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India sent out vaccines to 70 countries even as she herself was suffering in the crisis.

Millions of does were given out for free to the most vulnerable and poorest countries.

We were all witness to what was happening in the "wealthy liberal world" .....

You can label it what you want, but the world is much better off with India.

Yet when you consider history, it the Indian Muslims who had killed, raped and/or displaced millions of Hindus and Sikhs.

Inflation is high because of supply shortages and lower production, increasing rates would mean increasing the cost of setting up new supplies or production lines.

Manipulating interest rates works when under otherwise normal condition the government wants to prevent overheating economy or to provide stimulus during a down cycle.

It is not immediately clear if the rate increases is going to help increase production or stabilise supply chains, perhaps just the contrary.

Illegal foreign sqatters and people who drive out locals through riots to capture more land through j!had.

But US and Europe has increased it's purchase by 8 and 15 percent respectively

The current Modi government is held to a much higher standard than the previous congress dynasty.

Freedom of speech is much worse in non BJP states like Tamil Nadu.

There is a huge cabal of bureaucracy, media, academia, judiciary and foreign institutions that profited handsomely under the corruption ecosystem built by the congress.

They are infuriated by the people's choice of a more honest and a non-dynast like Modi.

We are talking about freedom of speech in the UK, and in general.

There is nothing inflammatory in his speech yet it gets reported s i$l##*bia

Why should the country suffer the fanatic beliefs of a few rioters, have we not tried to settle that once and for all in 1947 at a huge price.

It is one of several patterns I have just noticed in the past couple of weeks

US made a human rights comment.

Germany media made a big deal about the oil purchase, trying to deflect attention from their own increased purchase.

And as a former colonialist I couldn't expect the UK not come up with it's own act.

Collective guilt works both ways especially among democratic countries of which India is thr largest and US the oldest.

It shows the duplicity and double standards

When the west starts point fingers at India for - free speech, human rights, co2 emissions or for that matter oil imports from Russia.

There is still a colonial mindset at the institutional level where they believe they can just pass arbitrary unfounded judgments and the world has no choice but to accept it.

But clearly the data exposes their duplicity.

If you have not noticed there was rioting in Sweden, attacks on Easter parade in Spain, and multiple counts of riots and attacks on Hindu processions in India.

Perhaps it is a correlation between hunger and anger, or perhaps the more regular congregation is convenient opportunity for riots.

Evangelists, Colonialist, Colonial apologists & Leftists have a perverse incentive in theorising & establishing a framework linking caste to Indians & Hindus along with exaggerations and hiding equally bad or worse examples from Europe.

It would only be fair to look at the opposing views and reject or reevaluate theories that are on thin ice.

Jati & Varna are two separate ideas, "Indian caste system" is an import and a framework trying to combine the two.

Why do we keep using the word "caste", when we talk about Jati. A lot of Jatis do not see themselves as lower & upper and there are thousands of Jatis so no one is carrying around a dictionary to see where they stand.

People rarely talk ever about "their" varna and the vast majority do not see themselves or their jati falling into a specific varna.

70% of the temples in Tamil Nadu have priests from the Jati that built the temple and non-brahmins, there falls the idea "Brahmins" exclusively being the priestly class.

So anyone married to someone from the same race is racist?

No, caste is derived from the Portuguese word "Castas" which was widely prevalent in Europe and very rigid as it was from the church.

1. Nobility

2. Clergy

3. Landowners & Merchants

4. Artisans

5. Outcasts - butchers, sanitary workers, undertakers ....

Some European countries still legally protect a lot of family names, which you would have to buy if you need a fancy royal name.

There is also a general belief that

  1. Sikhs & Gurkhas are warrior class, they are overrepresented in the military.
  2. Parsi's are extraordinarily successful businessmen, they are among the wealthiest Indians.
  3. Brahmins are extraordinarily successful academically.
  4. Jains are successful businessmen.

Let us remember that 1-3 were co-opted by the British as loyal troops, given special concessions in business, and employed as loyal servants in clerical tasks.

In the case of [4] it is survival bias, being a true Jain is very hard and only the rich elite could adhere to it.

Some communities in India have had a head start or rather the barbaric colonial rule had pulled down much of the population to abject poverty and gave few people not in abject poverty a head start.

Equally there is a special hate campaign against Brahmins emanating from church as they are seen as guardians of high culture and scriptures.

As a vast majority of Indians have not converted to Islam or Christianity in spite of the hostile foreign occupation anywhere between 400 to a 1000 years, I can safely say we are all warriors and the last surviving major ancient civilisation.

The caste-debate is a two way street and is mostly kept alive by few vested interests. Among the youth it is mostly the "reservation" that exposes them to "Caste politics", as online education & private sector picks up it is going to be less relevant.

To be fair to Brahmins, as non-brahmin with a brahmin-like first name from Tamil Nadu I have been at the receiving end of the political-church driven hate campaigns that even teachers take part in.

I think we should not tolerate any kind of hate especially hate campaigns, esp. for the younger generation.

US foreign policies are sometimes driven by lobbying and vote banks.

"Human rights abuse" is a policy arm of the US clearly used as a weapon against hostile rivals.

It is a clear message to Indians that the US does not consider them an ally.

And that the US will continue to back and use its arms in India - Church, Media, Academia, Leftist groups to destabilise, and support secessionist movements with an intent to eventually weaken or break up the country.

Sometimes it appears as if the US does things just because it can, this is definitely a big blunder in foreign relations.

It is possible that a lot of it was done at the province level.

There are incentives to both under report & over report (to get more resources allocated).

Forget automation or the complexity of language or interpretation, use of slang.

Simply put social media should not be monitoring content other than graphic ones where it is clearly a violation.

It is only expected to take down content based on government or court orders.

One of the reasons why I have a big problem with social media moderating content is that it provides perverse incentives for the stronger party to stifle freedom of speech. A lot can be left to interpretation.

I remember the time India had to pay for its Iranian oil (which btw. now is currently down to 0)

Surprise, surprise it had to do the payments through German banks, which btw is part of NATO.

It is a bit hypocritical for the west to expect India to act as a client state while NATO states like Germany continue to buy Russian gas.

While NATO had placed sanctions on Iran, we had to pay for our oil imports through German banks, so a bit unsure if the German would ever leave money on the table.

Corruption in India like in many excolonies was once a morally legitimate way to escape draconian colonial barriers to basic rights.

As India has continued to inherit these institutions it would be hard to just reform it, it would have to completely replace it with digitization and stripping laws of unnecessary complexities.

At least the center had made great progress wiping out entire sections of colonial era laws.

If you can not see through how people with rifles are going to defeat the world's second or third strongest military.

It is not like the Russians have a logistics disadvantage, they are literally surrounding Ukraine.

As much as I might be disillusioned, the very fact of pressing citizens to carry rifle, and making them believe they are "winning" is my definition of human shield.

It is fool hardy to believe that the Russian forces are "not militarily capable" of doing to Ukraine what the US did in Iraq. Reduce cities to rubble, given the logistical advantage compared to what the US did in Iraq.

I guess their objectives are pretty straight forward and since they are ethnically same as the Ukrainians do not target civilians.

What worries me is the use of civilians as human shields, even reports of Indian students being locked up by the Ukrainian forces to be used as human shields.

Let us remember that the US was ' ' close to carpet bombing Cuba during the cuban missile crisis. If you share borders with a regional superpower, stop dreaming about getting in bed with their enemies, let alone military ties.

TLDR;

Every major school or lineage originating from Sanathana Dharma insists on the importance of a guru's guidance and/or initiation. Yet people decide to ignore it and think Apps can/should replace a guru.

Going it alone comes with its risks, there are many who have done it having taken extreme plunges, some throwing away their last piece of clothing (or their kingdoms) to erase themselves of the memory & attachment to their past.

Bringing it into our narrow world view trivialises this seeking, yes it is not the same, few people have true seeking to understand/experience reality.

This might actually depress tech salaries in non-tech companies.

As is the discrepancy in titles is significant.

Neither Boris Johnson nor Biden is trust worthy.

India's neutral stance is commendable, there is a line open to Russia.

The west has done nothing material on the ground other than lightning up their embassies or hoisting Ukrainian flags.

The west has been using Ukraine as a proxy to engage in an unwinnable war with Russia.

Propping up a neo-nazi using street violence in a country where the west has no cultural affiliation was the beginning of the conflict.

Let us remember that the "farmers" protests in India went on for more than a year without any emergency being declared.

Your examples are very suspect a lot of Hindu on Hindu atrocities and Hindu on Buddhist atrocities is entirely manufactured.

Especially suspect given that they were fighting a Nawab.

And that doesn't say much given the long history.