आत्तसज्जधनुषा विषुस्पृशा वक्षया शुगनिषङ्‌ग

PAKISTAN IS A TERRORIST STATE. PERIOD.

Good luck with all that hate in your heart and all the ignorance in your brain.

Hindu traditions and festivals just enslave women and reinforce patriarchal practices, karwa chauth for example, a festival where a married woman has to fast and stay famished for whole 24 hours, NO water and food and some of them don’t even swallow their own saliva and why? for the long life and well being of her husband. Husbands are placed on a pedestal in hinduism, he is more revered than god sometimes while reducing women to obedient and self sacrificing caretakers . It reinforces the idea that a woman’s purpose revolves around a man’s needs, his health, his happiness, his survival while her own identity and agency is considered as irrelevant. In this religion women’s existence will always be tied to men and are expected to embrace such misogynistic ideals or else she’ll be labelled as a “too westernised housewife” or other names they love calling when you go against the system

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शुभ रामनवमी 🪷

श्रीराम राम रघुनन्दन राम राम । श्रीराम राम भरताग्रज राम राम । श्रीराम राम रणकर्कश राम राम । श्रीराम राम शरणं भव राम राम ॥

Rama who is the delight of the Raghus । Rama who is elder brother of Bharata । Rama who is tormentor of his enemies । I come under refuge of God Rama.

श्रीरामचन्द्रचरणौ मनसा स्मरामि । श्रीरामचन्द्रचरणौ वचसा गृणामि । श्रीरामचन्द्रचरणौ शिरसा नमामि । श्रीरामचन्द्रचरणौ शरणं प्रपद्ये ॥

I remember the feet of Sri Ramachandra in my mind । I praise the feet of Sri Ramachandra by my speech । I salut the feet of Sri Ramachandra by bowing down my head । I take refuge on the feet of Sri Ramachandra by bowing myself down.

Resource Masterlist: Indian Art

Cheap/Free resources:

Wkipedia:

Wikipedia of Indian Art: I'll recommend reading the subtopics from bottom up; it seems more relevant that way!

Wikipedia of Indian Painting: once you go through this article you should further look into whichever style you like, and learn it in depth. It also has links to vernacular art.

Rasa: the classical theory of Indian aesthetics

From Archive.Org (maybe scholarly and/or illustrative. In case illustrations are not there, simply Google them for reference):

Stone Age Painting in India by Romert Brooks

The arts of India from prehistoric to modern times by Ajit Mookerji (If you have no idea about Indian arts, START HERE; it's a short book full of illustrations)

Rajput painting : romantic, divine and courtly art from India by Ahluwalia, Roda

Indian Painting by C Sivaramamurti

South Indian Paintings by C Sivaramamurti

Approach to nature in Indian art and thought by C Sivaramamurti

[There are many books on Indian art, architecture and sculpture by C Sivaramamurti on Archive.org. It's basically a goldmine.]

Kalighat : Indian popular painting, 1800-1930 by Balraj Khanna

Art of modern India by Balrak Khanna [Again, you can check out other titles by Khanna.]

Indian Textiles by John Gillow

Traditional Indian Textiles by John Gillow

South-Indian images of gods and goddesses by HK Sastri

Myths and symbols in Indian art and civilization by Heinrich Zimmer (no illustrations)

The art of Indian Asia, its mythology and transformations by Heinrich Zimmer (with illustrations)

History of Indian and Indonesian art by Ananda Coomaraswamy

A Concise History of Indian Art by Roy C Craven

Deccani Painting by Mark Zebrowski

Indian Folk Art by Heinz Mode; Subodh Chandra

Women of India by Otto Rothfeld (this isn't about art but has few informative illustrations on regional costumes of women)

Dress And Ornaments In Ancient India by Mohini Verma and Keya Bawa

Classical dances and costumes of India by Ambrose, Kay

Cultures and Costumes of India and Sri Lanka by Kilgallon, Conor (o course i had to see other books on costumes)

Studies In Indian Painting by DB Taraporevala

Five Thousand Years of Indian Art by Hermann Goetz

Indian Painiting by Philip Rawson

The Art of Tantra by Philip Rawson

MS Randhawa (different books on Punjabi paintings Basohli, Kangra, Guler and General Themes in Indian Painting)

The imperial image: paintings for the Mughal court by Beach, Milo Cleveland

Wonders of nature : Ustad Mansur at the Mughal court by Dāśa, Aśoka Kumāra

Imperial mughal painting by Welch, Stuart Cary

Painted delight : Indian paintings from Philadelphia collections

India : life, myth and art by Ram-Prasad, Chakravarthi

The heritage of Indian art by Agrawala, Vasudeva Sharana

The adventures of Rama : with illustrations from a sixteenth-century Mughal manuscript

Indian paintings from the Punjab Hills by WG Archer

Art in East and West by Rowland Benjamin

Stella Kramisch (An American art historian and curator who was a leading specialist on Indian art, including folk art, for most of the 20th century. Also a Padma Bhushan awardee.)

The transformation of nature in art by Coomaraswamy, Ananda K

Books available on Libgen:

Art Of Ancient India : Buddhist, Hindu, Jain by Huntington and Huntington

The New Cambridge History of India, Volume 1, Part 3: Mughal and Rajput Painting

Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization by Heinrich Zimmer

Four Centuries of Rajput Painting: Mewar, Marwar and Dhundhar Indian Miniatures from the Collection of Isabelle and Vicky Ducrot

Ajanta by Yazdani

The Aesthetic Experience Acording to Abhinavagupta

TheHeritageLab is a free website to connect you to cultural heritage through stories, public engagement programs, campaigns, and free-access content.

Also if you're in Delhi, do consider getting a membership of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) library.

Folk art:

Folk art is an entirely different area that deserve a post of its own. But i love them so here is a long list by Memeraki.com. You can Google each and then look more into what you like. This website also offers very cheap courses in traditional Indian arts by the hidden and disenfranchised masters themselves! It's doing a great work in giving them a platorm. I myself have taken the Mughal Miniature course here. You can consider it.

Illustrated Books:

Note: These are coffee table books with beautiful illustrations that you'd love to looks at.

The Night Life of Trees: In the belief of the Gond tribe, the lives of humans and trees are closely entwined. A visual ode to trees rendered by tribal artists from India, this handcrafted edition showcases three of the finest living Gond masters. THIS YOUTUBE LINK shows the making of the book. The channel also features other works of Gond art.

An Unknown Treasure in Rajasthan: The Bundi Wall-Paintings:  This book celebrates the surviving wall-paintings at Bundi by presenting a stunning photographic survey

Painting In the Kangra Valley: Painting in the Kangra Valley is an attempt to survey the painting styles of Guler and Kangra, which flourished in the 18th and 19th centuries. The painting activity began with Kashmiri painters (...)

Indian Painting: The Lesser Known Traditions: India has an astonishingly rich variety of painting traditions. While miniature painting schools became virtually extinct with the decline of aristocratic patronage, a number of local vernacular idioms still survive and continue to develop.

Madhubani Art: Indian Art Series: Madhubani art's origin is believed to go back to the ancient era of the Ramayana, when the town was decorated by inhabitants of the region for the wedding of Lord Rama and Sita with elaborate wall paintings and murals (...) Primarily a significant socio-cultural engagement for the womenfolk of Bihar, this art was a welcome break from their daily drudgery.

Reflections on Mughal Art and Culture: Enter the splendid world of Mughal India and explore its rich aesthetic and cultural legacy through fresh insights offered by 13 eminent scholars.

Monsoon Feelings: A History of Emotions in the Rain: Through a series of evocative essays exploring rain-drenched worlds of poetry, songs, paintings, architecture, films, gardens, festivals, music and medicine, this lavishly illustrated collection examines the history of monsoon feelings in South Asia from the twelfth century to the present

Sita's Ramayana shifts the point of view of the Ramayana - the saga of a heroic war - to bring a woman's perspective to this timeless epic. Illustrated with Patua painting.

Adi Parva: Churning of the Ocean: a graphic novel that is a revisionist retelling of some of our oldest tales which have inspired and guided generations of people.

Ajit Mookerji, Sivaramamurti and Craven Roy's books are concise from where one can begin and then delve deeper into the subject of interest. Reading history and myths behind the work for context and listening to music from the given time/region alongside will make the exploration even more enjoyable!

This sounds like "I'm friends with black people, so I can't be a racist".

Also, he might have actually fooled her into being with him, and since he said "my girl was", I'm going to assume she left him after seeing his real face. And the whole "relationship" must have lasted just a day. And who knows he might have intentionally sought her out to claim that "oh I dated a kashmiri pandit once" and then spew his own views and opinions.

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Does this person has any thinking skills at all?

Oh I once had a romantic relationship with kashmiri pandit girl so it means i can't be hinduphobic!!!

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Idk if he is trying to be dumb because his interactions with my friend Rhysaka proves he probably doesn't have any reading comprehension whatsoever. Here, he proves it yet again, for anyone that's curious, this is the post that he is referencing.

HE THINKS HES SMART CUZ HE DOESNT EVEN KNOW IF THERE ARE ANY OTHER LOK THAN MRITYU LOK OMGGGGGGGGG...

I'm genuinely laughing so hard 😆🤣🤣😭🤣🤣😭🤣

Every post of his is one embarassment after another! each sentence of this grown man is so damn ignorant, that his entire point becomes laughable. Sorry, I just can't take him seriously and would advise everyone else to do the same. He isn't worth engaging with.

Recent terrorist attack on Hindu Tourist (after confirming they're Hindus) should really tip you off, right? Or are you gonna find another way to blame attacks on hindu on Hindus yet again? But because you used to have a Kashmiri Girlfriend it exempts you from being a hinduphobe.

This is so pretty♥️

Who's the artist may I ask?

🌸Shubh Mahashivratri🌸

already pakistan and its terrorist supporters have tried to mediaplay themselves as the victims of india when time and time again pakistani homegrown terrorists have attacked indians and hindus particularly. they show up in crowds of thousands for funerals of terrorists. their own celebrities are pushing terrorist propaganda on social media and threatening to shoot any indian.

what it comes down to is an innate hatred of hindus, the same hatred that fueled pahalgam. that is why pakistani armed forces once again killed innocent indians in J&K today - they don't give a fuck about kashmiris they just want their land and power to grow more terrorists. the same country that gave osama bin laden a home denies 24x7 that they do not harbor any terrorists when multiple sources including UN and USA have identified hundreds. the mumbai attack perpetrators still roam freely in pakistan. balochistan everyday is fighting back against them. they have killed hundreds of afghani children and women. they have wiped out sikh and hindu minorities from pakistani controlled lands. anyone who supports their cowardice and fuels islamic rhetoric against hindus and india is disgusting. they are not the victims but the perpetrators of violence.

Hate how I was just discussing this yesterday with couple of friends and I feel like I jinxed it

The west wants to fund a war while rattling on about de-escalation only to India. Why else would imf approve a loan this big

The way these degenerates put out false information so articulately. Unbelievable 🤬

Should anyone tell OP that India’s so called “occupation of Kashmir” did not start with Modi. Even congress held on to Kashmir and so did any party that came in power (as they fucking should). Plus, OP telling that Modi sent 10,000 soldiers in Kashmir is interesting because he manages to fucking forgets to mention that there had been a terror attack in February that killed 40 army personnel (Pulwama). Also it makes sense for Kashmir to be militarized because they are on a border with a country that would love to annex Kashmir (already did annex a part of it), and plus it is a region where terrorists have done things again and again. Also for revoking article 370, well any sensible PM would revoke it because it caused a fucking GENOCIDE in the past when it was misused. Plus, it makes sense that a region that is continuously attacked, has terror attacks etc. should be in more gov’t control? Because are we really going to burden the state government with that responsibility. Keeping in mind that Kashmir’s main revenue source is tourism, why wouldn’t the people want tourism. The locals seem happy the economy is doing well? Also, if Indian army was abusing people of Kashmir, how the fuck would tourism be on the incline? Because for people who have not lived in India, Indians would fucking die than have any interaction with the police or army. So if there was any abuse sure as fuck no one would have gone there.

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even if i consider this man's "analysis" true how the fuck should one accept that it was completely okay that tourists were attacked. Also, why is OP not mentioning that TERRORISTS (and the locals who supported them) were responsible for this attack majorly. One of the reasons everyone is freaking out about Pahalgam that it has been a while since civilians were killed in a terrorist attack in such a high number.

And i am no political analyst but can see through it pretty clearly. Please correct me if i am wrong

Naah I can’t with these mfs anymore. They are embarrassing and so out of touch. Echo chamber gang is expert at twisting facts and omitting important details in order to nab support from other ignorant lefties on tumblr that are ready to fume and set fire to themselves at the very mention of Israel and Netanyahu.

Anyone who’s interested in learning more about how Islamists invaded the region of Kashmir and ravaged it for centuries, converting, raping and forcing it’s native hindu, buddhist and sikh people to leave is welcome to read my pinned post on Islamic jihad and Kashmiri hindu genocide on my blog.

Lastly, Kashmir was never an “open air prison” Kashmiris like any other Indian citizen are allowed to visit, stay and live in other parts of the country. What was making Kashmir an open air prison was article 370 which was abrogated by the Modi government and now the average Kashmiri citizen has the same rights as other Indian citizens which were previously denied to them including women, lgbtq and other marginalised groups 👇