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Halley

@halleyji

Interested in topics related to Modernity-Tradition-Continuity ; Dharma/Religion-Ecology-Economics; Technology-society;
Hindu. Male.

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జడ పదార్థం .. అంటే ఆడ లేడీస్ అన్నమాట.. తనికెళ్ళ భరణి రాసినట్టు ఉన్నాడు ఈ డవిలాగు .. శ్రీ కనక మహాలక్ష్మి రికార్డింగ్ డాన్స్ ట్రూప్ సినిమా నుంచి!

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Credit to Prof Shonaleeka Kaul for seeding this phrase 'rationalist anxieties of modern historians' in my head 😀 x.com/halleyji/statu…

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One minor edit. Contractor kickbacks are usually to politicians and their benamis. Top of pyramid is not contractor or bureacrat. It is the politician. Politicians who belong to ruling dispensation benefit from contracts done in their era. This applies to politicians across

Maragatham (@bhoomiputraa) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"no books would detain their attention for any considerable time except the accounts of their own gods, and traditions" A life lived within mythos is a life suffused in beauty. Dragging ppl out of it and into ugliness has taken the colonial state 200 years.

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The ugliness has been post-rationalized by Freudian psychology as "our true selves", the effects of which are everywhere. we often argue that modernity is xtian in essence, but it has been as much a force 4 the destruction of xtianity as it has been 4 the spread of Xtianity-Lite.

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"The rise of compulsory education under the Prussian model coincided with the rise of the centralized state and centralizing technologies, like mass production. It displaced the decentralized system in which apprentices learned from master artisans" Significant section of Hindu

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Critical questions that young Hindus abroad face: - How do I resolve the binary framing between my cultural and national identity? - How do I make sense of the intellectual, physical and political attacks on Hindu identity? - How do I counter mocking and erasure of our deities

Critical questions that young Hindus abroad face:

- How do I resolve the binary framing between my cultural and national identity?
- How do I make sense of the intellectual, physical and political attacks on Hindu identity?
- How do I counter mocking and erasure of our deities
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This avatar model is complicated. Because it says gods incarnate as flesh and blood people. They interact with other humans who are also flesh and blood people. So we can't simply get away by saying these are just fiction stories or fairy tales with important morals. So I

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A must-read for every humanities/social sciences student/scholar in India. Critical Humanities from India, edited by D. Venkat Rao, challenges the Western episteme & reimagines the human from the plural, fractured, lived traditions of the Global South. 🧵

A must-read for every humanities/social sciences student/scholar in India.

Critical Humanities from India, edited by D. Venkat Rao, challenges the Western episteme & reimagines the human from the plural, fractured, lived traditions of the Global South. 🧵
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Soviet-era phones lacking any dial, keypad, or buttons. These telephones were intentionally restricted to prevent the user from making outgoing calls. They were often installed in government buildings, military command centers, factories, and offices of state security services.

Soviet-era phones lacking any dial, keypad, or buttons. These telephones were intentionally restricted to prevent the user from making outgoing calls. They were often installed in government buildings, military command centers, factories, and offices of state security services.
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Representational justice in maths Olympiad huh? Okay this is a samvidhan compliant ideal. As an Indian I am not very shocked. This is business as usual for us in many spheres.