Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Democracy is valuable for all of us and not only for the US

Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

We do not choose the times we live in. But we can choose the way we respond. And the response is what marks out the upright ones from the other kind.
Full Support to in her pursuit to protect dignity of men....Societies function when there is harmony and order not chaos.. #maritalrape laws must be resisted to save lives ..
musingsofakshay.wordpress.com/2022/01/25/on- A brief note on my new blog on the origins of Image and Temple worship among Hindus. I've also provided the earliest images of major Hindu Gods and Goddesses that I could collect. Please do read and share. Thank you!
Archives | The Buddha and his best-known disciple, Ashoka, seem to have recognised that combating a system as powerful as Brahmanical Hinduism required the use, for different ends, of some of the same story-telling techniques.
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As Solzhenitzyn said: "The communist regime in the east could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see communists crimes. When they could no longer do so, they tried to justify them"
Hello world, did you check out this news yet? The US backed "Taliban govt" of Afghanistan kidnapped 40 women judges just before their evacuation. Naturally, some of those judges would've passed sentences against some of the terrorists in power.
"The future of US-China relations hinges on the transformation of America's self-perception of its Cold War 'victory'" - Professor Zhang Yun of Niigata University with a fascinating short article on the old and new "Cold Wars". Summary and excerpts: 1/11
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"The disintegration of the Soviet Union was widely interpreted as an ideological victory for democracy over autocracy, upon which the US began to promote democracy around the world, primarily through economic sanctions and military intervention, the CW 'magic weapons'. 5/
"The wars in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq, on the other hand, demonstrated that the US 'magic weapons' don't work. Meanwhile, NATO's eastward expansion did not stabilize the post-Cold War European security order, but rather accelerated the US decline and regional insecurity. 6/
Zhang believes that the "new Sino-US Cold War" theory is based on the US misperception of itself as the undisputed winner of the Cold War against the Soviet Union. For Sino-US relations to return to normal, it must make a paradigm shift. 2/
US wants to kiss & make up with Beijing now that it's best laid plans to discredit Winter Olympics has no takers and fizzles out as an Anglo-Saxon storm in a Chinese tea cup. But then, time past is time present as well; this is a stark reminder!
For Beijing, history has a strong political angle. Keeping a hold on how the past is understood is an important project for the Chinese Communist Party, says domain specialist in his video column #EyeOnChina for ThePrint
The Chinese government's abysmal human rights record hasn't changed much since the last time the games were held there in 2008. ⁠ In fact, it's gotten worse. #Beijing2022 #CrimesAgainstHumanity #China (Illustration from )
In #ThePrintPod today, listen to Jyoti Malhotra's article - 'Why German naval chief wanted West to respect Putin & what India-China have got to do with it' Brought to you by Rohit Yadav Apple: apple.co/3qZYfXx
OPINION | Recognition, respect and importance of political legacies are not a simple matter of statues, holograms and flames, writes Shikha Mukerjee. #SubhasChandraBose #SriAurobindo
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Here many discussions going on , direct open criticisms and ideas, aiming to Reset Auroville as per Mother's Ideals , please have a look at it
“People say ageing diminishes ours sense of taste, but, if you think about it, our food memories get stronger,” says chef
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Listen to "Causes and Solutions for Physical Fatigue" by Sri Aurobindo Studies
A new paleoanthropological paper refutes the "meat eating drove human evolution" narrative
’If you care about animals, you should eat them.’
Many in India are perennial critics of the West but when it comes to standards, it can be judged very easily. Any one having a direct connection with Hitler can never be worthy of public adulation in the West. Heidegger and Paul de Man just had sympathies. In India Subhas is hero.