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24 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
There was a Sulekha author one time who was writing historical fiction on Sulekha set in Vedic times. About 15 years ago. I loved his style but have forgotten his moniker. Anyone remember? @RajeevSrinivasa @RajivMessage
@RajeevSrinivasa @RajivMessage All I remember is a scene by the river and a Vedic pathshala. It was clearly memorable enough to leave an impression on me. :)

Yes, Moornam! Anyone know his whereabouts. Would love him to write a book!

This is what makes Twitter worthwhile. Being able to find things I never would without this help. Thanks all.

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Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ Profile picture
25 Dec
True Christians wouldn't celebrate December 25 as "Jesus' Birthday." Jesus, even if he lived, was certainly not born on December 25, which was a pagan holiday.

Christmas is a symbol of cultural appropriation and erasure—a pagan festival was erased for Church's imperialism.
इनको तो बहुत दर्द हो गया।

लेकिन यह भी नहीं पता इसे चर्च नै बनाया। २०० साल नहीं १६०० साल पहले।
What if that religion disparages every other one, has institutions dedicated to attacking other religions teaching the subject of Polemics, has led to the genocide of millions around the world and is committed to the erasure of your traditions?

Do you speak against its bigotry?
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Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ Profile picture
19 Dec
Anyone who uses the following terms to "explain" India is deeply colonized. They are using memes fabricated by the British for subjugation and narrative control. Which memes:

1. Caste
2. Brahmanism
3. "Aryan" race/Aryan Invasion
4. "Adivasi"/"tribal"
5. "Dravidian" as a "race"
These terms simply did not exist in pre-colonial Indian conception or they were distorted to serve imperialism in colonial scholarship. Resist and reclaim the narrative.

The "theory" of the "Caste System" is based on a fervent belief in Black Magic. 😏

Usually a scientific theory would be discarded when evidence shows that it doesn't work. Because these memes are not based on scientific theories but on colonial projection of Eurocentric dogma, they forever mutate on evidence, can't be disproven.

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Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ Profile picture
19 Dec
Islamists use White guilt about colonialism and Crusades. The West does have a lot to be guilty about. But the Left in the West has been shamed (petro $'ed) into becoming Islamic apologists, ignoring that Islam is equally a colonizing & invading force in North Africa or India.
Not to mention Persia, among the early ones to be overrun.
There is surprising little study of Islam as a colonizing force, much like there is very little study about English-language-based discrimination in India (while there are thousands of volumes about "caste"). That is the real imperialism—which controls narratives.
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Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ Profile picture
17 Dec
Foreign-govt hackers penetrate the US govt's highly secure networks.

India govt is so far behind in this that not only is it incapable of the hacking, it probably doesn't even know that it is hacked.

Must be India's "English advantage" in IT. 🙄

cnn.com/2020/12/16/tec…
Of course, the crack hackers today are the Russian and the Chinese. All their technical education is in Russian and Chinese—they learn much faster.

India has been lobotomized. This is touted as an "advantage" because, hey, we got a $3/hr call center jobs from one country. ImageImage
I'd be willing to bet that any Indian govt system which is connected to the internet is in control of the Chinese. I hear our defense systems are safe because their old tech is not even linked up (luckily).
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Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ Profile picture
4 Dec
IIT Delhi Director V. Ramgopal Rao wrote post carried by @livemint, that B-Tech in local language with end of IITs.

This post is stuck on old paradigms and is self-contradictory. Instead technology in local languages will unleash talent. My rebuttal 1/

livemint.com/education/news…
His argument—Germany, Japan etc are homogenous and have "started learning from us" and moving to English.

Delusional— with Japanese medium Japan has 10 Nobel Prizes in the last 10 years. They need to learn from India? 🤣

When will *we* learn talent prospers in mother tongue?
Argument 2—India is like Europe. I agree. Has he studied how Europe does Science? Every country has education in their own language to the highest levels.

In fact, inter-country migration in Europe for work is similar to inter-state migration in India.

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Sankrant Sanu सानु संक्रान्त ਸੰਕ੍ਰਾਂਤ ਸਾਨੁ Profile picture
30 Nov
"Human Rights" orgs push to raise the age of marriage. The pretext is to "save" teens getting pregnant.

Yet, it often just shifts from pregnancies within marriage to unwed teen mothers. Which is worse?

Kenya has a marriage age of 18. Laws Don't help.

the-star.co.ke/news/big-read/…
The "savior complex" creates far more societal problems than it fixes. It is disconnected from from reality. It is an imposition from above.

It is based on the idea that people need to be "fixed" from above. It is the liberal version of the Christian sin & savior complex.
Meanwhile teen marriage is legal in the US and UK. In same US states one can marry as young as 14 with parental consent. Yet their NGOs pressure "third world" to raise marriage age, often criminalizing vast swathes of society.
"For their own good."

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