When the gains from global integration can be captured within a limited zone such as Hainan, governments may find it more efficient to confine liberalisation than extend it nationally.
Rather than presenting the full spectrum of Indian culture at once, a more strategic approach would be to identify one globally intelligible cultural lane & invest in it consistently.
India must ensure that while the world tightens its belt, India’s schools remain open without fear, its factories remain humming, and its informal workers remain employed.
As global innovation and tech agendas evolve, the challenge lies in ensuring that biodiversity is not an afterthought, but a central component of climate-AI partnerships.
The government’s supposedly investor-friendly Hydrocarbon Exploration and Licensing Policy in 2016 has failed to yield results. India’s domestic crude oil output has continued to fall.
Women may enter the workforce in large numbers, but evidence from multiple sectors shows that participation does not automatically translate into leadership or economic power.
To Chinese commentators, India has unresolved colonial-era borders, a rigid territorial outlook, pressures from smaller neighbours, and persistent security anxieties.
Brahmins and Ashraafs not only set the rules for social climbing but also imposed rigid categories on the masses through their proximity to British power.
The countries signed a memorandum for co-development of UNICORN masts in November 2024. India has been second Asian nation to have such an agreement with Tokyo, after Philippines.
Adding Sridhar’s book to my reading list. I have read Sharma’s and can definitely recommend it to others.
It is high time we studied ourselves through our lenses and our perspectives, lest outsiders define who we are and what our traditions are and say, even as they largely lack both an awareness of the cultural context and the reverence for the texts they study, inevitably leading to (unintentionally quoting someone) ‘distortions, misrepresentations, and outright lies’.
And this is a problem even when there is no ulterior motive of conversion or racism or prejudice involved; a simple lack of cultural context, appreciation, understanding, or reverence is sufficient to produce lopsided accounts.
And that has what has happened with the Manusmriti, as it has with much else, only in the Manusmriti, ‘The Laws of Manu’ have become a potent stick with which to beat the Sanatana/Dharmic traditions and demonise it through the bogey of ‘casteism’ (not even a Bharatiya category).
Adding Sridhar’s book to my reading list. I have read Sharma’s and can definitely recommend it to others.
It is high time we studied ourselves through our lenses and our perspectives, lest outsiders define who we are and what our traditions are and say, even as they largely lack both an awareness of the cultural context and the reverence for the texts they study, inevitably leading to (unintentionally quoting someone) ‘distortions, misrepresentations, and outright lies’.
And this is a problem even when there is no ulterior motive of conversion or racism or prejudice involved; a simple lack of cultural context, appreciation, understanding, or reverence is sufficient to produce lopsided accounts.
And that has what has happened with the Manusmriti, as it has with much else, only in the Manusmriti, ‘The Laws of Manu’ have become a potent stick with which to beat the Sanatana/Dharmic traditions and demonise it through the bogey of ‘casteism’ (not even a Bharatiya category).