tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102723060575857672024-03-13T07:06:33.328-04:00Thinking QuietlyA Petri Dish clarifying his own thoughts while also analyzing the researcher. Exploration inspired by the book 'Being Different'. @IntegralUnityUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410272306057585767.post-2520041197965646542024-02-18T14:14:00.044-05:002024-02-18T18:51:48.716-05:00A nonlinear rise in Team India's fortunes is inevitable #Ganita<p> Three events reported in a day:</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhSR4fqtTnHF9E1OaCOYLwvqZeA8cldCzVWEWcR6RYOJoDz12xK6KshveyQczFpvQhMXMSGL_6-PlYvvkWx8sL3ITsq-wZo0-Ury8A2eqMGbezbpTJVICul1dJ_PI5bw_9P7xS6kGqsx59yDSzHyh-SySP1m8hybaMoMRJTbblQ7EBzIWKIGxQGl9Nhh5Gh" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="875" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhSR4fqtTnHF9E1OaCOYLwvqZeA8cldCzVWEWcR6RYOJoDz12xK6KshveyQczFpvQhMXMSGL_6-PlYvvkWx8sL3ITsq-wZo0-Ury8A2eqMGbezbpTJVICul1dJ_PI5bw_9P7xS6kGqsx59yDSzHyh-SySP1m8hybaMoMRJTbblQ7EBzIWKIGxQGl9Nhh5Gh" width="320" /></a></div><a href="https://twitter.com/niravstoons/status/1759205630274089143">https://twitter.com/niravstoons/status/1759205630274089143</a> <p></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjkzCsN1_cC4hEX0ES82ARBhoePFrUTrN3yN1lkn_LaXwTDhN7H3VUb5imTnQecfcZNPSDl4E8L8qD7QTnMb4nSGNwYyXkBX2EPAgFATFES7GGqNJNDXU69whDhUiptzfAgQ1guwof9aK4BgQTAJvLHS4JbXr_AOeQRr8LkAh_sordahr0XtpADT-dprPik" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="608" data-original-width="711" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjkzCsN1_cC4hEX0ES82ARBhoePFrUTrN3yN1lkn_LaXwTDhN7H3VUb5imTnQecfcZNPSDl4E8L8qD7QTnMb4nSGNwYyXkBX2EPAgFATFES7GGqNJNDXU69whDhUiptzfAgQ1guwof9aK4BgQTAJvLHS4JbXr_AOeQRr8LkAh_sordahr0XtpADT-dprPik" width="281" /></a></div><a href="https://twitter.com/BAI_Media">BAI Media (@BAI_Media) / X (twitter.com)</a><p></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjMXtzYo9O6nJePsTSVieWDzzskMVuHuxyfVfP5nf8n1Bwd0aA8CTXm8v47HrIo61842rmS7uB8fLow69pyuIdSkAoFZndmGWnrH-ufyGuWpmdwQThaoC6qX1MnI9SdSS9Z2QjSZRYjT8_nZHjX9KIin-Zdy9vuqcZ4k3Zhh6xcqyP-bBRSlDC4_t1OOwmW" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="894" data-original-width="905" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjMXtzYo9O6nJePsTSVieWDzzskMVuHuxyfVfP5nf8n1Bwd0aA8CTXm8v47HrIo61842rmS7uB8fLow69pyuIdSkAoFZndmGWnrH-ufyGuWpmdwQThaoC6qX1MnI9SdSS9Z2QjSZRYjT8_nZHjX9KIin-Zdy9vuqcZ4k3Zhh6xcqyP-bBRSlDC4_t1OOwmW" width="243" /></a></div><a href="https://twitter.com/AdvAshutoshBJP/status/1759215880679141779">https://twitter.com/AdvAshutoshBJP/status/1759215880679141779</a> <p></p><p><br /></p><p>A 9-year old boy chess prodigy, a 17-year old girl's nerveless display to clinch Badminton gold for India to win the Asian team championship, a 22-year old cricketer's effortless double century to swing a cricket test and series in India's favor. All in a day's news. Such stories were also celebrated in the past but infrequently and were treated as big surprises, but three stories reported in a day is no longer unexpected. The potential size of India's sports base is such that successful outcomes become <i>inevitable </i>if the number of opportunities to convert to a podium finish is increased even by a small percentage. Even though a specific outcome depends on individual karma and their sadhana and is not deterministic, the simple Ganita of outcomes as a group is that:</p><p>Given '<i>n</i>' opportunities and a probability '<i>p</i>' of success per opportunity, the expected number of successful outcomes = <i>np</i>. </p><p>For a nation, <i>n</i> represents the size of its sporting base: the number of individuals with a liking for the outdoors, are athletically gifted AND their family is willing to consider a brief or long career in or through sport. On the other hand, <i>p</i> captures the complex impact of identifying such talent and the dharma of their selection criteria, diet, training, exposure, and ultimately, their conscious mental ability in the heat of battle.</p><p>Until a decade ago, both opportunities (<i>n</i>) and the chance of success (<i>p</i>) were low. The current Indian state is that both <i>n</i> and <i>p</i> are low in comparison to natural sporting nations like Australia. Every small improvement in India's health and fitness, sports and education to reward, encourage, and nurture sporting talent, will simultaneously raise <i>n</i> and <i>p</i> and yield a <i>nonlinear </i>and<i> </i>sustainable<i> </i>increase in the number of such success stories in Indian sport. </p><p>For example, a modest 10% improvement in <i>n</i> and <i>p, </i>improves the expected number of successes to (1.1<i>n</i> * 1.1<i>p</i>) = 1.21 (<i>np</i>), i.e., a 20% increase in the expected number of successes.</p><p><br /><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410272306057585767.post-34830019613676075532024-02-09T19:58:00.000-05:002024-02-09T19:58:10.650-05:00The #Ganita of Sandwich Slicing: Are Triangles better than Squares?<p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Question- How do you like your sandwiches sliced: Triangular or Square?</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>Triangle</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJGXfjbhoAsUbkW87dxdeckhSFTZDhT7TqCQ3QvnEZ3VrCvGr9xecgCABIx7arLyGuptyw4FLtixRJYd97ZV8RX-3_oCxLTEMhlqYLBj7WWSCeGKcpGAfV_-5iLfC5bbpvLy8RVbOyHdY/s640/Cheese-chutney-sandwiches+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="551" data-original-width="640" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJGXfjbhoAsUbkW87dxdeckhSFTZDhT7TqCQ3QvnEZ3VrCvGr9xecgCABIx7arLyGuptyw4FLtixRJYd97ZV8RX-3_oCxLTEMhlqYLBj7WWSCeGKcpGAfV_-5iLfC5bbpvLy8RVbOyHdY/s320/Cheese-chutney-sandwiches+2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Picture credit: <a href="https://www.theinspirationalnook.com/2021/07/video-tricolour-triangle-tea-sandwiches.html">(VIDEO) Tricolour Triangle Tea Sandwiches (theinspirationalnook.com)</a><br /><p><br /></p><p>Square</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.theflavorbender.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Ribbon-Sandwiches-3495-1025x1536.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="534" height="800" src="https://www.theflavorbender.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Ribbon-Sandwiches-3495-1025x1536.jpg" width="534" /></a></div><br /><p>(Picture credit: <a href="https://www.theflavorbender.com/ribbon-sandwiches-rainbow-sandwiches/">Ribbon Sandwiches (Rainbow Sandwiches) - The Flavor Bender</a>)</p><p><br /></p><p>To answer this from a <i>Ganita </i>perspective, let's apply some high-school <a href="https://indicportal.org/sulbasutras-the-indic-approach-to-engineering-2/" target="_blank">Kshetraganita </a>(the original geometry)<b>:</b></p><p>Consider a square bread slice of side length '2a' (area 4a<span style="background-color: white; color: #0c0d0e; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI Adjusted", "Segoe UI", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">²</span>). 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--theme-tag-required-border-color: transparent; --theme-tag-required-color: var(--white); --theme-tag-required-hover-background-color: var(--theme-secondary-400); --theme-tag-required-hover-border-color: transparent; --theme-tag-required-hover-color: var(--white); --theme-topbar-bottom-border: 1px solid var(--black-225); background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #0c0d0e; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI Adjusted", "Segoe UI", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">2</sub> <span style="background-color: #e7e9eb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 22px;">×</span> 2a <span style="background-color: #e7e9eb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 22px;">×</span> a = a<span style="background-color: white; color: #0c0d0e; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI Adjusted", "Segoe UI", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">²</span></p><p>Next, apply the 'square on the diagonal' result from the <a href="https://indicportal.org/sulba-sutras-the-indic-approach-to-engineering-1/" target="_blank">Sulbasutras </a>to calculate the length of the diagonal on the original square:</p><p>= <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">√</span>(4a^2 + 4a^2) = 2<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">√2</span> a.<br />The sides of each triangle are half as long as this diagonal.</p><p>Alternatively, using the 'circlometry' of Aryabhata (the <a href="https://ckraju.net/wordpress_F/?p=190" target="_blank">original trigonometry</a>), we let <span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">φ = the corner angles of the 4 right angled-triangles = 45</span><strong style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Noto Sans", sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">°</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The original<i> jya of </i>Aryabhata calculates length and not a ratio like <i>sine </i>(it is of the form "<a href="https://archive.org/details/Aryabhatiya1976/Aryabhatiya%20v1%201976/page/n101/mode/2up?view=theater" target="_blank">R sine </a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://archive.org/details/Aryabhatiya1976/Aryabhatiya%20v1%201976/page/n101/mode/2up?view=theater" target="_blank">φ</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">", where R = radius of a circle), we can obtain the length of the side = 2a</span><span style="background-color: #e7e9eb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 22px;">×</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">sin(</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">φ) = </span><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif;">√2a </span></p><p> From this, we get the triangle's perimeter</p><p>= base + 2 sides </p><p>= 2a (1 + <span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">√</span>2) ~<b> 2.414 times</b> the length of the original side</p><p><br /></p><p><b>The perimeter of the triangular slice is about 21% longer than that of the square slice of the same area</b>. What sorcery is this :)</p><p>Since the area of the sandwich filling that is visible to the consumer = perimeter <span style="background-color: #e7e9eb; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 22px;">×</span> thickness of the filling, triangular slices may have better curb appeal as they show off the filling 21% better than square slicing, which is itself twice as good as not slicing at all. </p><p>Each square slice has one full crusty corner, and a crust length of 2a. The triangle is tied on crust length but has two 'half-corners'. So if your kid is fussy about corners, triangles may prevent left-overs in the lunch box. If they don't like crust-edges and the fillings are not exciting, then you may need to go back to the square one.</p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410272306057585767.post-68699517608686406712023-12-06T11:44:00.108-05:002023-12-06T12:12:34.633-05:00#NonBinary is an oxymoron, and the Moral Relativism of #Wokism<p><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"Non-binary" is itself a binary classification, and asserts a binary belief.</span></p><p><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The moment you use a label, a nama-rupa- the very idea of using a label, is to introduce a binary split within entities that were previously grouped together, First, create a differentiation based on certain attributes and then use a label to mentally reinforce this partition. </span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419;"><span style="font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Some related tweets on the skewering of logic.</span></span></span></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/Ganitamrita/status/1652153167268700161">Shivoham on X: "Can the gender fluid mechanics profs of Supreme court of india even define 'same sex' precisely without tying themselves up into a logical pretzel?" / X (twitter.com)</a></p><p><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">in this context:</span></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/Ganitamrita/status/1651942153591877633">Shivoham on X: "https://t.co/OQfCDa1AQa supreme court jesters must first define "same sex" precisely. let the fun begin." / X (twitter.com)</a></p><p> </p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: arial; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">And talking of 'context', Ivy league woke humanities faculty may have taken a digested and utterly flawed version of Dharma ethics (that is always governed by Satya without ambiguity) and turned it into the antifragile ethics of moral relativism, in order to justify "friendly" calls for genocide. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: arial; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"</span><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i>dharmic thought offers both universal and contextual poles – not just the latter, as that would be tantamount to moral relativism</i>."
- Rajiv Malhotra. Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism (2011).</span></span></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1732179418787783089">(2) Bill Ackman on X: "The presidents of @Harvard, @MIT, and @Penn were all asked the following question under oath at today’s congressional hearing on antisemitism: Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate [your university’s] code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment? The… https://t.co/eVlPCHMcVZ" / X (twitter.com)</a> </p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: arial; font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">On the lighter side, gender bias is not a bug but a feature of English:</span></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/Ganitamrita/status/1118864180029874177">Shivoham on X: "https://t.co/gTyZDA8I6c caption exposes the built-in gender bias in English :)" / X (twitter.com)</a></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Wokes oppose guns in the US that murder school kids but are comfortable with killing them in the womb to suit a lifestyle. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">"Context".</span></span></span></p><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><a href="https://twitter.com/Ganitamrita/status/1399397333478092803">(1) Shivoham on X: "189 abortions per 1000 live births in the US - 2018. 2004 survey (prev link): &gt;90% of these were purely lifestyle choices. https://t.co/ekpxAN6QlH" / X (twitter.com)</a></span></span></span></div><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 20px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">A more useful and deeper multi-valued logic exists in the dharma systems of Bharata that go beyond the Aristotelian logic of the excluded middle, including the Buddhist Catuskoti and Jaina Syadavada. The solution to this mess also is in the harmony of dharma and not the divisiveness and hatred sown by the binary pair of Wokism and Abrahamic Fundamentalism.</span></span></span></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/Ganitamrita/status/1409034583459438595">Shivoham on X: "https://t.co/6JWasksfUU #MadhuraBhakti continue to be dumbfounded by dharma's ability to effortlessly transcend gender and other dualities and unite with the divine. Beautiful post to read and share with family." / X (twitter.com)</a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410272306057585767.post-76312324784580860572022-06-04T11:29:00.000-04:002022-06-04T11:29:31.918-04:00An Ode to the Hindoo-Pagan<p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.027); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">I was the Vedic <a href="http://indicportal.org/integral-engineering-in-the-sulba-sutras-3/">circle and square</a>,
Desi and dharmically <a href="https://twitter.com/Ganitamrita/status/955094094082125824">fluid</a>
until an Indic </span><a href="https://twitter.com/aryabhatti/status/1523800822274048002"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.027); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">druid</span></a><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.027); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">
with a <a href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1476378300377452546.html">decolonial </a>spray gun
painted me <a href="https://twitter.com/Ganitamrita/status/1210895221044592640">polytheist</a>-<a href="https://beingdifferentforum.blogspot.com/2014/04/dharma-is-not-same-as-paganism.html?spref=tw">pagan </a>(a polygon?)
and now I'm an <a href="https://twitter.com/svembu/status/1524198755809230848">Indo-European doctrinaire </a></span></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.027); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.027); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;">- </span></i></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.027); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.027); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"> dedicated to useful Hindoo idiots who provide a</span></i></span> back-door entry to the fictitious Aryan Invasion Theory.</span></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #444444;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.027); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410272306057585767.post-86743802581015136692022-06-04T10:58:00.003-04:002022-06-04T11:01:06.654-04:00The Sheldon Pollock Syndrome: The Over-informed Non-practitioner<p>A corollary to the saying “Avoid being over opinionated and under informed”<br />is "Avoid being the over-informed non-practitioner". <br /><br />Remembering this corollary helps avoid the pitfall of turning into a top-down thinker, i.e., a person who theorizes others practices through every form of second-hand learning: reading business articles, media reports, video demos, academic dissertations, management reviews, investment hype, book parsing. sound-bites from other top-down thinkers, and soon convinces himself that he's a "strategic" expert who sees what mere mortals cannot, and projects a sophisticated image. The end result is a delusion of grandeur where one's ego and false pride in 'knowing' defeats common sense. <br /></p><p>The "spend ten thousand hours to master a subject" statement is valid only if you
are actually immersed in learning by doing, first hand, else it is an
exercise in futility and a whole lot of wasted time. In-the-trenches work is always preferable to head-in-the-cloud intellectualism for the former is much more aligned with reality and Satya. The latter is fragile as it is anchored not in reality but an imagined reality. Success belongs to those who work twice as hard behind the scenes. <br /></p><p>This phenomenon of the over-informed non-practitioner can be termed the Sheldon Pollock Syndrome, after the western Indologist Sheldon Pollock who "studied" Hinduism, the quintessential system of lived traditions from <a href="https://twitter.com/Ganitamrita/status/1348380345410998280" target="_blank">every external angle </a>for 30 years without actually practicing any of it. As a result of this intellectual text parsing, every bit of wisdom and sensible thought in the <a href="https://rajivmalhotra.com/books/the-battle-for-sanskrit/" target="_blank">Ramayana or Sanskrit kavya</a> completely bypassed him, leading him to bizarre conclusions and comical "findings" that find favor among idiots and conspiracy theorists.</p><p>Whether one wants to get into <a href="https://twitter.com/Ganitamrita/status/1416558295406501888">AI</a> or Hinduism/Dharma or Martial Arts, the best way is to start with actually practicing, first-hand, through Prayoga. Doing is both knowing and learning:</p><p> <a href="https://twitter.com/Ganitamrita/status/962680492633067520">Shivoham on Twitter: "For example, sulba constructions and demonstrations are 'self-verifying'. No separate theorem is necessary. Hindu idea of prayoga: Doing is both learning and knowing." / Twitter</a></p><p><br /></p><p> <br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410272306057585767.post-64543308572451476732021-05-02T12:04:00.003-04:002021-05-02T12:04:45.587-04:00Voting during Covid-era Elections: A Quest for Predictability<p></p><p>There are already many expert articles explaining why Kerala re-elected a corrupt communist leader with a history of violence, how TN deliberately chose a party that ranks among the worst in the world in terms of security of women, corruption and public decency; why Bengal went back to a violent party that has failed its people dismally.</p><p></p><p>Below is my brief view as a Ganita professional currently studying fragility from an Indic and dharmic perspective. </p><p>The recent Indian State election results (and the POTUS election)
can be primarily explained as a public response to uncertain times. Am I covid positive? what will happen if I am? How reliable are the vaccines? Will they make a bad situation worse? <br /></p><p>In these highly uncertain chaotic times, regaining, even <i>craving </i>for, a measure of certainty and control in every aspect of life is what we seek. It's a modern human tendency. This quest for more certainty among the public manifests in different ways. People will vote for a party that is (or projects itself as) one single entity with one strong local leader and offers more predictability. </p><p>Trump lost his re-election because his handling of the Corona pandemic lacked clarity and pushed the US into greater uncertainty. This was apparent in July 2020 itself. </p><p>Indian public in these times of lockdowns and broken economies too want a party that offers more certainty and predictability. Of course, there are many other factors that domain experts have pointed out. But a state party that appears as one edifice, one clear leader, and projects a degree of certainty that has gone missing in public lives stands to gain from nervous fence sitters in these times. <br /></p><p>TN prefers a known gasbag to a bunch of leaky Oxygen cylinders. The winning leader with his party firmly behind him was preferred to the ruling party that was depicted as a coalition of coalitions riddled with in-fighting and tussles, however good their performance was during these troubled times. Of course, when people elect confident gas bags, they will get predictably bad governance they voted for, which during these covid years will eventually result in more uncertain futures for the people, not less. </p><p>The lesson for the next set of Covid-era elections is clear then: The party that brings more certainty into people's lives stands a good chance of winning. A party that brings more certainty <u>along with dharma </u>will also benefit the Rashtra and its people.<br /></p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410272306057585767.post-68455991923784470522020-09-19T17:53:00.018-04:002020-09-20T12:34:34.384-04:00Interesting word origins of some narcotic drugs<p>Mostly Indic/dharmika non-fiction with bits of good quality western fiction writing thrown in is an antifragile allocation of scarce reading time. The former eliminates your downside, and sometimes, the latter can pleasantly surprise you. Lee Child is famous for his Jack Reacher series:"<a href="https://radio.rte.ie/radio1highlights/detective-series-detective-commits-homicides-solves/" target="_blank">A detective series where the detective commits more homicides than he solves</a>". His books have some interesting turn of phrase that makes you think long after you've forgotten the story. Given the current 'drug busts' going on in India and the two rival camps that are slugging it out, here are some interesting word origins summarized from Lee Child's short nonfiction book '<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hero-Lee-Child/dp/0008355789" target="_blank">The Hero</a>' (my annotations are in parentheses):</p><p><b>Opium Poppy</b>: western scientific name: Papaver Somniferum (the poppy that carries you to sleep). </p><p></p><p>(Modern taxonomy credited to Carl Linnaeus may have been inspired by the traditional Indian Sanskrit approach to naming, and the latter is probably better, as noted in Rajiv Malhotra's book 'Being Different': <br /></p><p>"..<i>According to the assessment of William Jones, published in 1795, this taxonomy was more advanced than the standard Latin-based ones used by Western botanists. Jones writes: 'I am very solicitous to give Indian plants their true Indian appellations, because I am fully persuaded that Linnaeus himself would have adopted them had he known the learned and ancient language of this country …</i>'")<br /><br />German Pharmacist Friedrich Serturner refined Opium after several years of tinkering to produce the most potent chemical painkiller known so far.</p><p><b>Morphine</b>: named after the Greek God of dreams.</p><p></p><p><b>Rival</b>: from the Latin word Rivalis, one who competes over a river.<br /></p><p><b>Barbarian</b>: Greek word for those 'savages' who were unable to speak Greek. "<i>To the Greeks, all that such people could manage was baa-baa-baa, like sheep. Hence ba-ba-rian</i>." -Lee Child.<br /></p><p><b>Addict</b>: from the Latin word Addictus, a word for a person who is forced to become the slave of his creditor (like the bonded laborers of Zamindars).</p><p></p><p>A few decades after Morphine's invention, another German chemist, Felix Hoffman was tinkering with Morphine to synthesize Codeine, a milder and less addictive chemical for
kids. After many experiments, he ended up creating something that was twice as potent and delivered twice the
high of Opium. The chemist claimed it was not in the least bit
addictive and it was subsequently put in a variety of western medicines, especially
for women and children:<br /></p><b>Heroin</b>: from the German word for Heroic.<p><b>Hero</b>: phonetic spelling of the Greek word 'gyro'. </p><p>"<i>What was heroic about [Felix Hoffman's] invention? There are two possibilities, I think, in a nineteenth-century context. Either he wanted to imply his product had been on a long and complicated journey through dangers and perils, but it had survived, and it had emerged to do good, in the form of bringing pain relief and pleasure to the masses. Or possibly he wanted to imply his own personal work on the project had been a long and complicated journey through dangers and perils. Either version would have been absurd, given the accidental nature of the discovery. But vanity knows no bounds.</i>" - Lee Child.</p><p>(A mild disagreement with Lee Child here. Discoveries invariably come from experimentation and field work done by craftsmen and practitioners. These discoveries are far less accidental than they appear to be when viewed from the future. When we patiently experiment and test contraptions in a smart manner that incorporates learning, it <i>enables </i>'lucky accidents' to happen, or in this case, a bad one.</p><p> </p><p></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. <br /> -Thomas A. Edison.</p>— Sonal Mansingh (@sonal_mansingh) <a href="https://twitter.com/sonal_mansingh/status/1307523397040177160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410272306057585767.post-6911055179660176322020-09-19T16:46:00.037-04:002020-09-20T10:24:47.164-04:00Contextual vs Situational Awareness<p>This topic came up for discussion in Satsangs earlier around the <i>contextual </i>sensitivity of dharma, ethics, Ayurvedic medicine, Sanskrit in Hinduism and dharma traditions of India.</p><p>We probably already have a working understanding of these terms. As part of my professional Ganita/AI work, we employ 'contextual learning' when building automated recommendation and decision support <b>systems</b>. For example, the products and service we would recommend to a traveler depends on many things including their journey context. The same traveler may benefit from different offers from the AI system depending on whether she is traveling on company business or making a leisure trip with her family.</p><p>When the <b>lady </b>is walking to her car at night in a dimly lit parking lot, she would benefit from situational awareness. This SA is about a person knowing what is going on around him/her and anticipating changes. This is known to be particularly important for <a href="https://www.aviationsafetymagazine.com/features/situational-awareness/">pilots</a>.</p><p>Using the term 'situational dharma' would be tricky and lead to confusion. A useful comparison between these two types of awareness can found <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/post/To_what_extent_we_can_differentiate_between_context-awareness_and_situation-awareness" target="_blank">here</a> that may be useful In particular (emphasis mine):</p><p></p><p><i><b>"Situation awareness</b> is a construct to describe <b>operators’ knowledge about a dynamic environment</b> and is defined as “the perception of the elements in the environment within a volume of time and space, the comprehension of their meaning, and the projection of their status in the near future” by Mica Endsley (Endsley, M.R. (1995) Toward a theory of situation awareness in dynamic systems, Human Factors, 37(1), 32-64.).</i></p><p><i><br /><b>Context-awareness</b> is a construct to describe <b>capabilities of a system</b>. Useful is the article Dey, A.K. (2001) Understanding and Using Context, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 5(1), 4 – 7. Dey defines: “A system is context-aware if it uses context to provide relevant information and/or services to the user, where relevancy depends on the user’s tasks.</i>”<br /><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410272306057585767.post-85177081155298570382020-08-16T12:56:00.008-04:002020-08-16T13:55:40.321-04:00#SattvicHamburgers Anyone?<p><span style="color: #1b95e0; font-size: x-large;"><span data-offset-key="2ituj-0-0"><span data-text="true">Sattvic Hamburgers?</span></span></span></p><div data-block="true" data-editor="4a6k9" data-offset-key="tr78-0-0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="tr78-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="tr78-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="7ujpl-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="7ujpl-0-0">To make dharma sound 'appealing' and 'contemporary' to westernized audiences and young professionals, a common strategy employed by some Hindu intellectuals </span><span data-offset-key="7ujpl-0-0">is to combine Sanskrit/Indic terms and western categories to produce neologisms. <span data-text="true"> </span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="7ujpl-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="7ujpl-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="7ujpl-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="7ujpl-0-0"><span data-text="true">Examples of </span></span><span style="color: #1b95e0;"><span data-offset-key="7ujpl-1-0"><span data-text="true">oxymorons</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="7ujpl-2-0"><span data-text="true"> generated by sandwiching of incompatible Sanskrit/Indic terms and western social/economic/political categories include:</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4a6k9" data-offset-key="2mta4-0-0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="2mta4-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="2mta4-0-0"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4a6k9" data-offset-key="62b51-0-0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="62b51-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="62b51-0-0"><span data-text="true">Vedic Liberalism</span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4a6k9" data-offset-key="998uh-0-0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="998uh-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="998uh-0-0"><span data-text="true">Dharmic Capitalism</span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="998uh-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="998uh-0-0"><span data-text="true">Vedantic Socialism <br /></span></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="4a6k9" data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #14171a; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0"><span data-text="true">Hindu Left / Hindu Right</span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div><span data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0"><span data-text="true"></span></span><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0"><span data-text="true">Here, an Indic prefix is attached to the western category. Western academia often adds some western prefix to an Indic category:<br /></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0"><span data-text="true">Neo-Hinduism (Paul Hacker, exposed in 'Indra's Net' by Sri Rajiv Malhotra)</span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0"><span data-text="true">Neo-Vedanta</span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0"><span data-text="true">American Veda (credit Phil Goldberg) </span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0"><span data-text="true"><br /></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u><span data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0"><span data-text="true">What is the problem?</span></span></u></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0"><span data-text="true"></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0"><span data-text="true">The output western re-categorization generated </span></span><span data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="7ujpl-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="7ujpl-0-0">after a deep immersion in 'English Samadhi'</span></span></span> </span>is reductionist and harmful. This should not be surprising given that </span></span><span data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0"><span data-text="true"><span data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0"><span data-text="true">the Sanskrit/Dharmika terms come with a far broader range of meanings and applicability that <b>include </b>the <i>Paramartika</i></span></span> while <b>rejecting </b>that which is <i>anrta </i>and <i>adharma</i>. On the other hand, the western component of the newly generated category is usually secular and materialist, and indifferent to <i>Rta </i>and <i>Dharma</i>. Neologisms coined by Abrahamic missionaries are not secular since their goal is to increase the curb-appeal of history-centric theology. They use a dab of dharmika paint to generate religious oxymorons that many gullible Hindus buy into:</span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0"><span data-text="true">Vedic Gospel <span> </span><br /></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="998uh-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="998uh-0-0"><span data-text="true">Dharmic Fundamentalism</span></span></div></div><span data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0"><span data-text="true">Christunatyam <span> </span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0"><span data-text="true">Christ Yoga </span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0"><span data-text="true">Sufi Bhakti </span></span></div><span data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0"><span data-text="true">Whether you add poison to Devi's Prasad, or Devi's Prasad to poison, the deeper dharmic meanings get diminished and severely distorted, and ultimately <i>digested </i>into the western (secular or Abrahamic) category. </span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0"><span data-text="true">We must decolonize and work harder to better understand and retain the original terms, and then apply them more effectively in a contemporary context.</span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0"><span data-text="true"> </span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black;"><u><span data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0"><span data-text="true">References and Further Reading</span></span></u></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black;"><span data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0"><span data-text="true">Books by Rajiv Malhotra</span></span></span></div><div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0" style="direction: ltr; overflow: hidden; position: relative; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span data-offset-key="bps5h-0-0"><span data-text="true"> <br /></span></span></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410272306057585767.post-9227228132935221872020-01-13T20:37:00.004-05:002020-01-14T10:04:16.774-05:00The Revenge of the Morons<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A quick note.<br />
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Post-CAA (Citizenship amendment Act), the morons have come home to roost and the Modi government has a big problem. On the one hand, Modi 2.0 has implemented its manifesto that effectively turns it into the most anti-moron leadership in India since, who knows, perhaps Chatrapathi Shivaji. On the other hand, for six years, its Human resources development / education department has done little to junk a decaying curriculum and repair the education system that mass produces idiocy. Many 13-14 year olds of May 2014 have graduated into full blown college-going idiots today who burned public property worth crores of Rupees in just days, and brazenly display anti-Hindu placards in the name of protest. WhatsApp university merely serves as a finishing school that polishes these kids off after academic hours, producing more perfect morons.<br />
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Sri Aurobindo envisioned the emergence of the Superman but instead what we are witnessing is the <i>descent</i> of man. <a href="http://indicportal.org/the-descent-of-man-stages-of-charvaka-ism/">http://indicportal.org/the-descent-of-man-stages-of-charvaka-ism/</a> <br />
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Some opposition politicians and sections of the Hinduphobic English language media, the valedictorians of this mentally colonized system immediately grasp this point. These toppers understand the mindset of fellow dysfunctionals better than the rest and have quickly realized how to win over them- Dumb down and distort your messaging and reduce it to its lowest form by eliminating all reading material; communicate through Tiktok type clips, memes and silly slogans. The Nehruvian dinosaurs who still write a 1000 pompous words when 10 suffice can put out the long form for a few bucks. On the other hand, the government and its more aware supporters in the social media are fighting the battle based on reasoning and logic. Their lawyer base provide reams of sound legal arguments (ream for today's idiot secular = 1 whole page of rigorous language). Their researchers provide the historical context. Their watchdogs expose the horrifically Hinduphobic nature of reporting by the crooked media channels. All good and commendable efforts to educate the moron. However, some others give their CAT/GMAT/JEE scores and ranks in canned exams (another curse of this edu system) to 'empirically prove' their credentials. to idiots. <br />
<a href="http://indicportal.org/rw-is-as-mentally-colonised-as-lw/">http://indicportal.org/rw-is-as-mentally-colonised-as-lw/</a><br />
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'Erudite' Hindus who were gullible enough to bring philosophy to gunfights, now bring marks cards.<br />
<a href="http://indicportal.org/why-are-indians-so-gullible/">http://indicportal.org/why-are-indians-so-gullible/</a><br />
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Looking at the placards, it appeared that the 'social sciences' mobs want the 'anti-Muslim' provisions of the citizenship amendment act to be withdrawn. For this, the government had to do precisely nothing since the CAA did not any such provision in the first place. Problem solved. Now the Hinduphobic mobs simply want the democratically produced act withdrawn because of imaginary problems. How to solve <i>this</i>? Here's a thought experiment (actually, it's a 5th standard school joke) - Imagine an elephant going into a matchbox. how will it get out? well, you just imagine it getting out. The CAA protests have reduced the discourse to a complete farce, which suits the morons just fine. Even <a href="https://twitter.com/IntegralUnity/status/1216873360010903552" target="_blank">Shashi Tharoor</a> joins the race to the bottom.<br />
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You had 5 years to fix the school and college system but you did not. You bragged about not changing a thing, and suddenly, the PM of India admits in 2020 that the history in school exams are flawed!<br />
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The morons are winning despite your perfect GMAT scores.<br />
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Like the Rakshasas getting powerful at night, adharmic mobs revel in ignorance.The CPI may have a few seats in the Lok Sabha but their leftist, materialist, anti-Hindu ideology influence hundreds of parliament seats today. Despite starting late, their web portals carry more traffic even though they know little CS and IT. They can hire the best Hindu CS and IT graduates to take care of stuff. Students emerging from the current school system are putty in the hands of their 'Urban Naxal' college professors. This cannot go on. The Modi gov has to start now and Indianize Indian education. Put Indic thought first. If the "Social science" departments that continually blare out anti-Hindu and
anti-Indian literature and bile cannot shut up, then shut them down. Pseudoscience programs are universally worthless. And fix the diabolical UPSC exam material. It produces the bureaucratic crooks that trampled on Modi ji's five years of tapas. <br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RYS6V76lRQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RYS6V76lRQ</a><br />
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<i>Make in India</i> cannot just be about making indigenous armaments, Swadeshi manufacturing and services. It is even more important for India to produce young <i><b>Indian minds </b></i>guided by Indic thought who will make and operate these things in the future, instead of these juvenile mindsets that can only think of burning and breaking stuff down. If India has to become a Jagadguru, it simply cannot afford a high percentage of morons like some rich countries today possess.<br />
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updated Jan 14, 2020 [ link to 2012 article by Sri Rajiv Malhotra on #MoronSmriti]<br />
<a href="https://rajivmalhotra.com/library/articles/response-doctrine-sameness/">https://rajivmalhotra.com/library/articles/response-doctrine-sameness/</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410272306057585767.post-57842449658343706352019-08-02T10:21:00.001-04:002019-08-02T10:26:56.037-04:00#Nuts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://twitter.com/AdityaRajKaul/status/1157127602232004609" target="_blank">Trump offer to mediate on Kashmir</a><br />
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Indian response<br />
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"August 2, 2019<br />
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To the US Commander,<br />
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<a href="https://www.army.mil/article/92856/the_story_of_the_nuts_reply" target="_blank">N U T S !</a><br />
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The Indian Commander" <br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410272306057585767.post-67364398961182292812018-11-24T11:56:00.004-05:002018-11-24T11:56:47.717-05:00Goodbye Mr. Chips: 100 years later in JNU<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Here is the Wikipedia page of the original movie;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye,_Mr._Chips_(1939_film)" target="_blank"> 'Goodbye, Mr Chips'</a>. (1939). Below is a satirical edit of the original <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye,_Mr._Chips_(1939_film)#Plot_summary" target="_blank">plot summary</a> in Wikipedia, edited to fit an imaginary JNU setting, and the events time-shifted forward by 100 years.<br />
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Note: JNU's expansion/definition here is like GNU: JNU is Not a University. JNU is an imaginary university. Any resemblance to any real-life, genuine university is purely coincidental.<br />
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For the first time in 58 years because of a<span> </span>cold, PhD-scholar-emeritus Mr. Chipping misses a sit-down protest at JNU. That afternoon he falls asleep in his rocking chair and his student career is related in<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashback_(narrative)" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Flashback (narrative)">flashback</a>.</div>
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When 25-year-old Charles Nurul Chipping first arrives as a<span> </span>Marxist<span> student</span> in 1970, he becomes a target of practical jokes on his first day. He reacts by imposing strict indiscipline in his classroom, making him liked and respected. <i>Twenty </i>years pass and he becomes the senior student. He is disappointed in not receiving an appointment as a permanent PhD scholar within the 'university' for the following year. However, the new<span> </span>Humanities<span> </span>teacher Jey Basu saves him from despair by inviting him to share an explore-the-ruins holiday to his native<span> West Bengal</span>.</div>
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While debris-hunting, Chipping encounters Kathy, a feisty Keralite subaltern<span> </span>who is on a recycling holiday with a friend. They meet again in<span> </span>Kolkata<span> </span>where she persuades him to dance to the<span> </span>Red Volga Waltz. This piece of music is used as a<span> </span><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leitmotif" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Leitmotif">leitmotif</a></i>, symbolizing Chipping's love for her ideology. Jey remarks that the Volga does not appear red, but Chipping remarks it only appears so to those who are in love. On another part of the same boat, as Kathy looks at the river, she tells her friend that it is red. Even though Kathy is considerably younger and livelier than Chipping, she loves and marries him. They return to JNU, where Kathy takes up residence at the 'university' at the taxpayer's expense, charming everyone with her atrocity literature.</div>
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During their tragically short marriage (she dies in childbirth, along with their baby), she brings "Chips" out of his shell and shows him how to be a better leftist. As the years pass, Chips becomes a much-loved institution, developing a rapport with generations of lecturers; he studies under the sons and grandsons of many of his earlier lecturers.</div>
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In 2009, when he is pressured to retire by a more 'Saffron' social media, mainstream media and the board of governors of the 'university' take his side of the argument and tell him he can stay until he is 100.</div>
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Chips finally retires in shock in 2014 at the age of 69, but is summoned back to serve as interim PhD scholar because of the shortage of non-unconscious leftists resulting from<span> </span>the events that year. He remembers Kathy had predicted he would graduate one day. During the loss of Tripura, Chips insists that they keep on memorizing their 'Breaking India' chanting, much to the amusement of his fellow students. As the 'Saffron' years drag on, Chips reads aloud into JNU's<span> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honors_student" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Honors student">Roll of Honour</a><span> </span>every Sunday the names of the many former boys and professors who squandered their lives became Urban Naxals and ended up in jail.</div>
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He retires permanently in 2018, but continues living nearby in Lutyens. He is on his deathbed in 2033 when he overhears his college mates talking about him. He responds, "I thought you said it was a pity, a pity I never misled any children. But you're wrong. I have! Thousands of 'em, thousands of 'em ... and not all ... boys."</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410272306057585767.post-47572459743009159582018-05-23T14:10:00.001-04:002018-05-23T18:45:25.982-04:00The Stupidity of Voting NOTA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Thinking quietly about the role of NOTA in elections. <br />
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Voting NOTA is a terrible idea when you feel you only have bad candidates - it is not just an exercise in futility, it is actually harmful to democracy. By giving an equal score of "0" to all candidates, the NOTA voter is effectively equating the worst criminal politician in the candidate pool to the least harmful.<br />
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Every NOTA vote by a "frustrated voter" translates to one less negative vote for the worst candidate, whose own supporters will also never pick NOTA. Express your preference for the pickpocket over the armed bandit if those are the choices you have, else only the bandit supporter votes will matter. The winning candidate will almost surely never be NOTA, and as the NOTA percentage goes up, it may actually increase the probability of the worst candidates winning. <br />
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All candidates may be bad, but not all are equally bad. Always vote, no matter how inconvenient and how poor the choices are, and always optimize by picking the 'best among the available options' every time, no matter how distasteful. That is the only way to continually weed out the worst and promote reform. <br />
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Suppose you only have good candidates, will you still vote NOTA since "all are good, can't pick out any one"? Unlikely. You would endorse the better over the merely good and fairly reward merit. Likewise, when you have only bad candidates, use your vote to penalize the more terrible candidates. An informed decision has to be made even here. <i>NOTA votes appear to be especially harmful when the candidate pool is bad</i>. Exercising the NOTA option in large numbers may produce even more obnoxious politicians asking for your vote in the next election. Remember Karnataka 2018.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410272306057585767.post-4228080307517702862016-04-28T10:01:00.002-04:002016-04-28T10:01:21.438-04:00Rama Loves Squirrels Too<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
There is merit in picking one area, one project, which
we are good at and can create an impact on the ground, and keep at it. But sometimes, we forget our dharma and lose the basic ability of sticking to a message. <br />
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An <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2007/oct/04/cricket.comment" target="_blank">old cricket article</a> by Mike Selvey that recalls fast bowler Ottis Gibson's first ever cricket match, for the Barbados team: <br />
"...<i>He was recalling his first-ever match for his native Barbados, throughout which, as the great Malcolm Marshall stood by and watched, he had been getting a run-a-ball tanking.<br /><br />In the second innings, Gibson recalled, he came and stood at mid-off. "What are you going to do?" Marshall queried after Gibson had bowled a rare dot-ball at the start of an over. Gibson remembered his response. "'I'm going to bounce him' I said, and Malcolm would just say 'Why don't you just do what you did again?' And I did and it was another dot-ball. 'Now what are you going to do?' 'I'm going to york him.' 'No, do the same thing again'. And so he talked me through the first maiden over I bowled in first-class cricket. He taught me to construct an over."<br /><br />There you have it then, in a nutshell: the simple art of bowling from perhaps the greatest fast man who ever drew breath and not a mention of good areas.</i>"<br />
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The anger against the corrupt ecosystem and its Hinduphobia cannot be myopically expended in a jiffy on sloganeering and wild, emotional ideas. It can be channeled into long-term, sober, and meaningful effort. Even if it seems lonely, boring, or insignificant in comparison to others. The tiny squirrel that contributed its bit in support of the Sethu was eventually touched by the transcendental hand of divinity. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410272306057585767.post-88586441243887087992016-03-31T21:43:00.001-04:002016-03-31T21:43:38.219-04:00Kolam Blog at the Indic Cultural Portal<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I wrote about the 'Computing and Cosmology' within the Kolam, at the Indic Cultural Portal. You can read that blog <a href="http://indicportal.org/kolam-computing-and-cosmology-within-indian-art/" target="_blank">there.</a> Do share your feedback there. </div>
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This blog is about contemporary India, but we start with a bit of European history.<b> </b></div>
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<b>Part-1: 20th Century Europe </b></h3>
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In 1939, ace computer scientist, mathematician, and cryptanalyst Alan Turning decided to solve the challenging problem of cracking the German Navy version of the Enigma code. Why? In his own words: "<i>because no one else was doing anything about it and I could have it to myself</i>". Thus, the great Alan Turing and his intrepid team at Bletchley Park, through hard work, intelligence, and ingenuity were able to crack the Enigma code, and helped turn the tide of World War 2. The story is well known today. At first, they were resource-strained, and by the time the intercepted messages were decoded and sent up the chain of command, the relevant events had already passed into history. However, thanks to an increase in human and computing resources, and equally importantly, by upgrading their own game, the cryptographers were able to eventually decipher the messages fast enough to <i>reliably predict what would happen in the future</i>. They had turned information on enemy movements into actionable intelligence. Pure gold dust. By closing this gap between interception and decoding, they were able to have a significant impact on the course of the war between the Allies and the Axis powers. So precious was their operation, their work was rated 'Ultra', even above 'Most' secret. Some of Alan Turing's research findings were hidden from public view for 70 years and only published recently. Even beyond WW2, it appears that Enigma machines were sold to 3rd world countries that were unaware that their information could be tracked by the west.</div>
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The Nazi analysts themselves believed their Enigma encryption to be fool-proof, and it is acknowledged that in principle, they indeed were. However, overconfidence, and bad operational practices gave away enough clues to Bletchley Park, who were smart enough to take advantage of these lapses. Turing's team was able to make risky predictions that turned out to be right. The allied command subsequently bet the lives of thousands of soldiers on their predictions. Theirs was a solid scientific approach supported by rigorous math and empirical testing, which allowed them to be confident in their predictions. However, if their predictions were wrong, many lives would have been in jeopardy due to faulty intelligence and their work would've been dismissed as pseudo-science. </div>
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Around 1919, Karl Popper, a western philosopher began to actively ponder this <a href="https://youtu.be/cIXcg1rJn2U" target="_blank">demarcation</a>. He narrowed down the distinction to one of <a href="https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2016/01/karl-popper-on-science-pseudoscience/" target="_blank">testability</a>. According to Popper, a scientific theory must be able to make somewhat risky predictions about the future. Others would try to falsify this theory, and if this falsification failed, the theory would gain credence. If the events did not happen as predicted, the theory would be weakened, and efforts would be made to either rectify the theory and re-test, or abandon it entirely. 97 years ago, Popper applied his principles to identify at least two theories popular in the west during that time as pseudo-science: the Marxist theory of history, and the Freudian psychoanalysis. Why? These theories simply did not fail! They could explain everything in the <i>past</i> with 100% accuracy, and were irrefutable. First-time viewers, to this day, find this ability to <i>confirm</i> quite irresistible. However, within a few decades of Marx's theory, it failed the risky predictability test not once, but several times. Freudian analysis met the same fate. From this western perspective, it was classic pseudo-science (although, apparently Marx was confident enough to crown himself as 'the Isaac Newton of <i>Social Sciences</i>'). Arguably, Marxist theory or Freudian theory did not become obsolete over time, but were born blind. By brushing away these glaring failures to predict, scientist Karl became prophet Karl. As contemporary events show, 'propheteering' is much more lucrative and unimpeachable (compared to the scientific alternative of forecasting, where a 5% increase in error in predicting product sales may have your client pulling the plug on your project). Well, what on earth has all this to do with India? We discuss this in the next section.</div>
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Welcome to western Indology (India study). The major theoretical foundations of western Indology over the last few decades are, as you may have guessed, Marxist theory of history, and Freudian psychoanalysis! Completely unchallenged, totally unhindered by any need to test predictions, many (but not all, there a few good ones) Indologists have combined to build up an entire body of Indology literature based on these pseudo-sciences. Let us examine the nature of this literature constructed.</div>
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The western approach to knowledge-building via math models employs rigorous theorem proving starting from a bunch of 'self-evident' statements called axioms. A 'purva paksha' of the way mathematics historically developed in the west would reveal, at least at a very high level, the contrast between the Euclidean western way of theorem-proving versus the Paninian Indian approach of rule-generation (refer to the <a href="https://youtu.be/p2WankcGP3Q" target="_blank">talk </a>and work by M. D. Srinivas and others). Infallible western mathematics versus the explicitly fallible Indian Ganita (science of computations) is an interesting topic in its own right, which we will explore in-depth in this space later. The theorem-proving approach allows us to reliably extend existing results, without having to start from scratch each time. By maintaining rigor and by subjecting new ideas to rigorous <i>predictive</i> testing, one can minimize the fallibility of the entire system. Of course, if one of those axioms or proofs were to be found wanting in some future scenario, it can open up a can of worms. </div>
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This incremental approach of knowledge generation used in the hard sciences has been borrowed and applied by the west to social sciences as well, which as we have seen from the time of Prophet Karl, are pseudo-sciences. So we have journal papers quoting and extending the work of previous papers, results building on prior result, producing an incestuous body of Indology writing that can plausibly confirm any and all prior data about India, but is largely useless as far as reliably predicting 'risky' future events. Therefore, not only has this body of work not been useful, but these highly innovative, imaginative and intellectually engaging models have been harmful when used outside academia as a predictor to develop solutions in a real world. If, by chance, a future event does conform to a theory, they can claim credit; if it failed, then of course, the cow and goddess worshiping, "caste" obsessed, curry munching Hindus weren't smart enough to understand Marxism properly. At its core such social sciences are largely a 'Heads I win, Tails you lose' proposition. Thus, when decades of Marxist-inspired methods of planning in post-1947 India inevitably failed to yield results, it was
explained away as the "Hindu rate of growth". This also justified the need to continue inflicting Marxism on Indians until they fully understood it, i.e., when enough successive 'Heads' were observed!</div>
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Indology Theory versus Hindu Practice</h4>
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Recently, I visited Columbia University in New York City to add a science conference. The STEM departments in such universities are top-notch. Genuinely curious and good scientists and wonderful human beings. I have learned from them, and my interactions have been beneficial. Only in the last decade did I learn that in these same campuses, in their humanities and social sciences departments, there are other smart professors who are invested in western Indology and Hindu studies. From nine thousand miles away, they were and are doing a whole lot of
theoretical model fitting using materialist Marxist and Freudian interpretations of Sanskrit texts that would appear utterly nonsensical to actual practitioners in India. The dharmic content of Hinduism that actually guides its practice is summarily rejected! On the other hand, some
western thinkers outside the ivory tower who internalized Hinduism's ideas were able to practically adapt it to solve some of the biggest challenges of the 20th century. For example, the approaches of both Martin Luther King, Jr.,
and Nelson Mandela, borrowed from the <i>Satyagraha </i>of Gandhi that is fundamentally rooted in Sanathana dharma. The positive and pervasive <a href="http://beingdifferentbook.com/media/Vivekananda's%20Ideas%20-%20Two%20Revolutions%20in%20Western%20Thought.pdf" target="_blank">influence of Swami Vivekananda</a> on western thought is stunning to read, and has never really been acknowledged either. </div>
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The Indology Enigma Machine</h4>
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In an earlier era, there were the 'orientalists' from a Europe that had colonized and ruined India, who studied India from the perspective of a superior 'teacher' race. These earlier Indologists have been thoroughly exposed and the new generations of Indologists that are based in the United States are much smarter. They are trained in Sanskrit, have learned from the mistakes of the Orientalists, and have proceeded to cleverly write lengthy papers and analyses using extremely convoluted English (search for example, the pomo generator). Their writings virtually became a code that only their peers, who were part of a mutual back-scratching network, could review, read, understand, and build upon. Alternative new approaches to Hindu studies in the US would be branded as "communal" and "Hindu extremism" by their gatekeepers and shut down. If you, as a graduate scholar, wanted to study Hinduism and get funding, you would have to learn their code language, and thereby also adopt the encoded views about India. Simply put, these Indologists had succeeded in creating their own virtual Enigma machine. This Indology enigma machine is then shipped to third-world India, safe in the knowledge that only the encoders in the US, and their elite disciples in India, would truly know what the messages meant. <i>It became their ultimate inside joke on India.</i> This Indology Enigma in principle is also a fool-proof system like the earlier WW2 model and cracking this code would require sustained, single-minded effort, enormous resources, and a high degree of intelligence to break. They progressed, unhindered for decades, until the breakthrough came in the form of a trained physicist named Rajiv Malhotra.</div>
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American Orientalism Decoded</h4>
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Rajiv Malhotra has lived in the US for more than 40 years and his is another successful Indian immigrant story - he studied physics, but got into IT and Telecom and eventually became the multi-millionaire owner of 20 companies. However, it is what happened afterward that is quite extraordinary. He gave it all up (for one dollar) at the age of 44 to devote his life, full time, to Hindu and Indian studies from an insider perspective. He used his personal funds to set up a research foundation and has over the last few decades, given grants, built up a dedicated home team, and done a deep and thorough study of the Indology landscape from an <i>Indic perspective</i> (and this is really key). While others too have attempted such studies earlier, there is really none else who approached this problem in a single-minded manner, applying scholarly rigor, comprehensive research, and thoroughness. Rajiv Malhotra decided that he would take this up as part of his sva-dharma. He became the perfect storm that was required to crack this Indology Enigma code. Based on more than 20 years of painstaking research, and at a high personal cost, Rajiv Malhotra has authored <a href="http://rajivmalhotra.com/" target="_blank">five epic books</a> on related topics, and we will briefly examine a specific trilogy among them, noting that the very first book, '<a href="http://invadingthesacred.com/" target="_blank">Invading the Sacred</a>' demolishes the Freudian psychoanalysis applied to Hindu studies in America. </div>
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The first book in the three we examine here is 'Breaking India', which analyzed the prior Indologists, mostly from Europe, whose theories from the 19th century have devastated Indian politics and sections of society (including in my own home state) for more than a century now. Thus, the initial decoding of Indology by Rajiv ji, while being amazing and successful, is associated with a large time lag between when these virulent messages were encoded and when they were fully decoded. However, his next book 'Indra's Net' that focused on newer but equally diabolical Indology theories reduced this time lag. Here, he was able to expertly decipher the more recent discourse around the spurious idea of 'Neo-Hinduism' being propagated in India over the last few decades. Finally, his latest book, '<a href="http://thebattleforsanskrit.com/" target="_blank">The Battle For Sanskrit</a>' was released in India a couple of weeks ago. While this book is yet to release in the US, I have studied several video overviews of its content to realize that it has exposed the ugly face of an 'American Orientalism', a new form of orientalism. </div>
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<i>It is clear that today, Rajiv Malhotra's systematic approach has been able to decipher the output of American Orientalism as it is happening in the US right <b>now</b></i>. In this desperate intellectual and civilizational Kurukshetra, for the first time ever, practicing Hindus will have actionable intelligence that will enable them to proactively mount a defense <i>before</i> these destructive theories fully percolate into the Indian discourse that is controlled by sepoys - the paid native intellectual gunmen of these western masters.<br />
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A new generation of dedicated intellectual Kshatriyas are needed to carry this work forward. Who will join this Battle for our Sanskriti?<br />
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References</h3>
<a href="http://beingdifferentbook.com/">beingdifferentbook.com</a><br />
<a href="http://thebattleforsanskrit.com/">thebattleforsanskrit.com</a><br />
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Hobbes is nonplussed. Calvin needs Rajiv ji's help! <br />
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This post is simply a description of my personal experiences reading 'Abhaya', Saiswaroopa Iyer's first novel, which I've quickly penned down in no particular order. <br />
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I got the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B018ITMZ3Y/" target="_blank">Kindle edition</a> at Amazon.com, and began to read immediately, and did not put it down, finishing the novel in one go. From a Rasika's perspective, the characters in the book and the situations cover all nine <a href="http://www.rasas.info/" target="_blank">Rasas</a>. We'll look at just two examples here: the Hasya of Krishna's predicament reminded me just a bit of Kapil Sharma's comical situation in the movie 'Kis Kis to Pyar Karoon'. And the Veera Rasa the reader experiences when we read about Princess Abhaya's courage as she fights against all odds for the cause of Bharatavarsha is a highlight. I'm sure readers who are keyed into social media will want to know about the 'Swachch Bharat' lady of Varanasi in the novel. Read and find out! <br />
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Some of the pages, along with the vivid descriptions, appear to leap right out of old Amar Chitra Katha and Chandamama stories that we all loved to read and re-read before the advent of 24-7 TV. The Shringara Rasa is also on view, some of which I'd personally rate as 'U/A', making the content suitable for young adults. There are excellent and lucid discussions centered on dharma and duty which are suitable and perfect for any age. The dilemmas and challenges that Abhaya and other characters face, and the dharma ethics that is evident in the subsequent decisions they take was brilliant to read.<br />
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Saiswaroopa employs several Sanskrit non-translatables, and the author must be commended for this. This is a daunting task, and the author's Shraddha in the sensitive but frank handling of native Indian traditions is evident. There is little or no spoon-feeding of poor approximations of key Sanskrit terms in order to cater to the westernized reader. For example, the meaning of 'dharma' is contextual, and is used as is, and is not mistranslated as 'religion' etc. Also the accurate term 'Arya' is used in the novel, although the dreaded 'Aryan' did appear once, perhaps inadvertently. Hope this gets fixed in the next cycle of edits. There is some emphasis on 'faith' toward the end, which caused me some confusion. I personally chose to interpret 'faith' as 'Bhakti derived from a deep Anubhava' rather than as a dogmatic belief in a purely external force that is highly unlikely to bear fruit no matter how long, and how much 'hope' and 'faith' one has. On the other hand, the dharmic discussions toward the end were both moving and riveting. Yes, this is a work of fiction, but it also full of truth.<br />
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Despite being a fictional novel, it is quite clear and impressive that the author has taken pains to ensure an accurate portrayal of dharma traditions. <i>And to be able to</i> do so honestly, and without compromising on the readability and the smooth progress of a fairly intricate plot surely requires a high degree of skill, and fearlessness. This is a lesson, and a benchmark for every budding Indian writer. How many times have we have seen Indian and Western authors compose grandiose works and dramatizations set in a dharmic context, but approach the work purely intellectually and without the requisite Shraddha or Anubhava. They write from a "outsider" perspective, and without any adhyatmic insight, inevitably end up mangling dharmic concepts and the deep civilizational ideas. In direct contrast, this author's writing appears to be grounded in her dharma, and for me, this is the fundamental reason for the success of this work.<br />
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Finally, some brief notes on the writing style and some memorable characters. The first thing that came to mind when Krishna enters the story is Sri SL Bhyrappa's epic 'Parva'. Abhaya's Krishna will be loved by everybody. Full of wit, compassion, courage, mischief, love, understanding, and wisdom. Abhaya's lead character is smart, resourceful, cool, beautiful, and thoughtful. The quintessential Indian woman. There were some places where the turn of phrase employed pleased the Ganitha/analytics professional in me. Cool! The author seems to have a natural story telling ability, and she does so with a brisk and clear style. I'm quite convinced this is the first of many books we will get to read and enjoy.<br />
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Abhaya is an authentic Indian work that has something positive for everybody. Those who have grown up reading stories from Indian Itihasa will be able to relate to this book. I highly recommend it.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410272306057585767.post-85722089078706887682015-04-04T15:26:00.000-04:002015-04-04T15:34:41.631-04:00The Indian Proselytization Equation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
While helping my daughter with arithmetic, I uncovered a simple but powerful application of elementary school concepts that helps me do a basic purva paksha numerical analysis of the Christian Evangelism in India. Hopefully scholars in India can analyze this serious social problem at the more sophisticated level that it deserves.<br />
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Recall Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi once talked about India's demographic dividend, viewing India's population not simply as a source of all problems, but as an asset that produces solutions? Now consider this equation.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>Demographic Dividend </b></span></span><span class="st"><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b>÷ Missionary Divisor = Soul Harvesting Quotient (SHQ)</b></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="st">Note the usefulness of this equation to Missionaries.</span><br />
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<span class="st"><b>1) The size of the missionary pie is equal to Modi ji's demographic dividend. </b> </span><br />
<span class="st">India's population is also a great source of joy for churches. The more the Hindu bodies, the biggest the soul harvest, the richer their rewards.</span><br />
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<span class="st">2) <b>Conversion Efficiency</b> </span><br />
<span class="st">Given N missionaries allocated to India, the SHQ immediately tells their CEOs the required sales target or the per-missionary rate of conversion required for Breaking India, completely destroying dharma, and establishing dogma. For example, if you have 10^9 dharmic bodies, 10^5 harvesters , and a 100-year plan, each missionary has to corrupt an average of 100 atmas annually, over a century for achieving 100% cultural genocide. However, there are non-linearities at work.</span><br />
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<b><span class="st">3) Proselytization Calculus: Increased conversion rate over time</span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><b><span class="st">Theorem: At any point in time, if converting 50% of a dharmic population takes N decades, the second 50% will take (far) less than N decades.</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span class="st">To see this, let us apply <b>Vivekananda's observation</b>: A Hindu lost is not just a Hindu lost, <u>but also</u> an enemy gained. This means that a significant fraction of the harvested population turns vampire. If you started off with 10^5 missionaries, you may be able to continually double the number after a significant increment of harvested recruits join the sales force, without having to import foreigners. Thus, the divisor goes up, and the required SHQ comes down. Equivalently, if the missionary army maintain their SHQ rate, and the Hindu dividend does not grow as rapidly as the divisor, the time taken to harvest the remaining population keeps on reducing over time.</span><br />
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<span class="st"><b>Conclusion</b></span><br />
<span class="st"><b>T<span style="color: #660000;">he rate of dogma growth (and reduction in dharmics) in India is likely to increase nonlinearly, unless there is a sharp and immediate reduction in the number of soul-harvesters before critical mass is reached, at which point, the harvesting process is likely to go viral (exhibit exponential growth) and become almost surely irreversible</span></b>. </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410272306057585767.post-63968044829915889532015-03-23T19:21:00.003-04:002015-03-29T09:42:00.007-04:00The Wolf who cried Wolf<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<u>An abbreviated version of this comment was submitted on the Rajiv Malhotra forum</u><br />
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The Indian gov has let hundreds of missionaries into India over the years, but Indians does not get to hear the stories of the thousands of victims of child abuse by Church clergy around the world. In the US, victims are fighting back against the behemoth that has betrayed the trust they placed when they were kids, and filing lawsuits in court that are driving such churches to bankruptcy. In Barack Obama's own state of Illinois, which he so proudly represented, the statistics are quite shocking. We are now just beginning to see the same pattern being repeated in Indian churches with cases being reported in many parts of India. THIS list must be compiled and publicized. If the Indian government is sincere about protecting the rights of Christians in India, as Rajnath Singh ji tweeted today, it needs to start paying <b>serious attention</b> to the cases of abuse against church personnel cropping up worldwide, and study how it is unfolding in India. <br />
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The last 10 years under Congress rule has seen some of the more fundamentalist churches pretty much do their own thing in India, and one shudders to think how the faith of hoodwinked Dalits, Indian boys, girls, and prospective nuns who come to church looking for peace have been exploited. A lot of foolish Hindus signed up for Jesus (the <a href="http://docsubra.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-original-good-cop.html" target="_blank">original good cop</a>) and Carol singing, but when they woke up, found themselves enlisted as servants of deadly multinational bad-cops. <b>A survey of worldwide data would show that</b> <b>IF at all christians in India are on a hit list, the owner of such a list, with a high probability, is likely to be their own organizations. </b>Like charity, abuse begins at home. Any attack on any place of worship, in any country, be it a Mandir, Gurudwara, Masjid, or Church must be condemned, and the culprits punished severely. But the comparative data regarding such attacks, and acts of vandalism in India and in the United States tells an entirely different story and so we must ask: is this a case of wolf crying wolf? Is the church trying to cover up its tracks in India like it has tried to in other countries, and divert attention by encouraging rabble rousers in India without proper fact checking? Is it trying to derail India's recovery under Modi? After all, it has been complicit in getting Narendra Modi's visa to the US cancelled in the past. Of course, not all churches are bad, and we are already reading about prominent patriotic Indian christians who are speaking out against nefarious conversion activities. <br />
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If Breaking India forces can organize a SHAM dalit conference in Washington with the help of 'sepoys', then surely, Indian organizations can organize genuine Church-victim conferences in India, bringing speakers from the west who have had tragic experiences with the churches there. Such conferences need not simply an exercise in generating counter atrocity literature, but can actually make a positive dharmic difference to Indian lives, while also educating India about the threat posed by these BI forces. An alternative <b>perspective based on fact</b> must to be provided to Indian public to compare with the totally one-sided Bollywood image of the 'cool' church-gown wedding, the wise Padre, and the kindly Mrs. Braganza upstairs who feeds and houses the homeless Hindu.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410272306057585767.post-68306682507423295792015-03-20T13:35:00.001-04:002015-04-04T16:09:20.418-04:00Western Feminism as a Counter-Terrorism Doctrine<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A small sample of statements by leading lights of Western feminism (WF):<br />
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(via @DeepikaBhardwaj on twitter to explain why she is not a feminist as she states in the last line of the picture above)<br />
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If these statements represent a more violent expression of a widespread but latent fear and rage among the persecuted women of some western societies, then it is both fair and useful to also analyze Western Feminism as a counter-terrorism doctrine. This suggestion should not be surprising, as the facts unearthed in the aftermath of 'India's Daughter' video show, the per-capita rate of violent crime against women in such societies are orders of magnitude worse than India (with significant under-reporting in most societies). Of course, India clearly has an emerging problem, but one that should and is being tackled boldly, and perhaps with a lot more wisdom, by women leaders in its society. More on that later. A limited point raised in this blog is this:<br />
WF must also be analyzed as a counter-terrorism doctrine because, as data will show, there exists ample evidence to suggest that it was created to counter gender chauvinist terror inspired by History-centricAbrahamic male-dominated theology adopted in those societies. Terror victims respond violently by attacking the other gender, with scant or no regard for collateral damage in terms of destroyed families, innocent lives lost, and cultures exterminated. At best, the WF approach <i>tolerates </i>the male who accepts 'defeat', just like the MCP tolerates women who do the same, resulting in a constant state of tension that boils over repeatedly. In fact, one could say, that the WF members have <i>become</i> male gladiators for all practical purposes, in order to be successful in executing their <i>adharmic </i>counter-terrorism strategy. And this strategy, which looks more like a race to the bottom, is being promoted and marketed in all parts of the world as 'progressive'.<br />
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On the other hand, the Indian response is dharmic, and focuses on harmony and <i>restoring balance via mutual respect</i>, rather than myopically and foolishly thinking in terms of order versus chaos, of triumphant victor tolerating sore loser, and seeks to return the feminine to the highest place in the society it has traditionally occupied. <a href="http://www.andhraportal.org/reviving-shakti-restoring-feminine-balance-in-indic-society/" target="_blank">This article</a> is a good place to start. For a detailed comparative analysis of the idea of mutual respect in dharma versus Abrahamic ideology, read Rajiv Malhotra's book <a href="http://beingdifferentbook.com/" target="_blank">Being Different</a>'. The data has shown (read the books by Dr. R. Vaidyanathan, or the talks by S. Gurumurthy on this subject, for example) that the practical success of the traditional Indian economy (Mahalakshmi), its learning models (Saraswati), and its strength against aggression (Durga), are because they are rooted in the divine feminine. Thus, it seems clear to me that these particular choices of Lakshmi, Saraswati, Durga <i>arose</i>
from the actions of ancient Indians who were actually practicing this successful approach, i.e., ground up, and in turn
these deities served as exemplars for future generations to follow and be successful too. The ideas of eco-feminism, Yoga, vegetarianism, etc. that have become popular in the west, especially among women, also come from dharmic India. This is not surprising, since the very idea and source of strength is <i>Shakti</i>, which is important in the dharmic traditions of India. One can also understand the Indian versus western response as that of a <a href="http://docsubra.blogspot.com/2012/03/analysis-of-history-centrism-part-3.html" target="_blank">Yogi versus the Gladiator</a>.<br />
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Should one respond to gender-based fault-lines in societies by widening them using a counter-terrorism doctrine to achieve victory? or should one employ a dharmic solution to achieve harmony? Seems like a no-brainer.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410272306057585767.post-1190229767124712422015-03-03T22:30:00.000-05:002015-03-03T22:30:32.747-05:00A Tale of Two Pilots<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The stories go roughly like this.<br />
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An aircraft carrier is out in enemy waters, locked in a grim do or die battle. Most of its aircraft have been sent out on a patrol when a squadron of enemy bombers is sighted. Only two fighter planes are available to defend the ship, our pilot and his wingman. The wingman's guns jam, and it is just the pilot in between the bombers and the lives of hundreds of sailors. In a desperate battle, he shoots down three of them before running out of ammo, but causes sufficient mayhem that the remaining bombers miss their target. He wins his nation's highest battle honor. He dies in battle a year later.<br />
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An airfield in a strategic border location is facing a surprise attack by enemy fighter-bomber jets. Again, it's just our pilot and his wingman who barely manage to take off even as the bombs fall on the runway. It's down to these two to defend an very important airfield. The wingman loses visual contact and is out of the fight for a bit, leaving our pilot in what looks like a hopeless 1 against 4 dogfight. Undaunted, he dives into battle and fights them off to the very end, taking at least two of them before he is shot down. The remaining enemy aircraft head home. The pilot wins his nation's highest battle honor.<br />
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The first pilot is Lt. Commander 'Butch' O'Hare, who was awarded the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_O%27Hare#Medal_of_Honor_flight" target="_blank">US medal of honor</a> for his action on February 20, 1942, saving the USS Lexington. The O'Hare legend was part of my daughter's elementary school
homework. A grateful nation gave his name to Chicago's international airport, among
the busiest. and most famous airports in the US and the world. If i recall, you can
see a replica of O'Hare's wildcat plane when you walk from Terminal 1 to
Terminal 2. <br />
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The second pilot is Flying Officer Nirmaljit Singh Sekhon, who was awarded the Param Vir Chakra for his heroism on <a href="http://kaiser-aeronaut.blogspot.com/2008/11/hard-nut-to-crack.html" target="_blank">14 December, 1971</a>, giving up his life defending the skies of Srinagar. There is no major, possibly even a minor airport in India, named after its most revered air-force hero.<br />
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This also tells a tale about the narratives of two nations.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410272306057585767.post-76449584755091979412015-02-25T00:21:00.001-05:002015-02-25T00:23:19.747-05:00The Original Good Cop<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The Abrahamic God has often been described as a ruthlessly strong, angry, jealous male, quick to take offense, one who can toss you into eternal hellfire, etc. But being as subtle as a sledgehammer creates an image, and hence recruitment, problem. Some Abrahamic variations do not care about PR or niceties. His will will be done, one way or another, and peace is established by the fear of the sword or the fear of the bigger sword. Other cults are smarter.<br />
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Enter: son of God. The epitome of love, charity, kindness, and persuasion. Benevolence multiplied by Goodness raised to the power of divinity. Rather than put the fear of God in you right away, you first do a meet-and-greet, and then gradually get acquainted with the good son. He's the good guy, who is on <i>your </i>side, fighting <i>your </i>cause in the trenches, accepting <i>your </i>shameful sins, who's taken the hit for <i>you </i>so you won't have to, who will save <i>you </i>from the torrid wrath of the angry big-boss CEO upstairs. And he's the <i>only </i>one who can protect you from the quintessential bad cop, and all you have to do is sign on the dotted line. And it works. every time. spectacularly. You are hooked. The good guy too has a dark side - after all, he's a chip of the old Abrahamic block, but you do not want to see it until it is too late. <i>It's like an age old retail trick that works like a charm</i>. You are suckered by the promotion that practically gives away the core, attractive hardware, and you end up paying through your nose for the endless expensive accessory products for the rest of your life. No surprise then that billions around the world have fallen, and continue to fall for the world's first and original good-cop bad-cop trick.<br />
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The GCBC routine has since been re-employed over the years in a variety of different forms and improvisations to facilitate religious conversion and <b>digestion </b>of native cultures. India is a prime example. Hindus, in particular, fall for this all the time because they invariably view the junior good-cop very positively in <b>isolation </b>but then fail to spot the GCBC <b>system</b> at work, and that it is the <u>bad cop</u> boss upstairs that ultimately calls the shots. This failure of not adopting a systems approach is costing India. Some of the intellectual Hindu writers online fall for this and end up looking silly. <br />
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The work and methods formulated by Rajiv Malhotra to delineate the hostile <u>ecosystems </u>at work, expose them, guard against them, and eventually turn them back, are incredibly important to internalize. Listen to this debate between Rajiv Malhotra and a wonderful, nice, courteous, and friendly good cop in Houston. RM explains the GCBC system really well here.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410272306057585767.post-8650499736613932832015-02-15T19:41:00.001-05:002015-02-15T19:46:37.006-05:00Srinivasa Ramanujan: Jewel in Indra's Net<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Why are we awed when we learn of Srinivasa Ramanujan's amazing results? He was self-taught, and provided no 'proof' for those results that conformed to the Euclidean / axiomatic model driving the western system of Mathematical study. Yet, as it has turned out over the hundred years since Ramanujan's works, a very, very high percentage of his results have been proven right by the Western system of mathematics. Very few of his results were found to be wrong, and a vast majority of his results were completely new - there is no evidence so far that the world knew about those findings before Ramanujan presented them. How did he do it? <br />
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<b>How?</b><br />
Ramanujan himself attributed this remarkable success to his personal/ family deity, Goddess Namagiri, a feminine manifestation of divinity (in the dharmic sense), who 'gave' him the answers. The world takes this important piece of information with a bit of amusement, awe, and instead chooses to attribute Srinvasa's success to that unexplainable human attribute that the west has coined as 'genius'. Many Indians take pride in Ramanujan's 'genius', and the historicity that Ramanujan was born in India: a glowing reminder of India's once brilliant past, now extinguished; India got lucky with history, and Ramanujan won a gene lottery.<br />
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However, this does not appear to be a satisfactory enough explanation. Whatever this 'genius' is, it appears to be based on solid and systematic methods, and a lot of hard work, deep insights, and intuition. The story is that in England, as the professors there tried to teach Ramanujan new and modern areas of Math that he was not exposed to before, he was busy writing down new results. The story of a differently wired brain pulling results out thin air falls short.<br />
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The question arises: if there is a systematic method at work, then Ramanujan's methods must be reproducible by a human with a non-zero probability. So what is that system? Is this unique, or if not, where have we seen this before? Importantly,
can we recover this systematic method and put it to use for solving today's
and future problems?<br />
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YES, it is likely that:<br />
a) there is a systematic method at work,<br />
b) we have seen it before, and<br />
c) it is reproducible.<br />
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<b>Where and when have we seen it before? </b><br />
Yoga. Ayurveda. Vedanta. Many results have been derived in these areas of human discovery, after having been empirically validated and reproduced to the satisfaction of the Indian systems of verification (Pramana) for centuries now. The west, in places like Harvard University, and other centers of research have the sophisticated instrumentation and research funding to essentially <i>reconfirm to their satisfaction</i>, these astonishing Indian discoveries, or quantify and measure qualitative Indian findings. These verification studies are not trivial. Praiseworthy, painstaking studies in the west in the areas of psychology, medicine, mind-sciences, Quantum physics, Human intelligence, Linguistics, Environmental management, Engineering, Management, Computer Science, etc. have quantified, validated, and embraced, bit by bit, section by section, these Indian results. New and beneficial products and services have been derived directly and indirectly from these Indian discoveries. This comes across as a replay of events that Ramanujan triggered in the area of Ganitha!<br />
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<b>Summary</b> <br />
Based on these observations, it is possible that what Ramanujan achieved is not some random event. It is likely that his methods represent an application of a 'traditional' Indian approach to knowledge discovery. Paninian Ganitha versus Euclidean mathematics, if you will. Leading Indian expert-commentators like M.D. Srinivas have found Ramanujan's work to be representative of an illustrious body of work done by a sequence of brilliant dharmic researchers from Panini to Aryabhata to Madhava of Kerala. His results are no more astonishing that the amazing discoveries via Yoga, Ayurveda, and other dharmic methods that continue to benefit the cosmos.<br />
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Such methods neither claim, nor require, some magical-myth/supernatural monotheist God/random-genius basis. Ramanujan's attribution to the Devi is not an isolated instance. Panini mentioned that the Shiva Sutras were revealed to him through Shiva's Damru. This attribution to the dharmic divine appears to be neither coincidental nor some zealous 'rush of religious blood'.<br />
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Two points to summarize: <br />
a) Indian researchers state that the dharmic (Indian) approach to Ganitha represents a valid way of uncovering previously unknown facts that is different from the western approach of starting from assumptions/axioms and moves to theorems to newer theorems.<br />
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b) Furthermore, a state of mind required to generate such extraordinary clarity and insight can be induced via <i>adhyatmic</i> (inner science) techniques. These dharmic techniques can be learned by 'normal' humans from Gurus, and is not the sole preserve of wizards or prophets past.<br />
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Therefore, it is possible that new Ramanujan-type results can be generated in the future, and not just in Ganitha, but in a variety of fields, by learning and employing authentic Indian methods, in tandem with western instrumentation and techniques for verification.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410272306057585767.post-2764263018145607842015-01-25T17:15:00.003-05:002015-01-26T08:33:55.574-05:00Dharmic Clock Running Out<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A quick back-of-the-envelope 5-minute 'ball-park' estimate of the 'market share' of dharmic people in undivided India.<br />
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Please feel free to post corrections if the numbers are <i>way</i> off, so that readers may benefit. <br />
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The following three rows display a recent population estimate by country (in millions), and the approximate percentage of Hindus (dharmics) in that national population.<br />
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India: 1230M (78.5%)<br />
Pakistan: 192M (1.85%)<br />
Bangladesh: 158M (8%)<br />
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total share of dharmics<br />
= (1230*0.785+192*0.0185+158*0.08)/(1230+192+158)<br />
~ 62%<br />
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I recall reading somewhere that the percentage of Hindus in<br />
1947 undivided India was 66% (link needed). <i>If </i>true, this means, from 947CE to 1947, dharmic share dropped from 100% to 66%. This gives us a decline rate of 34/1000, or about 3.4 percentage points every hundred years, on average. During this period, the Abrahamic invaders of India perpetrated the biggest holocaust in the history of mankind, dwarfing both the massive genocide of native Americans by Euro-Christian invaders, and the mass-murder of millions of Jews during WW2 by the Nazis. Most native populations around the world crumbled under such continuous onslaught, but <a href="http://docsubra.blogspot.com/2012/12/hinduism-ultimate-anti-fragile.html" target="_blank">dharma stood its ground</a>.<br />
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Yet, post independence, in just 67 yrs since 1947, the dharmic share appears to have dropped 4 percentage points. This despite enjoying more than 3/4 majority in India <i>and</i> having the freedom to chart their own prosperous future, <i>and</i> the luxury of having no organized Abrahamic genocidal opposition to fight. Today's Hindus, in far, far more benign times, appear to be losing demographic share at roughly <i>twice</i> the rate at which their heroic ancestors lost ground in the previous thousand years. Instead of the decline being arrested and reversed, it appears to have accelerated. Why? There are likely to be many reasons, both internal and external. Let's look at one internal picture.<br />
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<b>Lack of dharmic grounding</b>?<br />
In this era when Tamas rules Hindu minds, when educated Indians recklessly brand and market themselves using "center right wing" or "center left wing" or "regional" or "world citizen" or some other gibberish label, and some its intellectuals cumulatively devote precious man-months to intellectual gymnastic dogfights over <i>Vimanas</i>, this should not come as a surprise. We see respected thinkers continue to fund and celebrate the suicidal process of outsourcing the R&D of key strategic knowledge areas (which should've been their core dharma) to Hinduphobic academics in India and the west, and mock native attempts. This is not merely a sign of intellectual bankruptcy, but utter adhyatmic bankruptcy. IQ, and not dharmic quotient is revered today, and consequently, almost all of India's thought leaders have lost their dharmic compass, and it does not seem to worry them in the least. <br />
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If Moron Smriti continues to reign, then simple math sends a message: for the first time in many thousand years, dharma will no longer be the majority in a little more than 200 years from now<i> in its own sacred geography</i>. That's just a few rebirths away. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-410272306057585767.post-2490782424979631202015-01-01T11:08:00.000-05:002015-01-01T11:08:13.341-05:00Moral victories are useless in a Dharma Yuddham<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
'Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right' - Salvor Hardin (Issac Asimov, Foundation series).<br />
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After a recent retaliation by the Indian army, Pakistan now seeks a moral victory. Incredulous.<br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/ANI_news/status/550628803412623361">https://twitter.com/ANI_news/status/550628803412623361</a><br />
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Laughable as this sounds, such moves will have plenty of support from their support base amongst the leftist and secular sepoy ecosystem in India and both the left and right wings in the west - despite India losing the life of yet another soldier in this latest unprovoked attack. This "no first use" type policy is costing the democracies of the world, in general, and India in particular, a lot of precious lives. Despite every attempt at peace by India over the last 60+ years, Pakistan has continued its diabolical attempts to bleed India, even if it has had to sacrifice its own children in Peshawar to achieve this vision. Why? <br />
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At its core, Pakistan is a 3-D printed artifact, a synthetic unity enforced by a violent ideology and thus in a constant state of tension that can only be released by periodic acts of Himsa. And clearly, these acts are increasing in both frequency and amplitude. Unlike India, which is characterized by a viable integral unity based on dharma, Pakistan as a single entity has no basis in reality. In fact, many thousands of people from east and west Pakistan migrate back <i>into</i> India, seeking refuge from the Frankenstein that they themselves constructed. Like a USSR, it is inevitable that a stable peace and equilibrium can only be achieved by disaggregating such a synthetic unity into its organic, more integral constituents. Attempts to bring about such a sustainable peace genuinely represents ahimsa since it will reduce tensions, minimize the harm and alleviate the misery in the region, and thus should not be discouraged but <i>actively encouraged</i> by all the peace loving peoples of the world. To feign ignorance over what is happening in Pakistan may seem moral, but it is certainly not dharmic. If India truly believes in 'Ahimsa paramo dharma', then it needs to act accordingly, and not based on flaky Abrahamic notions of morality. In a
dharma yuddham, there can be fairness, but no compromise. Rather than continuing to endure Himsa to gain some non-existing moral upper ground that nobody cares about, India must, like Lee Child's Jack
Reacher, seriously consider <i>getting its retaliation in first</i> - to save dharmic lives and rip apart the synthetic unity of a Jarasandha that has made its hostile intent and actions abundantly and repeatedly clear. </div>
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