Rashid Narain Shukul

A fellow liberal human with agnostic disposition.

[Rashid Narain Shukul @RNShukul]

Team Canada makes history by advancing to the Round of 32 at the FIFA World Cup 2026. 👏🏽
A huge milestone — but they’ll need to raise their level and deliver stronger performances if they want to go even further. 🇨🇦⚽

[Rashid Narain Shukul @RNShukul]

@_Spartiat It is something called water cooler aka dessert cooler. It does not run on compressed-decompressed gas unit often referred to as air conditioner.

[Rashid Narain Shukul @RNShukul]

@gulf_news This is a wonderful opportunity for Modi to plan a European tour in September!

[Rashid Narain Shukul @RNShukul]

@ScCardoz @0x101 May she rest in peace. Condolences.

[Rashid Narain Shukul @RNShukul]

Come summer, the university settles into a quiet desolation.

[Rashid Narain Shukul @RNShukul]

X-men are coming!

[Rashid Narain Shukul @RNShukul]

X marks the spot!

[Rashid Narain Shukul @RNShukul]

It is finally summer time

[Mad Milton @PhilipPanass]

To gauge Hindutva's stake in the Indus Valley Civilisation, one should keep in mind that Vasant Shinde—leader of the Rakhigarhi excavations—once published a paper on a bunch of PATENTLY FAKE IVC "copper plates" in a journal he himself founded and edited. 😂 (1/n)

[Rashid Narain Shukul @RNShukul]

@Deepak920582 Do you have any idea where this Pashuphuti Shila is kept? I would like to visit and have its darshan.

[Rashid Narain Shukul @RNShukul]

@monidipadey @punarutthana You are entitled to your view, as are many professional historians. Theologians address matters of faith; believers may hold whatever beliefs they choose. Historians, by contrast, seek to distinguish fact from tradition through the careful evaluation of evidence.

[Rashid Narain Shukul @RNShukul]

The small cubes found in Indus cities reveal something profound—four thousand years ago, people grappled with luck, strategy, competition, and uncertainty—concerns that remain distinctly human today, long before Vedic traditions entered the historical record.

[Ministry of Culture @MinOfCultureGoI]

This 4,500-year-old terracotta dice from the Indus-Saraswati Civilization is a powerful reminder of India’s living heritage. Dicing is also mentioned as a popular game in Rig and Atharva Vedas (two of the four sacred Vedic scriptures).

From symbols and craftsmanship to rituals, yogic practices, and collective memory, numerous elements of ancient Indian civilization continue to thrive in the daily social and religious life of Indian society across regions and communities.

Civilizational inheritance is not just about geography or ruins, it is defined by living customs, symbols, rituals, and unbroken cultural consciousness. India is the enduring living continuity of the Indus-Saraswati Civilization.

#IndusSaraswatiCivilization #AncientIndianHeritage

[Rashid Narain Shukul @RNShukul]

Given the socio-political order now prevailing across much of the South Asian subcontinent, expecting justice from either the judiciary or the executive borders on folly. In such a climate, the old fatalistic quip graduates from gallows humour to pragmatic political philosophy:

[Rashid Narain Shukul @RNShukul]

India’s contemporary right-wing project increasingly reshapes history for ideological ends, privileging majoritarian narratives over scholarship. This affects textbooks, public discourse, and academia, while undermining dissent, intellectual integrity, and democratic debate.

[Amish Tripathi @authoramish]

The Pashupati Seal. From Mohanjo-Daro.

Nearly 4,500 years old.
For a century, it refused to speak to us.

Then I came across the work of Dr. Rao (@yajnadevam).
During the COVID lockdown, this Indian computer scientist used cryptography to read what generations of scholars could not.

He compared it to the Mahabharat. Found 7 distinct alignments.

His conclusion: an ancient prayer to Lord Shiva, carved into a seal.

Our ancestors didn't just build cities. They recorded devotion.

The British often called it "mythology". But what if it's simply history told in a script we forgot to read?

[Rashid Narain Shukul @RNShukul]

@authoramish @Iyervval @yajnadevam There are lies, and then there are shamelessly falsified right-wing histories—manufactured myths dressed up as scholarship, propaganda masquerading as heritage.

[Rashid Narain Shukul @RNShukul]

@MinOfCultureGoI @PMOIndia @PIB_India @gssjodhpur @Rao_InderjitS @mygovindia @AmritMahotsav @ASIGoI India’s history and cultural heritage are rich enough without state-sponsored misinformation, revisionism, and fabricated claims projecting later Vedic deities onto the archaeological contexts of the IVC. The state should cease propagating & promoting such historical distortions.

[Rashid Narain Shukul @RNShukul]

@NetaFlixIndia @catale7a 🤣

[Rashid Narain Shukul @RNShukul]

@down2earthindia @ranjona 🥺

[Rashid Narain Shukul @RNShukul]

@Macrobysunil 🤣… pants on 🔥

[Gargi Rawat @GargiRawat]

The new Banksy statue in London is stunning.
BLIND PATRIOTISM
A man walking with confidence, about to step off the plinth, blinded by the flag.
A metaphor for the times we live in, extreme nationalism clouding judgment, critical thinking.