Debasis Mishra

[Debasis Mishra @debasiskmishra]

@ForgedAql @greatbong This is a perfectly valid take. you are blinded by your biases if you think the equivalent of islamism exists in other religions. Islamism is uniquely bad. There are no parallels between the so called "Hindu nationalism" and Islamism.

[Debasis Mishra @debasiskmishra]

@sanjeevsanyal @Vishnuip1_ Would have been nice to test the theory though- now we can only guess. The govt gave in to the first signs of pressure : they will do anything to not be seen as undermining reservation. You might be correct, but that attempt told us about the intentions of this govt.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Religions stripped of aesthetics: (non-Anglican) protestantism & atheism.

[Debasis Mishra @debasiskmishra]

Here is an analogy: In investment, there is market/systemic risk and then there is sector risk. Things like corruption, poor institutions, poverty are like systemic/market risks, affect all sectors including education/human resources. Reservation is a self inflicted wound that uniquely affects education/human resources due to its anti meritocratic nature. Hence people focus on it when they talk of education. Higher order structural risks are harder to address, rolling back reservation to something more reasonable is at least theoretically an easier fix. Hence people obsess over it. Rolling back/making common sense changes to reservation would definitely improve the quality of education, but not make us world-class unless we remove the other structural barriers. I guess we all know that- this is a bad faith argument.

[Debasis Mishra @debasiskmishra]

The person was a bad teacher- this attitude towards English needs to change. What should we do about this sir- decolonize, promote Indian languages, NEP, encourage pride in our own languages and knowledge systems? Or maybe, according to you, the solution is cry caste and file an sc st case? Glad your student did not do this- and answered the professor with his success.

[Debasis Mishra @debasiskmishra]

This is all fair only if the professor is compensated handsomely if the charges are false and people bringing false charges are tried for perjury and jailed. Otherwise this just becomes "punishment by process" for the professors and discourages then from doing their job. Aap itni fairness ki baatein kar rahe ho ye bhi bol do.

[Debasis Mishra @debasiskmishra]

My HOD was probably vaguely aware of my existence- my institute director definitely not . And here is the guy's dad claiming the Director of an IIT - which probably has 1500 students, colluded/conspired with another professor to take special interest in him to harass him over a period of time, because of his caste. Not sure if you guys been to a college. It is very unusual for a professor to behave this way. Also strange that something like this has never happened in their long careers- no other students coming forward to say this professor operated this way. None of this adds up but you guys do you!

[Debasis Mishra @debasiskmishra]

I went to an NIT, states had fixed allocation of seats and branches- say 5 general and 2 reserved , easy to figure out who was from a reserved seat based on branch, last names, state ranks - people who had good ranks were not shy about advertising them etc. But no one cared about caste per se-specific jati etc, but we were aware of the government assigned categories- general, sc and st, obcs were still general - it affected a lot of things visible and invisible- fees, scholarships, library days- reserved people got early access to the library and did not have to buy books, we had to settle for FCFS for the remaining copies. Even affected placement- PSUs gave preferential treatment. Bottom line is caste or rather category awareness was driven by how the system treated you, not by individual biases- we did not care who was what jaati and their place in the hierarchy. We did not know/care/discuss who was obc, for example. We did not care about the preferential treatment either, we were all conditioned to accept it. We were all friends. But this was pre-OBC, pre 50+% quota days. While this is all anecdotal, things have gotten worse, thanks to the greed for power of our political masters. Before you say- UC guys are of course blind to caste, and maybe I am - that is not the point. The point is divisions have become worse.

[Debasis Mishra @debasiskmishra]

The sad part here is that all we should have focused on is the students suicide, academic pressure and societal norms. Unfortunately this has become about caste, FIR and oppressed - oppressor. So she is right to focus on the latter, because that is unnatural and only happens in a screwed up society- that has lost all sense of proportion in its sjw/jauh frenzy.

[Debasis Mishra @debasiskmishra]

This is a stupid take. I don't have any data, this is anecdotal, but very safe to say, any given meal, say lunch on a Thursday, 80 percent of India is vegetarian. Most non vegetarians, like me, probably eat meat 3-4 times a week, and have lots of no meat days, specific days of the week, navratri, other festivals. Eating vegetarian meals is a core part of being Indian, not a Hindutva thing. You guys are indeed our avant-gaand intellectuals.

[Debasis Mishra @debasiskmishra]

@halleyji And then they will insist we can't call it Indra- dhanu, and call it Rongo- dhonu multiculturalism😬

[Debasis Mishra @debasiskmishra]

While i believe in letting people eat as they like, context should be provided while appealing to tradition. My ancestors, like yours probably, ate meat sparingly as prasad during the puja period, usually shared after a communal bali. Eggs, chicken were a strict no-no- which is in line with how our tradition saw certain meats. The ideal for a satvik life was no meat, with certain allowance for shakta ways- did not mean gorge on meat for shaktas. Like i said, all good except the appeal to ancient traditions. The egg chicken roll most people will eat have nothing to do with our traditions!

[Debasis Mishra @debasiskmishra]

Lavde ka intellectual ran out of brain stamina, he forgets that only sc/st act criminalizes free speech based on identity- free speech by only one side is problematic. It is worse than 295A, 153 A which applies to everyone equally, at least in theory. Jao bhai, no one's will miss your inputs.

[Debasis Mishra @debasiskmishra]

Expected line of attack. You could have directly negated his statement and supported manusmriti. But you can't do that, just like him you believe in an oppressor-oppressed story, just with different identities. To your credit, you have played the caste game better than them- which is why they have to clutch at these straws.

[Debasis Mishra @debasiskmishra]

What excites me how much more we could do https://t.co/gkPgltl1Wn justice in our space journey. Reservations in the private sector and in the space program will unlock the potential of our depressed classes. After India's first SC and ST presidents, it is time for oppressed astronauts.

[Debasis Mishra @debasiskmishra]

@KNVR2023 @narendramodi All her hesitation came from her unfamiliarity with the language and culture- and she did not want bad publicity that comes with it- not from an overabundance of dignity.

[Debasis Mishra @debasiskmishra]

Why not, this is a good argument exposing the free speech hypocrisy. For some reason caste is more protected than other immutable characteristics in this country, even when it is the least visible (hard to make out by looking at someone) say compared to gender, or race (other countries). Calling someone the n word is not a crime, has only social consequences in the US- the one true free speech country. Either we accept we are not a free speech country and accept all restrictions- based on morality, public order, caste etc. OR we allow all free speech. This free speech hypocrisy needs to go.

[Debasis Mishra @debasiskmishra]

Carefully uses merit, he knows if he uses the R word, even he will not be soared, they will come after him- What does he know about merit? His success is all because of brahminical privilege- his success came at the cost of kambli's. The society failed kambli and helped sachin. I am glad he said this though!

[Debasis Mishra @debasiskmishra]

@bhoomiputraa better/nutritionally dense food due to higher incomes. More importantly, lower disease burden- no malaria, typhoid, jaundice, recurring respiratory and tummy infections growing up, no parasites and worms. I remember having most of these as a kid!

[Debasis Mishra @debasiskmishra]

@halleyji This should be called the imam-e-hind theory in honor of the original, dravidoids are cheap copies 😬