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People outside the westernized population don't know what "Vedism" and "Brahmanism" and all these other "deconstructed" monstrosities are, so the question itself is a bit loaded. In anycase, to answer your real question - no, its not a point of contention that Yoga (and Vipassana etc.) are the accumulation of the work of many gurus from radically different traditions of India.

Since you're hopelessly caught within the webs of orientalist spiders, suffice it here to say - what you see of India is not India; it is but a description of what you see in terms of what you already know. Your description is neither India, and nor is it a reasonably accurate model of it.

IIRC ROCm basically takes PTX bytecode and runs them on AMD cards, so this shouldn't (theoretically) be an issue.

> However, we should be equally skeptical of Hindutva making claims about what Yoga is while ignoring the long, syncretic history and how it grew and exchanged practices with Buddhists, Sufis, Jains, and all sorts of other sects and groups through thousands of years.

Non sequitur - this has never been a point of contention in India. I know this is typical of the press in the English-speaking world (and thus the peoples of these places as a whole), but its hilarious to see "Hindutva" being projected as a "Hinduism is supreme, and everything else must be suppressed" (and now all the propaganda with Nazis/Hitler ... my oh my). Criticisms of "Hindutva" from these sources are so insipid and stupid that they are not even worth acknowledging.

(Note - I'd place a large portion of the Indian elite within the English speaking world.)

Hehe. This is what I basically wondered when someone told me that mindfullness was helping her cope with pressure of work life.

The new decolonization movement in India has been thinking quite deeply about this and other developments where Indian traditional knowledge is taken to the US and then copyrighted, patented and trademarked, and then sold around the world, incl. India. Amusingly, with American marketing being so brilliant, Indian knowledge has in recent history become far more popular once it was "U-turned" in this way. Lots of interesting work being done.

Interestingly, you can also see similar developments as those done to appropriate non-Western mathematical/scientific knowledge in the centuries prior within Europe. Yoga, and Mindfullness are en course to being de-rooted and turned into Western inventions, by rewriting histories or by silencing them. SOAS for instance has one guy who was anointed a Mahant, and he writes books with another guy who says Yoga is a cynical rebranding of Swedish exercises. It's all very very curious.

I suppose, if a foreigner flatters an Indian, he'll give you every bit of wealth he has (and then cry foul later). Hehe.

Ah Mumbai, the place where taxis wait under the noses of policemen at the domestic arrival gate, only so that they can pick up unsuspecting idiots and then fleece them of 5-10000 Rs for the privilege of taking them to the International departure gate (or for a lower fee after just 100 m).

Little wonder everyone is advised to use prepaid taxis in India. I've been told by various sources that this the development of the petty "anti-capitalist" politics that dominated India since its supposed independence.

> There is a large population that lives below the poverty line and will overcharge anyone who can and will take it.

Well, governments deem progressive taxation to be fair, and is hailed by economists and general populace all around the world, so perhaps faulting people for doing the same is not quite fair in the large scheme of things.

However, it's just annoying, non-transparent and extremely frustrating.

> Natives would never pay more than a dollar or two for a short ride, and never more than 10-20% more than the “fair” value. It’s even better in places like Mumbai, where everyone uses a standard meter.

Please. Autowallahs have their own versions of "surge pricing", which is even more frustrating and non-transparent. Night time ? Triple rate. Going to a residential area ? Double rate, because the vehicle need to return empty.

Plus, these people have likely had to sell off inherited agricultural land in pursuit of the glamourous life promised by the taxi aggregators. I imagine once all this money-printing madness (VC money is often from places with lots of "funny money") gets over a lot of people will move back to their rural lives - which I've to say has a lot more quality compared to the city (modulo the power cuts/sanitation/ general lack of technology.... but this is getting better by the day).

> They were attracted to these services by glamorous stories of cab drivers making 1500-2000$ a month on these apps.

Adding more anecdotes about the insanity, papers a few years ago were rife with stories about Engineers quitting their jobs and turning into cab drivers overnight and making more money as a result! All this when OlUber fares were essentially costing the same as an Autorickshaw! It's little wonder that all the magic didn't last; one also wonders how much of this slowing down led to the current lack of demand in the Automotive sector. Most taxis here appear to be Suzuki Swifts, and Maruti-Suzuki has seen a big slow down as of late (but so have VW and other "premium" brands).

The result of all this madness is that a large fraction of egregious cars that ply on roads in Bluru are taxis, which as a bicycle commuter, has become a nightmare to me personally due to their collective recklessness. Then again, they have helped tackle the annoyances from the lack of service and "extra" charges of the Auto unions and the insanely crowded public transport systems.