A Thread- 'Of Mushrooming Statues, Collective Amnesia & the Nazi who was called Buddha'
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Wang Juhua, a girl of 8, went out to feed cattle one fine day in late 1930s. This is a small village in Zhejiang province of Eastern China. Once home, her legs started itching. Small red dots appeared on her legs, which soon turned into blisters.
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Jun 14, 2021 • 35 tweets • 9 min read
#thread: A story of cannibalism, photophile colonisers & 3 Nobel prizes
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Papua New Guinea, off the north coast of Australia, was one of the earliest (around 60-70000 ya) inhabited landmasses outside of Africa & Eurasia. But this one of the oldest continuing cultures on the planet did not have its brush with modernity till 20th century.
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If you want to know and appreciate the history of the ongoing conflict, this thread should serve the purpose.
The dispute is neither very old, nor religious (between Judaism and Islam), but it is about land and competing nationalism.
In the late 19th Century, the current Palestine was ruled over by Turks (Ottoman Empire) consisting of Muslims (87%), Christians (10%) and Jews (3%). In Jerusalem, the proportion was roughly equal. The religious groups lived in harmony with each other till then.
