There are several reasons why India is a poor country. Some have historical roots and others derive strength from socio-political structures. Lack of effective governance and corruption has only sustained Indian poverty.
Since the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution, at least, people have been yearning for an ideal rural world they believe to have vanished -‐ yearning for a mythical state of innocence (as Morris did) as heartily as the Israelites yearned for the Garden of Eden. This refusal to face...
We never simplify the caste system. We never cared if audiences would understand the Marathi milieu or the vagaries of a Gujarati family. Some criticism has also been talking about the “European form” of the film. I’d say these people haven’t seen enough Asian films. Moreover, if ...
” observed Sir John Marshall, who supervised the excavation of two of the five main cities, Harappa and Mohenjo-daro, “but the rest of the people seemingly had to content themselves with insignificant dwellings of mud.” In
And the conflicts that follow the demand. I tell this story to explain how troublemakers come up with a bad idea and where it can lead. One generation of troublemaker or asshole builds upon the work of the previous generation. As we see with vivisection for example, it starts with some...
The first ball brings a crescendo. I'm trying to follow the game. I know Tendulkar is a star, so I focus on him. I cannot tell what makes him special. Then, before I know it, he's out, finished for the day. I don't really understand why. The fans rise to their feet as he...
I wish. If the other kids in junior high school envied me, they did a great job of concealing it. And in any case, if being smart were really an enviable quality, the girls would have broken ranks. The guys that guys envy, girls like.In the schools I went to, being smart just ...
Now, here is where my post really won’t make a lot of sense. While a house is a terrible investment, I own a house and recommend other people do so as well. Why? Not because the house is a great investment, but because the mortgage is a great way to borrow money due to all th...
8. Tokyo subway– People always talk about surviving the Tube inLondon, but the subway inTokyois the real labyrinth. This is the third-busiest subway system in the world (after Seoul and Shanghai), with an almost 9 million daily ridership. It gets so busy on certain lines that there are...
6. Insistentthat all political questions are easy – woke people speak and act as though there are no hard political questions and no such thing as a moral dilemma. Everything is obvious if you’ve only done the reading and done the work, which woke people assure you they did long ago....