I learnt to program on a DEC-20 using COBOL😆 in 10th. No PCs then. I wanted to do Computer Science, didn't care about IITs. Only started IIT prep in 11th, from used notes borrowed from a cousin. Luckily got CS at IIT, never thought I would. 😌

Still say—follow your passion.
Yeah. I think I also only learnt about IITs in 11th grade (which was actually DAV college) because some of my fellow students were prepping for it. Took a while to get clued in, probably started prep close to the end of 11th.

Funny story. After I got IIT admission, but before actually joining, I taught programming in the summer at DAV college. I was 17. A lot of doctors etc were my students, I was the youngest in the class. 😀

But I convinced the DAV principal that I could teach it ha. Got paid too.
After I got a top-50 rank (completely unexpected), my parents took me to a retired engineering prof for advice on which branch to take. He said "Electronics is the core. Computer Science is a new-fangled thing. Future is unclear."

I stuck to my guns. CS or nothing. Good call😏.
Then went to Texas on fellowship. My parents didn't have to spend a dime. Joined Microsoft. "Retired" at 33 to follow my other passions. Writing, spiritual search and giving to India.

Extremely blessed & lucky. But still say, follow your dreams; do what you love. Life is short.
Yes, I learnt in '82-'83. About then, Kraftwerk had released their song "I Program my Home Computer."

Of course, we didn't really have those in India then. One of my rich friends had a Commodore 64. I played with it a bit, was hooked.

Hmm, come to think of it, the name just popped up for me, but it may have been something different when I looked at pictures of the Commodore 64. This one was smaller, had a single line screen.

I find degrees are overrated. The most learning I had at IIT was from peer interaction.

When hiring I hardly look at degrees. What you know matters much more.
No, it was more like a calculator. Wider.

No CRT or Floppy. I think LCD like single line display.

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11 Oct
She is not "uneducated." Her spelling in Hindi are fine. English is unnatural for most Indians.

The uneducated are those who equate "English" with "education." Try asking a school teacher in Japan to write in English.

It show why pushing "English-medium" as policy is madness.
See the left side of the board.

The video "examiner" didn't care to test her Hindi.

See example of a girl from UP. Totally inarticulate in spoken or written English after 10 years of *English medium* education.

When allowed to speak in Hindi, is intelligent and articulate.

Why are we obsessed with destroying minds in forcing English?

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11 Oct
See my article—“Are Indians Corrupt”?

This is a good example of internalized colonial narrative.

It comes from Christian colonizers labeling Hindoos as “morally corrupt” for not being Christian.

sankrant.org/2004/03/are-in…
Please read my article and then ask yourself why you posit that “Indians are corrupt.”

E.g. if the same question was asked in a Western research context it would be posited as “human beings are corrupt” or “are humans moral”? What is your “other” for Indians? The West? Think.
Read the article in conjunction with this one and my talk on India as a colonial state.

sankrant.org/2008/06/the-cr…
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7 Oct
If Assam opposes illegal immigrants from Bangladesh it becomes “xenophobia” and “intolerance” because it slows demographic jihad.

But killing non-Muslims citizens in Kashmir is justified by “alarms” about “demographic change.”

Education does not fix jihadi bigotry.
If there is an “alarm” it is due to their guilt and fear of karma catching up. Due to their sanguinary blood-thirsty genocide and ethnic cleansing of non-Muslims over decades.

Eh @IfraJan_?
"The narrative of Hindutva feeds on contrived fears of demographic domination by minorities." 🙄

It doesn't take a genius to predict the fate of Hindus in an Islamic majority state–plenty of neighboring examples. Only #IYI's obfuscate the obvious.

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7 Oct
The cleansing of non-Muslims from Kashmir continues. This is totalitarian hate propagated by a religious ideology. Deliberate strategy.

What is the center doing?
"Development" will not fix it.
"Education" will not fix it.
"Benefits" will not fix it.

Only exposing the hate-driven religious ideology and #gharwapsi will fix it. This should be the single-point plan.

@narendramodi @myogiadityanath @AmitShah
भारत सरकार जिस दिन से घर वापसी के लिए वज़ीफ़ा देगी, जिहाद के लिए नहीं, उस दिन से भारत के प्रगति शुरू होगी। अभी तो "नई मंज़िल" और "हुनर हाट" चल रही है।

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5 Oct
Guess one East Asian country which also has this so-called "English advantage" 😏 which is competing with India for call-center jobs, but lagging behind all the Asian tigers in GDP/capita, just like India.
A summary of major countries with "English Advantage" in S/SE/E Asia.

Homework: If language is a factor, why would English-medium lead to less development.

Note: The English-100 percenters will use all other factors to "explain" this other than the issue of language.
Within India comparisons don’t help since the Indian Govt imposes English apartheid from the top. All major Courts, IITs, IIMs, AIIMS etc are English only.

So there is an “English advantage” within India due to discriminative polices but in any global metric India lags.
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4 Oct
Are you claiming @ashishkjha that the vaccinated cannot infect others? That’s not what the evidence says.

Also the most recent research indicates the natural immunity may (naturally) trump vaccines. Shouldn’t we have anexception for those who got natural immunity?
Israel study shows those with natural immunity are far less likely to get Covid than those who were vaccinated.

Why is policy not reflecting this? Because it is not driven by data but by a need for authoritarian control, akin to religion.

science.org/content/articl…
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