Higher education at inflection point: Many universities are witnessing erosion of their revenue sources -- tuition, research grants, clinical revenue.. Whatever emerges in the world of higher education, it won't look the same as it did when we all started the academic year last September.
Gambling addiction and Chinese investors: What can go wrong? Tencent, Alibaba investing hundreds of millions of dollars in Indian apps that use loopholes in anti-gambling laws.
Debt Trap Diplomacy: Belt and Road debts to China skyrocket after c-virus. 15 out of 68 BRI partner countries face significant debt distress. Developing countries’ hidden debts to China estimated at $380 billion.
Associated Press: China knew of pandemic danger in Wuhan even as officials downplayed it. Without the six-day delay, infections could have been cut by two-thirds.
How UV light may protect us: Ultraviolet light can penetrate the cells of pathogens and damage the DNA or RNA that contain their genetic code. “Sunlight is wonderful, but it takes a long time.”
UV LEDs can decontaminate surfaces: "UV-C light in the 260 - 285 nanometre wavelength range most relevant for current disinfection technologies is also harmful to human skin, so for now it is mostly used in applications where no one is present at the time of disinfection".
The Rules of Capitalism: The rules of capitalism are different when CEOs are looking for a bailout
More pandemics: The EU will soon permit the sale of locusts, crickets, grasshoppers, and mealworms as food across the continent.
Beggar-thy-neighbor: Aussie hospitals grapple with shortages after Chinese-owned companies there emptied vital medical supplies and exported them to China.
+Ran articles about irrationality of worrying about the pandemic
+Opposed the travel ban
+Now blaming the administration for not having stiffer travel ban https://t.co/4NNOpkeO1Vpic.twitter.com/czrGEeI6Lu
CCP Propaganda:
China floods Facebook with ads blaming Trump for c-virus. State news
outlets have bought numerous ads extolling China's response to the
pandemic and attacking the mistakes of the US
In the Vedic church none is religiously great or small: The teachings of the Vedas are universal.. Yajurveda 26-2 clearly enjoins all learned persons to preach the Vedic truths to all, the Brahmanas, the Kshatriyas, the Vaishyas, the Shudras, the Chandalas, the degraded and the forlorn. Dwijas, the twice-born alone are not entitled to study the Vedas. The shudras and even women are equally entitled to read the Vedas. Persons like Kavish Aylush a Shudra by birth, vide Aitareya Brahmana 11-19 and women like Lopa Mudra were the seers of the meanings of Vedic texts and their names are from times immemorial attached to the Vedic verses. God is not expected to be partial to one portion of mankind, and antagonistic to the other by depriving them of their birth-right to study the Veda. In the eyes of God all men, high or low, are equally entitled to God's gifts and bounties, say air, water, sunshine and His Knowledge.
All men and women may study the Vedās. It is what God desires. See Yajurveda 26, 2. pic.twitter.com/OMYYLF9Udg
Wikipedia or Trashpedia? Since Vedic wisdom and Yoga are much the fashion across the world these days, racists and Eurocentrists must show that these were brought from Europe by migrants who then occupied India.. We need an online encyclopedia where the edits are by real people. India needs to have a strategic vision on internet technologies. An Indian version of the Wikipedia which is edited responsibly should be part of that vision.
Job losses coming to auto-sector: The average combustion engine takes about 3.5 hours to make, while an electric motor takes about 1 hour.. A combustion-engine car has 1,400 components in the motor, exhaust
system and transmission.. An electric vehicle’s battery and electric
motor has only 200 components.. Around 410,000 German jobs are at risk by 2030.
Vengeful CM: Kia looking to move $1.1 billion plant out of Jagan's Andhra.
No use in real combat? China says India can’t build an effective missile defense system. "Inadequate capital, unsmooth R&D process, heavy reliance on other countries for key technology and incomplete systems"
Populism bites: Army to spend more on pensions than on salaries. Rs 111,294 crore for army salaries, Rs 113,278 crore for army pensions. Funds that could otherwise go towards equipment modernisation
Ashtavakra Gita: It is in
the infinite ocean of myself that the mind-creation
called the world takes place.
Be Modern and Use Sanskrit to Decolonize Your Mind: Sanskrit is a wonderful tool to liberate our mind from the two of the most pressing problems of the modern world: addiction and depression. Sanskrit is an analytical and a holistic language. It is both argumentative and sacred. It is good for singing and reciting. Be modern and use Sanskrit to decolonize your mind.
Slave Thinking: Children penalised for speaking in Kannada
#Karnataka
Beauty of Govt schools !! It's a government school in one of those remote lambani Hattis in chalkere taluk of chitradurga District. Loved the style of teaching Kannada Gaadegalu using Akshara Maale. 👏👏👏
(2nd half of the video in the thread)@nimmasureshpic.twitter.com/hBfAGCuLun
असतो मा सद् गमय ।
तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय ।
मृत्योर्माऽमृतं गमय ॥
From the unreal (delusion) lead me to the real (truth).
From the darkness lead me to the light.
From death lead me to immortality. -- Brihad Aranyaka (1.3.28)
विद्यां चाविद्यां च यस्तद्वेदोभयँ सह ।
अविद्यया मृत्युं तीर्त्वा विद्ययाऽमृतमश्नुते ॥
Pursuing both Vidya and Avidya, he overcomes death by transcending them -- Isha Upanishad (11) .. (pursuing Vidya alone leads to pride/delusion)
यस्मिन् द्यौः पृथिवी चान्तरिक्षमोतं ।
मनः सह प्राणैश्च सर्वैः ।
तमेवैकं जानथ आत्मानमन्या वाचो ।
विमुञ्चथामृतस्यैष सेतुः ॥
In him are woven the sky and the earth and all the regions of the air.
And in him rest the mind and all the powers of life.
Know him as the One and leave aside all other words.
He is the bridge of immortality -- Mundaka Upanishad (2.2.5)
इन्द्रियेभ्यः परं मनो मनसः सत्त्वमुत्तमम् ।
सत्त्वादधि महानात्मा महतोऽव्यक्तमुत्तमम् ॥
Beyond the senses is the mind, and beyond the mind is reason, its essence. Beyond reason is the Spirit in man, and beyond this is the Spirit of the Universe, the evolver of all. -- Katha Upanishad (6.7)
यदा पञ्चावतिष्ठन्ते ज्ञानानि मनसा सह ।
बुद्धिश्च न विचेष्टते तामाहुः परमां गतिम् ।
भिद्यते हृदयग्रन्थिश्छिद्यन्ते सर्वसंशयाः ॥
When the five senses and the mind are still. And reason itself rests in silence, then begins the Path supreme -- Katha Upanishad (6.10)
भिद्यते हृदयग्रन्थिश्छिद्यन्ते सर्वसंशयाः ।
क्षीयन्ते चास्य कर्माणि तस्मिन् दृष्टे परावरे ॥
And when he is seen in his immanence and transcendence, then the ties that have bound the heart are unloosened. The doubts of the mind vanish, and the law of Karma works no more -- Mundaka Upanishad (2.2.8)
asato ma sad gamaya (2)
tamaso ma jyotir gamaya
mrtyor mamrtam gamaya
vidyam cavidyam ca yas
tad vedobhayam saha
avidyaya mrtyum tirtva
vidyayamrtam asnute
yasmin dyauh prthivi cantariksam otam manah saha pranais ca sarvaih tam
evaikam janatha atmanam anya vacah vimuncatha amrtasya esah setuh
From the unreal (delusion) lead me to the real(truth) (2)
From the darkness lead me to the light
From death lead me to immortality.
He who knows both knowledge and action,
with action overcomes death
and with knowledge reaches immortality.
In him are woven the sky and the earth
and all the regions of the air,
and in him rest the mind
and all the powers of life.
Know him as the ONE
and leave aside all other words.
He is the bridge of immortality.
Beyond the senses is the mind,
and beyond the mind is reason, its essence.
Beyond reason is the Spirit in man,
and beyond this is the Spirit of the Universe,
the evolver of all.
When the five senses and the mind are still,
and reason itself rests in silence,
then begins the Path supreme.
So on and so forth
So on and so forth
So on and so forth
And when he is seen in his immanence and transcendence,
then the ties that have bound the heart are unloosenend,
the doubts of the mind vanish,
and the law of Karma works no more.
