Okay. A thread on life lessons based on Genghis Khan’s life. 1. Make loyal allies- First thing he did in his life was to make equally powerful allies w/ a common goal. You can never have allies who have different goals. Avoid calling those people your allies & including them 1/
in your schemes. His first allies were one of his childhood friend & an old powerful Chief. To make an ally he married the daughter of the chief & served as his military chief.
2. Leave when you have to- in initial days of his conquest, Genghis was near a forest & he came to
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know that he will be attacked. He had a good force with him. His enemies sent words of insults to him. An average warrior in ego would have waited for attack & fought till death. But Genghis was aware that forest warfare is not his niche & decided to leave. Army was confused
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& some even thought Khan is a coward but he didn’t care. He saved his own life & his army’s life. For 3 days whole camp was lifted & moved to an open place. He continued to gain allies & finally after 2 years he killed the enemies who were sure to kill him in forest. This is
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a great quality of leaders. To take a back step. Shivaji also did that to save himself & his warriors. Proud men commit mistake to ignore this & die.
3. Close friends- Khan always loved his close friends & kept them close. Gave him luxury equal to his own self & ate w/ them
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when he didn’t even need them. Some of them were not able to fight but still he kept them always with him. These habits showed his large heart to his huge armies & people always wanted to make such deep friendships with him. His benevolence to his friends always helped him.
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4. Pay heed to advices- Most leaders ignore their advisors but Khan always let them speak freely in his company. Sometimes the arguments w/ him & his ministers were so heated up that he left the tents shouting at ministers. But he always listened & ACTED on advices whether
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he liked them or not. This always made a realistic analysis possible in his military campaigns.
5. Loyal relatives- For 3-4 times he fought the wars in which he had nothing to do but he did it for his relatives. This earned him most loyal relatives. We often ignore our
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relatives & make fun of them. We ignore our blood relations. Due to these acts of Khan, his relatives always came to support him for his wars.
6. Create spy network- This one is most interesting. Once Allies of Khan who were not happy with his increasing power & wr planning
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to assassinate him by calling him to a meeting. 2 slaves of their camp overheard the conversations of their masters & immediately went to Khan. They told him about the whole plan because they liked Khan for his great behaviour with his loyal people. Khan verified their words
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& Killed the conspirators. Then in front of his whole army, he freed those 2 slaves, gave them land & made them lords, gave them hundreds of cattle, horses, gold, hide & exempted them from taxes for the whole lifetime of those slaves & their upcoming 2 generationsSuch great
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gesture in rewarding those slaves created a huge name for Khan & loads of valuable information reached his camp every day! The spy network he created like this always helped him for whole life. Treat well-wishers nicely for their info & create spy network.
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A murder conspiracy from 1989 which brought two of the biggest business houses of India in direct confrontation.
The conspiracy to assassinate Nusli Wadia and how Reliance group was dragged into it.
The buried startling case & hidden theories behind. 🧵
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In July 1989, Mumbai Crime Branch arrested 2 different background men in a case.
One was a small time musician Arjun Babaria.
Another was Kirti Ambani, a senior manager who was head of Reliance PR. This made headlines.
Note- Kirti wasn’t related to the Ambani Family.
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Before that, on 12 July 1989, Nusli Wadia was told at the airport that his life is in danger by govt officials who were trying to catch people who floated his “supari” in Mumbai underworld.
Nusli Wadia was made to avoid risks & kept under security.
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A non exhaustive list of people who became a casualty of Shatru Hanta Yog of PM Modi’s kundali (as per astrologers).
1. Chimanbhai Patel- last significant congress leader from Gujarat who could become CM there.
Modi was tasked to start a campaign against him in state.
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2. Keshubhai Patel.
Another ex CM of Gujarat.
Member of BJP, RSS. Was unhappy when Modi rose as PM candidate. Made a party which did not even a scratch to Modi & BJP. Merged with BJP later.
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3. Shankarsinh Vaghela
A strong opponent and long time politician which just could not better Modi. Another man who was Gujarat’s CM once and never liked Modi’s ascent & national role.
I shared one Raja Ravi Varma painting and you all liked it.
So, I am sharing another which is a lesser known masterpiece from Raja Ravi Varma’s works.
This painting is known as “Krishna Shishtai” or “Krishna as an envoy”.
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Story- Here Krishna is in court of Dhritrashtra with the peace offering of Yudhisthir. He did it as Yudhisthir was aware of impending doom by the great war.
But, Duryodhana was furious & ordered Dushasana to capture Krishna and himself took out his sword.
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All the old men in scene are aware of grave mistake Duryodhana is committing and some are even shocked to hear his command.
The facial expressions of old men are different from young ones as they know who is Krishna in real.
Arguably, this painting “Victory of Indrajit” is best work of Raja Ravi Varma.
This painting has many characters, everyone with a story in their expressions, Varma showed his mastery with light & shadows in it.
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Theme- this is a scene where Indrajit, son of Ravana is presenting his war trophies to his father after defeating Indra.
He is looking towards Sachi, wife of Indra. His gaze is victorious. Standing at lower pedestal—hierarchy in family where his father & uncle is present.
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Sachi is in sorrow (open hair) and despair (disheveled clothes). Her royal stature is still visible in her skin tone and disgust on her face.
Dark skin attendant is in contrast to show misbehaviour with her. She is looking towards skies as if to find Indra there.
If you do not know about Devendra Sharma, you need to read this.
One of the most dangerous serial killers of India. Looked like a typical man who would offer you his food in railway journey.
125+ illegal kidney transplants, 50-100+ murders, several fraud, robbery charges.
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Devendra Sharma completed his BAMS & started as an Ayurveda practitioner.
In early 1990s, he was conned by someone with promise of gas agency in Jaipur & he lost ₹11 lacs. After that, he was steered towards crime.
He started small frauds here & there.
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Then, in mid 1990s, he came in contact of an inter state kidney transplant racket. Poor people either by money or by fraud were trapped & were convinced to sell their kidneys.
Sharma earned ₹5-7 lacs per operation as his cut. In few years, was involved in 125+ cases.
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