A cold-blooded researcher. Primary sources afiocionado.
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CBSE has dropped Environmental Studies as a subject from Class 10 to give a bigger focus on AI and Digital Studies!
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Sanjeev Sanyal says Hayek, Shenoy were hidden like ‘pornography’ in 1990s Delhi
Purvi Rajpuria, TPSJ alum and intern at ThePrint, reports
#ThePrintAroundTown
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What an evening! @sanjeevsanyal is a rockstar, and when he speaks, you must listen.
This is the making of an institution and an attempt at genuine intellectual pluralism. Cheers to many more such issues!
Last evening, at The Dome, Ambassador, we launched the much-awaited inaugural issue of New Delhi Review of Books with Mr @sanjeevsanyal gracing our event as Chief Guest.
Mr Sanyal urged India to ‘reverse the gaze’ and examine the world on its own terms. He encouraged our young team to value longevity, consistency, and quality over rapid expansion.
It is difficult to believe that these people were serious about their thesis with a title like that.
Scholars from Lancaster Environment Centre, UK has published a research article titled "Faecal theologies: caste, deities and the making of sanitary subjects in Himachal Pradesh, India" in the journal of Social and Cultural Geography (Taylor and Francis). It aims to understand "religious subjectivities in relation to the symbolic, material and political understandings of human waste."
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When I went to Bihar, people said:
“JUST GIVE YOUR CM YOGI TO US, AND BIHAR WILL CHANGE.”
When I went to Karnataka, people said:
“MODI BAS, YOGI YESSS”
When I went to Rajasthan, people said:
“WE NEED A STRONG LEADER LIKE YOGI.”
When I went to Jharkhand, people said:
“IF WE HAD SOMEONE LIKE YOGI, JHARKHAND WOULD HAVE CHANGED.”
When I am in Odisha, people saying:
“SALUTE TO YOUR CM, EVERY INDIAN STATE MUST HAVE A CM LIKE BULLDOZER BABA.”
Every time I am outside of UP and talking to people, they praise Yogi ji like anything. He has insane popular appeal across the country, solely based on his no nonsense personality and unparalleled work.
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I remember being shocked as a kid when I realized my American friends come from families where the parents are often drug addicts, three times divorced, unemployed alcoholics etc.
Most urban Hindus who grew up in 1990-2010s had very stable families with good values.
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99.91% of the aircrafts airborne in North America on 11th September 2001 landed safely - a great day for civil aviation
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Har school me ek do ladkiyan hoti hain jinka hero banne ka sapna hota hai. Par unko aata jata kuch nahi hai, aise hi lambe chaude bhashan de kar unko lagta hai ki bahut samajhdar hain. Is desh me student age par thoda socially confident ho jana hi leadership ki nishani ban jati hai. Leftism ka jeher aise logon ko attract karta hai kyunki leftism inko daily level par bakwas karne ke liye dher sara content de deta hai.
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One of the many tragic consequences of large-scale migration from eastern UP (probably true of other regions in eastern India as well) is the decline of village Ramleelas. During my father’s time, almost every other village used to organise its own Ramleela. But organising a Ramleela is no small feat. It requires people with the time, skills, and commitment to sustain the tradition. As significant number of such people migrated out of the region, there are simply not enough competent people left to keep the tradition alive. The result is that most village Ramleelas have now been discontinued. In their place, we now have Durga pandals, which are not nearly as complex to organise. As a result, there has been a great upsurge in their numbers.
Many congratulations @6amiji on your new book. Must say the cover design is great and befits the grandeur of the Arthashastra.
On this auspicious day of Mahanavami, I am delighted to place my newest book at Maa's feet. 🙏
Drawing from Arthashastra, my attempt here is to explore how ancient strategies can sharpen decision making across leadership, business, governance. Get it here
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Savarkar's Message to Hindus on the occasion of Vijay Dashami, 1943. This was a very powerful speech so read entirely.
‘O HINDUS, A GLORIOUS FUTURE AWAITS YOU! ONLY BETRAY NOT YOURSELVES!’
All laws are but generalisations primarily based on detailed observations. +
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ANNOUNCING Pramāṇa, the most comprehensive database of Indian primary sources ever created.
Any
- text (including recensions, commentaries, commentaries on commentaries etc.)
- inscription, coin type...
- foreign text relevant to India
- digitizations of Archaeological survey this, Epigraphica XYZ, whatever
you can think of, is in here.
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While everyone keeps on quoting Scruton on May 1968, Raymond Aron’s work ‘Elusive Revolution: Anatomy of a Student Revolt’ is a far better work to understand the great anarchy and its far reaching impact on Western democracies.
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Introducing @Pratyahar, a contemporary initiative to traverse the unknown between history and the present, between the external and the internal, and between our senses and the world.
For a long time, it was only an idea on paper, a shared dream that Aditya bhaiya (@Indic_drishti) and I carried together. Today, it steps out into the world
In an age of brain-rot and disinformation, Pratyahar is a platform for seekers who want to take their minds back from cognitive offloading. We revisit scriptures, philosophies, histories and the Dharmic practices that still live among us, looking beyond the buzzwords into the esoteric matrix
of the temporal and the transcendental. We bring together ancient texts and lived experience,with professional academic rigour and a Dharmic outlook, for the modern social media age.
The only FAQ you need to know - What does Pratyāhāra means?
Literally, it means a conscious withdrawal of one’s senses from the external stimulus, creating a space between what one’s senses perceive and how our minds react to it. It is one of the 8 branches of the Yogic philosophy, the fifth limb of Patanjali Yoga and also a separate section in the Varaha Upanishad. It represents ‘control’ in Buddhism, and one of the ways employed in Uttamseva.
However, it means a lot more to us. The withdrawal symbolizes the reclamation of what is our own. The word Pratyahar speaks for the times ahead. A paradigm shift from the past and towards the untravelled, not unknowingly, but consciously. The space between how the world perceives us and how we perceive the world, is where Pratyahar is. It is where Pratyahar will be.
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Actually Dreze’s crackpot idea is one of the main reasons why manufacturing faces difficulty in the country. In 2013 the Land Acquisition Act made acquiring land 4 times more expensive. Which makes it difficult for us to compete with peers. Modi tried to undo it but failed
"Pushed manufacturing"? Yea right, I guess the 2014 Make in India promise of 25% share of manufacturing in GDP was achieved. No?
Yea, because it actually went down. Decade of PLI, make in India, lion logos - and share has still decreased lmao.
Also please, comparing Sanyal to Jean Dreze is like comparing a WhatsApp forward with a peer-reviewed article. Sanyal doesn't have the qualification, aptitude, or moral integrity to be compared to Dreze. At best, Sanyal is a fiction writer - AT BEST.
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Dreze's idea is to make poor people dig up ditches and then fill the same ditch by giving it name of "Right to Work"
Sanyal wants factories and manufacturing
Who is worth 100 of whom?
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I am very grateful to everyone who have subscribed to @Thelongmemory we have now crossed 1000 subscribers on Substack.
The Long Memory was a idea just like hundreds of other which never materialized due to my inaction but fortunately things picked pace with this one due to individuals who pushed me and this project was started in June.
The past 4 months have been such a beautiful time for me, I enjoy every bit of the work I do for this magazine and gradually I am learning what it takes to sustain a project instead of blabbering tons of things.
Besides the team you see here, a lot of individuals are working behind the scenes contributing to make this endeavour a success. I wish to thank each one of them.
Every article published by us goes through countless revisions and we attempt to deliver you with the highest quality history read.
In the coming days, We'll be expanding, learning from our mistakes and doing all we can to make history more popular, readable and rooted in our shared heritage and identity.
Every forgotten historical text waits for one reader who rediscover it but We have over 1,000 now.
Thank you to everyone who has read, shared, and argued with The Long Memory. However, The archive runs deep, and we have only turned its first few pages.
Stay Tuned and Subscribe to Thelongmemory.in for more such historical anecdotes.
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> When we aspire to be rich like America and self-sufficient like China, why can't our youth also take lessons from Bangladesh and Nepal
Aspire to become first world countries so take lessons from third world countries.
Most sensible comrade
PERSONAL OPINION-
This whole outrage over Neha's Bangladesh remark is completely overblown.
Sanghis are obviously after her, but now some so-called liberals and insecure youth leaders have joined in to target her over a single line.
When we aspire to be rich like America and self-sufficient like China, why can't our youth also take lessons from Bangladesh and Nepal, where the youth brought down regimes on their own shoulders? It was just one statement.
This is the classic Sanghi playbook, twist one sentence, assassinate the character, and paint everyone as anti-national.
Don't fall into that trap. She has been taking on Sanghis single-handedly. Stand with her instead of dragging her down.
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Seeing a lot of coordinated PR for Jean Drèze lately as he came out from his hibernation. Having spent years in international & development finance, I have met some of the sharpest minds in the field: sovereign negotiators, project financiers, central bankers and builders of real enterprises. One lesson is stone truth. Socialist economics survives not on evidence but on sentiment and on the comfort of never having to deliver anything. In India, that sentiment wears a jhola, celebrates scarcity as virtue & mistakes performative compassion for some great policy. It has made mediocrity respectable & us averse to higher ambitions in life. Jean Drèze is decorated practitioner of this mediocre game and his influence deserves scrutiny.