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What made the Rajput charge so fearsome? What gave the Marathas the audacity to challenge mighty Timurids? And why did the worship of Shakti occupy such a powerful place in their warrior traditions?
My latest piece for @IndiaToday explores a forgotten dimension of Indiaās martial heritage: the sacred bond between the Goddess, the sword and the battlefield.
For the Rajputs of Mewar and the Marathas of Swarajya, devotion was not the opposite of defiance. The worship of Shakti embodied the courage to resist, the resolve to fight and the refusal to surrender. From the martial traditions associated with the Khanda to Chatrapati Shivaji Maharajās veneration of Bhawani, the Divine Feminine occupied a place far beyond the confines of ritual.
And this spirit did not end with the warrior kings. Generations later, revolutionary nationalists would invoke the Mother as Shakti in their struggle against British rule.
Dussehra was not just a celebration of a mythological victory. It was a summons to courage.
The Rajput sword. The Maratha Bhawani Talwar. The revolutionaryās invocation of the Motherland. Different struggles, different centuries, yet a recurring civilisational conviction: when the Mother calls, the warrior must rise.
Read the full piece:
indiatoday.in/opinion/story/ā¦
OPINION | From Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's Marathas to Maharana Pratap's Rajputs, the worship of Goddess Bhawani and Shakti was deeply intertwined with martial traditions. Dussehra was celebrated as a festival of victory. It was also a time when warriors honoured their swords, invoked divine blessings and prepared to march into battle.
#OPINION- Aabhas Maldahiyar (@Aabhas24)
Read more: intdy.in/31xalj
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Ben Horowitz on treating your story as your strategy, and why founders often skip writing it even though it's one of the most important parts of the job:
"The story of the company is also the strategy of the company... In your mind, you're kind of adjusting that strategy a little bit at a time every day. But then a quarter later, it's actually pretty different than what you started with."
"So it's really important that you keep upgrading your story. The articulation of your story. I would definitely recommend it be in written form."
"Something that you can share with everybody in the company, and everybody you're recruiting, everybody you're trying to raise money from, all your constituents, every customer."
"The problem that I think founders have is it doesn't feel like work. Like, 'What are you doing today?' 'I'm working on my story.' That doesn't sound like work."
"Because it doesn't feel like work, people don't do it, but it's probably one of the most important parts of the job."
@bhorowitz w/ @speedrun GP @Tocelot
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āThe barbarians are not at the gates. They are inside the gatesāand have academic tenure, judicial appointments, government grants, and control of the movies, television, and other media.ā
ā Thomas Sowell
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The English edition of this book is available here:
sampada.net/krushi-parasharaā¦
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What we are witnessing the France, Italy and all of Europe is a stark demonstration of what happens to a civilization or a Nation with only Law and State as the arbiter.
Institutional Design that does not anchor on Truth fundamentals of human nature will over time index only on regulation, State power and Law and that will be inevitably be crippled when Culture erodes.
The transaction costs of trust and harmony in that set up are inflated beyond limits and that is why the corridor appears 'narrow'.
Once we see this, we can truly appreciate the genius of Bharat.
The super structure of Papa, Punya, Karma, Punarjanma, Dharma, Sattva, Rajas, Tamas.
And the ritualized social dimension of that as Kula, Jati, Varna-Ashrama.
This model invested in the Human evolution which self regulates by understanding our place in the cosmos fostering inter-dependence amongst independent units.
THAT is the only sustainable institutional design.
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Recently, I wrote about how serious our water problem is getting. This year's weak monsoon has made it worse, and in Bengaluru, for example, that means dry borewells and expensive tankers. But we're also wasting water we've already cleaned.
Large apartments have to treat their own sewage, but only 20ā30% of that water gets used. The rest goes down the drain. Meanwhile, IT parks and factories a few kilometers away are buying tanker water for their cooling towers.
@BosonWhitewater takes the treated water apartments don't use, cleans it up for industrial use, and supplies it to these businesses. More importantly, they've made a business out of it.
Boson sets up and runs the plant, so the apartment pays nothing, and industries pay less than they would for tankers. Today, Boson supplies over 12 lakh liters a day.
This isn't just a Bengaluru problem. Every growing Indian city has apartments and industries close to each other, and reusing treated water is one of the easiest wins we have.
We need more people working on hard problems like this. That's also why we've backed Boson and Vikas Brahmavar through @Rainmatterin.
If your apartment is letting treated water go down the drain, this is worth a watchš
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The idea that there are no moats left is greatly exaggerated. Here are 80 ways things win in biology and business.
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Same global nexus. Breaking Bdesh -> Breaking India
Bangladesh Colour Revolution: India Should Pay Attention.
Yunus stood on a stage in New York with Bill Clinton and named Mahfuz Alam as the brain behind the revolution. His exact words: it was meticulously designed, it didnāt just come suddenly.
Two years later, Neha Bora >> the student leader the NYT and BBC are now calling the face of Indiaās protests >> puts out a video thanking Bangladeshās Gen Z for showing them the way.
Same vocabulary. Same playbook.
People keep asking if thereās a foreign hand. Yunus answered that question himself, on camera, in front of Clinton.
India should really pay attention.
What is happening right now in India is exactly the same colour revolution playbook.
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In 1872, the Japanese government announced that Emperor Meiji was eating beef.
Why publicise the sovereignās dinner?
Because for 1,200 years, beef was banned by imperial decree and religious taboo. To survive Western dominance, Japan decided to Westernise everything, even its dinner plate.
But at what cost to its civilisational soul?
Watch our latest video: youtube.com/watch?v=fUVCZvEQā¦
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Bengal famine influenced American independence!
This is a fact, and you probably have never heard of it before.
That's where Thalaivar Annamalai comes in and gives you the missing pieces of world history.
A fine example in decision making from first principles, by none other than Elon Musk, as the President of USA.
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āWhoever governs must have that iron in him, or give it up. This is not a game of cards. This is your life and mine. I've spent a whole lifetime building this. And as long as I'm in charge, nobody's going to knock it downā (LKY.)
Hobbes before Locke. No liberty is possible without order. Yes, we can disagree about the balance or the tradeoff but we canāt attack the superstructure itself. Long live the Republic. Down with Matsya Nyaya.
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Thereās no such thing as a docile big power or peaceful rise. As you grow, the incumbent big ones will try to dunk you down and oust you around or make you subservient. Thatās how power works. You have to fight back and stand your ground to be accepted in the next level. And at each level the play gets more brutal. An entire mindset shift needed. At the govt and the people level. For the govt, the old global cooperation era is over as well the new churan āmulti alignmentā is like a homeopathic medicine. You have to impose costs and crank up counter leverages to be neutralise external pressures. And this means some costs on the ordinary citizens. Have to accept that as part of doing business.
Thatās life in Serengeti.