Dating in Delhi when you're poor

Post by valarauko » Mon, Aug 09, 2021, 3:01 PM UTC

chakkepolja wrote: post #176

valarauko wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In practice, there really are several dozen gotras (at least among the Brahmins), if not hundreds. The traditional practice was for Brahmins to declare their exact line of descent alongside the gotra, by naming five noteworthy ancestors (pravara rishis), starting from the top level saptarishi ancestor gotra(one of seven). Some of the saptarishis famously didn't get along, and their descendants are considered incompat…

> In practice, there really are several dozen gotras (at least among the Brahmins), if not hundreds. > Some of the saptarishis famously didn't get along, and their descendants are considered incompatible matches for marriage. I suppose this is different in Southern clans.

Post by m4rc0 » Mon, Aug 09, 2021, 5:52 PM UTC

stevenjgarner wrote: post #270

seestraw wrote: post #197

The author is convinced that the couple’s life sucks. He/she is writing from a point of view of superiority - “look, this is what they’re lacking, they can’t afford a Rs.8000 dinner”. To a billionaire, my software engineer life will look miserable - “They have to go eat at Panera and Olive Garden. For their employer, a nice dineout costs $5000.” Can we stop looking down on people because they cannot afford what’s nor…

Relative to a billionaire all our lives suck economically - "those poor wretches without even the resources to individually colonize space". (Pardon me for any billionaires reading). But there are a lot of ways to measure "suck" - independence, resourcefulness and self determination; Gross National Happiness Index; health/longevity; education; etc..