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by gnipgnip 10y ago
RIP. His daughter became the patron of the World Sanskrit Conference, when the Indian state itself considered Sanskrit far too dead to be worth funding. (The whole new-age wave in the West seems to have brought a change of heart to "wa
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
1. You don't know that ("most"). 2. Water is fairly scarce in certain regions. Considering how unhygienic such toilets end up in such far off places, I probably would too. It's not like they can't afford it (most fo
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Sure, we also go and poop out in the fields every day. NyT like most occidental publications intend to shock and awe their customers under a guise of enlightenment. Much as does the colonial crowd here. This dance has been going on for two
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
I wonder if this works when flying :P
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Alan Watts mentions somewhere that USSR was essentially a single corporation (can this be said of China ?) - a disgrace to human creativity. Killing of competition using Gov. regulation and red-tape is not much different in function.
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Note: Mother in Japanese is actually "okaasan" (or "haha"). "obaasan" is grand-mother apparently.
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
In Japanese, it's "Hana", and in Mandarin it's "Bizi". Seems like they're only talking about IE languages, and those influenced by them.
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
The first two and the last are Indo-European languages; it appears that mother in Chinese is "mu". It's "obaasaan" in Japanese, though. It'd become "baa" if you remove the polite syllables, and thus a
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
(continued...) It's almost a curse to be able to see all this, and be able to do very little to ameliorate it. Considering the poverty of my native tongue, it'd be very difficult for me to express it to the masses. Even if I learn
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
Very well put :) (although it probably doesn't fit the Abrahamic conception, practice and history).
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
1+ for Alan Watts. He was surprisingly well-grounded not only in Eastern traditions but also in Christianity.
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
That's a very interesting observation. I'd had to read an eye-opening book called "The Heathen in his Blindness" [1] to understand the cultural grounding I stand on. As an Indian, whose own mother tongue has been neglect
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by gnipgnip 10y ago
As others have noted in previous flame wars, classism revolving around European/Anglicized (the old colonial big state & its vestige) vs Native is quite big in India (in pretty much every avenue). I usually translate "Hindutva