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A Country of Minorities

India is special. Every segment of the population is a minority in India, whichever way you slice its population.   Everyone is legitimate in crying 'minority'. However, there is no 'majority' to listen to the cries. Weird!   Some minorities may be dominant in certain geographical areas and in certain spheres of life and economy. But overall, the minorities are complementary. That is what keeps India strong and resilient.   That is why there is no polarization in India. Communists try to polarize along the lines of the rich/poor divide. Right-wing tries to polarize along the lines of Hindu/Muslim, etc. divide. Ambedkarites try to polarize along the lines of lower castes/upper castes divide. And there are many such others. Never such attempts succeeded and never will they.   The sense of plurality in general, and minority plurality in particular, is built into the Indian psyche. It is the educated, the media, the leaders that do not get it. They grew up in the pots ca...

Capitalism and Socialism

If the stomach keeps all that it digests and doesn't let the heart pump the nutrients/energy to all the organs and limbs of the body, the stomach will bloat, the body will die, and with it the stomach itself also. I read this way back in my third-grade textbook. Stomach is capitalism. Heart is socialism. Don't throw away one for the other.