Massive win for students protesting on the streets of India -but a sad commentary on the state of our democracy.
Forget @dpradhanbjp having some shame and stepping down - now after close to 50 days of protest & a massive hunger strike by @Wangchuk66 ... the BJP Govt has 'agreed' to a discussion.
OH MY GOD! - Paw-Paw has 'agreed'!!!
(Wonder will it take for them to 'agree' to their incompetence)
We request @Wangchuk66 sir to end his hunger strike. The country needs him, and his life is far too precious to be put at further risk.
The peaceful protest at Jantar Mantar will continue until our demands are met.
Breaking : This is ABSOLUTE COURAGE 🗿
Journalist –– What do you want to say about students protest?
Actor Johny Lever 🔥 –– " I saw those visuals and i am hurt, my mood was ruined watching students suffer. Govt should listen them"
Amir, Akshay, Amitabh should learn 🫡
-Opposition question chesthe adi muslim party
-Hindus question chesthe anti Hindu
-Christians question chesthe converted rice bags
-muslims question chesthe terrorist/pakistan
Ante entra govt ni question cheyoddu, question chesthe anti-nationals idem dikkumalina comments ra
No they do not. In 1952 Islamists took control of ministry of religion in Indonesia and declared Balinese Hindus “people without religion” because it didn’t fit with definition of religion per Islamic view. Very existence of Hinduism in Bali was threatened.
At that time some Hindu Shastris from India helped them to standardized Balinese Hinduism on Agamic principles and then Indian diplomats pursued Indonesian government to recognize it.
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.
"Na me pārthāsti kartavyaṁ triṣu lokeṣu kiñcana…
varta eva ca karmaṇi"
O Arjun, there is no duty in the three worlds that I must perform, yet I am engaged in action.
Painting by Giampaolo Tomassetti.
ASI to restore the historic Lord Shiva Temple at Palampet (v), Mulugu (d), Telangana, adjoining the iconic Ramappa Temple.
Built around c.1213 CE by Recherla Rudra Reddy, the General of Kakatiya ruler Ganapati Deva, the temple has now been declared a Monument of National Importance by the Archaeological Survey of India on 02-Jul-2026.
Images from the Gazette notification.🛕
#Kakatiya #ASI #Telangana #IndianHeritage #History #Andhra #Telugu #Culture #India #UNESCO #TFI #OG