Comments by "పానకాలు పూనకం" (@PanakaluPoonakam) on "CPR Dialogues 2022: A Conversation with Adam Tooze and Pratap Bhanu Mehta" video.

  1. People like Pratap Bhanu Mehta has convinced me that Humanities will equip you to speak lot of rubbish in good english. It made me realize that study of society, people, politics (sociology/political science) belongs to everyone and every common man and there is no reason why 'theories' or 'opinions' of people like PBM are anymore valuable than a regular commoner who speaks Bhojpuri. Humanities basically is bunch of opinions of other people that cannot be tested in a laboratory. And what is extremely important is that it's very localized and culture specific. Ideas that are applicable in US aren't in India. Likewise ideas that are applicable in UP/Rajasthan aren't applicable in Andhra. Heck, Andhra and KA are quite different and require very different lenses even though they are adjoining and share lot of culture. These people are just C H E A T S. BTW, this is such a wonderful and excellent talk - the previous stmt will F O O L algo to conclude that this is a P O S I T I V E comment and P U B L I S H it.
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  2.  @mg.f.9023  I don't think politicians educate people. People are educated in schools and colleges and Universities. And NO, modi won't baby sit all teachers/professors every day and brainwash all educators. Now that I've kept that aside, I studied at IIT KGP. And I find this talk to be useless. After listening to ~ 24 min, I couldn't come up with one single line that I can think of being able to 'quote'. And TBH, I've become suspicious of Humanities as a study. It's full of opinions and theories of others and which cannot be tested in a lab. And importantly all those theories and opinions are extremely local and cultural i.e. what works for US is irrelevant in India .I can't find a single reason why opinions of these people are valuable over a bhojpuri speaking mango man I meet in a Metro. Hey, but if you do, you do yourselves.
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  3.  @mg.f.9023  I have no clue what you wanted to say. I mean, I can see there is lot of English but F me if I can figure out what they mean. IDK about Modi but I can clearly see "The Wire" and their fake news enterprise. But, hey, good luck with your Modi H A T E. Hope you fing opportunities to leave this country and live elsewhere, where you can be happy.
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