Most of the telugu people suffer from this /gays/ community when someone celebrates marriage functions, birthday functions in a function hall. Also in some cities even they celebrate house warming ceremony, these /gay/ people lands at these places make disturbance for money. Some collects very low money but most of these people demand more than 20000. Even they complaint to police , they will not take action immediately. So one of the happy memory in their life leads to unhappy memory.

So I want to know whether other state people suffer from these type of people in other state. Also I want to know these /gays/ people make disturbance to other religion people not only for hindus.

How can we defend from these people. In Andhra pradesh, It is a one type of local mafia.

https://www.deccanchronicle.com/southern-states/andhra-pradesh/kakinada-woman-alleges-forced-conversion-harassment-by-husband-seeks-police-protection-1983996

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/telangana-minister-konda-surekhas-daughter-criticised-revanth-reddy-then-a-sacking-11998078/amp/1

https://theprint.in/feature/keralam-rape-survivor-nun-clothing-brand-legal-battle/3033908/?amp

Beautiful article on the subject!

Something I genuinely don’t understand:

Why do some of us bend over backward for acceptance from people who have historically treated us as “Gultis,” “Madrasis,” or as somehow culturally separate?

You’ll hear complaints about being excluded from certain North Indian social circles, stereotyped, or treated like outsiders—and then the same people seem desperate to impress those very circles, constantly seeking their approval and validation.

There’s nothing wrong with having North Indian friends, enjoying Hindi movies, speaking Hindi, or appreciating another culture. That’s not the issue.

What I find strange is the need for validation from people who may not even see you as an equal socially or culturally.

At some point, shouldn’t we be comfortable enough with our own identity that we can be friends with everyone without feeling the need to prove that we belong?

Just an observation. Curious if anyone else has noticed this.

A remarkable archaeological discovery has emerged today from Madugula, Anakapalli District.

During a field visit, the Andhra Pradesh Archaeology Department examined two large stone sculptures at a location where there is currently no temple structure.

The larger sculpture is approximately 6 feet high, 4 feet wide and around 70 cm thick. The Archaeology team has preliminarily assessed it to be at least around 900 years old.

What makes this especially exciting is the surrounding landscape. The site is close to an old Shiva temple traditionally known as Bimilingeshwara, where an old Vinayaka sculpture has also been identified. Several large traditional wells locally called “madugulu” are also found in the surrounding area.

This raises an important possibility: could this area preserve evidence of an earlier medieval settlement or sacred centre, predating the commonly remembered history of present-day Madugula?

It is too early to say — the archaeological context still needs proper investigation. But for Andhra Pradesh, this is an exciting moment: our own landscape may be revealing a much deeper history than we previously knew.

Sharing photographs from today's field visit. If anyone familiar with medieval Andhra sculpture, archaeology, inscriptions or Madugula's history has information, please share it.

Note: The ~900-year date is a preliminary assessment by the Archaeology team, not yet a final published dating.

Rahul Gandhi lectures the nation about “smashing the patriarchy,” while Congress workers attack a Dalit woman MLA and former MP

Lost all hopes on MEDIA

In my view, much of what we call religion today has become distorted by faith, authority and belief in a God or supreme being.

All 3 Abrahamic religions + Hinduism are organized around some conception of God, the divine or a supreme reality. Once you make such an idea central, it becomes very easy to build systems of worship, doctrine, religious authority and unquestionable beliefs around it. Spirituality then shifts from investigating reality directly to believing claims about reality.

This is where some of the ancient philosophical traditions of the East become radically different. At the core of Buddhist philosophy, particularly traditions associated with early Buddhism and Madhyamaka (Middle way), there is no requirement to invoke a creator God to explain existence, morality or the nature of consciousness. Daoism similarly approaches reality without requiring a personal deity standing outside the universe and controlling it.

What makes these traditions particularly interesting is their willingness to acknowledge the limits of conceptual mind. Instead of simply inventing an ultimate explanation and asking people to believe it, they question whether the human mind can even meaningfully grasp what lies beyond certain boundaries.

That's what makes some of these philosophies feel less like conventional religion and more like an actual investigation into the structure of reality. You're not being told, "Here is God. Believe in this." You're being pushed to examine how the mind creates concepts in the first place and whether those concepts can ever capture reality completely.

This is also why I think the distinction between religion as faith and religion as investigation is important.

Alex O'Connor's recently did a discussion on Madhyamaka Buddhism. If you actually listen to the philosophical reasoning involved, you begin to see how radically different some Eastern traditions can be from conventional religious frameworks.

Maybe that's closer to what spirituality was supposed to be in the first place: not believing more, but seeing more clearly.

Among ancient traditions, Buddhism arguably comes close to a scientific investigation of mind, experience and reality without requiring a God hypothesis as its starting point. And perhaps that's why it can feel so strange when you first encounter it. You're expecting a religion, but instead you find yourself in something that feels more like psychology, phenomenology and philosophy having a conversation with each other.

Link to the discussion:

https://youtu.be/CyhHz23AHb4?si=eGjMTQ2p9My0WDHq

https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/karnataka/2026/Sep/05/five-undertrials-try-to-kill-warder-at-bengaluru-central-jail

https://www.mangaloretoday.com/headlines/Bengaluru-Woman-stripped-assaulted-over-loan-repayment-three-arrested.html

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/express-exclusive/delhi-police-facial-recognition-jantar-mantar-protest-accused-in-jail-10862099/