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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

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

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"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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