Marketime: May 2016

Monday, May 16, 2016

Jitan Ram Manjhi to steer anti-Reservation stir

May 15, 2016: Bihar ex-CM Jitan Ram Manjhi addressing anti-Reservation meet in Delhi today; Shant Prakash Jatav presided.

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Jadavpur women have no shame; visiting temple wearing nightie

Yeah I'm Agusta Patrakar & a Presstitute & a Sickular and Anti National. And I have two Muslim Husbands. Now? https://t.co/Q4fqjNBqqf

@BDUTT yet you are a powerful and strong woman who has tolerated every useless tweet with such smart replies haha, more power to you

@brumbyOz Don't get me started on those so called Islamic reformers. Most of them don't even know the religion that well.

@mlechchha Good you acknowledge that Mainstream Church propaganda is as loony as fringe Hindutva pamphleteering @TheJaggi

@mlechchha @prasannavishy @TheJaggi I'm critical of the Hindutva fringe historians too. But few of them have the institutional patronage

@bainjal chant Bharat Mata ki Jai and use rape analogies to demean women! Sickening stuff! Shame on @BJP4India @narendramodi @PMOIndia

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/730310633405681664

But perception matters more than reality in politics. Nasib in Delhi, DNA in Bihar, Somalia in Kerala: poor choice of words. Avoidable.

https://t.co/EVDjXMFyUI Part of "if we do not criticise, then we will be like congress" syndrome. Forgetting, congress ruled for 60 years!

No one talks of expressing dissent in party forums, any more. Now, dissent is being driven out of Twitter also. This is how fascism devours.

So @OpIndia_com has published my article. These 'liberals' will abuse you even for speaking up, but speak up: https://t.co/QkOnbA8nbD

When “liberals” targeted my family for cracking jokes on Congress leaders - @rahulroushan speaks out https://t.co/eT0iY5qR02
Must read story by @rahulroushan on how the Media never covers the abuse that Cong/AAP's critics like us receive. https://t.co/LHsls923z0
Media paints Modi's critics as the victim of abuse, while ignoring the fact that abuse is an inherent vice of an open platform.
@India_Policy Sadly propagandist portals & liberals run stories on rogue like @ShirishKunder but never on genuine debater like @rahulroushan
"Why do trolls remind you to say “our respected PM”? Why was the PM not respected then?" @ShirishKunder: https://t.co/VRiarE2asv
Know how @ShirishKunder often steps on trolls' jugular vein. A must read interview. https://t.co/CB5e1vTXw1
Alleged humorist Sirish Kunder claimed Con party leaders are joke-friendly. Was he joking? @rahulroushan reveals https://t.co/GSMNnhoz7W

Who will protect doctors like @WrongDoc and myself from harassment on account of our political beliefs?

@WrongDoc also who are all these doctors discussing politics and religion with their patients?I'm doing well if I cover all relevant topics.

I believe in my freedom of personal opinion & expression; am sure as a human being I'm allowed that, despite my profession. @nayanikaaa

Believing that anyone would be devoid of an ideological leaning because of their profession is stupid. @nayanikaaa

Leaving personal ideas/ belief systems away from professional work is a norm, or else no Christian would become an obstetrician @nayanikaaa

This is how you condition the reader, reinforce the same half truths, again and again and again.... https://t.co/F9GXhF0g7E

Disturbing that @aruns_nambiar got so abusive before all facts were out

@kalidasaghori @criticfrommars @abhiztweets @ChennaiCA @motupataluji

https://twitter.com/LearntLies/status/730155697250263042

Credibility needs facts & logic, not arrogant word-play.

@aruns_nambiar @kalidasaghori @criticfrommars @abhiztweets @ChennaiCA @motupataluji

I don't nurse any visceral dislike for non-Indians. Knowledge has to be respected from whichever source it comes without denouncing someone as sepoy, Abrahamic, or questioning his motives. My point is to avoid rabid partisanism and judge each scholar's work on merit sans motivated metanarratives.

Agreed! Yet Sir, some of the arguments and evidence is establishing beyond doubt that the motives are questionable. I agree 'anger' needs to be kept in check...

How utterly disgusting. Is this an official party handle? What on earth is going on https://t.co/orUTCowB47

@bainjal @sagarikaghose What kind of families they come from? Doesnt take even a min.4 them 2 threaten/curse a lady with rape& gangrape!!

https://twitter.com/varunmehra/status/730379221231489024

On Firstpost, most abuse aimed at women, esp when writing on politics & any1 suspected of harbouring liberal values. https://t.co/H4EuPc13L6

@ElChaudhry Most #Presstitutes are mercilessly mocked because "serving the public" isn't their motto, they spread fud.

Any wonder that this disgustingly abusive handle is followed by @narendramodi . #Sickening https://t.co/iqERQ61WTi

@HinduRajyam He used the word Hindu just to fool others. He is a convert just like G Surya. Sick Convert. @RURALINDIA

Eastern #India has brains, western India #lacks #brains: #BJPMP

https://t.co/mz5GD0W7ER

'Budhha in a traffic jam' director @vivekagnihotri blasts Jadavpur University students;fiery speech goes viral https://t.co/uuR74sPVpq

These people, these shameless people claim to be the guardians of bhartiya sanskriti, preach morality blah blah blah

https://t.co/XJYeH7hOJ2

Modi's " student wing" ABVP says Jadavpur women can't be molested because they have no shame". @nsui @IYC @INCIndia https://t.co/5CWPJMbgNL

Last heard she was trying a "nighty" entry to temple https://t.co/OtaO64rswX

Me visit temples in various towns resonably often--yet to see one woman in nightie visiting --why BBB, is moharamming:)))

https://twitter.com/rvaidya2000/status/729331561343025152

I have honestly never seen any woman entering a temple wearing a nightie! Why such boards in the first place. https://t.co/BBHN1OsqC6

One wouldnt go to restaurants, pubs, bars, weddings, offices in nighties, but they want to go to temple in nightie?

https://twitter.com/neha_aks/status/729292653871960064

Personally woman in temple in nightie is good idea but fitness std shud be of beach. Will boost temple attendance https://t.co/JDNrhE9Tl9

@neha_aks @saranstm You have problem with women in nightie, what about sadhus going naked ? Go to temple to see God, not what others wear

@VJsapps Nudity is part of hindu culture but I am pointing to the hypocrisy of these women who want to wear nighties only for temples.

https://twitter.com/saranstm/status/729341203251011585

Monday, May 09, 2016

Mudha Rajiva and Sri Sri nobel foot and half beard

Assorted tweets:

Amazing article on changing situations in the #education system. #MustRead https://t.co/ZytROb5v7M

Reality strikes you hard! https://t.co/WICMk8wlCb

#OpenMinds2016: @Chikisarkar to democratise reading and to put it into the hands of millions https://t.co/z5pK7Z2IUl https://t.co/sJtuhaddFs

Excellent piece by @Santwana99: From Bofors to Agusta, netas are carrion-birds hovering over a raft of dead values. https://t.co/QsSZHw2tbQ

1) Indians in general hardly understand market failure and ask for state intervention everywhere. Read this: https://t.co/3dgR69uvrc

2) Classic cases where govt intervention might be useful, when markets fail(not in commie sense):

https://t.co/3dgR69uvrc

@Rjrasva This forms the base to think about direction of population migration. And shown very well in Lucotte G. https://t.co/xTt3vvIksJ

@yugaparivartan He answered this on FB in response to another poster

Snippet is from reply

https://t.co/XHORTPjMh2 https://t.co/Rz99DkI0av

@Rjrasva Shared ancestry still does not tell about direction, but I expected it given Lucotte G paper. See table https://t.co/BcXFS2a8WS

@kw841 True. But read these two articles on why we think otherwise:

https://t.co/luLeGgG6Tq

https://t.co/BcXFS2a8WS

6)Please refer to these articles with link on recent study by Lucotte G.

https://t.co/BcXFS2a8WS and

https://t.co/luLeGgG6Tq

2)U cite a paper which itself takes no stand on AIT/OIT. David Reich et al:https://t.co/NChy5xHRI8 https://t.co/ew3p4s2Fkb

ROFL,Some blogs started by twitter Hindutva warriors even supported the bastard twitter AIT kingpin blog https://t.co/hhO3CgAlZE

The giants among the lilliputs https://t.co/Ly1hpnMvbO via @blog_supplement

@guNagarbhaH I don't have any good solutions. In the least the problem should be recognized and studied carefully before reaching solutions

@guNagarbhaH is all I am saying. Touched upon here: https://t.co/icIPFuzWYP

@ColonelGerard the transition to modernity the H were not able retain&upgrade their apparatus of knowledge production with too much success

https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/729358122033221632

@ColonelGerard intelligence as fellows like mUDha rAjIva, in study of history as Talageri, & are science has not exactly had much to show

Rajiv Malhotra shares foreword of his book ‘Academic Hinduphobic’ https://t.co/38EBPo2eKR via @NewsGram1

Sri Aurobindo and his Idea of India – Anirban Ganguly https://t.co/leWHJqk2xB https://t.co/doSuymQqFT

Read Anirban Ganguly's Column: Indic Thought Inspiring Great Minds Holds Many Lessons https://t.co/opr1O32kch

India and the human cycle - How Sri Aurobindo's theory of human cycles applies to today's world. https://t.co/RNlvdC8WBz

@CholericCleric Dayanand Saraswati and Aurobindo Ghose are very good reads. They argue that Vedas are not books of history to start with.

Musings on AIT, Genetics, and Accusations of Racism: https://t.co/n7IGk6fzVW . My effective refutation of Shrikant Talageri's claims & OIT.

Aryan Invasion Theory: Other debunking evidences (Part III) - https://t.co/TN7P28wQ3Y via @yugaparivartan read

Why is a popular guru like Sri Sri Ravi Shankar attracting so much criticism? My column in Deccan Chronicle https://t.co/YLsbiwgeKw

Nothing Vedic in ‘Vedic Maths’ – C. K. Raju http://t.co/ANwlmg5sKK

Ayn Rand’s thought has a fundamental shortcoming; and a response to Alex Tabarrok’s question https://t.co/MdP5su81TA

I’m downgrading Ayn Rand; her active promotion of bribery is a major blot on her #philosophy https://t.co/al96THqssF

Yes! Sanskrit is not a "dead language" or a "code" to be unlocked. It's an entryway to worlds of thought. https://t.co/w9oX2YdVJg

I did a blog: "Karma & Rebirth: The Basics." https://t.co/yVvHDI6Buv < an intro for my book. Agreements and disputes.

The Rocky Origins of Life https://t.co/84YvzTrAGZ < how life may have got started at hydrothermal vents

Oriya cuisine rarely features among the popular Indian food cultures today. Here's why:

https://t.co/muArRGyd9y

झूठ,बेईमान व्यक्ति सिर्फ अपने को सुर्ख़ियो मे बनाएं रखने के लिए खुरापात करता है।

देश का सबसे कलंकित और झूठा नेता (?)

https://t.co/UrQ7AI3nZ2

Shekhar Kapoor has been extremely quiet on #AgustaBombshell ?? Was he bribed ? https://t.co/9pc8MCFkXi via @indiaopines

@LearntLies [You see these H shouting "AIT is so bad. It means our religion was imported"] https://t.co/sA2eYv5fAT

https://t.co/x8jUyCayWd

[highlight our past achievements should also be given a very unbiased and objective assessment of our past failures] https://t.co/IoY61nvrpq

Savitri Era Open Forum: Voltaire, Darwin, Husserl, and Sri Aurobindo https://t.co/mJdv6qOFBz

rainbOwther: Guha, Foa, Verghese, and Danino https://t.co/LA7uprevp6

Two days National Conference inaugurated at NITTE https://t.co/JBChQdCJld #Nitte #NewsNirantara

Adam Smith's Lost Legacy https://t.co/w5UOwgjvYl

A brilliant article on how people are suckered by hdfc life and its partners, by Charles Assisi https://t.co/YM1pqZBguT

Personality cult & Supremo dominated politics has reached a ridiculous extent in India.TN is Amma of this phenomenon https://t.co/gK6KotXUZ2

"Why do trolls remind you to say “our respected PM”? Why was the PM not respected then?" @ShirishKunder: https://t.co/VRiarE2asv

My column in this issue @pbhushan1 Do read! https://t.co/quJmFvgJpW

How Neuroscientists Explain the Mind-Clearing Magic of Running https://t.co/ZE2gl3KfpG via @thescienceofus

Hinduism and the caste system, by Amal Kiran..disciple of Sri Aurobindo http://t.co/E1pWE96zqv

Here @dikgaj provides a fantastic insight into why `mainstream Hindus' hate Revolutionaries https://t.co/Fks5r1LMcl

An Indigenous View Of The Hindu Identity.

https://t.co/kALsdONAaL

.@sarkar_swati @kartheeque @maidros78

Traditionalist may befriend Reformist but always hates radical Fundamentalist.

https://t.co/Wxk0zmySy8

The history of India’s freedom struggle can't be properly recorded without mentioning #AnushilanSamiti & #Jugantar. https://t.co/ZyC9D6fcSp

@ColonelGerard @Dirghakarna my own view is that Indian history is incomplete without solving central problem of identity of Vikramaditya

@KalavaiVenkat @ColonelGerard these three books by RRMR I found to be pretty interesting..rewriting Indian timeline https://t.co/Ai6igswrHe

@ColonelGerard @Dirghakarna no he places the nandas around 1000bc, which itself might be debatable https://t.co/ITyf8QC9nr

@kw841 @blog_supplement I use IA. People should get used to science. One can't be in denial of biological basis of race, ethnicity & caste.

“..the ultimate question of the Proto-Indo-European homeland is unresolved by our data.” - David Reich. https://t.co/KJpD6wFgZB

Posting this story again not without a reason: https://t.co/KMN1gc7NWb

Twinkle jokes about Sri Sri, Akshay Kumar's Housefull in trouble?

Hindustan Times -Twinkle, whose handle on twitter is @MissFunnyBones, wrote: “Sri Sri got his nobel foot and half beard stuck in his mouth in a yogic pose that Baba Ramdev perfected a while ago #HolyMenAndHairyTales.” She later deleted the tweet.

Monday, May 02, 2016

Dharampal, Naipaul, Elst, and Pavan K. Varma

Assorted tweets:
@SavitriEraParty @Ozymandias1993 It's unlikely that by disabling 95 % of the population, the Markets will ever be efficient.
https://twitter.com/srin151a/status/726508478064271360
@SavitriEraParty @Ozymandias1993 You speak as if English is necessary for "Markets". Tokyo's GDP is greater in nominal terms than the whole+
@SavitriEraParty @Ozymandias1993 + of India's. Some "English advantage"; if by Market you mean an endless stream of mediocre call-center+
@SavitriEraParty @Ozymandias1993 + workers, then please state it to be so. Or perhaps you're too keen on holding on to the class advantages the current states gives you. Either way, betrays a totally clueless and unimaginative mind.
@rajivchandran @SavitriEraParty @Ozymandias1993 This is whole project of Orientalism (which continues to this day).

@Ozymandias1993 @PavanK_Varma describes this in his book. Sadly his party has done zilch to rectify it. https://t.co/clFSzfLAdJ

@SavitriEraParty Ah! an Advaitin becoming modern by spewing inanities about the "Market". Well done sir. Alas, your economics is good either
https://twitter.com/srin151a/status/726524864954175488
@Ozymandias1993 @SavitriEraParty If *you* want to mine for Iron in a Gold field, that's *not* the "Market", that's *your* stupidity.
https://twitter.com/srin151a/status/726526496458727424
@Ozymandias1993 @SavitriEraParty Sensing is of course an issue, which is why such brainless "greedy" systems get stuck. +
@Ozymandias1993 @SavitriEraParty + Very well known in optimization (as @sarkar_swati would attest).
@sgpriolkar @Ozymandias1993 @sarkar_swati @SavitriEraParty ... and clearly denying access to 95% of the population is good policy. Pfft!
@sgpriolkar @maidros78 @sarkar_swati @SavitriEraParty Yes, we can achieve a monopoly over call centers and BPOs at this rate. Well done!
@sgpriolkar @maidros78 @sarkar_swati @SavitriEraParty In that case, we should beg and plead the British to come back and rule us. +
@sgpriolkar @maidros78 @sarkar_swati @SavitriEraParty + They're atleast competent at ruling a (quasi) Anglo-Saxon state!
@maidros78 @sarkar_swati @sgpriolkar @SavitriEraParty I often wonder if there are enough Indians worthy of India; esp. since this is +
@maidros78 @sarkar_swati @sgpriolkar @SavitriEraParty + the state of even the "cultural nationalism" junta (relying on Elst's obs.)
@rajivchandran @SavitriEraParty @Ozymandias1993 It's also interesting that the poverty caused by this obvious tax/gun/court powered system +
@rajivchandran @SavitriEraParty @Ozymandias1993 + is pushed on a non-existent power-structure called "caste". No one speaks of the +
@rajivchandran @SavitriEraParty @Ozymandias1993 British-engineered famines and the economic destruction of India's craftsmen. +

@rajivchandran @SavitriEraParty @Ozymandias1993 See,

https://t.co/M64ES9R8XP

No tries to untangle causality for this very reason. +

@rajivchandran @SavitriEraParty @Ozymandias1993 + They're probably aware that their orientalist projects will come to nought, if they dig+
@rajivchandran @SavitriEraParty @Ozymandias1993 +into sources like Dharampal did.
@SavitriEraParty @Ozymandias1993 Not if a feudalistic state puts it in a straight-jacket (which is what yours does).

@SavitriEraParty @Ozymandias1993 Was this also the "market" ?

https://t.co/BD66A1ex6H

@Ozymandias1993 @rajivchandran Indeed! @SavitriEraParty skirts the issue of regulation and legislation completely.
@Ozymandias1993 @rajivchandran @SavitriEraParty Markets are too "greedy" to ever be optimal in the long run (which is what legislation should achieve).

@SavitriEraParty @srin151a It almost sounds like Sri Mohapatra is talking about God. ☺️
https://twitter.com/Ozymandias1993/status/726525070701531136
@srin151a Sri @SavitriEraParty assumes that the market will fix all without accounting 4 subpar signalling sans perfect info. @sarkar_swati
@srin151a What he means is that the deracinated elite will choose for us - and he'll love their choice. @SavitriEraParty @sarkar_swati
@srin151a They'll choose to ditch Indian languages because, well they don't know any better. @SavitriEraParty @sarkar_swati
@srin151a And we faithful subjects will go along with that choice because...The Market! @SavitriEraParty @sarkar_swati
@a_r_j_u_n For all the pontification about choice, he seems to selectively favour top-down impositions. @SavitriEraParty @TejasOmkara
https://twitter.com/Ozymandias1993/status/726520218806165504
@a_r_j_u_n Here's news, @SavitriEraParty, your democratic market would never have passed the Indian Constitution. @TejasOmkara
@SavitriEraParty I see. So India is a factory of workers-to-be-exported-to-the-West, is it? That's its raison d'être?
@SavitriEraParty Hmm. So if the market tomorrow says, ditch all Indian languages, that's exactly what we should do?

@rajivchandran @Ozymandias1993 @srin151a What a fraud @SavitriEraParty . To use names of Sri Auroqindo and Mother to subvert Indian culture.
https://twitter.com/sankrant/status/726564090924027904
@Ozymandias1993 @SavitriEraParty @srin151a Market forces favoring English is a myth. #EnglishApartheid enforced by Govt. Courts, Higher-Ed.

@sankrant @Ozymandias1993 @SavitriEraParty @srin151a exactly. Imperialism/monopoly of english invisible to intelligentsia. Willful deceit?
@SavitriEraParty @Ozymandias1993 English speakers willfully oblivious to apartheid it perpetuates but gleefully project same on sanskrit.

@srin151a @Ozymandias1993 @sgpriolkar @SavitriEraParty Aurobindo wrote extensively in Sanskrit&Bangla diehard follower wants these ditched+
https://twitter.com/sarkar_swati/status/726531708305166337
@srin151a @Ozymandias1993 @sgpriolkar @SavitriEraParty So no one would be able to read Aurobindo in the language he wrote :)

Savitri Era: Sanskrit as an echo-chamber for an ecosystem built https://t.co/0klfaHSbPN

Sanskrit as echo-chamber for an ecosystem built around Mythology and Rituals
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/726762105056038913