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Arms & Armors General

Post and discuss medieval armor and weaponry of various culture

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Even if she believed Hitler is the ninth avatar of Vishnu, her views are quite relevant till date. What do bhachcels think of her? Have you guys read her other works?

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Who were pindaris?

Which religion did they mostly belonged to? That Veer movie(salman's) gave me impression that they were hindus. But recently I was surfing about them and found out most of them were muslim.

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>are you into literature and philosophy? >yes anan, I read Sylvia Path, Albert Camus, Franz Kafka and Dostoevsky. >😐

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/aph/ - aphorism general

/sa/ is not a very happening thread so I wish to change this. I'll post aphorisms (selected and random) everyday. This first one is the braintwister from *sickness unto death* by Kierkegaard. About how the self relates to the divine(infinitude) an...

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Post some anti semite ebooks because I want to collect some for reading. Specially I'm looking for a ebook published around 2015s which covers all topics on kikes. Also contains some names of self hating kikes and their writings.

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Which book should i read next

Help

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Temple of the Golden Pavilion

>Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer >Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone until he becomes an acolyte at a famous temp...

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anyone else use goodreads? interested in if anyone here actually reads or just larps like /b/tards when they talk about getting dumped by a woman and need to mention they read [insert extremely popular philosopher] here to humblebrag

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reconstruction of old arts and architecture using AI

I saw one damaged art and tried to see reconstruction of it using AI. Should we try more of these?

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/MSART/ - Mega Sāhitya & Itihāsa Resources Thread

Post links for downloading ebooks, megadumps, internet libraries, docrels to spoonfeed other /sa/folks.

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What are some kino books that one should read before dying, yaaron? It can also be novel, graphic novel, manga, comic, etc.

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sf

Post Science Fiction anons have read, I recently read PKD's Ubik

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My favorite book

How many of you have read it? If you read this and the book "determined" it is kind of the ultimate blackpill(can't think of a better word, sorry), you will never see the world in the same way.

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pajitland sahitya explained

>muh oppression >muh garib >muh gand me sariya >muh soyciety >muh garib again Even (by the way I am a nigger) book like rashmirathi is a failed attempt to show the oppressed karna as a chad kek The only good piece of literature that's worth re...

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/zine/ - Magazines General

Where should I start? https://lainzine.org/ https://occu.cc/ https://blackfogzine.org/ https://www.surfaces.cx/ https://libraryoferis.org/ http://coughsyrupmag.com/ https://shellzine.net/ (slightly deviates into blog territory) ...

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Old books

Not the place to ask, but how do I rid myself of old books I don't like having on my shelf. Shit I bought as a teen. I don't want to give out genre fiction to a library lmao. Post upaay.

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Grecian Nugget

Despite having been ravaged by the Medes and denigrated by the Persian juggernaut for centuries, Classical Attic Greek, spoken by the Ionians became the language of the old testament.

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>he reads fiction

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I could take a BBC BBC BBC BBC OG hotwife of Turks

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The Ahar Banas culture that arose independently from Ivc was vastly distinct from it. It is the only culture that produced weapons outside of Arya's and Ivc. Thus the Rajasthani and Tamil people have a right to be proud of their aasi ancestors along...

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It has begun….

Billions must read

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Annihilation of Caste

His thought-process mirrors that of a lot of based Hindu nationalists as well (Savarkar, Aurobindo, etc), but he reaches an entirely different conclusion with it. Was Ambedkar correct?

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who do y’all think was the better mughal ruler?

i used to think aurangzeb was more based, and he was kinda hitler coded too. but the more i look into it, he tanked the entire mughal empire. he was too obsessed with religion, ruined the economy, and pissed off literally everyone (even other muslims...

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Religion is the opium of the people of the people; along with patriotism And now economics is the opium What about sexual intercourse; was that an opium of the people? But drink was a sovereign opium of the people, oh, an excellent opium. Although so...

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What do /iti/haskars think about the Alabanian rule of Rome?

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This is my geeta

This book has changed my life, this is the peakest book I've read in a long time, I wish to be like john Romero but I have to fix a lot of things in my life to even reach 10% of his power

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Use Hardcover instead of GoodReads to track and review your boox https://hardcover.app/ Their manifesto: Frustrated by inconsistencies every time we used Goodreads, and out of spite for Amazon, we decided to do something about it. We set out...

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Sylvia Path…

>be born in a rich family >be extremely good looking (in the 50s) >be tall (5’8) >go to bestest of best kallej in America >date multiple chads >gets pumped and dumped by them >suffering.mp4 >write shit ton of poetry on “true pain and suffering...

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Doomer reading bucketlist

I’m gonna destroy myself

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Maratha Spirit - Faustian Spirit

Kanhoji Angre was the only naval commander to have not lost to the British in the time period intermitting from the 17th century till the first world war. Overall, he is just one of three commanders of naval fleets to have never lost to the British N...

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cool

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Me

>I am a sick man. ... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased. However, I know nothing at all about my disease, and do not know for certain what ails me. I don't consult a doctor for it, and never have, though I ...

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यम आयेगा साकी बनकर साथ लिए काली हाला पी न होश में फ़िर आएगा सुरा- विसुध यह मतवाला यह अंतिम बेहोशी, अंतिम साकी, अंतिम प्याला है पथिक, प्यार से पीना इसको पथिक, प्यार से पीना इसको फ़िर न मिलेगी मधुशाला फ़िर न मिलेगी मधुशाला - Harivansh Rai bacchan...

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Is there any good book that traces Indian castes and tribes throughout time? I found this site by luck: https://indculture0.tripod.com/tindex.htm and the communities stuff is very fascinating. Any books that compare? Not the same Marxist shit abo...

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How to get into Trika Tantric Shaivism

inb4 guru I am not rich enough to afford one I just want to understand the philosophy and meditation Any suggestions, anons?

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Disillusionment

There is a certain kind of cognitive dissonance when I read western literature or even anything that isn't in relation with our culture. I enjoy them thoroughly but most do not remain relavent in relation to my daily life due to how different the cir...

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heestory n shie

hello anons. i am historically illiterate, and am here for two things. >1 need recommendations on books about indian history, ancient and modern (post '47). this goes w/o saying, but please make sure the sources are as unbiased as possible. >2...

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want to understand history and spirituality better

hi anons, i’ve been wanting to learn about hinduism and indian history in an unbiased way. i don’t follow any left or right ideologies, and i’m not really active politically (or socially xP). i just want to understand the lore and the ideologies (lik...

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Why do the Indian elites communicate only in English?

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melancholy recommendations

hello /lit/bros, i am currently going thru it, and would like to milk the fuck out of it by reading some raskolnikov-esque supersadboy books. ples drop thy recommendations beelo.

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Is it reals

Pls tell

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This month's reads

Let's go

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/lit/ bros, help me

Need some good book full of vitality and life I’m in a bad phase in my life, even suicidal.

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GUYS IM GOING TO READ DOSTOVISKY for the first time

Got the book online, LETS GET READING!

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Gāndhâra Mahäjanapāda

ARYAVART WILL BE ONE AGAIN

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Muhammad bin Tughlaq: the scizho king.

~~anon from bdchan here!!~~ >Moved the capital 1500km south on a random Tuesday >Forced everyone to walk from Delhi to Daulatabad, many died on the journey. (Why????) >Later changed his mind and moved it back. (?????) >Invented token currency ma...

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>2025 >Still hasn’t read picrel NGMI

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Despair and the last man

This is something that came up to me quite a while ago. Der letzter mensch, or the 'last man' is unequivocal opposite to the over-man in Nietzsche's work. But what is interesting is that he doesn't expound upon the last man as much as he does about t...

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Passages

Man, the bravest of animals and the one most accustomed to suffering, does not repudiate suffering as such; he desires it, he even seeks it out, provided he is shown a meaning for it, a purpose of suffering. The meaninglessness of suffering, not suff...

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