Amit Schandillia
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About 2,000 years ago, a Roman workman presented emperor Tiberius with a brand new invention of his—a wine goblet unlike any other of the time. It looked beautiful and sparkled li...
First came the Portuguese who held it for almost a century before giving it away to the British in dowry. One wealthy Portuguese jew in particular—Garcia de Orta—was the key figur...
Did you know that Greece, the very cradle of Western Philosophy, was once under Muslim rule? For a good 400+ years? All the way until 1821? But that’s not the most remarkable th...
Once upon a time, there were two epicenters of Islamic power on Earth (3, but let’s stick to 2 now), the Ottomans in the Middle East and the Mughals in India. Neither subservient...
The name of River Thames comes from the same Proto-Indo-European root that gives us the Sanskrit word tamas (तमस्) meaning “dark.” It’s an allusion to the river’s murky color than...
Everyone knows Alexander (a Macedonian) made an unsuccessful bid for India in 327 BC. But few know that the Greeks returned a century later and ruled the Indian northwest until 1...
In case you didn’t notice, something amusing is going down in our northern neighborhood. Turns out, COVID is making a comeback in China. But that isn’t the amusing part. The amusi...
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For a good 700 years between the 8th and 15th centuries, Spain was...](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FZtM4WuacAAr376.png)
[QT: TRANSLATING THE QUR'AN] 1/56 For a good 700 years between the 8th and 15th centuries, Spain was a majority Catholic land under a minority Muslim rule. The Church’s attempt to...
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The story of Ramayana has always captured India’s imagination. So it’s only n...](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FZemVk2aUAANyCF.png)
[QT: “EPIC” TECH] 1/93 The story of Ramayana has always captured India’s imagination. So it’s only natural that it’d capture mine sometimes. So I just binged on a 3-episode series...
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Just can’t seem to catch a break, can we? What steaming fresh...](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FXjUeVwaIAYtsO8.png)
[QQT: PYTHAGORAS, NEWTON, VEDAS] 1/50 Just can’t seem to catch a break, can we? What steaming fresh cow pie is this now? Okay, let’s do this. Premise: Stuff originally from Vedic...
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I don’t know first-hand what the RRR gentleman really said about Patel an...](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FXOExdxacAAGl89.png)
[QQT: COOPTING PATEL] 1/33 I don’t know first-hand what the RRR gentleman really said about Patel and Nehru, but Twitter’s given a fairly decent paraphrasing thereof. So, in a few...
He’s right. We must be taught about non-Mughals too, although I dunno what he really means by “our kings.” Being taught about just the Mughals, or Muslim rulers (because most cert...