One of the most Monkey's Paw things about my life is my relationship to books. When I was a teenager, I read all the way through the school and public libraries, spent everything I had on books, and still couldn't get enough and dreamt of more.

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Today, as a reviewer, I have more books than I can possibly read, huge, teetering mountains of books that I'm desperate to read, far beyond my ability to ever get through them. Periodically, I declare "book bankruptcy," sweep away the backlog and start over.

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Even then, my eyes are bigger than my stomach: I keep back a few books that I can't bear to part with and promise myself I'll read them someday. Usually I don't, but I just did, and boy did I ever make the right call with @TheUniverse's BROAD

I have read a LOT of histories of computing, and I had a front row seat for a lot of the events depicted in this book - people I worked with, people I worked against - and yet I was surprised over and over again with details and perspectives I'd never encountered.

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For example, for some reason, my ninth grade computer science course included lengthy readings on ENIAC, Univac, the Mark I and the Mark II, but none of those mentioned that they were all programmed exclusively or primarily by women.

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A B2B Product Management Story: on discovering problems that customers actually care about

Very visual story thread👇🏾

Our story starts with a new product idea

PM diligently talks to customers about whether this product will solve their problems

Customers say yes!

PM reports findings to the executive team

There's excitement

Staffing obtained 🙌🏾

🎉🎊

HOW TO LAST LONGER IN BED😋(18+)

Some men will last for hours while some men will have the audacity to last for 2mins. But don't worry, because you might even last for 8hrs in bed & she will end up cheating on you. A THREAD😂

Are you a virgin?

RULE 1: DO NOT judge yourself with just 1 round. That's pathetic of you.

Who knows, you might be Johnny sins or a fuck machine from your round 2

So I advice you masturbate your first round off before sex, or you allow your lady try this on you👇

(put your imaginations into work)
now let's get dirty....🤤

• hold his dick and rub it around your pussy, dip it in so that your pussy juice will wet it & get it ready.

#Thread
India's biggest SCAM done by Congress with the help of a Pakistani.

In 1992, popular US company Enron made an agreement with Indian Govt & Maharashtra Govt to open a power project in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri district's Dhabol.
@narayanagl @chittukuruvi4

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But this project was dumped because of the strong opposition from the locals. Angered with this, Enron filed a case against Indian Govt in International Court of Justice to pay the losses it incurred!
@HarbirSinghSuri @anexcommie

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The then BJP govt led by Vajpayee Ji appointed popular Advocate Harish Salve to lead India at ICJ.

But what was surprising is that P Chidambaram, who was an Indian citizen and a lawyer by profession, agreed to fight against India by joining hands with Enron. @nsbchd

Cont👇

Unfortunately, Vajpayee ji lost in 2004 & Sonia Gandhi led Congress Govt came to power.

Manmohan Singh became PM & Chidambaram was the finance minister. At this position, it was impossible for Chidambaram to fight for Enron. @SoniaGurnani19 @AjayPandey__ @narendramodi177

Con👇

Yet he was Enron's legal advisor. What happened next was unimaginable & beyond shocking!

Finance Minister Chidambaram misused his powers & removed patriot advocate Salve, who was appointed by Vajpayee Govt.
@khanna248 @diptisingh7812

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Rishi Sushruta was a physician in ancient Bharat known today as the "Father of Indian Medicine" and "Father of Surgery" for inventing and developing surgical procedures. His work on the subject, the Sushruta Samhita is considered the oldest text in the world on plastic surgery

and is highly regarded as one of the Great Trilogy of Ayurvedic Medicine; the other two being the Charaka Samhita, which preceded it, and the Astanga Hridaya, which followed it. The Sushruta Samhita (works of Sushruta) is one of the most important surviving ancient treatises on

medicine and is considered a foundational text of Medicine. The treatise addresses all aspects of general medicine. The Sushruta Samhita mentions several surgical instruments that closely relate to the modern instruments used today to perform surgeries. The influential nature of

the Sushruta Samhita is supported not only by anatomical knowledge and surgical procedural descriptions contained within its pages but also by the creative approaches that still hold true today.

जानिये कश्मीर के पराक्रमी सम्राट ललितादित्य मुक्तापीड की गौरवमयी वीरगाथा, जिसकी तलवार का डंका मध्य एशिया तक बजा।

राजा श्रीललितादित्य: सार्वभौमस्ततोऽभवत् ।
प्रादेशिकेश्वरस्त्रष्टुर्विघेर्बुद्धेरगोचर: ।।१२६।। राजतरंगिणी

ब्रह्मा ने प्रादेशिकेश्वर रूप में उसकी सृष्टि की थी किन्तु अनन्तर ब्रम्हा की बुद्धि से भी अगोचर श्री ललितादित्य सार्वभौम राजा हुआ ।

[ सार्वभौम का अर्थ है..
1 - इसका अर्थ है सब भूमि का सम्राट। यह प्राचीन राज पद है। मुद्राराक्षस में भी इस शब्द का प्रयोग किया गया हैं।

2 - सार्वभौम राजा की आय उस समय इक्कावन करोड़ कर्ष वार्षिक आय मानी जाती है।]

ललितादित्य मुक्तपीड “कार्कोटा वंश” के कश्मीर के महान हिन्दू सम्राट थे। इनका कार्यकाल 724 ईस्वी से 760 ईस्वी तक था।

श्री दत्त राजा ललितादित्य मुक्तापीड प्रथम का राज्य अभिषेक काल सन् ६९७ ई. राजतरंगिणी में बताया गया है। 
आइने अकबरी में ललितादित्या का राज्यकाल 36 वर्ष 7 मास 11 दिन दिया गया है। (पेज नम्बर 375)

ललितादित्य मुक्तापीड की दो ताम्र मुद्राएं मिली हैं। मुद्रा के एक तरफ लक्ष्मी देवी और श्री प्रताप तथा दूसरी तरफ दण्डायमान राजा तथा कि(दार) टंकणित है। श्री ललितादित्या की मुद्रायें भिटवारी गाँव फैजाबाद, बाँदा, राजघाट, सारनाथ(वाराणसी), पटना, मूँगेर, तक मिली हैं।

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This Youtube channel is a goldmine for people wanting to learn about options both basics and advanced.

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Explains concepts in a very simple manner starting with option basics, and then covers the strategies and

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They have laid out the path to generating consistent income trading

#Thread
Aadi Perukku

Monsoon festival of South India

Aadi Perukku is a unique South Indian and specially a Tamil festival celebrated on the 18th day of the Tamil month of Adi (mid July). The festival coincides with the annual freshes of the rivers...

and to pay tribute to water's life-sustaining properties. It is celebrated near river basins, water tanks, lakes and wells etc. of Tamil Nadu when the water level in the rises significantly heralding the onset of Monsoon. It is also famous among Sri Lankan Tamils.

Aadi Perukku, water ritual through religious practice Edit
In India the rivers Ganga and Yamuna, Cauvery, Narmada and Godavari are considered sacred. Just like the earth gives us food, water is considered as a sacred necessity to meet the needs of individuals.

People began to worship water in the form of wells, tanks and rivers. It is common among people to throw fruits, saffron cloths, etc., when the rivers and lakes are in spate purely based on the belief that these rivers are the species of female deities.

Similarly every temple has sacred wells and tanks, and water in these resources & considered pure. There are cultural developments of the society that highlight many variations on the theme of primeval water which shows that water culture and civilization represent human interest

What is #Tawheed?
What are the Categories of Tawhid?

Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Let the first thing to which you will invite them, be the Tawhid of Allah."
(Sahih al Bukhari 7372)

#Tawheed is to single out Allah in his Actions, in His Attributes, and to single out Allah in our actions/worship towards Him (His Rights).

🔹1 - Tawheed ar Rububiyyah
(maintaining unity in Allah's actions, the divine Lordship of Allah)

He alone is the Creator & Sustainer, and controller of the universe (etc).. and not attributing any of this to anyone else

🔹2 - Tawheed al Ibaadah(Uluhiyyah)
(maintaining the unity of worship)
This means to single out Allah as the focus of all worship (‘ibaadah).

Allah alone has the right to be supplicated to & prayed to, and sacrificed for and worshiped... directly, and without any intermediaries.
A person can believe in Allah(One God) and still be committing #SHIRK (polytheist)

Allah says.. 👉 “And if you were to ask them: ‘Who has created the heavens and the earth and subjected the sun and the moon?’ they will surely reply: ‘Allah.’ How then are they deviating (as polytheists and disbelievers)?” - [Quran 29:61]

SWEEEEEET DIGS by Ripstababyyy
Thread of pics.
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Dipavali & firecrackers

In this thread, I will debunk the MYTH that bursting firecrackers is a new innovation that was recently introduced into dīpāvali festivities.

It will be shown that bursting firecrackers has always been intergral and central part of dīpāvali .

[Thread]

At the very core of this entire MYTH is the presumption that Gunpowder (cf. fireworks) was invented in China in 9th century and brought to India by Muslim rulers.

This THREAD debunks this widespread MYTH and throws light on the unknown/hidden history of dīpāvali & gunpowder.

Indeed, so widespread is this myth that gunpowder is popularly known as one of “ the "Four Great Inventions" of China”.

However, this myth starts falling apart when we examine Chinese sources themselves for the origin of Gunpowder.

According to Chinese sources themselves, an Indian Buddhist monk who brought gunpowder technology to China

In 664 CE, he discovered soils in China containing Saltpetre (primary constituent of gunpowder).

Chinese studies of Chemistry of saltpetre show evidence of Indian origin.

Of course, this is not to say that Chinese have no contribution to Gunpowder technology. They improvised it & made innovations.

However, the initial knowledge of Gunpowder came to China from India.

Even Scholar Roger Pauly, a hardcore Sinophile, admits "Indian inspiration"

1) Looking back on my "career" with @TheNordicWeb over the last 5 years, in retrospect it's easy for me to join up the dots and make sense of the journey:

#cphftw #sthlmtech #helyes 🇩🇰🇫🇮🇮🇸🇳🇴🇸🇪

2)

- Join & start community initiatives to meet people
- Learn from these people about how special the Nordic tech scene is
- Share this with the world through The Nordic Web
- Realise the real value is in the data, particularly in building network
- Use network to raise a fund

3) In fact, it looks all very strategic, but the reality is anything but.

My lack of vision and goals during this 5 year period was _criminal_

Any movement from one step to the next was never pre-planned and was instinctive, or worse, accidental.

4) While I am embarrassed to think of my headless chicken self, there's also part of me that thinks that none of this would have turned out where it did if I had of been deliberate and strategic about this.

5) In fact, I think my genuine love for the Nordics and the ecosystem is the MAIN reason to explain how I raised my fund & managed to move from step to step.

My story is a good example of how passion can be more powerful than strategy in the early stage of an idea/company.

a small story which was told by Sringeri Acharya Sri Sri Sri Chandrasekhara Bharati Mahaswamulavaru. He was talking about Dasavataras and says [paraphrasing. so mistakes are mine. idea is His]

During Satya Yugam, Devas and Asuras were physically in different locations.. that is Devas were in Deva Lokam which was distinct from where Asuras lived in the the Asura Loka. A conflict would happen when any Asura wanted more than just his loka and went to occupy Deva Loka.

And then the Paramatman would wage a war almost always single handed.

Now coming to Treta Yuga, the Devas [Sri Rama] and Asuras were both in one loka. Some distant apart, but still one loka only.

Conflict would happen when, as in case of Satya Yugam, when the Asuras tried to disrupt the devas. In this case, Sri Rama went TO the asura loka be it Janasthana or Lanka and fought with them, along with help from other divine beings i.e vanaras.

This changed even further in Dwapara Yugam when the devas and asuras were born in the same family Sri Krishna & Balarama vs their mama Kamsa or Pandavas vs Kauravas. And the conflict arose as soon as they were born.

।। हरि ॐ।।
शिव के रुद्राभिषेक से होते हैं 18 आश्चर्यजनक लाभ, जरूर पढ़े..

रुद्र अर्थात भूतभावन शिव का अभिषेक। शिव और रुद्र परस्पर एक-दूसरे के पर्यायवाची हैं। शिव को ही 'रुद्र' कहा जाता है, क्योंकि रुतम्-दु:खम्, द्रावयति-नाशयतीतिरुद्र: यानी कि भोले सभी दु:खों को नष्ट कर देते हैं।

हमारे धर्मग्रंथों के अनुसार हमारे द्वारा किए गए पाप ही हमारे दु:खों के कारण हैं। रुद्रार्चन और रुद्राभिषेक से हमारी कुंडली से पातक कर्म एवं महापातक भी जलकर भस्म हो जाते हैं और साधक में शिवत्व का उदय होता है तथा भगवान शिव का शुभाशीर्वाद भक्त को प्राप्त होता है।

और उनके सभी मनोरथ पूर्ण होते हैं। ऐसा कहा जाता है कि एकमात्र सदाशिव रुद्र के पूजन से सभी देवताओं की पूजा स्वत: हो जाती है।

रुद्रहृदयोपनिषद में शिव के बारे में कहा गया है कि सर्वदेवात्मको रुद्र: सर्वे देवा: शिवात्मका अर्थात सभी देवताओं की आत्मा में रुद्र उपस्थित हैं..

और सभी देवता रुद्र की आत्मा हैं। हमारे शास्त्रों में विविध कामनाओं की पूर्ति के लिए रुद्राभिषेक के पूजन के निमित्त अनेक द्रव्यों तथा पूजन सामग्री को बताया गया है। साधक रुद्राभिषेक पूजन विभिन्न विधि से तथा विविध मनोरथ को लेकर करते हैं।

रुद्राभिषेक से हमारी कुंडली के महापाप भी जलकर भस्म हो जाते हैं और हममें शिवत्व का उदय होता है। भगवान शिव का शुभाशीर्वाद प्राप्त होता है। सभी मनोरथ पूर्ण होते हैं। एकमात्र सदाशिव रुद्र के पूजन से सभी देवताओं की पूजा स्वत: हो जाती है।रुद्राभिषेक के विभिन्न पूजन के लाभ इस प्रकार हैं

Sri Nrusimhar, Keezhappavur, near Tirunelveli, TN.

அருள்மிகு லட்சுமி நரசிம்மர் கோவில், கீழப்பாவூர், திருநெல்வேலி.
தல சிறப்புகள்
இந்தியாவில் உள்ள நரசிம்மர் கோவில்களில் அபூர்வமானதும், வேறெங்கும் காண இயலாத பல்வேறு சிறப்புகள் நிறைந்த தலமாக கீழப்பாவூர் நரசிம்மர் கோவில் விளங்குகிறது.

தலம், மூர்த்தி, தீர்த்தம் மட்டுமின்றி பல்வேறு சிறப்புகள் நிறைந்தது கீழப்பாவூர் நரசிம்மர் ஆலயம்.

இந்தியாவில் மூன்று இடங்களில் தான் 16 திருக்கரங்களுடன் கூடிய நரசிம்மர் ஆலயம் உள்ளது.

ஒன்று ராஜஸ்தான் மாநிலத்திலும், மற்றொன்று பாண்டிச்சேரி அருகே சிங்ககிரி எனும் சிறு குன்றிலும் உள்ளது

மூன்றாவதாகக் கீழப்பாவூரில் மட்டுமே சமதளமான பகுதியில் 16 திருக்கரங்களுடன் அருள்பாலித்து வருகிறார்.

சுற்றிலும் வயல்கள், குளங்கள் நிறைந்து பசுமையாக உள்ளது.

எல்லாவற்றிற்கும் மேலாக ரிஷிகளுக்கு காட்சி கொடுத்தது மட்டுமின்றி, நிரந்தரமாகத் தங்கி இருப்பதும் இங்கு மட்டுமே.

இத்தலம் சுமார் 1,100 ஆண்டுகள் புராதனச் சிறப்புமிக்கதாகும்.

முதன் முதலில் நரசிம்மர் அவதாரம் நிகழ்ந்தது அகோபிலம் திருத்தலத்தில்.

மீண்டும் அவதாரம் எடுத்த தலம் கீழப்பாவூர் ஆகும்.

தல வரலாறு

கிருதயுகத்தில் பிரகலாதனுக்காக திருமால் நரசிம்ம அவதாரம் எடுத்து இரண்யனை அழித்தார்.

சில நாழிகைகளே நீடித்திருந்த நரசிம்ம அவதாரத்தை காண காசிப முனிவர், நாரதர், வருணன், சுகோஷன் முனிவர் போன்றோர் விருப்பம் கொண்டு மகா விஷ்ணுவை நோக்கித் தவம் இருந்தனர்.

I know the #COVID-19 numbers in India are not looking good, but here are my (not so) random thoughts on it

We have 2 options – one, rant & rail against the ‘system’ and lament how it has let us down; second, do whatever we can to avoid getting infected & if infected, minimize adverse consequences to ourselves & others. If you belong to the first, you can stop reading now

How can we avoid getting infected? There’s no magic bullet, I’m afraid. This is primarily a “stick to the basics” approach. More difficult than it sounds.

First, maintain all precautions that we know help. These include masks (whenever you are not at home and not alone), physical distancing to the extent possible, and washing hands frequently. The 3 Ws – Wear a mask, Watch your distance, Wash your hands.

Masks work, and are probably the most important precaution given our current understanding that aerosols are the predominant mechanism of spread. The best is a well-fitting N95 mask, which is now widely available & not too expensive – you could re-use them too.

How Saif Ali Khan's great grandfather tried to merge Bhopal in Pakistan: [Thread]

Saif's great grandfather was the Nawab of Bhopal.

He was a staunch supporter of Pakistan & Jinnah. He governed Bhopal by Sharia.

He wrote a letter inviting King of Afghanistan to invade India.

August 2 1947: Saif Ali Khan's great grandfather, Nawab of Bhopal wrote a letter to Jinnah.

He clearly states

"I am a staunch supporter of Pakistan. I want to merge Bhopal in Pakistan. Hindus are untrustworthy.

But Bhopal is 80% Hindu and surrounded by India. I am cut off"

He further says

"Hindus are intimidating me to join India. I know Pakistan has no means of helping me. But I want to know how much Pakistan can help me.

I would never sign and join India, come what might . I will continue to serve Pakistan and Islam!"

In other words, Saif Ali Khan's family tried everything in their power to merge Bhopal in Pakistan. But as Bhopal was in the center of India, neither Jinnah nor Nawab had military means to resist India. Had Bhopal been a frontier kingdom, it would have been a part of Pakistan!

Source of the snippets: Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah Papers. From Jinnah's letter collection in Lucknow AIML office. Digitized and published in 1994-95 by Government of Pakistan and recommended for inclusion in Memory of World Register