AHIK PANINI 480-410 BCE
There have been many languages that flourished and changed. So many languages, which even though vanished, resurfaced, and several others do not exist in any form. There is one language which is thousands of years old and will probably never vanish.
(1/n) That language is Sanskrit and the person who found the way to make this language immortal is Panini. It was Panini who wrote the universally acceptable grammar of Sanskrit. And to this day, we know by his maternal grandfather's surname.
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Colonial Courts (1500-1700):
The First Courts of India

This is the 1st thread of 3 thread series on European Courts in India. To avoid a long thread this part would only deal with Portuguese Judicial System in India
- so let's call this thread that.
(1/n) When Europeans first arrived in India,they attempted to set up a judicial system alongside their administrative machinery.Three colonial powers- Portuguese, French & English would invest their efforts primarily to secure financial interests & the rights of their citizens.
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Stoicism, a Hellenistic School of Philosophy that crystallised the idea of "virtue ethics" was founded in 3rd BCE. One of its popular proponents was Epictetus, whose disciple Arrian, a Great Roman commander and a philosopher-historian
(1/n) got his master's Discourses and Enchiridion written and distrulibuted in Rome. The famous Marcus Aurelius was also a follower of Stoicism. Arrian had come to India and wrote about it. Marcus went on to become Roman Emperor.
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Anwar Ratol of Pakistan is Chaunsa of India.
Mango lovers know that. But what many don't know is that Anwar Ratol has it's roots in a village Rataul (Baghoat district, Western UP)
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ndtv.com/india-news/why… How can we be so sure?
The answer is simple - the oldest Ratol mango bearing tree still stands in this village that is just over hundred years old. This mango variety travelled all the way from a village Chause (Bihar) in the medieval era. The same place where
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Isn't it a mockery of India's premium university DU & the teachers that they can promote students on the basis of 1 and also 3 semester results but require to take #OpenBookExam for those who have given exam already for 5 semesters? MHRD must intervene.
#DuAgainstOnlineExam
(1/n) A blind student who stays with other blind students in a Seva Kutir has her set of problems. In the message she wrote that she got it typed by someone because no one was actually around to type it for her. How will the university provide a typist for such students?
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