Venkat Prasad 🇮🇳

Hopeless Optimist 😇 Spiritualist 👁️ Tactical Casuist 🦅 Political Realist 🃏 History Buff #INFJ 🗝️ सोहम शिवोहम

[Venkat Prasad 🇮🇳 @simply_venky]

this intent to do good for all is what defines our collective civilizational consciousness.. We are but the first victims of that good intent but since its dharma don't abandon it..

[satya @SThinkTnereffid]

Any other country be it the UK, China or the US would probably have asked them to merge with the country.

But we chose not to. We're too good to survive in this Yuga.

Maybe that's why Lord Vishnu will reincarnate, to protect this land.

[🀄ɸǤ⛩️ @iamhemuk]

Temple lekapothe Religion change chesukovali kaani ivem panulu 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[Venkat Prasad 🇮🇳 @simply_venky]

Ugly face of White Guilt

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

From late 1800's to around 1950's, there were human zoos internationally. From Europe to New York, there were people of color (POC) residing in zoos and museums as living exhibits. They were Africans, Asians, Latin Americans and Indigenous people. They were on display, clothed or nude, in “naturalistic” man-made habitats purported to look as close to each captive POC’s homeland. Spectators would pet and photograph them because they viewed these people as 'exotic animals'. POC were held captive for having body parts, sizes or shapes, considered “unusual” to non-POC eye.

In 1906 at Bronx Zoo in New York City, there was an exhibit called “The Monkey House”. This was essentially a human zoo. Among other captive people, who were all in different makeshift, artificial exhibits of their homelands, there was a Congolese man named Ota Benga who was put on display with a monkey. People that came to see these exhibits gawked and ogled. They used his cultural practices as a show for the public such as using his archery skills and weaving skills as a performance act. These people placed him in the same category as an animal and dehumanized him.

Similar to Ota Benga, Saartjie Baartman was also placed on display as a living, breathing exhibit. Baartman was a black woman who had a health condition called Steatopygia. Steatopygia is an excessive development and build up of fat in lower areas of the body commonly in women of African descent. Due to Baartman’s symptoms, her body features were put on display at London’s Piccadilly Circus as an attraction for public eye. Her private areas and large buttocks were considered ‘exotic’, and unusual. Wealthy customers paid for private shows in their homes where she was touched like a pet. When she died at age 26, a plaster cast of her body was made before her autopsy. Her skeleton, brain, and genitals were preserved in pickling juice and jars. They were placed on display at Paris’s ‘Museum of Man’ until 1974. In 2002, her remains were removed and taken back to Eastern Cape Province to be buried.

Reverend James H. Gordon, superintendent of the Howard Colored Orphan Asylum in Brooklyn, voiced his disapproval of these exhibits and said “Our race, we think, is depressed enough without exhibiting one of us with the apes. We think we are worthy of being considered human beings, with souls.”.

While a person using word exotic to describe a person of another race and culture than their own may seem like a harmless compliment, it's actually a backhanded compliment. It is a reminder that they are less human and less real compared to non POC. It points out their race as being of wonder, as if they're a sideshow act at a circus that you can't see anywhere else. It's demoralizing and is viewing and labeling a person as an object. This results in what's called 'otherization'.

Othering and otherization is defined as categorizing a living, conscious being as something abnormal. This can happen when describing a POC and their physical features. Comparisons of their physical features to food or objects is a common occurrence. This could be from saying things such as one person has almond eyes, silky or kinky hair or chocolate skin.

Human beings are not objects, they are people that deserve to be treated like they aren't a different species. The more we decolonize the word exotic from our vocabularies the closer people will come to joining with POC and their constant fight to be seen as human, rather than othering them as exotic objects. The words you say and actions you take can affect people’s lives. Take the time to understand the meanings behind the stereotypes, jokes, and terms that are being widely used. It may be surprising to find that most, if not all of them, are racist, offensive, and dehumanizing for the people being described.

📷 : Filipino girl in New York's Coney Island Exhibit in 1905.

© Library of Congress

#archaeohistories

[Venkat Prasad 🇮🇳 @simply_venky]

@mmpandit Tathastu

[Joseph T Noony @JoeAgneya]

Are Indians aware of their privilege?

More than four thousand years of continuous literary tradition. Over a dozen distinct libraries. The Vedic corpus, Sutra texts, Abhidharma pitaka, Mahayana corpus, Jain literature, Nalanda corpus, Siddhantas etc. Even reading half of them will give you a distinct and divergent mind.

For most of history, the majority of Indians had no access to these texts. But today we have printing technology and the internet. 'Arrogance' is the only word to describe this generation of Indians who refuse to make use of this magnificent inheritance.

[Gulab @trygulab]

Presenting SHAMSHAN VASI. The third chapter in our Tales of Shiva series.

Made in 6 hours, during @11fpsai x @morphic AI Filmmaking hackathon.

Out of 292 films, it placed 2nd.

[Venkat Prasad 🇮🇳 @simply_venky]

We stand tall and together against all odds.. We are here not just to survive but thrive like our ancestors.. Jai Hind.. Jai Bharat..

[Keh Ke Peheno @coolfunnytshirt]

Ajit Doval sir! 🔥🙏🇮🇳

[Surjikaunl @Nyegdari]

Uttarakhand is truly one of the best places for folk ,and Kumaoni songs have such a catchy, refreshing vibe.
This is Nikhil Saklani from Dun, currently on a tour with fellow musicians, performing this beautiful Kumaoni song.
Just loving it! ❤️🏔️
“Oh bhena kas ke jaal dwarhata"

[SPORTS ARENA🇮🇳 @SportsArena1234]

🚨BREAKING🚨

🇮🇳 INDIA MEN'S QUADRANT SEPAKTAKRAW TEAM WINS WORLD C'SHIPS BRONZE 🥉

India lost SF vs Hosts Thailand in a 3-setter 15-9, 9-15, 9-15 to settle for Bronze🥉

Sepaktakraw (Quadrant) also features in Asian Games

India's 2nd medal this World's / Thai King's Cup (both bronze, other being Hoop)

🎦 A rally (Credits: Wearesepaktakraw YT)

[Venkat Prasad 🇮🇳 @simply_venky]

see those ashes on the forehead... ancients rising from there..

[Ali Mortazavi @AAMortazavi]

I’ve seen, met and played a lot of talented chess players in my life but let me tell you, Bodhana is the real deal

[Venkat Prasad 🇮🇳 @simply_venky]

Fck.... genes are just warming up..

[ISRO Spaceflight @ISROSpaceflight]

🚨 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮'𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹-𝗙𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗿���𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗱! 🔥

Bengaluru-based Astrobase Space has just unveiled their first fully integrated Full-Flow Staged Combustion cycle engine 'Everest'! 🚀

This makes India the 3rd country to build a FFSC rocket engine after US and China! 🇮🇳

It is an 80-tonne class Methalox engine, putting it in the same thrust category as SpaceX's Merlin engine (Kerolox), but much more efficient.

With its first hot-fire test only a few months away, Astrobase plans to use this engine on their upcoming reusable medium-lift launch vehicle expected to have its maiden flight in 2028.

[Venkat Prasad 🇮🇳 @simply_venky]

@IndianAesthetik Left anywhere is an American Creation play for American Interests.. Everything else is hogwash

[Venkat Prasad 🇮🇳 @simply_venky]

Nothing comes closer to this feeling of being a Bharatiya. Only few get to know it

[Sumi 🌸 @Sumi_Scorpio]

Try n learn respect, try to bring sense of respect in your child’s upbringing, Meerabai Chanu is also a Gen Z whom you are openly preaching how to abuse elderly people & lastly have some shame, people will make u taste your preaching here @RichaChadha

[Venkat Prasad 🇮🇳 @simply_venky]

@iAsura_ Amriki Tilchatton ne andar ka Bhakat bahar laa diya...😂..

[Venkat Prasad 🇮🇳 @simply_venky]

@aneudaimonic Rahul was always your leader.. why be diplomatic about it..

[Madhav Chanchani @madhavchanchani]

Wait till you find out about a fund which has invested in Haldiram's and VLCC in India, and Anthropic and SpaceX in the US :)

[Venkat Prasad 🇮🇳 @simply_venky]

@_mrdu_ @iAsura_ Yeah we know where the 3 eyed evil operates from 👽

[Venkat Prasad 🇮🇳 @simply_venky]

@iAsura_ OG Indian Mindset

[Venkat Prasad 🇮🇳 @simply_venky]

@iAsura_ Kuch toh bahana chahiye 🔥 lagane ke liye..

[Armchair Ranting Enjoyer @resistanceenjoy]

I don’t give 2 shits about the protests

All I care about is when FCRA Bill, 2026 gets passed.