“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.
Tradition, Culture, Religion & Law in Indian Society
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This Stalin family is a periyar worshipper.
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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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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.
@MumukshuSavitri
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.
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.
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.
@Ofer_binshtok
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?
Hampi
@GemsOfINDOLOGY
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?
Hampi
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Govt press release
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https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage ... ID=2194540
With over 705 unique tribal groups making up 8.6% of its population, India is home to a vibrant heritage of unique traditional arts and handicrafts preserved by these communities.
At the 44th India International Trade Fair in New Delhi, India’s rich tribal artforms are being honoured to commemorate ‘Ek Bharat: Shrestha Bharat’ (‘One India: Great India’).
At the Fair, tribal groups from across the country are exhibiting their work to a wider audience, supported by the Government of India and state governments.
Promotion of India’s tribal art and handicrafts ensures that these age-old traditions survive the test of time and contribute to the inclusive socio-economic development of India, as the country positions itself to be a $5 trillion economy by 2047.
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Gada, a traditional indian training tool used for over 3000 years in martial arts and kusti is now rebranded as “Macebell Training”.
Just like Yoga, Clothes, Food and many more things, even this doesn’t get the right credit.
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Gada, a traditional indian training tool used for over 3000 years in martial arts and kusti is now rebranded as “Macebell Training”.
Just like Yoga, Clothes, Food and many more things, even this doesn’t get the right credit.
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Devdutt’s original post against Chanakya:
954.4 K views
3.5 K likes
1.3K RTs
My rebuttal to his lies:
64.6K views
1.7 K likes
772 RTs
It's becoming increasingly clear that the problem lies with the algorithm which ensures that posts by strident Hindu voices like mine are made less visible so that our audience doesn't even get to see them.
Sad that Hindus have to deal with this kind of subtle censorship on SM platforms
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Devdutt’s original post against Chanakya:
954.4 K views
3.5 K likes
1.3K RTs
My rebuttal to his lies:
64.6K views
1.7 K likes
772 RTs
It's becoming increasingly clear that the problem lies with the algorithm which ensures that posts by strident Hindu voices like mine are made less visible so that our audience doesn't even get to see them.
Sad that Hindus have to deal with this kind of subtle censorship on SM platforms
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@LevinaNeythiri
Goosebumps
You are not a SANATANI if your brain doesnt not send out a signal to nod your head with the BEATS of Panchari melam.
Loc: Sree Poornathrayeesa Temple in (Tripunithura, Kerala)
VrishchikalUlsavam— meaning the festival of Vrishchikam month.
Credit: Kshethra_media
@LevinaNeythiri
Goosebumps
You are not a SANATANI if your brain doesnt not send out a signal to nod your head with the BEATS of Panchari melam.
Loc: Sree Poornathrayeesa Temple in (Tripunithura, Kerala)
VrishchikalUlsavam— meaning the festival of Vrishchikam month.
Credit: Kshethra_media
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Even after 3 years of my previous post
When a Hoysala-era temple that stood in the time of King veera Ballala III is reduced to this condition… and that too in Jigani, Bengaluru, right beside a Government Veterinary Hospital…
we are truly at a loss for words.
This is the Varadaraja Swamy Temple — a silent witness to 700+ years of history
Today it stands neglected, vulnerable, and forgotten.
If a Hoysala monument in Namma Bengaluru itself cannot be protected, what message does it send for the rest of Karnataka’s heritage?
Can anyone save this priceless legacy?
Appealing to authorities and heritage lovers to intervene before it vanishes forever.
@swamin400
Even after 3 years of my previous post
When a Hoysala-era temple that stood in the time of King veera Ballala III is reduced to this condition… and that too in Jigani, Bengaluru, right beside a Government Veterinary Hospital…
we are truly at a loss for words.
This is the Varadaraja Swamy Temple — a silent witness to 700+ years of history
Today it stands neglected, vulnerable, and forgotten.
If a Hoysala monument in Namma Bengaluru itself cannot be protected, what message does it send for the rest of Karnataka’s heritage?
Can anyone save this priceless legacy?
Appealing to authorities and heritage lovers to intervene before it vanishes forever.
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@GemsOfINDOLOGY
THREAD: How Bengaluru Buried 3,000 Years Under Asphalt
1/ Take a moment. Picture Chikkajala—a megalithic burial site predating empires we revere. Unearthed by Captain Branfil in colonial times, packed with Iron Age cists (500-1000 BCE) and striking black-and-red pottery. Priceless for science. Until we paved it over. What a legacy, eh?
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THREAD: How Bengaluru Buried 3,000 Years Under Asphalt
1/ Take a moment. Picture Chikkajala—a megalithic burial site predating empires we revere. Unearthed by Captain Branfil in colonial times, packed with Iron Age cists (500-1000 BCE) and striking black-and-red pottery. Priceless for science. Until we paved it over. What a legacy, eh?
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INDIA'S PROSPERITY BEFORE ISLAM: Evidence from Cairo Geniza (1060–1260 AD)
Long before the first Sultan sat in Delhi, the Indian Ocean was the highway of world trade. India stood at its heart.
Proof: Jewish papers written in Judeo-Arabic.
In Cairo’s historic Ben Ezra Synagogue, 200,000 pages lay forgotten in a geniza over 1000 years. Among them: contracts, letters, dowry lists, tax receipts—and many folios on India.
Scholars at Cambridge Univ have published some of these India fragments (Goitein's "India Book").
These pages list what India produced and exported before any army crossed the Indus to found the Delhi Sultanate.
What India exported to Aden, Cairo, and beyond?
1⃣Raw and simple goods:
Copper, bronze, iron, rice, wheat, oil, vinegar, lemon, ginger, coconut, ghee, sugar, betel nuts, spices, dyes, lacquer, etc.
2⃣Finished goods
Textiles, ready made clothes, scarves, robes, dyed leather, shoes, furniture, carpets, iron and copper lamps, pots, pans, bowls, glasses, teak boards, locks, bedsteads, table jugs, etc.
3⃣Beauty and fashion
Soap (sabun), perfumes, musk, pearls, gems, bracelets, necklaces, silk robes, ornamented mirrors, silver boxes, belts, earrings, jewelry, etc
4⃣Repair work
Broken luxury items from the Middle East were shipped to Indian craftsmen, mended, and sent back.
What India imported in return?
Walnuts, olives, paper, lead, alkali, coral, raisins, dates, cheese, linseed—and silver and gold ingots to pay the bill. Damaged household goods came too, for Indian hands to fix.
The ports: Bharuch (GJ), Thana-Mumbai (MH), Kollam (KL), Malabar coast.
The people:
Jewish letters mention Hindu partners. Jews call them “brother” or “friend.” They trust them with money and family. A Jewish traveller asks his son to lodge with a certain Hindu household on arrival. Hindu names appear as witnesses on Jewish legal contracts.
Hindus and Jews co-own ships. Hindus build ships, repair ships, sail them.
More evidence waits elsewhere: Ajanta and Bagh paintings, temple reliefs, copper-plate grants—all tell the same story of wealth and skill (futures).
Conclusions:
Before 1200 AD, India was the workshop and fashion house of the known world.
If silk robes, jewellery, soap, and fine steel already left Indian ports for Cairo and Aden centuries before Babur was born, what exactly did the Sultanates or Mughals bring that India did not already have? from where did they bring it?
@tapeshyadav_usa
INDIA'S PROSPERITY BEFORE ISLAM: Evidence from Cairo Geniza (1060–1260 AD)
Long before the first Sultan sat in Delhi, the Indian Ocean was the highway of world trade. India stood at its heart.
Proof: Jewish papers written in Judeo-Arabic.
In Cairo’s historic Ben Ezra Synagogue, 200,000 pages lay forgotten in a geniza over 1000 years. Among them: contracts, letters, dowry lists, tax receipts—and many folios on India.
Scholars at Cambridge Univ have published some of these India fragments (Goitein's "India Book").
These pages list what India produced and exported before any army crossed the Indus to found the Delhi Sultanate.
What India exported to Aden, Cairo, and beyond?
1⃣Raw and simple goods:
Copper, bronze, iron, rice, wheat, oil, vinegar, lemon, ginger, coconut, ghee, sugar, betel nuts, spices, dyes, lacquer, etc.
2⃣Finished goods
Textiles, ready made clothes, scarves, robes, dyed leather, shoes, furniture, carpets, iron and copper lamps, pots, pans, bowls, glasses, teak boards, locks, bedsteads, table jugs, etc.
3⃣Beauty and fashion
Soap (sabun), perfumes, musk, pearls, gems, bracelets, necklaces, silk robes, ornamented mirrors, silver boxes, belts, earrings, jewelry, etc
4⃣Repair work
Broken luxury items from the Middle East were shipped to Indian craftsmen, mended, and sent back.
What India imported in return?
Walnuts, olives, paper, lead, alkali, coral, raisins, dates, cheese, linseed—and silver and gold ingots to pay the bill. Damaged household goods came too, for Indian hands to fix.
The ports: Bharuch (GJ), Thana-Mumbai (MH), Kollam (KL), Malabar coast.
The people:
Jewish letters mention Hindu partners. Jews call them “brother” or “friend.” They trust them with money and family. A Jewish traveller asks his son to lodge with a certain Hindu household on arrival. Hindu names appear as witnesses on Jewish legal contracts.
Hindus and Jews co-own ships. Hindus build ships, repair ships, sail them.
More evidence waits elsewhere: Ajanta and Bagh paintings, temple reliefs, copper-plate grants—all tell the same story of wealth and skill (future
s). Conclusions:
Before 1200 AD, India was the workshop and fashion house of the known world.
If silk robes, jewellery, soap, and fine steel already left Indian ports for Cairo and Aden centuries before Babur was born, what exactly did the Sultanates or Mughals bring that India did not already have? from where did they bring it?
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Sadhguru SCHOOLS This Leftist Anchor So BADLY | Ram Mandir Flag Hoisting
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Priyanka, @AstroAmigo posted in X on 04 April, 2024 predicting on judicial reforms. See below.
https://x.com/AstroAmigo/status/1775725 ... wdvsQ&s=19
https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation ... ium-system
https://x.com/AstroAmigo/status/1775725 ... wdvsQ&s=19
Considering the justice Gavai's anti Hindu remarks and Modi's sky high praise of him just recently I was wondering if any meaningful reforms will happen in near future. Now it looks like it will happen.India will see a plethora of judicial reforms after November 2026.
Please note that I do not target (or intend to target) the judiciary in this tweet.
https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation ... ium-system
Also there are several posts in X about astrologer Punya Prakop's successful predictions of when Ram Mandir verdict and even the time period to the minutes were given. I may find it and post it here some time later.The Supreme Court on Wednesday said that it will consider a plea to revive the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) to replace the current collegium system for appointment of judges in the higher judiciary.
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The Supreme Court in 2015 had rejected the NJAC Act and the 99th Constitutional amendment, which sought to give politicians and civil society a final say in the appointment of judges to the higher courts.
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From journalist Rakesh Krishnan,
https://x.com/i/status/2004197384629506235
https://x.com/i/status/2004197384629506235
Below post also from Rakesh Krishnan quoting Sadhguru,My 3 day stay at Sadhguru's Isha Foundation in Coimbatore. Thread:
1. Day 1. I had expected it to be a quiet place with maybe some traffic. But I wasn't prepared for what seemed like a mini Kumbh Mela. I reached in the night and cars and buses were coming in at the rate of one every 30 seconds. There were literally hundreds of buses from all over India parked there. And the cars were beyond count.
2. The moment I stepped into the ashram premises, it felt like I was transported to a different world. The architecture, the materiald used and the absolute cleanliness of the place were impressive. Coimbatore is a pretty liveable city, quite green and much cleaner than most Indian cities, yet the contrast between the inside of Isha Foundation and the outside is unmissable.
3. Now add Indian spirituality into it, and the aura of the place is lifted. Once you are in, it's like living in a mini self-contained city with almost everything provided for. Sadhguru has done an immense service to India by developing this ashram.
4. The first stop is the evening sound and light show at the Adiyogi statue. The massive statue dominates the grounds. I'm not much of a sound and light person but Sadhguru's commentary is spellbinding.
5. Morning, Day 2. The ashram feels like a buzzing, busy, happening place with people from all over India and perhaps 10% from overseas. And unlike the images of Europeans chanting slokas in Iskcon or Osho, at Isha most of the foreigners are East Asian. Indresha, my point of contact at Isha, said pre-Covid, there were literally thousands of visitors from China. I felt the foreigners had more bhakti compared with the Indian visitors. This could be because we Indians are more touristy whereas the Chinese, Vietnamese and Cambodians came here specifically to seek peace.
6. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Isha is the young crowd. The average age of the ashram residents couldn't be more than 25. These youth don't come here to network or hook up; their gaze isn't wandering but instead fixed inwards. I felt most of them were greatly in turmoil and had found peace here. There was a sense of contentment on their faces. I'm sure, had they not come to Isha, many of them may have taken to drugs. This is why I thank Sadhguru from the bottom of my heart for saving the our young people - whether they be Indians or foreigners.
7. Food. All meals are free for those attending the various programmes. It's simple, healthy, sattvic and tasty vegetarian fare. Plus, it’s all you can eat. If you want something different, there are a couple of restaurants that offer tea, coffee, snacks and Indian and Western cuisine.
8. Isha School. If Sadhguru had only established the school and nothing more, I would still be eternally grateful to him. The school, attended mostly by tribal children, is located in a tranquil village a few km away from Isha. It's surrounded by trees and has a peaceful ambience. The best part is that the education is completely in English like any school in Delhi or Chennai. It blows your mind to see little tribal children speaking in perfect English like any Delhi kid (minus the fake accent and uppity attitude). All children are given wholesome, tasty food daily by the school free of cost. There are computer classes and science labs that are as good as any quality school in India. The red brick building is well maintained like a private school.
9. Shopping. I like that Isha doesn't act like a tourist trap that rips you off. Everything that I bought (saffron dhoti-pant, sukku coffee, copper bracelet) was reasonably priced and of a superior quality.
10. Accommodation. I chose the Nalanda rooms which are located in a beautiful garden/cove like space. The rooms are as good or better than 4 star quality. The ambience is unmistakably superior.
11. Day 3. Pre-dawn group meditation. You can come in and join the chanting or you can sit quietly and soak in the spirituality. It was amazing, but for me, the most unique and uplifting experience was the evening aarti which was held in a giant space age rotunda built entirely of stone. You can feel the energy there. There are several sessions of around 30 minutes each but it's best to be early and be in the first session which begins around 7pm.
12. The ashram has a gaushala where abandoned, old and sick cows are cared for. There is also a handsome bull who was once reportedly quite hot tempered and unruly but became gentle as a fawn in Sadhguru’s presence. I fed the bull and he seemed quite friendly.
13. Leaving was hard. A deep feeling of homesickness hit me in the tummy. In just three days, I had got attached to a place where I have no family or friends.
14. Even as I write this, I'm feeling nostalgic and want to visit again. The place has a strong pull - it's sattvic and I envy the volunteers who live there full time and are lucky to be part of a mini paradise. Although I had to get up at 4.00 am daily, I was full of energy all day. I guess, it's when we encounter such places as Isha that we realise what we are missing in our lives.
Sadhguru:
Sunday holiday does not work for Hindus in India. It is a hangover from the British colonial era.
Sunday holiday does not work for Hindus in India. It is a hangover from the British colonial era.Re: Tradition, Culture, Religion & Law in Indian Society
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If you are interested, a quiz that we prepared for Guru Purnima, Gurus and Upanishads, three quizzes
https://indiyatra.in/upanishads-quiz/
https://indiyatra.in/guru-purnima-quiz/
https://indiyatra.in/quiz-guru-purnima/
If you are interested, a quiz that we prepared for Guru Purnima, Gurus and Upanishads, three quizzes
https://indiyatra.in/upanishads-quiz/
https://indiyatra.in/guru-purnima-quiz/
https://indiyatra.in/quiz-guru-purnima/
Re: Tradition, Culture, Religion & Law in Indian Society
AI summary: P. C. Saidalavi's Seeking Allah's Hierarchy: Caste, Labour, and Islam in India
P. C. Saidalavi's Seeking Allah's Hierarchy: Caste, Labour, and Islam in India (Nov 2025, Penn Press) is an ethnographic study of Muslim barbers in South India, revealing how they navigate religious ideals of equality with lived hierarchies, challenging notions that Muslim hierarchy merely mirrors Hindu caste by showing its unique Islamic framework and transformation through labor unionization and market forces, arguing for understanding Islam as a "lived tradition".
Key Themes & Arguments:
Muslim Hierarchy is Distinct: Saidalavi argues against viewing Muslim social hierarchy as a watered-down version of Hindu caste; instead, it operates on its own Islamic terms, using piety, genealogy, morality, and wealth, while influenced by broader culture.
Lived Tradition: The book emphasizes that Islam isn't just abstract rules but a lived experience where Muslims negotiate status and identity through daily practices, infusing Islamic values into their work and lives.
Labor & Dignity: It explores how barbers transformed their traditional, often devalued, labor (haircutting) from a patronage system into market-based relations, challenging perceptions of inferiority and gaining dignity through unionization and economic self-sufficiency.
Challenging Norms: The barbers' efforts, including forming unions and demanding fair payment, were seen as radical, disrupting traditional power structures and allowing some to attain political positions, notes the journal article.
Author: P. C. Saidalavi is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Shiv Nadar University.