AGNOSTICISM
Shrink the economy, save the world?
Degrowth remained on the fringes of the fringe for decades, until increasing awareness about global warming percolated into public debates in the early aughts.
Unease of doing business: Normalising social turmoil could affect economy
If there is one thing that India Inc dislikes more than experiencing unease of doing business, it is publicly acknowledging unease of doing business. Like negotiating a tricky marriage, it prefers to keep its difficulties and frustrations ‘inside’, lest an admission of facing impediments is construed as ‘weakness,’ or even ‘failure’. So, while internally there may be much handwringing — whether pertaining to sectoral GST slabs, or other policy bumps on the road — externallyfacing, it is business as usual.
Power play of Sharad Pawar: The Chanakya and his moves
Sharad Pawar, the Maratha strongman and the chief of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) till he resigned two days ago, can stump foes as well as friends. His sudden resignation from the leadership of the party he started a quarter century ago and built up from the ground, has come when his party is in ferment. His nephew Ajit Pawar, the No. 2 in the party, is reportedly trying to break away and join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Tier-II cities emerging as growth frontier in office and retail sector: Report
According to an analysis by CBRE, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Lucknow, Indore, Bhubaneshwar, Vishakhapatnam, and Coimbatore will be new growth cities in India in the coming years both in retail consumption and office space leasing.
More friends, more flexibility: How India's growing participation in global events going to benefit the country
S Jaishankar's dizzying array of meetings at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) last week was across all divides, issues and ideologies. The 50-plus meetings reflected a certain agnosticism, a certain egalite and liberte of purpose, if you will. Whether it's non-alignment by another name, or multi-alignment, or simply keeping one's head above water in a difficult international climate, is irrelevant so long as India's foreign policy can secure what's needed.
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View: How to monetise politeness and be two-Facedbook
For we live in sensitive times. People get offended easily ('What do you mean I'm short!' shouted Bonaparte from the one-storey building rooftops), yet understandably. And it is too much to expect people to take it on their chin, as I do - lest the same people take this tolerance to be weakness, which I don't.
Covid lab origin theory gains traction in United States
The government's position has shifted to agnosticism in recent weeks, with top pandemic advisor Anthony Fauci and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Rochelle Walensky both saying they are open to all possibilities.
Women for the win, again: Study says ladies maintain work-life balance better than men
Women’s participation ratio at work in India is still low, at about 23%.
MFIs stare at repayment crisis in rural Assam
Mired in debt Assam micro borrowers’ indebtedness is more than double the national average.
An opportunity in special situations if you can risk it
An open-end equity mutual fund scheme, the new fund offer (NFO) opens December 26.
Data safety panel likely to finalise report in 2 weeks
Earlier the union minister for electronics and IT, Ravi Shankar Prasad had indicated that he expects the report to be finalised by end of June this year.
LTTS partners with Cadence Design Systems for NB-IoT protocol stack to tap smart city opportunity
The company is contributing significantly to the L&T Group’s asset management projects and turnkey solutions for smart cities, smart communication systems and security solutions.
Why is everyone in the internet business scared of this 77-year-old man?
Srikrishna is leading the effort to draft new data-privacy laws for India that will regulate how tech giants from the US and elsewhere operate in the nation of 1.3 billion.
Economists don't actually know how the Fed affects jobs
Fed talks of ongoing rate hikes. Will a tighter monetary policy choke off a labor market recovery? Probably not.
Srikrishna panel to get ideas on data protection from think tanks
Some of the points put forth by iSPIRT include use of technology for better implementation of the law, and whether the law should include terms such as ‘ownership’ in relation to data.
The 7 pillars of data protection law, according to Srikrishna Committee
The committee has sought views from all stakeholders by December 31 post which it will work on writing the draft of the Bill.
Government releases white paper on data protection law
The other principles include accountability of data controller, penalties for wrongful processing and enforcement of data protection framework by a statutory authority.
The merger between R-Com and Sistema is good news for the customer: Rajan S Mathews, director genreal, COAI
There will be good competition and outcomes for the customers and that is where we need to focus. For the customer, this is all good news.
Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia: What it means for the mobile phone market
Acquisition of Nokia and licensed access, albeit non-exclusive, to its patents would help Microsoft advance this particular business transformation.
Motes of faith
A similar, almost atheistic sentiment shines through the Nasidiya Sukta, the so-called Creation Myth found in the Rig Veda: This is concerned with cosmology and origin of the universe.
One in five hate crimes in US due to religious bias
US law enforcement agencies reported 6,222 hate crime incidents involving 7,254 offenses, according to the Hate Crime Statistics, 2011.
The power sector is in a comprehensive mess
The power sector has seen maximum reforms since the passage of the excellent Electricity Act 2003 but is in a comprehensive mess today.
Faith from an illusion
Could there be a fourth alternative besides the much wrenched and wrangled over trinity of theism, atheism and agnosticism? Something beyond the eternal triad of belief, unbelief and maybelief? Especially something for those who say, "I don't accept there's this all-knowing, all-powerful Creator out there somewhere because I understand Him only as a personal divinity who is here, in me." For them, there is another alternative. God could be an illusion. Note, not a delusion since that's something which factually doesn't exist, but more like in the nature of an optical illusion.
Beyond good and bad
Sinbad the Sailor and his companions get marooned on a vast floating island. They’re weary and wet and one lights a little fire. That’s when the ‘island’ rises skywards with a groan. It’s a whale. In another version, the whale is ‘as fair as the Garden of Eden with trees that had grown on its back since the world was young’. Reality comes to light only after the fire is started. This illustrates the old saying that ‘the absence of proof isn’t always the proof of absence (of the whale)’. So it is with people who don’t believe in God. Nor can they be 100% certain that He does not ‘exist’ in the sense that the whale does. Nor can those who believe in Him prove His existence in the way that Sinbad’s sailors did: by simply starting a fire.
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The agnostic's path to spiritualism
Socrates said that an unexamined life is not worth living. Presumably he meant that given the amount of brains we have - stuff that’s capable of developing tools, language and thought - it would seem a waste to use it the way lower animals with lesser gumption do. We could of course live out our existence like cows or cockroaches - with the addition of holding a job, seeing movies and some grocery shopping in between - or we could sit back sometimes and wonder what it’s all about. The Greek philosopher was of the opinion that it might make our lives significantly more than outright worthless if we did so.
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