The motto: “May the ocean God be auspicious unto us.”
Letter from Shri Rajagopalachari suggesting the motto for the Indian Navy in Rajaji’s own hand.
It was decided to request Shri C Rajagopalachari, Ex-Governor General of India, to suggest a motto. A letter was addressed to him by the Commander-In-Chief of the Indian Navy, Admiral Sir Mark Pizey, enumerating the salient considerations in the selecting a motto: that of alphabets, that it should refer to the sea or seafaring, that it should preferably, be associated with Indian history or #mythology.
Shri Rajagopalachari replied with great promptitude offering a motto which fulfilled all the stipulation ideally. It was immediately adopted.
For those who didn't know this already...#Indian middle and upper class has a nazi fetish since ages. I always heard my grandparents, parents and uncles/aunts lament how #India needed a dictator like Hitler to straighten it out. The general impression is that AH was an uber patriot who took his country to great heights and put irksome minorities in their place or eliminated them. #Modi's resemblance to AH is what gets him elected...that is very much his USP.
Only after the last tree has been cut down.
Only after the last river has been poisoned.
Only after the last fish has been caught, only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.
This burns. For a million reasons. It burns people. It burns souls, damages real Indigenous people. It steals $, it fetishizes, it appropriates for personal gain, it creates stereotypes, it burns.
some servers running alternative softwares that i can endorse:
blaha.zone (Calckey server for LGBTQ+ people and their allies and accomplices)
charcha.cc (possibly running #pleroma server seeming to be aimed at #Indian members )
April 23 - the birthday of Raja Ravi Varma (1848-1906) - one of the greatest painters in the history of Indian art. His religious depictions of Hindu deities and works from Indian epic poetry and Puranas have received profound acclaim.
Meanwhile in the #GulfofOman, the #Iranians have boarded (in international waters) the #oil tanker the #AdvantageSweet & have taken it into Iranian waters... they're claiming its been involved in a decision (a claim disputed by the owners); it was carrying oil on its way to the USA; but it has an #Indian crew.
next steps? who knows but we might expect it be used as a lever in one of Iran's disputes?
As this suggests, oil routes will keep getting longer as tankers try to avoid state piracy
Echoes of the past
Still standing
Secrets of the past
Montezuma's Castle is a Pre Columbian cliff dwelling. Built of limestone and clay, 5 stories tall with 20 rooms located about 90 feet up the sheer cliff wall. The dwelling gives a unique glimpse into the life of it's inhabitants, the Sinagua people.
Aaah! Sorely missing #Family - my sister today. She was slated to come to the US in 2020 for #Odissi performances and I missed that. Yes, I did catch up with her in India just this past Dec, but not the same. If it's one regret I have it's that I never got to watch much of her work/artistry. In what little I have seen live and in pics, the emoting and grace always get me. A couple of pics recentish (2017 I think) and an old one from her FB #Indian#Dance
I had a few excellent sitar, bhangra & other albums on minidisc I swapped albums etc to get in 90s & 00s. I sort of lost quite a bit of that stuff with moving away from minidiscs.