And I will keep commenting here till Hacker News flags and removes your vile comments as well for violating basic norms of civil discussion as you have been flagging my comments. The day India reigns supreme, we are gonna give it back to you guys in the same way like you flag all my comments even though they are all well intentioned. You Westerners can bully Indians on your platform. But it won't last for long.
And you are such a dummb piece of shiit that you are flagging my comments. So much for your culture of debate and Western civilization! You should be banned from all social media and engaging in any discussion.
Businesses like that of Patanjali are the future of India. We are gonna see many such mega corporations which connect to ancient roots of India. We need better, more Indophilic, coverage of such businesses.
Dunno why Hacker News keeps removing my comments, as if I am saying something wrong.
It will also be better if you educate yourself of others' culture before lecturing them about it. Thanks. But you might just be representing what is called the "worst of Western civilization".
Thanks, I'm not interested in your lecture about Hindu nationalism. You have no idea about what's going on in India. As you say the change in history is coming from historians and critical journos. I agree with you and it's all the more better in that case! You are totally sold off on your media and what your politicians feed you. Of course they have told you the narrative that Western civilization is the best and you judge everything from point of view of what happened in world war 2. But history of Hindus is thousands of years older than a war which they don't care about. Maybe you made some effort to learn that Eastern civilizations were good as well. But you never cared to gain the right perspective because you revel in your civilizational glory or maybe you just don't care. But Indians and Hindus do care. Indians don't just care for their societal traditions, they also care for their philosophical tradition, which was obviously most supreme. You won't understand as Westerners have barely any tradition to look back to. All you folks want is to go back to 1950s or something, which is nothing but hilarious. Indians have millenniums of tradition behind them, which is something.
Wow man, I appreciate your persistence. I am yet to hear of a scandal of the scale of Telford and Rotherham in India. I heard that thousands of white young working-class girls were kept in grooming gangs by Pakistani men. It'll be really better for you if you peep in your backyard rather than using italics in a passive-aggressive way to educate me about India. Also, I see no protest about these grooming gangs and in fact Tommy Robinson who was reporting on it was thrown in prison! This is the state of Western world, the harbinger of liberal democracy!!! And I'd really really suggest that you come out of the toxic bubble your media like NYT and CNN and WaPo have put you in. It's really depressing to see that you have taken zero efforts to learn what's actually going on. I guess you should use social media more actively and listen to and talk to people outside your political spectrum to curtail your arrogance and extreme lack of knowledge.
Better than steamrolling the debate by mentioning 'sati' and 'widow burning'. How'd you feel if to every achievement of Western civilization that you mention I said 'brutal slavery' (which actually finished the African civilization) and 'burning of witches'?
The media is presenting it to you as "Hindu nationalism" and what not. You need to really know what's happening on ground, which you cannot at all appreciate sitting in West by reading articles by random journos. I'd direct you to read A million mutinies now by VS Naipaul about Hindu awakening and what social churning is taking place in India. Also, there is no need to be alarmed as people are merely connecting to their roots and tradition. The current ideology of liberalism obviously detests the word tradition, so I can understand that Westerners are worried about some weird stuff going on in India. Greek and Roman philosophers were great of course, but none matched the heights to which Hindu philosophy went. And the height to which ancient Indian civilization went, there's no evidence to say that any other civilization went that far. Also, Hindus are still connected to that pagan past irrespective of thousands of years of invasion by various forces from the West (the Islamics, Church and colonialists). So there is a great desire to reach those heights. Past glory may be blinding, but to revel in belonging to the most powerful Western empire is something else. The sense of power and control can blind even the most level headed person. That said, the Hindu awakening is making the Hindus think of their future. Most importantly, Indians missed the Industrial revolution, which I can say is the main advantage West obtained. If West was so great, there'd be no reason for it to decline so quickly. Basically, Western civilization is a 300 year blip in the whole human history.
Hindu metaphysics is much superior to any work done in philosophy in the West. But I suppose it's too difficult for you to understand as all you have done in life is read NYT and watch CNN. When you see Hindus, you see caste and what not. When you see Americans you don't see slavery. That's how your mind has been whitewashed.
Westerners did everything to belittle the Eastern civilizations when the West was laying the foundations of its own civilization. So it's very difficult for people who have lived and educated in the West to realize that Eastern civilizations were at the height of glory once. When Indian sages were debating intricate points of philosophy, people in the West were still in caves and lead a tribal existence. Hindu metaphysics is much superior to any other metaphysical system in the world. This informs its science and religion. West has made some gains but what that research is worth will only be known a few centuries from now when history is written. It's easy to be blinded by the current events and lose perspective.
Baba Ramdev's business is an indicator of things to come in India. As India is resurgent, we will see more such mega enterprises which connect to India's ancient Hindu past. In many ways the ancient Indian civilization was much superior to Western civilization. His business is successful because there's a market for it. People are happy to connect with their forgotten past by rejecting the West in a big way.
He seems to be doing well considering there are people who have problem with the words 'nationalism', 'right wing' etc. Baba Ramdev is neither of these. He's just a guy doing business and is pretty good at it. Whether you like it or not, he's the future of India.
There's nothing here to debate. Ebert clearly says that video games are not art. As does this article. This is because video games and art are fundamentally different, and there is no question of video games being art. It seems the video gamers are not ready to accept this. In trying to seek validation for the time they spend playing these games, they are building arguments which are of no use. This may be because they want to improve their perception among public who tend to dismiss time spent playing video games as wasted. It also works best for the video game industry to have its clients believe that they are purchasing art when they are buying video games. I think that's why Roger Ebert gave up arguing after a point of time. Video gamers can believe whatever they want to, that does not change the fact that video games are not art.
They had such an amazing life! They were completely dedicated to their work. They attained a perfect equilibrium where, by perfectly complementing each other, they managed to focus on their work. The other spouse was never a hindrance in one's work. Such a rapport is so hard to achieve. Nearly all couples are bogged down by some form of family issue (raising kid, problematic relatives etc.). In fact, he faced similar issue in his first marriage which ultimately broke down. It would be so beautiful to have a partner like that. Coming from a third world country where 'starting a family' (which definitely includes having kids) is everything, I am extremely lured by this prospect as I know how difficult it is to achieve here.