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thanks for sharing.

I'm 41 and in the same place. It's been 2 months since I quit and frankly the decision was a bit of relief. Thanks for sharing and hang in there.

it's tamil-ized as Kangai. Proper nouns are always absorbed according to the target language's own rules. Why quibble?

> Is there a community that feels horrible about their surname? Yes, dalits. Read the rest of the comments to understand why.

How many of the 50% of your anecdotal data is brahmins/upper-castes marrying dalits? Have your heard of honour killings where a dalit family killing the upper caste bride or groom?…

Not surprised at all because Old South Bangalore (Basavanagudi, Jayanagar, JP Nagar) is Brahmin Central.

Which part of Bangalore did this happen? Landlords usually use veg-only as a dogwhistle to select brahmins. Also they are wary to let out to other religions, muslims especially.

Distortions of the Mercator Projection...

You should try https://lineage.microg.org/

Surprised to see this garbage rumour parroted in Hacker News of all places. Haven't people heard of Faraday cages?

It was evil exploitation by definition and by reality. There were some benefits I give you that, chief among them is bringing the masses to the democratic political mainstream (spe…

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21,400. My native tongue is Tamil too. In the second list I was surprised at some of the words, which I've never ever seen before.

>2. When the Brits found India, it was fragmented into several different princedoms and cities. To say that it was in any sense united is misleading - before the Brits got there an…

The British don't deserve the sole or even major credit for the cultural changes you talk about. Reformers like Rajaram Mohan Roy, Vivekananda, Gandhi, Ambedkar deserve most of the…

I think Netbeans is not getting the font settings from GNOME. From what I can see from the panel, GNOME uses slight font hinting here. But the Netbeans window uses full hinting. Th…

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