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1. It's been almost 6 hrs since I watched #Kantara and "Varaha roopam.." is still playing in my head in a loop. As someone who thinks he is decent with words,I can still barely find d words to capture d experience that is #Kantara. So I am just going to say what comes naturally.
2. First, kudos and thanks to Team @shetty_rishab for creating this deeply moving experience which has touched people across the world overcoming language & cultural barriers. You have showcased the local with such conviction & affection,and gone global in the process,rightly so.
3. What a powerful way to begin and end the movie with! Rendered by Ajneesh Loknath & Sai Vignesh, Varaha Roopam is a masterpiece in Carnatic fusion with the nadaswaram capturing the tone of the film & its setting to perfection. Listen to this beauty -
I don't understand the critics of coloniality. Do they think that coloniality doesn't exist or is good for society or speaking about it will do bad?
If it's 3, then they are behaving with same the colonial conditioning...
(1/n)
If it's 3, then they are behaving with same the colonial conditioning...
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To criticize our own OETs while take the external OETs at face value. Similar to the 'White man's burden' we do have a similar equivalent acronym from the colonised POV in Tamil, i.e. 'Vellaikaran Poi Solla Maattaan' or 'White man won't lie'
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If it's 1 or 2, I see many examples where coloniality is plaguing the society
I'm as concerned as how we would decolonialize our society without giving undue advantage to a single community/demography. But I don't understand the problem in acknowledging coloniality.
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I'm as concerned as how we would decolonialize our society without giving undue advantage to a single community/demography. But I don't understand the problem in acknowledging coloniality.
3/n
1. Apparently I have already branded d Constitution of 1950 a colonial document in my book #IndiaThatisBharat when I have limited d discussion in d book to d Government of India Act of 1919 and have said as much that I am yet to form my views fully on the current Constitution :-p
2. The discussion in the first book touches largely upon the secular versus religious divide and its colonial history. But I have been very careful about not branding the entire Constitution 'colonial' since it will be examined specifically only in the third book.
3. Conceptual objections to & rejection of Decoloniality as a concept are understandable and ppl can differ on the subject. But what's d point of misrepresenting d very scope of d book, especially when I have been clear about specifying d scope of d discussion in the first book?
Summary of Section-1, Chapter-1 of @jsaideepak's "India that is Bharat"
Will be adding summary of each chapter to this thread, every week after the completion of clubhouse session.
#IndiaThatisBharat #Telugurighteco
Will be adding summary of each chapter to this thread, every week after the completion of clubhouse session.
#IndiaThatisBharat #Telugurighteco
Finally got time to start reading "INDIA that is BHARAT!"
#DeColonise vis a vis #DeColonialise - great new additions to popular discourse @jsaideepak
#DeColonialisation - need of the hour. ✨👍
#DeColonise vis a vis #DeColonialise - great new additions to popular discourse @jsaideepak
#DeColonialisation - need of the hour. ✨👍
1/5 - Was reminded of a few lines I wrote in response to Faiz's "Bol ke lab azaad hai tere.." while reading Chapter 2 of #IndiaThatisBharat
Do chk it out @jsaideepak @meghkalyan @mmpandit @ksinamdar - U'll like it. 😇🙏
(verse in next tweet)
Do chk it out @jsaideepak @meghkalyan @mmpandit @ksinamdar - U'll like it. 😇🙏
(verse in next tweet)
2/5 #Faiz:
Bol ke lab azad hai tere
Bol zuban ab tak teri hai..
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I Changed it to a dialogue bwn the Colonizer & the Colonized.
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First the boast of the #Colonizer ..
Bol ke lab azad hai tere
Us mein zubaan par meri hai
Jism dil dimaag hai tera
rooh dhadkan soch meri hai!
Bol ke lab azad hai tere
Bol zuban ab tak teri hai..
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I Changed it to a dialogue bwn the Colonizer & the Colonized.
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First the boast of the #Colonizer ..
Bol ke lab azad hai tere
Us mein zubaan par meri hai
Jism dil dimaag hai tera
rooh dhadkan soch meri hai!
1. Ever since the release of my book #IndiaThatisBharat and its positive reception,a few handles have increased their direct & sly attacks on me, which I think is a back-handed compliment. Their latest tirade rides on the back of my tweets from 2015 on the subject of caste.
2.Apparently I am supposed to b embarrassed that my views on caste have evolved.That my views evolved significantly after I took up d Sabarimala case is something I have myself stated at least on 2 occasions,once in a discussion wid @UnSubtleDesi & again in my recent CH session.
3. Here's d link to my discussion wid @UnSubtleDesi & @pratyasharath held last year during d lockdown where d specific subject was the tug of war between the so-called "trads" & "Raytas". To the trawlers,at 15.33,I specifically discuss my tweets of 2015 -
10 excerpts from the final section on 'constitution' from the book #IndiaThatIsBharat by
@jsaideepak that I found worth sharing. Hope it interests you to go ahead and read it.
@jsaideepak that I found worth sharing. Hope it interests you to go ahead and read it.
Sir Thomas Munro - "We should look on India not as a temporary possession, but as one which is to be maintained permanently until the natives shall in some future age have abandoned most of their superstitions and prejudices" #IndiaThatisBharat by @jsaideepak
"The purpose of the proposed politico-legal framework of the Montfort Report was to co-opt the native into the coloniser's worldview" #IndiaThatisBharat by @jsaideepak
10 excerpts from the 2nd section on 'civilisation' from the book #IndiaThatIsBharat by @jsaideepak
that I found worth sharing. Hope it interests you to go ahead and read it.
that I found worth sharing. Hope it interests you to go ahead and read it.
"European coloniality is like the Matrix. One just needs to become aware of it, after which it is impossible to unsee, especially in matters of religion, polity, education, economics and the law" - #IndiaThatisBharat by @jsaideepak
"The Muslim invaders did not merely sing their hymn of hate and go back burning a few temples on the way. They planted the seed of Islam. Its growth is so thick in North India that the remnants of Hindu and Buddhist culture are just shrubs" #IndiaThatisBharat by @jsaideepak
10 excerpts from the 1st section on 'coloniality' from the book #IndiaThatIsBharat by @jsaideepak that I found worth sharing. Hope it interests you to go ahead and read it.
"coloniality is the fount of the policy of colonialism that results in colonisation, whose ultimate objective is to mould the subjugated society in the image of the coloniser" #IndiaThatisBharat by @jsaideepak
Most colonised societies did not realise that their entire worldview had changed, for they could not see beyond political independence and aspired for freedom to govern themselves, albeit using the same values and institutions they had 'inherited' from the European coloniser
Done with book signing at @Bahrisons_books Gurgaon. Next to @Bahrisons_books Vasant Kunj. #IndiaThatisBharat
Now to Midland, Aurobindo Marg. #IndiaThatisBharat
Now to Midland, South Ex.
For those missed it, here's d link to d YouTube of last evening's launch of my book #IndiaThatisBharat:Coloniality,Civilisation,Constitution.The launch was followed by a panel discussion comprising Dr. Gautam Sen,Dr. Prakash A Shah, @ARanganathan72 and me.
*who
Happy to share that my book is back in the top 30 books on Amazon across all categories and is back to No. 1 in the political categories. @ARanganathan72 @arth_live
1. It's been over a month since the pre Order link to my book #IndiaThatisBharat:Coloniality,Civilisation,Constitution was released on July 7th. Today,on the day of its formal launch,I am happy to share that d book remains in d top 3 books in d political categories on Amazon.
2. At 5 pm today, #IndiaThatisBharat will be launched online by Princess Aswathi Thirunal Gouri Lakshmi Bayi of the Travancore Royal Family. The event is being organised by @arth_live and can be viewed live at these links - Facebook.com/arthlive and YouTube.com/ArthACultureFe….
3. I am deeply honoured that a representative of Dharma and a member of the Travancore Royal Family that has devoted its very existence to the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple,Princess Aswathi Thirunal Gouri Lakshmi Bayi,has kindly consented to launch d book. To me,this is a blessing.
