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We do not even acknowledge that enshittified piece of crap in this house. ❌️

It does not deign the attention of the people who actually want to know the epics.

i have been doing a read through for a few years over on the server and I was wondering if there was a way to make it accessible to the Tumblr onlys here. It would be a continuation of the podcast.

The financial support part would be up to you, the episodes would be free for all. If you think it's something interesting and worthwhile, you could tip us for our time.

Good sense would mean that we should get paid for our time but we would never make anyone pay for this. We're doing it out of the pure love of the game. It costs nothing for us to keep yapping.

We only charge money for shutting up. People have to buy our silence.

Jokes aside, thank you so much! We love and cherish your support always. 💗💗 We might drop off sometimes because of life situations but we'll always come back.

But on that topic,i think it's a bit harmful to speak disrespectfully of hindu scriptures and festivals while speaking of hindutva(I'm not talking about the quotes,more about the rants). Like,I saw an old post of yours,talking about how Krishna would've likely owned slaves,and,it made me remember people who call Mohammad a pedophile, it's based off of the scripture,yes,but you're not really listening to the religious people,i suppose?

Like,again, I don't mean to speak badly of you,but scriptures are still dear to people,and it's not like the Mahabharata is not a scripture,i mean,it contains the Gita,but calling people who disagree with you hindutvadis is pretty harmful in my honest opinion,as it's like you think that people who defend their own scriptures are extremists,and I'm just concerned that can reinforce beliefs like "hindutva is just people who speak against hinduphobia". Would you speak of the Quran or the Bible or any other holy texts like you speak of the Mahabharata?

What's respectful then? Tell us. Please give us a checklist. I'm tired of every person having different definitions of respect. Please give us a universal guideline.

We can be as respectful as possible and someone will still come out of the woodworks to tell us it's disrespectful. I could sit quietly in a blank room and my existence would be a problem to someone. There's literally no way to win here. We got this exact kind of anons in the beginning too even though we were posting strictly memes and quotes. What's the measure for respect then? Some people seem to think if we merely think of the epic as a literary text, it's disrespectful.

The goalpost for respect will keep shifting. Please tell us a way where everybody is pleased, I beg of you.

About the slavery discussion, I want to be clear, in the text, royalty own slaves. I want people to tell me what the religious significance or explanation for the slavery is. In fact, in this case, many religious people fully argue with their whole chest that some people were born to "serve" others. How do you contend with that? Do you nod your head politely and accept that? Is that respectful enough? If people have a hard time distinguishing between the character Krishna and the god Krishna, It's not our fault. It is a cognitive dissonance every person has to deal with themself.

What's the solution here? We should shut up about what we think on our own blog? We're not forcing anyone to read and watch anything.

We do not call everyone who disagrees with us hindutvavadi. If you come to us talking about a hindu rashtra and how hinduism is the supreme religion, then we call you a hindutvavadi. There's a DIFFERENCE. I sure hope people understand the difference between being hindu and being a religious nationalist.

What is with the whataboutism? "Would you criticise the Bible and the Quran?" Yeah, actually. I would. If I had anything beyond the base level knowledge of them, I'm sure I would have lots of opinions on it and would be talking about them. But in this life, I have extensive knowledge of a different literary piece and I talk about that. What about that is so hard to understand?

I feel like we say the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again and nobody listens.

As a cis person is there any way I can formally oppose this, like is there any petition I can sign or something like that.

And to all the Indian trans folks reading this, don't lose out on hope. The bill is not a law yet. It'll go to rajyasabha and then to courts. Let us hope it gets rejected in rajyasabha. And as far as I am aware one can also file public interest litigation against the bill then.

KEEP FIGHTING!!

Okay so this is very urgent; I am back from the dead just to say this.

There is a way RIGHT NOW- to send emails to your Rajya Sabha MP ASAP. Just go to the link below, select your state, and click the Go To Email button to send your email.

DO NOT SEND MULTIPLE EMAILS BECAUSE IT WILL BE MARKED AS SPAM. ONE SINGLE EMAIL.

And KEEP SHARING.

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Man, the wildest shit happens on twitter sometimes.

Simultaneously reading multiple translations is a fun time, y'all.

Gita Press is so funny for taking an issue with hunting for sustenance and not the gratuitously descriptive sections talking about a poor woman boobs and butt. Wild standards for censorship and editorialising, really.

Everyone wants to make a Mahabharat film, it seems. Personally, I think this trend is another facet of what I've started to call Mytho Slop- something that doesn't challenge you, perfectly crafted to be as basic and bland as possible because producers need that return on investment.

As for the director, I think Vivek Agnihotri is physically incapable of making a decent film. His filmography is one disaster after another and that's before we even consider the films made after he did his propaganda heel turn. I'm usually the one who says "never say never" but past evidence makes me very hesitant to say it. The man is just straight up a bad filmmaker. According to the articles, he's probably basing it on a book, which might save his script to an extent. Can't fuck up a narrative if someone already did the hard work for you. However, there are a lot more decisions that go into adapting a book into a film that can make or break it so it sure will be a challenge regardless.

All in all, I'm fully expecting a mediocre unremarkable slop film at best and a rancid propaganda filled hate crime disaster at worst.