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Saiswaroopa Iyer
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Academic @ChanakyaUni , Author Streeshakthi Awardee, Curator @Indicabooks Sri Vidya, Hinduism New Title : Publish That Book. Views here strictly my own
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Jul 16 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Saw quite a few tweets on job crisis in the mid leadership zone.

Lets define mid Leadership zone (next to AVP, Principal, Chief Architect, etc where your salary is 25 LPA and upwards).

Crisis : Job is endangered at the first case of faltering from deliverables

No sufficient++ ++openings in the zone as there are for entry level.

Family responsibilities make it harder and not so fit mind and body adds to the ordeal

A few thoughts and unsolicited advice to those who haven't yet reached this stage.

1. Watch your lifestyle from your early career++
Jul 13 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Watched Kalki 2898

Production and conception both are top notch. Full appreciation to @nagashwin7 and team.
Managing three superstars is no mean achievement.

Finer and detailed review to follow.

(Yes Karna Arjuna thing still is incorrect). 1. Dystopian/Post Apocalyptic Kashi - Sends a shiver down the spine...

When we watch western post apocalyptic films, we dont care seeing a desertified New York or London. I wouldn't have cared much about a Bengaluru or a Delhi too.
But seeing a desertified Kashi with Ganga++
Jun 29 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Never expected my >4 year old thread to go viral.

This thread is for the enthusiasts who
1) Found the below thread interesting or intriguing
2)Are saying it is false
3)Alleging it is from local sources

Read the thread and make your conclusions

The source for my research was++ ++ The Unabridged Critical Edition of The Mahabharata by BORI, translated by Dr. @bibekdebroy sir.

The volumes 5,6,7 and a part of 8 of this set deal with the War and aftermath.

My methodology :
1)Read through and record every confrontation on an excel sheet++
Jun 28 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Haven't watched the movie Kalki 2898 yet. Hearing the feedback that it's a nice one save for the Kaurava glorification.

One thing Karna fan club refuses to recognise is that he himself would detest the whiny weepy bleeding heart they made him out to be 😂😂

To be fair to him+ ++ his trajectory might have peaked about half a decade before the war.

His ego did not let him fight the war for the first 10 days. (Mostly no show on day 11 and partial show on day 13, gathering momentum only from day 14 onward).

Disappointing fact about him is that++
May 27 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
An incident which started as a joke but revealed itself as a tragic example upon retrospection.

When my parents in law wanted to celebrate by FIL's Shashthi poorthi at Tirukkadaiyur, we went a couple of months ahead to see how it is done, fix the poojari, etc.

That evening++ ++we visited the Amritaghateshwara temple to watch how the ceremony is being conducted to the couples that day. Each community has its own practices. All communities celebrate there. We were searching for a Tamil brahmin group that was celebrating.
The local guide said++
May 27 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
No Harsh No.

This "A suffered more because they were raped axed.... B did not suffer much because hey, max their poonals were cut open, girls were targeted, community demonised in social and popular art forms, but see they are still alive" nuance does nothing than hurt more++ ++
Being forced to flee ancestral lands, put up with poverty in new places, struggle one's way into totally new places like Mumbai, face persecution even there before locals warmed up, breaking away from larger knit community, see children and grand children grow up without++
Apr 19 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Topic Karna explodes on my feed again 😊.

After these years of talking on the topic, I realised the issue of Karna simping is not about awareness of the Mahabharata but of Attachment.

Attachment to one's own mediocrity and entitlement to faulty personalities. ++ The question boils down to "What to take from Vyasa Mahabharata and how to interpret it."

Is it analysing isolated events and keeping Karna Arjuna scoreboards? Sure, I have done that. But the other side also takes out some remote incident like Arjuna losing to robbers at 90+
++
Jul 10, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Have been closely following this amazing attempt by @deepakmrd27 @MyMBJourney @MySutradhar to unravel the Karna myth in the last weekend.

Things that I observed from the other side : Shock, denial, defence

Only a miniscule of them engaged textually.
One of the retorts was++ ++ about Rajaji's heavily abridged version being the more authentic source than any of the unabridged recensions themselves!

I remember being under a similar attack when I had first published the quantitative study results of Kurukshetra war, two years ago. Twitter opposition++
Jul 6, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
There is a Chaatu padyam by Srinatha Kavi which translates like :

"It is appropriate when the Lord of Sri marries 16000 women but why does a beggar need two wives? Paramesha, be content with Parvati and let Ganga go."

Needless to say if such a poem were to be composed today++ ++ the hordes of aesthetically barren self proclaimed guardians of civilization would descend upon it with all sorts of virtual abuse.

But it is also worth pondering that the poem was by Srinatha Kavi Saarvabhouma who wrote exalted works like Haravilasam, Kashikhandam whose++
Jun 17, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
When we criticize a cinematic adaptation based on Veda-Itihasa-Purana corpus, I can think of six dimensions to examine.

1) Characterization
2) Visual Aesthetics
3) Event sequence
4) Writing
5) Delivery
6) Music Let us take examples

Mayaabazaar
Characterisation: The film scores high in getting the characters right on. (Except Revati who was compromised to suit the storyline) .

Krishna's omniscience.
Abhimanyu's thoughtless but endearing courage
Ghatotkacha 's towering personality. Image
May 7, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Remember that tweet about metro life not enabling savings for freshers?

It had me thinking

Had a series of chats with freshers and young working professionals around (< 5 years of work ex).

Here are the list of avoidable expenses they incur (in my view) ++ 1) Petrol/Auto/Uber - The urge to take out the vehicle or hire a cab/auto even for short walkable distances or destinations covered by public transport.

Make a habit to walk if the distance is any less than 2 KM. It gives a fitter body and happier mind.
May 7, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Reg Eco system and Hinduism

Sometime back, I invigilated a Hindi examination where a kid was struggling. He showed me a question
"मीरा के अनुसार मन् किस का दर्शन का प्यासा है?"
My jaw dropped at him not knowing the answer. It was evident he sleot through or skipped the class++ ++ But if one needs a curricular Hindi lesson to know about Meerabai, there is something heavily wrong in the system and world around us.

It is another easy way to blame the parents. But the spectrum of knowledge in Hinduism is mind numbingly wide! How is a modern parent even++
May 2, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Beginning to find these obituaries to ACK a bit annoying.
Yes they had good books at one point of time but regarding them as some custodian institution of Hinduism is a huge disservice to our parents, grandparents, Ramakrishna, Chinmaya missions, etc.

Emotions are our undoing Even I had a good childhood with their issues, especially The Mahabharata.
But we are missing a key fact.

ACK did not popularise civilisational content.

*It earned popularity *because* it published civilisational content.*

It is a business, not an institution++
Apr 29, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Rental cant be helped but

* Using Public Transport
* Cooking own food /Eating subsidised lunch at work.
* Choosing to go 'unbranded'
* Aggressive saving/investing

Harsh as it sounds, if one cant do these in 20s, life is going to become unbearable in 30s and a horror in 40s. Link your self worth not to the brand of clothing you wear but the bank balance you know you are building.

Inner resilience is the result of what looks like a lifestyle compromise. If you compromise resilience for lifestyle, future is gloomy.

Are we teaching so to our youth?
Mar 26, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
So I taught my students ChatGPT.
And showed them where it inserts BS skillfully to give an illusion of completion.

Told them the AI is great with structure of communicating. So take that structure and build the content yourselves.

A student said, mam our University is so++ ++cool. The faculty is also so cool. Her point was that instead of banning AI, we are encouraging how to use it and not lose the human quotient.

Later for the assign ment, a student submitted two versions. Mam, this is shat Chatgpt generated. Thrn I worked out my version as++
Mar 20, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Namaskarams. Decline in reading habits- This is actually a large scale problem which needs to be dealt by all stakeholders here.
Starting with
1)Parents - One cannot expect your kids to have the reading habit if parents dont have the reading habit themselves. If serious about++ ++inculcating reading habits in your kid. You and your spouse read regularly and discuss the topics on your dinner table. Dont pontificate and turn them off further but let the kids learn by example.

2) School boards - Make reading a credit based course starting from class 6 ++
Nov 9, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
When the Gods choose to bless you.....

I wasnt much of a temple goer except for ocassions.

Then this Lady and the Gentleman in the pic below decided that they will make me go everyday.

How??

Read on++ Travelling to work place needs me to go from my place to Hebbala and catch the University shuttle there.

I take the public transport till Hebbala. Usually, there is a 20-30 min wait there. The Uni bus is usually cayght in a jam. I cant risk starting late because++
Nov 6, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Could not meet many kind folks of Varanasi who messaged me. It was a short and power packed trip. Forgive me this time 🙏🏽.

Hoping that Baba Vishwanath ji calls me there again 🙂🙏🏽. Loved bonding with @priyankadeo over motherhood, writing and so many topics that were dear to me!
Hoping to meet you again soon Priyanka 🙂🤗 Image
May 6, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
That question about Sita-Rama separation. I had almost decided to not answer the question reason beingthat my Svaadhyaaya of Ramayana has not reached the stage yet. But this is also an opportunity to consolidate my (limited) understanding of that painful episode.
So here goes+ Aspersions on Sita Devi'a character are not just raised by a drunk washerman. They are echoed by many nobles in the court, much to Rama's anguish. It is after that painful discussion that Rama decides to leave her in the forest. He endures a lot of pain himself but the point+
Apr 3, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
When I was newly initiated into Srividya, one of the lifestyle advice given by my guruji was to start and end a conversation with "SriMatrenamah".

When we encapsulate a conversation with the names of our Ishtadevata, we tend to be conscious about what we talk, how we express++ ++and hence, gradually watch ourselves, reduce the negativity in our speech, have a positive effect on ourselves as well as on others (Hopefully).

In many ways, we bear that ambassadorship of the Sampradaya we follow and our being positive and inspiring matters++
Mar 9, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Actually @palkisu 's words of caution to girls to hold on to their jobs reminded me of a hillarious anecdote that happened with a friend.

His mother was employed with a PSU (Either BSNL or LIC I forget). He has childhood memories of aunty waking up super early, getting food+ +lunch boxes ready, do pooja and leave by public transport. Come back, juggle chores again.... Typical.

He knew the clothes, books and a lot he enjoyed came from his mother's extra financial push. Like any son he felt grateful and *in his own way* responsible.

This guy grew+