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This approach is fuelled by ignorance. Selective modernisation on a need-to basis. Modern military because wars need to be fought. Modern education (more like vocational training) because money needs to be made, and so on. There is the road block of orthodoxy impeding each step, camouflaged as...

Which brings us back to the point - what does really studying astrology mean? It is a cultural artifact at best. It can be promoted as such but not as anything else. Chinese also have an extensive tradition of birthstones and other such stuff. It would be Draconian to outlaw them, but...

I am open to suggestions as far as how alternative medicine works. Meditation and yoga, for example, have very obvious benefits. It is not difficult to understand how relaxation and controlled breathing (meditation) and core strengthening (yoga) can contribute to well-being. I am not convinced...

Yes, we wish to compete with the West and China without knowing what makes them tick. Scientific enquiry and modern institutions form the backbone of every successful state today. Trying to rehash a Vedic civilization in the 21st century is no different than the project initiated by al Baghdadi...

Extending freedom to believe whatever we want to healthcare is dodgy at best. It's a value judgement, really. Even if your claims about ancient astronomy are taken at face value, they have nothing to do with pathology. Astrology is not the same as astronomy in any case. To quote support for...

Qatari Royal family gifted him a Bugatti Veyron. Not bad for a persecuted person.

South Asians have a very patchy exposure to modernity overall. The outcome is that only indigenous institutions and ways ultimately prevail and flourish. Western institutions face a gradual process of entropy because they are impositions that locals neither comprehend not respect. In fact, a...

Taken from the Wikipedia entry: Time reported a high US official as saying "It is the most incredible, calculated thing since the days of the Nazis in Poland."[152] Genocide is the term that is used to describe the event in almost every major publication and newspaper in...

Pakistan could definitely use these. Things keep getting lobbed by the Iranians as well. Soon the Afghans too may have stuff to lob.

Yeah they lost so many good people. Many moved to other places and many were killed. What did they gain, I do not know. They should ask the Hizbollah and Iran. What use is yet another wasteland with people? Does it matter who dominates it?

They have a point. They have been fighting wars without anything to show for it. I feel for those Lebanese who just want a normal life. Must be difficult for them. Rock and hard place.

In response to what?

Let them haggle. It is for a domestic audience. It only highlights the reasons as to why it happened in the first place.

So now we are down to effete memes. What next? Infantile noises, maybe? Try gurgling.

Now see, that's what getting under the skin is really like. Look at yourself. Your sense of humour is so elementary that you cannot rise beyond cuss words. Blah blah, ask mommy, craphole, dikc, wear a condom. This is your repertoire. So you cannot locate Bangladesh on a map, are proud of it...

You are not adding to your already low credibility. I am sure you have plenty of retarded friends who think you are witty and funny. You should exclusively hang around with them. That way you won't get exposed as a shallow dimwit.

I know that you claim to be a troll and so you think it is disarming at inception. Here's how it works. In order to get under the other person's skin as a troll, you have to show at least some comprehension, so that the other person feels they are being insulted by a sentient creature. However...

But they do have a point. Its no use being proud of one's ignorance the way you are. That you cannot locate Bangladesh on the map reflects on your education and not on their significance.

You have unleashed the monster. Now be prepared to listen to an endless barrage of "China make fast train, China make long bridge, China make smooth expressway".

That's the point. It requires consistent action. I have been working in this area for the past five years, and the challenges are mammoth. Only someone who doesn't understand the systemic challenges would think that demonetization will work. For example, real estate registration is nearly...