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We all know that Southern India is about 40% richer than the Indian average in PCI, while UP / BIhar are about 50% poorer than the Indian average. But when
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There are many remarkable ideas in this interview of @bryan_caplan with @nntaleb. One of them pertains to the need to impart "professional education" to school kids - an idea explored
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July 4 is celebrated as "Independence day" in all of USA. But what's not so well known is this-a) Only 13 of the current 50 states constituted the "United States"
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The United States Constitution is the supreme law of US. What's surprising is its length- 4543 words. Even if one includes the 27 amendments since 1789 we get to 7591!Contrast
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One of the fundamental features of Liberalism of any kind is a belief in the idea of "Progress" - the idea that today is always better than yesterday. And tomorrow
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Lord Meghnad Desai, the British Labour Peer in the House of Lords, wrote in his 2017 book - “Politicshock” that 2016 will go down as the year that marked the
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In 2014, the Bharatiya Janata Party, the pre-eminent center-right party in India made history by storming to power by winning a majority of seats on its own, under the leadership
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Arguments against Atheism in the Hindu tradition : How have Vedantic thinkers countered "Nastika" arguments be it from Charvakas, Lokayatas or Buddhists over the centuries? What is the HIndu counter
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Sanskrit is ofc an Indo-Aryan languageBut unlike other Indo-Aryan languages, a very significant proportion of Sanskrit literature has actually been composed in the deep South by people whose mother tongues
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One reason Sanskrit literature is underrated in the West is because its primary genius w.r.t. ingenious word-play is not graspedInstead works are evaluated purely for their "meaning"To illustrate this, let's
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Muthuvel Karunanidhi, the Chief Minister of the southern state of Tamil Nadu for 5 separate terms between 1969 and 2011, passed away on Aug 7th at the age of 94.He
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As I am reading up more on the history of Dvaita philosophy, the rise of Madhva's sect, and the traditions around Udupi temple town, I am inclined to think of
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