLY

@CKCapitalxx What’s stopping me is that it’s gonna drop the second I buy it

I told you guys to buy $NBIS at $70 up 120% $KRKNF at $2 up 300% $LWLG at $5 up 130% $OPTX at $4 up 200% $BE at 110 up 60% $AMPX at $9 up 100% $CRDO at $90 up 50% These were all in the last 4 months. People have made generational gains off these stocks. What’s stopping you from starting?

@md_deepesh @1SonalS Oh so whenever the government can’t do a basic background check on various groups or people, it means it’s on purpose?

A US-based NGO tried to embed itself inside Kashmir's top universities. Intelligence agencies caught it. Four MoUs were cancelled in a matter of days. This is what they found. Kashmir Care Foundation (KCF), headquartered in Atlanta, USA, signed academic agreements with University of Kashmir, IUST Awantipora, SKUAST-K and SKIMS Soura. STEM collaboration. Mentorship. Academic exchange. That was the label. Now read what was underneath. The founder is Dr. Altaf Lal. Former US Health Attaché at the US Embassy, New Delhi. Former Director, US FDA India Office. On his own foundation's website, he lists a board seat at Centre for Kashmir, USA. That is a Kashmir self-determination advocacy organization. Intelligence agencies flagged specific individuals inside this foundation. Authorities concluded it was being used as a soft channel to push a specific ideological agenda: Step 1: Create a legitimate-sounding NGO with a sympathetic name. "Care." "Foundation." "Students." Hard to argue against. Step 2: Insert it into universities, the highest-trust, lowest-scrutiny institutions in any society. Academic MoUs don't go through the same vetting as, say, defence contracts. Step 3: Use STEM and humanities as the entry point. STEM gives you access to research data. Humanities gives you access to narrative-shaping, curriculum, seminars, student worldviews. Step 4: Run mentorship programs. Get deep access to the next generation of Kashmiri professionals and intellectuals. Shape the next generation of Kashmiri professionals. Their worldview. Their grievances. Their loyalties. Now the harder question. How many other MoUs exist? Across how many Indian universities? With how many similar organisations? Nobody is auditing them. Nobody is asking. Kashmir was caught because someone was watching. Who is watching Hyderabad? Who is watching Pune? Who is watching Chennai? The playbook is simple. Create a legitimate-sounding NGO. Use a credentialed founder. Target universities in sensitive regions. Sign MoUs before anyone runs a security check. Get access to student ecosystems, faculty networks, research pipelines. This is not an isolated incident. This is a method. They are embedded. We do not know how deep.

I built CourtWatch.us — a free public database for American citizens who deserve safer communities. You can track which judges released defendants who then got rearrested, skipped court, or violated their release conditions. All public records. All free. I started with Orange County FL and will be expanding to all 67 Florida counties and eventually every state in the country. This first batch of info is from 2024 and since public reports are released in March/April for the previous year, data is behind. But I wanted to see if this is plausible. After adding 2024,I'll add 2025 and then figure out how to get real-time-data uploaded. It's in beta — would love to know what you think 👇 Numbers don't lie, but criminals do. courtwatch.us @bennyjohnson @jockowillink @GrantCardone @LauraLoomer @nickshirleyy @j_fishback

Countless Hindu women are giving belt treatment to Faye. Let’s not just downplayed and treat all girls same.

@Puyangan5 This story has brought out many other cases from a variety of offices across India. In every case, many of the managers are Hindus themselves and the coworkers who shout Islamophobia are Hindu and the coworkers who doubt these stories in chats are Hindu. The rot is within

Permanant victimhood. Surely, not every Muslim can be blind to the deeply problematic behavior of a section of the community? Your folks killed Tarun Kumar in Delhi and after a few days, projected the victim as a molester. And now you claim the TCS issue is all a conspiracy against the community. When will you realise that trying to guilt trip the Hindus is well past its expiry date? It is only making more and more Hindus radicalized against Islamism. Because we all see how a section of the Muslims behave on the ground. Sidhar jao, before it gets too late. You have to earn trust of other community by modelling non-problematic behavior.

@RohitInExile This is true for every aspect of Hindu society

Strange pattern!!! The more successful a Hindu businessman becomes, the more ‘secular’ he acts whereas the more successful others become, the more rigid & extreme they get about their cult. What is wrong with Hindu corporate? Does success mean disconnecting from your own roots?

@BasilianThought @Veazlas They betrayed themselves for nothing

its cause they grew up viewing partying as an assimilation towards American-ness and a rejection of their parents culture, they're completely caught off guard by a cultural shift that moves away from that, cause it forces them to confront that they spit on their cultural inheritance to look Cool™ and now that betrayal might not profit them anything.

Second generation Indian kids living in USA really are the corniest.

TCS Nashik when employee asks for Navaratri leave

female jihadan HR with help of male jihadis sexually harrassed hindu girls made them eat beef for promotion & then we have upendra dwivedi saab saying he didn't attack pakistani terrorists cause they were doing namaaz, in a goddamn war, tells you a lot about ideological clarity.

@IndexEllipsoid @AryamanBharat @mememandir 😂😂😂

@AryamanBharat @mememandir TCS orientation day :

Bro @mememandir is doing better job than Indian Media ATP😭😭🥀🥀

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