dharmach

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by dharmach 6mo ago
Just because the word 'happy' is relatively young in the English/European language, a conclusion can not be made for the whole Humankind.
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by dharmach 2y ago
Not being too rich or too poor allows engineers to become identity conscious, and being engineers they have enough analytical mind (plus time) to think & plan ways to attack the 'enemies of their religion & culture'. Remem
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by dharmach 3y ago
I read that Endurance book on Shackleton's failure before you were even born.
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by dharmach 3y ago
So many Antarctica expeditions were carried out by various countries but when you read English language dominated internet, you get the impression that only Anglo world had explorers. Shackleton tried and failed to reach south pole but ther
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by dharmach 3y ago
People can't verify all the info they come across and start trusting some sources as reliable. Many Indians used to trust facts/opinions from Western media as reliable and neutral but after the arrival of social media, lot of prej
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by dharmach 3y ago
Chomsky is against state and corporates but media can also be co-opted by foreign entities and ideologies.
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by dharmach 3y ago
>>Murdering someone without trial because you don't like their political speech- why, I think there's a word for that. Claiming without proof that Indian government carried out killing is called what?
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by dharmach 3y ago
>>While Hindus described this state as basically "everything", buddha and later many prominent buddhists described it as "nothingness" which appears as inconsistent with each other Similar are thoughtless (awarenes
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by dharmach 4y ago
> People waking up to the fact that the West and the East are equally bad The West has resources and well-oiled propaganda machinery in place to control the dissent that's why they don't need to use violence as openly as not-s
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by dharmach 4y ago
Modi is scared of BBC otherwise he should have banned BBC like RT.com in the West.
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by dharmach 4y ago
Truth is truth and there are so many truths in the world so which truth one decides to explore and when―that is an interesting truth as well.
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by dharmach 4y ago
>>Almost more than 2/3rd of Indian voters didn't vote for modi yet his party is doing very well. Do you understand what is first-past-the-post voting system?
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by dharmach 5y ago
It's not about countries with 5% Muslim population and I am not talking about minor ghettos in European urban areas. Look at non-Islamic countries with 20%-25% or more Muslim population. Look at how India got partitioned based on relig
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by dharmach 5y ago
It is not about plain fertility rate but tipping of demographic balance between communities by various means. It can create pockets of Muslim majority in countries where they are minority and then "right to self-determination" mea
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by dharmach 5y ago
If this was true (or the only factor), the demographic trends in India would match the ones from Pakistan and Bangladesh.
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by dharmach 5y ago
>>Now, when things are getting hard, having weak democratic institutions, no political awareness and corporate medling is going to hit hard. Many living in democracies will find this true for their country.
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by dharmach 5y ago
Social media are global sovereign entities and above the governments of individual nations so they do not need to comply with the local laws.
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by dharmach 5y ago
On the flip side, all with nuanced, grey opinions will be left with no motivation to act and the fanatic, opinionated people will act. In a war if the leader has to select an army of thinkers & intellectuals versus that of fanatics &amp
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by dharmach 6y ago
>>Just my humble opinions, most human beings have remarkably similar values across different culture, we all want paradoxically to belong to the herd and also distinguish ourselves from the herd. We want to be normal but not common.
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by dharmach 6y ago
Does it mean the roles of husband and wife, which were specialized before, are generalized now due to unstable marriages?
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by dharmach 6y ago
Both ends will have extremes. Too much calculations, too much expectations, keep hunting for better deals even after marriage, no willingness to compromise, having all eggs in spouse relationship basket and expecting her/him to play a
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by dharmach 6y ago
Amnesty international and other Western NGOs are moral sticks of rich countries to browbeat erstwhile colonies for not maintaining high living standards post exploitation.
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by dharmach 6y ago
This is more of a USA problem where people working under H1B visa are somehow dependent to their employer/manager and vulnerable to exploitation/discrimination (if the employer/manager happens to be a casteist Indian). In Can
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by dharmach 6y ago
Everywhere else communism and Islam are friends so why in China they are enemies?
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by dharmach 6y ago
>>The World’s Greatest Singers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kupamanduka
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by dharmach 6y ago
I think India opted to err on the side of caution. Now where is required or possible, the lockdown can be eased. Opposite strategy would have been far worse.
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by dharmach 6y ago
>>the lockdown is going to significantly affect the poorer communities worse at the expense of richer folks. In such situations that is always the case. If there is a lockdown, poor will suffer financially. If no lockdown, poor will b
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by dharmach 7y ago
Treating unequally suffering refugees as equal is discriminatory.
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by dharmach 7y ago
India shouldn't discriminate her citizens based on religion that is understandable but to expect that she must also treat Muslim and non-Muslim citizens of Islamic countries as equally suffering refugees would be a discrimination.
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by dharmach 7y ago
The parents should be brought under law for child abuse by indoctrinating such young children in religious politics.

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