There is a whole text called Upavanavinoda and Bhoja's Manasaollaasa where a chapter is devoted entirely to the art and craft of gardening was written centuries before Mughals were even conceived.

Yet one more feather in the UP govt's cap. An ambitious project to revive the intellectual activities in Naimisharanya in the form of an international institute is being conceived. Thanks to Saurabh Pandey who was the knowledge partner with UP govt and convened a 2-days workshop!

यह वह पवित्र भूमि है जहां ब्रह्मा जी का चक्र पृथ्वी मां पर स्थापित होकर चक्रतीर्थ के नाम से जाना जाता है। इसके पास में ही महान त्यागी ऋषि दधीचि जी का आश्रम एवं कुंड है। यहां 51 शक्तिपीठों में हृदय स्वरूपा मां ललिता देवी जी का मंदिर भी स्थापित है।

It's indeed my pleasure and honour to have worked with Gautam R. Desiraju🇮🇳 sir on this topic of mutual interest. Must confess, could not match up to sir's lightening speed. Glad to see this out.

Ramanavami wishes to all bhaktas. Below is the first verse of the famous Ramakrishna Viloma Kavya by kavi Suri. It's a palidrome with the first line entailing stories of Rama and the 2 line, mirror image of 1st, that of Krishna.
#RamaNavami #Ramanavami2024

If you did not try the pork varieties, pls do give it a try.

It was indeed a pleasant surprise to meet my old friend after nearly 20 years! Nice catching up!
Manohar Rao PhD

I dont know what is the intended point in this tweet which is making rounds. Is it to call out IISc for its partisan criteria or a cowardly clandestine attack on the reservation policy of the government? In any case, academics are the collateral damage as always!

Came across this interesting footnote while preparing for my upcoming article on Higher Education System in India. This is the admission data from 1948-49 of a famous University. Guess which one? and see how times have changed!
#university #education

5 students earned their PhDs working with me in the last decade. Geethasudheer, Arathi, Manish, Poonam and Arti. Poonam defended her thesis in Jan and Arti's defense was today which was conducted stupendously by C Malla Reddy
(Poonam's and Arti's photos were taken today!)
#PhD

A song on upma sung in carnatic style. The husband is tired of having upma everyday...different types of upma. Those who can understand tamil may enjoy better.
#upma #uppuma
(From WhatsApp)

In this Atharva discussion w/ Chitravina Ravikiran Gautam R. Desiraju🇮🇳, Ranjani Vasuki; V Ramanathan shares an episode from the life of Tyāgarāja Svāmi where music reigned supreme sans any iota of divisiveness manufactured by the notorious in the Carnatic music world youtube.com/watch?v=jGlKiO…

Link to the Seminar at IIT(BHU),Varanasi | Rasāyanaśāstra in Nirmāṇakalā - youtube.com/watch?v=lkCf8A…

Dr. Manoj Gundanna on the construction methodology used in ancient India for stone temples/devālayas. In conversation with Prof V Ramanathan

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#Sthapatya

Further what he says is even more interesting. He invents a new word called wavicle and days why not use it if one is obsessed to use a word of microscopic objects with human language!

'If you can empathize with Ajmal Kasab and be taken aback at his death sentence, and without flinching, if you cannot show any empathy when an RSS member is killed, then you are my fellow w0ke comrade'

- Sangitha Kalanidhi TMK logic

Nice one. My all time favourite explanation on this very topic is by one and only Grant Sanderson

In fact even the word fraud will be offended when used for a person like you Dr. Ruchika Sharma

Guess what. An NGO which has TM Krishna on its advisory board is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, Jamaat e Islami & Pakistani fronts. Details in the video.

Thanks to DisInfo Lab for research & images.

youtu.be/VOsUb3iN70M

Full link: youtube.com/watch?v=bgG6e1……

The rising sun is a representation of Naṭarāja.

Naṭarāja Pādādikeśa Varṇanam (description from head to toe) | Dr R Nagaswamy in conversation with Prof Ramanathan V Ramanathan

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Comprehensive computational insights on the conformations, electronic ... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…