Ph.D with philosophy of science.worked as university teacher and journalist as well as humanist to promote scientific method.His works on M N Roy ,Forced into f
''I don’t belong to any religion,was raised as a man without a religion.I’ve read the Bible, Bhagvad Gita, Quran& I’m in the middle of reading Guru Granth Sahib. I'm not my religion,l'm a human being.I love people, I’m trying to stand for people.''
--Babil Khan, Irrfan Khan's son
i haven't stepped out of my home for more than a year. Didn't allow anyone to enter my home. i was alone with a cat. And then i caught covid-19. Wish i knew how i caught it. ☹️
Islamist leader Mamunul Haque has been speaking against free speech,human rights & democracy for decades. But after he was caught for exploiting women, he is now in deep doo doo. Shouting all the time, where is my democratic right? I want my human rights,my free speech!
Just learned. 'Jeshoreshwari is regarded as one of the 51 Peeth of Sati; according to the belief, it is where the various parts of Sati's body are said to have fallen, in the course of Shiva's Rudra Tandava. Jeshoreshwari represents the site where the palm of Sati fell.'
In many states a major party candidate for MLA spends ₹5-15 cr; and outcome is uncertain. Large spend does not guarantee victory; but not spending ensures defeat in most cases. Feigning surprise at massive corruption will lead us nowhere. We need genuine political reform.
Congratulations to @EmiratesTeamNZ on winning the America's Cup!
When the race began in early March, ETNZ hit the water with a new crewmember: an #AI bot created by McKinsey and @quantumblack. It turned out to be a winning combination. https://t.co/uct2xl2jY3 #AmericasCup2021
Am embarrassed I didn't know about Mr Menon "the first Asian man to run a major Western record label" until this morning.
Bhaskar Menon, Who Turned Capitol Records Around, Dies at 86 https://t.co/8qO8YYNsut? via @nytimes
Here’s something approaching binary: political opinion. Left/Right dimension has long had some (limited) predictive value. But unlike most human frequency distributions (bell curves) L/R continuum is going bimodal, 2 modes moving fast apart. Due to Internet bubbles? Or what?
“I’ve had parents tell me their boys, upon being given dolls, will sling them around mercilessly by the hair, as though they are a weapon. Girls will arrange toy trucks into a family and tuck them into bed.” The End of Gender, by Debra Soh.
Monkey infants do something similar.
Depends on who you ask and what you measure: Women constitute 4% of Indian adults who own agricultural land; 6.5% of women aged 18 years and above own agricultural land; women-headed households constitute 10.2% of all households engaged in cultivation...or
Indian women account for 14% of agricultural land holdings, which constitute 11.7% of the area of farm land holdings in India; and 28.3% of women aged between 15 and 49 years reported that they owned land alone or jointly.