What 'wing' does that make me?

Assorted tweets collated by @NathTusar Director #SavitriEra Learning Forum #SriAurobindo #TheMother

Much can be done to improve the design and outcomes of India’s affirmative action policies, but to dismantle them out of a misplaced sense of upper-caste aggrievement would amount to setting the clock back. https://t.co/KY3EVNDYN6

https://twitter.com/scroll_in/status/1164942877643956224?s=19

Thread on the dominance of Telugu throughout the Madras Presidency at the outset of the Raj:

https://t.co/5WGrokUBcw.

https://twitter.com/longhandnotes/status/1164906502861275136?s=19

So Telugu (and to a lesser extent Sanskrit) became very dominant languages in the corridors of power. Tamil receded.

Telugu was perceived as the language with some class! The language used by respectable people. Tamil - the language of the masses and the subjects.

https://twitter.com/shrikanth_krish/status/1026972264212951040?s=19

I remember @kshetragnya had countered that thread

https://t.co/d2iLPn6i95

https://twitter.com/shrikanth_krish/status/1164912478859485186?s=19

True. But the language of patronage for much of the Chola period was Tamil, not Telugu

https://twitter.com/shrikanth_krish/status/1027560193591324672?s=19

Compliments on the long thread.  The thread has a lot of problems though which I was inclined to not broach. But, now that people are posting this as a primer on Dravidian politics, I think a few things need to be clarified.

https://twitter.com/kshetragnya/status/1027447644140986368?s=19

Telugu was a court language in almost all of south, language of cultural expression and of the devadasis. A language whcih saw contribution from people unrelated to it either by lineage or land. People as diverse as Swati Tirunal, Tanjore Vayyapuri Pillai and Mysore vasudevachar

https://twitter.com/kshetragnya/status/1164903841449381888?s=19

To understand fascism, one must also understand the roots of blood mysticism -- the belief that blood by itself has some inherent magical potency or mana. It's an ancient belief. But the mystique of blood was central to the Nazi blood cult.

https://twitter.com/fourfoldvision/status/1164918466538856448?s=19

The Knowledge Concerning the Immutable Brahman https://t.co/Gks365p77w

https://twitter.com/santoshk1/status/1164913931032432647?s=19

The Lower and the Higher Knowledge As Described by the Mundaka Upanishad https://t.co/Dd5ylWAp0e

RK Studios has been razed to the ground. Nothing remains, except the iconic gate. From June 2019, my piece for @TheQuint on how the demolition of RK Studios is an example of lack of imagination & intent when it comes to preserving Indian film heritage. https://t.co/q2e6AvLDqr

https://twitter.com/Maanvi2501/status/1164763101448638465?s=19

Save this image. Look at it every time someone says reservations create inequality, to remind yourself that inequality exists, reservation alleviates it a bit. Look at it every time RSS says 'debate reservations' & preaches 'social harmony' between oppressor & oppressed. https://t.co/Ysr07jr7jI@swati_gs has been reporting cases that many in the media avoid because it does not suit their narrative.

https://twitter.com/kavita_krishnan/status/1164777079847526400?s=19

She has had to face attacks online, and attempts have been made to discredit her work. Here, she narrates her experience.

https://t.co/DnZw8JN2um

https://twitter.com/SwarajyaMag/status/1164564331729575936?s=19

Almost all of my work as a journalist at @SwarajyaMag has been about highlighting atrocities on dalits, social and state injustice to dalit victims, and plight of poor farmers

What 'wing' does that make me? #genuinequestion

https://twitter.com/swati_gs/status/1160433366363099136?s=19

“From studying under the streetlamps to travelling barefoot for hours - I have done it all. I am a dentist today only because others helped me. Now I try to contribute in my own way.” #Respect #RealLifeHero #Mumbai

https://t.co/Uab5R3pw8s

https://twitter.com/thebetterindia/status/1164778618272137216?s=19

Never seen any other scholar who's as neutral, as detail oriented, as intelligent, as objective, as industrious, as articulate and as humble as @vikramsampath.

A true intellectual in every sense of the word. https://t.co/Cez6vY175r

https://twitter.com/KeertiJoshi/status/1164888925694918657?s=19

Talk by Bibek Debroy | The relevance of Mahabharata for our times.  https://t.co/nnnylZ2Cob such a wonderful presentation..calm, measured..I learnt a lot..thanks to @KanchanGupta da for the recommendation

https://twitter.com/kalisbrood/status/1164932912958996480?s=19

Twitter's 2 Worlds:

Zero-Sum: consumption, tweet-dunking, virtue signaling, identity politics, straw-manning, scapegoating, stagnation, reduction

Positive-Sum: creation, ideation, exploration, steel-manning, connection, evolution, compression

Which world do you live in?

https://twitter.com/alanhliang/status/1164688601117945857?s=19

I used to have some respect for Aurobindo and his belief that India was created as a spiritual compass for the world. If you are competing with the US mind you'll still only ever be second rate at that. So back to Kashmir any new thoughts or have we peaked

https://twitter.com/DesCoutinho/status/1164496338811179008?s=19

I don't get the point of these comparative studies like Tagore Vs Sri Aurobindo, Vivekananda Vs Shankaracharya etc etc. I mean, my hands automatically moves to close the window the moment I land on such contents.

https://twitter.com/Diff_View/status/1164427613139374082?s=19

Indeed, Sri Aurobindo in his “Origins of Aryan Speech” drew attention to this connection which then later became “politically incorrect”. https://t.co/g74rp35LS2 https://t.co/h4l6WwtT12

https://twitter.com/naandiliveli/status/1164588623439601664?s=19

That's interesting. It's also one of the symbols associated with Aurobindo's Integral Yoga (called "the Mother's Symbol") -- how the one becomes 4 and the 4 become 12. 12 is an archetypal number. https://t.co/PqqOmYqpOG

https://twitter.com/fourfoldvision/status/1164575207782277128?s=19

SA cautioned of attachment to suffering; all pain-worship & concomitant sin-punishment concept came here with religions alien to the Sanatan Dharma.

"To a superficial and incomplete understanding it may appear that it is pain itself which the soul seeks. It is not so."

The Mother https://t.co/5z5GaBS4TJ

https://twitter.com/Suranjan56/status/1164754249122631681?s=19

Plain & Simple: Savitri Era Learning Forum (SELF since 2005) https://t.co/I7YU3TOgSS Assorted tweets collated by @NathTusar Director, Savitri Era Learning Forum

#SavitriEra of those who adore,

Om #SriAurobindo & #TheMother.

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1164475404079390721?s=19

From another perspective: It's said that Nadira and Amjad Khan could never get a better role than their debut in Aan and Sholay respectively. Bollywood certainly provides a secular mythology for our generation apart from the inexhaustible treasure of music for aesthetic pleasure.

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1164597917463670784?s=19

"Men need heterosexuality to maintain their societal dominance over women. Women, on the other hand, are increasingly realizing not only that they don’t need heterosexuality, but that it also is often the bedrock of their global oppression"

Wha Dumbest ish I read in a while

I mean I want to be oppressed, the more muscles and duskier, the better, please God :-D https://t.co/YoqgVdvx8K

https://twitter.com/TheSignOfFive/status/1164791819365781505?s=19

If they're so sure of their sexuality and that it is NOT hetero, why the eff would they have relationship with hetero men? This is a new fad that I cant get-  Men who declare their preferences as hetro/Non-Trans are villains, but women who declare their preferences are heroes.

https://twitter.com/lotophagus/status/1164796489635258369?s=19

In other words, Lutyens takes down a chronic rapist who they hid and protected for like decades and takes credit for it and distributes it to loyal member. It can't get any more cynical than this.

As an aside, the whole #metoo is now completely hijacked by wannabes, the two original women who bravely started it were run out in record time.

Metoo, FeminismInIndia etc etc are all hijacked by Lutyens compliant people.

https://twitter.com/barbarindian/status/1164907642554372097?s=19

Aatish Taseer's own honest admission elsewhere: that he is a “louche liberal” who enjoys raves than “discussions about Hindu civilization.”

READ — https://t.co/R6ZTeXPffg

by Sandeep Balakrishna ji @dharmadispatch https://t.co/yFq0FKLnSX

https://twitter.com/CASandeepSehgal/status/1164863975235788800?s=19

First Bollywood films were banned, now Indian channels. Politicians can't find solutions so it's always Art, Culture and common people on both sides who are hit. When these are the very things that unite.

Also pointless in the age of digital / internet

https://t.co/Nq9QXfgNlC

https://twitter.com/IndianPrism/status/1164646476850454528?s=19

#Krishn Geeta has been doctored to create a bridge with Manuism..Krishn whole life fought for equality freedom and humanity..he demounced ritualism laying more emphasis on Karma..science and awakening of consciousness..he accepted even atheism

https://twitter.com/ashokkmrsingh/status/1164790357021749248?s=19

गोंडी भाषा को मान्यता मिलनी चाहिए। आपके और मेरे प्रान्त उत्तर प्रदेश की ही अवधी भाषा को भी मिलनी चाहिए।

पर संस्कृत से द्वेष क्यों? ब्राह्मणवाद का आरोप क्यों?

वैसे अरबी और फ़ारसी के विद्वानों को राष्ट्रपति पुरस्कार एवं महर्षि बादरायण सम्मान मिलता है। उसपर आपका मत क्या है?

https://twitter.com/MisraNityanand/status/1164719027341746176?s=19

Simple explanations for this:

1. We do not share as much cultural space with Nepalis that we do with say Gujaratis or Marathis. And language is intertwined with culture.

https://twitter.com/Shatrubhanja/status/1164947616955686912?s=19

Each language is a nation and it's high time to recognise and respect that by reversing the British legacy. States must get Sovereignty.

https://twitter.com/NathTusar/status/1164952232271310849?s=19