Balaji Ramakrishnan

Brahmins should be careful. That is what social media says to us. Brahminphobia is rampant across India and more so in Tamil Nadu. The so called rationalists and periyarists (kothadimaigal - brainless slaves BS) are the best in preaching genocide of brahmins. There are no proofs that brahmins invented caste system, yet this will be told again and again by the BS. Using this lie the BS will even justify genocide of brahmins. When brahmins learned vedas other castes learned pottery, carpentry, architecture, and hundred other things. Each caste had their hereditary knowledge which they did not share with others. But somehow brahmins' exclusive hold on vedas alone is somehow denial of education to other castes. BS use this argument to deny any rights to brahmins. Brahmins have no political power in TN. Common public have negative opinion about brahmins. They will not come to rescue any brahmin. I have observed common public's sentiment about brahmins closely and it's very distu...

Thinking loud... I am unable to decide what career path I want to take. I am going to shuffle 3 cards and pick one among them and I am going to go with the best of 3.  >>> import random >>> choices = ["QA architect", "Python dev", "Management - scrum master, PMP, politics, excel"] >>> random.choice(choices) 'Management - scrum master, PMP, politics, excel' >>> random.choice(choices) 'QA architect' >>> random.choice(choices) 'Management - scrum master, PMP, politics, excel' >>> 

I saw the below tweet from a D-stock twitter handle. The tweet in Tamil roughly translates to "Ramayana is the exact replica of the Greek literature Odyssey" The tweeter is proving his claims using some Charu Hasan's facebook post below. Let's try to approach this question scientifically which the D-stocks are fond of (or so they claim). Scientific studies on Ramayana and dating the epic: Content courtesy: https://indiafacts.org/the-scientific-dating-of-the-ramayana/ The article https://indiafacts.org/the-scientific-dating-of-the-ramayana/ talks about the Dwaraka explorations. Archaeologists have found the ancient city if Dwaraka under water when they explored the exact Dwaraka area claimed in Mahabharata.  According to the same article Ramayana happened 9000 years before present. 7000 BC. This clearly predates the Odyssey. The story of Odessey sounds nothing like Ramayana: So, how does this sound? Rama goes for a war leaving his son and wife in his palace. The war la...