I'll go first.
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COVID-19 was a proper engineered virus by the CCP as a bioweapon. It somehow broke containment, went global, and so they had to cover it up with that bullshit bat story.
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Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Homi Jahangir Bhabha, and many such brilliant and eminent personalities (diplomats, scientists etc.) have been systematically assassinated by agencies like CIA, to hinder India's growth, and to prevent us from becoming a major superpower in the SE Asia.
Looking forward to your viewpoints.
Across most Germanic and Latin based European languages, varied from Hungarian to English, the Latin script is used, with only very minor changes.
However, in the Indian Subcontinent, almost all languages have their own unique script. These scripts are significantly different from each other. However all these writing systems developed from a single script called the Brahmi Script:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmi_script
"The Brahmi writing system, or script, appeared as a fully developed universal one in South Asia in the third century BCE, and is a forerunner of all writing systems that have found use in South Asia with the exception of the Indus script of the third millennium BCE, the Kharosthi script, which originated in what today is northwestern Pakistan in the fourth or possibly fifth century BCE, the Perso–Arabic scripts since the medieval period, and the Latin scripts of the modern period."
Accross languages, modern scripts descended from the Brahmi Script look significantly different from each other. Examples of which can be found in the following links:
https://imgur.com/MlkYC6S
And,
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Phrase_sanskrit.svg/1788px-Phrase_sanskrit.svg.png
Why has Indian Subcontinental writing systems evolved so widely and drastically from a single source, while the Latin alphabet remains relatively similar accross European languages?
How did Islam reach the Subcontinent: through Socialization or Coercion; Trade or Invasion? It is a very important question which has a direct bearing on the social ecology in which people live their lives nowadays. It requires a fair and satisfactory answer to clear the doubts that have crept into the minds of many people owing to their not so clear understanding of Islam’s arrival in the Subcontinent.
There is, thus, an urgent need to lay bare the falsehoods the subjective interpretation of history is spreading about the arrival of Islam in the Subcontinent. And learn that the diffusion of Islam towards the entire Southeast Asia occurred due to its getting along with peoples through the Arab MuslimTraders–frequenting its bazaars and business hubs for commercial enterprises–rather than the Invaders as imagined and publicised by many, including some jobbing historians, spinmeisters, phoney journalists and naive followers of the trend. It got into the Southeast Asia, writes Dr. Carool Kersten of King’s College, London, so peacefully that:
“it did not involve a conquest, and that it happened gradually and surprisingly”
through socialization, interaction, aculturization and trade. The Arab traders frequented Malaysia and Indonesia as well where they were welcomed by the natives for their fair behaviour which impacted on them so profoundly that they accepted Islam as their religion and made their places largest Muslim countries in the process.
That Islam made its way into the Subcontinent through quality merchandise is a glaring fact of history."
https://countercurrents.org/2021/12/how-did-islam-reach-the-subcontinent-through-socialization-or-coercion/
"The narrative that Muslims in the Subcontinent were religious invaders from outside has stemmed essentially from the political strategy and divide and rule policy devised by the British to bring its major areas under their sway. They engaged scholars and historians to develop such strategies to help the authorities to build up a narrative that could be used in fueling and exploiting the most subjective interpretation of medieval historical literature.
The noted scholar, Max Muller, originally a German, was employed and paid handsomely to interpret indigenous literature in such a way that the people were prompted not only to look down upon common people and artisans, and hate village urchins, Sudaras and Maleechs but also lost faith in their own belief systems and traditions. He was inducted into the Comp
... keep reading on reddit ➡About to go on a long rant about the inappropriate and completely haraam nature of desi weddings. It always surprises me to see God fearing, bearded men, that pray 5 times and do all the other obligations best to their ability fling everything out the window on that day.
Watching them dance with non mahrams on DJ tunes comes off as a bit of a shock, when advised they say, "weddings don't happen everyday, it's once in a while occasion, and Allah SWT is most forgiving and merciful" and it's surprising that they don't see the fault in that.
Or the other argument I've heard is,"we aren't perfect Muslims, neither are, you also do so and so sin, so first go and rectify that" which is just the lowest form of argument there can be, whataboutism is just deflecting the point, anyways.
Desis have turned marriage into a spectacle, always trying to one up the other person, not realizing how many sins they are gathering in that process. They have turned marriage that is supposed to be simple into a million buck affair that has hindered so many others.
People are taking interest based loans just to be able to stand on the high pedestal that everyone seems to be on because no parent wants to let their kid down, & no kid understands that the sensationalism of these events lasts only for a few days leaving them in huge debt.
But hey it HAS to be done this way, the culture demands it, our prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's way of a nikah is outdated and boring Nauzubillah, Ma'azAllah. We are ready to smother our few good deeds and gain many sins just for a few hours of show off.
We have made getting married so difficult and pricey that we no longer see the deen of our potential spouses rather their "standard" and if they able and willing to spend their lifesaving to the cultures demands. Causing so many people to stay unmarried & fall into zina.
I'm not going to go on how to get married the right way, there are more knowledgeable ulemas and muftis present that can tell you in detail with sanads. I'm just here to point out the blatant disregard of deen and wellbeing of others.
The entire marriage week is marked with songs on loudspeaker, so we begin with haraam. But not just for us we make sure it is heard as far away as possible, to people praying, reciting Qur'an, studying, trying to sleep, recovering from sickness, dealing with old age.
The reasoning given is "others do it as well" and isn't that the best reason to just start doing any sin in t
... keep reading on reddit ➡
I cringe when I hear that guy.
Hi! I'm looking for any Indian ethnomusicologists here on the sub (or who you may know about). I'm a sustainability researcher+musician interested in studying Indian folk music traditions with an ecological lens. I'm still trying to figure out how and where to formally study+research all this and thought I'd post here, just incase.
Thank you for reading! Please feel free to DM if you'd prefer that over commenting.
From what I've read, it seems that both Mahayana and Vajrayana were significantly larger than Theravada on the mainland, but I'm having trouble figuring out if Vajrayana or Mahayana was more prominent. Would the "Indian Buddhism" of the late medieval through early modern periods been akin to Tibetan Buddhism? Vajrayana evolved in India, and I know that it was being spread out of India at a time when Mahayana schools had already been established in East and Southeast Asia. As such, did Vajrayana become dominant in India, or was Mahayana still dominant before Buddhism's decline in the subcontinent?
Feels like I'm the only one, speak up i need some Indian homies to relate to
Firstly, I'd like to offer my sympathies to everyone frustrated dealing with the ECB racism stuff. Sucks so bad. Hopefully we as a game can be better dealing with racial stuff.
To the point of the post: Have you guys heard of Aussie cricket comedian Billy Birmingham aka The 12th Man? If you have, what do you think about his puns/jokes about Subcontinent people's names? Do you take it as lighthearted jokes and funny play on words, or are you genuinely frustrated with them?
Would love to hear any and all thoughts.
Mods, please delete if this violates sub rules.
