Just two years of hard work

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

The peopling of Oceania was the most impressive settlement in human history. It happened across a huge sea, and relied on knowledge of where the sun, stars, moon and planets rise and set.

Now those skills are being revived among a new generation econ.st/3S4bJ21 

https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1740620904810389627?t=YrEBLWgMPeCGMVYWNiCiBw&s=19

Done by Indian origin indigenes of Australia and Polynesian islanders. Similarly navigation across Arabian Sea/Indian Ocean following monsoon winds by Indian sailors. Euros never sailed out of sight of land until sine tables calculated by kerala astronomers were available

https://twitter.com/RajeevSrinivasa/status/1740622635896295848?t=ocdrp0pbzuOpibG_Zm_AGQ&s=19

Worldwide airport food expenses are around 1.5 to 2 times normal price. Indian airports are 4 to 6 times. Organised Loot. Must be going to Electoral bonds.

https://twitter.com/ChandrusWeb/status/1740622580145672566?t=9rqGVCldPqNKg2rdk-IThQ&s=19

It’s SO SO important for anyone to prepare for a competitive exam before your 20s, Just those two years of hard work prepares fighters for life, you might make it to your dream college or could tragically miss it, but that effort, that fight will see you through life. 

Eventually those people always succeed and at least reach the median of the batch of their dream college they missed.

https://twitter.com/GabbbarSingh/status/1740615883305980145?t=AaHztdaXtC2kxBpAgRt5hw&s=19

6-7 yrs of life, between 15 and 22 yrs of age - X, XII, undergrad, post-grad - the crucial-est yrs for anyone not member of the lucky sperms' club (or 20 sigma outliers like Einstein). India offers a grt deal to those kids who make that investment...

https://twitter.com/somnath1978/status/1740622137801797807?t=ZLoZTUKdgGoBcWN-9b0TKQ&s=19

The government funded “hoarding” and manipulation by the Ispahani company was a major factor behind the Bengal Famine of 1943. It was pointed out on the floor of Bengal Assembly by Nalinaksha Sanyal and SP Mookerjee. Barabazaar had nothing to do with it. Here are the records

https://twitter.com/sanjeevsanyal/status/1740321307684725221?t=WBmVKhU5Bfd8nOsx4lOR-w&s=19

My column for @opinion_tt 

“Our struggle today cannot be limited to one political party or its affiliates. Many who cannot be categorised as Right, Centre or Left are showing us their real cards. Cards that are monochrome”

https://twitter.com/tmkrishna/status/1740618183021822127?t=5JEcfadT0wvO_8nROel0dw&s=19

The Bourne Legacy "We are the sin eaters. It means that we take the moral excrement we find in this equation and we bury it down deep inside of us, so that the rest of our case can stay pure. That is the job. We are morally indefensible, and absolutely necessary.” The Bourne Legacy, which was kind of spin off is actually my favorite in the Bourne series. Watched it many times. The immorality of Edward Norton, the taking out of a drone with a rifle, the lab, the viral factory in Manila and then the assassin on streets. Top notch stuff. Then there is the key question of how do democratic rule based societies defend themselves against despicable nihilist individuals and groups which exist with a singular aim to destroy our way of life. Someone needs to take it to them.

https://twitter.com/hrnext/status/1740417301403599091?t=t3tFFoW56P8Gc64i5LW8Ng&s=19

Do you feel despondent witnessing the plight of whites? Watch amazing scene from Addio Africa (1966) showing what a "miracle" South Africa was under white rule. Way documentary suddenly moves from black chaos to white female beauty is very powerful.

https://twitter.com/dr_duchesne/status/1740410745018585470?t=Yw80BSfHJwhM44O9Fnqh3g&s=19 

So @JayantBhandari5 was telling the truth: Tribalistic, savagery, and barbarism.

https://twitter.com/marklgangmei/status/1739995015420784970?t=IYjjrk8JfduF_8dvhQ_1jA&s=19

With the institutions that the British left behind hollowed out and social opprobrium now gone, India is becoming Zimbabwe. Indians, as with most Third World people, prefer their own kind of people. This is not because they care about their own kind but because they feel at home with them and know how to exploit them. Indian IQ is 77. That makes anything to do with the mind difficult. The biological instincts are all that is left and assert themselves unhindered from the discipline that the mind could otherwise impose. The only hope was from the opprobrium that the colonizers had instituted. Thanks for the article. I am indeed on the side of those who consider Indians as "primitive, savage, uncivilized, and vicious."

https://twitter.com/JayantBhandari5/status/1739897520850108895?t=wv29CouSNoV58Lg0TyO1eA&s=19

Hindus claim to be tolerant, an image they have created in Europe. In reality, they are perhaps the most intolerant. Their relationships are based on caste, religion, what you eat, language, etc. For example, these questions and many more will be asked if you rent a house. They come across as tolerant because they are fragmented, atomized, and sheepish. They pose a limited risk, but once their jingoism and Hindutava have crystalized, the world will see the truth. From my next article: Across the spectrum of class hierarchy, you see an absence of interest in anything but money, with the bureaucrats and the police, given their lack of accountability, being outright predatory, asking for bribes on every occasion, and without an iota of inhibitions or shame in exploiting, including sexually, those who are weak. I prefer to call the Indian government the Bribe Collection Agency.

https://twitter.com/JayantBhandari5/status/1739112393555542369?t=x6vy4LzyM3BemaRFhL7_bw&s=19

This was indeed true. But I have been to 100 countries and, except for rare cases (North Korea and DRC), have not seen India-kind of lawlessness, oppression, servility, exploitation, etc. But for some shoe-shining of their junkie, braindead brown sahibs is somehow palatable.

https://twitter.com/JayantBhandari5/status/1739483778639430108?t=54KWA8qjH_O1cOw-ruXHKQ&s=19

यह बठिंडा का अजीत रोड है। विदेश भेजने की फ़ैक्ट्री। इस एक इलाक़े में सैंकड़ों की संख्या में कोचिंग संस्थान IELTS की परीक्षा की तैयारी कराते हैं। गुजरात और आंध्र प्रदेश में भी ऐसी फ़ैक्ट्री है। भारत की नागरिकता छोड़ने की अजीब होड़ है। मौक़ा मिले तो लगता है सारे एयरपोर्ट पहुँच जाएँगे।

अच्छे अवसरों की तलाश में ज़रूर विदेश जाना चाहिए और मौक़ा मिले तो बस जाना चाहिए इसमें ग़लत नहीं। लेकिन यह पलायन इसलिए हो रहा है क्योंकि यहाँ के कॉलेज ख़त्म हो रहे हैं। अच्छी सैलरी की नौकरियों की उम्मीद नारायण नारायण हो चुकी है। मूर्ति बनने से अच्छा है कनाडा चलो। 

अब तो भारत सरकार भी विदेशों में मज़दूर भेजने जा रही है। पलायन को पिछड़ापन बताने वाले भी पलायन करवाने में लगे हैं। सही है। 

बाक़ी इस रिपोर्ट में है। 

1. youtu.be/PxMicZnRXU8?si…

2. youtu.be/Sp9BsC6-w6Y?si…

https://twitter.com/ravishndtv/status/1740423068982624558?t=8cXLnxkdfXdwveXLpMd7AA&s=19

They don't believe in delegating work

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

1. This is true for most of the west, not just the states. 

2. One can engage in such hobbies when one has a decent amount of disposable income, solid infrastructure and availability of all the requisite space, materials, tools and equipment. India hasn’t reached that level.

3. This is also a cultural thing that has developed over the last 150-200 years. In that time, india and Indian society has only seen assault and occupation while the west has had time to develop and create a people who have the free time and money to engage in such activities.

4. Finally, necessity - unlike India, in the west population is limited and labour is expensive. Therefore, people like to do a lot of stuff on their own. This also then becomes an activity, turning a chore/requirement into a fun experience. 

Things aren’t so black and white.

To add to this - I suggest you read about the life of the average American 100-150 years ago. Hunting and fishing weren’t activities, and a father-son duo didn’t make tables to “bond” or “do something together”. Back then, the average American broke his back to feed his family.

https://twitter.com/btchknburrito/status/1740135849172541653?t=E437opY81v9kyHYB3FzDew&s=19

Construct & Repair stuff is not just an American thing - Europe, East Asia, Australia etc have that mentality in abundance too. Labour and those who do it are cheap in the eyes of caste -ridden Indians.

https://twitter.com/whtsmytweet/status/1740025777767547243?t=84tKofqmi704pk-EudQ4WA&s=19

It's not a feudal society. They don't believe in delegating work, unless really necessary. Also the American spirit of building something from scratch.

https://twitter.com/Swapan_Sarit/status/1740024600413839432?t=8_V7kx2_i5rRg_t4SE9mJQ&s=19

To add to this - if you think this is crazy, wait till you see what the average European does in their free time. It is common for everyone from little kids to adults to go for long treks in the mountains, skiing, or backpacking around the world and playing a sport.

https://twitter.com/btchknburrito/status/1740259542678823230?t=gJz0ZhbMojtfgd5zaj8wFA&s=19

I’ve always been fascinated by how outdoor-oriented Americans are. They’ll go fishing and hunting on weekends (??) they construct and repair stuff frequently and they have much less of an aversion to the trades?? We went to the states and one of my dad’s friends- a true white-collar desk job guy who lived here till he was FIFTY- had constructed and polished a dinner table just for fun?? I admire it so much

https://twitter.com/palaknotpaneer/status/1740014393042305373?t=iNhIhjA_vyibAwtbxOixAw&s=19

The US has a lot of issues but dignity of labour isn't one of them. There's no separate lifts for cleaners like our dirty minded apartment owners have here.

https://twitter.com/SiddhantBaner10/status/1740094527409647733?t=2xDUF5zX5icERynDt8ykuQ&s=19

A certain sect of rats abandons art in order to devote more of their time to scrounging for survival. Each generation, a bit less of this sect dies than members of the mainstream, until after a while, no rat composes any art at all, and any sect of rats who try to bring it back will go extinct within a few generations.

In fact, it’s not just art. Any sect at all that is leaner, meaner, and more survivalist than the mainstream will eventually take over. If one sect of rats altruistically decides to limit its offspring to two per couple in order to decrease overpopulation, that sect will die out, swarmed out of existence by its more numerous enemies. If one sect of rats starts practicing cannibalism, and finds it gives them an advantage over their fellows, it will eventually take over and reach fixation. ... 

Like the rats, who gradually lose all values except sheer competition, so companies in an economic environment of sufficiently intense competition are forced to abandon all values except optimizing-for-profit or else be outcompeted by companies that optimized for profit better and so can sell the same service at a lower price.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

Unchecked capitalism is a lawless society doomed to self-destruction

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

I didn’t find this article to be very convincing. But setting all that aside, I’ve always found this to be a weird framing. My sense is that growth or is just the normal byproduct of people going about their business as usual.

https://twitter.com/TheStalwart/status/1739682081590968647?t=3QFB-RITSP0DTQDnnwJ9yw&s=19

That's because you're actually a smart person instead of a weird academic and so you understand that capitalism works because it reflects human nature as selected for through thousands of generations of evolution.

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1739684729782243633?t=l4J6o4VCYLkNF4R8xkWA4Q&s=19

If capitalism reflects human nature, why did Europe have to do imperialism to get Asian and African goods before ww1? Why couldn't they just trade?

https://twitter.com/ppmcderm/status/1739719077093114243?t=R19sKreTze4PbdOj9kL0iw&s=19

Hi Nate--long time, no talk.

Genuine question about your view here:

If capitalism simply reflects our biologically-determined nature as humans, why has it only existed for such a tiny sliver of human history?

https://twitter.com/BenBurgis/status/1739731909385851391?t=qEvP_-gltOSS_fhO3-9i-w&s=19

I think probably the most demonic idea (maybe an actual demon!) to ever inhabit earthly human minds is that "capitalism works because it reflects human nature." Our belief that human beings are just profit-maximizing vice machines is obviously a self-fulfilling prophecy.

https://twitter.com/ThouArtThat/status/1739828231283654912?t=YpM4RlOOrlg5mO6RfsR7uA&s=19

Capitalism has only been around for a tiny fraction of recorded history. So, by the same token, human nature is profoundly non-capitalist, as demonstrated by thousands of generations of evolution.

Unless, of course, one subscribes to the long-compromised “end of history” credo. P.S. I don't actually subscribe to any vision of immutable human nature. The last centuries alone have brought such fundamental changes to humanity and society (morality, class structure, relationship patterns, etc.) that I don't think we can claim to know what human nature is.

https://twitter.com/StaszekKrawczyk/status/1739737900785213560?t=-GVYyhBzwuQCfCqnQU_0pw&s=19

Really? Looking at pre-agricultural societies, it seems human nature has many and varied facets, with a strong tendency towards collective cooperation and sharing.  

Capitalism seems to atomise us into smaller and smaller units, isolate us into smaller and smaller households.

https://twitter.com/anotheranarch/status/1739778534330245258?t=8D_xcRTRjzXDKw825CuLFg&s=19

Persons at 100 B.C. : Slavery reflects human nature

Persons at 1000 A.D. : Feudalism reflects human nature

Persons at 2023 A.D. : Capitalism reflects human nature

Maybe that "human nature" doesn't exist

https://twitter.com/20century_los4/status/1739715436176920732?t=kLrteqjHmKXgHamlfqqclQ&s=19

Capitalism has been the exception rather than the norm. It took over two thousand years of very proactive effort to establish the Social institutions that made capitalism possible.

https://twitter.com/isthisit/status/1739720553605292371?t=oDDcsAHiJk15PPdJOHDP3g&s=19

Human nature is a result of material conditions, not the other way around. Our adaptability and ability to cooperate are major drivers of our success as a species.

https://twitter.com/alcibiades5410/status/1739735074667483355?t=q0k6FdxF7RrlCIeJ1iGWfQ&s=19

Some big assumptions here, Nate. Most of us are motivated by something other than personal profit. Family, duty, community, kindness, faith - none of these are at the heart of capitalism, but they are at the heart of our lives.

https://twitter.com/ScottyBonner/status/1739741748677476634?t=F31QXmiZEnZ25lJI2bzMoA&s=19

I’ve read enough history to know that human nature shouldn’t be used as a model for anything.

It’s why we require laws in our society; to control behavior driven by our baser nature.

A better metaphor for unchecked capitalism is a lawless society, doomed to self-destruction.

https://twitter.com/bluedotcountry/status/1739690049090842748?t=3bhOjGreKvTSTkcejdJCUg&s=19

Mutuality is the rule and not the exception

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

We often conflate science with technology. Science is the study of existing phenomena in the universe. The methods used to carry out this study have been getting narrower by the day. In the past, the greatest of scientists were philosophers first. Sadly, that trend has changed over the last century. With academic studies getting more niche & disjointed, the capitalist world rewards individuals more than the discovery. So, those in charge of deciding what comes under science, academic philosophers, come up with fancier theories each year. Theories published to pamper one's ego make it into the framework of the scientific method, narrowing the outlook of science, putting the best of religious cults to shame. Human perception is limited. We don't even see or hear beyond a range. And why is the rational part of the brain given more importance than the feeling (intuition) part? If one has read the philosophical works of the Netwons, Pascals & Teslas, one'd understand that these men would be labelled pseudoscientists & dismissed in today's world. That's how open-minded they were. Scientists of the past encouraged crazy & ridiculous ideas for us to have this level of technological advancement. What have we to lose by looking into the ancient philosophies? Isn't that the spirit of science? To keep an open mind, no matter how absurd some ideas sound. As for Gurus, no real Guru asks to be admired/worshiped/listened to. They are a humble lot who give wholeheartedly. The problem is of priests who misinterpret the Hindu texts to exploit people. These self-proclaimed Gurus, reeking of pettiness, are only after power & money. 

https://twitter.com/seenandhini/status/1713139766223634832?t=QCz4nTEoszx5y9Cy1-ByGA&s=19

are we animal or are we angel? 

https://twitter.com/ThouArtThat/status/1739831624517419045?t=kVHhPmU_ygLX9he7mveFVQ&s=19

not sure degrowth would work. But there’s no question that the capitalist economy needs to be reined in rather than being allowed to commodify all aspects of human and nonhuman life. Culture and politics ought not to be for sale. Economics should meet needs not invent desires. I'm not opposed to the idea; problem is there is no such thing as the "we" in those sentences. How to take such unprecedented collective action w/o the requisite publics? How to form such publics? The one thing I'd absolutely want to avoid is governments controlling production. They already do to some extent, and it is always bad news (eg, military-industrial complex). Economies cannot be centrally managed without leading to mass starvation and impoverishment (at least, that's the lesson I take from such experiments historically). Threefolding is degrowth by default since it redirects economic activity to the provision of human needs, away from capitalism's need to conjure up evermore new desires in people for products we didn't know we needed until we saw that ad. The creation of new desires is fine, but that ought to be a spiritual/cultural activity, not a for-profit industry.

https://twitter.com/ThouArtThat/status/1739766593360687567?t=R9GAni0CszF05bPV61j6rg&s=19

I'm not trying to put animals down, it's just that if we measure humans by the Darwinian standard, we are doing exactly what we were designed to do (be fruitful and multiply). Also, on that standard, extinction is just how evolution works. Life on Earth will degrow the human. Or, are we spiritual beings? Are we capable of cocreating an economy of virtue instead of vice? And maybe the biological world is not just a competitive blood bath after all? Look again: it may be that mutuality is the rule and not the exception.

We value pedigree dogs more

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

M S Golwalkar aka GuruJi destroyed the original #Hindutva ideology of Dr Hedgewar, gave #PseudoHindutva ideology to @RSSorg and produced zombies who are indoctrinated to parrot the nonsense such as “All Indians have Same DNA”, “All Indians are Hindus”, “Only Upasana Paddhati is different”, “Same Ancestors”, etc.

Watch the video in this quoted posted.
#Vajpayee #atalbiharivajpayeejayanti

https://twitter.com/MNageswarRaoIPS/status/1739237759586635829?t=9cz6xP8w6oM5xajXH1b2_A&s=19

Problem is not Hindutva which is a wholesome Sanskrit term for the linguistic hybrid term ‘Hinduism’.

The existential problem for Hindus and Hindu religion emanates from #PseudoHindutva ideology of @RSSorg which was evolved since the days of 2nd Chief Madhav Sadasiv Golwalkar a.k.a GuruJi.

The RSS remained Hindu only for a very brief period of 15 years of its initial existence during the life Param Pujya Dr Keshav Baliram Hedgewar.

After that it became गोमुख व्याघ्र (cow faced tiger) or wolf in sheep cloth evolving and sharpening #PseudoHindutva ideology by using Hindu language, Hindu idiom and Hindu imagery to promote anti-Hinduism.

Both #PseudoHindutva and its twin #PseudoSecularism are nothing but camouflaged anti-Hinduism. Read this article

swarajyamag.com/politics/from-…

https://twitter.com/MNageswarRaoIPS/status/1739155028768915578?t=rs19V9-W9tQqGYBtIA7Jsg&s=19

We, the Modern Secular Hindus, are bizarre as we value pedigree dogs more than pedigree Hindus.

We insist on pedigree certificate for buying a puppy, but abuse the Brahmins for maintaining their pedigree that is needed to preserve Vedic knowledge and tradition alive through millennia.

While Secular Indian Governments registers Kennel Clubs to issue pedigree certificates for dogs, but give incentives for inter-caste marriages to destroy the pedigree of citizens.

https://twitter.com/MNageswarRaoIPS/status/1738868946491814014?t=U-_Er7eSLXEnF962n2YcYQ&s=19

#Sanghis have successfully put blinkers to Hindus to gaze Hindu religion, society and interests through political perspective rather than seeing politics from Hindu perspective and interests.

And anyone differing with #Sanghis and their #PseudoHindutva ideology are branded, castigated and vilified as Congis, anti-national, etc.

Gullible Hindus have fallen into this #Sanghi trap.

https://twitter.com/MNageswarRaoIPS/status/1739234696767398394?t=oVMKDTrfQuSq0ALyzIqm2g&s=19

Guha and Thapar

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It’s painful to listen to #RamachandraGuha. 

He’s excitable, eats the last few words of every sentence and speaks at a pitch which can be exhausting to the ear. 

He says he’s a scholar and not in the business of giving advice but proceeds to do just that through his interview with #KaranThapar. 

To encapsulate the roots as briefly as possible of this section of Indians (at the risk of being judge-y) one can safely assume the first poem they learnt was William Wordsworth’s Daffodils having never actually seen the flower. 

Their understanding of their faith is not Sanatan Dharma but Hindu-ism which is as hazy as Cubism or Modernism. 

In this esoteric ‘religion’ everything convenient is allowed only because it’s simpler to fit in. 

The leitmotiv of their faith being lie down and enjoy it on the high moral ground. 

They usually are also a vociferous votary of the nebulous concept - Idea of India because in reality they have No Idea Of India, being completely deracinated from its culture and history. For them everything is vague because their understanding of it - is vague and limited.

And that brings us back to Guha who takes great pains to explain why Hindu -ism is a ‘disaggregated’ religion. 

Completely overlooking the fact as a ‘historian’ that unlike the proud, imposing temples of the South that still stand tall, where people congregated to celebrate and worship our places of worship up North were desecrated and destroyed. In fact after 12th century, Delhi saw a new temple Laxminarayan Mandir only in 1939! 

There is a reason why we worshipped as discreetly as possible in our Mandirs at home, or tucked away in tiny cubby-hole nukkads, in peepul trees. 

Not because we were ‘disaggregated’ but because we were discriminated. 

A people that paid Jaziya understood all that needed to be done to avoid persecution. 

Stay invisible. 

But then to say that for the likes of Guha - is Hindutva. It disturbs his lifelong well ordered nowhereness and the only person in his eyes to blame for this is Narendra Modi. 

Again missing the point - that the man represents at least a billion Indians who unfortunately for Guha, cannot be wished away.

https://twitter.com/NAN_DINI_/status/1737817851682287669?t=kPXNoKCgbVq5o65g95o3jg&s=19

Karan Thapar is no fun either! With the jaws tightly clenched words ground n passed through that sieve is excruciating on the tympanic membrane! It is a death wish to watch an interview by Karan Thapar +guha!

https://twitter.com/NTanjore/status/1738028367461638359?t=SdUfb4wTJNhQVOgOdI7nbw&s=19

I agree. It is decades since I watched more than a video clip of his. His mannerisms were much more pronounced earlier made worse by twisting the wrong end of the argument. Yes, watching them both together was like asking to be whipped :-)

https://twitter.com/NAN_DINI_/status/1738033783251914958?t=Ci-y34IPmcQSlUTdksNlbQ&s=19

[No examples are needed to convey the sheer tedium of NJN’s column: anyone who spent six months walking in the Sahara will know what I’m talking about.]

marketime.blogspot.com/2005/07/dhiren…

https://twitter.com/SavitriEra/status/1739203901537329271?t=kVA8RAi1Tlq_rYV9d-rTvQ&s=19

Fostering a conducive atmosphere at home

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra

Stay away from communist leaders like Marx, Mao, and Che Guevara, and also Bhagat Singh, Malcolm X, and similar. Phule, Shahu, Periyar, and Ambedkar were greater revolutionaries than them. Communists are failed people. China turned to capitalism, and there is no communist country worth recognition.

https://twitter.com/nitinmeshram_/status/1735283569474646304?t=kZnTB9-5v-wObKDOXkfRoQ&s=19

I always ask this question and never get a satisfactory answer hence asking again, who was the equivalent of phule periyar ambedkar from cow respecting hindi speaking belt. If not then why ?

https://twitter.com/AndColorPockeT/status/1735562684173848947?t=QQnQUBorAIfA7AYBtsdxDw&s=19

I can offer some a sociopolitical hypothesis (to be proved or falsified with help of recorded or assumed history):

1. Political: In order to have the kind of toxic ideology rooted in hatred for Brahmins (and Rajputs), you need to have folks exclusively from these castes in positions that are either detested or coveted e.g. zamindars, tax collectors, etc. In North, I think presence of Muslims in elite classes (not all Muslims of course) neutralized that effect to an extent.

2. Social: Due to multiple invasions and wars, social structure in the north went through metamorphosis and possibly caste as a system didn’t have the same kind of influence and rigidity as in other places. Furthermore, influences ranging from Sant Ravidas centuries ago to as recent as Neem Karori Baba mainstreamed a belief that hierarchal/rigid caste system was not intrinsic to Hindu faith and thus anti-caste did not necessarily translate to anti-Hinduism.

There has to be a socioeconomic hypothesis too, that experts on X can offer. On my part, I think in the ‘cow belt’ where ‘cow economics’ would be followed, the relationship between various castes was far more symbiotic than in places were economics was totally inverted or newly introduced by the British.

https://twitter.com/rahulroushan/status/1735577160545399254?t=0NS1r4LnM_S7qiez22_TFg&s=19

Hegemony? I said presence. And Muslims were indeed present as nawabs, zamindars, etc. during British rule too, and that's what I pointed out.

https://twitter.com/rahulroushan/status/1735592253484114131?t=IXk-5DRJ8YULaFMQzZEEZg&s=19

Here is my conjecture

1. May be Periyar/Phule/Ambedkar succeeded because land owning dominant castes were polarized against Brahmins

This didnt happen in North.

2. In Deccan, prior to british

Dominant castes were at top of social status

Brahmins were dependent on them

After British

Dominant caste lost their status

And Brahmins with government jobs became prominent

3. This didnt happen in North

Because in North due to Islamic rule, dominant castes had already lost their prominent status

Against Muslims, Hindus were united

https://twitter.com/doubtinggaurav/status/1735596741448056834?t=hdm6lFBxsLhJVtWRTLmSLA&s=19

For adolescent females, the Court suggested following duties

It is the duty/obligation of every female adolescent to:

(i) Protect her right to integrity of her body.

(ii) Protect her dignity and self-worth.

(iii) Thrive for overall development of her self transcending gender barriers.

(iv) Control sexual urge/urges as in the eyes of society she is the looser when she gives in to enjoy the sexual pleasure of hardly two minutes.

(v) Protect her right to autonomy of her body and her privacy.

For adolescent males, the Court suggested following duties

For adolescent males, the Court stressed upon the duty of male adolescents is to respect the duties of young girls and women. They should be trained to respect women's self-worth, dignity, privacy and their autonomy over their bodies.

The Court also pointed towards the need for fostering a conducive atmosphere at home where children grow up with parents playing a central role in ensuring this, reported Bar and Bench.

https://www.livemint.com/news/india/calcutta-high-court-urges-adolescent-girls-to-control-sexual-urges-adolescent-boys-to-respect-women-11697783395934.html

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar has been accused of using derogatory language in the Assembly on Tuesday as he was explaining the role of education among women for population control. The video of Nitish Kumar explaining his point on population control went viral on social media and several Bihar women MLAs objected to the language used by the chief minister.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/nitish-kumar-was-talking-about-sex-education-nothing-else-deputy-cm-clarifies-amid-controversy-101699363987624.html

सीएम नीतीश ने कहा कि बिहार में महिलाएं पहले से ज्यादा साक्षर हैं. बिहार के मुख्यमंत्री ने कहा कि लड़कियों के पढ़ने-लिखने से जनसंख्या नियंत्रित रहेगी. अपनी बात को समझाने के लिए उन्होंने कहा, 'लड़की पढ़ लेगी अगर, तो जब शादी होगा. तब पुरुष रोज रात में करता है न. उसी में और (बच्चे) पैदा हो जाता है. लड़की अगर पढ़ लेगी तो उसको भीतर मत ..., उसको .... कर दो. इसी में संख्या घट रही है.'

https://zeenews.india.com/hindi/india/sex-education-in-bihar-vidhansabha-by-nitish-kumar-creates-uproar/1949400

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