Karthik Singh

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To ensure that better healthcare services reach citizens, 1,75,000 Ayushman Arogya Mandirs have been established across the country
ADDRESS BY THE HON’BLE PRESIDENT OF INDIA, SMT. DROUPADI MURMU TO PARLIAMENT | President of India
engaging third-party players takes accountability out of the government’s hands and leaves loopholes in the system which can be exploited by unscrupulous players.
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Regulated industries like medicine or the civil service will have human involvement for longer, but even there, I expect an increasingly small number of human workers who are increasingly supplemented with AI systems working alongside them.
My Last Five Years of Work
A society that is brave enough to discuss death and dying among friends and family is likely to leave people empowered to cross that difficult bridge when they come to it.
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A society that is brave enough to discuss death and dying among friends and family is likely to leave people empowered to cross that difficult bridge when they come to it.
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Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.
In Praise of Idleness, by Bertrand Russell
“the human senses are insurmountable barriers to our union.”
Victor Frankenstein Character Analysis: Frankenstein Novel | The Art of Manliness
Without really wanting to at all, they pay calls and carry on conversations, sit out their hours at desks and on office chairs; and it is all compulsory, mechanical and against the grain, and it could all be done or left undone just as well by machines; and indeed it is this never-ceasing machinery that prevents their being, like me, the critics of their own lives and recognizing the stupidity and shallowness, the hopeless tragedy and waste of the lives they lead.
Hermann Hesse’s Arrested Development | The New Yorker
And unlike many social institutions, caste is imprinted in the very genes of Indians today.
As Caste Vanishes Only Genes Remain
‘To love is, essentially, to wish to be loved,’
In the beginning, there was love. We can move with its power | Aeon Essays
The Indian city has fallen short of the potential and promise that Ambedkar saw in urbanisation. Even after a century of urban development, Dalits remain, to use Ambedkar’s words, “the children of India’s ghettos”.
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Cities, in principle, offer an opportunity to become a stranger among a sea of strangers and transition from a caste-based order to a class-based order. One defined not by genealogy but by accumulation of resources or capital.
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In the process of urbanisation, Ambedkar saw an opportunity for Dalit liberation. He believed that the systems of caste oppression that thrive in Indian villages become weaker in cities.
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Ambedkar said that an Indian village is “the working plant of the Hindu social order” and argued that it is the ideal place to understand caste.
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The identities that people embrace today are the identities their children will want to escape from tomorrow. History is somersaults all the way to the end. That’s why it’s so hard to write, and so hard to predict. Unless you’re lucky
Francis Fukuyama Postpones the End of History | The New Yorker
Human beings want the recognition of other human beings in order to become self-conscious—to know themselves as autonomous individuals.
Francis Fukuyama Postpones the End of History | The New Yorker
If all the political and social reforms you believe in came to pass, would it make you a happier human being?
Francis Fukuyama Postpones the End of History | The New Yorker
If all the political and social reforms you believe in came to pass, would it make you a happier human being?
Francis Fukuyama Postpones the End of History | The New Yorker
Plato outlines his concept of anamnesis, a theory of learning that states the acquisition of new knowledge is just a process of remembering what we once knew in a previous life.
Bernard Stiegler’s philosophy on how technology shapes our world | Aeon Essays
‘man in general is inclined always to regard every state, since none of them is wholly perfect, as a mere preparation for a more perfect one.’
The achievement society is burning us out, we need more play | Psyche Ideas
And so, for Han, in the contemporary world, the self is no longer a subject but a project. The self is something to be optimised, to be maximised, to be made efficient, cultivated for its capacity for productive output. The worry is that all life activities become viewed as lines on a résumé
The achievement society is burning us out, we need more play | Psyche Ideas
seems like we understand time until we try to articulate what it is
How to think about time | Psyche Guides
we understand time until we try to articulate what it is
How to think about time | Psyche Guides
a generation that is largely cut off from older generations
The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood - The Atlantic
The cost of a thing is the amount of … life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood - The Atlantic
It’s like in the Ramana Maharshi’s form of inquiry. First you ask what is arising and to whom is this arising and then you ask who am I.
Beyond the Koan – Adi Da Samraj – Beezone Library
I see this and that and the other thing about myself. I’m so grateful for the difficulty I have had this month because I saw a lot of that.
Beyond the Koan – Adi Da Samraj – Beezone Library
This process of observation is not an idealistic activity however. As I’ve said before, it’s not that you’re observing yourself to finally find out somewhere deep down there is a single absolute clarifying motivation that we call spiritual. It’s not there.
Beyond the Koan – Adi Da Samraj – Beezone Library
you may be able to live a life that others would say is very positive, something desirable from a rather idealistic point of view although you will not be practicing it from that point of view.
Beyond the Koan – Adi Da Samraj – Beezone Library
You don’t merely discover through a real process of self-observation that what you really want is God realization. That’s not the discovery at all.
Beyond the Koan – Adi Da Samraj – Beezone Library
The truth of the matter then is when people become really involved in the spiritual process having understood something about themselves basically that they do live a disciplined life and in doing so they are not doing somebody else’s thing.
Beyond the Koan – Adi Da Samraj – Beezone Library
Woody Allen’s definition of comedy: tragedy plus time
Machiavelli on the problem of our impure beginnings | Aeon Essays
while the deed accuses him, the effect excuses him
Machiavelli on the problem of our impure beginnings | Aeon Essays
We’re able to enjoy tapping our feet to a beat because music fires up our neural systems through entrainment
How to start making music | Psyche Guides
My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that
slowness as an ideal - Tommy Dixon
When Gandhi was teaching about non-harming, non-harming of speech and action, ahimsa, the avoidance of harm to any living creature in word or deed - someone asked, "Well, couldn't one kill a cobra to protect a child or oneself?" And his reply was, "I could not kill a cobra without violating two of my vows: fearlessness and non-harming. I would rather try inwardly to calm the snake by vibrations of love. I could not possible lower my standards to suit my circumstances. But I must confess, I could not carry on this conversation so serenely were I faced with a cobra in this room."
Hinduism | Are.na
Indeed, everything about a person that the criminal law should be concerned with is included in his morals. But not everything in a person’s morals should be the concern of the law.
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Since they’re passive, easy, and exclusively digital, after this realization all my podcasts, e-books, audiobooks, newsletters, blog posts, videos, live webinars were suddenly deprived of their “learning status”. Instead, they assumed their proper place in my schedule as pure entertainment activities.
How to Learn Better in the Digital Age
The myth of the Buddha as a prince, sequestered in a palace and blind to the suffering of the world, is a wise allegory on the essential tragedy of the human condition, as well as the possibility of redemption through awakening.
Was the Buddha an awakened prince or a humble itinerant? | Aeon Essays
Mindfulness is not about achieving or gaining, it’s about acceptance and the relinquishing of material desire.
When mindfulness meets capitalism, it loses its way | Psyche Ideas
If you are meditating in order to grow the wealth of your business then you are approaching the act with, as Buddhist’s would say, wrong intention
When mindfulness meets capitalism, it loses its way | Psyche Ideas
Google ‘mindfulness’ and you will discover a plethora of articles related to mental health. Many of these articles will tell you that the practice can reduce fear, stress and anxiety, chiefly through meditation. It can. But true mindfulness aims also to eliminate greed, lust, want and need.
When mindfulness meets capitalism, it loses its way | Psyche Ideas
‘gānshǐjué – we are all dried shit-sticks.’
When mindfulness meets capitalism, it loses its way | Psyche Ideas
What is apparent, and most lacking today, is the absence of a rules-based order in regard to Centre-State relations, and with regard to party-to-party relationships.
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spiritual realisation through social action
Gandhi’s Ram is not in the Ram mandir - The Hindu
‘Swaraj’ for Gandhi did not confine itself to a mechanistic self-rule, but a creative process of self-realisation through which one might reach out towards a more secure and substantive plane of freedom and equality.
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Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that develops when the substantia nigra, a region of the midbrain involved in movement coordination (among other things), starts to die. Similar to the reward pathway, dopamine also plays a vital role in the function of the substantia nigra. The go-to therapy for Parkinson’s disease is the drug levodopa, which masks the symptoms of Parkinson’s by increasing the availability of dopamine in the brain, thus compensating for the loss of the substantia nigra.
The fascinating science of pleasure goes way beyond dopamine | Psyche Ideas
The story of the temple may have started with Ram, but it is ending with Mr Modi.
Why a new temple to Ram in Ayodhya matters so much to Indians
Phones, with their ability to transport you to other worlds, want to convince you that the one you’re stuck in doesn’t have anything worth paying attention to.
Stop Ignoring All the Mundane Miracles in Your Life - The New York Times
a sense of humour was five times more important than sex when it comes to building a successful marriage
Why it takes humour to sustain a long-term relationship | Psyche Ideas