At least 1,090 have been arrested at protests around Russia against @navalny's jailing

One of the protesters in Moscow. Looks familiar somehow...
.@navalny protesters are young & angry. Riot police not in a good mood either
13 arrested protesting @navalny's jailing even in far-off Yakutsk, where it was -54F today (via @shaunwalker7)
Now at least 1,338 @navalny protesters have been arrested around Russia. Kids in Moscow start throwing snowballs at riot police (via @tggrove @OvdInfo)
These kids. Just kicking around a riot police helmet
"We're doing everything to keep you safe," the loudspeaker tells @navalny protesters as police beat them
.@tvrain has an English version of their livestream from the @navalny protest (via @tikhondzyadko) https://t.co/cHHHVkGlg7
I remember when Russian opposition protests used to be mostly middle-aged guys listening to speeches with a flask of cognac to keep warm...
Police have thrown smoke grenades in downtown Moscow
"Fascists!" Snowballs vs batons in Moscow
Among many journalists arrested covering the protests: Roman Anin of @istories_media, @ars_ves of @EchoMskRu, Alexander Sivtsov of @meduzaproject, Mikhail Sheptun of @RTVi & @merr1k of @mediazzzona, whose arm police broke during Putin's constitution vote https://t.co/advdteBDuq
Never too early to start arresting 'em
More than 1,600 arrested in 80+ cities at the biggest protests Russia has seen in several years, @OvdInfo says. An estimated 40,000 turned out in Moscow
The Snowball Revolution
There's more where that came from
Yep not your same old Russian protests. The car belongs to the FSB & the driver has been hospitalized with an eye injury, state news says
"Remember this video when they start telling us tomorrow about how barbaric the Muscovites who came out in the streets were" https://t.co/DN2cCB8EbU
The Belarusian scenario, you'll remember, is hundreds of days of protests, brutal arrests, torture in detention centers, leaders exiled & imprisoned... (via @SabraAyres) https://t.co/ceC4VNndpd
For those of you inured to Russian police brutality
Let's do it again next weekend, @navalny activists say https://t.co/N5AnPJ9Su3

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I just finished Eric Adler's The Battle of the Classics, and wanted to say something about Joel Christiansen's review linked below. I am not sure what motivates the review (I speculate a bit below), but it gives a very misleading impression of the book. 1/x


The meat of the criticism is that the history Adler gives is insufficiently critical. Adler describes a few figures who had a great influence on how the modern US university was formed. It's certainly critical: it focuses on the social Darwinism of these figures. 2/x

Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x

The core question: in what sense is classics inherently racist? Classics is old. On Adler's account, it begins in ancient Rome and is revived in the Renaissance. Slavery (Christiansen's primary concern) is also very old. Let's say classics is an education for slaveowners. 4/x

It's worth remembering that literacy itself is elite throughout most of this history. Literacy is, then, also the education of slaveowners. We can honor oral and musical traditions without denying that literacy is, generally, good. 5/x
Rig Ved 1.36.7

To do a Namaskaar or bow before someone means that you are humble or without pride and ego. This means that we politely bow before you since you are better than me. Pranipaat(प्राणीपात) also means the same that we respect you without any vanity.

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Surrendering False pride is Namaskaar. Even in devotion or bhakti we say the same thing. We want to convey to Ishwar that we have nothing to offer but we leave all our pride and offer you ourselves without any pride in our body. You destroy all our evil karma.

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We bow before you so that you assimilate us and make us that capable. Destruction of our evils and surrender is Namaskaar. Therefore we pray same thing before and after any big rituals.

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तं घे॑मि॒त्था न॑म॒स्विन॒ उप॑ स्व॒राज॑मासते ।
होत्रा॑भिर॒ग्निं मनु॑षः॒ समिं॑धते तिति॒र्वांसो॒ अति॒ स्रिधः॑॥

Translation :

नमस्विनः - To bow.

स्वराजम् - Self illuminating.

तम् - His.

घ ईम् - Yours.

इत्था - This way.

उप - Upaasana.

आसते - To do.

स्त्रिधः - For enemies.

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अति तितिर्वांसः - To defeat fast.

मनुषः - Yajman.

होत्राभिः - In seven numbers.

अग्निम् - Agnidev.

समिन्धते - Illuminated on all sides.

Explanation : Yajmans bow(do Namaskaar) before self illuminating Agnidev by making the offerings of Havi.

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