Quick notes: Chinese trap, Prosperity gospel...

• Avoiding Chinese Debt Trap: Nepal scraps hydropower deal with Chinese firm. This month, India began the construction of a 900 MW hydro-power project in east Nepal.... Some nations have begun to realize the futility of taking loans from China



• Silverpuram: In a village 3 Km from Sterlite plant, every other house has a cancer patient... From the archives of this blog: Taking away good, fertile, agricultural land for industrial gas-belchers is a bad idea



• "Ancient Indian Mathematics" by mathematician David H. Bailey:

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— Cliff Pickover (@pickover) May 19, 2018




• Prosperity Gospel: Padre with three planes wants followers to pay for a $54 million private jet




• How Japan dealt with the Christian Threat: When Christians were captured they would be made to renounce their faith and live their lives as Buddhists. The state “wants not martyrs, but apostates. Apostates better than martyrs attest the impotence of a religion, especially when those apostates had been apostles of the faith and priests.” After they renounced their faith, priests were forced to take wives as part of their new lives and were constantly monitored by the authorities. If renunciation was not forthcoming through torture, however, the final act would be execution.



• Unfair competition and predatory pricing: Indian trader group objects to Walmart-Flipkart deal 



• Ask for something in return:

For all the support Hindus gave to @BJP4India from 1990 till date, ask for something in return.

The repeal of Places of Worship Act and legislation giving Hindu devotees the right to administer their temples.#ReclaimTemples

— Reclaim Temples (@ReclaimTemples) May 19, 2018