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Where AirBnBs are fully booked next week.
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Louis Armstrong draws a trumpet on the head of a French punk, 1961
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Map of regional rug patterns of Iran.
Source: en.wikirug.org
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Israel bombing the proclaimed “safe-zone” of Rafah is a genocidal tactic we have seen before;
In April 2009, the Sri Lankan military had proposed safe-zones to Tamil citizens, pushing them into the Mu’l’li-vaaykkaal region of North-Eastern Sri Lanka, near the Kilinochchi district. Upon urging Tamil refugees to this very small area of land on the coast, Sri Lanka bombed the location and surrounding areas 25 times. These bombings targeted hospitals and humanitarian operations dedicated to helping Tamil civilians displaced and wounded. Sri Lanka actually admitted to bombing the proposed safe zones, after images were leaked to the UN— but claimed the raids were aimed at Tamil Tiger militants and not civilians.
The Tamil resistance group, the Tamil Tigers, were also branded as an international Terrorist organisation by the United States, UN and Britain in 2001, for resisting anti-Tamil violence by the Sri Lankan Sinhalese state.
Israel funded Sri Lanka during the course of the Sri Lankan civil war— the Tamil genocide— providing military training and armament to Sri Lanka and thus knowingly aiding the genocide of over 40,000 Tamil people.
ISRAEL are repeating the same genocidal tactics they had aided in Sri Lanka just over 20 years ago.
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Ramya Krishnan as Neelambari ↳Padaiyappa (1999) dir. K. S. Ravikumar
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u ever see someone with extremely fucked up views (or actions) and think wowww if a couple of things in my life went the tiniest bit differently that would have been me
I think most people would benefit from reflecting on how this might be true for them
Sometimes people bitch about media, both fiction and nonfiction, that they think "humanizes" bad people, especially bigots fascists Nazis et cetera. And I'm just like. Hey. Hey. The problem is. They ARE human. HUMANS did that. Your next door neighbor could do that. Your grandma could do that. You could do that.
"No I'm a good person" why? Because you've gotten lucky and not seen propaganda yet that perfectly hit your buttons? Because you had people to correct you when you fucked up? Idk man I don't think we're all so different from the bad people. We're all just people.
Reminding ourselves of our shared humanity with terrible people does NOT serve to justify their actions. It serves to remind us that the seeds of what happened to them could get into us as well, or might already have. It reminds us to be vigilant and interrogate the hatred inside us.
If you convince yourself that you're just an Inherently Good Person who would never believe hateful things well. Now any little hateful thing that makes its way inside you undetected is never going to be interrogated. It will be left to grow undisturbed.
If you remember that those things can get into anyone, you know to look out for them, and weed them out when they appear, and take the criticism when others point them out in you. So remember, that could have been you. If you forget, maybe it will be.
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It really makes me sick to see people giving money to penny weeklies when Franklin's expedition STILL has not been found 😭 There are good men out there trapped in unimaginable temperatures and literally all that's needed is a little more funding for another rescue mission yet all you guys seem to care about are your vulgar little stories...
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the franklin expedition is dead as hell
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Disgraceful thing to say but I'd expect nothing less from a M*lville fan
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Sorry for posting so much about Tom Gradgrind/James Harthouse from Hard Times lately. It turns out that I was getting arsenic poisoning from my wallpaper? Anyway I took a seaside stroll and I'm normal now. Check your walls y'all
#whyyy did i assume they were committing unlawful actions together like where did i even get that from lol #hard times isn't even that good by dickens standards tbh
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Just painted this
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RIP Napoleon... you may have been unable to conquer Alexander's Russia but you sure as hell conquered Alexander's bed
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HERITAGE POST
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How does this have less than 100k notes you could literally not avoid this post back in the 20s lol
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poets just aren't dying young in mysterious water-related incidents like they used to :/
#as useless and degenerate as i find 'the living poets' and i'm glad we're finally moving on from them #i have to agree with op in this respect
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I finally got a daguerreotype of myself ^_^ Porcelain urn for scaling
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i think i hauve consumption
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They found oil in the ground??? WTF. THIS IS LITERALLY THE WORSTTTT. FUCK MY LIFE FOR REAL THIS TIME
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I swear this website has 0 reading comprehension skills. Darwin NEVER claimed we "evolved" from apes like if one of you guys actually bothered to open his new book you'll see all his arguments are backed up by evidence. He actually makes a lot of sense
#sure there's nuance like i don't fully agree with all of it #but his general theory of natural selection seems pretty sound imo
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Of course these are the finalists lmao this website is so predictable. Anyway vote Heathcliff if you dont i'm going to assume you're a phrenologist
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It's not problematic to acknowledge the fact that Heathcliff was a brute like he literally killed dogs in case you forgot. Anyway #rochestersweep
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I love the implication here that Rochester never did anything cruel either. He literally locked his wife in the attic and lied to Jane about it 😭 like that was a pretty significant thing that happened
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And? God forbid women do anything
#why'd you have to pit two bad bitches against each other #anyway i'm not attracted to men but still went with rochester #bc in terms of living quarters thornfield hall > wuthering heights easily
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Not the Russian tsar dying immediately after hartgrind became canon
#i know dickens hasn't technically confirmed it yet but like. SOMETHING was strongly implied ok #see: my previous post #dickensposting
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LORD HELP ME. THE BODY LANGUAGE. THE WAY THEY'RE LOOKING AT EACH OTHER. AHHHHHH
#this installment!!! im-- #dickensposting #i can't fucking cope #dickens wants to KILL us he wants us DEAD....
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Hi guys sorry I haven't been posting lately it's been so difficult getting to California 💀 I'm finally here now though just need to find a pickaxe and soon I'll be digging! :-) wish me luck lol
#gold #gold rush #gold rush grind #california #adventure
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i believe palestine will be free with my whole heart. the dutch colonized indonesia for 300 years, indonesians, even those who practice indigenous religion, are still here. west papuans are fighting for their independence from indonesia and american settlers, and they are still here. the invasion and bombings of vietnam, laos, and cambodia lasted for 20 years, and i have met some of the most brilliant asian people descended from there. and that was the first televised war! palestine will be free! from the river to the sea. the indigenous/global south world has always survived, and i believe it will live and flourish in the future (in my lifetime) no matter what.
warning this is about to become a ponniyin selvan blog
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A Note on the Language And History Of Ponniyin Selvan
The indented part is an abridged version of Prof. T. Sriraman's Introduction to C V Karthik Narayanan's English translation of Ponniyin Selvan and the rest is mine.
Kalki is the first significant historical novelist in Tamil. There were a few others before him who had attempted writing in the genre but none of them is read now or even remembered in literary histories. It is important to note the long interval between the birth of the novel as a genre in Tamil and the creation of the subgenre of historical fiction
LANGUAGE One explanation for this long interval could be that Tamil writers had first to master this new form before they could gain the confidence for attempting the extremely challenging task of writing historical novels.
Also it took centuries for historical information about ancient Tamil Nadu to be suitably incorporated into books of history; it took a long time too for Tamil prose style to evolve.
Kalki’s acknowledged achievement as a writer consists in a transformation of Tamil prose style into a medium eminently suited for discourse — literary, political, even historical — in the modern world. This transformation is similar to the revolution that Subrahmanya Bharati brought about in poetry.
It should be noted that there were debates about the limitations of vernacular languages like Tamil and Malayalam as compared to English.
Bengali historian Jadunath Sarkar, in his 1915 essay Confessions of a History Teacher said that efforts should be made to write history books and teach history in vernacular languages. Then 24 year old K A Nilakanta Sastri (who would go on to become the most prolific historian in South India) wrote a letter opposing this suggestion by saying that "English serves me better as a medium of expression than Tamil – I mean in handling historical subjects. Perhaps the vernacular is not so well off in this part of the country as it should be". This elicited severe criticism from people like Subramanya Bharathi.
Authors like Kalki challenged such notions through their works. But quite funnily, they had to depend on the works of these same historians (Nilakanta Sastri's eponymous work The Cōlas was a main source of Ponniyin Selvan). So we can't say that novels like Ponniyin Selvan are fully free of their influence either.
HISTORY
One way of interpreting Kalki's, or indeed any colonized writer intellectual's attempt to re-create past history is to view it as a psychological, but politically safe, release for his and his race's wounded pride as colonized subjects. As Meenakshi Mukherjee puts it: " . . . any tale of past bravery or heroism vindicated present servitude".
Kalki firmly believed that centuries of political slavery had clearly resulted in a debilitation of body and mind: "“Owing to centuries-long subjugation under foreign rule, the mental firmness and the physical strength of the people of this country have declined. There cannot be two opinions about the need for the men of this country to regain them".
What interested Kalki was political, religious and literary history but not social and economic history, even when they had a bearing on those other histories. The deluding romanticism is obvious but we must say that . . . a tendency to romanticize, can be made with regard only to the historical novels of Kalki and not to the social novels or the short stories.
We therefore return to the question: How historical, how true to history, is Ponniyin Selvan? The broad outlines of the novel do certainly accord with the historical facts. But there are two intriguing questions in the historical account which must surely have caused problems for Kalki in his overall project (agenda, as some of us might choose to call it) of the glorification of the Chozha age.
• The first is the obvious issue of claim: if Parantaka II (Sundara Chozha) was right to ascend the throne after the death of his father (only if Maduranthaka was still a child), was he justified in declaring his own son Aditya II (Karikala) heir-apparent, thus effectively, and well in advance, blocking Maduranthaka's path to the throne?
• The second question concerns the mystery behind the killing of Aditha Karikala.
Besides, and more importantly, everywhere in the novel there are paeans of praise, in prose and verse, for the Chozha Empire (which in fact had not expanded to its full extent at the time presented in the novel).
We have no reason to believe that these historical people behaved in the same way as in the novel. We know that they are as unrealistic and fictional as Nandini or Poonguzhali.
Sundara Cholan was not a lovelorn paralysed man. Aditha Karikalan was was married to multiple women and perhaps even had a son (or multiple children). It is possible that he only participated in battles but didn't kill Veera Pandyan with his own hands. Rajaraja Cholan was a ruthless conqueror. His heir's mother was a relatively under-represented queen. Kundavai did not marry an orphan, landless prince. There was no Senthan - Maduranthakan baby swapping. In fact, it was Arinjayan's line that usurped the throne from the rightful heir Maduranthakan/Uttama Cholan.
So where does this leave us? It leaves us in an imaginary world to enjoy the fiction, history and fictionalised history and have a good time 😄
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“What about the promise?” “What promise” “About his life belonging to her and not him?”
Vanthiyathevan and Kundavai in Ponniyin Selvan: II
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-She's valorous!
Aishwarya Lekshmi in GATTA KUSTHI (2022)
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Ponniyin Selvan: Navarasa - 9 Emotions ↳ Ponniyin Selvan: I (2022) dir. Mani Ratnam