There is no historical evidence that a man called Chanakya ever lived during Mauryan times. What we have is a story based on later Buddhist & Jain chronicles & Sanskrit plays like Mudra-rakshasa, all imagined after 500 AD...
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Devdutt Pattanaik
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Vi-vaad is a toolkit for the ego.
Sama-vaad is a toolkit for the soul.
Silence is a toolkit for sanity.
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- If a minister's son is an American citizen, can he be a minister of Bharat Mata? Isn't there conflict of interest? पुत्र मोह is a very dangerous thing ... Veda warns us about this.
- Sanatanis fought Buddhists and Jains and were forced to become vegetarians. Sanatanis fought Mughals and were forced to wear kurta-pyjama of the Turks. 1/2
- Thailand is an Asian country that did not get colonised. It has many temples dedicated to Thai-versions of Hindu gods including Ganesha, Indra. It is also is first Asian state to accept same-sex marriage. 🌈 It also never had Brahmins or "pure" vegetarians controlling them.
- Instead of promoting the archeological sites of Tamil Nadu that push back date of the Iron Age, it seems “pure” vegetarians are trying to promote Gujarat as the cradle of Bharat… 1/3
- There is a caste system amongst babas.... 1. "Real" Babas = speak English and appeal to Brahmin Urban audience 2. "Fake" Babas = do not speak English, appeal to rural folk, "lower" castes.
- Replying to @devduttmythSanatanis fought British and were forced to speak English to get jobs in USA. Tell this to all English-speaking Kurta-wearing vegetarian Sanatani. 2/2
- Ram, the King Without Ambition In the epic Ramayana, Ram encounters a peculiar demon in the forest. His name is Kabandha. Kabandha stretches his two long arms and grabs Ram and his brother and then draws them close to his mouth. That is when Ram notices that the demon has no
- Hindu temples like Thai temples once belonged to all. Brahmins came and created borders of purity and pollution.
- Brahmins who rejected Ram One of the codes for feminism in India is to decry Ram, hero of the Ramayana, for abandoning his pregnant wife in the forest. Likewise, one of the codes for atheism, secularism and liberalism is to decry the same Ram for beheading Shambuka, the ‘low’
- When today’s young people laugh about their body count on dating apps, they are perhaps unknowingly reviving an older cultural comfort with sexuality. Read more: Body count: Then and now
- Raghunathji of Jammu Raghunathji of Kullu Ram of Bhadrachalam Kala Ram of Nashik (never alone, never lonely, always with family) 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏










