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 walks off. He's scored 28 runs. ...
Why did Krishna come to Earth? Why would American Hindus wish to see things like the caste system removed from textbooks? Why is Pune called the cultural capital of Maharashtra? Why is Diwali history celebrated? Why can't the Dalai Lama go back to Tibet?
Why did the kings of Angkor stop building temples? Why did the Israelites want a king? Why did Confucius accept the Mandate of Heaven? Why was the caste system important to ancient India? Why did Emperor Kangxi ban Christianity? Why did the British Empire want India? Why is theocracy import...
In developed economies, when choosing how to vote, people consider a candidate’s morality, traits, personal background, and the party’s issue position (Meng and DavidsonCitation2020). By contrast, the harsh environment in which BOP voters live particularly influences their voting decisions. That ...
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...
caste system, a position within a hierarchical class structure that brought certain responsibilities, privileges and social roles with it. Even if a person today were to earn an advanced degree in Celtic studies, speak and read fluently all of the Celtic languages, memorize the ancient lore, ...
In parallel to the resilience of theparchisystem stands the unchanging nature of the caste system. Similarly, many minor things remain immutable, for instance labour relations, the spatial ordering of production units, the time and day on which trading andparchi-repayment takes place (payment dates...
Even then he did not lose his willingness to work for the social welfare of the people of India. The boy who suffered bitter humiliation in the hands of upper caste people became the first Law Minister in free India, and shaped the country’s Constitution. ...
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...
While I would not like to sound as sure as Shrinath, I strongly believe that carpooling/ ride sharing can bring a paradigm shift in the way people commute in India. After all I left my job to follow this belief. We have had similar skepticism around online shopping before Flipkart. Ebay...