Literature
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Why would a good God create a world full of evil and suffering? C.S. Lewis wrestled with this question for years until it finally hit him: There is no "evil" โ only a corrupted f...
For high schoolers, and probably college students too, all English lit from pre-1970 should be translated into modern English. If you were reading a German novel, you'd want a rec...
How can a good God let you suffer and die? Tolkien said a 600 year old poem had the answer to this question He spent over 25 years reading, studying and teaching it to students...
@GraniRau the fact of the demons being 'anti-Solar' is precisely why A'Sura as a hailing (a homophonic formulation for Asura, but of entirely different meaning & derivation) shows...
10 Books To Read In 2025: 1. https://t.co/N2UaXCiWu7
Srila Jiva Goswami is an important figure in the Indian Philosophical world. He appeared in the 16th century. He studied almost all the major indian philosophies. All of his knowle...
I know we hated literature in school (it's badly taught and very badly examined, anyway) but to understand the psyops happening here, we need to understand the difference between t...
"How hard will we go to avoid a white male protagonist on a kid's show?" "This hard." https://t.co/PEKkNySN1u
๐งต Since many were asking me to post a reading list of some books I went through the past year I thought I would share this comprehensive list with some short comments I provide on...
Draupadi โ 10 Facts About the Heroic Princess of Mahabharata.. She was the daughter of King Drupada of Panchal, and wife of the Pandavas the five brothers. Save this thread such...
10 Highly anticipated books coming out in 2025: (you'll want to preorder these books) https://t.co/j0QTXoowTK
Literature is not about 'marginalised people talking about their experiences of oppression'- so yes, you are right that I am hostile to insincere emotional blackmail attempts to ma...
A thread on some of the good books covering ancient India- 1.Age of Imperial Unity by RC Majumdar & K.M. Munshi *This book covers the every aspect of Indian history from c.600BCE...
Were the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John really written by those men, or are they anonymous? Skeptics claim their authorship is unknownโbut thereโs strong evidence to th...
I'm at waffle house with my family and there's a trad Muslim family of Pakistani extraction here. They are putting nice white boy zoomer worker through the ringer about "cleaning...
Do you know about the warrior in the Mahabharata who even scared Bhagwan Shri Krishna! Such threads donโt come often. Save this thread, it will keep you hooked till the very end!...
Emily Wilson's 'Tell me about a complicated man' is possibly the most condescending sentence in English literature
Not able to confirm this but Theodore Roosevelt and Bram Stoker were friends who met before Dracula was published and I've always wondered if Stoker thought "I bet that guy could h...
Hanuman ji had written Hanumad Ramayana on rocks with his nails way before Valmiki Ramayana but had thrown it in the sea for one reason... This two minute Story will give you goos...
Manthara was responsible for Prabhu Shri Ram's 14 years of Exile Everyone knows.. But how many of us know that what Manthara did was related to her previous birth life.. This two...
So Iโm starting a small series on reading on philosophical problem of evil. I do have some background on it, but I thought it useful to start with VSI Evil by Luke Russell. A shor...
the best books i've read this year โ a thread ๐งต
In 1843, Christmas was dying. Children were overworked in Victorian factories and had no time for tradition. Then Charles Dickens wrote "A Christmas Carol"... And this one book...
This Portuguese "Saint" used to say that Indians were black and ugly "monsters whose sight is unbearable". This colonialist destroyed many Hindu temples with his own hands. He wro...
