Google Hangout Video Edit #2 :: Conversion in the Hindu context means affirming core tenets without comprise, including some poison pills that prevent digestion. Think of the following Hindu practices as formal devices to become Hindu: initiation by guru with shaktipat/mantra, formal membership into parampara and pledge to guru, thread ceremony, lifelong commitment to specific lifestyle changes, etc :: —Rajiv Malhotra
Rajiv Malhotra: Hindu Gurus lost an opportunity to convert Western Yoga students into Hindus
Pakistan has used terrorism and madman brinksmanship to paralyze India's responses, until the Modi government called out its bluff through evolving actions - Surgical strikes, Balakot, and Operation Sindoor. Pakistan will not stop. So can't India. A deep analysis.
Disruptive promise of and June 12th US ban on Mythos shook the world. There are competing AI visions - Krishna vs Clarke. Convergence of Quantum, AGI/ASI and Crypto may unprecedentedly destroy our world if not enslave humanity.
Musk promises abundance for all. A Scottish earl explained 200 years ago why the machines that make everything will make their owners richer than ever, and everyone else dependent. The real question was never the size of your ration. It is who owns the river, and who holds the rod above him.
Disparagement humor is a built and financed weapon. It boxes a people with a label, hardens the label into stigma, and makes the sacred laughable until a civilization forgets why it was worth saving. Rome never learned this lesson. However, India needs to. Ask - Who is paying for the laughter?
