Jay

Most people see what is, and never what can be.

[Jay @jayjay_7775]

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[Yogi Adityanath @myogiadityanath]

'एक जनपद-एक व्यंजन' योजना,

75 जनपदों में 75 प्रकार की भोजन सामग्री अब उत्तर प्रदेश की नई ताकत बनेगी...

[Puja Teli @ThePujaTeli]

Ram Mandir.

What does one even say. 🤷🏻‍♀️

All you remember is devotion by people like Bidula Bai.

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[GABRIEL 🪽 @thegabriel72]

Millionaire stops at kids’ lemonade stand and hands them $100 pure kindness that hits different. ❤️

[RT_India @RT_India_news]

'Unfair To India': Piyush Goyal Takes Aim At Global Rating Agencies, Challenges Them To A Debate

The Commerce Minister named Fitch, Moody's and S&P as agencies that, according to him, “have not recognised India's growth story.”

He also challenged the agencies to publicly defend their assessments in an open debate.

📹 Piyush Goyal / YouTube

[Megh Updates 🚨™ @MeghUpdates]

🚨 SHOCKER! In a viral video, a Muslim man is heard calling for another country like Pakistan to be carved out of India 😡

Another person claims that Muslims feel unsafe in India.

— So much love for Pakistan...! WOW

[News Algebra @NewsAlgebraIND]

BIG BREAKING 🚨 CM Suvendu Adhikari announces that ISKCON will provide Mid-Day Meals to school children across Bengal.

🥗 Pure Sattvik meals to be served under the initiative.

[SagasofBharat (talesbymiirabelle) @SagasofBharat]

Protein enthusiasts who are outraging against ISKCON today, never spoke a word when lizards were getting served in midday meals.

Rotten insect infested food must be helping kid's growth i am sure.

Now they want to complain coz kids wont die anymore.

[SagasofBharat (talesbymiirabelle) @SagasofBharat]

Meanwhile karnataka 😂😂😂

People are such delusional. They think these orgs wont keep profit n degrade the food quality to compensate.

Iskcon actually pays half the price from its own & maintains quality.

[SagasofBharat (talesbymiirabelle) @SagasofBharat]

They don't take a minute to simp for muslims.

Meanwhile
A Pakistani woman cooked her husband

Another poisoned milk as she was unsatisfied with arrange marriage.

Another killed 11 husbands.

Why don't these people just chop off their foreskin already?

[SagasofBharat (talesbymiirabelle) @SagasofBharat]

Are you insulting Buddha and Prophet Muhammad?

Because buddhism asks you to abstain from Garlic. (Shurangama Sutra)

Islamic Hadish mentions if you eat garlic dont enter a mosque. (Shahi Al Bukhari)

First learn your own religion boy.

[SagasofBharat (talesbymiirabelle) @SagasofBharat]

Did u know?

Not even 50 years back, Chicken & its eggs were considered a taboo among traditional Bengalis.

Bengalis considered it a dirty mlechha food of Muslims.

Bengali literature has well documented this aversion.

For eg. Sharatkumari Chaudhurani's story Subho Bibaho, showed eating an egg toast as a major moral failing or an act of becoming a Muslim.

[Jkaur @Jkaur0304]

Pakistani grooming gangs didn't just target white British girls, they targeted Sikh girls as well.
These Pakistani gangs were actively targeting Sikh girls under the guise of the '#Kaur2Khan' project.

[Sidhant Sibal @sidhant]

Canada's intel agency, CSIS pays homage to victims of 1985 Air India bombing. Says, bomb was planted by "Canada based Khalistani extremists"

[Savitri Mumukshu - सावित्री मुमुक्षु @MumukshuSavitri]

Don’t flatter yourself @tishasaroyan
There’s no question of being obsessed with an ignorant Mughlai buffalo with flaccid cleavage and atrocious makeup.

What I am obsessed with is exposing charlatans like you when you blatantly LIE about history.

It’s my direct challenge to you - show me WHERE in his 1950-51 report did B.K. Thapar of the ASI who carried out excavations underneath the Somanath mandir ever mention anything about Buddhist remains under the temple???

You were nodding in agreement with Mani Shankar Aiyer on his podcast when he declared that underneath Somnath "It was a Buddhist Prayer Hall that was destroyed during the rise of Hinduism against the Buddhists after Shankaracharya - and it seems Mularaja had built a small temple with a small Mandapa on the ruins of that Buddhist Prayer Hall"

B.K. Thapar of the ASI NEVER mentioned any such thing in his report. His only hypothesis was that there may have been an ancient Hindu Surya temple underneath the earliest layer. (See Screenshots 1 and 2 from B.K. Thapar's report summary below)

If you have the guts then accept my challenge - show us exactly where B.K. Thapar’s report EVER mentioned anything about a “Buddhist hall which was destroyed by Hindus” - as Aiyer and you were claiming on his podcast.

Or will you wimp out again and run away as you always do from the evidence that I throw in your face - in your usual copout of infantile insults.

Cc: @AbhinavAgarwal

[Abhinav Agarwal @AbhinavAgarwal]

As the adage goes,
भैंस के आगे बीन बजाई
भैंस खड़ी पुग्राये

To the intellectual challenged: it is a proverb; not to be taken literally. Literally.

[Puja Teli @ThePujaTeli]

Why?

Moorjani (2013) confirmed the fludity, and Basu (2016) confirms endogamy froze society for 70 generations during the Gupta Empire.

When the Portuguese came they brought ‘casta’ as a concept with them and applied it, and then the British created ‘caste’ in the 1600s.

Can you explain why it’s a ‘feel good untruth’ when there is now scientific evidence of fluidity?

[Puja Teli @ThePujaTeli]

The West brought their own definition to something that had a very specific explanation and it was applied to an indigenous concept. 

This is not ‘untrue’. 

Casta was rooted in ‘Limpieza de sangre’. 

Again, I urge people to go and read what that means. 

This became caste - the 1901 census followed. 

You don’t need it explained as to what happened then. 

Saying this did not continue rigidity is also very wrong.

The Portuguese nor the British didn’t loosen the hold the Gupta period had.

They made it more rigid. 

The Gupta period is acknowledged. I have already said Basu (2016) explained that. 

But look before this period. 

India was fluid first. 

Rigidity arrived later. 

Fluidity was there - not a ‘feel-good untruth’.

It is our historical and scientific reality. 

Early genetic fluidity aligns with the character-based Varna of our original scriptures. 

Our Shrutis. 

Which means any attempt to say that we have always had a rigid caste system, from the very beginning, is wrong.

The later rigidity was a human-made political shift during the Gupta era.

The West arrived with their own words, own intent and institutionalised groups in a rigid framework.

[Savitri Mumukshu - सावित्री मुमुक्षु @MumukshuSavitri]

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It was not India but Europe which first invented the word “Casta” linking purity of blood & skin color to status in society. Hindus never had a word that meant caste. It's a racist term connoting white superiority as the measure of intelligence, civilization and morality.

[Aryan @main_Invader_hu]

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The modern theories of social & occupational immobility & rigid identities of people in the medieval & early modern world are a complete hogwash. The reality is much more complex & fluid.

Let's take a deep dive:

A look at identity formation in post-Roman Europe furnishes a world where new identities are being formed & old identities being discarded according to changing circumstances.

This is much more pronounced in the armies of that era.
Look at this excerpt:

"Another consequence of the separation of the military & civil services was that the army appears to have begun to adopt consciously non-Roman identities what we may call a ‘fictive barbarism’.....As the late Roman period wore on, these identities became more important. Many army commanders were wholly or partly of barbarian origin, and in the chaos of the fifth century some field armies began to adopt their ethnicity.
Thus, for example, Alaric’s Goths apparently originated as an Illyrian field army."

This clearly shows that the soldiers adopted NEW IDENTITIES when favourable opportunity arose or the previous system disintegrated.

The previous ethnic identity of the soldier (Roman) got subsumed in the immediate identity of the soldiers (Franks,Goths etc) as shown here:

"There is no evidence of the survival of any individual regiment of the late Roman army into the post-Roman period anywhere in the west.
Any units that did survive the ‘fall’ of the empire seem rapidly to have become subsumed in the general ethnic nature of the immediately post-Roman armies, that is to say that they became Frankish, Gothic or ‘Saxon’. This is most likely to be true of the units of the field armies, of which the ‘ethnic’ armies of the post-Roman period were the direct descendants."

If we contrast this with the military system in India, we find similar trends if we look at its "martial communities":

"Ujjainia in other words, rather than a genealogical concept or a clan name, now became a soldiers’ identity, the name of an open category of fighting men whose mere recruitment under Ujjainiya leadership caused them to be labelled as Rajputs.
Some of them, of course, may even earlier have considered themselves as Rajputs, but Bhumihars, Brahmans and many categories of peasants may also have been amongst them."

"...the Karauls of the Benares area as described by Sherring in 1872, were largely employed as sepoys.....The common British essentialist view of identities &‘caste’ prevented Sherring from seeing how this profession induced them, in a way that was absolutely justifed, to claim & to profess the identity especially associated with their kind of service.

Although only Sudras’, he observed, they indulged ‘the habit of affixing “Sing” to their names as though they were Rajpoots."

"The warlike Sakarwars, a peasant community in the Benares, Shahabad, and Bihar districts, illustrate the point: they partly became Bhumihar Brahmans and partly Rajputs, ‘according as either title’, to quote Francis Buchanan, ‘was most in fashion when the different parts of the tribe adopted the doctrine of caste and rules of modern purity"

This fluidity was still a feature of Indian society in Colonial era:

"The Bhumihars, i.e. ‘military Brahmans’, of the Ghazipur district in the 19th century, though commonly called Rai, took the affix of Singh to their name when enlisting in the army or leaving the district....... But about 1810, Buchanan wrote that Bhumihars, just like Rajputs, were ‘not scrupulous in admitting into their number whatever tribes adopted their manners’ & in 1834 it was detected that a number of sepoys enlisted in the 59th regiment as Rajputs, were in fact Brahmans".

The rigid caste system is strictly a modern invention & more nuanced studies are need to truly understand this complex phenomenon.

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[maithun @Being_Humor]

Mid day meal if I become the PM 👇🏻

[Savitri Mumukshu - सावित्री मुमुक्षु @MumukshuSavitri]

Mid Day meal if I become the PM 🙃

Ghee pulao with beans and nuts, Dal tadka, Kala chana, salad, Paneer jalfrezi, and seasonal fruit like mango.