For sheer grandeur and exuberance – the Akshardham Swaminarayana Temple complex is the largest temple in the Indian state of Gujarat. However – for history, spiritual significance and emotional bonds that Hindus carry, Somnath is by far the most important temple in Gujarat, and indeed one of the most sacred sites in the whole of India. From 1026AD it has been destroyed (by Muslim invaders and rulers) and rebuilt seven times, before its final destruction in the 15th century, when Hindus finally abandoned the temple. It was the one holy site of Hindus which was successfully reclaimed and rebuilt after India’s Independence, due to the efforts of Sardar Vallabhai Patel, Jam Saheb and K. M. Munshi. The newly reconstructed temple was reopened in 1951.
The accounts of the destruction of the temple by the likes of Mahmood Gazni and Allaudin Khilji are well known, and has been one of the…
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The head of Uganda’s national police force said they will investigate money services businesses (MSBs) after Kenya suspended 13 MSBs alleged to finance the terrorist group al-Shabaab in Somalia. Several of those same companies operating in Somalia and Kenya also do business in Uganda. Dahabshiil is probably the most prominent of the money transfer companies identified.
From the Kampala Observer via All Africa (h/t Chris Pariso):
Police chief Kale Kayihura has said they are to investigate transactions of money transfer companies here, after evidence in Kenya suggested that some were being used to channel money for financing terrorism.
Speaking in Kampala last week, Kayihura said some of the transfer companies under investigation in Kenya are affiliated to some institutions in Uganda. According to an April 14 gazette notice issued under Kenya’s Prevention of Terrorism Act and signed by police chief Joseph Boinnet, money transfer companies topped the list of 86…
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“Now, the newly-created Islamic State has been systematically destroying several historical artefacts, shrines and even entire ancient cities, and has been clearly advertising its Islamic motivation time and again. We would like the eminent historians and other ‘progressive thinkers’ who are able to divine the intentions of long-dead tyrants to suggest economic and political solutions to ensure that the Islamic state spares at least a fraction of the historical artifacts that they are targeting.” – Bharavi
For centuries, the Abrahamic predilection for destroying all places and objects of worship save their own, generally inflicting either their religion on the Pagans and visiting gratuitous cruelty on the more recalcitrant ones was honestly ascribed by Abrahamic practitioners to the promptings of immutable doctrine, duly exemplified by the model conduct of a host of self-professed messengers of the Abrahamic deity.
Ironically, this was also one of the few points of tragically short-lived…
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“An actual breakup of India also cannot be ruled out though it will prove much more difficult than alternative modes of subversion. However, an unexpected domestic crisis of widespread civil disorder and violence could be a prelude to it. Observers should not be oblivious to the utter chaos Western powers have managed to inflict on the Middle East, in less than a decade, by stirring dormant historical jealousies and hatreds. Such a cataclysmic socio-political situation might arise if Narendra Modi is assassinated by someone from the minority community at the instigation of US-Pak Indian Rump State agents. They of course operate freely in most parts of India, not least West Bengal and Kerala, where they enjoy the patronage of treasonous local politicians in power.” – Dr Gautam Sen
Even the highly educated elites of the USSR, with immeasurable historical experience of foreign invasions over centuries, failed to protect their country…
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History would like us o believe that Fashion is something the west introduced in India.
They were supposed t have been introduced after the landing of Vasco da Gama in 1498.
Woman In tight fitting see through Skirt.
The sculptures in the Konark Temple, dedicated to Sun God(750AD has sculptures of women wearing High heeled shoes, carrying portable mirrors and wearing even see through skirts!
Classics belonging to Tamil Sangam period detail the procedure for make up of women, even to the extent of the process of preparing eyeliner.
Sanskrit Literature too talks about the make up used by women of ancient India and the Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana talks in detail the make up used by prostitutes !
Tamil women did not wear upper garment in the ancient days.
But they wore a strip of cloth, tied by a string to cover their upper torso, which resembles a Bra!
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One is inundated with advertisements in TV about Hair fall Cures, Pimples,Acne and other cosmetics for Men and Women.
That they are harmful, I have posted a detailed article.
These make up preparations are not new to India.
Cosmetology Ancient India.
Sanskrit and Tamil literature abound in details on this subject and practical tips are available.
A Sample.
“Cracked lips, besides being painful, spoil the beauty of the face. The following remedy was recommended in such cases – “If the rind of Bel fruit (Aegle marmelos Corr.) is levigated (i.e. powdered and mixed) in a woman’s milk and the paste thus prepared is applied to the cracked lips, within 10 days the cracking will stop and the cracks will heal[5].”
A fair skin has always been an attraction for Indians. The following paste used to be applied to…
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