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Anurag Shukla

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Our article, published in Educational Technology Research and Development, explores technology integration and the role of teacher beliefs in this integration to assess a ‘smart-class’ initiative in India. @KKetand #edutwitter #edtech

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Anurag Shukla

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Finally watched #RRR Bollywood is Dead. Long Live Telugu movies.

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Next time when you feel a craving for chips, try Balaji Wafers, instead of any other brands. This is both for their quality of chips, and relatively lower prices. An incredible story of the Virani brothers from Rajkot, who build a Rs 2,500 crore-plus brand with stubbornness.

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By reading Indian History through multiple sources, it can be argued that the entry of Gandhi into Indian politics by the mid-1910s actually delayed the efforts for gaining swaraj from the British for another 20 years (instead of augmenting it).

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The term "Gravity" was coined by Newton in the 16th century. Before that no gravity existed and we all were flying in the air.

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“You can be full of kindness and love, but you cannot sleep next to a mad dog.”

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~ These two books are the translations of a four-volume history of India, titled Bharat Mein Angrezi Raj. Originally published in 1929 by Pt Sunderlal, the British banned these volumes. It offered a narrative that was in sharp contrast to the British Historians.

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I still need to come across a film set as exquisite as this one, and a beginning as grand as this. [🎬] Movie: Mayabazar (1957), dir. by KV Reddy. Telugu lyrics were written by Pingali Nagendrarao and it was shot by cinematographer Marcus Bartley.

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So, Draupadi Murmu, an Adivasi woman, cannot represent the adivasis, but Nandini Sundar, an activist cum academic, and wife an american citizen, Siddharth Varadarajan, can. are these people for real?

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I am not sure she will be able to represent the adivasis the way they need to be represented because all the BJP policies are anti-adivasi: @nandinisundar , Sociologist & Author #NewsToday with @SardesaiRajdeep | #DraupadiMurmu

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scenes after India becomes the vishwa guru.

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This whole conversation. 👇😂

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And VS Naipaul wrote so prophetically "The construction of a mosque on a spot regarded as sacred by the conquered population was meant as an insult… an insult to an ancient idea, the idea of Ram.” "A convert’s deepest impulse is the rejection of his origins.”

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Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray not only established the first pharmaceutical company in India, but also wrote the first comprehensive account of the history of Hindu Chemistry. British intelligence reports regularly described him as a “Revolutionary in the garb of a Scientist".

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This term "Madrasi" is no more in circulation now in the North India. It is like flogging a dead horse. Also, one of the reasons why Telugu films are so popular in the north is that the industry does not believe in such hubris (unlike Tamil and Malayalam cinema).

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Hindi isn't the National Language of India 😎

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maybe these scientists at ISRO don't know how to do the "ziyaarat" at the shrine of a dead emperor.

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ISRO seems to be banking on some mystery figure in the sky for the success of Chandrayaan-3, India's lunar mission. Tells you everything about the country today.

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Punjabi music before machismo, sexism, and gun culture corroded it from the inside out. Some of the best bhajan singers came from this industry. Jagjit & Chitra Singh Punjabi Tappe, recorded at BBC Pebble Mill, Birmingham (1979)

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Mayabazar supremacy >>>>> From mind-boggling visual effects to breathtaking sets, sound design, effects, and costumes. This cinematic masterpiece redefined the boundaries of creativity.

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DMK is one party that I want to see completely decimated and obliterated from its existence.

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DMK MP MM Abdulla advocating Kashmir's right to secession under the garb of a quote by Periyar

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These wedding songs are the most beautiful aspects of marriages in UP/Bihar.

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~ A Kashmiri pandit reciting Vedic Scriptures on the banks of Dal Lake, in 1903. #KashmirExodus1990 #KashmiriPandits

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Mindnumbing to read about how Oscar Wilde, André Gide, and even Foucault, used to throw money at 8-10 years old Arab children in Tunisia and asked them to "meet at 10 p.m. at the usual place." And why the Arab children? because they were the 'other', hence dispensable.

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Divided by Ideology, United by the love for paid tweets . 😂

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~ Manimugdha Sharma cleaning the 'moral compass' of a British colonial officer. (c. 1880)

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I just want to make a tiny point. Gandhian tactics of satyagraha worked because the British had some sort of a moral compass. These wouldn't have worked if the opponents were the Nazis. Well-meaning people who say that we need to engage with the saffron fascists must know this.

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This is what our education has produced; a class of cheap imitators, mimic men. An act of servitude in the sheer desperation to become part of the global elites.

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A rare pic of Indians welcoming Sanya Dhingra, who returns to India after studying South Asia at Columbia University (circa 2022)

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The Modi govts nationalised Ayurveda isn’t a push for our dying indigenous health systems (which prescribe everything from owl meat to goat blood for healing). It’s a political project with roots in the revivalist politics of C19th colonial India. My piece

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Now even daycare centers proudly display their alumni lists. 🤦

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MS Subbulakshmi with her husband. This picture was taken by Raghu Rai.

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Painting titled, "Castles in Udaipur" by Hiroshi Yoshida.

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This is unprecedented in India's boxing history. Indian women winning across categories in the IBA Women's World Boxing Championship. Saweety Boora- Gold (81 kg) Nitu Ghanghas- Gold (48 kg) Nikhat Zareen- Gold (50 kg) Lovlina Borgohain- Gold (75 kg)

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"Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.' ~ Sri Aurobindo (21 August 1893)

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Is India a Flailing State? India is beginning to resemble a place in which every community engages in competitive extraction, frequently using violent means. If the Indian state does not re-establish its monopoly over violence, the gap between de jure & de facto will only grow.

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I was surprised to learn that Landay, an oral and frequently anonymous fragment of song created by Afghan women, can be traced back to the Vedas, the ancient Hindu scriptures that are at least 5,000 years old.

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This is Pashtun culture, not what the Taliban tell you. A beautiful traditional Attan performed by Pashtun women.

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The ancient Indian method of Yog Nidra was popularised in the West by Dennis Boyes through his book Le Yoga du sommeil éveillé; méthode de relaxation, yoga nidra. It is fascinating to observe how its origin has been obscured so that it can be appropriated as a "military method."

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How to fall asleep in 2 minutes, the military method:

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What a sensational performance by Avinash Mukund Sable to win the Gold Medal in the Men's 3000m Steeplechase Final. #AsianGames2023 #IndiaAtAsianGames

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The place where diyas are kept is called "आर" in awadhi. Now they don't find any place in the new modern architecture. one of my favorite childhood memories is to go around our village home, and lit every corner with a diya on my Daadi's instructions.

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Ancient Indian texts (Upavana Vinoda, Kathasaritasagara etc.) talk about two types of gardens. One attached to a royal place and one that was a public garden. These gardens were spaciously laid out to include water tanks, flowers, orchard, etc. Then our historians made…

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The fragrance of sandalwood: A history of the Mysore Sandal Soap How Sri Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV and his Dewan, Sir M. Visvesvaraya, established the century-old legacy of this soap brand, which was later elevated to new heights by Sosale Garalapuri Shastry.

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Only if this woman knew that she was carrying a civilizing force, a force for good, on her shoulders.

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Colonization has largely been a civilizing force in the world. A force for good. Most of the world would still be living in the Stone Age without it. Don’t buy into the leftist “decolonizing” propaganda.

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To put this in perspective, Rahul Gandhi was a 7-year-old kid when S. Jaishankar had joined the Indian Foreign Service (in 1977).

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#WATCH | He (PM Modi) is putting India at risk because he has got a bankrupt foreign policy. EAM said that China & Pakistan got together earlier, the gentleman doesn't understand his job very well: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi

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Indian classical dance as visualized by Chinese artist Ye Qianyu (1907-1995).

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Throughout the 18th century, members of the British East India Company reported their discoveries of native scientific and technological practices to the Royal Society. Here, listing out some of those discoveries (in their own words). 1/5

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Now only a suo-moto action by the Supreme Court can prevent the impending meltdown of the Alaska glacier due to the insidious menace of दीपावली firecrackers. The presenter here is Jamie Alter, Tom Alter's son.

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"The West won the world, not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget these facts, non-Westerners should never do." ~ Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations

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In contrast to Mr. Jhunjhunwala, who did not produce or create anything, Mr. Aakar Patel produced this outstanding piece of writing not long ago. This piece alone deserved to win 7 Grammys, 3 Oscars, and even the possibility of getting some kind of scientific patent for it.

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@Aakar__Patel

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rich man dies is never a lead story in other democracies and political elites don’t line up either. investing in stocks is something millions do. scale varies but so what. gujaratificatiin is complete with veneration of wealth. didn’t produce or create anything.

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Two Gujarati communities—the Palanpuri Jains and the Kathiawadi Patels—have come to dominate the global diamond industry, replacing the Jews who dominated the industry for centuries.

How the Gujaratis took over Belgium’s diamond trade

From the outside, Number 2 Hoveniersstraat Street in Antwerp is a nondescript office block. Only the clusters of businessmen speaking in Gujarati on their mobile phones or with each other, give any...

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"There are these ultra revolutionaries, the VIP ones, who sit in the coffee house during the day, violently stubbing the cigarettes as if they were battering the bourgeoisie. At night, they attack the chicken as if they were mauling capitalism." ~ Hari Shankar Parsai

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There needs to be a story about how Teesta Setalvad shaped every curricular and pedagogical decision during the UPA, through her absolute hold over decisions made by the highest advisory body in the field of education, CABE (Central Advisory Board of Education).

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Professor Kapil Kapoor discusses the contribution of Sanskrit to early 20th-century European thought. I had no idea that Genitive Case in Sanskrit was Ferdinand de Saussure's PhD topic.

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The irony of an American (a country that virtually wiped out the indigenous population) calling the Sentinelese people, "the most dangerous tribe in the world".

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Living on a remote island in the Bay of Bengal, they have virtually zero contact with the outside world. Many of those that have tried visiting them have been turned away, and often worse: killed. A thread on the Sentinelese people, "the most dangerous tribe in the world":

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This scene of Pt. Ravishankar revisiting the home of his guru Ustad Allauddin Khan always makes me emotional.

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In my work with garment workers in Tirrupur and Dindigul, I found that most of the workers in factories were from UP, Bihar, and Jharkhand. These factory owners do everything from parking their vehicles on stations to taking out garment workers for shopping on Sundays to retain…

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#DMK MP #DayanidhiMaran says that individuals from #Bihar and #UP , who only learn Hindi, migrate to TN, engage in construction work, and perform tasks like cleaning roads and 🚽 TOILETS🚽 This is depicted as a consequence of learning #Hindi . #30000 கோடி_எங்கடா

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"Indian legal system lacks theoretical nourishment due to its divorcing from its heritage. The impact of theories of jurists, including ancient Indian scholars, on the legal system of a country is profound, even though it may seem unseen & unconscious." ~ Justice Abdul Nazeer

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The Wire's dismantling has been a sight to behold. This happens when you start believing in your own mythology. #TheWire

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A relentless, well-coordinated PR campaign around Finnish education is being run in India, with shadow articles being published across platforms, to attract private school partners in India, and to present Finnish education as an opportunity to Indian middle class parents.

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Most of the engineers working at @isro come from tier-2, tier-3 engineering colleges. Also, most of them have a rural background. An RTI filed in 2014 had revealed that only 2% of its engineers were from IIT/NITs.

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If this does not induce a trance, nothing else will. Close your eyes and give this two minutes of your attention. "Music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship." ~ Pt. Ravi Shankar

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UP reported no encephalitis deaths this year, a surprising transformation for a potential public policy case study. In 2016, while working on a project, I witnessed the overwhelming encephalitis cases that led to thousands of child deaths each year in Gorakhpur. Official…

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Kondapalli toys, Andhra Pradesh Made out of Thella Poniki (white wood), these toys are famous for their light weight and use of vegetable/fruit colours.

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Trio Mandili (Georgian for "woman's headscarf") is a musical group from Georgia. The trio sings in the local Khevsur dialect while playing the panduri, a traditional Georgian string instrument.

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How a marwari businessman starts a day. Cleaning the temple and praying are the first rituals to be performed. And this person owns at least 20 such shops and 3 restaurants spread across 7 states.

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A man guards his family after all the "help" he received from benign colonization. Between 1876 and 1878, during the Madras famine, anywhere from four to five million people perished due to the colonial policy of Lord Lytton.

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Colonization was good for “people of colour”. It literally helped them. It built the economy and permitted people to leave horrible standards of living. It brought human rights. Everyone complaining about it should go back to being illiterate slaves living in poverty. What’s…

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the centuries-old, traditional carpentry work of the Suthar community of Rajasthan.

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This is miseducation, teaching to mimic sentences in a strange tongue. It is not merely about Telugu being replaced with English. It is an insidious attempt to break the continuity of Telugu culture. Obliterating the collective memory bank of a people's experience in history.

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Can't get over that video of Bengal Police collecting pieces from the charred bodies of women and children. High time that Mahua Moitra read that 'fiery' speech of her on Fascism to Mamta or at least share with her the Brut video that had gone viral.

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In India, virtue-signaling is so cheap. I have known many such bookshops, and these guys are often the poorest, not the richest. Wonder if Anil Swarup would like to exchange place with him to experience his richness, or it was only for comments/likes.

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Isn't he the richest guy?

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Cubans study medical sciences in Spanish, just as Russians do in Russian. The Japanese study medical sciences in Japanese. China did the same as part of its medical education with Chinese characteristics program. Only Indians seem to have a problem with it?

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May God help these students and more importantly, their patients in the future.

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Advertisement for the railways in Colonial India In the 1930s, "pilgrimage" was a prominent theme in railway advertisements.

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~ drinking tea in pre-Independence India (1940s) To convince Indians who were extremely reluctant consumers of the combination of sugar, boiled leaves, water, and milk, the colonial government ran these campaigns where tea drinking was portrayed as a highly desirable activity.

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The colonial government had such 'moral panic' about this community that they considered them an "opprobrium upon colonial rule" & declared them as "criminal tribe" under 1871 law. Their rituals/performances were banned, driving them to starvation, and eventual extermination.

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#WATCH | Transgender folk dancer of Jogamma heritage and the first transwoman President of Karnataka Janapada Academy, Matha B Manjamma Jogati receives the Padma Shri award from President Ram Nath Kovind.

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~ advertisements for South Indian Railways (colonial India), (c. 1925) artist: MV Dhurandhar

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"mostly self-taught", Atul Shatavart Nadig bagged the gold medal at the 64th International Olympiad, held in Japan. He also got a perfect score of 1600 on the SAT last year and will be doing Mathematics and Computer Science at the MIT.

Bengaluru boy gets gold at International Mathematical Olympiad before heading to MIT

Atul Shatavart Nadig, student of Shri Ram Global School, Whitefield, got a perfect score of 1600 on the SAT last year, and he will be pursuing mathematics and computer science at Massachusetts...

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watched Malikappuram (2022) on Hotstar. What a movie it is! No wonder that the video streaming platforms are now allocating their 50-60% of the budgets to southern language content, as these programmes getting much traction.

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In his personal life, Raja Rammohan Roy was caught in the not unfamiliar existential dilemma of the colonized. It is said that he had two houses in Calcutta, one in which everything was western except him, and the other in which everything was Indian except him.

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Raja Ram Mohan Roy, a man well ahead of his times with his ideas on social reforms, remains an illustrious figure today. India is united by a universal brotherhood, made possible by Roy's brilliance and his efforts to champion social reform. #MoCRemembers

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~ MS Subbulakshmi in the Tamil movie Meera (1945), dir. by Ellis Dungan 🌻

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“It is the intense spirituality and devotion that has enabled India to resist the ravages of time and the accidents of history.” ~ Dr Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan

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The most visible change that I have seen in my travels is the preference given by Indian middle class parents to English while talking to their kids. This is a nation-wide phenomenon, and has resulted in serious stigmatization of local languages/mother tongues.

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Yesterday was the 30th punyatithi of my grandfather (1923-1991). He was a member of INA (Indian National Army), and was part of its Barma campaign. Was denied the status of 'freedom fighter'. Joined Criminal Investigation Dept. (CID) of UP Police and retired as an inspector.

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German Zoologist Lutz Heck with an elephant and a family (Indians?) he brought to Berlin Zoo, in Germany in 1931. They were put in enclosures as Westerners gawped and jeered at them.

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Begin your day by listening to this Annamayya Keerthana by MS Subbulakshmi.

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Today saw a poster of Mayabazar in a restaurant in Hyderabad. wonder if there is any other movie that wielded such a profound influence over local language and culture.

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"An English education should instill in Indians a respect and awe for the aristocratic virtues of the majestic English language and culture, and a corresponding contempt and disdain for their own background". ~ Charles Trevelyan A Portrait Of An Indian Gentleman, Dated 1841

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From left to right: A Gurkha, a Brahmin and a Sudra in traditional garb in Simla. (c. 1868) (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images).

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Anurag Shukla

@Anuraag_Shukla

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This is the level of analysis that passes as 'expert' analysis in our country. It is not just about this clown, but so many other 'foreign experts', 'political analysts', and 'oped-writers' who are no better than him, yet get substantial space in our mainstream publications.

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Anurag Shukla

@Anuraag_Shukla

2 years

I believe that in order to more closely resemble their masters, Indian judges should don wigs once again. They can only reclaim the constitutional morality and culture they keep referring to by reconnecting themselves to the colonial roots.

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Anurag Shukla

@Anuraag_Shukla

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In Maharashtra and in some regions of Karnataka, there is a tradition of building these mud forts/houses during the deepawali to express reverence towards Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. I used to see them quite a lot in North India villages as well.

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Anurag Shukla

@Anuraag_Shukla

2 years

Two absolutely fascinating books for understanding the origins of the idea of Pakistan, and its quest for dominance through various cultural and religious dimensions, and its ideological successors in India in the forms of SIMI, PFI, and MIM, etc.

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Anurag Shukla

@Anuraag_Shukla

3 years

That 'orientalist gaze' hasn't changed a bit. Reducing India to samosa/chai, Bollywood, and some abstract 'culture'. The slow but unabated process of ‘commodification of otherness’ continues.

U.S. Embassy India

@USAndIndia

3 years

In celebration of India’s 75th #IndependenceDay , our American diplomats share the many things they love about #IncredibleIndia 🇮🇳.

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Anurag Shukla

@Anuraag_Shukla

2 years

Because of our collective amnesia for our own knowledge, I was unaware of Mayamuni's Mayamata (architecture), Bhoja's Yuktikalpataru (shipbuilding), and Rasa Ratna Samuccaya (complex metallurgy). Hundreds of such texts are still waiting to be rediscovered.

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Anurag Shukla

@Anuraag_Shukla

2 years

~ Sindhi diaspora, the Nation, and the Media Sindhis today account for more than fifty percent of Indonesia's domestic film production and the vast majority of television soap operas. How did the Sindhis come to dominate the film and television industries in Indonesia?

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Anurag Shukla

@Anuraag_Shukla

1 year

A British announcer during World War II (1940) describing the arrival of Indian troops in France. "They are fearless fighters in the world.. They have bought their own food, their water carriers, and their mules."

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Anurag Shukla

@Anuraag_Shukla

1 year

~ Indian railways advertisements from 1800s ☀️

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Anurag Shukla

@Anuraag_Shukla

2 years

~ From a British Newspaper clip where Justice is shown as killing the natives, in retaliation to the Indian Mutiny in Cawnpore, (c. 1857) And somehow we have agreed to continue with the same system (and mindset).

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Anurag Shukla

@Anuraag_Shukla

2 years

When I first visited Orchha, I was surprised by the number of foreigners. It is located on the Betwa River and is famous for the Ram Raja Temple, where Lord Rama is revered as a king and a daily Guard of Honour is held. The city also has a massive fort and several cenotaphs.

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Anurag Shukla

@Anuraag_Shukla

1 year

How global tech companies like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have embedded themselves within the Indian state health department.

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Anurag Shukla

@Anuraag_Shukla

1 month

A tribal girl wearing traditional jewellery in Janiguda village of Koraput in Odisha.

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Anurag Shukla

@Anuraag_Shukla

2 years

The moderates had lost significant ground (both morally and intellectually) to the extremists. Even long-term moderates like SN Banarjee and Ghokhle had given into the demands of young political leaders. The passing away of many moderate stalwarts also created a political vacuum.

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Anurag Shukla

@Anuraag_Shukla

2 years

Similarly, An historiography of America should begin with George Floyd's episode, to racial riots of the 60s/70s, the Ku Klux Klan, the slave trade, to finally wiping out of the Native Americans....thoughts?

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Anurag Shukla

@Anuraag_Shukla

2 years

There has been a complete capture of UP Congress by ex-JNUites. This is the biggest harm that Congress has done to itself. Now its leadership is surrounded by ex-JNU student activists. They have effectively reduced Congress to the social media and offices of some news channels.

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Anurag Shukla

@Anuraag_Shukla

2 years

Another much-celebrated poet Pablo Neruda raped his Sri Lankan maid when he occupied an important diplomatic post in the island nation in 1929. He even described the rape in his memoir.

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Anurag Shukla

@Anuraag_Shukla

1 year

Main street of Chandni Chowk. (c. 1865). Why do the streets look cleaner in all these old photos?

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Anurag Shukla

@Anuraag_Shukla

2 years

whenever I come across such cutting-edge analyses. 👇

Mohamed Zeeshan

@ZeeMohamed_

2 years

Indians think Ukraine is "not our problem" but if there's a war, the West will slap severe sanctions on Russia and India is not gonna get any reprieve on arms imports from Russia this time around; the economy WILL be hit and US immigration policy towards India may also be hit.

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