When a computer tracks the Indian classical dancer in this video, it picks up perfect circles, triangles, and curves in every movement. There are exactly 108 of them. All 108 were written into a manual over 2,000 years ago.
That manual is the Natya Shastra. Six thousand verses, written somewhere around 200 BCE. It describes 108 specific dance movements for Bharatanatyam, one of the oldest dance forms in India. Each movement spells out three things: where your hands go, what angle your body holds, and the exact path your legs trace. Roughly 150 step combinations grow out of those 108 base movements. A trained dancer spends years learning 70 to 80 of them.
Watch the dancer's legs in the video. The bent-knee squat creates a diamond shape. Palms together make a triangle. When researchers plotted these positions in three dimensions this year, they found the moving body carves out twisted spirals and bowl-shaped curves, the kind of shapes you see in an engineering textbook, not a dance studio. Every limb holds a specific angle and moves a measured distance.
The rhythm is math too. A 7-beat song gets filled with dance steps of 3 and 4. Scale that to 35 beats and the groups of 3 and 4 repeat five times. Choreographers work out these splits in their heads while performing live. All 108 movements are also carved into the stone walls of a 12th-century temple in Tamil Nadu called Chidambaram, many panels still carrying the original Sanskrit description next to them. A choreography textbook in granite, still legible after 900 years.
A 2013 study put 25 people on a walkway rigged with motion-capture cameras. Every human stride has two parts: when your foot is on the ground and when it swings forward. The ratio between those two parts came out to 1.620. The golden ratio is 1.618. Your foot lifts off at 61.8% of every step you take, and it has done this your entire life. A Bharatanatyam dancer takes that same built-in proportion and amplifies it across 108 movements, each one tracing shapes that were set down in writing over 2,000 years before the tracking software in this video existed.
Samay Raina nails it here. Kashmir Files wasn't great cinema but it was "necessary". It was vital to mainstream the Kashmiri Pandit genocide in pop culture before decades of whitewashing it turned it into a myth or worse, an obscure event worthy of only academic interest.
@JustChillMaan69 I didn't say anything mean to you, I just said the shot in the trailer was even better than this. Sorry if you understood something else
Sadhvi Pragya Thakur - How a saffron bearing woman became face of manufactured Hindutva Terrorism
It all started in 2008 when Indian Mujahideen blew up Malegaon mosque due to islamic-sectarian conflict. UPA Govt sees this as an opportunity to push their Hindutva extremism narrative. Many closed door meetings happened and phone calls were made. ATS sprung in action and arrested Sadhvi Pragya accusing of her bike used for explosives. No solid proof. No smoking gun. Just a convenient narrative to paint a saffron-clad ascetic as a “terrorist.” They threw her into custody like she was some hardened criminal, stripped her of her dignity, her robes, her sanctity. What followed was not investigation – it was pure, calculated torture. Custodial barbarity that makes your blood boil
She was beaten mercilessly. Electric shocks were administered to her body. Sleep was denied for days. Psychological torment that would break even the strongest of men was unleashed on a woman. She spoke later, with tears in her voice, about how they humiliated her in ways no woman should ever be humiliated. Her health shattered. Cancer took root in her body which many believe the seeds were sown in those torture chambers. For years she rotted in jail, her frail frame bearing the weight of false accusations, while the real perpetrators of the narrative walked free and awarded
The court later observed numerous investigative flaws: The bike’s chassis/engine numbers were tampered with; forensic links to it were inconclusive. Crime scene contamination occurred due to mob violence, and no DNA or ballistic evidence was collected under proper procedure. Police used phone taps and voice samples without statutory authorisation; electronic devices were not sealed properly, violating custodial rules. Narco-analysis reports and other scientific tests favorable to the accused were deliberately withheld from the chargesheet that found to be a major procedural failure
Testimony revealed that many witnesses, including Milind Joshirao, were allegedly tortured, threatened, or illegally detained until they named RSS figures like Yogi Adityanath and others. The court accepted that these statements were recorded under coercion and acknowledged thousands of witness statements turning hostile, undermining the prosecution’s credibility.
In April 2011, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) assumed control of the case and in 2016 filed a supplementary chargesheet, dropping MCOCA charges and diverging significantly from the ATS narrative. NIA highlighted that confessions and many prosecutions under ATS were based on coerced statements and lacked corroboration.
In 2025, The Special NIA Court acquitted all seven accused, including Sadhvi Pragya Thakur and Lt. Col. Purohit, stating the prosecution failed to prove conspiracy beyond reasonable doubt. The court expressed deep concern over ATS misconduct: missing original documents, chain-of-custody violations, planting of evidence, and use of coercion during interrogations
Sadhvi Pragya is finally free after fighting the burden of whole Hindu society for 2 decades
@total_woke_ Who tf should hindus even support here?
Iran kills Hindus but supplies us Oil and LPG
Israel is considered a genocidal state but they have good relations with us
USA applies tariffs on us and harms indian immigrants but still they have kinda good relations
@BeingTrickyy Even after all these years, we aren't even able to correct our history is something which highlights our incompetence as a society.
Include both Atrocities of The Invaders and The Glory of our Indian Kings fighting against them.
Totally removing history of one side doesn't help
Most importantly, Major Iqbal also mentioned ‘maal e ghanimat’.
Am so glad Aditya Dhar mentioned it. This ‘maal-e-ghaanimat’ was carried out to the fullest extent by the Pakistani army in the 1971 war. This term ‘maal’ used for women in Bollywood, is also derived from this same Islamic legal term that sees women as s€x slaves.
“Women were abducted, tortured and raped in concentration camps by the Pakistani army who set up r@pe camps in all towns and villages they went to. It was part of a systematic plan to disempower and destroy the vertebrae of Bengali society... Many of the hundreds of thousands of girls and women were killed or later rejected by their families; their children born out of the r@pe were forcibly taken and adopted by foreign nationals. Most of these women eventually died of neglect and without recognition” ~ Dr. Nusrat Rabbee, a survivor of the war.
‘Women Under Siege’ group working with the rape survivors interviewed these women, who described how young girls were “strapped to green banana trees and repeatedly gang-r@ped. A few weeks later, they were strapped to the same trees and hacked to death”.
Mass r@pes were committed by the Pakistani Army, as part of a campaign in Bangladesh to establish a new race of
‘Pure Muslims,’ and to breakdown the sense of Bengali nationalism. From eight years old to 75 year old, girls and women (mostly Hindus), were abducted and held captive in Pakistani military camps where they were subjected to mass r@pe, often followed by mass execution.
The Pakistani Army used the term ‘maal-e-ghanimat’ (booty of war) to defend brutal mutilation of women's bodies. Military, political, and religious leaders openly promoted the r@pe of Bengali women during the conflict, by insinuating that because Bengali liberation fighters were mostly “Hindus,” so their women were free items to be exploited and used as plunder of war.
In the image is an old woman, who wasn’t spared by the Pakistani Army.
It was Europe’s eurocentrism & Christian discomfort that erased Hindu mathematics & relabelled it as “Arabic numerals.”
> Arabs never claimed invention. In 820 CE, Al-Khwarizmi wrote Kitab Hisab al-Adad al-Hindi (calculation using Hindu numerals.)
> When Latin scholars translated his works in the 10th–12th centuries, they credited India.
> Europeans learned it in Islamic Spain (Al-Andalus) & Sicily as Hindu numerals.
> Yet by the 15th century, despite knowing the origin, Europe erased “Hindu” and labelled them “Arabic numerals.”
In 2026 after centuries of erasure, we are here: