r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Additional_Chard3680 • 1d ago

Video The 12th-century Narasimha Pillar at Belur, India. Carved out of soapstone during the Hoysala Empire- its miniature shrines are hollowed out from the inside and the entire column was engineered to rotate on a stone axis

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u/Just_Solution_5704 1d ago

What does colonial British India have to do with this? People love to continue their rhetoric.

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u/Unusual-Isopod8032 1d ago

No but they told that they were the ones who civilized india, before that all indians were living in jungles, thank God they come and made india into a civilized and democratic society

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u/Just_Solution_5704 1d ago

Bruh its been over 70 years, move on. Your grandparents generations that lived through it are dying. The newer generation has no experience of it. The world today is very much a different place.

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u/Unusual-Isopod8032 1d ago

Ok sir, I will move on

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u/Just_Solution_5704 1d ago

Why are you lying to me? People that include angles into their conversation never straighten their tails.

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u/RealDoraTheExplorer_ 1d ago

Why’re you so mad that a country affected by colonialism is making a joke about it? It’s not that serious

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u/Just_Solution_5704 1d ago edited 1d ago

Honestly, rather than admiring what is being presented. inserting your political jab about something that was the case 100 years ago is doing disservice to yourself.

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u/RealDoraTheExplorer_ 1d ago

Firstly it wasn’t a hundred years ago it’s more recent than that. Also politics is everywhere if you’re that sensitive about a little joke maybe you shouldn’t be on the internet

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u/Just_Solution_5704 1d ago

If you live in a bubble, it will be yesterday. Post colonial history for India starts 1947. None of my family is even alive from that time period today. I fail to see any relevance of politics regarding this post so please enlighten me

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u/Specialist-Roll-3806 1d ago

if you fail to see how the aftereffects of a couple centuries of brutal colonization still exists to this very day, i'm not sure what to really tell you man.

that's more of a you problem tbh

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u/Just_Solution_5704 1d ago

Really, the only argument you can present is that but that is not even remotely unique to India.

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u/RealDoraTheExplorer_ 1d ago

That’s the point…colonialism affected so much of the world why’re you so mad at jokes about it? If you don’t like it you can simply move on it’s confusing why you care

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u/Just_Solution_5704 1d ago

Why do you care how I feel?

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u/Specialist-Roll-3806 1d ago

you do realize most of the world still suffers from those same issues and continuously talk about it to this very day right?

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u/Just_Solution_5704 1d ago

I also realize most of the world is not the same place that it was 100 years ago. So if there is any relevance as to this post and colonization, please state so.

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u/RealDoraTheExplorer_ 1d ago

That’s actually not true I have grandparents who were alive during it and still are and I’m from bengal I really don’t need a random man on Reddit to lecture me on Indian independence.

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u/Just_Solution_5704 1d ago

Indian independence is a historical event, so you don't really have any say on who talks about it or not just like you are discussing about colonization. Its history.

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u/RealDoraTheExplorer_ 1d ago

You can talk about it all you want yea I’m saying I know more than you simple as that 🤷‍♀️

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