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I think you know that many dalits in UP have converted to Buddhism.

Some of the friction in UP involves those who converted to Buddhism. That does not change their position in society.

Did it make any change in their situation?

Modi has not taken care to put down caste or religious atrocities energetically. He will likely pay for it in the next General election.

Before SC stops taking new posts, here is something that you may find interesting: This Guj village is full of ‘millionaire’ canines Mehsana: You have heard of landed gentry. Now, meet the dogs of Gujarat’s Panchot village, near Mehsana, which are landed sentries. In the past decade, construction of...

A gnostic Christian also needs to walk a few steps forward to be good.

However, police have detained one suspect based on Rathod’s complaint. "Though his father alleged that horse riding was the main reason behind his murder, police are investigating various angles such as love affair. .. We have detained Natubha Darbar, a resident of Timbi, as a suspect in the cr...

A huge protest all over India, arson, motor vehicles put on fire, railway tracks uprooted, fire-arms used. 12 dead including one policeman. No count of the injured, due to the agitators of police cane charges, hundreds arrested. Reason: The Supreme Court said that arrest of a person accused of denig...

"On Thursday night, a PSLV-C39 rocket of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) failed to launch the IRNSS-1H satellite due to a technical glitch with the “heat shield”. Despite the temptation to dismiss it as a minor blip, it’s clear that India is in no position to afford such mishaps. ...

That is the last large state governed by Congress/Nehru-Gandhi dynasty (60 million people). Our man (speaking for the Hindu party, BJP, Yediurappa) is as corrupt as anyone else (It is a mineral rich state, much of the corruption happens in that sphere). Muslims are dead against us and the lower cast...

Seven months after it struck down the practice of Triple Talaq, the Supreme Court today issued notice in a batch of petitions challenging the Islamic practices of Polygamy, Nikah Halala, Nikah Mutah and Nikah Misyar. The petitions, which assail the validity of Section 2 of the Muslim Personal Law (S...

At the moment and among the many things, the Indian Supreme Court is debating whether a National Biometric database (Aadhar) will in any way infringe on personal freedom. The government says that linking bank accounts with citizen' identity will make tax evasion difficult and also put a brake on fra...

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Thanks, lpetrich. That is nice. Now, I cannot ask you to teach me the whole of modern Physics by forum posts.

[quote=""lpetrich""]Black-hole temperature ~ its surface gravity at its event horizon
Black-hole entropy ~ its event horizon's area[/quote]Could you expand it a little non-mathematically when you have time?

And only BJP has lots of money.

A no-confidence motion against the Modi government has been tabled by a small regional party, YSR Congress, 9 members in Parliament). Telugu Desam party (Andhra Pradesh) which has 16 members in the Parliament and was a part of BJP coalition has severed its relations with BJP. But there is no chance ...

After spectaclular win in East India, Modi has had an equally spectacular political rebuff when BJP lost three parliamentary seats to opposition one of which was with them for 25 years, the constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Chief minister and head of the Gorakhpur religious order, Yogi Adityanath. N...

SC allows passive euthanasia; terminally-ill now have a choice. "Right to die with dignity is a fundamental right, the Supreme Court on Friday held and said that an individual could make an advance "living will" that would authorize passive euthanasia under certain circumstances. The ...

Modi has won two states. Formerly Communist Tripura with a 2/3 majority. The Christian majority state Nagaland was already aligned with him. They win 58 out of 60 seats that went to polls. The other Christian majority state, Meghalaya also seems to have gone the Modi way gone, since they are in a be...

It is a business enterprise. If they can sell it, good for them. Apparently, the project did not go according to plan. They could not create the world as they created the Palm.

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All religions that take recourse to revelations are frauds.

People are stocking 'Gulal', the coloured powder used in the Holi festival and will use the same for celebrating whichever party comes to power in the communist ruled Tripura. Communists will use red powder and BJP will use saffron/orange coloured powder. “Red and saffron gulaal are in heavy demand....

Elections in two Christian majority states completed. Results on March 3. 67% voted in Meghalaya and 75% in Nagaland.

Drama, drama, and more drama in Indian politics. Delhi is ruled by an up-start political party, AAP (Aam Aadmi Party - Common Men's Party). They have an absolute absolute majority in the Delhi legislature, 67 seats out of 70, leaving just 3 for Mr. Modi's party BJP and wiping out the Gandhi Congress...