How is Ganesha represented in countries beyond India - a thread According to Adi Shankaracharya, like the Shaiva, Vaishnava and Shakta tradition in India, there also was a Ganapatya tradition. In this branch of Hinduism, people knew God through Ganesha.

Let's discuss how the infamous Lollypop Lagelu lady impacted widespread regions of Bihar and some districts of neighbouring UP and Jharkhand to sway and shake. As we all know, the region most impacted was Aarah - which isn't technically a district. It is part of the Bhojpur district.

As the line goes - तू लगवेलु जब लिपिस्टिक लगवेलु हिलेला आरा डिस्टिक, the region is said to 'shake' when the lady applies lipstick.

The mysterious NW-SE line that shows up in the most unexpected places in iip maps

1. In political preferences 2. In societal structures

The average size of an Indian household

It's that time of the year again. Which ones have you tried yet?

#Mango [a thread] There are over 1000 varieties of mangoes in India. Less than 20 are grown commercially. The World's 36% of mangoes are produced in India [18 million tonnes]. Second, on the list, China only produces 4 million tonnes.

Rabindranath Tagore's poems have a unique way of capturing emotions so deep and profound that they often defy description.

To celebrate his birthday, let's embark on a journey to visualize seven of his works with the help of AI. 🎨 1. Megh Boleche Jabo Jabo

"Megh Boleche Jabo Jabo" is a contemplative poem that explores the various aspects of life, such as the passage of time, love, and death, while reflecting on the choices and possibilities each aspect presents

The Stereotype Content Model applied to the majoritarian Indian worldview The stereotype content model (SCM) was proposed in 2002 which hypothesises that we judge strangers along two dimensions - warmth and competence.

Warmth determines if they are friendly or not. Competence determines their capacity to act on that perceived intention.

Excited to share an infographic showcasing milk cooperative societies from different states of India! 🤔 Wondering what a milk cooperative is? Milk cooperatives are organizations owned and operated by farmers, who work together to process, market, and distribute their dairy products. They play a pivotal role in empowering farmers and ensuring fair prices for their produce. 🐄

How are LGBTQIA+ individuals treated all around the world? 🏳️‍🌈

#samesexmarriage In a few countries, mostly Muslim nations - homosexuality is still punishable by death. These countries include Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Sudan, and parts of Nigeria and Somalia. This world has a long way to go for LGBTQIA+ rights.

Most teachings about God’s personality refer to Him as the Supreme Being. It is difficult to feel related to such a personality.

In the Hindu philosophy, your relationship with your God is a personal path in which you are free to personalise, experiment and improvise. Presenting here are the 5 standard types of love that devotees generally tend to have for Krishna, these are - Shanta, Dasya, Sakhya, Vatsalya, and Madhurya. Each path has its own special quality of intimacy.

I love the fact that programmers work so hard to make themselves redundant.

I built a 100k YouTube channel with bar chart racing videos, 1 year later, open sourced the code.

Made a 100k Twitter page with maps about India, 2 years later, I've given the power to everyone. All artists I admire take the road nobody else does. They find a dense forest, tame the animals, light a fire, build a tent, grow some crips and then invite society to come join them.

Exciting maps made today in iipmaps [15 Feb]

1/n: Percentage of Hindus in districts of Haryana by Pratham Sharma
iipmaps.com/view/hinduism+… Per capita income of European countries by Ruhaan
iipmaps.com/view/per+capit…

Tools like iipmaps will not somehow automate data visualization. If anything they will only open more avenues by making the field more accessible to more people. Canva did not make graphic design redundant, it made it more democratic. At the core of iipmaps is a determination to empower the people and businesses of India to tell our own stories with the same finesse that only a few privileged organisations in the West have enjoyed so far.

iipmaps.com is live 🥳

What have people made so far? [Thread] Indian diaspora in Europe.

Made by @Arpit_Vns, remixed by Mridushyamal Barman

All districts south of India ranked by per capita income (annual) (2019-20)

Top 18 Rank 19 - 36

Per Capita Income of the Districts of Telangana for the year 2020-21

P.S. This map is not comparable with similar maps we have made for other states as it is from 2020-21, not from 2019-20. Please see the next map for the back extrapolated data that is comparable. Back extrapolated data for Telangana for the year 2019-20.

State PCI in 2019-20: 2.26 L
State PCI in 2021-22: 2.79 L

GDP Per Capita of the Districts of Gujarat (2019-20) ગુજરાતના જિલ્લાઓના માથાદીઠ GDP (2019-20)

When do states in India celebrate their birthdays and how old are they today?

On #NationalUnityDay2022, let's take a moment to take a trip across different states and observe how did they come into existence.

A thread 🧵 (1/16) Different states of India celebrate their birthdays (technically called foundation days) differently. Some celebrate it on their statehood day - i.e. the day they became a state, for example, the southern states all celebrate their birthdays on 1st November. (2/16)

If the Indian media reported about the UK like the West reports about India.

A thread. Title: Political instability causes plummeting investor confidence.

Sassy subtitle: The sun never seems to rise again?

198 engineering seats were available for every 1 lakh people in India. Of all states, Tamil Nadu has the highest per capita seats with 705 for 1 Lakh Tamil Nadu citizens. However, based on the Employability Test report by SHL, it seems that the states with the highest per capita seats also produce the most unemployable engineers (software engineers shown in this map)

Who owned* the land during British rule? (18th century)

*By owned, we mean was responsible for paying land tax to the British. All cultivable land in British India fell under one of three
alternative systems based on who was liable to pay land tax

1. landlord-based system (zamindari or malguzari),
2. individual cultivator-based system (raiyatwari)
and 3. village-based system (mahalwari)

Percentage of Women in Police Force in every state of India (as of 2020) As per data on Police Organisations compiled by the Bureau of Police Research & Development, out of the actual strength of 20,91,488 police personnel in India as of 01.01.2020, the strength of women police personnel is 2,15,504 which is 10.3% of actual strength.