Raju EK

The World's my Classroom..!

[Raju EK @rajueks]

@SagarH62 Richard Hadlee

[Sakshi Joshi @sakshijoshii]

It’s proven…
Independent media is the real ‘Mainstream Media’ today

In a protest where Noida channels weren’t involved, rather shooed away, the voice reached masses, to the world, and resignation happened for the first time in this government.

So Noida channels… you are all irrelevant now.

[Raju EK @rajueks]

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[Raju EK @rajueks]

@onlyskypace 120

[Raju EK @rajueks]

@baharkarakrt 130

[Raju EK @rajueks]

@seitai_tennis4 7

[Ishaan Jain @strongbyishaan]

As someone from a Jain family where only vegetarian meals are prepared at home, I say this without any shame or hesitation: a standard vegetarian diet is inferior and sucks.. The typical vegetarian thali, no matter how elaborate, rarely matches the nutrient density, satiety, and flavor complexity of a well-balanced non-vegetarian meal.

I’ve always disliked the forced imposition of vegetarianism..whether cultural, religious, or moral. Diet should be a personal choice rooted in awareness, not guilt or blind tradition. That said, I continue to eat vegetarian, not because I was born into it, but because it aligns with my individual ethics. I fully respect anyone who makes the same choice.

However, respect doesn’t mean denial. If you choose to stay vegetarian, have the intellectual honesty to admit its limitations. Then take full responsibility for fixing them.

[Satish Acharya @satishacharya]

Proof of citizenship! #Passport

[Cricketopia @CricketopiaCom]

“I've never seen a batsman play as well as he did. Warnie was bowling into the rough, turning it square, and VVS was straight-driving him over mid-wicket.”

~ Glenn McGrath calls VVS Laxman’s 281 as the greatest innings he ever bowled against.

[Amit Schandillia @Schandillia]

Bridegroom, dear to my heart,
Goodly is your beauty, honeysweet,
Lion, dear to my heart,
Goodly is your beauty, honeysweet.
You have captivated me, let me stand tremblingly before you.
Bridegroom, I would be taken by you to the bedchamber,
You have captivated me, let me stand tremblingly before you.
Lion, I would be taken by you to the bedchamber.
Bridegroom, let me caress you,
My precious caress is more savory than honey,
In the bedchamber, honey-filled,
Let me enjoy your goodly beauty,
Lion, let me caress you,
My precious caress is more savory than honey.
Bridegroom, you have taken your pleasure of me,
Tell my mother, she will give you delicacies,
My father, he will give you gifts.

Your spirit, I know where to cheer your spirit,
Bridegroom, sleep in our house until dawn,
Your heart, I know where to gladden your heart,
Lion, sleep in our house until dawn.
You, because you love me,
Give me, pray, of your caresses.
My lord god, my lord protector,
My Shu-Sin, who gladdens Enlil's heart,
Give me, pray, of your caresses.
Your place goodly as honey, pray lay your hand on it;
Bring your hand over it like a gishban-garment;
Cup your hand over it like a gishban-sikin-garment.

This was found on a 4,000-year-old tablet in Iraq, catalogued as Istanbul #2461.

“The Love Song of Shu-Sin” is one of the oldest poetry composed by humanity. Believed to be recited as part of Sumerian wedding ceremony.

4,000 years.

That’s how old expression of romance is. Romance itself? Probably as old as humanity.

It’s not going anywhere.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Let me summarise this for you...

This is the picture:

-A religiously-motivated, unfalsifiable premise;
-A dedicated funding line that could only ever reward positive outcomes and pre-planned confirmation;
-So-called published "science" sitting at the bottom of the evidence hierarchy with no translational pathway built or even planned;
-A sponsoring ministry that won't show its books; and
-An opportunity cost measured against every competitively-reviewed proposal in real Indian science that didn't get that Rs 98 crore.

Ultimately some compounds we already knew were in animal urine got identified.

Nothing that matters to a person or a society evolved from this colossal wastage of public funds.

[Sandeep Adhwaryu 🇮🇳 @CartoonistSan]

#PrimeMinister @timesofindia

[Satish Acharya @satishacharya]

Best buddies! #TrumpModi

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

The government of India is blocking my posts on Instagram that criticizes Homeopathy based on a directive from the Homeopathy Council. This is very shameful of the government...protecting pseudoscience and it's practitioners from scientific scrutiny.

This is the post: https://t.co/ZtIKlYF6sK

[Rocky Singh 🇮🇳 @RockyEatsX]

Ancient wisdom … not for everyone ! Only for the sensible ones with a fully functional brain 🙂

[𝙍𝘼𝙅𝙀𝙎𝙃 𝙋𝘼𝙍𝙄𝙆𝙃 @imacuriosguy]

While coming from my Norway trip ,
At Schiphol Airport I noticed citizens of the US, Canada, EU countries, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and even Malaysia walking straight through automated eGates.

No queues. No officer. No questions.

India was missing from that list.

We stood at least an hour before our turn came to see the officer.

It was a small reminder that GDP headlines and geopolitical chest-thumping are one thing.
Global trust in a country’s documents, institutions and migration profile is another.

A passport is not just a travel document.
It is a report card of how much the world trusts the systems behind it.

[Tony Joseph @tjoseph0010]

Why much of the rightwing hand-wringing over the Mohenjo Daro seal stems from under-appreciation of the historical process and context:
The Vedic period begins AFTER the Harappan Civilization started declining and after the arrival of the Indo-European language-speaking pastoral tribes from the Eurasian Steppe. Therefore, any Harappan deity identified IS a pre-Vedic one. In the centuries that followed, as the incoming culture mixed with the existing culture, there were adaptations and borrowings. Some Harappan customs and practices continued as folk traditions and found their way into later Sanskrit texts. The sacredness of the peepul tree, or designs and motifs in jewellery and pottery, games of dice... This is to expected and is the natural result of mass migrations.
Excerpt from Early Indians paperback edition, Pages 203 to 205:
"Remnants of a civilization
The Vedic corpus was composed over many centuries, and it is important to remember that the discrepancy between it and the Harappan Civilization reduces over time. The later the Vedic text, the more the likelihood of finding connections to the Harappan cultural heritage. If the Rigveda was antagonistic to, and disdainful of, ‘shishna-deva’, by the time of the Upanishads, composed between 500 BCE and 100 BCE, this was no longer the case. The number of borrowed words from Dravidian languages is also higher in the later Vedic texts than in the earlier ones. There are many Harappan seals, sealings and terracotta figurines that remind one of yoga, but there are no clear references to yoga in the Rigveda. But by the time of the Katha Upanishad, there are explicit references to it. A Harappan seal shows a figure wearing a horned headdress sitting in a yoga-like posture surrounded by animals, and it has been interpreted by some as an early depiction of Siva. Many historians and archaeologists reject this interpretation on the grounds that this is projecting later-day concepts into the distant past. While that may be so, it still leaves open the possibility of a convergence between later-day ideas of an ascetic Siva and the seal images, beliefs and myths of the Harappans.
This is not surprising because over time incoming cultures often do adopt, adapt to and intermingle with existing cultures, and the Arya and the Harappans may have done the same to varying degrees across cultural domains and geographic regions. And, of course, a lot of the cultural continuity from the Harappan Civilization is reflected in popular practices rather than in the Vedic corpus.
The way houses are built around courtyards; the bullock carts; the importance of bangles and the way they are worn; the manner in which trees are worshipped and the sacredness of the peepul tree in particular; the ubiquitous Indian cooking pot and the kulladh; the cultic significance of the buff alo; designs and motifs in jewellery, pottery and seals; games of dice and an early form of chess (dice and chess-like boards have been found at multiple Harappan sites); the humble lota which is used to wash up even today; and even the practice of applying sindoor and some measurement systems – the ways in which we carry on the traditions of the Harappan Civilization are too many to count.
A vase discovered at the Harappan site of Lothal in Gujarat has a painting that shows a crow standing next to a pitcher with a deer looking back at it, seemingly depicting the tale of the thirsty crow in the Panchatantra. So some of the tales we tell our children may have been the same ones told by the Harappans to their own children.
What ended around 1900 BCE, therefore, was the power structure that had kept the civilization going for over seven centuries, and with it went the script, the seals, the standardized bricks and some of the ideology as well – such as the unicorn. But many other things that are part and parcel of the common man’s life continued, along with some of the philosophical and cultural underpinnings of south Asia’s first civilization..."

[Krish Ashok @krishashok]

These 3 videos that took me more than just simple scientific fact checking because of how culture and economics play a big role in how people look at them

[Dr. Ruchika Sharma @tishasaroyan]

@raghman36 "Proto Shiva position is currently the majority view". Why don't you name 5 historians/archaeologists with at least two degrees in either discipline who hold the proto Shiva view??

[Satish Acharya @satishacharya]

Revaluation! #CBSERevaluation #AchheDin