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Book Review: Thou Shalt Innovate: How Israeli Ingenuity Repairs the World

Book Review and some Personal Insights: Recently I have completed reading this book called  Thou Shalt Innovate: How Israeli Ingenuity Repairs the World , by Avi Jorisch. https://www.amazon.in/Thou-Shalt-Innovate-Israeli-Ingenuity/dp/9652299340 As the title suggests the book is on entrepreneurial innovations and how such innovations or start-ups have helped the nation Israel become wealthy and developed, and how such innovations have helped other countries as well. The reason I read such books are for comparing them with our own country India and to have an idea on what exactly went wrong here that we haven't achieved the same success as other first-world countries. I'll brief some points of what I have understood- 1.) Israel has become a successful capitalist country. Perhaps this is the main thing that differentiates a developed country from a developing (read: still largely backward) one. Capitalism means the increasing of wealth through free market economy or free ...

DEBUNKING SURENDRA SHARMA: Answers to the Criticism of the Bhagvad Gita

।। ओ३म् ।। Image source: World Art Dubai नमस्कार। ४ नवंबर २०१९ के दिनांक, आज के दिवस सोमवार, मै ब्रह्मवीर ऋग्वेदी यह ब्लॉग पोस्ट लिखना प्रारम्भ कर रहा हू जिसका विषय श्रीमान डाॅ सुरेन्द्र कुमार शर्मा अज्ञात जी नामक लेखक के पुस्तक "श्रीमद्भगवद् गीता" [ISBN: 978-81-7987-862-0], विश्व बुक्स प्रकाशन, मे दिए भगवद गीता पर लगाए आरोपों का उत्तर देने व जहा आवश्यकता हो वहा खंडण करने लिख रहा हूँ। हिन्दी भाषा मेरी मातृभाषा न होने के कारण पाठकों से निवेदन है की इस लेख मे यदी कोई हिन्दी व्याकरणिक गलतियाँ मिले तो कृपया क्षमा कीजिएगा।  प्रस्तावना: हालांकी श्रीमान डाॅ सुरेन्द्र कुमार शर्मा 'अज्ञात' जी, जिन्हे मे यहा संक्षिप्त मे "शर्मा जी" या "डाॅ शर्मा जी" ऐसे संबोधित करुंगा, अधिक प्रसिद्ध लेखक नही है पर हाल ही मे मैंने इनके चर्चे कुछ आंबेडकरवादी मित्रों से सुने जहा इनके पुस्तकों के बारे मे पता चला। मेरे कुछ अन्य आर्य समाज से जुडे मित्र डाॅ शर्मा जी के अन्य हिंदु धर्म के विरुद्ध पुस्तकों के खंडन मे लगे है, मै स्वयं विश्वबुक्स प्रकाशित "...

COMPARISON: Korean Shamanism & Hinduism

(Image source: Pinterest) J. M. Atkinson (1992) uses the plural term 'Shamanisms' in the article "Shamanisms  Today" citing M. Taussig (1989) that,  "S hamanism is… a made-up, modern, Western category, an artful rectification of  disparate practices, snatches of folklore and overarching folklorizations, residues of long-established myths intermingled with the politics of academic departments, curricula, conferences, journal juries and articles, and funding agencies",   she refutes the assumption that there is a uniform monolithic shamanism.    " Krinvanto Visham-aryam " meaning " Make the world noble " is an essential teaching of the Vedas. From the point of view of the historical texts within Indian traditions, of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism, one finds an interesting narrative again and again that the from the beginning of mankind till recent times, the entire world was filled with people who were either Aryas or else An...