The Himālaya Dispatch
@himdispatch
From the Himalaya: travels, stories, truth and tall tales. Personal interests: @malayraunsil
Kumaonis and Garhwalis are perfectly happy with their military traditions and heritage which goes back to pre-Independence era. We don't want dehatification in the name of de-colonization.
The military is yet to be de-colonised.
आप किसी नेता की भक्ति करें या किसी बाबा या धर्मगुरु की यह आपका अधिकार है। लेकिन हमारे इष्ट देव का अपमान करना आपका अधिकार नहीं है। हर बात जो मन में आए, उसे सोशल मीडिया पर लिख देना ज़रूरी नहीं होता। शब्दों का भी धर्म होता है और मर्यादा भी।🙏🏻
देवता और व्यक्ति बराबर??? 😱 पहाड़ी होकर भी पहाड़ के न्याय के देवता गोलज्यू 🙏को एक व्यक्ति/ बाबा #DhirendraShastri के बराबर बता रहे हो..... "दुःख होता है"
Kumaoni shamanism is the cornerstone of my faith asshole. Goraldev is Kumaon's God of Justice, not some lousy mortal who speed-dials deities on his palm. You clowns are going way too fucking far. @ukd2024 are you going to ignore this?
'A Monastery in the Himalayas' by Nicholas Roerich, 1931.
This is a hill station in Odisha and look at the views. About time, people looked beyond the Himalayas for tourism.
Reminds me of this: Shiva's yajnopavita is made of snakes.
Alcohol, Abortions and other things which civilized societies find revolting is encouraged. Whereas eating meat is the redline this retarded quam has come up with. Hindus are mentally ill.
Mutton Shops closed, Liquor in free flow.
Came across this interesting novel: fictional account of Fitzroy and Darwin onboard the Beagle. Definitely on my TBR.
"In sleep there come to the surface buried genealogical facts, ancestral curves, dead men's traits, which the mobility of daytime animation screens and overwhelms." — Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge. "Sleep 7" by Gottfried Helnwein (2004).
i know a guy in his 40s who’s handsome, super wealthy, throws huge parties at his long island mansion, war veteran, into jazz… and yet he spends many of his nights staring across the manhasset bay wondering why he’s unable to find true love is modern dating really this broken?
new zealand temperate forest ecoregion appreciation post
Art Deco bike called 'Good Ghost,' built by Dirk Oehlerking
Saturn as seen from Titan. A painting by Ron Miller (1972)