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by iamshs 6y ago
HAF is saying exactly that. The case wants to make sure caste discrimination gets explicitly mentioned, but HAF is bringing in Hinduism angle and saying don't define Hinduism for us. You see the obfuscation here, they are doing? They a
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Only if you had read the article where it is addressed in detail. Your colored language notwithstanding ("uncharitable paraphrasing"), the statement is actually an accurate summary by a well respected researcher on Dalit issues, o
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Racism and caste endogamy is very different... caste is violence given stamp of approval through religion, you cannot escape it. Dalits are beheaded for wearing turban, riding a horse, taking their marriage procession from upper caste stree
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Nepali dalits in Australia couldn't find a priest in her own hometown to do last rites of their parent - "We thought the Brahmin priests could perform the ritual, without coming into our house but they refused," he says. &quo
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by iamshs 6y ago
It is already in US and is being defended by Hindu organizations with reason like - ‘Caste discrimination is a Hindu right that should go unchallenged’ https://twitter.com/YashicaDutt/status/1369314943061856261
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I was visiting a professor in Germany as part of my research work. One day the professor brought me five resumes and asked me who out of them were upper caste Hindus. I said all, why? So while doing her PhD she had an experience where a Bra
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Narinder S. Kapany, ‘Father of Fiber Optics,’ Dies at 94(nytimes.com)
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>“Haryana-based gang identified terminal cancer patients from rural, low-income backgrounds, got them to insure themselves with multiple companies by hiding their condition, waited for them to die, and then put their dead bodies through
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All India related topics have started attracting these kind of comments lately...
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HN has been flooded by Hindu Nationalists. Every topic about India I comment on, not only it gets downvoted pretty heavily but typical conspiracy theories get thrown. It is really disappointing, you are right.
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I quoted you. Read the preface of the book, and the story number 52. How is that "pretty innocuous", and especally a book that is aimed at kids? No wonder caste discrimination has carried on for centuries in India with learned peo
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by iamshs 6y ago
Don't worry, you won't be able to tell my caste through my name. Your incisive question though validates the whole point of this article.
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Only people on here can justify books written by Dinanath Batra as "pretty innocuous".
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The books are written by Dinanath Batra, a well known history revisionist and Hindu supremacist. Let's not try to cover them up as "absurd aphorisms", these books are targeted at children and their intended purpose exactly is
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by iamshs 6y ago
That's not a rebuttal, that's collection of all loony conspiracy theories pinning the blame on British for "inventing" the caste system. Disingenuous stuff, that should not be peddled on here.
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>Other tests include patting an Indian man on the back to see whether he is wearing a “sacred thread” worn by some Brahmins, the highest-ranked caste. (This gesture is sometimes referred to as the “Tam-Bram pat,” in reference to Tamil-sp
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by iamshs 6y ago
You are denying caste discrimination and then washing it off as "post truth" world. That's atrocious actually. Caste discrimination is not some kind of narrative building either, these are lived experiences spanning centuries
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>Joshi. With that surname you will not experience it either in your lifetime, mate.
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Mine ended when they gated me on a screen asking for phone number to unlock the account. I cannot even log onto my account anymore as Twitter says Email does not exist - on a six month old account until I one day tweeted something that got
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That 1975 photo is in front of Taj Mahal, India.
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>The sources said, "Android has 97% market share in India so we should intervene and handhold Indian startups. Making it mandatory for Android phones to be pre-instaled with our apps in under consideration". [1] Indian Governme
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by iamshs 6y ago
Rose by any other name... Amnesty India has not been convicted of any FCRA violation. India has frozen Amnesty's bank accounts without any judicial oversight making sure Amnesty India cannot function normally. FCRA was amended with a s
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by iamshs 6y ago
"Evan Whitton wrote that Australia and other British colonies (India, Canada, NZ, US) inherited a legal system, not a justice system. It is an adversarial system constructed by casuist lawyers. Europe (and Japan) has an inquisitorial s
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I loved the writing style. That "hard mode" effect had me wheezing though.
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>Le Corbusier was heralded as the genius of modern architecture. Today, his buildings seem vaguely dystopian 100% agree with this. He designed first planned city of India, Chandigarh - state capital of Punjab at that time. Buildings he d
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Gremlins concept, deployed from C-130?
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"The former MasterChef contestant, Dani Venn, and her husband Chris Burgess were left homeless last week when $250,000 from the settlement of her recently sold Melbourne property was stolen by hackers who set up third party accounts to
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God forbid if Sky News corners a prominent real estate in my Youtube results, they are already atrocious and have insufferable comments.
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by iamshs 6y ago
Looking at how many people opted out of MyHealth over the concerns of Government having their data, I think your reason will not resonate with many.
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And more importantly choke-hold over the government bureaucracy. They can essentially bulldoze government over any rules and regulations, and bribe around freely. This is how Reliance got big.

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