Ali Shan Rao

Sagittarius | Politics and International Relations | Defence and Strategic Studies | Quaidian | City of Saints | Introduce a little anarchy | 📍ISB

[Raza Ahmad Rumi @Razarumi]

President Trump refers to the India–Pakistan crisis again: “eight planes were shot down” and the region was “heading toward nuclear war.” He also says Pakistan’s PM thanked him for preventing a catastrophe and “saving 10 million lives.”

[Ilhan Niaz @IlhanNiaz]

“People had less stress in the past.”
The past:

[• @Al__Quraan]

“If Allah helps you, none can defeat you. But if He denies you help, then who else can help you? So in Allah let the believers put their trust.”

-Al Qur’aan [3:160]

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

“Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it.”

― Nicolás Gómez Dávila

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

It is amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.

[Pierre Botte @PierreBotte1]

The Building of the Berlin Wall in 1961

[Arab world @Arabbeau]

The Prophet's Mosque

[JF @JF3336]

"If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale. And then, when one wanted it, the bottle could be uncorked, and it would be like living the moment all over again."

~Daphne du Maurier,🎨William Louis Sonntag.

[In Libro Veritas @InlibroV]

"What is unique about the "I" hides itself exactly in what is unimaginable about a person... The individual "I" is what differs from the common stock, that is, what cannot be guessed at or calculated, what must be unveiled, uncovered, conquered."

Milan Kundera

[Paul Halpern @phalpern]

'Academic freedom as I understand it means having the right to seek the truth and to publish and teach what is believed to be true.

Any restriction hinders the dissemination of knowledge.. and.. restrains rational judgement and action.'

-Albert Einstein

https://t.co/vC7zwg6rVf

[Pierre Botte @PierreBotte1]

The Industrial Revolution

[🦇 @laaljhandaaa]

I killed a plant once because I gave it too much water. Lord, I worry love is a violence
Jose olivarez

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Top 10 revolutions that changed the world:

🇫🇷 French Revolution (1789-1799)
🇷🇺 Russian Revolution (1917)
🇨🇳 Chinese Communist Revolution (1949)
🇨🇺 Cuban Revolution (1953-1959)
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Glorious Revolution (1688)
🇨🇳 Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864)
🇹🇷 Young Turk Revolution (1908)
🇭🇹 Haitian Revolution (1791-1804)
🇺🇸 American Revolution (1765-1783)
🇮🇷 Iranian Revolution (1978-1979)

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

"The mother art is architecture."

Here are 10 examples of paintings that vividly imagine architectural wonders and impossibilities 🧵

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

“away away be gone all you demons
an just let me be me
human me
ruthless me
wild me
gentle me
all kinds of me”

–Bob Dylan

[Historic Hub @HistoricHub]

Built in Rome in the 2nd century AD. The Pantheon is still the largest unsupported concrete dome in the world.

[Street Evolution @StreetEvolution]

𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐝: Baker Street

[Christopher Nolan Archives @NolanAnalyst]

Interstellar (2014)

• Directed by Christopher Nolan
• Cinematography by Hoyte Van Hoytema
• Music by Hans Zimmer

[Ali Shan Rao @ali___shan]

Let the moon teach you the art of being beautiful and lonely at the same time.
~ Anand Thakur