My hypothesis: Early humans who were migrating out via India were trapped in the Himalayas of present North East India during ice age.
The extreme cold and lack of sun made their skin very pale (to help make more vit-d), made their eyes smaller (to see well during snow storms), noses and face flatter (to reduce loss of body heat), less dense eyebrows (to prevent snow from sticking) etc.
These are classic Asian facial features. Then, once ice age was over, they migrated out to Asia populating China, Korea, and as far as Japan. So my hypothesis is East Asians originated in India. Not the other way around it is said that "North East Indians share genetics with East Asians."
It is East Asians who carry genetics of North East Indians. Migration of humans happened east ward from India, not into India. And genetic diversity of North East India is much higher than say China, Japan, or Korea. Just like Africa's genetic variation is very high compared to Arabia or Europe.
The only treat bigger than this film’s cinematic expanse, is the spectacle of the cabal’s frustration over it.
There will be good films and there will be terrible films, but…
Reel by reel
Clap by clap
In fits and starts
Against every odd…
Truth shall mainstream.
And steamroll decades of meticulously-built rhetoric.
As they say, nothing can stop an idea whose time has come. This is that idea. And it will swallow the ecosystem whole with zero compunction.
Art will be rewired.
Society will be rewired.
Nothing can stop it now.
- 1020-1140, Chaulukyas vs. Paramaras: No jauhar
- 1100-1200, Paramaras vs. Chauhans: No jauhar
- 1150-1180, Chaulukyas vs. Chauhans: No jauhar
- 1160-1180, Chauhans vs. Gahadavalas: No jauhar
- 1200-1500, Sisodias vs. Rathores: No jauhar
- 1300-1400, Sisodias vs. Paramaras: No jauhar
- 1300-1500, Sisodia internal succession wars: No jauhar
- 1300-1400, Rathores vs. Paramaras: No jauhar
- 1350-1500, Rathores vs. Bhatis: No jauhar
- 1100-1300, Kachwahas vs. Chauhans: No jauhar
- 1000-1200, Internal Chauhan branch feuds: No jauhar
- 1100-1300, Bhatis vs. Jadons: No jauhar
- 1100-1150, Tomaras vs. Chauhans: No jauhar
- 1400-1500, Rathores vs. Kachwahas: No jauhar
No fewer than two dozen major wars were fought among the Rajputs with zero Muslim involvement. Not a single episode involved self-immolation of any kind. Not one. Neither Indian, nor foreign accounts record a single instance. Now see this:
- 712-712, Dahir of Sind vs. Muhammad bin Qasim: Jauhar committed.
1232-1232, Gwalior (Rajputs) vs. Iltutmish: Jauhar committed
- 1301-1301, Ranthambore vs. Alauddin Khalji: Jauhar committed
- 1299-1299, Jaisalmer vs. Alauddin Khalji: Jauhar committed
- 1303-1303, Chittor vs. Alauddin Khalji: 1st jauhar of Chittor
- 1327-1327, Kampili vs. Muhammad bin Tughluq: Jauhar committed
- 1326-1326, Jaisalmer vs. Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq: Jauhar committed
- 1486-1486, Kuva (Kankavati) vs. Mahmud Begada: Jauhar committed
- 1528-1528, Chanderi vs. Babur: Jauhar committed.
- 1535-1535, Chittor vs. Bahadur Shah: 2nd jauhar of Chittor
- 1543-1543, Raisen vs. Humayun: 3 jauhars committed
- 1568-1568, Chittor vs. Akbar: 3rd jauhar of Chittor
- 1634-1634, Bundelkhand vs. Aurangzeb: Jauhar committed
- 1710-1710, Daddanala vs. Mir Fazlullah: Jauhar committed
Similarly, when the British came, we had a series of gruesome engagements starting with Plassey and Buxar, then going on to the Carnatic Wars, the Anglo-Mysore Wars, the Anglo-Maratha Wars, the Anglo-Gurkha War, the Anglo-Sikh Wars, the Anglo-Burmese Wars, the Anglo-Afghan Wars, and many, many more.
No jauhar.
Now, when someone like that book reviewer condemns “Hindutva” for “glorifying jauhar,” I am fully on their side. I agree it was a morbid ritual that does not belong in a civilized society, thank goodness we no longer do that. But do you see a pattern in the above lists?
Why do you think this macabre ritual was practiced EXCLUSIVELY in conflicts involving Muslim forces?
Why didn’t women feel the need to self-immolate when their kingdoms fell to any other adversary?
You can’t be dumb enough to not draw the only possible conclusion here.
Nobody glorifies jauhar, it was not picnic.
We “honor” it. No, not the immolation itself but the debilitating sentiment behind it. With the honor we keep our alive in our collective memory. Know why?
Because the demons that drove our ancestors to such extremities still live and breathe amongst us to this day.
And they haven’t changed one bit.
When someone prefers death to your touch, what even are you?
Balochistan hasn't yet fallen. But it will soon. The Pak generals under US control will give it away voluntarily to the US to use it as a base to take on Iran.
Christians perpetrated more violence on Hindus than Hindus on Hindus. @DineshDSouza have you heard about the Goa Inquisition?
The Inquisition in India stands as one of the most sinister chapters in the history of the Catholic Church. Spanning over two centuries, from 1560 to 1812, it was a time of relentless persecution, torture and repression of non-Christian communities in the Portuguese colony of Goa. The 18th century French philosopher Voltaire wrote: “Goa is sadly famous for its Inquisition, which is contrary to humanity as much as to commerce. The Portuguese monks deluded us into believing that the Indian populace was worshiping the Devil, while it is they who served him.”
Historian Paul Roberts describes what went on in the Inquisition's Goa court that had been housed in an old palace and had a huge plaster image of Christ overlooking the scene: “Children were flogged and slowly dismembered in front of their parents, whose eyelids had been sliced off to make sure they missed nothing. Extremities were amputated carefully, so that a person could remain conscious even when all that remained was a torso and head. Male genitals were removed and burned in front of wives, breasts hacked off and vaginas penetrated by swords while husbands were forced to watch…. And it went on for two hundred years.”
Uruguay-based Alfredo de Mello, a Goan born historian, in his ‘Memoirs of Goa’ writes how in a span of 252 years, the Inquisition held sway in Goa “with a power that Stalin and other tyrants would have liked to hold.” Referring to the Goan Inquisition, de Mello calls it “the worst of the existing inquisitions in the Catholic orb of the five parts of the world.”
De Mello also cites from the memoirs of Judges Magalhaes and Louisada, who in 1859 described what they witnessed: “The inquisition, this tribunal of fire, thrown on the surface of the globe for the scourge of humanity, this horrible institution which will eternally cover with shame its authors, fixed its brutal domicile in the fertile plains of the Hindustan. On seeing the monster everyone fled and disappeared, Mughals, Arabs, Persians, Armenians and Jews. The Indians, that is, Hindus even more tolerant and pacific, were astounded to see the God of Christianism more cruel than that of Mohammed, [and] deserted the territory of the Portuguese…. In this fashion, the fields and cities became deserted as are today Diu and Goa.”
The Goan Inquisition did not spare the Christian communities which had been living in India and enjoying complete freedom of religion under the Hindu rulers for over 300-500 years before the arrival of the Portuguese. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, President of India’s Constituent Assembly, writes that the “Syrian Christians shrank with dismay from the defiling touch of the Roman Catholics of Portugal and proclaimed themselves Christians and not idolaters…. The inquisitors of Goa discovered they [the Syrian Christians] were heretics and like a wolf on the fold, down came the delegates of the Pope upon the Syrian Churches."
"The Portuguese separated Syrian Christian “priests from their wives; excommunicated on trifling grounds, members of the churches; and destroyed old Syriac records which contained proof of the early purity of their faith."
Pune-based writer and columnist Shefali Vaidya writes that all Hindu rituals including marriages, thread ceremonies and cremations were banned by law. “More than 42 Hindu customs were considered heretical, including wearing the sacred thread, wearing a tilak on the forehead, greeting people with a namaste and removing slippers outside a place of worship.”
Vaidya adds that the effects of the Goa Inquisition are felt in Goa till today: “There are families torn forever into two, one branch still carries the ancestral Hindu name while the other bears a Christian name. Churches exist where temples once stood.”
In a 2009 study from Serbia, it was shown that eating Royal Jelly more than DOUBLED the height-growth of 12-year old boys.
This is not without reason, Royal jelly is perhaps the BEST food to eat when you're still growing
But why?🧵
How old were you when you learned that
“8-12 reps”
Doesn’t mean pick up a weight and get somewhere between those numbers
It means
Start with a weight that you can only do 8 reps on. That you can’t get to 9 with.
And you keep hitting THAT WEIGHT week in week out until you progress. Once you can do 12 reps AT THAT WEIGHT…
Move up to a weight that you can only do 8 reps on. That you can’t get to 9 with.
I think less than 5% of lifters know this
Scientists from Kyoto University have discovered that human cells can actually respond to sound waves changing gene activity, physical behavior, and even decisions about becoming fat.
When researchers played pure tones, like 440 Hz and 14 kHz, directly into cell cultures, the cells reacted within hours. Over 140 genes linked to inflammation, stress, and repair altered their expression, suggesting that sound isn’t just noise it’s a physical force our bodies can feel and interpret.
Even more fascinating, continuous sound exposure reduced the activity of two key fat-forming genes (Cebpa and Pparg) by more than 70%. In other words, the tones stopped stem cells from turning into fat cells. While it’s still early research, this study opens the door to exploring how sound could influence healing, metabolism, or even future acoustic therapies showing that the language of life might also be spoken in vibrations.
Source/Credit: Kyoto University / Biophysical Journal (2024)