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by drieddust 6y ago
Caste system is not that simple for example Jats are under reservation in one state but considered upper caste in adjacent state and gets no reservation. Yes Reservation is still needed. India is big and people who got oppressed under colon
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by drieddust 6y ago
> You can see the documents from the SFFA v. Harvard lawsuit, for instance, to see how the SAT score cutoff differs by race & ethnicity. Thanks I didn't knew that. Having said that Harvard and Stanford is last rung. Those who ar
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by drieddust 6y ago
Comparing treament of Uighers to caste situation in India is unfair. Yes there is discrimination but India is fighting it on policy and social level. Reserving 50% in education and jobs is one such big step. India's constitution was wr
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by drieddust 6y ago
> What's the use of this "class system" if one class covers such a broad area? Isn't it so broad as to be useless? Hinduism is evolutionary in nature. It anticipated emergence of new profession as society progressed a
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by drieddust 6y ago
Rapes are a tragedy and need to be deal above the level of politics. > Just because there was no outrage for X doesn't meant here shouldn't be outrage for Y. Yes it is. What would be your thoughts if you are consistently fined
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by drieddust 6y ago
I didn't say division of labour should be hereditary. I said India had division of labour but people were allowed to move up and down as per their skill and abilities. The hard caste boundaries were enforced by British colonial rule.
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by drieddust 6y ago
Why police decides to cremated the body should be investigated for sure. But Equally brutal cases have happenned recently with no outrage at all.[1] Sharing it here for argument's sake. Personally I don't like to share these shitt
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by drieddust 6y ago
I agree completely. The Question is what is being done to erase that difference? IMHO trying to find cultural fit is a form of ongoing discrimination[1] and it strengthens the effect of different starting points[2]. India is countering [2]
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by drieddust 6y ago
BBC confuses caste with division of labour bases on skills.Entire article is based on superficial reading of Indian culture. Please read the comment from this very post. https://news.ycombinator.com/upvoted?id=drieddust&
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by drieddust 6y ago
Most companies look for "cultural fits"? Isn't that a form of caste discrimination? People from similar social background have similar taste hence fits well culturally.Isn't that obvious? If racial discrimination doesn&
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by drieddust 6y ago
I am getting downvoted for merely stating the origins of caste system. This speaks volumes about echo chamber in which HN audience is living.
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by drieddust 6y ago
Edit: I would truly appreciate a discourse. Simple downvoting provides no feedback. India suffers from this colonial system and unfortunately media takes every single opportunity. Like recent rape cases. Only case with victim from lower cla
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by drieddust 6y ago
<Edit> I have structured the post better and would appreciate if people can let me know what's wrong with this comment. </Edit> India is struggling hard to get rid of this menace introduced during colonial era. We hav
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by drieddust 6y ago
Executive running Government firms often have no reasons to compete with the evolving market. Sometimes it is incompetence, other times its malice. I don't know what it is for sure but seems like its malice. No one knows what deals the
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by drieddust 6y ago
Nations exist and so does nation boundaries. Why you want to pretend otherwise? Chinese Communist Party puts unfair restrictions so why others should allow CCP to have free reign?
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by drieddust 6y ago
> You mean Mongols did not do general massacre Based on my understanding Mongols didn't kill people for their religious beliefs. They killed entire cities if the resisted which is very different from killing population to attain tit
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by drieddust 6y ago
Of course I am not a mathematician or a historian and we digressed a lot into Indian history. I was merely refuting the premise of this Pakistani propaganda article that Akbar was tolerant. By contrasting between Akbar's ordering of b
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by drieddust 6y ago
There is various degrees of violence. In Indian context Kings fought each other to grab kingdoms but that did not translate into general massacre of public for their religious beliefs until Islam arrived.Of course this comes from my little
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by drieddust 6y ago
> In India's case, the whitewashing of Mughal rule was a necessity because there are still a substantial number of Muslims living in India .... There are substantial level of German living in Germany, let's not teach them about
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by drieddust 6y ago
> Far from it. This is from 1987. Debate on Maratha history is still going on[1] other chapters of history is yet to be opened and taught. > Far from it. Mongols, Christians, Huns ... I will run out of space if i have to keep mentioni
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by drieddust 6y ago
When I read history none of this was in our books. May be it got added now or may be Bengal have different books. On the subject of Maratha invasion of Bengal. Kings invading each other's territory is very different from carrying out
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by drieddust 6y ago
Ashoka never turned pacifist. He got converted in 4th year of his reign and Kalinga war was waged in his 8th year. He waged wars and prosecuted Jains and Ajivikas. Sources are Buddhist text Mahavamsa and Divyavadana so should be considered
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by drieddust 6y ago
I have updated my comment to include the original sources. I included the tweets because I first I learned from them.
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by drieddust 6y ago
Yes it is political because they were political. It is because of them India's history education starts and ends with Mughals. Even Mughal's contampories like Marathas, Sikhs, Vijay Nagar, Ahoms kingdoms etc don't find any pl
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by drieddust 6y ago
You can independently google story of Rahim. You don't need me for that. Sacking of Chittod and subsequent killing of all the population is recorded in Akbar Nama by his own historians. I am surprised you are running a startup in this
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by drieddust 6y ago
Did you look at the details in those tweets? They further refer to original source material.
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by drieddust 6y ago
Wrong, India survived because Hindus fought very hard. Entire Arabia, Iraq, and Persia fell within 30 years. Yet Islam couldn't reach even central India until 13th century not because invaders were tolerant. It was because they met res
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by drieddust 6y ago
what information makes you believe he was tolerant?
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by drieddust 6y ago
AS400 is very much alive and stable platform with new release and adequate support available. It just ain't sexy and that was the main driver for declaring it legacy.

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