Arvind Iyer

Dreamed of being a simultaneous translator as a child

[Arvind Iyer @longhandnotes]

@btbytes @MODIfied_SKP धर्मो धीपरिशुद्धिसिद्ध इतरत् कोलाहलं केवलम्।।

Tirukkuṟaḷ 0034
https://t.co/Fl8SqWnMvL
https://t.co/vUTeRp9Lo2

https://t.co/0SBwwq3fv2
https://t.co/G6UmHJvg4C
https://t.co/bGbACxAXaT
https://t.co/tZNWoNkdHR.

[Arvind Iyer @longhandnotes]

@hhrobbstark @pvaal2 Besides lokasaṅgraha, the Bhagavadgītā, by calling those who accomplish yajña as "kṣapita-kalmaṣāḥ"/"they whose impurities are destroyed" (4:30 https://t.co/IQcOhorsde), gives another purpose of yajña so to speak, commonly called citta-śuddhi in Śāṅkara Vedānta.

1/

[Arvind Iyer @longhandnotes]

@vaijusson @rockstarakshu @bharatgupt @zeneraalstuff Is the view of the Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata as warnings against Lust and Greed respectively (clues for 10-down and 16-across in the puzzle below), a commonly held 'textbook' view in Tamiḻakam, or just a view found expedient by this crossword-maker?

https://t.co/LUoalg9ULc.

[Arvind Iyer @longhandnotes]

@BrightnessFalse The idea is to not become more selective than you need to before you know enough about what it is that you're being selective about, knowing that time may not permit deferring your selection until enough is known.
https://t.co/4MPfw1gLKz.

[Arvind Iyer @longhandnotes]

From today’s puzzle:

In what dialect is महतारी (8 across) a common word for “mother”? If I’d heard it elsewhere, I’d have confused it with Marathi’s म्हातारी (old woman).

Also, it seems तरी (12 across) is used for “boat” in Hindi too, besides Bangla.

https://t.co/1Akz5l1cIg.

[Arvind Iyer @longhandnotes]

@sabdavidya Here's a thread with a rather extensive literature survey of those parts of the legacy of Sufism at odds with the image cultivated in the popular imagination.
https://t.co/byyhszHp7n.

[Arvind Iyer @longhandnotes]

@sabdavidya The paeans of the Mahmud of Ghazni and the casual descriptions of Hindu slaves in this "Sufi classic" made it impossible for me to sustain the myth of benign Sufism or "universalist" Sufism again.
https://t.co/pw7b2FxtGI (see pg. 109 here for instance) #RedPill
2/2

[Arvind Iyer @longhandnotes]

@sabdavidya On pop Sufism, a contributor to my slow-burn #GharWapsi was a reading of Conference of the Birds. There was a charming poetry-reading session by Dick Davis I had a chance of attending, which inspired me to pick up his translation(with Afkam Darabandi) of this much-vaunted text.1/

[Arvind Iyer @longhandnotes]

@bharathanrd @JLC1956 @cobbaltt 👆🏿That, per Prof.Haidt is "the great conservative insight", though the conservative priority of "order even at some cost to those at the bottom" can make uneasy anyone whose "nationalist" heroes too have menacingly warned "தனியொருவனுக்கு உணவில்லையெனில்...".https://t.co/ddmQlHxcPP

[Arvind Iyer @longhandnotes]

@yenkak Can the Marathi and Bengali channels both be called "Republic हाक"? 🐯
https://t.co/xjKZr2Mcgw.

[Arvind Iyer @longhandnotes]

@Schandillia Any inquiry into what an "oppressor" is supposed to look like reminds me of this 2009 article which one wishes more youngsters prone to Leftist indoctrination read.
https://t.co/qsLC0Npnrz.

[Arvind Iyer @longhandnotes]

@antasthaH My post is intended as a prompt/"bait" within the assumptions of the quote-repliers on what constitutes "privilege", taking textbook "basic needs" for granted, without "What about Gaza?"-ing.

We would all of course do well to be in an "Every breath is a gift." frame more often.

[Arvind Iyer @longhandnotes]

👆🏾By "real then", I mean "as real as mom and dad seeming about the same height to toddler me despite them not being so".
https://t.co/YH8FuqR5Dn
To adult me, their "same height" is not "real now", but "childhood feeling privileged" seems yet "real now" on recollection.

[Arvind Iyer @longhandnotes]

👆🏾That may simply be one of the ways in which *not* exactly being smart as a kid helps! 🥲
https://t.co/I5zrpyHzha.

[Arvind Iyer @longhandnotes]

In my subjective experience, I grew up privileged, despite that assessment later found at odds with most conventional empirical standards (such as not having many things in these replies, and some still persistent objective disadvantages in adulthood).
It was real then (and now).

[Arvind Iyer @longhandnotes]

@cobbaltt @avzaagzonunaada This decad of Appar also serves as a gallery of sorts of the many uses of the verb "வெய்", directly such as "keep", "deposit", "arrange" and "set up" and also as an auxiliary.

Tirumuṟai 04:38
Read:
https://t.co/u84cBdzQ4q
https://t.co/RRkCRxrXFD
Listen:
https://t.co/3noZOdRGW4.

[Arvind Iyer @longhandnotes]

@forpolindia @YearOfTheKraken How come it doesn't seem to have struck the consultants recommending the production that the beneficiaries of "zoomer uprisings" in the subcontinent, Chief Justice Sushila Karki and Dr Muhammad Yunus, are seniors/super-seniors with most probably no idea of what 'pookie' means?

[Arvind Iyer @longhandnotes]

@avataram Often this is innocent, owing to ignorance of academic convention in broader society. So someone who's still working towards their PhD sometimes ends up with a "Dr" against their names in event listings. Junior faculty members may end up with "Prof". #PartOfGrowingUp

[Arvind Iyer @longhandnotes]

@avataram I have not verified directly with him or elsewhere; just went by a listing on an online profile. Sometimes, titles get inadvertently mistakenly added to names of participants in quasi-academic conferences. This is sadly common in IKS mobilization. So I could be wrong as well.

[Arvind Iyer @longhandnotes]

@Meghvahana At least one moot on this platform recalled real-life experience of "temporary grey" reversed by reduction of stress. 🤷‍♂️
https://t.co/w6pcYVzx7I.

[Brandon Luu, MD @BrandonLuuMD]

Gray hairs may not be permanent.

Researchers found that some gray hairs can regain their color, particularly during periods of lower stress.

In one person, repigmentation followed a 2-week vacation.

[Arvind Iyer @longhandnotes]

@grok @GunduHuDuGa It was via Śrī A Parthasarathy that I had my intro to "English-medium Vedānta" in junior college, like Prof P Lal's transcreation was my schoolday exposure to the Bhagavadgītā. An effect on me, distinct from most peers, was an urge to learn Sanskrit to access the source material.