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Learning Nothing, Losing More
Posted on 8 mins
Every year, India’s big IT services firms put tens of thousands of new hires through six to ten weeks of training before letting them near a real project. The syllabus tries to cover everything — a messaging platform this week, a data warehousing tool the next, a bit of machine learning thrown in somewhere — and covers none of it well. Ask anyone who’s been through it what they actually remember, and the answer is usually: not much.
The Unwritten Rule
Posted on 11 mins
I. A Puzzle of Survival Every other major polytheism the ancient world produced is now, in the fullest sense, gone. No one prays to Amun-Ra expecting the Nile to flood on schedule. No one leaves offerings for Odin before a crossing. The gods of Athens and Rome survive only as literature, marble, and metaphor. In each case, a monotheistic tradition arrived, organized itself, and displaced what came before, not through gradual attrition but through something closer to a systematic institutional campaign.
The Arithmetic of Mobilization
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Reservation in India was supposed to be temporary. That was the promise — a brief constitutional correction, a decade-long transition to lift the historically marginalized, after which the Republic would move toward equal citizenship. Seven decades later, the transition has not ended. It has expanded. The question of why it endures is usually answered with moral arguments — about justice, historical suffering, social equity. These are the terms the debate is conducted in.
लामबंदी का अंकगणित
Posted on 12 mins
लोकतंत्र के बारे में एक आरामदायक कल्पना है — कि यह विचारों का बाज़ार है, जहाँ सबसे तर्कसंगत तर्क जीतता है, जहाँ नागरिक साक्ष्यों को तौलते हैं और सैद्धांतिक स्थितियों पर पहुँचते हैं। यह एक चापलूसी भरा चित्र है। यह लगभग पूरी तरह से गलत भी है। लोकतंत्र तर्क पर नहीं चलता। यह आम सहमति पर चलता है। और आम सहमति के लिए सही होना ज़रूरी नहीं है। इसके लिए संगठित होना ज़रूरी है।