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8/8 Here's the hard truth: Muhammed might be right about dysfunction but wrong about the timeline. This rot is 78 years deep. BJP had the mandate to fix it, chose budget theater instead. Congress laid the foundation of neglect. And our heritage keeps dying while both sides argue credit. 🔥
December 2, 2025 at 7:27 AM
8/8 Here's the hard truth: Muhammed might be right about dysfunction but wrong about the timeline. This rot is 78 years deep. BJP had the mandate to fix it, chose budget theater instead. Congress laid the foundation of neglect. And our heritage keeps dying while both sides argue credit. 🔥
7/8 What reform looks like: Autonomous regional councils with financial powers. Transparent annual metrics on restorations, not just budgets. Training pipelines for new archaeologists. Digital archiving standards. UK has Historic England. France has their monuments system. We have excuses.
December 2, 2025 at 7:27 AM
7/8 What reform looks like: Autonomous regional councils with financial powers. Transparent annual metrics on restorations, not just budgets. Training pipelines for new archaeologists. Digital archiving standards. UK has Historic England. France has their monuments system. We have excuses.
4/8 CAG reports paint the real picture: 92 monuments "missing." 25% of protected sites are British graves—colonial sepoys outlasting temples. Frozen promotions. Arbitrary transfers mid-project. This isn't anecdote. This is audit. And it's been deteriorating across governments, not just one.
December 2, 2025 at 7:27 AM
4/8 CAG reports paint the real picture: 92 monuments "missing." 25% of protected sites are British graves—colonial sepoys outlasting temples. Frozen promotions. Arbitrary transfers mid-project. This isn't anecdote. This is audit. And it's been deteriorating across governments, not just one.
1/8 KK Muhammed restored 90 Bateshwar temples before 2014. Post-2014, with triple the funding? Just 10. He calls it BJP's "dark years" for ASI. But one archaeologist's numbers don't tell the whole story. They hint at something deeper—and more uncomfortable. Thread. 🧵
December 2, 2025 at 7:27 AM
1/8 KK Muhammed restored 90 Bateshwar temples before 2014. Post-2014, with triple the funding? Just 10. He calls it BJP's "dark years" for ASI. But one archaeologist's numbers don't tell the whole story. They hint at something deeper—and more uncomfortable. Thread. 🧵
As available in the Jakarta Museum
December 2, 2025 at 2:31 AM
As available in the Jakarta Museum
AI restored Agni 14-15th century from java, Indonesia
#Archaeology
#Archaeology
December 2, 2025 at 2:31 AM
AI restored Agni 14-15th century from java, Indonesia
#Archaeology
#Archaeology
Kailash Temple proves we don't deserve our own heritage. Carved top-down from rock. Zero margin for error. 1000 years standing. Today? Littered like a railway platform. Blame ASI? Blame janta? Start with the mirror. 🏛️💔 #GemsofASI
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December 1, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Kailash Temple proves we don't deserve our own heritage. Carved top-down from rock. Zero margin for error. 1000 years standing. Today? Littered like a railway platform. Blame ASI? Blame janta? Start with the mirror. 🏛️💔 #GemsofASI
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200 BCE. Chandraketugarh.
This Indian woman stands with arms raised—confident, adorned, documented in terracotta.
Meanwhile, Roman scholars were still debating whether women had souls.
Tell me again who was civilized? 🏺✨
#Archaeology
This Indian woman stands with arms raised—confident, adorned, documented in terracotta.
Meanwhile, Roman scholars were still debating whether women had souls.
Tell me again who was civilized? 🏺✨
#Archaeology
December 1, 2025 at 6:30 AM
200 BCE. Chandraketugarh.
This Indian woman stands with arms raised—confident, adorned, documented in terracotta.
Meanwhile, Roman scholars were still debating whether women had souls.
Tell me again who was civilized? 🏺✨
#Archaeology
This Indian woman stands with arms raised—confident, adorned, documented in terracotta.
Meanwhile, Roman scholars were still debating whether women had souls.
Tell me again who was civilized? 🏺✨
#Archaeology
Greetings for "Dashamber" "दशम्बर" "दिसंबर"
December = Dashambar. Romans stole it. Greeks copied it. Both from Sanskrit "Dasham" (ten), their tenth month.
December = Dashambar. Romans stole it. Greeks copied it. Both from Sanskrit "Dasham" (ten), their tenth month.
December 1, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Greetings for "Dashamber" "दशम्बर" "दिसंबर"
December = Dashambar. Romans stole it. Greeks copied it. Both from Sanskrit "Dasham" (ten), their tenth month.
December = Dashambar. Romans stole it. Greeks copied it. Both from Sanskrit "Dasham" (ten), their tenth month.
While Europe froze under ice sheets, the Indian subcontinent never saw an Ice Age. Proof? This 37,000-year-old thorned bamboo fossil from Manipur. 👇
Europe was buried. We were thriving. 🌿
Europe was buried. We were thriving. 🌿
November 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
While Europe froze under ice sheets, the Indian subcontinent never saw an Ice Age. Proof? This 37,000-year-old thorned bamboo fossil from Manipur. 👇
Europe was buried. We were thriving. 🌿
Europe was buried. We were thriving. 🌿
9/9
So here stands Sonar Kila: unconquered by Mongols, Mughals, Marathas, British, yet slowly murdered by apathy and a ₹20 lakh annual grant. Come visit before the gold turns entirely to dust. Bring torch. Bring rage.
#SaveJaloreFort
So here stands Sonar Kila: unconquered by Mongols, Mughals, Marathas, British, yet slowly murdered by apathy and a ₹20 lakh annual grant. Come visit before the gold turns entirely to dust. Bring torch. Bring rage.
#SaveJaloreFort
November 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
9/9
So here stands Sonar Kila: unconquered by Mongols, Mughals, Marathas, British, yet slowly murdered by apathy and a ₹20 lakh annual grant. Come visit before the gold turns entirely to dust. Bring torch. Bring rage.
#SaveJaloreFort
So here stands Sonar Kila: unconquered by Mongols, Mughals, Marathas, British, yet slowly murdered by apathy and a ₹20 lakh annual grant. Come visit before the gold turns entirely to dust. Bring torch. Bring rage.
#SaveJaloreFort
6/9
Fast-forward to Independent India. ASI slaps a ticket counter, charges ₹50, and spends the proceeds on exactly one coat of paint every 17 years. The golden walls now peeling faster than a cheap sunburn. Progress.
Fast-forward to Independent India. ASI slaps a ticket counter, charges ₹50, and spends the proceeds on exactly one coat of paint every 17 years. The golden walls now peeling faster than a cheap sunburn. Progress.
November 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
6/9
Fast-forward to Independent India. ASI slaps a ticket counter, charges ₹50, and spends the proceeds on exactly one coat of paint every 17 years. The golden walls now peeling faster than a cheap sunburn. Progress.
Fast-forward to Independent India. ASI slaps a ticket counter, charges ₹50, and spends the proceeds on exactly one coat of paint every 17 years. The golden walls now peeling faster than a cheap sunburn. Progress.
4/9
Rathores move in, add palaces, Jain temples, a Sufi dargah AND a mosque inside the same fort. Hindu-Muslim unity achieved in 1550. Colonial textbooks somehow missed this chapter while preaching “divide and rule”. Weird.
Rathores move in, add palaces, Jain temples, a Sufi dargah AND a mosque inside the same fort. Hindu-Muslim unity achieved in 1550. Colonial textbooks somehow missed this chapter while preaching “divide and rule”. Weird.
November 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
4/9
Rathores move in, add palaces, Jain temples, a Sufi dargah AND a mosque inside the same fort. Hindu-Muslim unity achieved in 1550. Colonial textbooks somehow missed this chapter while preaching “divide and rule”. Weird.
Rathores move in, add palaces, Jain temples, a Sufi dargah AND a mosque inside the same fort. Hindu-Muslim unity achieved in 1550. Colonial textbooks somehow missed this chapter while preaching “divide and rule”. Weird.
2/9
10th-century Paramaras: “Let’s park a fortress on a lone volcanic plug no army can climb.”
Result: Never fully conquered. Alauddin tried in 1311, lost 40,000 men, still had to bribe the gatekeeper. Peak medieval flex.
10th-century Paramaras: “Let’s park a fortress on a lone volcanic plug no army can climb.”
Result: Never fully conquered. Alauddin tried in 1311, lost 40,000 men, still had to bribe the gatekeeper. Peak medieval flex.
November 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
2/9
10th-century Paramaras: “Let’s park a fortress on a lone volcanic plug no army can climb.”
Result: Never fully conquered. Alauddin tried in 1311, lost 40,000 men, still had to bribe the gatekeeper. Peak medieval flex.
10th-century Paramaras: “Let’s park a fortress on a lone volcanic plug no army can climb.”
Result: Never fully conquered. Alauddin tried in 1311, lost 40,000 men, still had to bribe the gatekeeper. Peak medieval flex.
1/9
Welcome to Jalore Fort, Rajasthan: the “Golden Fort” that literally glows at sunset yet remains invisible to 99.9 % of Indian tourists. Built to laugh at invaders, now dying of Instagram indifference. Classic. 🏜️✨
#SonarKila #GemsofASI
State protected monument number S-RJ-223,224
Welcome to Jalore Fort, Rajasthan: the “Golden Fort” that literally glows at sunset yet remains invisible to 99.9 % of Indian tourists. Built to laugh at invaders, now dying of Instagram indifference. Classic. 🏜️✨
#SonarKila #GemsofASI
State protected monument number S-RJ-223,224
November 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
1/9
Welcome to Jalore Fort, Rajasthan: the “Golden Fort” that literally glows at sunset yet remains invisible to 99.9 % of Indian tourists. Built to laugh at invaders, now dying of Instagram indifference. Classic. 🏜️✨
#SonarKila #GemsofASI
State protected monument number S-RJ-223,224
Welcome to Jalore Fort, Rajasthan: the “Golden Fort” that literally glows at sunset yet remains invisible to 99.9 % of Indian tourists. Built to laugh at invaders, now dying of Instagram indifference. Classic. 🏜️✨
#SonarKila #GemsofASI
State protected monument number S-RJ-223,224
Our ancestors purified water with copper vessels (Lota) while your ancestors poisoned themselves with lead pipes.
British scientists labeled them primitive savages.
Now your research papers confirm copper's antimicrobial properties.
Took you 3000 years. Slow learners. 🪙
British scientists labeled them primitive savages.
Now your research papers confirm copper's antimicrobial properties.
Took you 3000 years. Slow learners. 🪙
November 30, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Our ancestors purified water with copper vessels (Lota) while your ancestors poisoned themselves with lead pipes.
British scientists labeled them primitive savages.
Now your research papers confirm copper's antimicrobial properties.
Took you 3000 years. Slow learners. 🪙
British scientists labeled them primitive savages.
Now your research papers confirm copper's antimicrobial properties.
Took you 3000 years. Slow learners. 🪙
Victorian soap ad that sold racism as hygiene. Bears pushed this across colonies—wash away your skin, they said, not the dirt. This was their 'civilizing mission.' 🧼🪔
November 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Victorian soap ad that sold racism as hygiene. Bears pushed this across colonies—wash away your skin, they said, not the dirt. This was their 'civilizing mission.' 🧼🪔
Behold simple graves for Lieutenant H. Forbes and Mr. Dadmant in Nagaland. These British officers perished in 1870 and 1879 during clashes with Naga villagers. No architectural splendor, no cultural significance, and barely a century old—not even qualifying as true antiquity.
November 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Behold simple graves for Lieutenant H. Forbes and Mr. Dadmant in Nagaland. These British officers perished in 1870 and 1879 during clashes with Naga villagers. No architectural splendor, no cultural significance, and barely a century old—not even qualifying as true antiquity.
2️⃣0️⃣ Rayadurgam Fort shows Vijayanagara's military genius, post-empire Nayaka state-building, and centuries of regional power struggles.
Largely unknown outside local circles.
This is the archaeological wealth slipping through bureaucratic cracks while we debate whose version of history to teach.
Largely unknown outside local circles.
This is the archaeological wealth slipping through bureaucratic cracks while we debate whose version of history to teach.
November 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
2️⃣0️⃣ Rayadurgam Fort shows Vijayanagara's military genius, post-empire Nayaka state-building, and centuries of regional power struggles.
Largely unknown outside local circles.
This is the archaeological wealth slipping through bureaucratic cracks while we debate whose version of history to teach.
Largely unknown outside local circles.
This is the archaeological wealth slipping through bureaucratic cracks while we debate whose version of history to teach.
1️⃣8️⃣ Today?
One of Andhra Pradesh's oldest forts. Majority still standing. 2km from Rayadurgam Bus Stand. Active temples with devotees.
But: partial wall collapse, minimal ASI intervention, limited tourist infrastructure.
One of Andhra Pradesh's oldest forts. Majority still standing. 2km from Rayadurgam Bus Stand. Active temples with devotees.
But: partial wall collapse, minimal ASI intervention, limited tourist infrastructure.
November 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
1️⃣8️⃣ Today?
One of Andhra Pradesh's oldest forts. Majority still standing. 2km from Rayadurgam Bus Stand. Active temples with devotees.
But: partial wall collapse, minimal ASI intervention, limited tourist infrastructure.
One of Andhra Pradesh's oldest forts. Majority still standing. 2km from Rayadurgam Bus Stand. Active temples with devotees.
But: partial wall collapse, minimal ASI intervention, limited tourist infrastructure.
1️⃣6️⃣ Nine major temples inside:
Dasabhuja Ganapathi, Hanuman, Narasimhaswamy, Ellamma, Prasanna Venkateswara, Venugopala, Jambukeswara, Veerabhadra, Kanyakaparameswari.
This wasn't just military infrastructure.
Dasabhuja Ganapathi, Hanuman, Narasimhaswamy, Ellamma, Prasanna Venkateswara, Venugopala, Jambukeswara, Veerabhadra, Kanyakaparameswari.
This wasn't just military infrastructure.
November 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
1️⃣6️⃣ Nine major temples inside:
Dasabhuja Ganapathi, Hanuman, Narasimhaswamy, Ellamma, Prasanna Venkateswara, Venugopala, Jambukeswara, Veerabhadra, Kanyakaparameswari.
This wasn't just military infrastructure.
Dasabhuja Ganapathi, Hanuman, Narasimhaswamy, Ellamma, Prasanna Venkateswara, Venugopala, Jambukeswara, Veerabhadra, Kanyakaparameswari.
This wasn't just military infrastructure.
1️⃣4️⃣ Now the real archaeological gem: Dasabhuja Ganapathi Temple.
10 arms. 3 eyes (Trinetra form, like Shiva). Right-facing trunk (extremely rare Valampuri type). Embracing wife Siddhi Devi.
Carved from single monolithic stone. 15 feet tall, 12 feet wide.
Devotees claim the idol is growing.
10 arms. 3 eyes (Trinetra form, like Shiva). Right-facing trunk (extremely rare Valampuri type). Embracing wife Siddhi Devi.
Carved from single monolithic stone. 15 feet tall, 12 feet wide.
Devotees claim the idol is growing.
November 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
1️⃣4️⃣ Now the real archaeological gem: Dasabhuja Ganapathi Temple.
10 arms. 3 eyes (Trinetra form, like Shiva). Right-facing trunk (extremely rare Valampuri type). Embracing wife Siddhi Devi.
Carved from single monolithic stone. 15 feet tall, 12 feet wide.
Devotees claim the idol is growing.
10 arms. 3 eyes (Trinetra form, like Shiva). Right-facing trunk (extremely rare Valampuri type). Embracing wife Siddhi Devi.
Carved from single monolithic stone. 15 feet tall, 12 feet wide.
Devotees claim the idol is growing.
1️⃣2️⃣ Late 18th century: Tipu Sultan captures it, annexes it to Gooty province.
By then this fort had seen:
- Imperial Vijayanagara rule
- Palegar resistance
- Post-Talikota reconquest
- Nayaka fortifications
- Mysore expansion
Most textbooks? Maybe a footnote.
By then this fort had seen:
- Imperial Vijayanagara rule
- Palegar resistance
- Post-Talikota reconquest
- Nayaka fortifications
- Mysore expansion
Most textbooks? Maybe a footnote.
November 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
1️⃣2️⃣ Late 18th century: Tipu Sultan captures it, annexes it to Gooty province.
By then this fort had seen:
- Imperial Vijayanagara rule
- Palegar resistance
- Post-Talikota reconquest
- Nayaka fortifications
- Mysore expansion
Most textbooks? Maybe a footnote.
By then this fort had seen:
- Imperial Vijayanagara rule
- Palegar resistance
- Post-Talikota reconquest
- Nayaka fortifications
- Mysore expansion
Most textbooks? Maybe a footnote.
1️⃣0️⃣ Venkatapathi Nayaka (Koneti's son) massively upgraded defenses in late 16th-early 17th century.
Why? Ongoing conflicts with the Chitradurga Palegar.
The Nayakas weren't just holding territory—they were building a regional power structure that outlasted Vijayanagara itself by decades.
Why? Ongoing conflicts with the Chitradurga Palegar.
The Nayakas weren't just holding territory—they were building a regional power structure that outlasted Vijayanagara itself by decades.
November 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
1️⃣0️⃣ Venkatapathi Nayaka (Koneti's son) massively upgraded defenses in late 16th-early 17th century.
Why? Ongoing conflicts with the Chitradurga Palegar.
The Nayakas weren't just holding territory—they were building a regional power structure that outlasted Vijayanagara itself by decades.
Why? Ongoing conflicts with the Chitradurga Palegar.
The Nayakas weren't just holding territory—they were building a regional power structure that outlasted Vijayanagara itself by decades.
8️⃣ 1565. Battle of Talikota shatters Vijayanagara.
Rama Raya falls. Hampi burns. Allied Sultanates move to dismantle remaining strongholds.
Rayadurgam Fort? Muslim forces tried.
Koneti Nayaka drove them out.
Rama Raya falls. Hampi burns. Allied Sultanates move to dismantle remaining strongholds.
Rayadurgam Fort? Muslim forces tried.
Koneti Nayaka drove them out.
November 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
8️⃣ 1565. Battle of Talikota shatters Vijayanagara.
Rama Raya falls. Hampi burns. Allied Sultanates move to dismantle remaining strongholds.
Rayadurgam Fort? Muslim forces tried.
Koneti Nayaka drove them out.
Rama Raya falls. Hampi burns. Allied Sultanates move to dismantle remaining strongholds.
Rayadurgam Fort? Muslim forces tried.
Koneti Nayaka drove them out.