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god willing i will never buy a flat in my life. very rootless thing to do imo, worse than renting
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efficient cultural market hypothesis
i love the ambition behind projects like these that try to define “the next aesthetic.” it speaks to a hunger for coherence in a moment where culture feels extremely fragmented. the challenge is that aesthetics aren’t created by intention alone. they’re emergent properties of
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this is the most indian election bhashan coded shit ive seen. just need to put some chairs on the stage seting other party leaders and posters with vivek and trump's face plastered in the background
The Golden Age for America will be a Golden Age for federalism. We’ll make sure Ohio leads the way.
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the indo aryan nomads spoke vedic sanskrit, basically preserving proto Indo european morphology and a crazy complex inflection system bedouins were universally considered custodians of pure arabic smth about sedentary civilisation causes degeneration in raw linguistic capacity
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Ayodhya Prasad Khatri presaged this 140 years ago
South Delhi is spearheading another movement where we will use English words for everything but grammatical particles
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lucknow doesnt get enough hate for overpersianising urdu literature
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in school i used to wonder we were studying barely intelligible dohas and satsais that basically required full fledged translation, in the guise of hindi literature
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interesting coincidence that during the decadent phases of both the first and the second Empires of Hindustan there were emperors named Shah Alam I wonder which one "saltanat e shah alam, az dehli ta palam" refers to
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Levantine Christians are to French West Africa what Gujaratis were to British East and South Africa (tho Gujaratis have been established in indian ocean trade much before colonialism) both dominated retail and import export as middlemen minorities between euro firms and populace
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Islam, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism even third worldism
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Christianity and Judaism might be the only major world religions whose intellectual centre of gravity has never been in India.
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I JUST REALISED I HAVE ACCESS TO THE ENTIRE NYT AND TIMES OF INDIA ARCHIVES LFGGG
No need to worry guys — that was the first thing I did when I received my uni email.
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Bābar learned some Hindavi, as attested by this curious mixed Hindavi-Chagatai couplet in a 1529 manuscript of his divān
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Verses from the 11th century poem Sanneharāsaya/Sandesharāsaka, the first attested Indo-Aryan composition by a Muslim, Addahamāņ (Abdur Rahman) of Multan: Humans, gods, and demigods, Lightning, sun and moon, Approaching whom they bow- to Him, the Creator, let us bow in the city.
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what's the difference between the canonical pronunciations of ض and ظ? i was taught to pronounce them both like an emphatic rounded ذ
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A British officer's account of Sanskrit learning in Gujarat in the 1860s
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this is what grad school is for
There’s a pattern of many of the most impressive individuals in history (Samuel Johnson, Zhang Juzheng, and Bismarck come to mind) spending 4-10 years of their young adulthoods neeted out and reading all day. Food for thought
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