In BITS there were just 5.49% SC ST OBCs.
Other Private Universities condition is also the same.
I want to submit a memorandum to Honble Education Minister @EduMinOfIndia wherein immediately reservation for SC ST OBCs can be implemented all over India.
Any organisation or MPs can assist us?
We will be greatly to them
🚨 Murugan is back in the headlines : debates exploding over whether he’s a pan-Indian god, a Tamil ancestor, or something else entirely. Most people think this is some new Church “appropriation” tactic. It isn’t.
This is a time-tested ancient strategy that Christianity has used for nearly 2,000 years to dismantle pagan traditions by saying : “Your gods were once men.”
Around 300 BCE, the Greek pagan writer Euhemerus claimed the Olympian gods were not divine at all ; they were just deified kings and culture heroes whose exploits got exaggerated over time.
His doctrine is called Euhemerism now. Pagans of his own time largely rejected Euhemerism as impious. But early Christian writers loved the idea. They weaponised it. Church-fathers admiringly note that the mocking that Euhemerus received was undeserved, because Christians believed that pagans like Euhemerus had at least seen through popular error of the pagan religion (worshipping men as gods) even if they hadn’t reached the full truth of the Gospel of the one true God.
Church Fathers like Athenagoras (2nd century) and Clement of Alexandria openly argued that the Greek and Egyptian gods were simply historical kings who had been turned into deities by grateful (or fearful) subjects.
Their strategy was :
Concede they once existed as humans → deny their divinity → rewrite their myths as “history” instead of religion.
This “euhemerist” move gave Christians a powerful triple advantage:
1. It explained temples, statues, and festivals without admitting real gods.
2. It let them preserve and enjoy pagan myths and classics as mere literature.
3. It justified the destruction or conversion of sacred sites (any human however great does not deserve worship which belongs only to the one true God)
The same playbook later traveled to medieval Scandinavia, the Spanish conquest of the Americas, and now appears in modern India.
In my latest Substack article, I trace this exact Christian Euhemerist tactic from ancient Greece and Egypt, through the Patristic period, the Medieval period, and Colonial eras, right up to today’s debates around Murugan and other Hindu deities.
I quote the primary sources (including bolded key passages from the Church Fathers) so you can see the strategy in their own words.
If you want to understand why these “gods were once men/ancestors” arguments keep resurfacing — and why they feel so familiar in the Indian context — this piece connects the dots across two millennia.
Read it here :
https://t.co/UfbJKUDG2V
What do you think is this latest fad of Murugan being an ancestor after reading this article — novel historical revisionism? Nah, a recurring and time-tested pattern worth recognising, right?
Simhachalam temple wasn’t touched. Idle revenue land will now generate income for Appanna’s seva while building AP’s AI future.
Encroachers held temple lands for 70 years — silence.
A data center that pays the deity — outrage.
“At least now will people oppose this?” — the temple is your hook, not your cause.
@Chinmayi
Tirupati should be renamed to TELUGU name VENKATACHALAM
@naralokesh consider it renaming
We have enough ugly African sambars claiming everything
@PawanKalyan@ncbn
Without the heavy lifting done by the Marathas in breaking the back of two major Islamic powers, Mughals and Afghans, there would've been no Sikh Empire.
https://t.co/4N09D9Ov4l
The 1962 war, The 1984 massacres ,The 1991 collapse. All predicted by one chart cast at midnight.
India was born in debt, in blood, in partition, in chaos - still able to rise high.
Want to understand india ?
Read this astrological thread - 1/N 🧵
1/ One of the most beautiful stories of Kashi that I love is about Adi Shankaracharya.
As he walked through the city, he encountered a Chandala and asked him to move aside.
The Chandala responded with a question:
“Who should move? The body, or the Atman within?” Contd.
WHEN RELIGION ISN'T PUT ON A PEDESTAL ABOVE THE LAW.
Eid prayers offered in government mandated Kolkata Bridage Parade Ground and NOT on the RED ROAD for the first time in a very long time.