Cultural
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Chariot for Lord Jagannath is called Nandighosh. it is 45 feet tall and has 16 Wheels Taldhawaj, Lord Balaram’s chariot has 14 wheels. Goddess Subhadra’s chariot Dwarpadalana/Dev...
1. Letter to a Moderate Muslim Dear Moderate Muslim, I am sure this open letter will never reach you for the simple reason that you don’t exist. And yet I write so maybe my fel...
1. It was not unexpected. It was not random. If we did not see it coming we were living in fool's paradise. The ghastly beheadings and killings of common Hindus by radicalized comm...
1. Understanding the Muslim Mind Hindu View of Christianity and Islam – Part 3 It is necessary to understand the Muslim psyche in order to understand the problems of co-existence...
1. Dhimmis & Jizyah – Jizyah Series – Part 4 Non-Muslims, ‘protected’ by paying Jizyah, were called Dhimmis/ Jimmis. Muslims, taking tax, were called ‘Jimmedar’. This is the origi...
1. Natya Ganpati, Vishwanath, Khajuraho This is a very rare form of Nātya Gaṇpatī with ten hands. Ten hands are rarely seen. In the upper two he holds the sarpa, while dancing. In...
1. Did Hindu art derive from Buddhist art? A common trope among Indologists is to declare that all Hindu art can be traced to the Buddhist art which can then be traced to Greek ar...
1. The Theory of Jizyah – Jizyah Series - Part 2 Like most laws in Islam, the tax of Jizyah also arises from the Quran. The verse ordering the imposition of this tax came after th...
1. Jizyah – The Tax of being Non-Muslim – Part 1 – The Islamic psyche Did you know that under Islamic rule all non-Muslims, including Hindus had to pay a huge tax just to remain H...
1. Spain – The Only Reversal of Islamization Unfinished Agendas of Political Islam – Case 4 – Spain Spain is the only country that could completely reverse the Islamization of t...
1. How Greece became Turkey: Anatomy of an Unequal Partition Unfinished Agendas of Political Islam – Case 3 – Greece & the Balkans vs. Turkey How Turkey is Islamizing its former...
1. How Lebanon became a Muslim majority country overnight Lessons Hindus can learn from the Lebanese Civil War Unfinished Agendas of Political Islam – Case 1 – Lebanon In this...
The Seven Sacred VOW+ELs (A 🧵) The Tradition of Chanting Vowels is Very Ancient. In Ancient Egypt, the Laws of Music were engraved on the Temple Walls. Pythagoras taught that the...
A further introduction to the terminology of church architecture: https://t.co/UmnfMikYmZ
A beginner's guide to classical music. Thread: https://t.co/ppixliRmVz
@Hadithoftheday Dhul-Hijjah (Twelfth month of Islamic calender). Dhul al-Hijjah got its name because it is the month in which the 5th pillar of Islam-Hajj is performed. The firs...
1. Ṣri Veer Nārāyana Temple, Belāvādī, Karnātakā One of the most exquisite of the Hoysala trikutas, this temple is a gem and one of a kind. It is a detached trikuta, with the main...
1. When Summers Used to be Beautiful Before our economy ‘improved’, before our work culture became ‘better’, and before our standards of living improved to the point where every h...
Let's just normalized its Chinese name Youtiao. If Westerners can say Edamame, Tempura and Karaage, they can say Youtiao. https://t.co/0DoLT8Ld2C
How Islamists Dominate through Assassinations 1. The throat-slitting of #KamleshTiwari & death/rape threats against #NupurSharmaBJP isn't new. It is as old as the advent of Iz!@m....
Currently in Umuahia for groomsman duties and as we were in the hotel with the groom last night, gisting and throwing jabs, we got a call that some of our guests that were enroute...
A successful British film was opposed and banned in Bombay, Madras and Bengal. A thread on forgotten piece of India's anti colonial struggle (1/10) https://t.co/zLoM4olV1l
Do you know?? Indian Christians used to sell so called low caste Hindus as slaves to foreigners?? /1 https://t.co/aMh9J0w7ia
During the Bush and Obama eras I felt like I was very much in tune with, and part of, coastal urban educated liberal American culture. Since the Trump era, I've felt increasingly...