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@DalrympleWill
Oct 13, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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New Exhibition Now Open at Art Vadehra, New Delhi
A first glimpse of my research and travels for The Golden Road...
... searching for the ideas, art and architectural genius of ancient India...
... which went on the inspire the rest of the world...
... from Sri Lanka to China...
... which took Buddhism from Bihar to China...
... and which took Sanskrit and Hinduism from Kandahar (Sanskrit Gandhara) to Singapore (Sanskrit Singapora)..
Open now at Vadehra Fine Art, @ArtVadehra, Defence Colony

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Mar 28
Fabulous new @EmpirePodUK episode-
This one is a complete cracker
The second in our Empress series-
Helena, Queen of the World, Mother of Empire and Finder of the One True Cross
with the wonderful @peter_sarris Image
Born in poverty at a time when the Roman Empire was in danger of cracking up and disintegrating, Helena was set for a life of obscurity as a stable hand, bar maid, and, according to some, a prostitute. Yet, in the most improbable tale she rose through the social hierarchy to be proclaimed Empress, then later canonised, and declared by some as Queen of the World and Mother of Empire.Image
Not only was she mother and most trusted advisor to the Emperor Constantine, but she played a pivotal role in the conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity. Image
Read 7 tweets
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Mar 18
Monoliths exist throughout the length and breadth of the Khasi and Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya, often in groups of three. However, the biggest collection of Megalithic stones can be found in the market village of Nartiang, which is a sort of Himalayan Callanish. These consist of both Menhirs (upright stones, believed to be male) and Dolmens (flat stones in the horizontal position, conceived as female) and known as Moo Kynthai. The elders of the village still sit on the stones on market day once a week, divide revenue due to the village and decide where to spend it.Image
Villages here still give each other menhirs, though today they usually arrive by truck 🚚 rather than wooden rollers from the quarry. Image
Today, the stones can have multiple functions: they can be commemorative, or else stand in as monuments marking the spots of ritual sacrifices, cremations, durbars and the sites of battles. Image
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Mar 11
Is @michaelgove going to be calling in the Israeli ambassador and break off diplomatic relations?

Gove "condemned chants, including “from the river to the sea”, that have become a common feature of anti-Israel marches, suggesting that they amounted to “the legitimisation of an extremist position which intimidates and leads to hate”.

telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/0…Image
It should also be pointed out that the same phrase which @michaelgove condemns as “the legitimisation of an extremist position which intimidates and leads to hate” appears as article 1 of the charter of the ruling Likud Party of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. Time to break off diplomatic relations and apply sanctions surely?Image
For Gove's own extremist position with regard to the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people I recommend my review of his profoundly ignorant book Celsius 7/7, which appeared as lead review in his own @thetimes. He tried to have it spiked, but thanks to the bravery of the literary editor who threatened to resign, it was carried and was online for a decade. He seems to have recently had his mates on the paper take it down- but luckily I have a copy. You're welcome, Michael!

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Feb 13
New from @EmpirePodUK
Iran & Saudi Arabia: The Rivalry that Split the Islamic World
with the wonderful @KimGhattas Image
1979 was the year that changed everything in the Middle East, setting it on the path to today. In Iran, the Islamic Revolution established the nation as a theocracy that sought to defend Shi'ism across the world. Image
In Saudi Arabia, the siege of the Holy Mosque led to the nation embracing a more radical Sunni Islam that it began to export around the world. Image
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Feb 5
Exactly what Israel did to 530 Palestinian villages in 1948 "so that they would have nothing to come back to." Everything the IDF do every day in Gaza is a reminder that Israel is a state built on the ethnic cleansing of its Palestinian inhabitants.
Here are the villages they destroyed:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_t…
And here are a bunch of 1948 Israeli veterans saying how they did: murdering the men and raping the
women-
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Feb 5
The amazing @amiasrinivasan, Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at @UniofOxford, talks to @PragyaTiwari about free speech on campus. In Cancelled- Can I Speak Freely she discusses attempts by government and wealthy donors to control debate among scholars, while also taking on the Left for muzzling obnoxious views.Image
The session revolves around her celebrated @LRB essay
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/…
@amiasrinivasan worries that universities will increasingly be run by their corporate boards terrified of offending the government and donors and unwilling to defend free speech Image
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