Extremely triggered by these well wishers advising Muslim women to not post pictures online, take care to hide addresses etc. what if somebody clicks u while walking on the road? What makes u think you can hide your address? Why can’t somebody click photos of you while you are +

Addressing a gathering? You can be clicked while speaking at a conference? While shopping at your local grocery shop? Should v then stop pursuing our careers? Stop shopping? Stop going out? Erase ourselves from public ? Erase our existence and our voices ?

I was shocked to c all the photos of me when I came out of jail. Especially the ones I had not posted anywhere on social media! Some photos were cropped from my interview videos. Hina Bashir Beg who I met in Tihar told me that she was shocked to c photos of herself splashed all +

Over news & social media. She is a pardanasheen. Never posted pictures of her online. The photo that was splashed all over was from her passport! One photo is all it takes. And these are just some of the cases. The list is endless. We know that these cyber attacks are state

Sponsored. What makes you think that it is difficult for the State to get all your information? And erasing yourself from social media is the solution?
Shifting the blame on women and literally saying that u r responsible for the violence against u makes u complicit in that +

20 Things I've Learned (Or Had Confirmed) About Humanity During The 'Pandemic' (THREAD):

1/ Most people would rather be in the majority, than be right.

2/ At least 20% of the population has strong authoritarian tendencies, which will emerge under the right conditions.

3/ Fear of death is only rivalled by the fear of social disapproval. The latter could be stronger.

4/ Propaganda is just as effective in the modern day as it was 100 years ago. Access to limitless information has not made the average person any wiser.

5/ Anything and everything can and will be politicised by the media, government, and those who trust them.

🎠 a random thread of questions for whenever you need a distraction the world or if you’re bored.

qrt the answers and feel free to skip any questions if they make you feel uncomfortable 🪅

1
— what’s ur name and age?

2
— what’s ur sexuality and pronouns?

3
— where do you live?

Yesterday #StanSwamy died, after eight months in prison conditions that exacerbated his Parkinson's. He was one of the jailed human-rights advocates aka #BhimaKoregaon 16.
The story of the evidence against them is... amazing and bizarre, and is worth going over. A thread.

2. After the first arrests in June of 2018, police began to leak sensational 'electronic evidence' – letters found on the activists' laptops, which showed their links to Maoist guerillas. The most shocking letter even proposed a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Modi.

3. The letters were strangely explicit: Conspirators used each others' real names, instead of aliases as Maoists typically do.
They openly detailed requirements for arms and planned attacks, without using code-words.

4. The correspondence also implicated “Congress friends” and leaders, and a range of civil-society groups and youth leaders, like Jignesh Mevani and Umar Khalid...

5. In short, the letters outlined an 'Urban Naxal' ecosystem, which neatly matched the right-wing's projection of the grand anti-national conspiracy: Armed guerillas, human rights activists, opposition parties, Dalit and Muslim student leaders – all in the bag.

Association with nationhood provides us meaning, for now you are not, just you, but part of gargantuan mass of greatness. Outside of this association, for most of us, our lives will have little value beyond being the cogs that keeps moving the production lines of mass production+

This association with nation gives you meaning however primitive in its conception through sports, films touting a great victory over a rival, curated history interspersed with facts telling you how lucky you are to take birth in this most special land mass+

A doctrine shared intergenerationally normalizing affinity, not unlike religion which is similar to nationhood. All of these to ensure you find within yourself love for this idea for a geographic entity to big for you to even conceptualize in your head. +

This system works when everyone is primed to do their roles the factory worker runs the machine to create the product that needs to be sold, the doctor looks after the patients asks them to buy the exact medicines they are supposed to sell, the soldier fights +

The soldier fights not just at borders but also inside whenever a group stands up against this idea of utilitarian growth created using their raw resources and in the process excluding them. +

If any of you are under the impression that our billionaires might succeed in "escaping" to space, while the world burns, let me put those fears to rest with what I know from being the spouse of a NASA flight controller. 🧵

For a half-dozen people to exist up on the ISS, it takes a ground team of thousands of people, constantly problem-solving how to keep them alive. Their quality of life is bouncing around in a narrow tube with the same 5 people who can't really bathe for months. /

Every minute of their day is micromanaged so they can survive. They follow strict exercise regimens to keep their bones from turning to goo. They spend a ton of time studying systems and conducting repairs on equipment that's continually breaking because SPACE WANTS TO KILL YOU /

Their sleeping situation is akin to a floating coffin. Their pooping situation is a 20-something-step process in a port-o-potty where everything FLOATS and the door is a plastic curtain. The wifi cuts out at regular intervals. The food is NOT michelin starred, to say the least. /

The only reason they're alive up there at all is because multiple countries have thousands of brilliant, highly-trained engineers and doctors and astrophysicists and computer experts whose full-time job is keeping the astronauts alive and the ISS functioning. /

I asked, “What book do you re-read the most?”

I received 441 replies

Here are 20 books that should be read again and again:

1/

7 Habits of Highly Effective People

by Steven Covey

2/

A Short History of Nearly Everything

by Bill Bryson

3/

As A Man Thinketh

by James Allen

4/

Atomic Habits

by @JamesClear

I'm bored, let's do a thread on Homoeopathy. A few weeks ago I made an offhand comment here about Homoeopathy being bullshit. This seems to have hurt a surprising number of feelings, so allow me to clarify my position. 1/

2/ For context, let's go all the way back. Human anatomy is fairly straightforward, and cadavers have always been around, so our ancestors figured out certain things thousands of years ago. It wasn't hard to understand obvious complaints, like broken bones or external wounds.

3/ They realised that certain plant and animal parts relieved certain symptoms and started using them, though they didn't know the science behind how they worked. They even started doing surgery - pus drainage, bone-setting, trephination, even Caesarians and nasal reconstruction.

4/ Impressive, but they were treating things that had obvious causes. Diagnosis was tricky when the symptoms were vague, like seizures or cough, because they didn't understand physiology yet. So they started guessing at the causes of disease, and came up with various theories.

5/ The Chinese thought it had something to do with the body's energy balance, or Qi. Indians thought it was an imbalance of the three Doshas. The Greeks, Romans, and Persians thought it was an imbalance of the body's four 'Humours' - blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile.

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|| Geography and Astronomy ||

of “EARTH” according to Indian ancient scriptures

I repeat “Untold Unsung now Unearthed”

RT and spread the knowledge.

Slightly long thread but you’d be amaze. Go through entire thread carefully.

It is hoped that you have not forgotten that Svayambhuva Manu had a son named Priyavrata. Priyavrata had ten sons. Their names were Agnidhra, Agnivahu, Vapushmana, Dyutimana, Medha, Medhatithi, Bhavya, Savana, Putra and Jyotishmana.

Medha, Agnivahu and Putra had no desire to rule. They were not interested in material pursuits and became hermits.

Priyavrata divided the earth amongst the remaining seven sons. Thus it was that the earth came to be divided into seven regions or dvipas.

Agnidhra ruled over Jambudvip, Medhatithi over Plakshadvip, Vapushman over Shalmalidvip, Jyotishman over Kushadvip, Dyutimana over Krounchadvip, Bhavya over Shakadvip & Savan over Pushkaradvip

Agnidhra, the ruler of Jambudvipa, had nine sons. Their names were Nabhi Kimpurusha, Hari, Ilavrita, Ramya, Hiranyavana, Kuru, Bhadrashva and Ketumala.

Agnidhra divided Jambudvipa into nine regions (varshas) and gave each of his sons a region to rule over.