"only 9 percent of Chinese said they'd trust a person of a different nationality. By contrast, 52 percent of Germans said they'd trust such a person, and the number increased to over 65 percent in the United States and Australia."
Everybody can choose what works for and speaks to them, but somehow the idea that the "best" books on religion in China are all written by non-Chinese seems a bit strange.
[That said, I love Bill Porter, or Red Pine, & more people should read him.]
I translated the Khmer song "កូនកំសត់" (kaun komsott) by the renowned Cambodian singer of the 1960s Ros Serysothea into Telugu as "పాపం పసిపిల్లలు". This lilting melody is filled with Vātsalya Bhāva. Thanks to @premanmurthy for suggesting the song.
@JamesMarsh79 I've heard good things about (This is what I'd use when I get around to doing screen recording someday). It also caught my attention because I have seen people do streaming of programming(ie., screen + speaker) and other tech stuff using OBS.
Love when my views are confirmed by an academic paper ✌️ (basically Ancient Greeks did not understand polygamy (or women having their own power and standing) which led to an extremely distorted view of the Achaemenid Persian court in their sources)
After seeing the slowly unraveling American electoral system, where millionaires offer to write checks to keep polling stations open, the workings of India’s ElectionCommission deserve more study by rest of the world
I discussed here why Indian logic requires an empirical observation even during the inference. The reason is a serious skepticism in the strength of (any) language, due to which certain methods are avoided as much as possible, like proof by contradiction.
The receding waters of the Tigris in Iraqi Kurdistan have exposed the remains of a 3,400-year-old palace, which might have been part of the Mitanni Empire. Tablets from other sites indicate that the early Mittanis mright have worshipped Rig Vedic gods.
"All around the world, people eat foods invented during lean times [..] The foods of the Bengal Famine, though, remain absent from accounts of the region’s and India’s cuisine," writes Sharanya Deepak
@serioustaurean @MysticHeart25 You can choose a different, reader-friendly theme. Since your blog is hosted on (ie., not self-hosted), you are not likely to have any custom plugins installed and hence upgrade should be painless.
Many college math students have used textbooks by someone named Serge Lang. He was quite a character, to say the least. If you only know him through his books, you may enjoy learning more about Lang in these reminiscences of his colleagues and students:
Thought a "radical pluralist" philosophy of religion might mention polytheism even once? You'd be wrong. That would be too radical, apparently: A Radical Pluralist Philosophy of Religion: Cross-Cultural, Multireligious, Interdisciplinary
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Good post by @razibkhan : “The Indian religion of the Hindus was clearly bundled together in a way that allowed for their elite deployment as a meta-ethnic identity that separated them from the Turks and Afghans who ruled them.”
@anandology @bangpypers @ramkrsna @btbytes @swaroopch @phoe6 Yes of course, Tom Locke who was here in Bangalore a good part of 2008 trying to develop interest on this. I attended couple of his sessions.