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Personally I don't think there's any doubt that Google's search quality has fallen down over the last few years. There have been a few instances where what I was looking for was no…

My point is that it is culture that affects happiness, not merely internal or material well being. So taking into account cultural variations is meaningless when what I'm intereste…

Well what gets measured gets improved. What's subjective to you is pretty objective to me - the health impact of unhappiness, for example, will reflect in healthcare costs. Which b…

Well comparing GINI across similar sized countries: India (36.8), Russia (39.9), US (40.8), China (46.9), Brazil (49.3), India is the lowest of the group. While its true that most …

Sustainability and environment count for something. Perhaps a lot. Self-reported happiness obviously counts for a lot. GDP does'nt take any of that into account.

This is quite true and surprising. A european once mentioned that one problem is too many fat people in the "developed countries". See the distribution of worldwide obesity here - …

Well props to you for truthfulness. I don't think anyone is rubbishing the PM personally. I was reading the Progress Principle today. It makes the point that setbacks have an outsi…

I'm sorry but you sound very presumptuous - you could'nt bring yourself to stay a single day in situations where people have stayed their lifetime - or clean the toilet yourself - …

What he is actually saying is that people are supporting Anna without necessarily understanding the reasons why - then he proceeds to lay down the reasons how we got to this situat…

Have you seen this or not ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CHcKlIsvAQ It is not adding another layer, it is refactoring the system based on good evidence that this has worked befo…

Corruption exists for historical reasons and because the Govt has not had the spine to go after pilfered assets and corrupt officials as it was perceived as too big a problem. Simi…

25% is about right for indian gdp around mughal period. http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/08/history-of-world-gdp/ these early wins were against muslim rulers who did not have that…

The greatest good for the smallest number ?

Re: most benevolent structure ever to have existed here's a reference on internal tariffs from R.C.Dutt since it is very hard to locate online. "The transit duties became more oppr…

None at all. But the whole fascination with idol and temple breaking which Indians can't fathom about Islam turns out to have its origins in the Judaic story of the golden calf.

It's not the discovery of america, it's the fact that India was actively deindustrialized by the British railways which had a negative feedback loop on Indian industry, whereas in …

1. yes it's not the sole cause. the bigger cause perhaps was the discovery of the americas - an entire continent almost the size of asia lying undiscovered right next to the europe…

While it is true that India tolerated a variety of cultural norms amongst its many people before the British, practices like those you mention were fringe practices and by no means…

A few points 1. There is a much bigger correlation with India than you suppose. You can a. build universities and schools to train people b. create favorable tax and corporate stru…

There are entire generations of british historians since WW2 dedicated to the PR propaganda of how good the british were for the colonies and until very recently the western opinio…

Answer: Probabaly higher than yours because only only low class people ask crass questions. Here's the book to actually understand India:- "Late victorian holocausts and the making…