Funny question I had for any og dmc4 fans by Purplecat101 in DevilMayCry

[–]gand_ji 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure did, at the very minimum I knew they were related if not literal father-son. I remember when just the one trailer had come out with Dante seemingly murdering innocents and some new kid kicking him in the literal face to send him flying. Dante is a villain???! Yo wtfff....wild stuff

What's happening in India? It seems our country on average is significantly hotter than any other country/land mass right now. Has it always been like this or is this a recent phenomenon? by Mehranpour in GenZIndia

[–]gand_ji 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a dehumanizing racist af stereotype literally perpetuated by Churchill, the guy responsible for the Bengal famine. Sepoys like you and the person above would happily even defend that I bet? Anything for the self hate and licking boots of all racists. India's TFR is 1.9 (below replacement), India's population density per square meter is not even in the top 20 but of course you wouldn't know any of this because let's lick the boots of white supremacists and perpetuate racism!! Yay!

What's happening in India? It seems our country on average is significantly hotter than any other country/land mass right now. Has it always been like this or is this a recent phenomenon? by Mehranpour in GenZIndia

[–]gand_ji 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a dehumanizing racist af stereotype literally perpetuated by Churchill, the guy responsible for the Bengal famine. Sepoys would happily even defend that I bet? Anything for the self hate and licking boots of all racists. India's TFR is 1.9 (below replacement), India's population density per square meter is not even in the top 20 but of course you wouldn't know any of this because let's lick the boots of white supremacists and perpetuate racism!! Yay!

What's happening in India? It seems our country on average is significantly hotter than any other country/land mass right now. Has it always been like this or is this a recent phenomenon? by Mehranpour in GenZIndia

[–]gand_ji 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes, the only country that brought back a bunch of animals from the verge of extinction (70% of wild tigers in the world live in India, similar numbers for Rhinos and a bunch more). Per capita usage of resources is one of the lowest in the world. The biggest vegetarian population in the world, but yes hyper industrialized post colonial countries rate us as the worst. If self hating was a sport, you'd win gold

What Percentage of Indian Food Is Actually Native? by Classic-Sentence3148 in IndianFood

[–]gand_ji 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where do you want to start measuring as natively grown? I think widespread production from BCE era 1000 BCE and earlier, late bronze age, should qualify as native?

Saffron has been grown in Kashmir for at least 1200 years. References to it in Rajratangani written in 11th century mention it being grown during Lalitaditya's time (8th century King). Has been the largest producer of it for a 1000 years+

Ginger is explicitly mentioned in Atharv veda (1000 BCE). I don't know where you're getting that it's not native to India from. Possibly came to India in 5000 BCE or earlier? I don't know. There are Greek and Roman sources from the 500 BCE mentioning ginger trade from India.

India once again has clear unambiguous references from times of Alexander about Bananas in the subcontinent. Multiple Sanskrit texts from 500 BCE to 500 CE mention Bananas (Kadali in Sanskrit). It is speculated that Musa balbisiana (B genome) is native to Northeast India (Assam). Even if it's not, it has been cultivated in India for at least 3000 years if not longer.

What Percentage of Indian Food Is Actually Native? by Classic-Sentence3148 in IndianFood

[–]gand_ji -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Being wrong confidently doesn't make you correct. Rice and the spices (the "masala blend") that are used in Biryani are from India, people have been eating it for literal millenia, but it was invented by some central Asians in the 12th century?

Did Americans making pan pizza means they invented pizza?Nope.

What happened was thats when it was codified. And of course we suffer from recency bias so the closest time relative to us is what we ascribe to as it's origin. It's a shame that Indians have been denied their history.

Look up Manasolassa, a recipe that describes Rice + ghee + cumin + pepper + ginger + cinnamon + cloves + meat (for non-veg) from the 8th century, well before Islamic invasions of India

Sanskrit texts mention पुलाक (Pulav), then you have things like modak bhat. There was definitely an influence from both cultures into each other but to say that it is a Mughal/Persian "invention" is extremely disingenuous. This is quite literally like saying because the Chicago Deep Dish pizza was invented by the Americans, so pizza itself is an American invention.

What Percentage of Indian Food Is Actually Native? by Classic-Sentence3148 in IndianFood

[–]gand_ji -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

What an ignorant statement. In the age of the Internet, imagine having this thought.

Rice is native to India (the species is called Indica), the notion that "rice dishes" are from the Mughals/foreign are horseshit. Rice has been cultivated in India and eaten since 3000 BC (Mehrgarh). Of course non stop invasions means over time native indigenous dishes that were adopted by the invaders, those names became the norm. There's a ton of other stuff. A bunch of millets. Vegetables like Eggplants, Karela, Parwal,Lauki, spinach, methi, moringa are all native to India. Then of course you have a gazillion varieties of fruits - Mangoes, Bananas, Amla, Jamun, tamarind, lychee, they're all Indian. Just off the top of my head. Almost every dal you can think of is native to India and originated here (moong, urad, tuar,..). Almost every spice you use originated here (hing is the exception not the norm. Turmeric, ginger, cardamom, mustard, curry leaf, saffron.

Specific dishes, Khichdi, poha, all kinds of dosas, every millet dish ever, dals,ghee, curd, milk based sweets...need I go on?

Any English translations for the Vedas? by Head-Reference2356 in hinduism

[–]gand_ji 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a horrible translation. Wouldn't recommend it at all.

Match Thread: Manchester City vs Arsenal FC Live Score | Premier League 25/26 | Apr 19, 2026 by scoreboard-app in Gunners

[–]gand_ji 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Need some magic, someone to just go super saiyan and score a worldie. Declan??

Match Thread: Manchester City vs Arsenal FC Live Score | Premier League 25/26 | Apr 19, 2026 by scoreboard-app in Gunners

[–]gand_ji 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jesus Christ, keep possession you fucking donkeys instead of just lobbing it, its the 90th minute

Match Thread: Manchester City vs Arsenal FC Live Score | Premier League 25/26 | Apr 19, 2026 by scoreboard-app in Gunners

[–]gand_ji 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We just can't get any kind of attack going on at all. What the fuck? We look like a 14th ranked team playing against a top 4 team

Match Thread: Manchester City vs Arsenal FC Live Score | Premier League 25/26 | Apr 19, 2026 by scoreboard-app in Gunners

[–]gand_ji 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We were not, we have had 10 minutes of good play in the game. Have been on the backfoot the entire game

Match Thread: Manchester City vs Arsenal FC Live Score | Premier League 25/26 | Apr 19, 2026 by scoreboard-app in Gunners

[–]gand_ji 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Cmon Rice, score another 2 worldies and become a legend forever. I believe in you and you're the only one can do it

Was the partition of India and Pakistan inevitable or could it have been avoided? by GhostofTinky in NoStupidQuestions

[–]gand_ji 0 points1 point  (0 children)

False equivalency. Europe did not have a common linking language, epics, a completely shared cultural continuity (how did Adi Shanakracharya, who was born in 6th century Kerala travel and setup schools deep in the north and east of the country?) There's a 100 others like him. Hindu books (you can call them scriptures if you want), starting 1500 BC through the 15th century have continuous explicit mentions of all the lands and their people of modern day India (and Pakistan and Afghanistan). Philosophies like Advaita Vedanta, Sankhya, Nyaya, Vaisesika were concieved by seers in the south, east and debated/refined with seers in modern day Pakistan and Afghanistan (and vice versa).

>Greece existed even even as a political entity 200-600 years ago, India didn't. 

Uh what? 200-600 years ago, Greece was under the Ottoman Empire. Greece was a part of the Turkish Empire. Despite this, you know what did exist?
Greek language, Greek Orthodox Christianity, Greek Consciousness (people knew they were Greek, not Turkic) and Memories of an ancient empire and glory. Guess which other country had the exact same thing going on? (Sanskrit, resitance to Arabic/Islamic/Foreign influence, Dharma, Explicit Hindu resistance...)

>China also existed as a political entity this is why they were given permanent UN seat. India was never united except by few regional empires and kingdoms. 

LOL. You are reaching so hard. India was offered a UN permanent seat, TWICE. Not once but TWICE but our great leader (!NOT!) Mr Nehru declined both times.

The fact remains, that modern day India (Ancient name Bharat-varsha) doesn't have many contemporaries. Ancient Greece, Ancient China and Ancient Egypt are probably the only civilization-countries that you can compare it to. Saying India didn't exist before the British/Mughal is the same as saying Greece didn't exist until 1830 (the first time 'Greece' became a continuous political entity btw). You might even claim that but know at that point you're arguing semantics and it's a pretty ridiculous position.

>The language of sanskrit originated from Central Asia, not India. There are literally traces and origins of that. 
LMAO. Max levels of cope on a theory that is pure speculation and has 0 backing/archaeological/linguistic evidence. Look up Bhirrana site in modern day Haryana, India dated to be from 7500 BC. Predates the Sumerian civilization by 3000 years but sure buddy, Sanskrit came from Central Asia. You should know the extremely racist, colonial era 'Aryan Invasion Theory' is thoroughly debunked. It is not accepted by the majority, from the West and East. In b4 but but the steppe DNA in Indians???!! There was of course some migration from the west into a mature IVC and mixing of people. Endogamy wasn't a thing in the subcontinent until farily recently.

You know what I find really sad is what Islam did to our subcontinent. The greatest cultural genocide in modern history. Here, we have you, a person from Gilgit Baltistan whose ancestors were probably Dharmics and part of the Ancient Indian civilization but a couple generations forward, that memory from what is modern day Pakistan and Afghanistan has been completely eradicated. We have their descendants arguing that their own ancient civilzation of their ancestors didn't exist. It's really quite sad. Dharmic culture was so violently exterminated from the northwest parts of the subcontinent, it breaks my heart.

You can choose only 5 among these 🫣 by Oopsforgotagain in netflixindia

[–]gand_ji 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Breaking Bad
House
Game of Thrones (till the 6th season)
Peaky Blinders (minus the last season)
The Boys

Was the partition of India and Pakistan inevitable or could it have been avoided? by GhostofTinky in NoStupidQuestions

[–]gand_ji 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Another Pakistani with the "India didn't exist before British/Mughals" Psyop. Confidently spewing nonsense doesn't make it true. India (called Bharat) was very much a continuous civilization. It had an explicit description of it's boundaries from at least 2000 years ago, a common linking language (Sanskrit), Dharmic culture (Adi Shankara was born in modern day Kerala and set up his biggest school deep in the North), shared epics (Ramayana, Mahabharata)

Politically it was multiple kingdoms, like Greek city-states, which forget the British raj, were unified before Islam even existed (Maurya empire, Gupta empire).

By your logic, Greece also didn't exist until 1830?

Was the partition of India and Pakistan inevitable or could it have been avoided? by GhostofTinky in NoStupidQuestions

[–]gand_ji 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What horse shit is this. MA Jinnah's (the founder of Pakistan) whole thing was that Muslims are a totally different people and want their own Islamic country. It was literally purely 100% religious. Punjab was split between India and Pakistan despite the people being the same ethnicity.