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Since quite a few mutuals have been asking me to be on Goodreads, created the account and have uploaded the first list of ~100 books. If a book exists in the list, it's not an endorsement but a recognition that it's useful in some or other ways.
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As I've always said, the likes of Swapan Dasgupta always carry an inner guilt of being in conservative/right-wing camp. Vandalism of a few bookstalls set up by Leftists is being quite charitable to them because they are known to execute their enemies when they're in power.
‘My head hangs in shame!’ Glad @swapan55 said this BUT it needs more than just fine words to rein in the mob that owes allegiance to his own party. What happened to the Bengali middle class reverence for books? Those who claim to worship Ma Durga and Ma Saraswati, then vandalise book stalls during Durga Puja? This is what happens when religion is only an instrument for political power. telegraphindia.com/amp/west-…
While everyone keeps on quoting Scruton on May 1968, Raymond Aron’s work ‘Elusive Revolution: Anatomy of a Student Revolt’ is a far better work to understand the great anarchy and its far reaching impact on Western democracies.
Kalidasa in Meghadoot describes Yakshini as the one without any sringara or jewellery when she is waiting for Yaksha to return. She has not even done her hair again after her husband had done a single braid while leaving. Quite aligned with what Dharmashastra-s prescribe.
Political radicalism including violent protest is an integral part of French political culture and destroying a 143 year old bell tower has no deeper meaning. There is a reason why France had 5 republics and few other regimes in ~250 years. It's a regular 'affair' for the French.
Recently, Radhavallabh Tripathi posted a video critiquing the narrow vision of Manu or Manusmriti by employing a very odd line of argumentation focused on how Manusmriti itself restricts its authority to merely four regions of India and hence, it can’t have a pan India authority.
The intersection between the two is minimal and there is no basis to consider them equivalent. Further, the source of the constitution in a democratic polity is generally the will of the people while the source of Smriti is Shruti as Mimansaka- hold.
Smriti-s don’t derive their authority from popular sovereignty. It’s regrettable that a scholar of Tripathi’s stature commits such elementary errors due to ideological compulsions. His video for interested ones:
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