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Just because the word 'happy' is relatively young in the English/European language, a conclusion can not be made for the whole Humankind.

Not being too rich or too poor allows engineers to become identity conscious, and being engineers they have enough analytical mind (plus time) to think & plan ways to attack the 'e…

I read that Endurance book on Shackleton's failure before you were even born.

So many Antarctica expeditions were carried out by various countries but when you read English language dominated internet, you get the impression that only Anglo world had explore…

People can't verify all the info they come across and start trusting some sources as reliable. Many Indians used to trust facts/opinions from Western media as reliable and neutral …

Chomsky is against state and corporates but media can also be co-opted by foreign entities and ideologies.

>>Murdering someone without trial because you don't like their political speech- why, I think there's a word for that. Claiming without proof that Indian government carried out kil…

>>While Hindus described this state as basically "everything", buddha and later many prominent buddhists described it as "nothingness" which appears as inconsistent with each other…

> People waking up to the fact that the West and the East are equally bad The West has resources and well-oiled propaganda machinery in place to control the dissent that's why they…

Modi is scared of BBC otherwise he should have banned BBC like RT.com in the West.

Truth is truth and there are so many truths in the world so which truth one decides to explore and when―that is an interesting truth as well.

>>Almost more than 2/3rd of Indian voters didn't vote for modi yet his party is doing very well. Do you understand what is first-past-the-post voting system?

It's not about countries with 5% Muslim population and I am not talking about minor ghettos in European urban areas. Look at non-Islamic countries with 20%-25% or more Muslim popul…

It is not about plain fertility rate but tipping of demographic balance between communities by various means. It can create pockets of Muslim majority in countries where they are m…

If this was true (or the only factor), the demographic trends in India would match the ones from Pakistan and Bangladesh.

>>Now, when things are getting hard, having weak democratic institutions, no political awareness and corporate medling is going to hit hard. Many living in democracies will find th…

Social media are global sovereign entities and above the governments of individual nations so they do not need to comply with the local laws.

Everybody should use google because it's the most used search engine.

On the flip side, all with nuanced, grey opinions will be left with no motivation to act and the fanatic, opinionated people will act. In a war if the leader has to select an army …

>>Just my humble opinions, most human beings have remarkably similar values across different culture, we all want paradoxically to belong to the herd and also distinguish ourselves…

Does it mean the roles of husband and wife, which were specialized before, are generalized now due to unstable marriages?

Both ends will have extremes. Too much calculations, too much expectations, keep hunting for better deals even after marriage, no willingness to compromise, having all eggs in spou…

Amnesty international and other Western NGOs are moral sticks of rich countries to browbeat erstwhile colonies for not maintaining high living standards post exploitation.

This is more of a USA problem where people working under H1B visa are somehow dependent to their employer/manager and vulnerable to exploitation/discrimination (if the employer/man…

Everywhere else communism and Islam are friends so why in China they are enemies?