Fundamentally the demands of Hindu nationalists have always been very just, we have just wanted one country to be ours. The Muslims & Christians have their countries, even the Buddhists have theirs.

Why should we be the only people on Earth to have to sacrifice for secularism? We are morally right, historically right, and legally entitled to have India as ours. The other side is morally incorrect, historically incorrect and has no real fundamental right to India.

Man get a grip if you think your people deserve to have the entirety of the US, Canada, Australia to themselves in addition to Europe. What makes you so entitled? Your homeland is Europe, you do not have exclusive ownership of the New World. Stop being a kid w the entitlement.

https://twitter.com/russian_cosmist/status/1739552868250931344

Are you pretending to be stupid? Gain a semblance of reality and stop being a terminally belligerent online fighter. Look, the LAND your people rest on is excellent land (unlike say Japan).

Muh "built the countries", I am talking about your land. The place you grow your crops, feed your animals, drill your oil and build your homes. The land is not yours and you are not entitled to some 999 year lease of it just because Western Europeans were the first Old Worlders to reach it.

https://twitter.com/russian_cosmist/status/1739560791177929181?t=HnhXzy8FeEENyEZVlqcuMw&s=19

Being a conservative and religious traditional Hindu is never enough, being a political Hindu matters a lot more. Narasimhan Rao used to think being a South Indian Brahmin who could quote scripture and Sanskrit meant he would have enough sway with BJP, RSS, VHP leaders that Babri would never fall. He was wrong.
Rao personally met Advani in a safe house in the last week of December where he was given assurance Babri wouldn't fall. Kalyan Singh had also given his word, so had Bhairon Singh Shekhawat.

Genetic results of a friend of mine. @TPeshwa. He's an Iyengar from Karnataka. I'm posting his results because he has blonde hair and blue eyes but is 100% South Indian in Admixture.

This is important to make people understand that your genotype is not equal to your phenotype. In older times when DNA science did not exist, it's easy to see why people made the honest mistake of thinking anyone with such features in a subcontinent full of mostly swarthy people has foreign ancestry (think of how Chitpavans were seen as Jewish)

A thread on the the historical progression of Hinduism and Hellenism. Quoting for higher visibility.

Hindus and Greeks started of very similar. Both had shared origins, shared epics, similar religious pantheons, myths and systems of morality. Both were living in places surrounded by once great civilizations. Both had a similar environment, surrounded by other polytheistic cultures, it was an abundance of Gods and Goddesses, sacrifices, deified heroes, and remnants of a Bronze Age culture mingling with an urban one.

However, there was one key difference which happens right at the beginning. Indics & Iranics, unlike any other polytheists of the time, and unlike the Greeks, begin a very early canonization of their source material, of the oldest hymns in their religion. They systematically compile these oral hymns into books, note down the individual poet's name, the names of the diety, and canonize the whole corpus as divine, sacred and immutable. This gives the foundations of our religion a security of supra-Biblical proportions, an anchor point from where it all begins. NO other polytheist has such a canon. The Greeks have their orally transmitted Epics, just as we do, but they do not really consider them so profane so as to not question them, not doubt their divine character, neither are these Epics canonically binding on every Hellene as the "source" of their cults, nor do they provide an explanation of their ritual or religion.

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https://twitter.com/Peter_Nimitz/status/1713082803238429117

Unlike the Iranics, the Indics also develop a varnashrama or a society based on four codified varnas "castes" where the priestly caste spent centuries explaining the hymns of the Vedas and the ritual behind them. This leads to philosophical explanation of the ritual, and you can say by 400-500 BCE, the entirety of what defines Hindu philosophy, ritual, pantheon has already come into existence.

In contrast, the Greeks have a flourishing civilization in Mycene but after the Bronze Age Collapse, they have to start from scratch and they have neither the Vedas (canonical text), nor the ritualistic explanations, philosophy or a dedicated priestly class who considers this corpus its personal responsibility.

First-hand accounts immediately before partition in East Punjab describing caste relations between Hindu and Muslim Rajputs, and how the Pakistan Movement brought out religious loyalties across the board.

Nawshera was the most important battle in the Sikh-Afghan wars, really the final one fought by Kabul to save Ahmad Shah Abdali's falling Indian Empire.

Peshawar had firmly been conquered and made into a tribute paying state by 1818, but the Afghans and Pashtuns of Khyber could… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Nowshera in 1823 was a disaster for the Pashtuns, they had no artillery and the heavy guns at Peshawar had been taken by the Sikhs in 1818 itself.

A call to Jihad against the infidels had been raised in all of Pakhtunkhwa by the Mullas and every Pashtun tribe had sent Ghazis… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Maharaja Ranjit Singh was fanatical about wanting to learn from Western Europe. He realized the superiority of European ways & did his best to model the Khalsa Fauj on Western European lines. This is the reason the Sikhs raised such a formidable and modern army. Not just Maharaja Ranjit Singh, but other Sikh stalwarts like Hari Singh Nalwa seemed extremely knowledgable about Western Europe.

A deep hunger to learn from the greatest civilization on the planet at that time was what separated successful modernizers from the old world.

You can read basically any medieval/early-modern historian that writes on India and almost all of them (with few exceptions) will pretend as if there were could never be any communal reasons for warfare, ideology did not exist, and everyone was motivated only by money/land. I guess non-Indian historians feel spooked that even admitting religious hatred existed in medieval/early-modern India will 'legitimize' nationalism or their writings will be used for that purpose, perhaps an overcorrection for the earlier nationalist school of historiography.

As a thumb rule, humans don't respect each other. They begrudingly respect their own kin, forget alien tribes with no connection to em. If you want so much respect from alien tribes & hostile religions, you have to earn it every single day by doing things they can only dream of.

https://twitter.com/mairal/status/1650109906522099713

Respect as a nation, tribe or race in the global stage is very hard to earn, harder to keep. None of our Indian tribes, castes or our nation as a whole have achieved enough that the world should look up to us in awe, and think "now that is a race, a tribe, a caste of winners"

Hierarchy of the Saraswat Brahmins based on who they were Purohits of. It's very interesting to note that the sub-castes of the Saraswats were divided on analogy of the sub-castes of the Khatris, pointing to the millenia back close connection of the two as natives of the region. At the top are the Panjzati Saraswat Brahmins, Purohits of the Dhaighar Khatri (Kapoor, Mehrotra, Khanna)

Btw, at their core, the Zoroastrian (Mazdean) & Vedic religions are about the same thing, that is, order (asha/rta/dharma) has to be maintained perpetually in a chaotic world, and this order is principally restored by engaging in relationships w the Gods focused around sacrifice. Ofc, they differ a good bit also, but they are the most similar to each other. It's like two sects of Christianity, obviously they will believe the same core things, but their differences will seem huge to each other as well, because they will differ on crucially important issues

The Arya really disliked wolves. Mostly because they used to eat our flock; our cows and sheep. This is why wolves are looked down upon in both the Rigveda and the Avesta. The vṛka/vehrka is a nasty animal. Thus the Arya pray to Viṣṇu & to Pūṣan to keep the wolf away. The word wolf itself is used in the RV to mean "hostility" in quite a few passages (i.e - क्व१॒॑ त्यानि॑ नौ स॒ख्या ब॑भूवुः॒ सचा॑वहे॒ यद॑वृ॒कं पु॒रा चि॑त्) where avṛka is "un-hostile"

one of the problems with people in a niche who dont have many followers is that the only way they can gain followers rapidly is by posting hot takes or quote tweeting large accounts or getting into confrontations with them

this disincentivizes from posting informational stuff of course the person in question has to want followers as well, but if they do then they behave in a very quack and kiddish manner

this makes them behave very confrontationally and take twitter way too seriously than they should

Australia is probably one of the luckiest Western countries, it's so far from the rest of the world that only Chinese and Indians move there, both these populations are very productive and commit no crime. What's crazy is 1/20 of all Australians in 2021 were born in England and Scotland. Pretty crazy lol. Seems like Anglo-Saxons still make up the largest immigrant group in Australia even 2 centuries later?

India became a nuclear weapon state in 1994 but we could've become one at least 25-30 years earlier. However, all of our Prime Ministers, including Indira Gandhi, were horrified at the thought of nuclear weapons and morally opposed to building the bomb.

Pakistan forced our hand. Indira Gandhi hated nuclear weapons and was instrumental in making sure our scientists could never build the bomb.

"I am basically against weapons of mass destruction", she was quoted saying. She was furious DRDO scientists were trying to trick her into signing off on the bomb.

Medieval European theology/philosophy is such a bore, adds nothing of substance. You can pretty much skip the entire philosophy of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox church & miss out on nothing.

Start in Pagan Greece, skip the middle ages & go straight to the Renaissance. The same obv goes for Islamic theology/philosophy. There really is nothing innovative about it. I find it a waste of time (though I still sometimes peep into both just cause I like philosophy & theology).

average bengali (bhadraloka) gf

always has been.

https://twitter.com/sama/status/1607482407770554373

The philosophy of religion was solved in India. Look no further.

Indian populations with a larger founder effect than Ashkenazi Jews. Many Indian populations descend from severe founder effects, consequence of which is compounded due to caste endogamy.

Listed below are IBD (Identity by Descent) scores that exclude recent cousin marriage. On the rightmost are Ashkenazi Jews (IBD = 0.9), highlighted in gold. On the leftmost are Onges, an isolated tribal group with IBD score = 30 (the chart is scaled so it doesn't show 30).

A large number of South Indian scheduled caste groups seem to have terrible founder effects.

Abhinavagupta has a nice 30 shlokas in the Tantraloka where he talks about why Kashmir is the best land for spirituality & yogic siddhi. He discusses how poetic & learned Kashmiris are, even warriors & women; how beautiful it is, many rivers with rows of colorful saffron flowers. Notably, he discusses how Kashmir has 4 different colors of wines, that help Kashmiris land in a state of frenzied devotion to Bhairava. The mārdvīka wine helps lovers bring maturity (prauḍhimāna) in their conversation, and engage in unobstructed lovemaking.