Rohit Karir

Published author, storyteller, journalist. The blank page, the filled mind? I fill the first, empty the second.

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If you demand rights, fight for duties too. There's no denying the rights of Palestinians but NOT at the cost of physical exclusion of the people of Israel. That's not going to happen. In this message, you haven't written a single phrase about respecting the rights of Israel to live peacefully, Palestine Authority's shunning the negotiating table, and suggestions for a mutually respectable solution. If you seek rights, expect duties too.

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@GuyNirIL Au revoir!

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@lynk0x And an hour later, a Dubai mall or a walk with window shopping.

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@elonmusk Really? You're using a learned word/concept to prove that it's a new word/concept and assume 'singularity' is a witness to your attestation?

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@elonmusk Yeah? Historically accurate? Make sure the dialogues are in ancient/Homeric Greek and dig up Homer and dozens of dead oral poets who can testify to its historicity.

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@elonmusk @martianwyrdlord These people, I tell you, full of themselves. The fictional Odysseus sitting on the even more imaginary Trojan horse must be laughing their asses off.

[Nick Collins @nickcollins1953]

Mesopotamia was never the cradle of civilisation. India was.

I spent forty years in international shipping, not academia. When I began researching the history of maritime trade, I had no orthodoxy to defend. I followed the evidence, and it kept arriving in the same place: the Indian subcontinent.

Nineteenth century archaeologists dug in Mesopotamia because the climate preserved artefacts, the biblical sources pointed them there, and the Ottomans allowed the excavations. That is the entire basis for the myth of Mesopotamia as "the cradle of civilisation."

Nobody applied the same rigour to India. Mohenjo-daro was not discovered until 1922. By then the narrative had already hardened.

What was actually there was the largest civilisation of the ancient world. Three hundred cities. Fifty thousand people in each, by 2600 BC. Two thirds of them stood on the banks of the Sarasvati, the central and greatest of the seven rivers described in the Rig Veda, flowing down from the Himalayas before the river vanished entirely by 1900 BC. The Vedic kings claimed territory stretching "sea to sea," from Afghanistan to Maharashtra, some 1.5 million square miles, against Egypt's 13,000. A dock at Lothal built to handle thirty ships of sixty tons, unmatched in Europe for four thousand years. When it was first excavated, it was recorded as a bathing pool.

When the scale became impossible to dismiss, the theory was not corrected. It was replaced with a story of pale-skinned nomads from the steppe who supposedly arrived around 1500 BC and brought civilisation with them. There is no evidence. The chronology doesn't work. The Vedas describe no invasion.

In 2019 a Harvard-led genetic study revived the claim, and the press reported it as confirmation. It was not. The same study found the builders of these cities were indigenous. The Sarasvati river that the Rig Veda described had already dried up before these newcomers arrived. What the study also found is that a small group of men, arriving after the Sarasvati had already dried up, interbred with the existing population and left a genetic signature. That is all.

So, where they chose to dig was mostly an accident of climate and access. The Aryan invasion theory was constructed because an Indian civilisation that owed nothing to Caucasians was a fact the late nineteenth century could not accommodate.

Link to full Substack essay with sources in the comments below.

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nature, this planet, is not interested in our ideas and feeling. but living on a livable planet is not a small thing. never believe that your thoughts and those of the society are more valuable than life. how can being alive more important than a government job? so whenever a thought or an idea keeps running in circles, break the cycle, pause and stand where you are, ask yourself what you want to do for others with your abilities and in what other ways you can do it, but if you let others decide how you feel inside and act in society, your own mind will consume you.

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@amitabhk87 @SkyrootA then why was it kept under a tight lid by the bureaucrats in earlier governments? why did the prime minister say he was discouraged (by bureaucrats and probably scientists?) to open the space sector to private players?

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As are sentences and stories that begin with ‘Once upon a time in …’

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Christopher Nolan majored in English literature and I never want to hear another word about how humanities degrees are useless.

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Hinduism, which is a collection of knowledge and way of life as an evolving culture, but still rooted in community, doesn't have a history of disavowing, punishing, or killing those who disagree with its way of life, teachings, gurus, or texts. But the west and the Arab/Muslim world, by placing agreement with faith as central to its identity and survival, is yet to untangle itself from the friction it can create within and without.

[The Better India @thebetterindia]

At just 12 years old, Thaaragai Aarathana has helped remove over 7,000 kilograms of plastic and ghost nets from the ocean.
But her mission goes far beyond clean-ups. From performing Bharatanatyam underwater to swimming from Sri Lanka to India under the message “Save the Ocean,” she’s finding extraordinary ways to inspire people to protect our oceans.
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In partnership with @AdityaBirlaGrp

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https://t.co/CmEaCeFSwf

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@IndianTechGuide This will make more Americans, especially those who follow Pope Trump, sing and dance with delight.

[🇮🇱 Reuven Azar @ReuvenAzar]

The importance of India’s maritime power - The Jerusalem Post Opinion. Interesting! https://t.co/ZnoYxj9W4h

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@AdityaRajKaul It's like saying, we'll get rid of the number system or roads. Why will any government or the citizens of a country wish the uprooting of their major legislative and executive body? One can demand improvement, but not destruction.

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@VaibhavSpace Hats off to him.

[Vaibhav Bodana @VaibhavSpace]

Meet Prof. Subhajit Bandyopadhyay, the IISER Kolkata chemist who mentored India's Chemistry Olympiad team to its best-ever finish this July.

He studied at the University of Burdwan for his bachelor's, then IIT Kanpur for his master's, before earning his PhD under Prof. Reginald Mitchell at the University of Victoria in Canada. He went on to postdoc with Prof. Ron Breslow at Columbia University and spent a year at Cambridge under Prof. Florian Hollfelder before joining IISER Kolkata as an Assistant Professor.

Since then, he's picked up 4 Best Teacher Awards from IISER Kolkata's own student community, become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and earned an Honorary Membership of the American Chemical Society.

This July, as Head Mentor, he guided India's 4-student team through the 58th IChO in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. All 4 came home with gold. India tied for Rank 1 with China and Vietnam, its best result in 27 appearances at the competition.

Mentor who spent 27 years building the platform his students needed just 5 days in Tashkent to stand on.

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@vtchakarova Too many cooks with preferred recipees spoil the broth.

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@IndianTechGuide What about married WOMEN in live-in relationships with another man? They're free to do as they please?

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@PeterDiamandis @elonmusk Pied pipers and their pipe dreams as thought and thinking - intellect- is protective in nature. Intelligence is life and can never or should be captured.