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Key Genetic Composition of Indians
Neolithic farmers from Iran began mixing with local hunter-gatherers (AASI) ~10,000 to 7,000 years ago. This mixture formed the basis of the Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC), the dominant genetic component across most of India (55%–78%)
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Was ancient India the world’s forgotten superpower?
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In 1915 Jamaican-born 23-year-old Private James Slim made history when he became the first ever Black Guardsman, as he joined the 4th Coldstream Guards. He is pictured here by the Times of India, 14 April 1915, in Windsor bit.ly/3VCn51c #BlackHistoryMonth
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Devi fights with the Mahisa using Her two arms, Nepal.
Malla dynasty, 1550 - 1650 CE.
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From the Spring of the Gazelles- the Oldest Faces in the Levant
In a darkened room of the Jordan Museum in Amman stand some of the strangest and most haunting figures ever made. They are about nine thousand years old. Pale, flat, almost life-sized, with long necks and stubby hands, they stare out at you with huge almond eyes ringed in black bitumen, as if they had just woken from a very long sleep. Which, in a sense, they have.
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RAGAMALA SERIES: A man mounting a horse held by a groom is identified as SINDHU RAGAPUTRA OF SRI RAGA BILASPUR, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1750 Claudio Moscatelli Collection, London. @Kautilya02 @DalrympleWill @PunjabiRooh @ssharadmohhan @IndiaArtHistory
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Goddess Durga destroying the buffalo demon, 9th/10 th cen CE
Kashmir/ Himachal Pradesh
© Cleveland Museum
Subho Saptami
Navaratri Day 7
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The Lute Player of Damascus and the First Islamic Paintings
Deep in the black basalt desert east of Amman stands a small, honey-coloured bathhouse that is one of the most surprising buildings in the Islamic world. Qusayr 'Amra was built in the 720s or 730s for the Umayyad prince al-Walid ibn Yazid, "a passionate drinker with prodigious skill and energy as a musician," who came here to hunt, bathe and drink far from the disapproving eyes of Damascus.
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Finding the Priest King. A workman handing over the Priest King at the time of excavations in I, Block 2 of DK-B Area during the John Marshal led 1925-26 excavations at Mohenjo-daro.
Possehl writes "many classic Harappan style artifacts came to light at this time, including the so-called Priest King which emerged from Dikshit's excavations in DK-B Area, in a building that the excavators thought may have been a hammam or hot bath." (Gregory, Possehl, Indus Age, p. 75)
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A 2-metre bronze Nataraja, Shiva as the Lord of Dance, stands between Buildings 39 and 40 at CERN. India gave it in 2004 to mark a partnership that began in the 1960s. Shiva's cosmic dance represents the endless cycle of creation and destruction. A plaque beneath it quotes Fritjof Capra's The Tao of Physics, which compares that dance to the constant motion of subatomic particles.
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"From about Nov 1917 to mid 1918, Ramanujan stayed at Matlock House Sanatorium, [Matlock, Derbyshire]. The house was originally the Matlock House Hydro and is now Rutland Court. It was here that he received Hardy's telegram in early March announcing that he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society"
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Born #OnThisDay in 1887 was Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. Despite having almost no formal training in mathematics, he is regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. His body of work was substantial, often working in ways completely new to mathematics and finding solutions to problems considered unsolvable at the time. He became one of the youngest Fellows in the Royal Society's history when he was elected in 1918 at the age of 31.
Link to the "Lost" notebook of Ramanujan:
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Ramanujan’s lost notebook is a trove of around 600 mathematical formulas, discovered in 1976 by the mathematician George Andrews. The manuscript, spanning 87 unpaginated, disheveled sheets, had remained hidden in the depths of the Trinity College library in Cambridge until Andrews stumbled upon it.
The findings brought to light another dimension of Ramanujan’s mathematical prowess that had remained untapped and unexplored for decades.
A Horse and Three Grooms
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper
Attributed to the painter Mukhlis
India, Mughal
Circa 1575-90
"The reverse with Mughal Royal Library inspection notes, ownership seals and further inscriptions in black and red ink"
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"Mukhlis, a painter known to have been active in #Allahabad from as early as the 1550s, contributed to a large number of the imperial commissions under the Emperor Akbar... an important artist of the royal atelier"
Details of inscriptions on the reverse of the painting
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Shoeing a Horse
Single-page drawing on a detached album folio
Ink, gold, silver, and watercolour on paper
India, Mughal
Circa 1600
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© The Trustees of the British Museum
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#SirSyedDay
Sir Syed was the first to document all inscriptions of Qutub Minar in his book Asar us Sanadid
He hung from top in a doli to read them with the help of scientific instruments.
On site visits, Sahba’i often accompanied Syed Ahmad. At tall structures, Syed Ahmad, much to his senior friend’s fright, would get in a basket hung from above between two poles to read the inscriptions. (See Hali, Hayat, pp. 65–66.)
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Asar us Sanadid
He documented all Delhi inscriptions.
( translation of edition 1&2 done by me)
"It's always good to be good"
At the Nordhausen concentration camp, an American soldier named Lee Davis found a prisoner so thin that he could not lift his head. The man blinked, barely alive. Davis knelt down, broke off a piece of his chocolate ration, and gently stuffed it into his mouth.
The man burst into tears, unable to chew, but holding the chocolate as if it were gold. "He hadn't spoken in weeks," another soldier said, "but he whispered 'thank you,' in English." Private Davis remained by his side all night. The man survived. For years, he wrote to Davis, calling him "the man who brought flavor back to the world."
It's always good to be good.
Occasional meetings are best, Ameer
Familiarity from daily comings and goings breeds contempt
Gaahe gaahe kī mulāqāt hī achchhī hai 'amīr'
Qadr kho detā hai har roz kā aanā jaanā
Amer Minai (1829-1900)
Golden Langur
"Found in an area of ~12,000 sq. miles...bounded on the south by the Brahmaputra River, on the east by the Manas River, on the west by the Sankosh River, in Assam, India...on the north by the Black Mountains of Bhutan"
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Nature meets the magic of rail travel!
Majestic Kangchenjunga paints the sky as the Kamrup Express glides through the scenic stretch from New Jalpaiguri to New Coochbehar.
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Devi: The Great Goddess
Smithsonian: Dancing Bhadrakali Adored by the Gods.
the Tantric Devi series. India, Punjab Hills, Basohli, ca. 1660-70. Lent by a private collection on loan to Museum Rietberg, Zurich. @Kautilya02 @ssharadmohhan @PunjabiRooh @IndiaArtHistory @dpanikkar



































