I dont get your point, simply because its possible to potray any
religion in a fanatical way, depending upon who you ask.
You seem to make it sound as if only hindus have been potrayed as fanatics...
Why do you feel so victimized ??
On 5/20/07, shiv sastry wrote:
So if fanatical is
On Sunday 20 May 2007 4:51 pm, ashok _ wrote:
I dont get your point, simply because its possible to potray any
religion in a fanatical way, depending upon who you ask.
You seem to make it sound as if only hindus have been potrayed as
fanatics...
Why do you feel so victimized ??
Hold your
shiv sastry wrote: [ on 05:59 PM 5/20/2007 ]
Do you agree with my characterization of Hindus or do you think it is
inaccurate?
It is not your charactierzation that is at issue here - though that
in itself is highly overdone and arguable. It is what you claim is
being done *to* Hindus. And
On 5/20/07, shiv sastry wrote:
Do you agree with my characterization of Hindus or do you think it is
inaccurate?
the description may be literally accurate, but whether it would
characterize fanaticism is really very subjective...
you said:
How much more difference could there be between
On Sunday 20 May 2007 6:50 pm, ashok _ wrote:
You make very many assumptions both in terms of how hinduism is
perceived and how someone else is interpreting it, and what a
civiilized and normal society is
Please educate me on these points. I am willing to learn and change my views.
How is
shiv sastry wrote: [ on 08:21 PM 5/20/2007 ]
Sorry - I don't understand what you are talking about wrt the martyrdom
business.
Will come back to this after my responses below.
You say they are highly overdone? I don't buy that. I have said it like it is
and will retract and apologize if
Thaths,
I do not know about Mumbai - so will inject some noise about chennai
and bangalore stuff.
In chennai there are (at least 'were') two reasonable schools - one
is/was called abacus (adyar/taramani) and the other is in velachery
(think it is/was called navadisha or some such thing - google
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:53:53PM +0530, Ramjee Swaminathan wrote:
As for Eugen's comments, I would say - careful with that axe please! :-)
I don't know about your brand of Waldorf or Montessori schools, but ours
do not prepare kids for harsher realities of the world. They grow up too
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 08:53:25PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
I don't know about your brand of Waldorf or Montessori schools, but ours
do not prepare kids for harsher realities of the world. They grow up too
sheltered -- sure, some children need that, but most don't.
First-hand, I've seen the
On Sunday 20 May 2007 10:30 pm, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
...
to the extent that the majority of hindus avoid critical thinking, and
could thus be seen to be criticised by the author,
In fact it is the same lack of crticical thinking that I am bothered about
too.
Recall that I never said
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/008200705190322.htm
Sci. Tech.
CO2 sponge losing ability to soak up extra emissions
London, (GUARDIAN NEWS SERVICE)
By James Randerson
Climate change 'feedback effect' in Southern Ocean - Stronger winds
reduce efficiency of carbon sink
One of the most
My primary interest has been to define what it is that I find offensive about
the Martha Nussbaum article that was posted on here. I have tried to
concentrate on that and have not tried to be judgemental about individual or
collective opinions of members of silk list.
For that reason I am
My two bits:
What I have found in my country either the mainstream schools
where there is intense competitveness or the alternate schools where
the child is actively discouraged from competition (ok, in my opinion,
for children who have a family business to walk into, but not great
if the
Can be taken as meta-commentary on the current thread. :-)
http://xkcd.com/c263.html
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