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Plumbing the depths of my Do Qaumi Schizophrenia to extract Pure Paranoia. RT may or may not be endorsement, depending on which side of borderline it is from.
Aug 4 8 tweets 2 min read
1/n French anthropologist Emmanuel Todd's theory correlating prevalent family structures with a society's susceptibility to various religious or political ideologies is thought-provoking:

lesswrong.com/posts/LvRL8442… 2/n His classification of family structures, government & religion is useful to compare against dharma shastra systems of gotra, jaati, kula, varna, cross-yuga sampradaya and rashtra. The attention to detail in criteria of marriage, inheritance & accountability determines a lot. Image
Aug 25, 2023 11 tweets 2 min read
Some Brits are really having a meltdown after #Chandrayaan3. It's been a revelation & thought provoking.

1/n I've realized that losing power can potentially be more traumatic than undergoing oppression, genocide and being reduced to subhuman poverty... 2/n A brutally exploitative colonial power can go into psychological tailspin after losing the power to do that to others. Genuinely appears at least a section of the Anglosphere & West in general is going through this even though they have overrun & still populate 4 continents..
Aug 19, 2022 5 tweets 3 min read
1/2 #DivideHindus exhibit:

@DainikBhaskar reporter @rahulreporter4 Sharma puts out a crazy tweet belittling lower castes & stoking UC grievance over reservation policy.

Same newspaper's editor @pantlp stokes anti-Brahmin outrage over dubious story of slapping Dalit schoolboy... 2/2 As it usually is in all such hyped-up cases, within 72 hours of the news cycle, the dubious story gets exposed and is admitted even by Leftist portals that stoke the flames to begin with:

theprint.in/india/missing-…
Jul 27, 2022 19 tweets 5 min read
1/n Quick thread on #Afghanistan's indigenous Hindus & the present state of the Pakhtuns. Based on speaking with a Hindu lady who lived and worked there, speaks Dari and Pashto, did several field projects there, & was invited to speak at US State Dept. on security-related issues. 2/n Most Afghan Hindus are indigenous to Afghanistan, in the sense that they are the oldest inhabitants there at this point. There are some who went there from India only a few centuries ago, and are no less "Afghan", but most have been there prior to all others known today.
Apr 19, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
#Sanskrit airport

airport
विमानपत्तनं

aircraft
विमानं, वायुयानं

air transport
विमान-परिवहणं

hangar
विमानाश्रयः

baggage
संभारः, पेटी, पेटिकाः

baggage-claim
पेटीप्राप्तिः

baggage-carousel
पेटी-परिपथः

contd. #Sanskrit airport

ticketing
पत्रक-विक्रयः (Raghuvira), चीटिका-विक्रयः

check-in (v.)
अभिलिखति

air traffic control
वायुसञ्चार-नियमनं

runway
विमानपथः

take-off (airplane)
उत्तरणं

landing
अवतरणं

flight mode (phone)
विमानावस्था

card
पत्रकं

contd.
Oct 15, 2021 19 tweets 4 min read
1/n Straits of Bosphorus. An Islamic savant called Said Nursi, called Bediuzzaman (sort of like YugPurush) by his fans, said he had a vision of Imam Rabbani (Sirhindi) when meditating here once… 2/n Bediuzzaman Said Nursi wanted to say that he takes the baton from Imam Rabbani.

Imam Rabbani (Ahmad Sirhindi) is considered the second greatest Islamic theologian after Imam Ghazali. They both fused the current state of Sufism back into ulema-centered Islam…
May 13, 2021 18 tweets 4 min read
#Sanskrit Legalese विधिसम्बन्धि-शब्दावली - (A)

acquittal संशुद्धि, शुचि:
affidavit शपथपत्रं
abetment अनूत्तेजनं, अपसाहाय्यं
allegation आरोप:, अभिकथनं
appeal पुनरावेदनं
argument वाद:
arrest आसेध:, निग्रहणं
assault प्रहार:, आघात:
appellate पुनर्विचार:
Contd... ...contd...

personal attorney प्रतिहस्तकं, प्राभिकर्ता
attorney न्यायवादी
pleader अभिवक्ता
barrister विधिवक्ता
advocate अधिवक्ता
counsellor समुपदेष्टा, मन्त्रणाकार:

jurisdiction क्षेत्राधिकार:

...contd...
Aug 7, 2020 8 tweets 2 min read
1. Thread on the family lineage Nehruvian India's first Minister for Education, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad - which is also intertwined with the family lineage of Jawaharlal Nehru himself. 2. Maulana Azad's maternal great-grandfather Shiekh Qazi Sirajuddin, came to India from Herat (Afghanistan) with Abdali's invading army. Abdali appointed him Qazi of Punjab and advisor to Nuruddin, his viceregent in Abdali's 'Punjab Sultanate'.
Jun 27, 2020 21 tweets 13 min read
1. Next 21 tweets on #Sikh tradition's relationship with different languages & scripts in Indic core & extended MidEast/Mongol/Tibet/E.Asian family.

What were the cultural undercurrents of the first Sikh movement towards Indicization?

What derailed this?

What about the future? 2. #Sikh Guru Angad ji pioneered the re-introduction of Indic script in Punjab. Rolled back imposition of modified-Arabic script.

#Gurmukhi is derived from Sharada script of #Kashmiri Hindus. Related to far flung Tocharian script. Is only surviving member of that script-family.
Apr 8, 2020 29 tweets 16 min read
Nov 18, 2019 16 tweets 19 min read
1/n
ETHNIC CLEANSING & CULTURAL GENOCIDE IN #KASHMIR

Since the coming of #Islam to #Kashmir, since 1389 there have been 7 recorded exoduses of Kashmiri #Hindus and #Sikhs due to genocide and persecution at the hands of radical Islam. 2/n
The first exodus OF #Hindus from #Kashmir (AD 1389-1413) was under the Shah Mir Dynasty. Tourists may not notice that the iconic Dal Lake has a mass grave of Kashmiri Hindus known as "Bhatt Mazar" or "grave of Brahmins".
Jul 19, 2019 12 tweets 7 min read
1/n
A thread:
Illuminating #Bible passages on how a #pagan deserves only deceit, dissimulation and to be taken advantage of - even when he extends help.

Even if fellow-#Abrahamics are mortal enemies, a Pagan who extends shelter to one never really wins their loyalty or trust. 2/n
The scene: David flees Israelite territory. King Saul is trying to kill him, no matter how much David tries to prove his bona fides.

David + 600 soldiers (w/ families) take shelter with Philistine King Achish of Gath - pagans the Israelites hate.

biblegateway.com/passage/?searc…