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5 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
What happened at Sialkot is the result of a sustained radicalization that has been going on in Pakistan for decades.

Even in the newly released textbooks under the country's single national curriculum (SNC), Islamic instructions form a significant part of compulsory subjects.
Anjum James Paul, a Catholic professor at the Postgraduate College Samundri in Faisalabad Diocese, examined 58 textbooks published in 2019 and 2020 and approved by the federal government. Image
There is a need to not only acknowledge affective indoctrination in schooling but also to explore and take measures how to minimize the extent to which indoctrinal teaching may be facilitated through cultivating certain affects and emotions.

tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…
"To implement Pakistan government’s new Single National Curriculum (SNC), strict religious policing of public and private schools has begun. A Pakistani version of the mutawwa is emerging." writes Pervez Hoodbhoy

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5 Dec
Reading about MN Roy makes me wonder how he could not achieve the same revered status Marx & Lenin have among Indian communists?

In 1915, he scoured South East Asia for ammunition & funds as a lieutenant in one of the most powerful anti-colonial insurgency networks of Bengal.
By 1920, he had reached Moscow as a delegate to the Second Congress of the Communist International. His 1920 ‘supplementary theses on the colonial question’ are included in official communist publications as an addendum to Lenin’s own official writings on the subject.
Roy helped found the Mexican Communist Party and was a leading Comintern envoy to the revolutionary attempts in Germany in 1923 and China in 1926–27. He was briefly a member of the Frankfurt School, collaborated with Max Horkheimer in 1930.
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30 Nov
According to one of the Shilpa Shastras, “the Shilpan (artificer) should understand the Atharva Veda, the thirty-two Shilpa Shastras, and the Vedic mantras by which the deities are invoked, piously acquiring a knowledge of various sciences, such a one is indeed craftsman.”
Elsewhere it is said, “the painter must be a good man, no sluggard, not given to anger; holy learned, self-controlled, devout and charitable, such should be his character.” It is added that "he should work in solitude, or when another artist is present, never before a layman.”
In this connection, the artisan or artist possessed an assured status in the form of a life contract, or rather a hereditary office. He was trained from his childhood as his father’s disciple and followed his father’s calling as a matter of course.
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26 Nov
While founding the Ceylon Social Reform Society in 1905, Ananda Coomaraswamy talked of two essential pre-requisites that needed to be fulfilled before any social reform could be ushered in Ceylonian society.
First, the basis of the revitalization of society should be cultural pluralism. Hence, all Sri Lankans should be taught Sanskrit, Pali, Sinhala, and Tamil to truly appreciate their culture. And the understanding that Sri Lankan heritage could not be separated from the Indian one.
Second, what was ideally the requirement for modern times was the blending of the superior features of Eastern civilization with the best features of the West.
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28 Oct
~ A girls' school in Mangalore, Karnataka (c. the 1870s). Image
Another picture of the same school. This school for girls was housed in a big building. Image
~ Photograph of a Girls' School at Bombay in Maharashtra (c. 1873) Image
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12 Oct
~ The Art of a Patachitra Artist, Rupsona Chitrakar, 2018

From the collection of Banglanatak, Patachitra of Durga
~ A painting by the acclaimed Patua Anwar Chitrakar.

Here, the priest, worshippers, and the dhaak players have gathered to offer prayers to Maa Durga. ☀️🚩
~ another depiction of Maa Durga in Bengal patachitra paintings.
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11 Oct
How the principle of 'interdisciplinarity' was so integral to even a text that was written some 1000 years back. The Samarangana Sutradhara was written by Maharaja Bhoja of Dhara (c. 1010-1055) as a complete manual on all arts.
Even though it had a special focus on architecture, it also talked about how the same principles can be used in paintings as well. These principles can be further used to define human psyche, by linking different color schemes to different human emotions.
A painting, says the text, should have six limbs; pramana- appropriate size, rupabheda- variations in form, sadrishya- a reflection of reality, bhava yojana - the ability to evoke the desired mood, lavanya yojana- a glimpse of the beauty & varnikabhanga- the choice of the color.
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