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This Teachers’ Day, reflect on education, teachers, and our future. Join @MakrandParanspe and @PariksithSingh on the vital role of educators. Watch full discussion youtu.be/gsGBJ7Fp5aw?si… @AmazingVedas
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Join us as Dr. Kiran Seth, Founder of SPIC MACAY, former Prof. Emeritus at IIT Delhi speaks at IIT Bombay on Indian Knowledge Systems and why they matter for today's youth. 12th Sept. 2026 | @iitbombay 3:00 PM – Talk Session (Faculty & Students) 4:00 PM – Volunteers Meet
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Cheap labor can be extraordinarily expensive. Low productivity, poor workmanship, waste, delays, supervision and endless rework often erase the apparent wage advantage. My latest essay:
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That point will never come. Never. You have to get marinated in the Indian culture to understand that Indians have an infinite capacity to live under tyranny, corruption and dysfunctionality.
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Indians have no concept of justice. That is why it is a hellhole and will get worse and become more savage. And so savage that even I will be surprised.
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Hatefilled, atomized Indians do nothing to control rampant corruption, predatory institutions and dysfunctionality. And the lowlifes in the government get easy legitimacy by going after minorities or any issue that goes viral on social media.
https://x.com/JayantBhandari5/status/2096751817543787007
The West has become a lonely, narcissistic civilization, argues former President of the UN Security Council Kishore Mahbubani @mahbubani_k. bit.ly/3Vjhk8n It must give up the self-deception that it’s Earth’s most virtuous civilization, or find itself shouting commands at a world that is no longer listening. Mahbubani will explore the world's superpowers in a debate alongside Kwasi Kwarteng and Leo Varadkar this 19-20 September at HowTheLightGetsIn London. howthelightgetsin.org
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What if the biggest threats to a nation aren’t always visible? Snakes in the Ganga (Breaking India 2.0) by Rajiv Malhotra and Vijaya Viswanathan examines the ideological, institutional, and global forces the authors argue are reshaping India’s cultural and political landscape. Readers are calling it an “eye-opener,” a “deep analysis,” and a “must-read” for those who want to understand the debates surrounding India’s identity, institutions, and future. Order now from Amazon amzn.in/d/0hq6TjaD
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"By a close study of Lukacs' key concepts - reification, totality, historicism - Feenberg argues for the path-breaking importance of History and Class Consciousness, and its relevance for today's social movements." --Michael Löwy Available for pre-order now!
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Communism was never primarily an economic system. Economics was the surface. Beneath it lay something far more insidious: a total, systemic, institutionalized commitment to lying. Not occasional dishonesty. Not spin or propaganda in the ordinary sense. Something deeper – a civilizational war against truth itself, waged through every institution, every classroom, every newspaper, every conversation, until reality itself became negotiable and the lie became the air people breathed.
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From Plato to Bernie and AOC – A Brief History of Communism. Twenty-four centuries, one idea. It always starts the same way and always ends the same way.
1. Plato, 380 BC. The world is badly made, the wise should redesign it, and the rulers may lie to the people for their own good – he called it the noble lie. Property abolished among the guardians, the family abolished with it. Everything since is a version of it, with progressively worse writing and progressively higher body counts.
2. The millenarian sects. Property abolished, the chosen in charge, purification required – a thousand years before capitalism existed. The idea needs no economy to appear.
3. Rousseau, 1762. Man is good, institutions corrupt him, so institutions must be remade. The General Will – the collective desire of the people, which the correct leader can identify and implement regardless of what individual people actually want. The philosophical foundation of every subsequent revolution that murdered people in the name of their own liberation. Whoever refuses to obey shall be forced to be free. Rousseau personally abandoned all five of his children to the orphanage. He wrote extensively about the correct upbringing of children. This is a pattern.
4. Kant and Hegel. Kant splits the world as we see it from the world as it is. Hegel adds that history is going somewhere. Together they supply the phrase that ends every argument: the wrong side of history.
5. 1789, French Revolution. The idea gets a country. Virtue is the goal, and virtue turns out to need enforcement. Four years from liberation to the guillotine and the Terror.
6. Marx, 1848. The same idea in a scientific costume – now you weren’t arguing for it, you were reading the future. Written by a man who had never worked in a factory, funded by a man who owned one.
7. Lenin, 1917. The vanguard party: a small group of professionals who know what the workers need better than the workers do. Delivered to Russia in a sealed train by a German general who wanted Russia out of the war. He got that, and more.
8. Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot. What it looks like when it wins. Terror as government, and a lie so complete that people lost the ability to tell what they thought from what they had to say. Tens of millions dead in China, a quarter of the population in Cambodia. Not a deviation. The same premise, applied with enthusiasm. Collectivization, the gulag, the Great Leap, the killing fields – roughly a hundred million dead in one century. Each time preceded by intellectuals explaining why this time would be different.
9. The Frankfurt School. The workers in the West refused to revolt, so the explanation changed: the problem is cultural, and Western civilization itself is the oppressor and has to be deconstructed. Everything to be criticized, nothing to be built.
10. Gramsci, Spinelli, Dutschke and 1968. Don’t storm the parliament – get a job in the editorial office. Power in the West rests on consent, and consent is made in schools and newspapers – so take those instead. The long march through the institutions. The generation that failed in the streets became the professors, editors and judges. It worked, which is why elections now change the government but not the direction.
1989 – the system collapses, the archives opened, and in the Western universities almost nobody changed their mind. A faith, not a theory.
11. Bernie and AOC. Same idea, new clothes, and nobody left who has read the source material. Free everything, paid for by the billionaires. Honeymooned in the Soviet Union in 1988 – three years before it collapsed – and came back impressed. Three houses. Net worth in the millions of dollars. Democratic socialists. The reasoning is Plato’s, the aesthetic is TikTok.
From Plato to Bernie and AOC: Even communism isn’t immune to decay... What follows
12. The lie is not a side effect. It is the system.
13. Where truth is handed out instead of found, anyone who insists on finding it is in the way.
14. It survives because it protects positions, not beliefs. Ask who is best for the job and every protected position is at risk. Ask who belongs in the room and the same people stay in it for life.
15. The managerial class is the nomenklatura. Same selection, same script, same immunity to results. Only the letterhead changed.
16. Where everything needs permission, permission becomes the currency – and whoever knows the apparatus rules, whoever wins the election.
17. Silence is not ignorance. It is knowledge plus a calculation: speaking costs everything, silence is free.
18. Underneath, it runs on two fuels: envy and fear. Envy supplies the motive – someone else has what you don’t, and the system promises to take it. Fear supplies the compliance – everyone can see what happens to those who say the wrong thing. Neither has anything to do with justice, and neither ever built anything.
19. The idea never learns, because the error is not in the implementation. It is in the premise: that the "wise" can plan the lives of the many better than the many can plan their own.
20. The answer is not a better plan for society. It is refusing to let anyone hold the pen.
Reality is not negotiable. Say so out loud, build things that work, and hand them to your children. Tell the truth. Have courage. And build.
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The desire to see those that have hurt us be hurt can feel morally just. bit.ly/46lIoXb But Gregg D. Caruso argues this instinct is built on the belief that people are the authors of their own actions. Abandon that belief, and the justice system we've built starts to look more like organised cruelty.
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Moreover, panpsychism gives consciousness a curious status. It places it at the very heart of every physical entity yet threatens to render it explanatorily idle. For the behaviour of subatomic particles and the systems they constitute promises to be fully explained by physics and the other physical sciences. Panpsychism offers no distinctive predictions or explanations. It finds a place for consciousness in the physical world, but that place is a sort of limbo. Consciousness is indeed a hard nut to crack, but I think we should exhaust the other options before we take a metaphysical sledgehammer to it.
https://aeon.co/ideas/why-panpsychism-fails-to-solve-the-mystery-of-consciousness
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[PDF] Social Sciences Spectrum
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