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20 Nov, 8 tweets, 3 min read
So US News releases its global ranking of Colleges/Universities.

No University in India is in the top 400. Only one is in the top 500. No IIT is in the top 500.

India's "English Advantage" paying rich dividends? Or is it the success of "social justice"?

usnews.com/education/best…
In Asia, universities from China, with Chinese-medium, dominate. Other Asian countries, using their own languages, also excel. (Singapore is city-sized—an outlier).

No Indian University is in the top 50 in Asia. "English advantage" in higher education? 😆
usnews.com/education/best…
A few Indian graduates do well abroad due to the sheer selectivity ratio. Of the 1.3 billion population .0001% may succeed in this manner, just because in such a large set there will be some brilliant people who succeed *despite* the education system.

Even if that were a metric, what percent of Global Fortune 500 CEOs are from India relative to the proportion of Indians in the world? What percent of top 1000 companies are Indian or Indian-owned?

It's the stupidest example. Singapore is the size of a city. No lessons can be gleaned from that. No major country in the world excludes a majority of its population from development by denying them education in their language.

The rankings are not perfect. But when a dozen Chinese universities are in the top 200, and no Indian university even in the top 400, it is dumb to ignore the data.

There are many other data points, including the number of AI patents China is filing.

Lol, "English advantages" wallahs tout the advantage of English in India for higher education and research? But this "advantage" does not show up in any objective criteria like citations, how come? 😆

Check Nobel Prizes from Japan in last 10 years.

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We've adopted "cutting the cake" for birthdays. This originates from Christian weddings, where "cutting the wedding cake actually represents breaking the bride's hymen." (for end of virginity).

We Indians copy blindly just like we sing "ring-a-ringa roses" uncomprehendingly.
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Once you sign-up for mandates, expect the governments to keep telling you what to inject into your bodies. Or else.
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What's bizarre is the capitulation of the "liberals" with governments dictating what to do to our bodies. What happened to "my body, my choice?"

But then liberals have also become the #1 apologists for Islamism, hardly anything more bizarre than that.

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As far as I can tell the entire "farmer's agitation" is about rich landowners who have a nexus with mandi monopolies.

Poor and marginalized farmers stand. to benefit from the reforms. But the rich can fund trends like #WhyModiAgainstIndia.
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But a small fraction wants the cartel to continue. They also have money and muscle power as big landowners. No surprise that they're lynching small dalit farmers.

I've not heard a single argument against the farm law reform which is not based on speculation and fear-mongering. If there is, I'm happy to listen. These kind of arguments make no sense.

How exactly does the ability to sell anywhere hinder farmers?

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The "liberal" discourse in India is to cater to the powerful claiming to speak for "marginalized."

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The Puritan ideology of Protestant Christianity dubbed all expenditure on entertainment as "wasteful", indeed anything used for other than the glory of the Christian God.

"Modern Hindus" replicate these arguments determining what is "wasteful" in how others spend their money.
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The British then dubbed wedding expenditure as "wasteful" and the *cause* of poverty.
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