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rustedspoon
3y ago
To make it further complex, the OBCs are further categorized into A,B,C,D.. groups. You need to add this info in multiple government forms right from childhood before writing any exam to what category and sub category you belong. And to mak
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3y ago
This is not possible in my opinion, even if they are knowledgeable, skeptical, ask every right question. Everyone including journalists are career oriented and if you want to progress in career you need to write articles a certain way which
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3y ago
Ah thanks for clarifying
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rustedspoon
3y ago
At which point of sale? If you mean in some chain grocery store then I would agree with you, but if you go to any local rice merchant they have tons of varieties.
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3y ago
The article says basmati accounts for 1/4th of the exports, yes it’s a higher yield crop, but basmati is consumed at a much much lower rate than let’s say sona masoori (at least in the south)
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rustedspoon
3y ago
I read it 3 times, the headline and content do not match, and it doesn't negate anything about shadow banning Indian Twitter accounts
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3y ago
Why the down vote ? Reference from times of India https://m.timesofindia.com/world/uk/twitter-files-reveal-hin... Article from 2019 Twitter denying any such shadow bans are occurring https://theprint.i
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3y ago
From an Indian perspective, from the Twitter files, shadow banning 40k accounts 99 percent of them being conservative while all the while saying they aren’t doing anything like this was shady. Add to that there was no prep to the accounts t
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BBC ‘accepts’ it paid lower taxes in India
(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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rustedspoon
3y ago
Past thread on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34787782
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3y ago
Agree with you, majority are going from secular to conservative. May be the secular party should ask why. But also want to add that Indian version conservatives aren’t really comparable to the western one. Just take this issue on evolution
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rustedspoon
3y ago
OP quotes saying that Indian politicians from the current party are being anti-science, but the first link where modi talks about religious texts is trying to link it to science. If you read further in the link he talks about Aryabhata and
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4y ago
if courts aren’t swayed by politics, after 20 years of scrutiny and thousands of witnesses, so many days of investigations the court decided to arrest this person. We either trust the the sanctity of the court or we don’t. If anything, to b
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4y ago
I’m not a bjp supporter by any chance, but this logic isn’t sound. if anything bjp wants to ignore the caste logic and combine all Hindu vote bank, I believe that’s how they won. Their religious arm even goes out and says this out loud that
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4y ago
The documentary did not even talk about how the Supreme Court of India investigated twice and the first one while the current opposition government was in power, and what conclusion they have reached. No witnesses from who were actually aff
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4y ago
Not sure why this is in gray. It has the highest collections in 2022 after rrr. And highest among Bollywood movies so far. Clearly people liked it and it’s a very serious movie.