Bharat R

Dharmic! Interest in Indology, Indian thought, history, music and mathematics. RT are not endorsements.

[Mary Millben @MaryMillben]

@elonmusk, dear, because I greatly respect you, let me say this. Cozying up to the likes of @RahulGandhi will not escalate a Starlink license. But further delay it.

Companies all over the world successfully do business with India. As you know, foreign partnership starts with respect for the country and its leadership. Rahul lacks respect for both his own country and PM Modi. He is bad company.

And “the other guy” is one of the greatest and most powerful leaders in the world today and will be governing India a long time. You want a license? I suggest shifting your public messages to the attention of PM @narendramodi and not wannabees like Rahul.

Congrats on your award today, BTW. Thank you for all your contributions to our great country. 🇺🇸

[Aravind @aravind]

Indians (from present day AP) landed in Australia in their sea faring boats some 4000 years before Europeans did. They also brought the Desi Kutta with them in their boats which forms the ancestor of Dingo dogs. The genetic imprint of Indians 141 generations ago is substantial.

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

⚠️ New details on what happened inside the Flydubai cockpit, in Captain Smit Machchar’s own account to the Israeli PM:

1️⃣ The flight was normal. The co-pilot said he wanted to pray, something Machchar says was not unusual among local pilots.

2️⃣ Machchar faced forward while the co-pilot prayed behind him.

3️⃣ Four or five minutes later, Machchar says he was suddenly struck hard on the back of his head.

4️⃣ His first thought was catastrophic aircraft damage. Then the blows kept coming. He realised it was the co-pilot attacking him.

5️⃣ The initial blows left his vision severely blurred. He tried to fight back, but says he could barely see.

6️⃣ His next sensation was the aircraft plunging sharply. His memory of these moments remains fragmented.

7️⃣ He recalls managing to open the cockpit door once, but says the co-pilot apparently shut it again.

8️⃣ Lying on the cockpit floor, he could hear the aircraft rushing through the air and passengers screaming.

9️⃣ Machchar says he realised he had “one last fight” left. His thought was brutally simple: if he didn’t act, he was going to die.

🔟 He threw everything he had into reaching and opening the cockpit door. People outside were waiting to pounce. They entered, control was regained.

[Savitri Mumukshu - सावित्री मुमुक्षु @MumukshuSavitri]

I can't remember the last time I was so deeply moved by someone’s words.

Captain Smit ’s courage is extraordinary in itself that he found the presence of mind to unlock the cockpit door so that a catastrophe was averted and saved so many other passengers.

But when watching him speak with PM Modi, what moved me much more deeply was something truly quiet and stirring.

When he said that even in those terrifying moments when his own life was under the Jih@-di’s attack he was reciting the Hanuman Chalisa, I got literal goosebumps.

And then he spoke about his life at home how every morning he performs his puja, puts his child on his lap and reads the Hanuman Chalisa with him. His reason was so simple, yet it pierced straight through my heart.

“We may be far from the nation, but we should never be far from our Sanskriti.”

That was the moment my tears simply welled over.

Because this is what sanskār truly means. It is not something we merely speak about when life is comfortable. It is what remains within us when everything else falls away when there is fear, pain, uncertainty and no time to pretend to be anything other than who you truly are.

It is those noble parents who instilled the Gīta’s values in him and the incredible bravery of a valiant wife who is carrying her husband’s well-being with her unshakeable faith - who deserve all our gratitude as well.

In Captain Smit’s story, I see something profound that defines Hindus - courage without boastfulness, duty in the face of mortal danger, unshakeable faith in our gods in the darkest moment and the quiet determination to pass on one’s civilizational inheritance to our future generations.

Thank you, Smit, for reminding us what it means to carry Dharma within ourselves.

And for reminding us that our sanskārs are not just some relics of our past. They are the inspiration that give us the strength to stand up for truth even when the world around us is so frightening and full of the poison of fanaticism.

[Griffin @6ESinger157593]

Had this man not found the courage to fight back after being repeatedly attacked with an axe capable of cutting through metal—while bleeding profusely—and had the presence mind to trigger the hijack/emergency code, initiate the emergency response and open the cockpit door to allow passengers to assist him, the aircraft’s subsequent dive could have had catastrophic consequences.

Had that aircraft not been recovered, the geopolitical consequences for the Middle East could have been profound and potentially irreversible.

Sometimes history turns on the courage, resilience and presence of mind of one person.

Yes. One Indian man.

[Girish Bharadwaj @Girishbdwj]

Do you know about Jallianwala Bagh of South?
In 1948,Nizam’s police made 200 Hindus stand in a line & sh0t them dead.

Their crime? Refusal to pay Jizya tax.

This happened in Bhairanpally. While Jallianwala Bagh is taught in schools, Bhairanpally massacre is ignored.

[Ravinder Reddy @MRavinderReddi]

My ancestor Cheruku Bollaya Reddy was a great patron of Sanskrit. My favourite passage on the pillar he commissioned in 1202 is about his mother, Kuppāmbā.

On 10 March 1202, Bollaya Reddy installed three Śiva liṅgas on a rock outside Jalālpuram, the old Jammulūru, in today's Sūryāpet district. He named them Kētēśvara, Kāṭēśvara and Mārēśvara after his father and brothers.

He also had the family's story carved into a pillar: four faces and 126 lines, with Sanskrit verse on two faces and Telugu on the other two.

This is the verse about Kuppāmbā:

… Kuppāmbām upayēmē 'sau bhāgyaśālinīṁ, ratiṁ Kāmaḥ Śacīm Indraḥ Lakṣmīṁ Nārāyaṇō yathā. Kāṭaṁ Māraṁ ca Bollaṁ ca lēbhē tasyām asau sutān, Kuntyāṁ Pāṇḍunṛpō Dharmasutaṁ Bhīmārjunāv iva.

"He married the fortunate Kuppāmbā, as Kāma married Rati, as Indra married Śacī, as Nārāyaṇa married Lakṣmī. By her he had sons, Kāṭa, Māra and Bolla, as King Pāṇḍu had Yudhiṣṭhira, Bhīma and Arjuna by Kuntī."

There's a lot of thought in those two lines. The poet compares the marriage to three divine marriages, each bringing something different to the description. Kāma, the god of love, and Rati suggest desire; Indra, king of the gods, and his queen Śacī bring kingship; Nārāyaṇa, or Viṣṇu, and Lakṣmī bring prosperity.

Even the word chosen for Kuppāmbā, bhāgyaśālinī, "rich in good fortune," seems to carry the Lakṣmī comparison a little further.

The comparison between the sons is more precise than it might first appear. Pāṇḍu had five sons in the Mahābhārata, but only three by Kuntī: Yudhiṣṭhira, Bhīma and Arjuna. Kuppāmbā also had three: Kāṭa, Māra and Bolla.

Our upcoming Substack piece will cover Bollaya Reddy and the origins of the Cheruku Reddys in more detail.

[Bharat R @ubramwest]

@Arya_Anviksha_ Great to hear from you. Wish you full recovery soon. Ganesha blessings.

[Bharat R @ubramwest]

@maghastrology Moon, Venus, Mars and Saturn in Gemini /12th house?

[Shekar Iyer @SHEKARSUSHEEL]

Such a comforting film. Must watch.
Ganpati Bappa Moriya 🙏🙏
Am posting this as you wished, my dear friend Upjeet @Upjeet7 👍

[Neena Rai @NeenaRai]

The evening after JAUHAR, once the women had died, the Rajputs and the surviving men donned saffron-colored robes (kesariya), smeared turmeric on themselves, and rode out of the fort gates for a suicidal, fierce last stand against the enemy with no intent to return. The Hindus called it the SAKA.

What happened to women who did not commit Jauhar?

The gift bestowed upon the enslaved women by their muslim master was HUMILIATION and a DEGRADED life. The unmitigated lust of the muslim invaders, like the Turks and the Mughals, who enslaved Hindu women solely for the purpose of obtaining sexual pleasure from them—reduced a Hindu woman's existence exclusively to carnality and breeding.

To understand the plight of women who were unable to commit Jauhar, let's take the example of the massacre of Chios by the Turks. What the muslims did to Hindu women, they also did to women across Eurasia.

Now, the concept of Jauhar (mass self-immolation by Kshatriya women) is absent in Europe, and those women suffered terribly. Many of them committed suicide, and the older women were burnt alive by the muslims.

About a massacre just 200 years ago, the Greek author @HomerPavlos writes: On March 30, 1822, when the massacre in Chios began, the Muslim Turks had clear orders. The Sultan had commanded that all Greek Christians be slaughtered, except for boys aged 3-12 and women from 12 to 40. These would be captured and destined for the slave markets.

Young girls were raped publicly in the streets, and newlyweds in front of their husbands, who were then slaughtered. Others were raped in front of their parents, after which the men's genitals were cut off.

Women over 40 were set on fire and left to burn alive. Pregnant women had their bellies ripped open and their fetuses pulled out, while small children were thrown forcefully against rocks.

The frenzy of the Muslims was unprecedented. Many Turkish soldiers cut off the heads of Greek Christians and then licked their swords. With this act, they believed they would earn a place in paradise. Others were hanged from the island's trees for deterrence.

Severed human limbs and corpses were scattered on the streets, while the sea had turned red from the blood. The smoke from the burning houses had covered all of Chios, while the flames made the night look like day.

Several women from Chios preferred death over dishonour and slavery. They committed suicide by jumping off cliffs. Some were killed while defending their children, siblings, and husbands. Even among those who were captured, some died on hunger strike. Destitute women and children from the island were crammed into ships and transported to the markets of Smyrna and Constantinople, where they were sold as slaves at humiliating prices.

The priest Welsh from the English embassy in Constantinople recorded what he saw in those days at the city's slave market: "The Turks treated the women from Chios with utmost contempt. They examined them, groped them like butchers do lambs, and bought them for 100 grosia (Greek money) to 3 pounds per head. About 500 women from Chios were sold in the fish market."

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Those women who claim that one should 'choose life' and not commit mass suicide are the ones whose fantasy revolves around this kind of degradation and humiliation. Called Hastini in Kama Shastra, her own lust consumes her so much that she brings the ruin of her family and clan.

Shrupnakha was a Hastini; we know what happened to the clan of Rakshas. Her physical features are fatness of the body and a smell down there that resembles the smell of the 'mast', the discharge on the forehead of an elephant in heat.

Image credit: attributed to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Museum of Indian History, founded by @fgautier26

It depicts the Jauhar of Rajput women during the siege of Chittorgarh Fort by Rakesh, 2011

[Bharat R @ubramwest]

@filmervishal Please release in USA with subtitles. We are eager to watch.

[Monidipa Bose - Dey (মণিদীপা) @monidipadey]

Let us not confuse one time rape, with life time sex slavery that came with daily humiliation and the passing off of women to different men as war loot. The two are entirely different things.

After capturing Hindu women what happened was documented by Ibn Battuta, where he mentioned seeing captured Hindu princesses forced to dance during Eid and given to court nobles as gifts.

To understand the level of degradation of captured Hindu women, one needs to understand a line written by the Islamic invaders themselves :

“Dukhtaran-e-Hindustan
Neelam e do dinar.”

Dukhtaran means women or daughter. In this context, meaning of the statement is ~ ‘The captive women of Hindustan were auctioned for two dinars.’
So many Hindu women were captured that the price sometimes would be even less than one dinar for lifetime sex slavery.

It was to avoid this humiliation, Hindu women would choose to commit Jauhar, when defeat was inevitable.

That was medieval era.
Coming to modern times, just eighty years ago, when the Congress President’s wife, Sucheta Kripalani, was staying in Noakhali (after the ri0ts) with Mohandas Karamchand Gandh she carried a cyanide capsule with her.
Why do you think she carried it? For the same reason women in India committed Jauhar during Islamic invasions.

The recent sex slaves of ISIS (mostly Christians) have said innumerable times in various interviews that they wish they had died before being captured by the ISIS men (second image is of a sex slave of ISIS).

It was a sense of self respect and dignity that made them refuse to be converted and sold naked in open s|ave markets, to live as sex s|aves and getting raped daily by multiple men.

One time rape is a red herring being used to dilute the lifelong horror that the captured Hindu women faced in medieval times.

[Bharat R @ubramwest]

@GurorangriPadme @rvaidya2000 @mbajaj20 @LevinaNeythiri Thank you for connecting the dots.
@rvaidya2000
Is it possible for India to create more sustainable policy to fine regulatory penalties that would impact balance sheet and eventually impacting stock price?

[Bharat R @ubramwest]

@pvsubramanyam In my India visit list. 2 warm tears for the brave Rajasthani women who did ultimate sacrifice. 🙏🏻

[Bharat R @ubramwest]

@TrueIndology @AtriNeeraj @Arya_Anviksha_ Prayers for speedy recovery

[Bharat R @ubramwest]

@pmastrology_com Have Ketu in 6th house .

[CoHNA (Coalition of Hindus of North America) @CoHNAOfficial]

This is a deeply troubling case. We pray for Ms. Vasamsetty’s health and for a swift and fair determination of the merits of her case by the courts.

We are also deeply concerned by the apparent disregard for her religious rights, particularly the cavalier dismissal of her religiously rooted aversion to consuming beef. At a time when our legal system appropriately accommodates the sincerely held religious beliefs of even those who have been convicted and incarcerated, it is unacceptable for a grandmother facing hotly disputed allegations to have her own faith treated with such disregard.

Religious freedom is a bedrock principle of the U.S. Constitution and the American way of life. Ms. Vasamsetty has lived and worked legally in this country for decades, dedicating herself to serving disadvantaged students in the community she made her home. That she should now be treated in this manner by the very government and society she has served is deeply troubling.

We urge elected officials and relevant authorities to ensure that her civil and religious rights are fully respected and to recognize this case as part of the broader concern over anti-Hindu bias in America.
@SanfordBishop @RepMcCormick @RepSuhas

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[Bharat R @ubramwest]

@maghapphalguni 7th house in Gemini

[Bharat R @ubramwest]

@VedicAstro1991 How about Ketu in sixth house