BABA BIHARI

Bihari Baba!

[Rohit Shinde @rohitshinde121]

This is interesting. Cousin marriage is extremely high in Pakistan - especially Balochistan and Sindh.

But it is quite low in Bangladesh. Southern India also has cousin marriages, but not as much, and they're on the decline.

However, Southern India practices cross cousin marriages where you marry either your mother's brother's kids or father's sister's kids.

Pakistan practices parallel-cousin marriage. You marry only your father's brothers kids.

The problem with this type of cousin marriage is that lineages (which are traced only through the father) become more isolated with each generation and each marriage.

So you get stuff like outsiders lying in court to save insiders. That's considered honorable. Rather than, you know, telling the truth even if it hurts your kin.

So institutions don't work because they don't have fertile soil to flourish. But even more than that, any kind of reforms immediately run into extremely organized resistance.

When anything hurts the biradari, your first reaction is to oppose it. And organizing through impersonal institutions like unions or guilds is much harder than organizing your kin groups.

One good example of this is land reforms: Structural land reforms are extremely important to the functioning of an economy. Pakistan's land reforms tried to put an individual cap on the amount of land one could own. But they ran into strong resistance from the landed elite who were well organized. The state, by contrast, wasn't. And finally, the land cap reform was ruled un-Islamic.

In murders and honor killings, victim's heirs can forgive the culprits. In honor killings, the victim's heirs are the killer's family as well. So an extremely toxic culture emerges.

[Dr. Julie Gurner @drgurner]

Be Aggressive about your life.
It is the only way to get what you want from it...

Nothing comes from the gentle hoping, half-given effort, or the daydreaming of most.

You have to know who you are...
What you want, pursue & reject
Be Aggressive about your life.

[dikgaj @dikgaj]

1) Sharjeel Imam’s interview in Quint, is pivoted around two core premises of Islam: (a) the Muslim is so completely and absolutely separate from the non-Muslim humanity that no matter the observable or identifiable overlaps, the separation and distinction can never be dissolved.

[Alcuin Press @AlcuinPress]

THE classic Tolkien quote

[Gems @gemsofbabus_]

Leaving it here. 🙏

[Neet @neet_sol]

Do nothing more

[Naval @naval]

When you look back, you’ll wish you’d just done the long-term version of everything.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Underrated life advice: Keep proof that good things happen to you. Old photos. Kind messages. Positive feedback. Notes from great days. Whatever. Store them in a single place. Call it a Rainy Day Folder. Pop it open on a bad day and watch your mood turn. It's a free reset button.

[History Daily @HistoryDailyyy]

"Our problem, my friend, is that the more our mind matures, the more we prefer isolation and solitude"

*-Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[Sundara Rajan @sundarmail]

In Tamilnadu:
Speaking in English is sophistication
Speaking in Urdu and Arabic are secular
Speaking in Tamil is inferior, Tanglish is not bad
Speaking in Sanskrit is Braminical conspiracy

[maquiavelo @maquivaeloo]

Cuando no sepas quién es el responsable, busca al beneficiario.

-Maquiavelo.

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

Read. Ha-Joon Chang a Korean economist.

[Tim Ferriss @tferriss]

“Do as little as needed, not as much as possible.”
— Henk Kraaijenhof

[BABA BIHARI @pankajkr120]

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[Roy T. Bennett @InspiringThinkn]

Nurture a positive mind, devote yourself with diligence, and bring your vision to life.
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

[Men's Bible @MansBible_]

Comfort is the worst addiction.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

@Jaffer22915438 The Roman army rule: action removes fear.