Distinguished Univ Professor@SSU multi-award Fulbright Honorary Prof@JNU 8Books Board:OAH,HAF,HUA,ICHRRF; Editor-in-Chief, Intnl Jrnl of Indic Rel;Pres,OAH,AAIS
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Exactly! Nazi symbol of hate is hakenkreuz not swastika. Hope the textbooks stop the use of swastika for hakenkreuz.
The Nazi symbol of hate was a European hakenkreuz ("hooked cross"), not an Indian swastika. In fact, the one place you would never find a swastika is in Nazi propaganda. It wasn't Adolf Hitler who called his symbol a swastika. It was the New York Times.
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True! This is correct. It’s a misconception that the British took over India from Timurids (Thaparite history adapted from colonialist narratives).
Hypothetically, what would India be like today if the British had never ruled it?
Sai Deepak answers
#RANABAALI
It’s strange Indians are calling own traditional or classical look as ethnic look! It may be ethnic for outsiders but for us it’s tradition. we should call it traditional or classical look
Hahaha! Wouldn’t those names be great! And Persia should have been Perhia- that would have been really funny!
And FYI we no longer follow the 3-period historical division of India that Thapar adapted from the Colonialists and imposed on us. We have 4 historical eras derived from Indian history unlike the previous periodization adapted from the western history.
The periodization of western history is based on “fall and rise” cycles. But Indian history is based on change and continuity. Indian history is different. They cannot understand it.
Historian Romila Thapar, 96, on Sunday (October 25, 2026) argued that colonial historians fundamentally shaped the way Indian history came to be understood, reducing complex social and political processes to simplified religious narratives that continue to influence historical interpretations today and propagate the Hindutva reading of Indian history.
✍️@SobhanaNair
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Hahaha! Thapar is the colonized mind. Now, she is turning around and calling the colonialist narratives “Hindutva”! This is joke of the century. Indian history moved far beyond the colonial constructions she diligently promoted. I suggest you read my books first true history of India.
Handbook of Indian History and Reframing India in World History (links below)
Historian Romila Thapar, 96, on Sunday (October 25, 2026) argued that colonial historians fundamentally shaped the way Indian history came to be understood, reducing complex social and political processes to simplified religious narratives that continue to influence historical interpretations today and propagate the Hindutva reading of Indian history.
✍️@SobhanaNair
thehindu.com/news/national/h…
Reframing India in World History bloomsbury.com/us/reframing-…
Handbook of Indian History amazon.com/Handbook-Indian-H…
And great 4 years in the history of social media. Happy to report I was not suspended since the takeover. Glad, Stanford basement crawlers were rendered obsolete.
Good sign! Hope this succeeds! Glad to see pumpkin market expanding beyond the local farmers markets.
What’s wrong with us? This is information era, but we still continue to believe the false colonialist narratives like: 1. We don’t know our origins or origin of our name & believe false theories: 1. Persians made up India by mistake 2. Some brutal horse riding pastoral race (Aryans the truth is there is no race called Aryans #NoAryan) conquered and created Indian religion. India is derived from Induva/Hinduva from the Indu (Moon god) lineage of the Founder Bharata, clearly described in the Mahabharata (Shakuntalopakhyana).
Yes, I discussed it in my book: the origin of Bharata/Indu from the same source- the founder Bharata and his lineage. The land, the people, and the culture are known by the same name: Bharatas/Induva/Indoi or Indu, also spelled variously as Hindoi, Hinduva
Reclaim history!
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That is silly! Hindu is our original name. We don’t have to give up our original name just because some colonialists cooked up the story of “Hindu is a Persian mistake….misspelling Sindhu…” not true. All the colonialist history is a myth constructed from the imagination of colonialists.
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What a shitty study? Literally! And they don’t even know the difference between adapt and adopt! Nobody adopts toilets!
Then why are Hindu temples under government control? Why don’t you Free the Hindu temples from government control before pontificating!
Hahaha! Halifax instead of Bahamas!
"This is a joke, right?"
That's how one passenger says her husband reacted when their Bahamas-bound cruise was suddenly rerouted to Canada.
More than 5,000 Royal Caribbean passengers expecting sunshine and beaches instead found themselves in Halifax, where temperatures hovered in the 40s and 50s.
The last-minute change came after stormy weather forecasts prompted the cruise line to scrap its planned Florida and Bahamas stops.
See why some passengers embraced the detour while others were left disappointed: foxnews.com/travel/thousands…
The Left in a nutshell! They want to destroy everyone else but not themselves. They don’t want the problem to end up in their doorstep. They actively bring the problem to throw it at others.
David Friedberg says this isn’t Suicidal Empathy, these are Armchair Do-Gooders.
He is referring to the French woman, who yelled “Do you know who I am? I am an activist who advocated for you all” as rioters destroyed her store.
FRIEDBERG: “The look on her face, which was like, ‘What the hell happened,’ is meant to be this moment that sort of captures the zeitgeist of what some people call Suicidal Empathy, but I think it’s much more about being an Armchair Do-Gooder.
An armchair do-gooder is someone who kind of sits at home in a nice home in the suburbs or wherever they live, and they say, ‘Let all the people in, take care of all the people.’ But as soon as the people show up to their front step and says, ‘Can I come and stay in your house?’ the answer is no, of course not.”
“Someone else has to deal with it. Someone else has to house you. Someone else has to feed you. Someone else has to give you a job.”
We’ve all seen this play out in the man-on-the-street interviews where people say they support policies that let immigrants in, but when it’s time to house them, suddenly they have no room.
JASON CALACANIS: “We called this Limousine Liberals.”
There have been many names for this. Rob Henderson calls them luxury beliefs… Open borders is one of his own examples.
Everyone always seems surprised to find out their actions have consequences.
