In defence of equivalence of Religious atrocities.

Watching a video of Asaduddin Owaisi responding to Nishikant Dubey's comments of worshippers of Babar was bit befuddling.

Asaduddin Owaisi remarked that in same vein Pushyamitra Shunga should also be castigated as he had also massacred Buddhists.

Without even going deeper into researching the motives of the said King who came after assassination of last Maurya King, I was just wondering that whether this comment merits any equivalence. Do Hindus really worship or fete Pushyamitra shunga or even Lalitaditya Muktapeeda who he had referenced in the same way Babar and the so-called great Aurangzeb are talked about. Do Hindus have cities named after annihilators of commonfolk's like Bhakyityarpur or Aurangabad (In Bihar that is). Do we have roads named after these mutilators? Do we have festivals like Tipu Jayanti celebrated for Shunga like Sunga jayanti

This is an absolute bogus argument which could not even be defended by the so-called BJP minister or people in the public. 

Such absurdities need to be called out with vengeance.

Why we did not debate Islam

Almost all religions which came to India before Islam had it fair share of struggle. They came with weapons of Kushans from central asia trying to establish Buddhism or they also took form of civilized debates which happened in the societies like Shankarcharya and Mandana Mishras. 

Then what happened in case of Islam. Islam I belive did not show its argumentative face which was there in other religions in addition to its imperialistic face which drove its expansion. 

Would Ramanuja or shankaracharya been able to debate the maulvis who came from turkistan or persia. I am shore the results would have been very different as there would be always a sword dangling somehwere

Concierge based Feature releases.

Implementing and Managing a Product framework in a B2B set up can be truly challenging and that also when the businesses are not mature enough. The focus has been more on velocity of output which leads to accruing of huge technical debt and features delivered just more on whim and vanity sakes rather than with a thoughtful approach.

Rather than purely taking requirements and then working on it, the best framework which can work in this scenario is the concierge-based evaluation. Instead of creating the requirement for an interface. e.g. creating an export feature for customer records for a CRM tool. This can be purely based on back-end code or script which is being employed to generate reports. This can be then rolled out as a feature which can be requested on mail. Also, suitable descriptions can be provided to highlight benefits. If the frequency of reports increases, then it can be developed as a feature and if not then it purely fails the feature evaluation and is not a priority for the end user. 

Words the way they are spoken are golden

While reading Shri Aurobindo's Secret of Vedas and also parallelly listening to Rajiv Malhotra's audible book Being different, I happened to realize a very interesting thing.

When understanding the Vedic hymns and associated mantras, it came as a revelation to me that how profound their genesis is. Since I was young, I was always told to join a shloka class or diligently perform my Sandhyavandanam rituals. I don't think I was in the age or had the right maturity then to understand the importance of these aspects of life.

Shri Aurobindo explain that mantra didn't evolve through a scholarly process, they were uttered when the ancient seers, the progenitors of Vedas where in a state of deep interaction with nature through mediation. The way they perceived sensations of nature including the five elements and also the living and non-living things made them utter the root syllables of the observations. e.g. When a seer explained a wolf, the Sanskrit for the same is Vikra, which is associated with the root of tearing apart. This is also differing from the western construct of many objects like fire. In west an object or a thing is just described in a word, but in Ancient India they were explained as experience e.g. there was a hymn to Agni or Hymn to the Sun (Aditya Hridayam) .

Further elaborate on below 

- Word associations from ordinal to secondary 

- How when words are told it cause neural sensations, which is why shraap used to hurt individuals in ancient times.

It feels as if there is a strange magnanimity in excess dose

In this humdrum air I breathe

That powers the engines in my mind

And the mind which engages my senses

In the conversations of calamity-waiting-to-happen.

Magnanimity to Calamity !

Oh what a pity

This whole aura around me spewing duplicity.