dharmach

Same investment can fetch more souls to church in India so it makes sense to invest there and not in Germany.

Being difficult shouldn't make something a virtue.

That would surely help Islamize the 'Hindu' land.

Isn't India more vegetarian than any other country in the world?

With intermittent fasting concepts, now it is more like "Eat food. Not too frequently. Mostly plants."

Agree that bigger issues for health-conscious people should be smoking & overeating, and not exercising. Why not look at other health risks like cell phone or drinking a glass of wine or eating chocolate or whatever, once the bigger ones are taken care of?

Religious conversion is not about making a religion available to those who are interested. Money, muscle, propaganda, deceit -all are used to recruit new members.

When societies/individuals achieve high status and realize self-worth, they usually develop a generous and liberal disposition (not a bad thing). Unfortunately, when the position is threatened, they may go back to the survival mode and become intolerant.

William Dalrymple's India is mostly limited to Mughals.

If China achieves all the ambitions it feels to deserve in the sphere of global wealth/influence, it will start behaving more-or-less similar to USA, unless you think that various human races are inherently different.

When I sell my products/services to others, globalization is good but when others sell their products/services to me, globalization is bad.

On the other side, Lockheed Martin which already builds C-130J Super Hercules in India, now wants to manufacture F-16 too in India.

"Approximately 80 percent of the antibiotics sold in the United States are used in meat and poultry production.2 The vast majority is used on healthy animals to promote growth, or prevent disease in crowded or unsanitary conditions."

https://consumersunion.org/news/the-overuse-of-antibiotics-i...

I am curious to know why so many Chinese people find it necessary for their children to have English name to visit US/UK in future. Do most of the outsiders in China have Chinese name?

Do people who floss regularly require fewer hygienist visits than who don't?

Control is power. Google controls what people can find on the web. Facebook wants to control what people can access on the web.

At the other end of the spectrum, there is antibacterial soap poisoning the water http://www.seeker.com/are-anti-bacterial-soaps-poisoning-our...

and created many more issues http://www.bbc.com/news/health-32543176

Women do not want to public display sanitary pads as here, there is nothing about "superstitions about cleanness and evil spirits". If you want to see superstitions look at all apartments in developed US/Canada where floor no. 13 is missing, and number 666 is found offensive by government https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/05/05/etobicoke-mans-v...

And deads are not buried but cremated on river beds. Burying practice also cause pollution FYI http://www.utne.com/environment/arsenic-contamination-ze0z13... http://www.disabled-world.com/health/cemetery.php

BTW, you are right about open defecation in urban area. That needs to be changed.

> Are you suggesting that the US will initiate nuclear war?

'The United States has refused to adopt a no-first-use policy, saying that it "reserves the right to use" nuclear weapons first in the case of conflict.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_first_use#United_States

The concept of cooperation also fits to the tolerance-intolerance debate.

https://www.myind.net/tolerance-intolerance-and-game-theory

May be Nordic states are more sympathetic to single mothers because of the declining population. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/06/23...

Users like me neither store sensitive data nor conduct sensitive communications through email. I do not need infallible security; reasonably reliable service is enough.

Did you READ "the article"? Where it talks about "using the river as a burial ground"?

Murder has motive while accident does not. Check why Law does not treat them equally.

Islamic invasion, caste system and colonialism all crippled India.

The opinion is that the West fueled industrialization with the looted wealth from colonies.

One of the important differences between Christianity and Buddhism is the concept of monotheism in Christianity. According to Christianity, there is only one god and to accept Christianity, one has to reject rest of all. The way Buddhism was received in far East, without replacing their existing belief system shows the tolerant nature of the religion. This is why many Japanese claim to follow multiple religion - the idea unimaginable in the Christian countries.

When you talk about a community, it is unreasonable to expect each one being a perfect representation of the whole. For a comparison between communities you need to look at the scale. Compare the scale of the violence in history of Christianity and Buddhism and you get the larger picture.

> "No right is absolute, and that includes the right to privacy. Criminals, for example, simply don't have it."

Unfortunately, no technology can differentiate between criminal and innocent, only human can. The implication is to decide the priority: privacy for criminals or no privacy for innocents.

May be solitary confinement should replace capital punishment.

In general, freedom of expression, communication should not be curbed but that freedom also brings in misinformation, rumour, and anti-social activities. When panic can cause unnecessary destruction, government should be able to control communication channels for a short period of time. Remember, if government is wrong, it will not be able to hide the truth for a long.