Comments by "Rutvik" (@rutvikrs) on "Business Insider" channel.

India did not rule them. This view is the impact of Eurocentric historiography on us. There weren't any decisions for the Thai made in India outside of tributes. Just like India had Hindu kings from outside, Sakas for instance,the Thai and the rest of SEA had Indian rulers and families. This was very common in the pre colonial period.
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@sagarthorat9175 why so salty?1
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They are butchered for meat
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I see a lot of people in the comment section blaming Indian middlemen and capitalism for the situation where the product is simultaneously overpriced and the producers remain poor. Gleaned a bit on this from my colleague who did a paper on spice farming in India. The economics on why this happens: 1. The production of niche agricultural and minerals is economically beneficial only if it's a side hustle(truffle farming for instance). Global south often inherits a historic feudal structure or mis-allocates a chunk of its population in pursuit of the product. While a truffle farmer in the west is either pursuing it while already being economically stable or as a side hustle, the farmers in India or the rest of the global south(Africa to SEA to S.America), do it as a full time job while the money earned has to support livelihoods and capital investment into the production process. Two bad years can lead to abandonment of the profession while the practice can sustain in the global north beyond a decade. 2. The main issue with produce of this nature is on both sides of the demand supply equation. Demand is experienced in spurts and the supply is inconsistent. Unlike standard agriculture of pulses, oilseeds, cocoa, rice, wheat, sugar and corn, the outcome of the activity is highly unpredictable at scale. There can be an oversupply in one unit and total losses in another. 3. Lack of standardization leads to lack of infrastructure and supply chains. This leads to entry of middlemen who are vocational profit seekers who will experience losses most of the time and disproportionate gains once in a season or years. They have no incentive to keep a regular supply chain but hunt for deals by driving up the desparation to sell the produce. 4. If ethical traders do enter the equation, they experience near constant losses due to the unpredictability of the trade, burden of setting up the supply chains from scratch and pressure of undercuts.
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@idkjustleavemebeplease the anglophile Indian class hates fellow Indians. All we have is caste. If this art was covered in academia, this would be called a casteist art form in service of temples and upper castes with a barrier of entry through birth/heritability. 🤦
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@Cats_are_Chads because India is jealous of Pakistan's glorious peaceful history. Name one country Pakistan invaded before 1947. Just one.
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@Cats_are_Chads 1. Neither Hinduism nor Islam are ethnicities, but 66 ethnicities have bought up as a negationism of pre Islamic history and mutual framework of the Indic religions. So yeah they were Hindu. 2. history does not start with 17th century nation state. Nice try. India did exist in the past as a civilization/country not a nation state. Civics is hard.
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@Cats_are_Chads 1. You need some basics of civics. For a crash course, check out "China does not exist" by the Channel Xidnaf. The context of that video sets the next point. 2. You are predisposed to thinking of nation state as the default setting when it's a 17th century construct. Civilization states have always been the historical norm. If India did not exist, neither did China, Arabia Egypt or any other country before 1900's. 3. Your conceptualisation of "India" is a flurry of thousands of nation states sharing nothing but a quest for power. The Arabs named it and the British mandated it into existence seems a little suspicious when you realise that it lacks the insider view. Why did the Arabs call people from the southern tip of India as "al-Hind"? Why did the Greeks and Romans record the "Nation of Indos/Indus"? And most importantly why did there exist an endonym called Bharat?
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@Cats_are_Chads 4. Man you are dumb, go through the literature of two nation theory, particularly Abdur Rahim. The stream of thought interestingly has an outcome in a musical form "Pakistan ka matlab kya hai". Threatening this historical fiction that you should be named India for proximity to the Indus river or "being of common stock" has been thoroughly denied by your own side. 5. A Hindu following islamic religion is not a contradiction to us, it is only to you. So long as it's located on the epistemological map of Indic traditions, we don't have a problem. It's the Islamist who gets perturbed by history and keeps destroying his own legacy be it the Maldivian destroying Buddhist heritage, Egyptian defacing the Sphinx or the Pakstani who keeps saying they are Arab/Farsi/Turki.
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@navya1018 🤦 raed the thread before you comment, it's clearly sarcastic and jabs at lack of history for the nation.
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Don't be Islamophobic.
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You should check out this artist called Ed Gein.
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@Cats_are_Chads only because you are constraining your definition of a political entity to nation state (genetics-language-culture). Neither did Guangzhou(China) exist by that paradigm. Neither did Persia, Arabia, Egypt, Mesopotamia or any civilization of antiquity. It's like me saying China did not exist because Indians named it after the Xin empire, they have thousands of languages and ethnic groups. I'd have to ignore the plethora of history, work and effort if i just went by the fact the nation is better known by its exonym(China) rather than its endonym(Guangzhou).
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@Cats_are_Chads we do that when the root of the achievement is Indigenous Indian. No Indians will go crazy if you win an international Quran recital competition because that is not something our culture produced or reoriented. Also the OP is including other arts in the subcontinent, not claiming this art as non pakstani
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@Cats_are_Chads I have no problem with that but Pakistanis particularly have rejected thier identity on an institutional level. Their identity is "we are not Indian" so why the association with the "Jahiliya"?
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Green community buying leather? 🤔😂
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@agoogleaccount2861 so does a snake or crocodile when it's made into a belt or a handbag.
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Except when they start making camel farms for more leather. Reverse Uno. 👌
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