Sanjeev Sabhlok's Blog, page 120
June 4, 2018
India’s Contempt of Courts Act – should a scandalous judge be protected from public comment?
Someone shared this news of a lawyer getting jailed for making a comment about a judge on a Facebook post. WIKIPEDIA says, re: India: Under Section 2(c) of the Contempt of Courts Act of 1971, criminal contempt has been defined as the publication (whether by words, spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible […]
Planning an AMA on reddit r/india
It’s been suggested that I undertake an AMA on reddit. I’ve barely understood reddit. Some notes for my use: WIKI ON RUNNING AN AMA ON R/INDIA PDF from reddit (on my server) Draft Word (docx) FAQ for SBP specifically created for the AMA. NEXT STEPS Write to reddit Finalise the FAQ Publicise Do it. […]
Modi, RSS, BJP and VHP must read this denunciation of their “praise of Israel” by an Israeli
1. On my recent trip to India, I was eager to see a country which is a “friend of Israel”. I loved the people. But my interactions with them revealed to me a lot about their warped “love” for Israel. — Nazi Slayer (@ZomaBen) June 2, 2018 2. India’s ‘love’ for Israel is solely based […]
June 3, 2018
Modi can’t change the BASIC STRUCTURE of the Constitution
Shashi Tharoor spoke in Lucknow today, pointing out that if Modi is not electorally blocked in 2019, he may well re-write the Constitution and convert India into a Hindu rashtra. Has Shashi considered that Modi can’t change the BASIC STRUCTURE of the Constitution (Kesavananda Bharati case)? The only way Modi can create a Hindu Rashtra is […]
June 2, 2018
Is caste a derivative of state socialism? (lessons from Roman socialism)
A couple of days ago FEE published a brilliant extract from Durant: https://fee.org/articles/will-durant-... This extract is a wonderful depiction of what happens when the state takes over control over industry and trade. Durant shows how rapidly socialism can decay into feudalism. He says: “Labor was “frozen” to its job, forbidden to pass from one shop […]
The disaster called proportional representation system
The mess of the PR system is obvious to any observer: ITALY “Italy has had more than 60 governments in the last 70 years.” [Source] FRANCE “The system conjures up bad memories of the political instability of France’s Fourth Republic between 1946 and 1958. During this period, France was run by 20 different governments in […]
June 1, 2018
Want to see real India? Rabi Kant Bharti is showing us what it looks like
Many of us live in ivory towers, cocooned far from the lives of the ordinary Indian. Issues such as the superiority of one religion or other seem to take more of our attention than the reality of the lives of our fellowmen. Rabi Kant Bharti is very kindly running a Youtube channel that shows us […]
About sleep, memory, learning new things – and Alzheimer’s disease
Sleep is extraordinarily important for our existence. Modern studies have almost solved the puzzle, and in that process a lot many things are getting explained. This is a placeholder post. Apart from my initial video blog, I’m posting a few other links and will add more as I find interesting information. SOME INTERESTING LINKS Babies’ Amazing […]
May 30, 2018
Just because there is some garbage on FBI’s website, doesn’t make it true!
A comment re: aliens and UFOs, below, on my Youtube channel: The operational comment: https://vault.fbi.gov/nikola-tesla/Ni... An FBI declassified report says that Nikola Tesla was an alien from Venus. It also talks about sightings of flying saucers in the US. These things are real, not conspiracy theories. In the past, I’ve read CIA documents talking about […]
Just because there is some garbage on FBI’s website, it doesn’t make it true!
A comment re: aliens and UFOs, below, on my Youtube channel: The operational comment: https://vault.fbi.gov/nikola-tesla/Ni... An FBI declassified report says that Nikola Tesla was an alien from Venus. It also talks about sightings of flying saucers in the US. These things are real, not conspiracy theories. In the past, I’ve read CIA documents talking about […]
