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The turning of the yugacakra
As the wheel turns, what goes up comes down and what is down comes up, again and again. There is a symmetry to the process in the downward and the upward movements, albeit in opposite directions. The old Hindus, right … Continue reading
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Tagged American, China, Geopolitics, Hindu, Hindu knowledge, India, Japan, Russia
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Geopolitical summary: March 2022
The autumn dawn As the 40th day of the autumn of 2016 CE dawned, the mahāmleccha left-liberals were sunning themselves in the last rays of the setting Ardhakṛṣṇa. He was the hero of the age for them, a veritable yuganātha, … Continue reading
Posted in History, Politics
Tagged Abrahamism, Abrahamistic vandalism, American, China, Chinese belligerence, Chinese incursion, Geopolitics, Japan, mlechCha, Russia
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Asians and Pacific Islanders: The triangle
In our youth, we read with great excitement old books on anthropology obtained from a library with considerable difficulty. The excitement was primarily from learning about the osteology of extinct apes and monkeys, including the closest sister groups of Homo … Continue reading
Posted in History, Scientific ramblings
Tagged ancient India, Aryan, Aryan Invasion, Asia, Asian, Australia, Austro-Asiatic, Austronesians, China, DNA, genetics, genomics, Japan, Korea, Papuans
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Some talks at the Indic Today portal
We had a chat with with C Surendranath, Contributing Editor and (in part with) Yogini Deshpande, Editor in Chief of Indic Today. It is divided into four parts: 1) https://www.indictoday.com/videos/manasataramgini-civilization-counter-religion-continuity-collapse-i/ A few clarifications for this part: 1) We do not … Continue reading
Posted in Heathen thought, History, Politics
Tagged Abrahamism, Abrahamistic vandalism, ancient Hindu thought, China, Ching, Chinggis Khan, Hindu, India, Japan, religion, Russia, world history, World War 2
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Winners and Losers
Somakhya and Lootika were visiting the Śūlapuruṣadeśa for work reasons. Unlike their ārya ancestors, they did not like being on the move much. It was a rare occasion that both had been able to travel together and it brought them … Continue reading
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Tagged American, China, Chinese belligerence, Chinese incursion, fiction, Germans, Germany, history, Japan, Story, war, world history
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Difference of consecutive cubes, conics and a Japanese temple tablet
Introduction In our part of the world, someone with even a nominal knowledge of mathematics might be aware of the taxicab number made famous by the conversation of Ramanujan and Hardy: the smallest number that can be expressed as the … Continue reading
Posted in Scientific ramblings
Tagged arithmetic, cube, ellipse, geometry, history of science, Japan, mathematics, numbers, parabola, recreational geometry, square
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A superficial look at national population density and some life history features
Over the years we have repeatedly checked out various collections of data pertaining to the human condition in the same manner as we attempted to apprehend scientific data. We have wondered whether to write on them in any detail. We … Continue reading
Posted in History, Life, Politics
Tagged Afghanistan, Africa, city states, India, IQ, Japan, life expectancy, population density, statistics
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Matters of religion: “he becomes Naravāhanadatta”
Somakhya’s mother (SM) and Lootika’s mother (LM) ran into each other during their visit to the shrine of Rudra beside the river on a Monday evening. They sat at the platform below the vast aśvattha tree beside the subsidiary Viṣṇu … Continue reading
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Tagged Hindu, Hindu ritual, Japan, kubera, religion, Story, yakSha
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Paper folding, Sundara Rao and geometrical constructions
Paper folding, which we shall hereinafter refer to as origami without further discussion on the correctness of the usage, is believed to have had a long history in Japan. Some believe that some primitive form of origami might have been … Continue reading
Posted in art, Life, Scientific ramblings
Tagged doubling cube, Geometric construction, geometry, Japan, origami, paper-folding, religion, Sundara Rao, trisection of angle
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Some thoughts on Shridhar Ketkar and other Hindu responders to Abrahamism in the past two centuries
A version of this article was published originally at India Facts The Hindu encounter with Abrahamism began with the initial expansions of the second (Christ cult) and third (Mohammedanism) versions. Hindus figured among the early victims of the second Abrahamism … Continue reading
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Tagged Abrahamism, ancient Hindu thought, Anti-Hindu, bauddha, buddhism, Christian Vandalism, Japan, Ketkar
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World War 2 and the like
Right away we should state that there is going to be some dilation – hence “the like”. “In my generation, we lived under the impression that the term patriotism was poisoned during Nazi times. German history, unlike American or French … Continue reading
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Tagged Britain, Germany, India, Japan, Poland, Russia, World War 2
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Some discussion on the Siberian conquests of the Mongols and the Ainu in history
In 1207 CE, after Chingiz Khan had been proclaimed as the sole ruler of all Mongolia, he decided to decisively settle outstanding military issues. In 1204 CE he had sent an exploratory force to subdue the Turkic Kirghiz of Siberia … Continue reading
The first responders and the paradox of Maoism
We have to admit that there is nothing very new in these episodic geopolitical musings; nevertheless, we engage in revisiting these themes for it is perhaps away of registering the connection between history which is being made and history which … Continue reading
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Tagged Anglosphere, BJP, British Empire, China, Christian Vandalism, Hazare, Hindu struggle against Christism, India, Japan, Kejriwal, Mohammedanism, NDA, OSS, subversion, UPA
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The moment of silence
In the days long past, when we were still young, we did not like the 15th Aug holiday very much – it was not really a full holiday for we had to attend school for a few hours of faux … Continue reading
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Tagged Anglosphere, August 15th, China, Geopolitics, India, Japan, leukosphere
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