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To be fair if responding to nationalist and religious comments is considered flamewar, then I do not care that you have banned my account.

If that's your measuring stick then Adolf should get the credit for creating the right condition. European colonial power would have never left if they hadn't got into war of attri…

She and her family is responsible for a lot of atrocities around the world. Yet a lot of people here are eulogizing as if she was a saint who taught art of living to the people. To…

Two old yet alive Indian languages Sanskrit and Tamil have hymns even older. I wonder why Sanskrit and it's rich collection of hymns completely gets ignored. Nasadiya Suktam[0] fro…

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> India as a whole didn't even exist back then... Vishnu Puran composed circa 400 BCE to 900 CE says. उत्तरं यत् समुद्रस्य हिमाद्रेश्चैव दक्षिणम् | वर्षं तद् भारतं नाम भारती यत्र स…

Thanks, but that's such a narrow definition of the concept. Shukla Yajurveda[0] conservatively estimated to be written in 1200- 800 BCE period in 17.2.20 constructs powers of 10 up…

Isha Upnishad[0] was written in 1st half of 1st millennium BCE as per the conservative estimates. Its Shanti Mantra(wishing peace to all living beings) of says: ॐ पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिद…

IMHO idiomatic defensive coding is very hard.

> It is also true that in many countries, covering populations much larger than that of the United States, hemp production was never made illegal and continued unabated ... Only In…

Bill Gates mother having a seat on IBM's board was not a factor in IBM giving him such a sweet deal?

> No, I don't have any example of any king in Europe... Kalinga deaths are recorded to be 150000. I will suggest reading about the crusades and others religious wars to find how ma…

After Kalinga war Ashoka renounced voilence as per the teaching of Buddhism. Do you have a parallel example from Abrahmic kings? Having said that every civilization have had destru…

Yep ancient civilizations have thought about these concepts for a long time. Some got destroyed by floods, some by famine, but horrific destruction have happened when Abrahmic reli…

Hindus were thinking about time ranging from nano seconds to billions of years[0]. As far lost knowledge is concerned Indian civilization have faced numerous attacks especially on …

Hindus imagined this thousand of years ago. Uncountable universes(multiverse) are born when Supreme consciousness Vishnu breathes out. Inside each universe God Bharma is born with …