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Citation needed. Which vedic text advocates privilege based on birth?. On what basis is Modi privileged by birth? How does any of these matter in a discussion on covid. What about other religions in India, are they not affected?

Cheap tablet with network connectivity will help self motivated students to learn by themselves. I hope that access to the Internet will get rid of the incompetent teachers from their path to knowledge. Some states have taken concrete measures to get rural India connected to the Internet. Yes, there is corruption,poverty,education,health and whole lot of other problems that India needs to solve. They need not be solved in sequential order. Bringing in the politics related to Kashmir is irrelevant to this topic. Since you mentioned it, I would like to bring in another perspective. The protesters were seen as violent anti-nationals by one group and as peaceful freedom fighters by others. Unfortunately for India, the grouping was based, to a large extent, on whether one was a Hindu or a Muslim.

Russia and Iran have democratically elected presidents. How is that non-democratic?. Democracy does not mean "complying to US dictates". Fully agree with the overall point though.

I found Doug Crockford's "Javascript: The Good Parts" to have the same qualities as K&R's C book. Concise, readable and dense, a 'must read' for aspiring Javascript programmers.

And thereby repeat the mistake in a different form ?. Here is an oppurtunity to make the web more 'open' and they are trying hard to do it.