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Savitri Mumukshu - सावित्री मुमुक्षु

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5 Jul

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Swami Vivekananda knew all too well the role of Hinduism compared to Semitic creeds. Excerpts of his quotes (1893) to the Chicago Daily Tribune & essays ‘The World needs Indian thought’ & ‘Dangers Ahead’ illuminate his enlightening views & warning to Hindus about their future

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“We who come from the East have sat here on the platform day after day and have been told in a patronizing way that we ought to accept Christianity because Christian nations are the most prosperous.”

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“We look at history and see that the prosperity of Christian Europe began with Spain. Spain’s prosperity began with the invasion of Mexico. Christianity wins its prosperity by cutting the throats of its fellowmen. At such a price Hindus will not have prosperity.

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Savitri Mumukshu - सावित्री मुमुक्षु

@MumukshuSavitri

27 Jun

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For decades, Leftist & Islamophile historians have claimed that just as Muslim invaders destroyed temples & institutions, so did Hindu kings persecute Buddhists & Jain places of worship. This claim has been propounded by them to justify the iconoclasm of Islam

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By suggesting religion had nothing to do with destruction by Islamic invaders & implying intolerance finds support in Hindu practice, they achieve the dual goal of dividing Hindus, Buddhists & Jains as well as glossing over the inherent religious roots of Islamic iconoclasm.

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Sita Ram Goel has elaborated how Marxist professors explain away Islamic iconoclasm in terms of what they describe as Hindu destruction of Buddhist and Jain places of worship. They have never been able to cite more than half-a-dozen cases of doubtful veracity.

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Savitri Mumukshu - सावित्री मुमुक्षु

@MumukshuSavitri

23 Jun

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Over 2 millennia ago, Chandragupta Maurya’s government had a sophisticated & stringent system to detect, prevent & deal with the problem of illegal immigration & malicious activities by foreign nations. Chanakya’s masterpiece Arthashastra provides key details

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The office of the Superintendent of Passports was extremely strict about issuing passports. Two witnesses were needed to establish proof along with documents. Only valid & current passport holders were allowed to enter into, or go out of, the country.

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Anyone without a passport was fined 12 Panas. A foreigner guilty of the same was fined an astronomical 1200 Panas & imprisonment. A special department in the City Superintendent's office in border areas was responsible for examining passports again at border crossings.

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Savitri Mumukshu - सावित्री मुमुक्षु

@MumukshuSavitri

21 Jun

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Did you know Alexander the "Great" was such a great strategist that he thought the Indus river was the source of the Nile in Egypt? Despite spies scouting India's geography before his "conquest", he thought that the Eastern Ocean (Bay of Bengal) lay after the Beas river.

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Alexander’s poor knowledge of geography was based on his teacher Aristotle who knew nothing about the Ganges river system. No Alexander writer or geographer before Ptolemy mentions even the Sutlej. Justin’s statement that Alexander conquered Magadha was completely fictional.

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The truth is he never even reached the Ganga. The soldiers thought they were just one river away from the edge of India at the river Beas. His army rebelled & refused to go further after the Battle of Hydapses (Jhelum).

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Savitri Mumukshu - सावित्री मुमुक्षु

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21 Jun

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Well done Prakash Javedkar!
"Why we are not Hindus" by Murzban Jal is worthy enough to include in govt. funded Sahitya Akademi's library. This book says "Hinduism" itself is not indigenous to India, but a colonial import created by Western Orientalists & Brahmanical elites.

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According to Jal, "The recent attempts to make secular and democratic India into a mythical & phantasmagorical 'Hindu Rashtra' is a sign of economic & cultural subjugation, rising fascism and the complete destruction of the very idea of India."

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Murzban Jal is Professor at Centre for Educational Studies, Indian Institute of Education, Pune. Jal is a Marxist & Freudian critical theorist who combines Marxist theory of objectification of humanity with Freud's theory of Neurosis and Psychosis

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Savitri Mumukshu - सावित्री मुमुक्षु

@MumukshuSavitri

16 Jun

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4300 years ago, ancient Bharatiyas were practicing brain surgery. A skull from Harappa (2300 BCE) shows incisions in a clear case of brain surgery known as trepanation. Researchers A.R. Sankhyan & GR Schug (Paleoanthropology Lab at AnSI Kolkata) confirmed in a study from 2011

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Trepanation involves drilling or cutting through the skull, to treat head injury, remove bone splinters or blood clots caused by a blow to the head. In most cultures, it was for religious rituals. But in this case trepanation was intended as medical treatment for head injury

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The Harappan skull displays evidence in form of cranial trauma visible as a long gash with cracked margins. The victim was hit with a hard object. The trephined hole is right next to the wound indicating it was intended as surgery to medically treat the injury..

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