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5000 years of civilisation given due recognition?

Shang-Chi and The Legend of Ten Rings (2021) Gone are the times when Hollywood made movies that overtly mocked cultures other than Western ones. Typically Indians and Chinese were portrayed as bumbling fools. Their cultures were made to look ridiculous, and their followers were mere bufoons. Perhaps they still  do that but, alas, in a more subtle way.  Just try to remember Amrish Puri as a Kaali worshipper enjoying human eyeballs as a delicacy and the faithful and spineless follower of Fu-Manchu plunging to their deaths in Hollywood's Fu-Manchu series. For that matter, even the Russians and German were made to look like headless chickens running aimlessly in espionage sagas and combat movies. Shang-Chi was a character introduced by Marvel in 1973 to spice up the series and satiate the appetite of comic fans the world over. Shang-Chi was presented as a long lost son of Fu-Manchu, who had been training in Tibet. In the earlier films, his daughter Lin Tang was characterised as hi...

…Whilst, we, lowly commoners can dream on!

Palaces In India That Look Too Magical To Be Real They don’t call it “Incredible India” for nothing.  Aug. 26, 2015, at 10:06 p.m. Meghan Koushik BuzzFeed Umaid Bhawan Palace, Jodhpur Via  Flickr: veeds Completed in 1943, Umaid Bhawan was commissioned by Maharaja Umaid Singh of Jodhpur in 1929 during one of the longest droughts in the state, as a way of generating employment in his kingdom. Today, the royal family still inhabits a majority of the palace grounds, but part of the palace has been turned into a luxury hotel so you too can  experience the royal life , starting at just $450 a night. cropped and saturated from original / Via  Flickr: thessilian Jal Mahal, Jaipur saturated from original / Via  Flickr: saturnism Jal Mahal was originally built in 1734 as a hunting lodge and today is only  accessible by boat . The palace actually extends four stories below the lake surface, and stays dry thanks to a specially-conciev...