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Ajay Kamalakaran

@ajaykamalakaran

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One-time New Yorker, suburban Bombayite, Mount Lavinian and Russophile

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Japan was nuked. Vietnam was bombed. Korea was split. China was carved. Indonesia was plundered. India was divided. The list is long. The pain is old. But the lesson is clear: No foreign power will ever respect Asia until Asia respects itself enough to stop playing their

Benares City Bureaucrat (@hindookissinger) 's Twitter Profile Photo

An Indian town ending in -pur was a fortified city with defensive walls (Kanpur, Jaipur, Nagpur). One ending in -garh was a fort (Kumbalgarh, Aligarh, Raigarh). Any one ending in -abad was also a fort, but Islamic (Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Tughlaqabad).

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The vision is good. The instinct is right. But Asia does not need to become Europe. Europe was built on conquest, extraction, and enforced sameness. Asia is built on memory, resilience, and radical diversity. The EU came together after burning the world. Asia must come

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Kerala is typically thought of as connected to Arabic via the Indian Ocean but not to the Persianate world further north, so I'm intrigued by the mention of this Arabi-Malayalam press printing "other cultural forms of Persian tales" in the early 1880s.

Kerala is typically thought of as connected to Arabic via the Indian Ocean but not to the Persianate world further north, so I'm intrigued by the mention of this Arabi-Malayalam press printing "other cultural forms of Persian tales" in the early 1880s.
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#Didyouknow Bharatvidya.in has 20 online courses that amount to more than 300 hours of curated content on Indian history. Making it one of the largest repositories of Indological content on the web. We want people to know about it. So do help us spread the word.

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The famous Chandni Chowk was once a tree shaded avenue with shops selling luxury items. After the 1857 Uprising, all the trees were cut and the roads planed. Not a single tree was left to provide shade to shoppers. In the centre of Chandni Chowk, the Delhi Municipality built a

The famous Chandni Chowk was once a tree shaded avenue with  shops selling luxury items. 
After the 1857 Uprising, all the trees were cut and the roads planed. Not a single tree was left to provide shade to shoppers.

In the centre of Chandni Chowk, the Delhi Municipality built a
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In the late 1940s, the Indian government was against accepting foreign honours for government officials and private citizens alike... I write about the case of an education ministry official being asked to refuse an award from Cuba for Scroll scroll.in/magazine/10847…

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"Vietnam wasn’t going anywhere." Spoken like someone whose history begins with colonization and whose only metric of value is Western validation. Let me teach you something, Paul. Vietnam was writing poetry when your ancestors were still painting themselves blue. We had

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NO to Black July ever again 🇱🇰🏴 On This Day in 1983, one of the darkest and most tragic chapters in Sri Lanka’s history unfolded. We remember the pain. We acknowledge the mistake. We stand united, Sinhala, Tamil, Muslim, Burgher, Malay. #Remembering #LKA #SriLanka #BlackJuly

NO to Black July ever again 🇱🇰🏴

On This Day in 1983, one of the darkest and most tragic chapters in Sri Lanka’s history unfolded.

We remember the pain.
We acknowledge the mistake.
We stand united, Sinhala, Tamil, Muslim, Burgher, Malay.
#Remembering #LKA #SriLanka #BlackJuly
Vaibhav Kaul (@himalayologist) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Who wishes to accompany me on a slow march from the Drang Drung Glacier in Ladakh, India, to the Rara Lake in Mugu, Nepal, via the realms of Zangskar, Lahaul, Kullu, Kinnaur, Garhwal, Kumaon, and Doti? We will need to walk about 2,000 km in 20 weeks while living on very little.