Tradition, Culture, Religion & Law in Indian Society

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“Civilizations Do Not Fall By Swords”: Gautam Adani Warns Against Attacks On India’s Cultural Memory
At the Adani Global Indology Conclave 2025, Gautam Adani warned that civilizations “do not fall by swords alone” but collapse when cultural memory is attacked. Citing the destruction of Nalanda and other ancient universities, and Macaulay’s colonial overhaul of India’s knowledge systems, Adani said the real damage came from erasing confidence and stealing intellectual heritage. He stressed that safeguarding cultural memory is essential to protecting a civilization’s future.
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This Stalin family is a periyar worshipper.
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Oh CANADA! – Misrepresenting Hindu Art at Glenbow Museum, Calgary

Some western museums and art dealers grossly misrepresent Hindu art. Example: Below is a photo of original c. 5th/6th-century Ramayana art. Glenbow museum labeled the scene below as "Sita" with Hanuman.

Shocking. Wrong. Gross negligence too, because it has two inscriptions. Left says: "Simhika", Right: Hanu/Ma. Simhika is the demoness who tries to stop Hanuman from crossing over to Lanka. When questioned about this nonsense, Glenbow curators blamed the Art Dealer's info.

Source: Laxshmi Greaves (2018), Locating the Lost Gupta Period Ramayana Reliefs from Katingara, Uttar Pradesh
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It’s a documented fact that the Caste system itself was invented outside India - a purely European invention called “Sistema de Casta“ practiced by them for centuries.

"Casta" is a Spanish word meaning lineage documented since 1417. It is the root of the English word caste. Spanish & Portuguese invented this hierarchical race-based "caste system" rooted in concept of purity of blood called "Limpieza de sangre", to identify anyone with Jewish or Muslim heritage to persecute them during the Christian Inquisition. The OG caste system invented by them was called “Sistema de Casta”.

They created an entire genre of disgusting racist Casta paintings to show their racist caste system where they believed the darker your skin, the stupider and more savage you were. Anyone with blood linked to dark skin was classified as a ”stain" by them. Most Indians would be called a “stain” by them because we have the genetic heritage of darker skin than them.

Casta paintings depicted the supposed "innate" character & quality of people connected to their birth and skin color. In a painting by José Joaquín Magón, a mestizo (mixed Indian + Spanish) was labelled “humble, meek, and docile” because of darker skin than Whites. Casta paintings such as this by Ignacio Barreda (1777) showed white Spainards at highest social status & dark skinned as more “uncivilized at a lower status.” Entire categories of vile racist discrimination based on skin color were institutionalized by bigoted Europeans in their Casta system.

When Portuguese came to India they simply transposed their word “Casta” from Sistema De Casta (caste system) to classify Indian endogamous groups with hereditary occupations.

I challenge anyone to find a single Indian text with the word “caste” in it before Portuguese came to India.

Moronic Indians who hate their own civilization perpetuated their utterly stupid lies - & the rest is history.

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Cross posting from Modi 3.0
India Pushes Gita Diplomacy Worldwide As Jaishankar Highlights Kurukshetra Mahotsav’s Growing Reach
India has launched one of its biggest cultural diplomacy missions yet, and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is leading it from the front. Speaking at the International Gita Mahotsav in Kurukshetra, he announced that more than 50 Indian missions across the world are hosting parallel celebrations to take the message of the Bhagavad Gita global. The festival, now a growing international movement, showcases India’s civilizational depth and the modern relevance of Lord Krishna’s teachings. With exhibitions, translated editions, cultural programs, and foreign scholars joining worldwide, the Gita Mahotsav is becoming a platform for unity, harmony, and shared values. As Kurukshetra prepares for massive participation and PM Modi’s visit, India is sending a clear message: the world’s oldest philosophies still shape the world’s newest power.
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Rajiv Malhotra Reveals 108 Frameworks

Rajiv Malhotra introduces 108 frameworks of Indian thought - decades of debates, encounters, and challenges crystallized into structured frameworks. Fragmented training data leads to contradiction and why frameworks solve this based on the most important aspects of Indian School of Thought. Drawing on decades’ of experience, Rajiv says these frameworks represent a bold, coherent, and original school of thought rooted in Vedic first principles — yet designed to engage the modern world with intellectual sharpness, strategic clarity, and cultural confidence. The 108 frameworks systematizes Indic knowledge into a living, evolving civilizational toolkit.

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Research: 803 Million Missing Hindu Souls (700-2025) – A Demographic Audit

The Indian Subcontinent

By Ofer Binshtok

They tell you Hindus are 1.26 billion today.
That’s a lie by omission.

Without 1300 years of industrial-scale slaughter and enslavement, we would be almost 2.1 billion today, bigger than China, bigger than the entire Muslim world.

803 million of us are simply gone.

Tens of millions were butchered in cold blood. Millions more were abducted as children, castrated, marched through the Hindu Kush and sold into slavery. The rest, hundreds of millions, were never born because entire bloodlines were exterminated centuries ago.

This is not a “demographic deficit.”

This is the largest Blood Tax ever imposed on any civilization in recorded history.

Every excuse collapses instantly.

British colonialism?
The bloodletting began in 712 CE, one thousand years before the British arrived.


Climate or soil?
The Ganges plain is more fertile than the Yellow River. China still grew ×29.5 since 700 CE despite worse land. We used the most conservative benchmark.

Only one force ruled the Indian Subcontinent, and never China, for eleven straight centuries:
Islamic conquest, Jihad and theocratic domination.

Carried out through three documented mechanisms:

Ghazwa: ritual holy war and mass murder
Hindu-Kush slave trade: millions of breeding-age Hindus erased forever
Jizya: economic strangulation until conversion or death

803 million Hindu souls. Killed. Enslaved. Prevented from ever being born.

The numbers do not lie.
The graph does not lie.
The blood still screams from the earth.

(See attached graph, the final indictment)

Full forensic report and sources in the first comment below.

If you have another explanation, bring it.

We’re waiting.

Note on Statistical Variance:
Historical demography over millennial timescales inherently involves margins of error due to variations in baseline estimates and modeling techniques across different academic sources. A standard statistical deviation range of ±5–10% applies to these projections. However, even accounting for maximum deviation, the scale of the demographic deficit remains catastrophic and in the range of hundreds of millions, reinforcing the fundamental conclusion of systemic suppression.
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Gaze at these stone reliefs: a warrior dispatching his enemy, a woman methodically tying her hair—evoking 𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐩𝐚𝐝𝐢'𝐬 grim resolve post-Dushasana's fall in the Mahabharata, or perhaps a kindred tale from ancient lore?

Carvings like these blend vengeance with dharma's shadows, outlasting faded texts yet sparking debates on their true origins. What layered myths do they guard against simplistic retellings?

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