And if the parents do not like the schools, unlike America, they can change schools without any hassle.
This is no longer strictly true. As per the Supreme Court guidelines for admission in Delhi schools (capital of India); there will be a 'points system'; where points would be awarded on a number of parameters - distance of home from school, sibling is in school, student is a girl, parent is alumni of school etc.
The system is horribly biased against first-born boys who live a bit far away from the school. I would have got screwed royally with this system!
Caste itself is a religious concept, which btw is not limited to Hinduism in India, even Christians practice it:
http://www.dalitchristians.com/
The Constitution of India forbids discrimination on the basis of caste and provides many measures for affirmative action for the upliftment of people who have been oppressed for centuries. I simply don't understand how caste -> ! secular. What does secularism have to do with nukes anyway ?
The British monarch, who is also the head of state, has to be a member of the Church of England. There is no such restriction in India, where we have had Hindu, Muslim and Sikh presidents. We have also had a Dalit president. So British 'secularism' is good enough for you but not the Indian variant ? Nevermind that in post WW2 US, blacks didn't have the right to vote ? Was the US non-secular for 250 years of its existence ?
China and Russia too have their internal troubles and are by no means 'peaceful'. France recently had a lot of riots carried out by immigrants. Do you propose that they give up their nukes since they don't meet your criteria of being peaceful?
Pakistan, a country ruled by military dictators with Islamist leaning, the birth place of the Taliban who carried out 911... how can you even compare it to India ?! Pakistan is MAJOR nuclear proliferator. Just google AQ Khan for the details.
Its wrong to say that caste is a purely Hindu system. In India, even Christians and Muslims have castes. For evangelism purposes they may claim that they have no castes, but members of these religions belonging to lower castes do say that they are discriminated against by their higher-caste brethren.
So stop peddling stuff you know nothing about. Try to read up a bit more before you write random stuff.
The caste system has nothing to do with a country being secular. Was the US not 'secular' when blacks didnt have the right to vote ? What about voting rights for women ? As they rightly say, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Try to read up a bit more on the subject before posting, you wont end up looking like an idiot.
PS: I am Indian.
I am from India and I can pretty much assure you that we are firmly going the same way. At high-school level, we 'Board' exams, which are extremely hyped-up in media, as they can make or break your career.
There are usually a spate of suicides around the time these exams are held and their results declared. There is a huge media campaign to 'dumb-down' the exams, so that everyone passes with 90+ % marks. The only problem is that there are not enough college seats to go around, so securing even 90+% marks is meaningless.
The questions asked in the exams mainly involve rote learning and printing text-books out verbatim. All this in the name of equality of course. We also have huge 'social justice' lobby, which wants affirmative action to ensure that candidates from supposedly underprivileged background are graded with a different lower benchmark. Recently one of the IITs was in the news for kicking out some such students on account of poor performance.
Rest assured, you will not be having any competitive challenge from India any time in the future.
Reminds me of this
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." : Winston Churchill
FYI, companies in India have started outsourcing too, to other companies in India. I know of a lot of places where work is being outsourced or contractors being hired to do low end work. Although a lot of work being done in India is low end, there are places with good work too.
BTW, I am also Indian.
The poster clearly has NO idea of what he is talking about. Here are some clarifications
If you want to fix India traffic issues the solution is not to add MORE CARS. Infact, I would argue one should add more motorcycles to the traffic. The motorcycles are the only vehicles that get around easily in Indian traffic while the rest of the road is jammed up with giant trucks manufacturered by TATA... yeah no conflict of interest here. Most of the guys I work with rode bikes to work, and stated their commutes would be about 33% longer if they took a car.
The problem with Bangalore is that the cities roads were not designed to take so much traffic. Try going to Delhi and check out the roads there. There is a world of difference. Bangalore is currently facing a population explosion and the traffic problems are the just the result of that.
Purge the Indian traffic police and start over. From what I saw these guys are incredibly ineffective. They stand around and wave during rush hour. They have no power to change the flow of traffic or enforce laws due to the sheer mass and force of violations occuring. You don't get 1 guy running a red light in india, you get the whole damn contents of the Intersection.
In Bangalore, many intersections are manned by "traffic contractors", who dont have any legal powers. So, he is powerless in the face of violations and this has nothing to do with the number of violations occuring.
Get rid of the high curbs everywhere, put parked cars back onto the streets to provide a visual and mental barrier for pedestrian traffic, and make the roads "feel" dangerous (which really, if you dont think Indian traffic is dangerous already you dont have a pulse but whatetver...)
Indian traffic is dangerous, with a single rule. You only give way to someone bigger than you:P. This makes pedestrians the scum of the earth!
Get the giant ass Tata trucks off the roads. I don't know what the hell these Tata trucks do driving around all the time, but theyre huge flatbeds, bigger then everything else on the road, and look dangerous as hell.
Firstly, the "giant ass Tata trucks" that you refer to are just sold by the Tata group, they dont actually have a fleet of them terrorising the streets. This problem is due to Indian railways moronic freight policies. Higher freight rates are used to subsidize passengers. This means that its often cheaper to send stuff by trucks. Of course, cities like Delhi allow trucks only after 11pm to early morning. If someone is coming along that route on the Delhi-Jaipur highway, you can see large convoys of trucks waiting for entry into the Capital. Unfortunately, it seems to be a free-for-all in Bangalore.
Mass transit - finish the projects on time and ahead of schedule. Yeah, that means YOU Bangalore officials sitting on your asses getting kickbacks from the Metro project. Fix the shit.
The project was kicked off just a year ago. The fact that Bangalore is built on rocky terrain makes going difficult. You should be a little more tolerant about the Metro officials. Try looking at the Delhi metro, whose team is the epitome of efficiency http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi_metro/
Get the wildlife off the roads - Now seriously, I respect the traditional farmers still left in the country and in the cities, but cows do NOT belong on roads, ok?!
Totally agree with you, but this issue has more to do with the holy status of cows in Hinduism rather than any concern for the rural farmer.
Well in India, most of the opposition to RSS comes from ppl with a commie bent of mind with total disregard for Hinduism. The kind who would hold demonstrations with Islamists to protest against Saddam's hanging, but never say a word to support the Kashmiri Hindus was have been driven out of their homeland by terrorists.
As far as violent and bigoted parties are concerned, I dont think that we have much choice in India. The ruling Congress party engineered riots against Sikhs in Delhi in 1984. Their Communist allies have a well-oiled election machinery which helps them win election after election. They were behind the massacre of farmers protesting land acquistion in Nandigram and Singur in WB. What pisses me off this is selective condemnation... BJP-RSS bad, Congress and Left good. Although we are talking about Shiv Sena here, the media in India is highly biased against the right. For example, just look at the coverage of an encounter killing in Gujarat where the victim happened to be Muslim. Such things happen in the Congress-ruled Maharashtra all the time, but it only makes the news when it happens in a BJP ruled state with a Muslim victim. Main-stream Indian media is to be taken with a pinch of salt in most matters.
Nobody educated supports them ?? WFT is that supposed to mean ? The Shiv Sena recently won the municipal elections in Mumbai. The RSS has thousands of shakhas (branches) all over the country. The BJP, which is closely related to the RSS is in power in many states of India. If you look at the voting patterns, people in cities tend to support the BJP.
Are you trying to say that someone who supports them is not educated ? I was thinking all along that India was a democracy and we could vote for whichever party we wanted to; but apparently we need to take the permission of educated leftists like you before we poor illiterate natives cast our vote.
It would be instructive for you to check this out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_laureates_by_co untry/. There are only 758 persons + 18 organizations who got this prize, less than a 10th of what you claim to be in MIT. Be a flamebait for all I care, atleast use realistic figures!
Why cant the drives be cloned, so as to effectively increase the time available for hacking the encryption ? It may be good enough for the lifetime of one drive, but how about 10 drives being hacked in parallel ?
In India, we have been using voting machines for quite some time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_voting_machine s
Probably no election in the Western world can compare with the muscle power, booth capturing and other illegitimate means used in India. A number of people are illiterate and yet there have been no concerns raised about the machine's usability.
It has been used in difficult inhospitable terrain, using batteries where electricity is not available. Perhaps the mindset needs to change to accept this new mechanism of voting.
The protests did continue for a pretty long time and the protesters backed down only when the government assured them in the Supreme Court that they would give the matter more thought. Later, they back-stabbed them and passed the law. The matter is sub-judice in the Supreme Court, so all hope is not lost, yet.
As you pointed out, the problem is that of going out to vote. But the problem is that we are witnessing are very absurd situation in India. Powerful communities have declared themselves as "backward" and are going all out to gain as many concessions as possible. The real poor still suffer and the middle class gets robbed of educational opportunities and jobs. When a large number of the electorate is illiterate, rhetoric helps them decide, not logic.
If the court too rules against the government, the government can go ahead and amend the constitution. The Indian Constitution is the among the most amended constitutions in the world. If the government decides, with the help of the majority to screw a section of populance, then precious little can be done.
In India, we had huge protests last by the student community against the government's hare-brained schemes to introduce reservations in the premier educational institutes.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_India n_anti-reservation_protests/
The news channels showed police beating up unarmed students who were peacefully protesting. There was a hunger strike by students which went for weeks and was telecast on TV. The members of the National Knowledge Commission resigned in protest.
But the end result was that the government got its way and passed the law, despite overwhelming opposition from the academic community. I wonder how YouTube can help, when primetime news couldnt ?
I have a dv6137, a core 2 duo machine. popped in the dapper drake live cd and worked like a charm. no screen issues coz of the widescreen, wifi works fine. even the quickplay buttons for volume were working. perhaps its just some bad luck in your case (or good luck in mine).
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Emergency was actually declared in 1975. Indira Gandhi was assassinated in 1984.
What are you smoking ?!
And if the parents do not like the schools, unlike America, they can change schools without any hassle.
This is no longer strictly true. As per the Supreme Court guidelines for admission in Delhi schools (capital of India); there will be a 'points system'; where points would be awarded on a number of parameters - distance of home from school, sibling is in school, student is a girl, parent is alumni of school etc.
The system is horribly biased against first-born boys who live a bit far away from the school. I would have got screwed royally with this system!
Caste itself is a religious concept, which btw is not limited to Hinduism in India, even Christians practice it: ... how can you even compare it to India ?! Pakistan is MAJOR nuclear proliferator. Just google AQ Khan for the details.
http://www.dalitchristians.com/
The Constitution of India forbids discrimination on the basis of caste and provides many measures for affirmative action for the upliftment of people who have been oppressed for centuries. I simply don't understand how caste -> ! secular. What does secularism have to do with nukes anyway ?
The British monarch, who is also the head of state, has to be a member of the Church of England. There is no such restriction in India, where we have had Hindu, Muslim and Sikh presidents. We have also had a Dalit president. So British 'secularism' is good enough for you but not the Indian variant ? Nevermind that in post WW2 US, blacks didn't have the right to vote ? Was the US non-secular for 250 years of its existence ?
China and Russia too have their internal troubles and are by no means 'peaceful'. France recently had a lot of riots carried out by immigrants. Do you propose that they give up their nukes since they don't meet your criteria of being peaceful?
Pakistan, a country ruled by military dictators with Islamist leaning, the birth place of the Taliban who carried out 911
Its wrong to say that caste is a purely Hindu system. In India, even Christians and Muslims have castes. For evangelism purposes they may claim that they have no castes, but members of these religions belonging to lower castes do say that they are discriminated against by their higher-caste brethren.
So stop peddling stuff you know nothing about. Try to read up a bit more before you write random stuff.
dude you still haven't replied how secularism has anything to do with caste system. and how that has anything to do with nukes or nuclear trade.
The caste system has nothing to do with a country being secular. Was the US not 'secular' when blacks didnt have the right to vote ? What about voting rights for women ? As they rightly say, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Try to read up a bit more on the subject before posting, you wont end up looking like an idiot. PS: I am Indian.
I am from India and I can pretty much assure you that we are firmly going the same way. At high-school level, we 'Board' exams, which are extremely hyped-up in media, as they can make or break your career.
There are usually a spate of suicides around the time these exams are held and their results declared. There is a huge media campaign to 'dumb-down' the exams, so that everyone passes with 90+ % marks. The only problem is that there are not enough college seats to go around, so securing even 90+% marks is meaningless.
The questions asked in the exams mainly involve rote learning and printing text-books out verbatim. All this in the name of equality of course. We also have huge 'social justice' lobby, which wants affirmative action to ensure that candidates from supposedly underprivileged background are graded with a different lower benchmark. Recently one of the IITs was in the news for kicking out some such students on account of poor performance.
Rest assured, you will not be having any competitive challenge from India any time in the future.
Reminds me of this
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." : Winston Churchill
When in Rome ... etc etc http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_cleansing#Water
FYI, I am Indian.
FYI, companies in India have started outsourcing too, to other companies in India. I know of a lot of places where work is being outsourced or contractors being hired to do low end work. Although a lot of work being done in India is low end, there are places with good work too. BTW, I am also Indian.
Sydney to LA ? Are we going to have cell phone towers in the middle of the ocean ?!!
1. Release crappy OS
2. Sell old OS
3. Profit!!
The ?? has been explained!!
As far as violent and bigoted parties are concerned, I dont think that we have much choice in India. The ruling Congress party engineered riots against Sikhs in Delhi in 1984. Their Communist allies have a well-oiled election machinery which helps them win election after election. They were behind the massacre of farmers protesting land acquistion in Nandigram and Singur in WB. What pisses me off this is selective condemnation ... BJP-RSS bad, Congress and Left good. Although we are talking about Shiv Sena here, the media in India is highly biased against the right. For example, just look at the coverage of an encounter killing in Gujarat where the victim happened to be Muslim. Such things happen in the Congress-ruled Maharashtra all the time, but it only makes the news when it happens in a BJP ruled state with a Muslim victim. Main-stream Indian media is to be taken with a pinch of salt in most matters.
Are you trying to say that someone who supports them is not educated ? I was thinking all along that India was a democracy and we could vote for whichever party we wanted to; but apparently we need to take the permission of educated leftists like you before we poor illiterate natives cast our vote.
It would be instructive for you to check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_laureates_by_co untry/. There are only 758 persons + 18 organizations who got this prize, less than a 10th of what you claim to be in MIT. Be a flamebait for all I care, atleast use realistic figures!
Why cant the drives be cloned, so as to effectively increase the time available for hacking the encryption ? It may be good enough for the lifetime of one drive, but how about 10 drives being hacked in parallel ?
In India, we have been using voting machines for quite some time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_voting_machine s
Probably no election in the Western world can compare with the muscle power, booth capturing and other illegitimate means used in India. A number of people are illiterate and yet there have been no concerns raised about the machine's usability.
It has been used in difficult inhospitable terrain, using batteries where electricity is not available. Perhaps the mindset needs to change to accept this new mechanism of voting.
The protests did continue for a pretty long time and the protesters backed down only when the government assured them in the Supreme Court that they would give the matter more thought. Later, they back-stabbed them and passed the law. The matter is sub-judice in the Supreme Court, so all hope is not lost, yet.
As you pointed out, the problem is that of going out to vote. But the problem is that we are witnessing are very absurd situation in India. Powerful communities have declared themselves as "backward" and are going all out to gain as many concessions as possible. The real poor still suffer and the middle class gets robbed of educational opportunities and jobs. When a large number of the electorate is illiterate, rhetoric helps them decide, not logic.
If the court too rules against the government, the government can go ahead and amend the constitution. The Indian Constitution is the among the most amended constitutions in the world. If the government decides, with the help of the majority to screw a section of populance, then precious little can be done.
In India, we had huge protests last by the student community against the government's hare-brained schemes to introduce reservations in the premier educational institutes.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_India n_anti-reservation_protests/
The news channels showed police beating up unarmed students who were peacefully protesting. There was a hunger strike by students which went for weeks and was telecast on TV. The members of the National Knowledge Commission resigned in protest.
But the end result was that the government got its way and passed the law, despite overwhelming opposition from the academic community. I wonder how YouTube can help, when primetime news couldnt ?
only that in IIT, they are not really paying. the education is highly subsidized by the government, so in effect, it the tax-payer who is paying.
I have a dv6137, a core 2 duo machine. popped in the dapper drake live cd and worked like a charm. no screen issues coz of the widescreen, wifi works fine. even the quickplay buttons for volume were working. perhaps its just some bad luck in your case (or good luck in mine).
These are not the droids you are looking for ...
Methinks its more like camouflage.