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India changes teaching in Himalayan Buddhist monasteries to counter China

India is set to introduce a unified curriculum in Buddhist monasteries near the Chinese border, aiming to strengthen national identity and counter China's influence. The initiative seeks to standardise education across 600 monasteries, incorporating modern subjects alongside Buddhist teachings.
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They could do the same with Madrassa
Anyways can't resist putting this :pound:Screenshot_20250409-065710_Telegram.webp
 

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7GWGLkPepU

my favourite Batman adaptation (NOT bruce wayne adaptation, mind you) goes to Ben Affleck, this fight scene alone was brutal and unapologetic, reminds me a lot of Batman Arkham series games (only minor complaint is some camera angles and shaky movements here there, but Zack Snyder does it with all fight scenes 🤷‍♂️)

wish Ben Affleck was not harassed by stupid fanboi zombies that he had to give up being Batman at times

there were rumours and even basic screening was leaked that Ben Affleck was going to act and direct a Batman vs Deathstroke movie but eventually Warner Bros subhumans pulled the plug over it :frusty: and we never get to see BatFleck going totally berserk again
 
spindrift said:
No, I think he is just hungry and is acting out.
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I see. makes sense.
I once teased my bro's cat with food - he is the nicest, cuddliest cat ever - to the point we think he is a dog, coz he is the only cat i have EVER seen, who is more interested in human food than cat food and there is no amount of physical touching that is too much for him ( he will literally come sit by me when i am working from my bros place sometimes, plonk himself and use me as a side-cushion, look up at me as if asking 'r u gonna pet me or what ?' and stay LITERALLY FOR HOURS by my side going frrr frrrr free and only getting up to go eat and poop and come back. And he is world's most scaredy-cat ever, where he even spooks himself out and goes hides in the garden under bushes from magpies.

Well i once teased him with bacon - brought it to his nose, he sniffed and went to bite, i pulled away. Did it 3 times and 4th time he just straight up stood on his hind legs and slapped me across the face ( no claws ofcourse) and then kept eye-contact as he brought his face close to the bacon and then ate it, all the while staring me down.

I learnt my lesson that day - hungry billa is dangerous billa.
 
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GaudaNaresh said:
I see. makes sense.
I once teased my bro's cat with food - he is the nicest, cuddliest cat ever - to the point we think he is a dog, coz he is the only cat i have EVER seen, who is more interested in human food than cat food and there is no amount of physical touching that is too much for him ( he will literally come sit by me when i am working from my bros place sometimes, plonk himself and use me as a side-cushion, look up at me as if asking 'r u gonna pet me or what ?' and stay LITERALLY FOR HOURS by my side going frrr frrrr free and only getting up to go eat and poop and come back. And he is world's most scaredy-cat ever, where he even spooks himself out and goes hides in the garden under bushes from magpies.

Well i once teased him with bacon - brought it to his nose, he sniffed and went to bite, i pulled away. Did it 3 times and 4th time he just straight up stood on his hind legs and slapped me across the face ( no claws ofcourse) and then kept eye-contact as he brought his face close to the bacon and then ate it, all the while staring me down.

I learnt my lesson that day - hungry billa is dangerous billa.
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I've had many cats as pets, the last pet i had was a squirrel...yes, that five striped northern palm squirrel - a gilheri
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here, "Khichu" (from gujarati for squirrel Khiskoli) relaxing on my leg

the pet that lived longest was our first cat, for good three and a half years, followed by this squirrel, for good one and half year or above

while it may not seem like that, but both cat and squirrel shared many personality traits, like
- both loved to play around with us, but at times would want to keep some respectable distance
- both were into self-grooming for at least half an hour, licking themselves, would even leave some fur here and there
- fortunately for us, both were...*ahem* self-potty-trained, cat learnt to do the nature's call in our toilet after perhaps picking it up from us humans from day 1, and squirrel used to do it at certain designated place on balcony railing, dropping it all straight on ground
- both would sleep a lot at times, would wake up at sunrise, bask under sunlight, and go to sleep at sunset, their biological clocks were so precise
- both needed their respected scratching-gnawing things, cat needed that for claws and would use some piece of wood in store room as his scratching post, squirrel...well, we first gave him used matchsticks so he would gnaw his teeth, eventually he learnt to fetch tiny pieces from branches off nearby tree outside home and gnaw it all in balcony
- both were...somewhat...sweet tongued? cat loved to eat sweetened dahi, squirrel loved to eat suji ka halwa my mother cooked for us
- both were somewhat frightened of some people, or comfortable around some others, they would hide in their places if unwanted guests arrived, or would just treat them normally, depending on mood perhaps? though i used to think they had some sort of 'personality detectors' and preferred to be around with familiar, good people while kept distance from others
- both loved heat from my computer and would often snuggle in my lap whenever i am using it
- both loved to climb around cupboards, to sit on topmost positions
- both disliked taking baths, lol it was expected for cats but squirrels seem to dislike it too, both...scratched us a lot whenever we bathed them at times
 
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johny_baba said:
I've had many cats as pets, the last pet i had was a squirrel...yes, that five striped northern palm squirrel - a gilheri
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here, "Khichu" (from gujarati for squirrel Khiskoli) relaxing on my leg

the pet that lived longest was our first cat, for good three and a half years, followed by this squirrel, for good one and half year or above

while it may not seem like that, but both cat and squirrel shared many personality traits, like
- both loved to play around with us, but at times would want to keep some respectable distance
- both were into self-grooming for at least half an hour, licking themselves, would even leave some fur here and there
- fortunately for us, both were...*ahem* self-potty-trained, cat learnt to do the nature's call in our toilet after perhaps picking it up from us humans from day 1, and squirrel used to do it at certain designated place on balcony railing, dropping it all straight on ground
- both would sleep a lot at times, would wake up at sunrise, bask under sunlight, and go to sleep at sunset, their biological clocks were so precise
- both needed their respected scratching-gnawing things, cat needed that for claws and would use some piece of wood in store room as his scratching post, squirrel...well, we first gave him used matchsticks so he would gnaw his teeth, eventually he learnt to fetch tiny pieces from branches off nearby tree outside home and gnaw it all in balcony
- both were...somewhat...sweet tongued? cat loved to eat sweetened dahi, squirrel loved to eat suji ka halwa my mother cooked for us
- both were somewhat frightened of some people, or comfortable around some others, they would hide in their places if unwanted guests arrived, or would just treat them normally, depending on mood perhaps? though i used to think they had some sort of 'personality detectors' and preferred to be around with familiar, good people while kept distance from others
- both loved heat from my computer and would often snuggle in my lap whenever i am using it
- both loved to climb around cupboards, to sit on topmost positions
- both disliked taking baths, lol it was expected for cats but squirrels seem to dislike it too, both...scratched us a lot whenever we bathed them at times
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I am scared of squirrels.
Most people who went to college in north america have squirrel-phobia i noticed, especially from my generation.
And we know why too - back then, every college residence had their main dumpster right by the main front door and squirrels who are like PhD level dumpster-divers became so accustomed to loud obnoxious crazy teens that they full on went territorial on us and if you got too close to dumpster, there would literally be a flying squirrel ariel attack on you from the dumpster.

All squirrels are reborn ww2 japanese kamikazi zero pilots, because their entire MO of attacking us humans is : "jump from the dumpster on to their head/shoudler, take ONCE swipe and immediately run the heck away to the dumpster, come back and repeat dive-bomber pattern'.


Dunno if this phenomena is a thing in India, it DEFINTELY is or was a thing in north american universities- we are used to feeling like we are israelis and squirrels are hamas assholes.
 
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GaudaNaresh said:
I am scared of squirrels.
Most people who went to college in north america have squirrel-phobia i noticed, especially from my generation.
And we know why too - back then, every college residence had their main dumpster right by the main front door and squirrels who are like PhD level dumpster-divers became so accustomed to loud obnoxious crazy teens that they full on went territorial on us and if you got too close to dumpster, there would literally be a flying squirrel ariel attack on you from the dumpster.

All squirrels are reborn ww2 japanese kamikazi zero pilots, because their entire MO of attacking us humans is : "jump from the dumpster on to their head/shoudler, take ONCE swipe and immediately run the heck away to the dumpster, come back and repeat dive-bomber pattern'.

Dunno if this phenomena is a thing in India, it DEFINTELY is or was a thing in north american universities- we are used to feeling like we are israelis and squirrels are hamas assholes.
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well perhaps squirrel species there are more opportunistic as they have larger sizes than indian ones...here it's as small as some rat and they are scaredy a lot with strong "flight" response - would immediately run off if feeling like someone's closing the gap, and do they run fast!

but otherwise yeah they are big foragers, running and climbing around places to find scraps of food and water, also forming small 'communities' with other squirrels and go vocal whenever seeing some danger - making noticeably loud chirpings from some unreachable top position while swishing their tails
 
johny_baba said:
well perhaps squirrel species there are more opportunistic as they have larger sizes than indian ones...here it's as small as some rat and they are scaredy a lot with strong "flight" response - would immediately run off if feeling like someone's closing the gap, and do they run fast!

but otherwise yeah they are big foragers, running and climbing around places to find scraps of food and water, also forming small 'communities' with other squirrels and go vocal whenever seeing some danger - making noticeably loud chirpings from some unreachable top position while swishing their tails
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Squrrels here are bigger than rats - they look like your squirrel though i dont get size of your squirrel due to lack of frame of reference but squirrels here are mostly 15-24 inches long from nose to tail. ( small adults/females are just over a foot long, larger males can be up to 2 feet long and they seem to be more equal in body-to-tail ratio than your squirrel who seems longer in tail than body).

but its not like squirrels here are braver or anything- they all run the heck away from humans and me the same way whether its india or canada or murrica.

We just think that its the dumpsters being so close to the main gate ( university's idea back then = closest to main gate is most convinient for dirty teens to take their garbage out, plus easy for garbage truck to come and empty bin) meant the squirrels got used to loud drunk obnoxious humans 5 at a time 18hrs a day till they went full gangsta on us.

I was in an all-boys dorm in college ( and its better that way than co-ed dorms for many reasons that i dont want to get into here) and was engineering student with half my floor being engineers, so we actually made a Indian clothing line-pulley system from my next door dude's window from 3rd floor to pully-system our garbage bags into the dumpster, so that we didnt have to face kamikazi squirrels. Worked like a hot-damn for 3 weeks and the guy who came up with plan felt like Rancho from 3 idiots but 3 weeks later, we saw the squirrels climb up the pulley rope and sit by the dudes window and stare into his room. So squirrel 1, engineers : 0.

Since that day, for rest of our school-year, we just went to the room of the guy who was situationed right on top of the dumpster and gravity-dropped our garbage from 3rd floor. Coz squirrels look like crazy rats on crack and methamphetamine when they attack us. They definitely look and have facial expression of alpha guard dog, not scared cat or a bored bird attacking us. Its literally like tasmanian devil with a tail from bugs bunny took a swipe and then fucked off and came back from the skies to do it again a minute later.
 
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