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This is as profound as an exchange can get on Television!

Kumbhakarna :

Kya Dharma hai, Kya Adharm hai. Iski Vyakhya Desh aur Kaal ke anusaar sabki alag alag hoti hai

Vibhishana :

Nahin. Satya ek hi hai. Woh har sthan, har kal me ek hi hota hai

I got a high when I heard this on television during a dinner break

Quite astounding! That you could have a discussion on context sensitive ethics vs. Natural Right based time-invariant ethics in what is supposed to be a populist serial
Kumbhakarna voices a historicist argument.
A Hegelian line embraced by several great thinkers on both Right and Left. Be it Heidegger or Marx. Maybe even Burke on the Right

Vibhishana embraces "Natural Right"
Where one attempts normative judgments, independent of space and time
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Ironically Malcolm Marshall made his debut in 1978-79 against India when a Packer-weakened West Indies team toured India!

Debut was in Bangalore. His fellow bowlers were Sylvester Clarke, Norbert Philip, and Vanburn Holder

He might not have debuted that early but for Packer!
His record is something out of the ordinary.

But it must be said he played in an era of somewhat weak batsmanship

Australian cricket was extremely weak, and so was English cricket in his era.

It's hard to recall even 3-4 genuinely great batsmen from the late 80s
Outside of the West Indies team, if I have to recall 3-4 truly great batsmen I might say -

Border
Gavaskar
Miandad

maybe Gower who flirted with greatness

Otherwise it was an era of brittle line-ups, compared to the great era of batsmanship in the early 2000s for instance
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I sort of disagree with the view below.

"Scholars" should not just restrict themselves to analysis and exegesis. But ALSO synthesis!

Spotting commonalities, connecting dots, drawing overarching narratives - that's a part of being an intellectual
Now Ms @elisa_freschi believes it is too simplistic to spot an "overarching" Western civilization from Heredotus to Trump

Or for that matter an overarching "Indic" civilization from Sage Uddalaka to Veer Savarkar

When you put it that way naming individuals, she does make sense
But having said that, there are very very strong commonalities that do bind together decidedly "western" ways of thinking found in Solon's Greece and Trump's America

And commonalities that do unite the Mauryan Vishnu Gupta and Narendra Modi
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So much of subaltern rhetoric on race, gender, caste, stems from an idealized view of human nature

Accept human prejudices as inherent to civilization. And try to gently moderate these prejudices with universalizing "ideals"..

Then you will feel less angry about "injustices"
Ironically -

Religion is an agent of universalism, a creator of abstract ideals that can transcend prejudices rooted in time and space

But progressivism in our times is also against religion. Which is a bit counter-productive to its own cause
I see civilization as an intricate balance between -

Tradition - which encodes within it prejudice and wisdom of the ages

and

Religion - which can be an agent of abstract notions and a progenitor of universal ideals
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