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[varun @varun10221]

@parotta_kuruma Dai , Im in the US here trades people make more money than office workers. With AI plumbers and electricians will have more demand than sw engineers.

[Ivan Werning @IvanWerning]

My prediction if this goes through.

For a while it might look like it works fine. The city as a big buyer might strong arm some deals with suppliers especially in the short run. A focus on a few products may get lower costs but forego desirable variety. City real estate may not be priced to market. The city can have an advantage over privates in terms of not meeting city regulations etc

But over time after a few years the inefficiency and corruption of this will start to show.

[varun @varun10221]

@RupakChatto @ArjunM1412 How can you have foot crossinh in middle of platform? How will the train go through it? You can either have crossing at termius where platform ends or only above or below ground. It's impossible to be at level.

[varun @varun10221]

@dravidasishu There are not enough doctors. Doctors are overworked because there are not enough cheap options. Once you gave more doctors competing, we can have two doctors do the job of one. Releiveing them from exertion that they often complain about.

[varun @varun10221]

@cvkrishnan No , Trams / light rail are a good semi last mile connection. They make it work in europe and even in kolkata.

[Vinodhini Vaidynathan @VinodhiniUnoffl]

It’s not perception. Let me spit some hard truths that are mostly perceptions but that have almost become hard wired in Brahmins’ minds. I’m sure I’ll be bashed on all fronts for this including Brahmins and DMK. And others, of course, simply because.

Brahmins in TN carry the weight of DMK hatred on Brahmins. Brahmins look upon themselves as the most devout Hindus (though every Hindu caste, varna may think so too).

The Brahmin hatred angle:
DMK’s Brahmin hatred has seen itself go from threatening to pluck people’s poonool to shave off their tufts to creators of popular culture echoing Brahmin hatred in their films, plays, novels to non-representation in assembly to erasure of contribution to society, art, literature, culture, to conscious sidelining of Brahmins in politics to verbal attacks to no offerings to them in any government related schemes. This has been copied and carried out by the ADMK, the only redeeming factor of the ADMK being JJ herself was Brahmin. (I’m not justifying either stand - Brahmins’ perceived and real victimisation (as the case may be), or Dravidian perceived or real hatred for them (as the case may be).

The Hindu hatred angle:
According to Brahmins, a Christian in DMK is able to be a practising Christian, a Muslim a practising Muslim but a Hindu is required to be either non-religious or openly secular. Not wishing for Hindu festivals, not recognising April 14 as Tamil New Year (jury’s still out on this), etc may look like small things but go deep in solidifying perceptions among people.
In short, Brahmins have long felt like they are consistently short changed in their own land. (I’m still speaking of victimhood and intent and not getting into discussions of whether Brahmin hatred is justified or not, historical context, Santana dharma, varna system, etc. I’m simply talking about what today’s Brahmins feel about DMK).

Yesterday I was going through some insta stories of people who I know for a fact to be Brahmin. They are all voting for BJP, ADMK, TVK and NTK because of the following reasons:

1. BJP obvious choice since they uphold sanatana dharma, legitimise caste consciousness. NOT because of representation in govt since for the last few years since Annamalai’s entry, BJP backing Brahmins have finally realised that BJP serves the Hindu OBC people only. (Again I’m neither saying this is good or bad. Just observing).

2. ADMK because they’ve allied with BJP and current ADMK’s hatred of Brahmins has diluted to a large extent and they’re not nearly as vehemently opposing of any group of people as the DMK.

3. TVK because DMK hatred, AND the fact that TVK has fielded Brahmin candidates in this election. Vijay himself may have mocked Brahmin figures in his movies but that may pale in comparison to DMK’s own treatment of Brahmins over the years.

4. NTK because Seeman has been openly supportive of Brahmins and has fielded Brahmin candidates.

Brahmins are a micro-minority in society yet wield a lot of influence. The reason why they have (at least in TN) not fought for nor received electoral representation is because

a) Dravidian ideology identified Brahmin hegemony (real or perceived) early on and took it upon itself to make Brahmins irrelevant in public life

b) Brahmins themselves are not hard wired to fight for their (justified or non-justified) rights. Especially if pitted against a verbally abusive group, most Brahmins might silently walk away rather than going head on. They try to avoid conflict and as a group, are more interested in their own survival and upward mobility rather than public service of any kind. Service minded Brahmins in philanthropy, in NGO’s, in private welfare organisations do well because of lack of in-fighting in these spaces.

I support DMK ideologically yet I know for a fact that I will never be able to get near the seats of power. My use to them will be limited to what I can do to them using my real or perceived influence in whatever walk of life I’m in. (1/2)

[varun @varun10221]

OpenInfer Beta unlocks lower-cost infrastructure for background agent workloads while routing latency-sensitive sessions to premium compute https://t.co/FbwnBM8kM0

[varun @varun10221]

@sandygrains @sadist_2003 US is building more data center capacity than India. Some folks oppose it but it's happening anyways . Datacenter in india will be used for indian customer compute.

[varun @varun10221]

@DocPriyamMD Often doctors are the major cause of this in cities as they prescribe antibiotics for every flu/ cold . Thankfully younger doctors are better in this regard.

[varun @varun10221]

@itzmylife @MuthaleefAbdul @itzmylife : Rajaji schools mudina GO va kondu va? There was a proposal to consolidate thinnai pallis to corporation schools so duplication can be avoided when it was still madras presidency. That never happened. Schools close panna GO link thedi paaru.

[varun @varun10221]

@Ibbu2324 @kalaingarism @drpal_manickam @ so wouldnt increasing number of doctors fix the overworking scenario? You are overworked because of lack of doctora if there are abundance of doctors, your work hours will come down.

[varun @varun10221]

@teakkadai1 Adei, she is completely anti caste. Her husband belongs to dalit community. standard dravida hate politics kuppa from you.

[varun @varun10221]

@gapreporting57 @itisprashanth Free education and primary health are investments not freebies. Freebies are tv, fridge, grinder, money in account.These are things one can work and buy/ earn. Now if a state has excess revenue then sure no issues, but using debt to fund freebies is economic suicide.

[varun @varun10221]

@gapreporting57 @itisprashanth Since it pays back in multiples why dont we spend whole budget and some more on freebies? In reality most freebies give a less than 0.8x return in economic output, investment in infrastructure gives up to 4.5x, investment in r&d infrastructure some fields give 11x . payback 🤣

[varun @varun10221]

@King_of_Orion Cholas named it raja rajeshwaram. A sanskrit name. Peruvudaiyar was later addition. Poi kalvetta padipa ! His name was raja raja, son rajendiran all sanskrit only 🤣

[varun @varun10221]

@DrGanesh_Japan @dmk_raja Because in settled agricultural societies education formal takes a back seat. Particularly for women. This was true all over world. And there is no documented schools during sangam era, most of the schools came about in post sangam era. Tharkuris!

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

Indian H1Bs contributed an unfathomable amount to America: 100s of billions in taxes, 10s of billions more in fees, trillions in services. Among the most peaceful, intelligent, interesting people to grace our shores. And what do we give back? Demonization & discrimination...

[varun @varun10221]

@Rojoe653836 @WeDravidians There is no dravidian DNA. Most of the south indians have iranian dna. The landed caste all migrated from iran 😂.

[varun @varun10221]

@RadhikaBarman5 You do know that there is little proof for shunga attacking buddhists right? The buddhists records of persecution were mostly from 5th century and researchers claim its mostly exaggerated. Infact shungas continued to provide for sanchi, that has contemporary evidence.

[varun @varun10221]

@santhoshku84701 @prakash_pov No they follow same script as DMK. Replaced brahmins with Telugu in their script.