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  95. (I am saddened that I need to spell this out in English so that people can understand, such is the state of empty liberalism in this country) The minister's statement has conflated issues: 1. The idea that Karva chauth is preventing scientific enlightenment: there is no causal link, Karva chauth does not prevent anyone from attending schools, reading or education in general. It's not a daily ritual that consumes time either. I am happy to hear how Chinese and American women gained an edge over Indian women due to this practice. 2. Karva chauth is a ritual hence unscientific: science and culture are separate domains. Science informs you on facts of the universe using deductive logic and culture informs you on how to deal with life using inductive logic. There is no need for any ritual to be scientific. If you disagree, show me how music, poetry and dance is scientific. I will wait. In fact art of any nature is obstructing science, a majority of humans choose to spend time creating and consuming art, poets should have been writing scientific papers instead of useless poems. How many here bunked a class to watch movies? Ritual belongs to the domain of culture. It is not restricted to religion. There are several secular rituals. Tell me how a birthday, new year celebration, independence day, Pi day(3/14) or even World science day is scientific. Even animals in the wild have been observed with rituals(wolf howls, cock-a-doodle-doo, pre mating). This is not genetic but predisposition to form rituals is. That is why there is no universal culture. 3. Karva chauth is mysoginist: i am conflicted on this personally. A part of me says this ritual has lapsed in its purpose as every festival is linked to cycles in agriculture(India is urbanizing), war(we don't do that at the same scale and frequency) or forming social relations(Karva chauth is for women in close knit societies bonding). Our life has changed and thank goodness we are not Muslims, we change with times(tell me the last time you worshipped Indra, Vamana avatars or Bhrahma.). Other side of me says it's not oppression. It's an ritual of nominal sacrifice, where a woman does so for a belief. I have not heard of thousands of women being beaten up or forcibly starved for the ritual, feel free to correct me. So why interfere with a ritual which people partake in mostly voluntarily? It's how people see it fit within their personal confines of culture. Before you come at me, I am an agnostic atheist myself. Been associated with early days of atheist republic and even wrote articles for them. I have not rediscovered god or religion but am aware of Hindu/Indic lexicon and philosophy to the degree i can differentiate a valid critique from hyperbole like this statement or sarcasm. I retain my agnostic stand. There probably isn't a god or reincarnation.
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  122. This guy deserves a chapter in our future text books as the prime example of correlation does not equal causation. 1. His answer should have been, MH earns most of its GST in the city of Mumbai. As the financial capital, it recieves the foreign direct investment even if the economic activities happen in other states. They are one time or statutory transactions. KA/TN/HR on the other hand see this money first hand. MH was always going to see a smaller share of tax devolution, commensurate to the amount of economic activity in the state. 2. Instead he brings the cuckoo narrative around the axiom of population change. Correct me if I am wrong, but no state in the Hindi belt has a baby boomer policy around linguistic majoritarianism. South Indian TFRs dropped due to chunks of its population involved in manufacturing/ trade and relative local inflation due to economic mobility. 3. He straight up lies on population criterion being 75%, when the 14th and 15th finance commission caps it at 17.5 and 15% resp in written policy. 4. As a native of the state, Karnataka politics never revolved around the central allocation. 1.3% voted to spite the BJP, not for freebies. If anything the "son of the soil" JD(S) took the largest hit. This is simply infusing the kind of freebie politics that DMK has on to Karnataka. 5. I wonder why he focuses on BIMARU when there is another correlation that has worse cumulative ratio. Border hill states, J/K and NE India. If Bihar gets 900 for the 100 rupee it earns, all of the hill border hill states(Except HP) recieve north of(pun intended) 1000 with Arunachal at 4000. I may have a working theory on why these former set of states are in focus, it could be the percived political nature of the language spoken in Belt. 6. We could have had a far more interesting conversation if we discard propogandists like him because I bet he will walk away once his political objectives are met. Regarless of the state we need to spend more on capex instead of welfare policies so that states get to leverage their relative advantages to catch the fish instead of being fed.
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  185.  @stalinsampras  let me quantify: 1. The problem with Congress is they have "earners" if you catch my drift. People like DK Shi and Sharief hold away in the party even more than before due to the financial position of the party. 2. I have met Siddu on several occasions as my family lives close to Varuna and he is a sophisticated bumpkin. He has great read first world ideals but little in the way to achieve them. His anti superstition laws while good on paper is used by missionaries and is a considerable cause of resentment to his own community outside of his district(ask a kuruba in Kollegal) His idpol is also a problem even for his own party members. He permanently paved the way for BJP with his Tipu divas shenanigans. 3. JD(S) has no clue about running things in Bengaluru let alone North Karnataka. They are a two agenda party, one is increasing sugarcane price in Mandya and second is real estate for the family. 4. AAP is filled with three type of people, activists who want govt deals later, idealistic working professionals who have no connection to an average voter and senior citizens with too much time raring to go at corruption. Everyone is a good Samaritan there but it's an NGO at best. 5. BJP has two kinds of people, RSS functionaries and party hoppers. Party hoppers are corrupt as hell but they have all the voter pull. What gives me hope about BJP is their ability to consume the voter bases of these party hoppers and neutralise them. Remember Janardhan Reddy of Ballari? If this was Congress he'd have bought his way to Bengaluru bt now. Instead he is a local force, bjp eats his money and his vote base keeps shifting to the party instead of him. I support BJP because they have done considerably well on infra, state finances and HDI metrics seen in NFHS-5. It's not something I am happy with but as I said best out of a lot of crooks.
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  189.  @kaustubhshukla6462  1. The legal case is sound. Check out Apurva Mandhani's video or better, the article on print that SG referred to. She has covered it in detail on why the SC asked the government to take the call. 2. I reiterate that I don't support the morality of the situation, objective assessment is not an approval. Realpolitik rules the world regardless of whether we want it to. 3. You and I see them as monsters by the crimes they committed. That is not how a local sees them. They are seen, quite perversely as avengers. These communities would see this person not as a rapist but someone who can deliver justice where the law can't. A woman in this network would feel completely comfortable approaching them. I find it incredulous that people live such sheltered lives that they don't know this actually happens on the streets around them. It's not a jibe on you, but the shoddy understanding of our own societies. Look at how this reflects in movies, even in the progressive southern movie industry. The hero who beats up the eve teasing villain is also an eve teaser in a different scene. They are not being honoured for the crime they committed but for "serving their time despite being the retaliator"(not my view, that is how they are seen). 4. We need not be lawyers to discuss this case. We don't have to go back very far when the right wing was raging about the acquittal of Nirbhaya's Juvenile convict. BJP raging that AAP gifted him a sewing machine and the NGO efforts that relocated him to South India anonymously. Regardless of our qualification we, at the very least seek to understand the principle and at most seek to change it.
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  239.  @Ahmad-mf7yu  some clarifications are in order: 1. My contention isn't primarily against Kashmir or Kashmiris, it is against the national narrative of the benefits of social spending. I hold similar views on my neighbouring states KL and TN, my own states insane policy of free bus rides for women, AAP's free electricity, BJP and Congress freebies and UP's free cycles/laptops. In a democracy, this is how conversation happens with states/identities becoming markers for policy/direction. Gujarat model/Kerala model, "South feeds, North breeds", Hillbilly middle America, Southern Italian Mafiosi politics, Finlandisation, Chinese Debt diplomacy, EU's Eurocentricism, Argentinian financial mismanagement, need any more examples? 2. Does the 10% expenditure include the defence budget? I am open to being corrected but I have not received a qualitative or quantitative argument. A defence expenditure barring infrastructure is state/region agnostic. There is no special division or equipment that is specific to the state or has a separate defence budgetary allocation. Therefore the expenditure is under the central list, it won't count in state allocation. If the army did build bunkers primarily with that money and let's charitably say that it took up 75%, it still means Kashmir got 2.5% of the budget for 1% population. (Btw, the last set of assumptions are overstated because check the erstwhile JKVAT/ today's GST collection and compare the special allocation history.). 3. Even assuming the charitable 2.5% spent on the 1% premise, look around and visualise the intensity of economic activity in the state. How many profitable industries are present, what is the turnover of the median business or even outliers, did you see the hustle of a Mumbai/Bengaluru/Chennai or even the Kerala style mega gold trade/private individual land deals(Crore plus deals in the 90's). The answer is no. 4. Much like the rest of India, the average state citizen overestimates the economic volume of the state. This is true for the "earning states" too. Kashmiri politicians much like the regional satrapy of the rest of India spent the money pulling people out of poverty and designed policies to have shadow businesses and offshore accounts. No state in India is swimming in money, but some get more than others and Kashmir has historically ranked very high on an absolute and per capita basis. Easy money has always led to progressive politics. Even Sikkim was the same, they currently have a demographic problem due to high rates of female empowerment. 5. I want financial infusion into Kashmir and other border states, but my only issue is the principle of reciprocation, will those states give back to South and West Indian states if and when there is a revenue downturn? Are they willing to accept periods of financial self reliance? I fear not in the case of Kashmir and certain NE states, their politics seem to operate in a premise of a conditional union with India for financial gain. If there is a change like we saw with Assam and Sikkim, there was no need for this wall of text.
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  311. Unless AAP re-orients to a pro business governence model(as opposed to social democrat model), Punjab nightmare starts. I am not too optimistic. Here are the challenges: 1. Declining farm yields: a primarily agricultural society with very little scope for industrialisation. Unsustainable agricultural practices will continue till there is desertification. AAP has made a Faustian bargain with the agricultural elites and social movements. 2. Borrowed voter base: AAP is not going to fundamentally change the nature of Punjab politics with its "anti corruption" agenda. If anything this is where their model breaks and they will have to pander to the borrowed voter bases. They have little to none when it comes to organic leaders. Don't be surprised if there are multiple CMs, Party hopping and horse trading in the next 5 years. 3. Brand of politics and death of ideology: I think AAP won the wrong state and won it too soon. For the sake of AAP, i had hoped it had been a (with all due respect) low profile state like HP. Goa or a UT. Punjabi politics is a minefield with religious tensions(Sikh vs Christian is coming up for which SAD will be blamed like BJP is for Hindu-Muslim tensions), unstable overexposed border with Pakistan and a declining society(talent flight, declining wealth and social strife). At best, AAP is the Neo Congress. At worst, it will shatter the image and goodwill it built up from within(if so, get ready for Samajwadi AAP, AAP(A), AAP(S), Khaas Aadmi Party.) 4. Industrialize or else: an absolute impossibility under the conditions and platform AAP has won, the obsession AAP has with Nordic social democracy is going to be detrimental. When you give middle class kids education, they want white collar jobs. Enterpreneurship for students(very important qualifier) works only when there is an existing industrial base ie you should have a slowing govt fuelled behemoth like IBM for a Steve jobs and Bill gates to poach talent and make their own companies. Their policies are suited to developed economies than developing ones. Increasing expectations of masses will lead to further talent flight. ________________ I sincerely hope i am wrong, but the indicators are not looking good. Visit this comment in 5-10 years to mock me if I go wrong but I don't think that will be the case.
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  526. ​ @orkkojit  1. I don't think people today realise how rare meat was, in the post agrarian to pre industrial phases. Most people have universalised the history of North Western Europe which had negligible agriculture. Everyone ate meat but not at the rate we do today. A good rule of thumb is if your hyper local festival has a harvest/communal festival with sacrifice, meat was historically rare.(Eid, Chhat, Ugadi). If your festival has dietary restriction, meat was the norm(Lent). 2. Several misconceptions on chicken, it's likely that Hiuen Tsang was referring to local fowl, not chicken. The cheap and ubiquitous chicken and eggs we eat today are a product of the broiler revolution in the 30's and reached India in the 70's(silver revolution). We did not have organised and centralised poultry only domestication and hunting. Chickens used to weigh less than a kilogram, were bottom feeders eating bamboo shoots and worms. They were worse than pork. There was significant historical stigma attached to the bird because it was used for cock fights. 2. From the traditional history, the Bengali diet was much like its historical origin in the Shakta belt of the subcontinent(MP, MH to Southern Karnataka, Bengal was settled very late in history), vegetarian and for the most part(tribal pescatarianism seeped in as with any riverian/coastal practice), red meat was strictly ritualistic. During the harvest festival, human sacrifice was the initial practice, substituted by buff/venison, later by goats and fowl. Chicken entered very recently during the secularisation of the Pujo.
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  670.  @J.M.254  you seem to be asking in good faith: 1. Hindus have realised that reforms are directed exclusively at the majority. The state has taken over the major Hindu temples and prevented using community resources for internal reform. There are many who are not comfortable with freeing temples so the right wing is asking for parity and asking for state interference in Muslim, Sikh and Christian religious institutions to the same degree they do with the Hindus. The Congress rule was particularly bad because UPA 1/2 allowed double standards taking a pro minority stance such as allowing independence in mosque/church administration, proselytism and tax breaks while allowing for external criticism of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. 2. This has stirred the hornet's nest and Hindutva became a social response. It's not just Hindus, a lot of Jains, Buddhists and atheists involved in the movement. 3. You might never get those good old secular days back because the internet provided the Hindutva movement a window into the internal discussions of the academic/administrative elites and outsiders on how the native faiths and India are discussed and treated. They will forever judge people because Indian minorities kept strategic silence and did not criticise things like proselytism. 4. Indians are not leaving India because of religious tolerance, they are doing that because we trained an elite who don't have meaningful avenues for higher education, employment and entrepreneurship. Particularly in the MMS era where we focused on secondary education to drive up our services industry instead of Vajpayee's manufacturing drive.
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  688. I hate this simplistic narrative. 1. Vegetarianism is caste agnostic: it has to do with regional traditions. For instance in Karnataka, the Halmadi (translates quite literally to milk-avoidant/restricted and are vegans) and Urs(the royal family of Mysore) are both lower castes. While costal Brahmin communities particularly from Kashmiri heritage like GSB consume meat and fish as they are from Shakta traditions. You can find non vegetarianism in upper castes where ever there is a prominence of Shakta tradition. (Kashmir, Assam, Karnataka, Odisha and even pockets of Kerala). 2. Meat eating is an outside influence: This holds true only for Western India. The dominant Smriti for the traditions in West India is Parashara Smriti not Manusmriti. That is the reason a majority of people groups and castes are vegetarian. 3. Hindutva is pro vegetarianism: Somehow, we are asked to accept there is nuance to the Left(CPI-M and CPI- ML are polar opposites) Liberals(Welfarist and Globalists are opposites) but the same cannot be afforded to right wing. Why? There is a lot of silent as well as historical conversation on the right wing on vegetarianism. For instance, Savarkar himself advocated for eating meat as a prequisite for Hindus joining the erstwhile British Indian armed forces. There are a lot of Shaktas in the right wing who want revival of the sacrificial ceremonies. 4. Right wing wants complete ban on meat: There is intentional amplification of the pro vegetarian voices, then the same is used to showcase the "hypocricy" "double standards" of people on right wing. One thing that Shaktas also believe in is the abstainence of "secular"(as in nothing to do with religion) meat consumption during festivals(only sacrificial meat is to be consumed if any). So when there is a protest asking for closure of shops and restiction of non vegetarian food during festivals, the ask across the board(vegetarian and non vegetarian Hindus) is to restrict secular display and consumption as has been the social norm for centuries. 5. Hinduism prioritizes vegetarians: the standard archetype of diet is the 3 fold. Tamasic, Rajasic and Satvik. It's pretty clear both from texts as well as practice that on the social level, there is meant to be balance of people following the three diets with the Tamasic for the commoners, Rajasic for the rulers and Satvik for the spiritual. That is why you find what is today called "Non-hindu" traditions/communities of India which have a spiritual inclination to be vegetarian be it Veerashaiva/Lingayats or Jains. While Shaktas are Tamasic because their traditions are hyperlocal common man traditions irrespective of caste, that is why Shakta Brahmins are meat eaters and worshippers of hyperlocalized deities. The issue of hierarchy starts with the formation of one size fits all versions of Hinduism from within like Arya Samaj and Brahmo samaj which adopt the structure and issues of Protestant Christianity. Do recall that there is a major split within Arya Samaj in 1893 on the same issue. This vegetarianism debate has much to do with reformism than politics.
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  758.  @amitpathak3279  Maybe you don't understand the story, so let me explain: 1. Rajan is a market capitalist, a proponent of the market as a perfect mechanism, advocate of supply side economics, anti stimulus (no money printing) and anti inflation camps. These were republican platforms and positions in his day(today libertarian). He made his career opposing Greenspan who introduced Quantitative easing in the west. If he was true to his positions, he'd have resigned from his advisory posts in the UPA-1 and UPA-2. While he was an advisor, MMS broke every rule in RR's manual in response to the 2008 crash. They printed money thrice, spent the rest of the tenure handing out money to the poor aka demand side economics for votes(MNREGA and fuel subsidy), destroyed market mechanisms in rural India(when everything rural was subsidised by the state) and oversaw growth by inflation. 2. When the chickens started coming home to roost in 2011-14 and the printed largesse was depleted, he took over crisis-ridden RBI in 2013. There was an excess supply of money which required a response on the interest rate front. Him and Chidambaram tried to steady the ship by hiking interest rates while trying to keep state institutions afloat(FCI, bad debt-ridden state owned banks and non Navaratna state companies) because disinvestment before elections would have been disastrous. 2. By 2014, money supply was in a critical state and RR remembered his academic positions. He kept the interest rates high and did everything to stop additional borrowing while BJP was hamstrung by previous commitments. I'd have no problem with the guy if he kept to this but he kept on giving statements against the government. The government was declined capital infusion to deal with legitimate crises. The best part is his duplicity in his academic work and public statements. His 2019 essay lists the inherited situation and his 2020 statement blames "political and social agenda" for lack of growth. This is like your bank manager calling up kids to tell them that their father does not buy them gifts because he doesn't like them while using his role at the bank, asking the father to pay back more. 3. I laughed hard at his answers on the challenges for the MSME sector, his policy and position are a part of the problem. India's elite like Sen(the best philosophical argument against reservation), RR and even Bhagwati love to roleplay conservatives positions outside of India but validate Congress or Communist stances that goes against their public and academic stances.
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  798.  @sajeevramakrishnan1408  the answers do not lie in democracy or making education an electoral issue. I will cover in point 2. 1. I authored and headed a study for a multinational consulting firm in 2011 on the education system(not in public domain). Nothing has changed. I want to be specific when I say "literacy crisis among the educated". Literacy is the ability to count, write, read, communicate and function in society. We found the majority of the graduates(age profile:15-20) in upper class/caste metropolitan middle income families do not know how to write a formal letter, lack public speaking skills, read a 200 page book cover to cover or even open a bank account by themselves. Just to be clear, I am talking about the 5% income tax paying class not rural kids. This is the state of our education system. Will increasing the number of underprivileged into this funnel help them or harm then? 2. No democracy due to structural implication is good at generating width markers sustainably by itself but can create depth markers.(A government can fund research to create a hundred patent holders(depth) but it is not good at applying the patents to create a product(say iPhone) and distribute it to millions without the private sector). Where the government takes part in width markers, it is prone to inefficiency, exclusion and failure in the long run(PDS, healthcare and any function of welfare state). Any politics played on this issue will lead to a welfare burden. The remedy lies in govt stepping back on width markers for the private sector(logistics in Indian PDS is handled by the private sector) and civic society (UIDAI/Aadhar is a government body manned by civic society) or at the very least offer total autonomy to the function(IITs). India has to focus on enabling rather than implementation and focus on the median rather than the outliers. It should focus on getting low level industrial work like ceramics, plastics and assembly into the country. This job can be manned by people without an education. Japan, Korea and China started with these sectors and moved up the value chain over time. That will allow us to buy 10-15 years and significant capital/revenue to create specialization.
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  1075.  @IndiaAgainstSlaveryIAS  reply is basically Indian politics imprinted on other nations. That isn't how politics or business works. 1. Only the Indians have an existential fear of causing damage abroad as we have been taught Gandhian philosophy which isn't Indian to begin with. The others suffer no fools. Ex: France still has a colonial Empire as we speak in 2023, it's central bank prints African money and it's longest border isn't with Germany, it's Brazil. France gets a lot of "drama" for it, but they will retain them so long as their interests demand them to. 2. As for the business and governmental outlook on investments, no country or business entity looks at social discord. Israel is a research hub, start up generator and the most productive industrial base in the Middle East while being in the middle of a warzone. Sweden, the poster child of progressive politics is receiving more investments even while they handle communal rioting, bomb blasts and no go ghettos of Muslim migrants, Mexico has been the largest recipient of American investment for friend-shoring(Not Vietnam)even as the cartel war rages on post el Chapo's arrest(Google Culiacán). I am not sure why we stand out here, it's not even a tenth of the violence in these countries. 3. The impetus for withdrawal from China was the geopolitical moves that threaten the US hegemony. Semiconductor acquisition and attempts to de-dollarise oil trade. No one withdrew investments because of Xinjiang, Ladakh or even causing Covid.
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  1139.  @lohitroy5938  The issue is representing a part of the process as the whole of it. Tbf, all sides of the aisle engage in it. On why this is insufficient, let me explain with an analogy. the actor picking up the name Dilip Kumar isn't Hindufication(what I write next is about the process not what the individual should have done or made to do), the change needs to meet other criterion like voluntary partaking in Hindu festivities/activities, adoption of Hindu philosophical or theological axioms that may be counterintuitive to Islam or absent from it; adoption of social norms like dietary standards; mutual acceptance of the change by sections of society. Sanskritisation is often used as the imposition, placation or voluntary subjugation to a Sanskritic nomenclature, which isn't the case with the works of MN Srinivas(I happen to be a distant relative and have met him in person) or later academics. 2. Will try and read the paper(?) you mentioned. Please name the authors if possible. 3. I was merely confirming the standard of evidence. I am surprised you counted a contiguous thread as three, as distinct sources, the way I counted the three distinct threads are: one coming from his own family which doesn't have or like association with Brahmins, one by his biographer and another recorded instance of him mentioning it, recorded in early Ambedkarite literature. I think this is as good as it gets when it comes to an evidentiary standard. I am even affording you the rather proposterous idea of disregarding local information. 4. Your methodological critique isn't exactly suited for Indian history because of where we find ourselves. Treat history like a forest of competing plant species. With European history they had hundreds of species of historians who always relied on local information, hearsay and mythology as the initial root. They built their own narratives, won some debates and lost some, developed tools, theories and epistemologies. The forest has grown in height with just a dozen survivors but the outcome of this is a refinement that was never seen in any age. With India, we don't have a forest, we have a singular tree of Nehruvian history and a vine of Ambedkarite history. The Nehruvian tree used state control to kill any competing threads using the imported methodological tools and ruse of evidentiary standards. We need Hindutva history, Jain History, Tamil history, Kannada history, Sanskrit history, trad history, casteist history, racist history and any other forms for us to have a forest. It's shocking to learn that everything we know in the Indian academia and society comes from less than 200-300 translated Indian works when Sanskrit alone has a estimated library of a million distinct works that have gone untranslated.
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  1156.  @debopamghatak9875  1. I doubt we watched the same video. Please tell me if I translated this correctly. Hindi is not my native language. 0:58 girl: I am asking the facility for kids poorer than me 1:04 officer: government is already providing a lot of facilities for poor students. The idea of dependence is wrong, this thought of being dependant(gets interrupted) 1:14 girl(interrupts): but the government does a good job of turning up to ask for our votes 1:19 officer: then don't vote. Turn into Pakistan.(alluding to death of democracy) it's your own government. 2. Let me simplify it for you. A trillema is a situation where you can choose 2 out of 3 but the third suffers. You cannot prioritise all 3. Ex: In manufacturing it's known as Iron triangle: fast-good-cheap. Fast and good will not be cheap. Good and cheap will not be fast. Fast and cheap will not be good. For the welfare state it is fighting inflation-Welfare-Capacity expansion. You have the rare growth school like me(welfare capex); welfarist school(inflation welfare) and market school(inflation capex). Growth school is almost impossible in a democracy as inflation will lose you power like Vajpayee. So the battle is between the other two. 3. At no point am I saying menstrual healthcare is not an issue. Just that it cannot be sustainably funded by the government. There are far bigger issues like nutrition as India is the most stunted nation, literacy crisis among graduates and masters students and lack of state capacity.
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  1224.  @bulthaosen1169  you are so close to the answer. 1. Cricket, especially IPL pays entertainment tax which F1 is unwilling to pay and is the primary reason for removing Buddh from the circuit. 2. Incase you did not know, F1 does not select it's venues for the benefit of audience or host. They get paid money by the property holder or the government. Middle eastern countries are using their sovereign wealth funds to bring in tourism. Jaypee group is debt laden, newer investors will also not want to invest 40-50 million dollars to bid for participation after investing into the facility which means taxpayers money will have to be used to bring in F1.(You can verify this. Saudis paid 65M+45M Aramco sponsorship. The bare minimum bid will be $40M.) 3. India does not get to earn money except tax and international footfall which are both not great sources of revenue returns. F1 has essentially become a sportswashing event like the Olympics or FIFA WC. 4. There is no tangible benefit in terms of employment, specialisation or industry to the local population. Other sports lead to industries like cricketing facilities created by BCCI are open source to other sportspersons, it's created biomechanical and sports science industry in Chennai/Bengaluru; increased demand for India made bats like SG, MRF and SS. F1 provides zero avenues for R&D and business. 5. India will need to do sportswashing events too but that is 10-50 years away. At best we can expect such events for increasing influence in our neighborhood with countries like SL, BD, NP and perhaps SEA countries. Till that time this facility is high maintenance, high upkeep and zero benefit facility. I'd rather have a NATRAX which provides so many R&D opportunities in construction/Vehicular research or a SAI facility which generates multi disciplinary specialisation.
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  1246.  @user_chestnut  the reply is as expected. Shoes the level of education and our media. Here is what happened and I am backing it up with sources. 1. MMS inherited the Vajpayee era which broke the taboos of privatisation and infrastructure spending. He turned to the demand side economics immediately. First major policy policy of the gate was the anti poverty but also anti industrial MNREGA. When you get 100 rupees to work in your Village why would you want to earn 200 in an unfamiliar city? You can check economist Surjeet Bhalla's and Panagaria's criticisms. India's industrial cities deurbanised in the period. 2. They printed money thrice, 08, 09 and 11. The 11 fiscal stimulus was so excessive that it caused a fight within UPA 2. Google Chidambaram vs Pranab Mukherjee. If anyone is allowed to print money, you can show inflation as growth which happened in India's case both under MMS and Modi's pandemic print of 20L Crs. But the PM was an economist which holds him to a higher standard and he did not face a pandemic in his tenure. 3. The end point was a failing bank system, free printed money which attracted scamsters and a failing INR-USD equation when every developing economy was rising against USD. Nirmala Seetharaman faced the music for a 85 rupee dollar when INR maintained parity with every other currency. Easily comparable on a Google search. 4. MMS worst action was to open up Indian economy to Chinese imports in a bid to kill inflation which destroyed many businesses both large and small. All the major bank scams from Nirav to Mallya, Sahara to Jaypee happened under their tenure. Banks were failing with NPA and this is what Modi had to solve. Check the date of each default. 5. There was literally no coverage of these issues under the UPA era. It's only IAC movement under Anna Hazare that turned the media tide. Even today, every neighbour barring China and Nepal have taken IMF assistance. Somehow we were not affected?
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  1322.  @haberdasherrykr8886  I only quoted you,when you rightly admitted that issue is tangential. If Sirisena or any other leader was in charge the very same situation would have cropped up because there is no income, instead of Chinese loans there would be loans to run healthcare during pandemic. When your executive(IAS/PMO equivalent) is addicted to operating without fiscal responsibility, this is what happens. How do you think the 1991 Indian BoP happens under babudom? You have bought into the simplistic liberal memetic that right wing govt is the root cause of the issue(that curiously shares all properties across borders). Apparently populism is only a right wing phenomenon. This when, someone like Kejriwal is handling electricity despite of the advice he is being given. Your issue is that populace does not see things your way. 1. Public is acting in self interest. Your or my judgement means nothing. Democracy is unequipped for such situations even in US or EU. Look up the Greek crisis to see a primer on what will happen with SL and i doubt they have Yannis Varoufakis to fight back. 2. Oh sorry, I did not realise my question was that hard to comprehend. It's India that is facing the crisis, no SL. 🤣. It's funny to see the same canned answers, Bhakt/godi media. 3. You are not "proven wrong" on any point "by this mere PhD" because of cognitive dissonance. I can never prove you wrong with your canned answers and inability to cite. You sincerely believe regime change is the answer to BoP crisis, thank heavens people were not this senile during 1991.
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  1336.  @MM-ue4ol  1. There seems to be issues with comprehension when one cannot discern between an observation and proposal. Read the same point again. I have issues with "social progress" as much as I have with chewing gum before removing the wrapper(sequence matters). 2. Chaebol in Korea, Zaibatsu in Japan. 3. Lol set up a strawman and then defend it. I used Engels of all people to explain that it's not trickle down economics. We are not discussing taxing the rich(subject matter of trickledown economics), it's about how industrialisation creates real world specialization leading to product, old money and breaking of social structure. (All Marxist ideas btw) 4. Feudalism- Mercantalism- Capitalism- Socialism- Communism. This is the established progression within academia and social sciences since Marx. Presence of money or trade does not make a feudal society capitalistic. Similarly, the presence of social schemes does not make a capitalistic country into a socialistic one. There is no pure capitalism, socialism or communism anywhere in the world but there is an operating norm. Going by the harebrained "feudal society had industries", look up what industrialisation means. If we still go by your framing India was industrialized at least 3000 years ago. 5. This is called Protestant historiography aka viewing the world as a permanent struggle between powers that be and the people resulting in slow ascent of liberalism. If that was the case, the difference between isolated Sentinelese tribe and the west is ability to protest and engage in social reform. It's the combination of resources, technology and finally access. Tomorrow if civilization collapsed, women rights would suffer the most because we would not have the first 2 preconditions to provide access. no amount of protesting or social movements would bring back women's rights. it's the function that dictates the form, not the other way around. 6. You have successfully demonstrated you have no idea what industrial revolution was. The only reason the technology became viable is because it was for the first time in history, economically viable. 7. Again, you cannot discern between an observation and proposal? If you can't please present me how you plan to supercede the developmental stage?
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  1368.  @navdeepsugandhi6476  1. We skipped manufacturing. Manufacturing today has low returns but the point of it is to create an industrial society. A society of electricians is more likely to subscribe to complex services and engage in complex consumption. Further you create a network of companies, institutions and individuals that is constantly seeking backward/forward/parallel integration. Ex Asian paints has knowledge and physical infrastructure of indigenous production of paints, global logistics of materials/capital, a mixed workforce of low-high level expertise and 50 years of data. This enables them to successfully launch a complex product like interior design and gives them a base for future integration like getting into manufacturing of painting tools, proprietary patents in materials, cost competitive global painting services etc. 2. We instead focused on secondary education. We are already creating global level talent in every field from mathematics to mechanical engineering to social science when there is no native demand in India for these fields nor the global logistics to obtain cobalt from centa Africa/mentorship from the EU. It is simply easier for this class to migrate to places which have capital/logistics to fund them. A personal anecdote, I helped a student of Nuclear medicine get a research job in Japan which simply does not exist in India. The person has filed for 3 patents. What will happen to the Indian public investment made into the person? The problem with remittance is that it will be pulled out when the parent passes away. Real estate/ market investment will be liquidated. 3. The answer lies in a slow boring phase of two decades of making India into a low level manufacturing hub, using the profits to invest into global networks and international assets much like the Chinese in the 90's and then using the international assets to invest into HDI and R&D. Doing the latter first is like making tadka without the dal.
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  1613.  @Nubbdy  1. I am not familiar with alcohol as an offering, but I presume there is sanction for it within the Shakta agamas. Bengal is not unique in the sense, even the temple of my family deity(Mylar Lingeshwara) in North Karnataka is offered both marijuana as well as alcohol. I have seen this at several temples of Karnataka, Maharashtra and even Kal Bhairav temple at Ujjain aside from my encounters with it in Bengal. I will ask around and reply if i find some information on this. However I do know this part that the much of the Bengali practice today is heavily corrupted even as far as 50 years ago. For example, the pandals(not the temples) serve chicken and other meats. In the tradition, only the sacrificed meat is to be served and other meats are not a part of it. Only fish, goat and buffalo(afaik) are to be presented as sacrifice. The current practice stems from the "secularisation" of Pujo which is now more of a cultural and a community/socio-political event than a religious or spiritual one. This informs people of "how liberal our religion is". 2. Mahua did not say that but her worldview is at the root of the statement. For example, the poster had no alcohol in it, it had Kali smoking a blunt(?)/cigarette(?). She infused alcohol into the picture, despite that never being part of the poster. So what is the implication? Cigarette/blunt is ok as Devi even accepts alcohol? Just to be clear, it's who is speaking and the context to which it was responded to, that is the problem. Ersatz second rate idea of liberalism. The stoner vs shaman/sadhu is a good framework to understand why there is an issue here. Non-Western ideas of divinity is not a carte blanche. Have you heard of any anti-theists turning up at Catholic churches to have a wine party because wine is acceptable in the tradition? A decent amount of non religious like me would view this as unnecessary provocation.
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  1669.  @SoumitraKhirpai  4. We need to create systems that serve 80% of the people but our education is focused on setting up careers for 15%-30%. Engineers, doctors, Journalists and academics. This is why you end up with disinterested students regardless of quality of colleges. Because of a crowd that is not interested, the administrations face pressure to get these kids to do well because the parents pay fees. Even with the best attempts, the best colleges can create a maximum crowd of 20% who are employable(rest cant apply themselves as they are allocated to the wrong streams by their interest). If you have been to a college in the west you will see a higher percentage of interested students(70-80%) and the standards rise. 5. The high number of graduates leads to dilution or sameness which in turn leads to people seeking higher degrees to distinguish themselves( doctors doing MD and Engineers seeking MS). Your best talent hyperspecializes to sectors that don't have avenues in the nation. Which in turn leads to talent flight 6. The predominant social fiction we live by, even more so today is that young people need to start companies. we are copying the outliers of the west like Gates and Zuck. But the major bulk of entrepreneurship comes from people aged 40-50 yrs even in the most developed countries. Because they have gone though the Intern-SME-Team lead-manager-middle management-higher management cycle. They have industry experience, understanding of markets, people management, budget management, industry contacts and operational experience. Even a late 30 yr old cannot be expected to have these skills and they fall prey to investor greed.
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  1670.  @SoumitraKhirpai (I literally wrote a paper on this for a multinational consultancy firm in 2011, little has changed) 1. Industries are not set up by PhDs. You are thinking of the last stage of development or niche sectors.It starts with low end work like assembly and bottom chain manufacturing like ceramics and plastics. You don't even need education for these. 2. India has never had a concerted definition let alone a literacy policy. Literacy means being able to read, write, count and understand basic things like contracts and sources of information. What we have had is an education policy, which is a battleground for the old BA graduation vs new science education. That is why every syllabus in our country is a battle between linguistic proficiency(Poetry and formal prose from famous authors of 2/3 languages) and applied PMB(Physics, maths and Biology). There is zero emphasis on practicals, applications and transactions. Tell me how many literate people can open a bank A/c by themselves or deal with officials at govt office, write a formal letter without guidance? As damaging as it already is, schools actively avoid and even demonise money. When a street vendor has better people negotiation and budgeting skills than a post graduate/doctoral student, you are in trouble. 3. There is nothing wrong with education but to give you an analogy it is the tadka to a dal. It gives taste but cannot be consumed by itself. Just like that education can give you direction if you are sure about the purpose. Instead we as a society have inverted the equation. We seek education based on reputation or economic opportunity and then try to find purpose.(Beta engineering karlo uske baad photographer/Musician/Lawyer/academic Bano)
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  1680.  @rishabhkhatri  3. We need to create systems that serve 80% of the people but our education is focused on setting up careers for 15%-30%. Engineers, doctors, Journalists and academics. This is why you end up with disinterested students regardless of quality of colleges. Because of a crowd that is not interested, the administrations face pressure to get these kids to do well because the parents pay fees. Even with the best attempts, the best colleges can create a maximum crowd of 20% who are employable(rest cant apply themselves as they are allocated to the wrong streams by their interest). If you have been to a college in the west you will see a higher percentage of interested students(70-80%) and the standards rise. 4. The high number of graduates leads to dilution or sameness which in turn leads to people seeking higher degrees to distinguish themselves( doctors doing MD and Engineers seeking MS). Your best talent hyperspecializes to sectors that don't have avenues in the nation. Which in turn leads to talent flight 5. The predominant social fiction we live by, even more so today is that young people need to start companies. we are copying the outliers of the west like Gates and Zuck. But the major bulk of entrepreneurship comes from people aged 40-50 yrs even in the most developed countries. Because they have gone though the Intern-SME-Team lead-manager-middle management-higher management cycle. They have industry experience, understanding of markets, people management, budget management, industry contacts and operational experience. Even a late 30 yr old cannot be expected to have these skills and they fall prey to investor greed.
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  1681.  @rishabhkhatri  read it and then please educate me what is different about Delhi's policy or any other states. All are heading towards a remittance economy. For the record , i worked with this bunch during the IAC days. Had to leave IAC and avoid AAP due to falling on deaf ears. It pains me that my prediction on Indonesia and India has come true. BJP, regional parties and congress are no better. 1.India has never had a concerted definition let alone a literacy policy. Literacy means being able to read, write, count and understand basic things like contracts and sources of information. What we have had is an education policy, which is a battleground for the old BA graduation vs new science education. That is why every syllabus in our country is a battle between linguistic proficiency(Poetry and formal prose from famous authors of language) and applied PMB(Physics, maths and Biology). There is zero emphasis on practical education and conduct. Tell me how many literate people can open a bank A/c by themselves or deal with officials at govt offices? As damaging as it already is, schools actively avoid and even demonise money. When a street vendor has better people, negotiation and budgeting skills than a post graduate/doctoral student, you are in trouble. 2. There is nothing wrong with education but to give you an analogy it is the tadka to a dal. It gives taste but cannot be consumed by itself. Just like that education can give you direction if you are sure about the purpose. Instead we as a society have inverted the equation. We seek education based on reputation or economic opportunity and then try to find purpose.(Beta engineering karlo uske baad photographer/Musician/artist Bano)
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  1693. @Pierre In 1. I never used the word fascist in my replies to you. I merely asked if Mudi ze can do it too as the event is being interpreted from the axiom of legality. No need for the facade of democracy as we have a perfectly legal way to retain power. 2. Your narrative of the emergency would be believed if one were not from this country or was unaware of Indian politics. If it was anti RSS and anti judicial takeover by RSS, why did the government preemptively jail the socialists and dissident sections of CPI-M, many of whom are still anti RSS like Karat, Pinarayi Vijayan and Yechury? 3. I am not doubting the validity of the colloquial phrase "follow the constitution", just pointing to lack of context when it's speciously used against the BJP which perfectly sums up the opposition. There isn't any criticism, they'd have done the same things. 4. You doubted the existence of the phrase "legal misnomer", perfectly fine till I provided you with the means to search for its usage. Not being able to acknowledge the width of its usage across literature, media, academia and case law is just pedantry for the sake of distraction. It's not 10 people who randomly used it, it's the 100+ academic papers (available on Google scholar) from fields as diverse as geopolitics to sociology to taxation to climate studies that have used it. 5 separate legal systems have judgements that use the phrase. Google Books lists hundreds of works(you were right, found an instance going back to 1927). And still you want some link to a dictionary to be convinced. Anyone reading this can tell, you don't want to be convinced. 5. I never initiated this party trick, you latched on to a phrase to disqualify my opinion and all that talk of aukat came back to bite you.
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  1725.  @garyish  and you are assuming that Pakistan is a legit county. After 70s they are a client state. Their product/service is geopolitical control/international reach to the Islamic world/mercenaries/followers for ideology. They sell the service in return for aid. Just check the mind boggling aid US has donated. They earn billions and lose a few hundred millions to army and see it as cost of doing business just like overpaid/pampered ceos who happen to earn exorbitantly as they excel at increasing productivity of organisations. Their main clients were Saudis(ideology) and US(geopolitical interest). The way they see it, recent issues are just an unlucky coincidence where their customers are running dry. Saudis(saturation of ideology), Turkey(financial trouble leading) US (withdrawing from geopolitical interest) and China(recent player in geopolitics of the area so they are stingy). They will come up with a new "product" or a "model" in the coming years. The issue is people see only the inefficient system without seeing the purpose of the structure. If they decided to work like just another country they don't excel at anything and will be wiped out. With the client state model they can increase their population, keep India Afghanistan and Iran in check and simultaneously enjoy a lot of goodwill in deep states of their clients(exceeding even India's reach). We keep thinking this situation will destroy Pakistan's reputation but all parties know what they are dealing with. When there is dirty work to be done in the Islamic world, Pakistan is the place/agent.
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  1728.  @pardeeptandon  you are stuck in the early 2000's development economics model with Kejriwal. Even by 2012, we had learned that education means nothing without trade volumes, networks and manufacturing base. It just means you are creating a new Elite every batch who migrate in self interest. Here are a couple of things you can observe without needing to read academic work: 1. The median graduate is unemployable for the domains they specialised in. This isn't the fault of the college or the culture. It is what happens when you oversize supply to create a human farm. 85% of the science, arts, engineering and business graduates we create are not inclined towards the field and pursue it for the sake of social status. Colleges are not the place you go to make yourself employable. It's just a demonstration of prolonged learning and ability to converse in technical language. 2. Even the talented suffer in this setup. If an engineer comes up with a low level innovation like a cheaper LED, there are no logistics to get cheap Germanium or Cobalt from Africa, no industrialists who can lend their fab or factory, no pool of electricians and assembly managers to start production and no Instrumentation/Chemical consultancies to make the concept into a product. 3. What India needs is trade volumes and logistics. Historically it's always been a state backed venture from the Dutch East India company to DHL to American Railroad companies to Maersk to Nippon Logistics to COSCO. Adani is playing that part for India. I bet you never read about his foreign ports and ultrapure Silicon ingot manufacturing. 4. Modi is doing everything MMS should have and hoped Kejriwal would. Increasing infrastructure, PLIs for core manufacturing, projection of international interest and bringing in a cycle of consolidation (15 year pain for a 100 year gain). Kejriwal is stuck in the old paradigm of welfare politics. I discussed these things with examples of Botswana and Vietnamese examples with IAC members who went on to form AAP a full decade ago.
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