On 4 March 2014 10:30, SS <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 13:00 -0800, Raj Shekhar wrote:
> > What I see here is that you are using the model laid out in the Indian
> > texts (I assume the Hindu religious texts).  Using this model has
> > benefits, but the bias that might creep in there is that the good of
> > many outweigh the needs of few.
>
> In fact I have not read a single Hindu religious or non religious text
> in my entire life which will soon hit six decades. Note that I did not
> even mention the word Hindu in my post. I base my views solely on my
> observations of society in India and they apply to Indians - meaning
> Hindus, Muslims, Jains, Sikhs and Christians. That is the way life has
> been lived in Indian society and continues to a great extent.
>
> There is a curious way in which things that are common to a whole lot of
> Indians are attributed to Hindus alone - and this is one example of a
> type of cognitive bias. Parents looking after children looking after
> elderly parents, collective family decision making, mandatory
> heterosexual marriage, fixing marriages within a community
>

Don't agree with this observation by the Kerala HC, but the article
below[1] posted by Madhu yesterday on Facebook demonstrates how ingrained
playing as a team is in India.

Kiran

[1]
http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/Parents-Have-a-Say-in-Marriage-of-Their-Children-Kerala-HC/2014/03/01/article2083620.ece#.UxVkDvmSx8H

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