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  8. Several problems with this theory applied to India: 1. It suffers from an orientalist reading of the caste system. Jati and Varna are not the same as a caste system. They are an orthogonal matrix of two at the very least. A demonstration is seen in the traditional horoscope where it's expressed as a factor of two: all permutations of Brahmin-Brahmin to Shudra-Shudra. Traditions like the Vaishnava traditions particularly Gaudiya (a variant of which is better known in the west as Hare Krishnas) place minimal emphasis on it as it's a Bhakti tradition. 2. Contrary to oriental reading, Brahminism isn't the only form of supremacism. For instance, sociologist Amman Manan has identified three distinct ones, with the other two being Kshatriya(eschewing effiminate and feminine, seeking feudal mandate and tribal affiliations) and astetic(eschewing the material pursuit, abstraction and participation in the social and status seeking). This would be akin to drawing equivalence and coming up with a stereotype between a proponent of Orthodox Christian, Liberalism, Communism and Anarchocapitalism. 3. Buddhist, Jain and Hindu traditions do not interpret moksha/Nirvana as release from professions of death/disgust. It's the cycle of life itself. 4. If communicable disease were the central schema behind the caste allocation, then the Vaishya community would rank the lowest and the British specifically would be allocated there considering the number of diseases introduced/accentuated in their rule of the subcontinent.
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  86. Most Indians are unaware of Japan beyond its name, Japanese businesses in India and its connection to WW2 era revolutionary Subhash Chandra Bose's association with Japan much like Japanese think of India with ancient connections with Buddhism and "Kari". If Britain vs Japan is outside of WW2 era, it is rather unfortunate that we do not know about each other's culture despite being Dharmic societies (Buddhism/Hinduism/Confucianism/Shinto are largely personal systems, don't have problem with science vs religion and state vs religion, can follow multiple religions etc and even have same issues with marginalization of its own society Burakumin and Indian caste system are similar though Japan is much much better). Most urban Indians unfortunately gravitate towards Britain due to our English education system, system of governance and history. Socially and culturally we have not been impacted by the Japanese, Anime and otaku culture is too expensive and niche to follow for Indians. I hope to see this change as we have too many similarities to be separated but the Japanese have to make the initiation in this regard especially by encouraging use of . On Politics, Shinzo Abe and Modi are friends, there has been growing Japanese interest in India as a counterweight to China's influence and as an investment destination. A lot of Indian startups are funded by Soft bank. Personally I love and admire Japan as it is the only Asian nation to escape Western colonialism and look where you guys have reached. I hope for more collaborations in culture in the future.
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  196. (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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  299. 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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  364. Ā @kaustubhshukla6462Ā  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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  366. Ā @stalinsamprasĀ  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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  569. Ā @georgewchildsĀ  I follow this channel copiously, he gets almost everything about India wrong. None of it is his fault beyond not choosing to read traditional frame. 1. There are four traditions of academic literature on India. Oriental(superlative hagiographical and later associative with Europe), Colonial (Derogatory, supremacist and implicative to Europe) modernist(critical, anti-epistomological and Mao style destruction) and Post modern(selectively restorative, anti colonial and epistemology positive). None of these consult traditionalists or practitioners like a sociologist would be subject to critique by the divinity schools and the recent Islamic scholarship. This allows India to be a context free ground for implications and precedents. A historian will lose their career if they suggest historiography is subject to exaggeration using Nazi Germany or Antebellum as the ground for their thesis, but an Audrey Trushke can make a career out of "humanising" Aurangzeb. 2. I completely understand where he is coming from when he draws inferences for India but it's frustrating him stuck between the Oriental and colonialist readings while disregarding the modernist and post modernist reading of India(they are mostly Indian wokes). 3. If I reversed roles with Rudyard and I were to be interpreting America it would sound like this. " America's largely white ruling classes imported the elites of every nation to structurally weaponize race. The nation's motto must have been "elites of the world unite" as an antithesis to the Soviet and communist motto for the workers" Feels true but not factual.
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  574. Ā @Ahmad-mf7yuĀ  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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  585. AAP is a "governance revolution" stable states can handle. They are good at only one thing, making exisiting institutions eke out more. That is why they focus on corruption and governance models. Punjab is a cinder with multiple fuses. An agrarian crisis due to an extended "green revolution", a society that resents industrialisation and manufacturing jobs, over educated youth with international ambitions that an unformed industrial base cannot handle, a looming water, climate and health crisis and the cherry on the top, a religious separatist faction exacerbated and funded by a lunatic neighbour. You can't solve all issues with HDI, aka education, healthcare and tertiary sector jobs. There is a 18 year lag to the full effect of your policies(child getting education-job). In the best case, a 2 year lag to apply policy on the ground. A lot can go wrong in the duration. A state with uncertain social dynamics is always run by conciliatory mechanisms which is selective corruption/concessions to be on the side of the state. BJP's tenure in JK with PDP prepared the ground for removal of 370. Congress has a storied history of it across the country. You make temporary concessions to identify key actors/motivations and wait for the right moment to disarm and even destroy a anti state sentiments. But in the duration, you have to pay a hafta(corruption), extrajudicial privileges(security cordon) and community/region specific laws. Voting AAP into Punjab was a huge mistake. They have zero experience of it and zero leadership who can guide them through the process. This state needed gentle hands, now it has metal gloves cutting reconciliatory mechanisms calling it corruption.
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  623. (I see 9 comments but can only see your replies. YT censorship at its best.) On your point, that men should do it in private is equally wrong. Though I am on Matt's side on most of his videos, this is a hot take with no backing in academia or history. As someone from a different culture and religion, these are my views: 1. Stoic appearance from men is a near universal expectation but most cultures have more space for men to express emotions. There is a massive cost, socially expected and imposed stoicism has on individuals. Ask any psychologist even non wokes like JP. 2. This is at its worst in my experience in three subcultures, Anglophone, German and Scandinavian urban/industrial/military classes. Curiously, there is space for expressing emotions even in the rural cultures for these countries. A minor example of this is folk music vs pop music. English folkmen can write songs like "Scarborough fair", or an American country musician can get teary eyed on stage dedicating a song to his baby daughter. 3. Have you seen Spanish, Italian, Arab, Japanese or Indian transgenders in their own countries do the same shit they get up to in EU or America? As an Indian let me tell you, the only time Indian wokes do this in India is if they are influenced by English medium resources. I've had people from other countries tell me the same. It's a hypothesis I welcome you to verify. 4. Im not saying transgenderism will disappear if men cried more. What I am saying is modernity and industrial/urban society is toxic, threats are more mental than physical and there is no space for classes of individuals to express themselves beyond being angry/depressed. This has created the social/political space for ideologies like transgenderism. These people are not suffering from scientifically proven disorders like intersex. 5. Fighting for the space for men to be emotional in public or private is not wrong. It's natural, found across cultures and leads to a healthier society. Don't cede the space to loonies by taking a contrarian stand for the sake of it.
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  676. 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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  863. Ā @connormcgee4711Ā this is going to be very complicated to convey as much of it is my own enquiry with traditional scholars. Idioms don't travel well between cultures. Caste is basically a form of feudal allocation of duties. So treat it in the domain of metaphysics, religion and social theory, not science. I am describing a system that has collapsed at least since the Muslim conquest and most certainly after British colonialism. Orthogonal matrix here implies counting all the intersectional karmas one is born into. While the western and modern Indian scholarship has treated caste as a clean cut hierarchy of four divisions of labour, it's more of a combination. Jati is roughly the tribe you are born into. Varna (has been taken to mean color implying skin color while it) means inclination one is born into. It was meant to divide society and allocate them according to the combination. Following it is your dharma, what you are born to fulfill while you retain free agency to reject it. Rejection causes your soul to continue reincarnation and get lost deeper in the material world. So a simplified combination of jati of birth-varna of birth looks like this: (Born into jati-has Varna of): (has to pursue a life of) Brahmin-Brahmin: high philosophy and religious activity Brahmin-Kshatriya : thought leadership of a kingdom, socio-political praxis, courteurs or even kings. Brahmin-vaishya: leader of religious collectives, temple trusts, intellectuals for hire Brahmin-Shudra: religious service of others, temple priests of major sites. Kshatriya-Brahmin: Military and governance strategy, temple administrators Kshatriya-kshatriya: kings, generals, soldiers and Warlords Kshatriya-Vaishya: guild kings and business magnates. Kshatriya-Shudra: social servants and civil society. Vaishya- Brahmin: scribes, accountants and intellectual trades. Vaishya-Kshatriya: Lobbyists, political businesses and kings Vaishya-vaishya: money lenders and business of businesses. Vaishya-shudra: specialized businessmen. Smithing pottery and weaving. Work inside. Shudra-Brahmin: priests of regional temples Shudra-Kshatriya: Barons, fiefdoms, foot soldiers, irregular army and henchmen. Shudra-Vaishya: contract labour and specialized services like sculpting, construction and low value metal trade(Iron zinc and copper). Work outside. Shudra-shudra: menial, seasonal, land labour, "untouchable professions". 3 Cousins in the same family say, a shudra family would end up as a priest at a local temple, a member of irregular army and a washerman. While their professions changed they were still expected to maintain endogamy within their jati or caste of birth. There have been movement of entire jatis into another profession, the most controversial in modern times being the history of the Kayastha community. They were Vaishya-Brahmins who ended up in courts as the scribe caste. Depending on the side, they are called social climbing vaishyas to derogate them or they self define themselves as Brahmins who became Vaishyas.
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  990. ​ @orkkojitĀ  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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  1148. 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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  1287. Ā @J.M.254Ā  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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  1405. Ā @penacle7Ā  1. not just Tatas, the entire Indian market is engaged in the practice. Unlike the developed Asian markets which allow monopolistic practices(Google Zaibatsu or Chaebol), India has a cap on promoter shares. Indian companies use the offshore route to maintain valuation, just like Western companies use shell companies and offshore accounts for tax avoidance. In fact no country has a handle on these activities including the US or EU which can simply choose to shut down tax havens. Why haven't they? 2. This is an inherited situation no democracy can handle as this practice is continuing from the early 90's. I find it particularly interesting that people who want to get rid of corruption hate on demonitization, because devaluation is the necessary step when cleaning up. Simple example is real estate, the valuation of your site/bungalow/apartment is increased by 40-70% because of corruption and market control. You can't hope to retain the same valuation when the middlemen are no longer impeding transactions and there are accumulators/aggregators who will periodically choose to dump large tracts/properties in a fair market system. If your property is valued today at 1Cr, 40-70L of the valuation is because of the corruption, even more so in commercial areas and city centers. 3. Adani is obviously engaged in boosting valuation, maybe with a lack of sophistication that FAANG companies do with. That is all you can charge him with, that isn't a scam. All of his companies have fundamental value, business model and tangible assets. He will come good in a decade. The guy has a real eye for picking sectors. This is just a minor repeat of anti-Dhirubhai Ambani fervor.
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  1444. Ā @indiamusicallyĀ  thank you for the civil response. 1. Pakistan has always been in the hole. They have had 25+ financial interventions by the Iranians initially, the US, Chinese and Saudis subsequently (I am only counting countries bailing them out not IMF, ADB and other institutional investors). The recent fall is not due to a maturing bond but the lack of foreign intervention. For that, GOI has had a major role in convincing the Americans, UAE and the Saudis. The recent fall in reserves is due to oil/gas prices not wheat. Happy to stand corrected if I am wrong. 2. The issue isn't an "anti" lobby as you correctly point out there are adversarial interest groups for each country/religion/ethnicity/political factions. What is being pointed at as the lack of conversation, forums or even individuals to represent our side. When divinity schools/Rabbanical forum/Islamic forums/Confucian forum fact check academic assertions from the religious point of view, there isn't a single Hindu/Buddhist/Jain/Sikh equivalent. Name a single ordained priest from Indian religions who is part of academia only because they are trained in the tradition. 2b. From the political aisle, there are Zionists and even the radical Muslim brotherhood has active student bodies operating on American and European campuses with official status. Imagine the cringe and anger an average NRI would experience if someone dare suggest an ABVP chapter on an American campus. 2c. When the "anti" and "pro" clash intellectually, they lead to the Hegellian dialectic that modern academia and media thrives on. I can suggest Dershovitz for the Jewish side, Haqiqatjou/Tzortzis for islamic perspective without losing tenure/track. But a Rajiv Malhotra(despite being a funder) cannot find a platform with Sheldon Pollock. The likes of Wendy Doniger, Audrey Trushke or Romila Thapar are beyond any kind of conversation. 2d. So yes there is a fundamentally anti feature to universities. It lacks the Hegellian dialectic of thesis- antithesis- synthesis. I am in that space and have the capacity to both enjoy and process these conversations that will sadly never happen. I hope you don't confuse the lack of conversation on one side for bigotry by the other side.
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  1475. Ā @mudra5114Ā  I don't give a rats behind which community you belong to, if you want to contest better bring references or what tradition you have been trained under. Being born a Brahmin is not a guarantee that you know Sanskrit, Indian literature or anything about your traditions. Too many people projecting social structures that isn't there. How will we solve this crippling issue? 1. If the whole stchik is lower castes were prone to diseases, no other rule had the number of pandemics and epidemics than the colonial era. For instance, Monsters at the door by Mike Davis lists the Malthusian fervor that informed the inaction of the British colonial government during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. The clearing of forests and swamps in Bengal is documented to have spread malaria across the gangetic plains in 1820's. The Cholera epidemics of 1880'- 1920's. Small pox and leprosy endemics were controlled only in independent India not the British era. 2. The Sanskrit word for white is Syeta not shweta. The only reference in Sanskrit with sveta and an outsider is "sveta Huna" which actually references the banner of the white Huns. Red, Green and Blue Huns never invaded India. Ayurvedic texts use the word avadata/gaura(from which we get the word gora which was used as an identity marker only in the 19th century). No Pathan or Persian was called gora. You just need to know a local language in India to understand how ridiculously inorganic and unmetered "Shweta charma" or "shweta tvacha" sounds. The passages in Sanskrit literature that are transliterated as "he was radiant" have been interpreted to mean "he was white". 3. The Krishna example demonstrates that attraction had nothing to do with skin color. People literally name boys as "Shyam" "Sham" which is a cognate for "Krishna", both meaning black. 4. If you have heard a casteist speak, they will ask "konse jaat se ho" and "varnavyavastha ko rakhne ki zarurat hai". Why are there two words when they don't relate to each other? If casteists use "British invented the caste system" to say there was no discrimination or separation of society, they are patently wrong. If there are people who say British changed the system from an orthogonal identity to ethnographic (which academics of every single inclination except pro colonial do. Includes woke, anti colonial, postmodern, western, developmental and sociological fields). They are right. 5. If the British emanipated the lower castes, care explaining the following laws? Permanent settlement 1793 to create Zamindari system, Martial races designations passed between 1869-1920, Criminal tribes act 1877 which demarcated criminality at birth. Punjab land alienation act 1900 which aimed to hand the land to the "dominant races" to create land owning castes.
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  1483. Want to add a bit more to this conversation: -Why do people get those degrees? Why not work for it? Most people who get these degrees are not bad people. Lower-middle class and middle class folks who want to keep up with their clique who have moved to the West with real jobs/degrees or people who do not have means to reach the goals. Getting into good colleges where the standard of education is high is an impossible ask with the amount of competition for places(approximately 1 in 50000 gets a seat with just 30% of the eligible population actually applying for it). People in the West don't realize how good they have it even with their community colleges. -Why do people at the top create those systems? Blue pill answer they are corrupt. Red pill answer, it genuinely helps people in their communities in the long run(for communities not the system). A person who does not have education is perceived to have no value and have their skills capped. Unless you can rent-seek under inheritance, all the person can hope for is a crappy manual labor job for life. Elevate them to blue collar jobs and they ensure that their children will do better. -Why are these societies like that? Why don't you see such things in Japan or Korea which emerged from similar conditions? Japan(not colonized) and Korea(US aid+military) are exceptions, not the rule. The societies(Middle East, India, Pakistan and to a degree China) are post colonial entities where a majority of the people are still figuring out what democracy and modern institutions(education in this instance) are. They do not see value in setting up long term institutions (and people in the West have forgotten the hundreds of mistakes they made in a similar position as it was a couple of hundred years ago). I have seen this topic taken up by the Western far right under the dog whistles of "collectivist societies" and "genetic tendencies". Feel free to ask
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  1520. Ā @amitpathak3279Ā  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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  1527. Ā @davout5775Ā  you sound like one of those sad sack CIS migrants who take inordinate pride in emigrating to the US. 1. I distinctly remember using the word "projects" not missions once or twice a year. The requirements for Mars projects changed mid 2010's as payload concerns and operational limits raised the cost. This is causing participants to build equipment that lasts for decades not years making small PROJECTS, unviable. ISRO is filling that market gap and the space community is happy for that option. Except you of course. NASA is sending two rockets every cycle but it has a backlog that came to head in the mid 2010's. The cycle for major development is pegged at once a decade. India and Israel are two countries leaning into this gap. Try approaching NASA with a project proposal and let me know the ETA. As for cutting costs with 3D printing, what do you think Agnikul cosmos is doing? Mangalyaan was a technical demonstration of a larger vision, the next mission is slated to increase capacity to 100kg. The eventual goal is to create a semblance of a supply chain in space. Anyone who follows ISRO knows they operate as an enabler more than a research entity. We don't care if the world wants it because we need it for ourselves first. 2. We are producing an institution that enables people and companies, coming up with our own tech, creating a market and earning us money. Tell me one good reason why this is bad or has to be compared to NASA. 3. Could you point me to an academic/industry nomenclature that deems any projectiles that end up below the Karman line as "not a space launch"? Since you have the names of the launch vehicles, it shouldn't be hard to Google news reports. While you are at it look up Antrix corporation, the commercial wing of ISRO. 4. Yeah that is what makes the numbers more impressive. Just in case you did not know, the US is a destination for global talent and every country and ethnicity tends to send their best there. If one of us makes it big, we celebrate that. I see Americans taking pride in the good things that their diaspora has achieved, why should it be different for us?
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  1559.  @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 CuliacÔn). 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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  1692. I see a lot of people in the comment section blaming Indian middlemen and capitalism for the situation where the product is simultaneously overpriced and the producers remain poor. Gleaned a bit on this from my colleague who did a paper on spice farming in India. The economics on why this happens: 1. The production of niche agricultural and minerals is economically beneficial only if it's a side hustle(truffle farming for instance). Global south often inherits a historic feudal structure or mis-allocates a chunk of its population in pursuit of the product. While a truffle farmer in the west is either pursuing it while already being economically stable or as a side hustle, the farmers in India or the rest of the global south(Africa to SEA to S.America), do it as a full time job while the money earned has to support livelihoods and capital investment into the production process. Two bad years can lead to abandonment of the profession while the practice can sustain in the global north beyond a decade. 2. The main issue with produce of this nature is on both sides of the demand supply equation. Demand is experienced in spurts and the supply is inconsistent. Unlike standard agriculture of pulses, oilseeds, cocoa, rice, wheat, sugar and corn, the outcome of the activity is highly unpredictable at scale. There can be an oversupply in one unit and total losses in another. 3. Lack of standardization leads to lack of infrastructure and supply chains. This leads to entry of middlemen who are vocational profit seekers who will experience losses most of the time and disproportionate gains once in a season or years. They have no incentive to keep a regular supply chain but hunt for deals by driving up the desparation to sell the produce. 4. If ethical traders do enter the equation, they experience near constant losses due to the unpredictability of the trade, burden of setting up the supply chains from scratch and pressure of undercuts.
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  1697. Ā @alexanderthegreat445Ā  1. Even if the Indians taxed Indians money would remain within India. The loot started with BEIC killing off Sikh and Maratha empires, capture of Bengal province and taxing the despots they PLACED on the thrones beginning the 200 year process of colonisation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_Settlement 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharata_Khanda . We have our own name, we named Hinduism sacred texts after it Mahabharata, we still call it that. You are conflating country with nation state. Starter pack to understand the difference between country and nation state with China as an example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oPTcam3_BE. 3. I am saying that modifying social structures that fund sciences and arts fundamentally destroy high culture. Japan escaped that while India and China fell. That is the reason Marxism, a secularized Judeo Christian moral philosophy about building a system empowering the weak, masquerading as an economic political theory is taken seriously in China and India and is laughed off in Japan while it has serious capitalist exploitation and yet rises above it. Same effect on sciences, art and culture. We copy and ape the west because our systems were destroyed. Science, art and culture suffered the same fate. 4. Here you go https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_system_in_India#During_British_rule_(1857_to_1947) . Caste is the amalgam of British imposition of rigid class, race pseudoscience and legal barring of fluidity. This is basic Wikipedia stuff. Can quote academic research if need be.
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  1823. Some observations: 1. The conflation of AIT and AMT is not deliberate on Abhijit's side. This is mainstream in social sciences, academia and media on India. Abhijit is taking potshots at the whole academia, not geneticists. Indology and Indian history is the literal and proverbial backyard where the west till today runs it's methodological experiments. N@z1s did not pick the term "@ry@n" for no small reason. They felt comfortable enough to coopt the identity because they "had the methodology on their side". 2. For the uninitiated, it is not just "Right wing" "religious" "extremists" who are both angry and invested in this topic but anyone who wants keep India as a nation. The essential charge against Indian nation and Hinduism is "upper caste Hindus are also outsiders, so the country and the religion is a fabrication" people differ on the outcome after this, some want the social disenfranchisement of upper castes and some want to rethink nationhood. 3. Abhijit's video is meant for mass consumption but i have seen/heard 2 very strong arguments against the current consensus: a. All models between AIT and AMT have borrowed from social sciences, linguistics particularly which has preserved it's historical bias towards AIT. This is particularly seen in the concept of ghost languages where it's always assumed to travel west to east. b. Indian Genetic data is hard to come by, even more so after GoI banned any foreign entities and nationals from collecting, Reich has been accused of representing Pakistani and Afghan as placeholders. I even heard Razib Khan say Pakistan holds all the keys to genetic research on Indian people groups today(i was present in the clubhouse room where this was discussed).
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  1872. Ā Varghese JacobĀ  if I have the wrong data, please answer rhe following questions: 1. Why did Maharashtra experience the surge starting in Februarywith less testing? Data source: https://cvstatus.icmr.gov.in/ 2. If the higher rate can be explained away with higher testing in the south (which you can see is not true in the above database), why did the cases spike before the elections elsewhere, when Kumbh and elections had not started? 3. This was a case of slow rise with multiple appeals of adherence from states . Evidence Maharashtra: https://www.timesnownews.com/mumbai/article/another-covid-19-lockdown-in-mumbai-mayor-says-no-call-taken-yet-decision-in-the-hands-of-people/720960 Karnataka: https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/coronavirus/news/mumbai-mayor-kishori-pednekar-warns-of-another-covid-19-lockdown/articleshow/80982715.cms 4. Even with testing, what part did the evolution of the strain have to do with the stats? It's now known that RTPCR is unable to pick up the virus https://www.timesnownews.com/india/article/rt-pcr-test-unable-to-detect-mutant-coronavirus-variant-many-new-symptoms-being-seen-doctor/748861 5. How do you draw causality between mismanagement on the north and spike in cases? There are enough reference for instance that pre election Kerala ids the source of spike in Bengaluru. https://www.deccanherald.com/state/karnataka-districts/covid-19-positivity-rate-high-among-kerala-students-in-dakshina-kannada-965432.html https://www.deccanherald.com/city/covid-19-cluster-among-kerala-students-in-bengaluru-951007.html https://www.indiatoday.in/coronavirus-outbreak/story/covid-19-negative-report-must-for-students-tourists-traveling-from-kerala-to-karnataka-1769912-2021-02-16 Does this warrant me as a kannadiga to start hating on Malyalis like you are doing to North Indians? All due respect, you are locked into a social media bubble like most people stuck between either right wing screeching and left wing whining. You have approached this with the perpetrator already decided. Please don't pretend that you have gone beyond the news titles and made an independent analysis. Mix your content between right, center and left wing, understand each has their agenda and independently verify information for a holistic analysis.
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  1908. Ā @sajeevramakrishnan1408Ā  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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  2043. I have an education in economics and want to go beyond the petty politics of pro and anti BJP. There are interesting implications of these moves: 1. Important things to keep in mind: 2k notes are temporary. Govt has stopped printing them; this is not India's first demonitization and the demand for such a move existed in the non-political executive. (In all the points, when I say government, I refer to the Indian govt not BJP, congress or any other party or tenure) 2. The major objective was elimination of accumulated black money which has failed. What has succeeded is it is a lot harder to keep black money. ED expansion indicates that the govt machinery has identified sources and repositories of black money in society which will result in the prosecution of individuals and institutions that kept black money. Short term loss, long term win. 3. There is a trend towards reducing cash supply in the economy. One way or another rupee is acquiring a digital dimension which means seigniorage is more efficient but in the long run, dependency on cash is now a fragility. Future governments will not have the ability to address a bank run and we might need to look at legislation that makes it compulsory to keep a percentage of money supply as cash and/or introduce new monetary devices and/or opening up institutional currency to the public. 4. The sovereignty of the country against economic malice is better addressed than at any point in the past. This ensures a steady rupee but the greatest danger now becomes the government itself. We have printed money and had a fiscal deficit for every single budget. Unlike the previous point, there is Good news on this front. Govt has adhered to RBI directive on fiscal responsibility of the state and center and we will be seeing major changes between 2025-30. 5. The population is completely unaware of the critical challenge that faces us. Do we want a rising rupee or more rupees. In 10 years, are you ok with your property rising in value by 30% but inflation remains stable or do you want 300% rise in the value of your property but rupees buy you less each year?
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  2363. Ā @MM-ue4olĀ  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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  2384. Ā @navdeepsugandhi6476Ā  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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  2407. Ā @user_chestnutĀ  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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  2426. Ā @afsanakhan7071Ā  1. The comparision between Hitler was apt. They were both men put into tough untenable positions and both chose horrible routes which from their lens seemed necessary. The only exception is that Hitler is despised in the modern world and his work is separated from the man in recognition of the evil deeds. Aurangzeb on the other hand has seen multiple attempts to exonerate him from his deeds and the fact that his document is used for jurisprudence for modern Indian Muslims is baffling at the very least. 2. Aurangzeb did not have the strongest army in the world, just the subcontinent. And even that is contestable considering that the bloat led the coffers dry. It was the end of economics of war. 3. It's laughable to think that Aurangzeb was kind to the majority when the hatred for him permeates from pre British sources. He is being judged from his own records, that he took pride in. He even tried to deface and destroy Ellora(if you have ever been there the cannon marks are still prominent), an abandoned temple and monestry at the time. There are numerous edicts that implicate his hatred for other communities. 4. It's true that he had the highest wealth, but that statement in of itself the betrays a lack of understanding of the Mughal royal court economy. A rich royal does not make a country prosperous. A lot of his opposition including the deccan sultanate was due to his bad economics. 5. How are the Mughals the founders of India? That statement is not true from any framework, India was geographically united multiple times. The name Bharat predates the Mughals and even the Turkic slave empire by millenia. Why is the epic named Mahabharat in that case?
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  2533. Ā @bulthaosen1169Ā  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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  2636. Ā @KK-fi6msĀ  1. Environmental change will happen even if the population decreases as energy intensity is on the rise regardless of the population. Climate change isn't just increase of hydrocarbons in atmosphere. It's a breakdown of systems and cycles in environment and nature. You can't return to the same kind of nature without getting rid of technology that dates back to 17th century. 2. No country has recovered from structural population declines. It can recover from events of major population declines like wars and epidemics. It cannot outlast a culture of low fertility rates. EU and NA are turning the rest of the world into human farms to attempt to keep up the rate of growth. We can't do that. A decline in our population results in migration outwards not inwards. 3. There is no AI system in the world yet, what we have is ML and DL models. People will still be required but with a higher rate of depth and width of knowledge. We are at least 50 years away from full fledged AI. Even if AI becomes the norm, we have space exploration, space mining and space industry which will have to employ humans. 4. What we need is more Ambani's, Adanis and Murthys. They bring trade to India by consolidation. Infosys has no single global product or patents but they birthed the IT industry. Ambani's and Adanis will create a new wave of companies based on their platforms. Content creation and education is already a huge platform due to Jio making the internet accessible. Adani's infra and energy is going to power through the next wave of industrial expansion. We lack the understanding of why countries like US are so innovative. It's not the software companies, they have aggregators which make platforms cheaper. Indians only look at Edison while hating JP Morgan and Vanderbilt. Our Edisons have to move in search of these enablers.
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  2676. Ā @lohitroy5938Ā  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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  2757. Ā @rishabhkhatriĀ  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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  2758. Ā @rishabhkhatriĀ  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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  2903. Ā @debopamghatak9875Ā  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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  2959. Ā @vanduzzz8093Ā  1. Are governments there to get praise from academia or is it there to effectively govern? China gets a lot of criticism for not having FoS but no one doubts its state machinery and it's effectiveness. I see a similar trend with West Bengal (I lived 2 years in Bandel and half a year in Burdwan), they focused on HDI, local governance etc and the state turned from India's best during independence to one of the bottom now. I got the best education of my life there but I had locals reaching out to my father for jobs in Karnataka, ironically even my school teachers. Larger question is I am not doubting the sincerity of those efforts but what is the end goal? What is the best way to extract maximum value? 2. I'd buy your statement of lack of support from Central government and high level of competition if I did not stay in Karnataka. As one of my mallu friends succinctly put it "if you want to be someone in Kerala, first thing is get out". Kerala is sending it's best students especially to neighbouring states. Second thing is Bengluru developed ots engineering scene without government support. RV, PES, BMS, MS Ramaiah, Dayanand Sagar were all by private individuals. IISc was there but they do not have a engineering stream till date. You can see the same in Dharwad, Mysore, Coimbatore, Pilani and many other cities. The best way seems to be industry and social investment into education. It's not the exception it's the rule. What is the use of 100% literacy if people don't have a single national level private university or industry? 3. I personally hate this "South India is better because of education" syndrome. Local people are just as "bad" as "North Indians". Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh are electing based on caste and even elected multiple movie stars, the absolute worst conflation of democracy and populism. This thread shows, why is criticism of a government priority taken as hatred of people?
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  2985. Ā @NubbdyĀ  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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  3121. Ā @garyishĀ  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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  3197. Ā @chaitanyarao4128Ā  5. Education vs literacy vs non literacy: this is extremely subjective to the stage of development, India is a mostly literate country(74.04%), for us a focus literacy is required but the system is being built to encourage higher education. What this means in practice is the syllabus for secondary school is set to the level of creating an arts student(focus on literature through poetry and (famous/eminent) author driven content in every state/language) and doctor/engineer(maths, biology and physics). The system is not built for the average Indian but it's outliers who are celebrated(Again Engineers, doctors and authors). Commerce is relegated to the side not by evil intent or ignorance but by its philosophical position(why should a child settle to become a trader when they can become an engineer?) There is no school on earth that can teach markets, organic communication and negotiation. These are experiential. But this is precisely the skillset Indians need. Markets prefer a dropout who self taught video editor serving a global audience as they are more productive than an engineer who scored high but has zero practical skills. Should education/literacy be free?: We cannot have one size fits all. We cannot afford it. The nations who have such policies have oil wealth(Norway), sovereign wealth funds or inherited wealth(rest of Europe). Not even the US, Canada or developed East Asia have historically had free education. For India, can we have free literacy for a limited time in states that have GDPS avg under National avg like Jharkhand? Yes. Closer to the national average? No. Higher than the national average? Definitely no.
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  3198. Ā @chaitanyarao4128Ā  7. What is so bad about education? I am not opposed to education, but our focus on education is for all the bad reasons. You are supposed to seek education as a tool for your passion. But we have inverted the cause and effect. No surprise that Indians become engineers first and then think about their career path later. You don't seek education to find your passion. No wonder the average engineering graduate is not market ready, because it was never their inclination. The colleges are not doing a bad job, they have deal with 80% crowd who have no interest in being there. The child who is genuinely interested in the field will find a path to a good job irrespective of the quality of school or college. If I were to use an analogy, our society is overworking, investing it into a bad business over and over again and expecting a different outcome all for the sake of mimicking developed nations. To share a personal anecdote i became an economist not because of a teacher or inspirational book or someone told me about the profession, but debating on social media, Orkut and Facebook. I found myself seeking out academic work to defend my statements and positions and somehow I wound up having a decade long career with academia and multinational consulting companies. I'd have been a mediocre engineer. Unfortunately our society is not willing to meet demand at supply level and we end up thinking there is something wrong with individuals or even our own country. We need to stop this obsession. End thread.
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  3408. @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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  3463. Ā @SoumitraKhirpaiĀ (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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  3464. Ā @SoumitraKhirpaiĀ  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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  3487.  @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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  3674. Ā @pardeeptandonĀ  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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  3711. Ā @vishwassharma9856Ā  I would not be able to share identifiable details as this is a borrowed alt account. I am in my early 30's. Have a specialization in micro-econ from a University abroad. A decade experience in consultation and part time academia. Currently on a health break except my consulting. I don't think I can share career advice as I was privileged enough to get opportunities. But try to read as much as you can, even Wikipedia and go down rabbit holes. Don't stop at wiki, try and read the reference section to find papers on academic websites. 2. I am volunteer with sangh affiliates so I am obviously biased towards BJP. Treat my take with a heap of salt. What i will do instead is provide a framework to think about any govt. 3. Any govt has 3 things to take care of expense(salaries)- welfare(subsidies)- Investment (infra/platforms) which needs to be balanced. India is currently ruled by the Sen(HDI focussed) vs Bhagwati(Infra focussed) debate. Left and liberals follow Sen and BJP/Some elements in Congress/TDP follow Bhagwati. This is also known as the Gujarat model vs Kerala model debate. Sanjeev sanyal dates it back to socialist Ashokan economy vs capitalist Arthashastra. 4. The feature of the Sen model is to reduce Investment and focus on expense and welfare. This is great for creating depth models like ISRO, IIT, general education, healthcare and welfare of the poor. It's drawback is the money is generated by taxing the success of the depth model. This leads to capital and talent flight. Things are good till they are suddenly not like UPA II or worse Sri Lanka. It invariably leads to a remittence economy where you have to export people who may choose to settle abroad. If a vast majority do, your nation suffers a BoP crisis and fails. 5. Bhagwati model is minimises welfare to create space for investment and expense. This is good at creating the width of businesses. A good road between states creates trade and network effect. It's drawback is people suffer if they don't have skills, money and social capital. Rich and the Middle class gets richer at the expense of poor, tribals and minorities in India's case. The trade is also pretty basic for the majority of the economy in the short run. There is strong evidence and correlation that this morphs into depth model like Japan, SEA tigers, Korea and China which turned textiles, plastics and assembly into high tech but it takes time and majority of people will fall off. There is an added danger of backing the wrong business, suffering Dutch disease or being impacted by international factors. 6. Obviously I have oversimplified both sides of the argument; BJP or any other party have mixed and matched both models; and there is evidence of the current government using a third way(Investment+welfare at the cost of expenses this learning to a hiring freeze on govt jobs). Treat this comment as a small limited peek, use Google, Wikipedia, academic websites, books and journals to make up your own mind. Hope this helps.
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