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Jul 29, 2021 • 20 tweets • 6 min read
there is a time of end of atrocities. As ahppened in un thinkable place, time & by unthinkable form? Narsingh roop Vishnu killed demon Hiranyakashyap, father of Bhakt Prahlad
नरसिंह
Mughal style painting, Deccan, 17th C @britishmuseum
Viṣhṇu as Narasimha tearing Hiranyakasipu
Lord Viṣhṇu in form of Narasimha, having emerged from a column, has disembowelled proud demon Hiranyakashipu to protect faith belief of child Prahlad
Painting, 1800 from Deccan @britishmuseum
Sep 2, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Lachmi Bai, Joan of Arc of India by Michael White
painting, Rani LaxmiBai
it's difficult to locate official/authentic portrait of Rani of jhansi
Poster shows an advertisement for book; Lachmi Bai dressed as a sepoy rebel, with 2guns tucked in her waist
pic: library of congress loc.gov/pictures/item/…
Mar 15, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
#Water management system has been amazingly centuries old thing in India.
at Shringverpur or Sringaverapura near #Allahabad PrayagRaj, one of the amazing canal system was in existence.
water collected via structures & surplus returned to river?
there exists extraordinary example of hydraulic engineering dated end of 1st century BC.
comprises of 3 percolation-cum-storage tanks, fed by an 11m wide & 5 m deep canal that used to skim floodwaters off monsoon-swollen Ganga
Devi Ganga
Jeevan Dayani
still human pollute river, untreated waste must stop to flow into river
how to value water is something to be learnt from Israel, use in farming is well developed there.
8th–10th century sculpture
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
ICMS_IMJ_376979 museums.gov.il/en/items/Pages…
Feb 18, 2019 • 20 tweets • 9 min read
women at market
All woman bazaar?
is it really Patna school of company painting
did really women had such economic freedom during British times? & participated in work force or labour force?
pot maker. a woman. does it depicts women as participating in workforce or having economic independence. Or totally dependent on Men to work tirelessly at his command together with doing all other household works? they had and have no say in money matters? company school painting