in my country, we have highest rate of internet addiction, also highest rate of suicide, no one leave home, just stay online, we have no chess clubs, we can play chess online only. lonely is a big problem in my country. it is sad.
i agree. All i do is play chess all day.Yuri_K do you have a bf?
lol....straight to the point,,good job NM
its like there is anything much else to do in India besides milk cows & play cricket
thats why America begs for Indian doctors and engineers...
we dont need anything from a poverty 3rd world country, all those Indians who are doctors in America is because we trained them, educated them, etc...something your country could not do. We have plently of White, African-American, Asian doctors so your point is invalid.
i think ur just a jeleous kid..nothing more..
india has the most numbers of doctors and engineers in the world..,infact india has larger army than america...
infact ur american doctors who about to graduate come to india for better training and experience since 2010..
in 3 yrs india will beat ur country in economic terms as well..
no go cry in front of obama...
India is the world's most populous democracy. It is already an economic juggernaut in Asia, and has to potential to become one of the top two or three economies in the world.
I was very fortunate to have taken a course in the culture and history of India, from a visiting Indian professor, back when I was an undergrad. It gave me an appreciate of the challenges that present-day nation faces. And cured me of my former, smug, ethnocentrism.
ethnocentrism.....that's such a sexy college word, isn't it? One of my favorites.....
India is one of the most important forces in world cultural history - it predates America by millennia, and the smart money says it will post-date America by a few years as well.....
its like there is anything much else to do in India besides milk cows & play cricket
thats why America begs for Indian doctors and engineers...
we dont need anything from a poverty 3rd world country, all those Indians who are doctors in America is because we trained them, educated them, etc...something your country could not do. We have plently of White, African-American, Asian doctors so your point is invalid.
If you feel that way, then i suggest you dont wear clothes, shoes, buy computers, etc.
Always good to see, good old fashioned American racism is alive and well on the eve of our countries birthday.
I don't think American education does enough to convey the message of how badly British exploitation negatively impacted India and continues to do so due to the long-lasting and deeply rooted colonial legacy in the guises of corruption, poverty, inequality, religious fanaticism, and a whole host of other social and economic issues.
+57 - this is very important. In fact, partition itself is directly traceable to Colonial influence! British anthropologists, in trying to make sense of the cultural make-up of India, began looking for racial differences amongst the Indians and - finding little in the way of ethnic division based on skin color etc. - they decided that the major point of division in Indian society was that of religious practice (though something like 300 languages are still alive on the sub-continent - so I don't know why they chose religion rather than language....). Once they had divided Indians into three groups Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs (perhaps Jains were also included as a fourth???), they began implementing segregationist policies - Hindu train cars, Muslim train cars, Hindu dining sections, Muslim dining sections, and so on. Sikhs - though recognized as different from other Hindus - were grandfathered in to the 'Hindu' category....Hindu nationalists still use this standard today.
Because of the deep divisions created in Indian communities between its religious populations, certain Muslims who lived in Hindu majority areas (Mawdudi is the best example) became concerned with the 'necessity' of a Muslim state in the west where Muslims were the majority.....England granted this (wanting to get out as quickly as possible), and the rest, as they say, is history......gruesome, horrendous history......partition was one of the great bloodlettings of the twentieth century, and it's hardly talked about at all in the west - even though it was England's damnable fault!
Eleanor Rigby and Father McKenzie tried to play correspondence chess, but nobody would ever ever read their postcards with the moves on them. One played the English opening with the white pieces and one played the King's Indian with the black. Each move was all very black or white. Neither ever married, but were divorced anyway.
"ethnocentrism.....that's such a sexy college word, isn't it? One of my favorites....."
That word reminds me of how biased colleges are towards the liberal viewpoint though, haha. The evil Europeans! Not that they don't have some points, but they really hate those Europeans!
India is the world's most populous democracy. It is already an economic juggernaut in Asia, and has to potential to become one f the top two or three economies in the world.
I was very fortunate to have taken a course in the culture and history of India, from a visiting Indian professor, back when I was an undergrad. It gave me an appreciate of the challenges that present-day nation faces. And cured me of my former, smug, ethnocentrism.
Don't they treat women badly though? Aren't they really stripped of their rights or something? I don't know, I'm genuinely curious.
India has a widely varying culture in terms of women's rights - in the rural areas, women are basically where they were 100 years ago....no real change. Even in many urban families daughters are asked to leave school earlier than sons and seek out fulfillment in children and family, but this is changing - India is a truly modern country, and, even though the family-values tradition is still very strong there, women are working, getting educated, and living their own independent lives there more and more frequently.....
Feminism is sort of where it was in the 1960s and 70s here in the U.S. - but sort of not....women in India have access to the same radical books we do, so there are even some postmodern feminists like myself in India if you look for them.
My favorite professor was a feminist anthropologist from India - they're out there :)
India is the world's most populous democracy. It is already an economic juggernaut in Asia, and has to potential to become one f the top two or three economies in the world.
I was very fortunate to have taken a course in the culture and history of India, from a visiting Indian professor, back when I was an undergrad. It gave me an appreciate of the challenges that present-day nation faces. And cured me of my former, smug, ethnocentrism.
Don't they treat women badly though? Aren't they really stripped of their rights or something? I don't know, I'm genuinely curious.
omg...people respect women a here,especially in south india...
some really stupid things happens only in the state of UP....
infact in kerala women are given more importance than man...
people their prefer girl child insted of male....
in hindu's a son/daughter touch their mother's feet before leaving the house for work or school...even 50 yr old man touches feet of his 90 yr old mother for blessings....
india is changing a lot since muslim and british invasion....espically in this mordem times..
"infact in kerala women are given more importance than man...
people their prefer girl child insted of male...."
So... I guess they need "masculism" instead of "feminism" there, lol.
Back when you were an undergrad?
So like when dinosaurs roamed the Earth?
Well, maybe not dinosaurs, but our school mascot was the sabre-toothed lion :-\
Back when you were an undergrad?
So like when dinosaurs roamed the Earth?
Well, maybe not dinosaurs, but our school mascot was the sabre-toothed lion :-\
lol.
Being alone does not mean you are lonely
India is the world's most populous democracy. It is already an economic juggernaut in Asia, and has to potential to become one f the top two or three economies in the world.
I was very fortunate to have taken a course in the culture and history of India, from a visiting Indian professor, back when I was an undergrad. It gave me an appreciate of the challenges that present-day nation faces. And cured me of my former, smug, ethnocentrism.
Don't they treat women badly though? Aren't they really stripped of their rights or something? I don't know, I'm genuinely curious.
I think it is safe to say that no culture, society, or nation-state has achieved "perfection." Women's rights is an important issue in India these days.
They have come a long way since the days of suttee.
At the risk of controversy, I think the US has come quite close :)
Yes of course, USA is a perfect society...
Oh ok, I was talking about women, not the entirety of society. There will always be bullies in schools! Sorry for the confusion.
I guess it depends on how one defines "flaw" here. Obviously there will be bad people, who say things they shouldn't say.
...sorry, duplicated post.