When did freedom become surveillance? 🦋

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.

6/8 The 1861 colonial act everyone screams about? Scrapping it without a replacement framework is chaos. The issue isn't THAT it exists—it's that 11 years of majority power produced zero legislative drafts for alternatives. Not even attempts. That's not obstruction. That's indifference.

5/8 Courts forcing ASI surveys at disputed sites isn't weaponization—it's correction for decades of avoidance. Previous governments ignored these questions. Current one turned them into media spectacles. Both approaches fail archaeology. One from neglect, one from performative politics.

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.

3/8 But Muhammed's 90-to-10 collapse might mislead. Bateshwar could've been low-hanging fruit—concentrated site, simpler structures. Where's the system-wide data? We don't have it. That's the problem. ASI doesn't publish comprehensive restoration metrics. Why not? What are they hiding?

2/8 Start with the paradox. ASI budget tripled under BJP. Sounds good. Except autonomy got strangled—spending limits dropped from ₹25L to ₹3L without Delhi approval. More money, tighter leash. Could be corruption control. Could be paralysis. The output suggests which. #GemsofASI

As available in the Jakarta Museum

Three facts. Zero official clarification from ASI's website.

Before you share their posts as gospel—ask who's actually behind the keyboard. 🏛️

How much Sanskrit influenced ancient civilizations that we're never told? 📅🔟

Western civilization built on Sanskrit vocabulary they refuse to credit. Colonial academia buried this. How much more did they steal and rebrand as "classical"? 🔟🏛️

Hindu devotees funded this institute. Muslim students qualified. They'll become doctors serving everyone.

That's not controversy. That's how secular merit works.

Unless merit only counts when the numbers suit us. 🤔

If these students qualified on merit through a national exam, why does their faith matter?

Col. Mankotia says Muslims "don't believe in idol worship" so they shouldn't study there.

So now we're gatekeeping medical education based on religious belief?

Despite harsh Ice Age conditions limiting bamboo's global range, Northeast India served as a refuge where it thrived.

This is the first fossil proof that bamboo's thorniness, a defense against herbivores, was present in Asia during the Ice Age. This is significant as the fossil comes from a time of colder, drier climates, which saw bamboo vanish from many regions, including Europe.