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I suppose the names Eqbal Ahmed and Tariq Ali mean nothing to you?
Tell me, other than mimic ing whatever is fashionable in London, Berkeley and Paris, what exactly has the "Left" done in Africa, S. Asia and S. America ? Fashion, in general, is apparently the operational semantics of the ostensibly unpowdered and unperfumed.
Excellent analysis. > Access to higher education in India is available only in English ... this creates a general differentiation, an unwritten apartheid. I couldn't agree more. Have always felt this without being able to fully articulate what it was until now. I've always felt having so many languages has hurt India more. I can validate that Chinese people in the west can still think about heading back to China and…
Well, he was politely 'fired' for going gung-ho on the stupid idea of mobile only frontend for Flipkart. All the senior people who championed the idea have been silently moved out (founder included), but in a way so that none suffers an obvious loss of face.
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Nobody has written epics about anyone digging someone else's toilets as far as I know. This is not unique to the Mahabharatha or other Indian epics. As for the caste system, yes, it has had a lot of evils. But then almost all populations around the world have some notion of "class" that is loosely defined, with its own set of evils. I fail to see how this is unique to India, see for instance the topic of ghettos in m…
> we never see an orc perspective or pov Offtopic, but this is false. There's a whole chapter of orcish perspective at the end of book IV.