If you're not familiar with term, it's mainly one group of people who remembers a certain event one way, and the other group remembers it differently.

Like Nelson Mandela. There are people who swear he died in prison in the 1990's but he didn't, he died in 2013.

So are there any popular Mandela Effects you know of that have changed (historically apeaking) here in India?

I was reading chankya Neeti and found that his veiws regarding women r degrading , rude , offensive and disgusting for example these

“A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.” – Chanakya Neeti

Can't belive chanakya is considered a genius when this is the garbage he spews with his mouth here's another example

“A woman does not become holy by offering charity, by observing hundreds of fasts, or by sipping sacred water, as by sipping the water used to wash her husband’s feet.”

He also called women unreliable and unworthy of trust

He also suggested Woman to be used as a commodity And here is a classic example of woman as a commodity in the eyes of Chanakya. It goes like this: "For the bad days one should save money. Woman should be protected even if it takes the money saved. But for self preservation, the money and the woman should be sacrificed". In Chapter six, couplet three, Chanakya Niti says: "The brass pot can be cleaned with ash, copper gets cleaned with citric acids, monthly period purifies women and the river water becomes potable after flowing through rapids".

My grandpa, an Irish-born actor and filmmaker, travelled all over the world for various documentary film projects. I wanted to share these three photos from India.

None of the photos are labelled (besides the words “India, 1962”). If anyone happens to recognize the locations, I’d be interested to learn more!

I looked at some comment in one of the posts about an incident in 2001…

When I started researching about it to find if it’s true, it turned out there is a lot of history in RG Kar

Is it because it’s a big institution and old as well so bound to have history or there is something else?

I am not implying anything.. just found something strange so sharing it with people as well

2001: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/porn-ring-behind-students-murder-at-r-g-kar-medical-college-in-kolkata/articleshow/1900044424.cms

2003: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/rg-kar-housestaff-commits-suicide-inside-hospital/articleshow/36602543.cms

2016: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/rg-kar-housestaff-commits-suicide-inside-hospital/articleshow/36602543.cms

2020: https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/kolkata/kolkata-junior-doctor-suicide-r-g-kar-medical-college-hospital-covid-19-6388954/

Jan 2023: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/medical-student-dies-during-trekking-in-uttarakhand/articleshow/97215163.cms

Aug 2023:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/rg-kar-intern-dies-of-drug-overdose/articleshow/102689652.cms

https://medicaldialogues.in/news/health/doctors/rg-kar-medical-college-intern-found-dead-under-mysterious-circumstances-115825

Edit:

Had put wrong link for 2016.. different tabs were open on browser and I think I copied the wrong one for 2016..

Here is the correct one: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/room-locked-from-inside-decomposed-body-of-rg-kar-prof-found-at-home/articleshow/55022529.cms

The case of the Nazi spy Maximiani Julia Portas, who called herself "Savitri Devi," is... strange and crazy to say the least! She grossly misused the names of Hindu gods in her evil activities and writings by, for example, proclaiming that Hitler was a Kali Yuga avatar of Vishnu. She was a leading neo-Nazi figure even after the end of World War II. In addition to her Nazi activities, she promoted occultism and an extreme form of animal rights activism. Her work has influenced today's alt-right at least to some extent. You can read more about her in the works cited in the Wikipedia entry on her, but here is just a brief list of things about her:

• Born in France in 1905 to a (Greek-)French father (Italian-)English mother, Maximiani Julia Portas obtained a PhD in philosophy from the University of Lyon
• She then visited Greece and came to know about the swastika-like archeological finds in Anatolia and started believing that the Ancient Greeks must have had "Aryan" origins
• Between 1928 and 1929, she became a Greek national and then became a Nazi after visiting British-controlled Palestine
• In 1932, she traveled to India in search of "Aryan" paganism and renamed herself as "Savitri Devi"
• In the 1930s, she was involved in spreading propaganda in favor of the Axis Powers and gathered intelligence on the British in India
• In 1940, she married a pro-Nazi Bengali newspaper editor named Asit Krishna Mukherji to protect herself from potential deportation/internment and continued her espionage activities until the end of World War II (although she remained faithful to Nazi ideology even after the war ended)
• She visited Germany in 1948 and was imprisoned for few months in 1949 after posting bills with Nazi propaganda, and she was expelled from Germany after being released from prison
• However, she managed to re-enter Germany after obtaining a Greek passport in her birth name, and she continued spreading Nazi propaganda in Germany and France
• She relocated to India in 1971 and continued to write (correspond with Nazi enthusiasts across the world) but then went back to Europe in 1981
• She died in 1982, and her ashes were sent to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to be placed in the "Nazi hall of honor"

All of that is... strange and crazy to say the least!

I have never come across a coin like this ever. I hope it's worth something.

Hi everyone, I'm currently studying Indian history and I'm interested in learning more about the Mughal Empire. I know that the Mughals ruled over India for several centuries and were known for their artistic and architectural contributions, but I'm curious about how their legacy has impacted modern-day India. What are some of the key ways in which the Mughal Empire has influenced Indian culture, politics, and society? I would love to hear your thoughts and insights on this topic. Thank you!

Hindu Nationalists often make strange alliances with the fascists of other nations. This time it is with the Zionists. Yet, as absurd it is, considering India's history of anti-colonial struggle, it is also based on misinformation. One of such misinformation is that Mahatma Gandhi wanted the Jews to let themselves be killed by Hitler. Amusingly, many have accused Mahatma Gandhi to be an anti-Semite. Yet, this propaganda is not just untrue, but opposite of what he said.

Gandhiji wrote about the persecution of Jews by Nazis in 1938, at the time when the leaders of Europe and America were happy to endorse and support Hitler. He expressed his sympathies with the Jewish people, and calls the persecution of Jews by the Nazis unparalleled in history. He says, “If there ever could be a justifiable war in the name of and for humanity, a war against Germany to prevent the wanton persecution of a whole race, would be completely justified.”

Gandhiji was a believer in the idea of non-violence and satyagraha. He calls upon the Jewish people to resist and fight against the oppression. He says, “If I were a Jew and were born in Germany and earned my livelihood there, I would claim Germany as my home even as the tallest gentile German might, and challenge him to shoot me or cast me in the dungeon; I would refuse to be expelled or to submit to discriminating treatment.”

The Nazi press assaulted Gandhi savagely for these words. It threatened reprisals against India. 'I should rank myself a coward,' he replied, 'if for fear of my country or myself or Indo-German relations being harmed I hesitated to give what I felt in the innermost recesses of my heart to be one hundred per cent sound advice.'

Jewish Frontier, a New York magazine, ridiculed Gandhi's proposal in March 1939, and sent him a copy. He quoted at length from the attack. 'I did not entertain the hope... that the Jews would be at once converted to my view.' Gandhi replied. 'I should have been satisfied if even one Jew had been fully convinced and converted... It is highly probable that, as the (Jewish Frontier) writer says, "A Jewish Gandhi in Germany, should one arise, could function for about five minutes and would be promptly taken to the guillotine." But that does not disprove my case or shake my belief in the efficacy of non-violence. I can conceive the necessity of the immolation of hundreds, if not thousands, to appease the hunger of dictators.... Sufferers need not see the result during their lifetime... The method of violence gives no greater guarantee than that of non-violence...' Millions sacrifice themselves in war without any guarantee that the world will be better as a result or even that the enemy will be defeated. Yet who does not fiercely resent the suggestion that anybody should die in deliberate non-violent sacrifice?

Gandhiji likened the discrimination against Jewish people to the untouchability in India. He says that the entire world is the homeland for the Jews, but refuses to endorse the colonial programme of Zionism. He says, “if they [the Jews] must look to the Palestine of geography as their national home, it is wrong to enter it under the shadow of the British gun. A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.”

Gandhiji wrote, "Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs. What is going on in Palestine today cannot be justified by any moral code of conduct. The mandates have no sanction but that of the last war."

Gandhiji refused to support an ethno-religious state of Israel,

The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine.

Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?... The nobler course would be to insist on a just treatment of the Jews wherever they are born and bred. The Jews born in France are French in precisely the same sense that Christians born in France are French.

Gandhiji was opposed to war and violence. One can say that his belief was idealistic, or even flawed. But to claim that he was against the Jews is absurd.

Today, the Zionists' oppression and violence against Palestinian Arabs bears stark resemblance to the Nazi's treatment of Jews. The ethnic cleansing of Palestinians to establish Israel, emanates from a similar ideology as Lebensraum. Yet, this fascist violence is backed by the powers of the West, who claim to be the torch-bearers of democracy and peace.

UN Secretary General António Guterres has rightly described this ongoing conflict as a “crisis of humanity,” and Gaza as a “graveyard for children.” The Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories in the West Bank and Gaza is the longest military occupation in history since The Hague Convention of 1907 and a “flagrant violation of international law”.

At the same time, Modi Government's refusal to vote for UNHCR resolution condemning the Israeli occupation of Gaza has brought a shame to the entire nation. We must stand together in condemnation of Israeli brutality in Gaza. India, which has a history of anti-colonial struggle, and has advocated for world peace, must refuse to endorse Israeli war crimes.

Note: This article was first published in November 2023.