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Human beings divide the world into mine and yours. We create borders. Include what we like and exclude what we do not like. Thus a rift occurs in relationships. Gandhari is jealous of Kunti, Kunti of Madri, Arjuna of Karna, Duryodhana of Bhima. That is why Yayati favors Puru over Yadu. That is why Satyabhama quarrels with Rukmini. But for Shyam, there are no boundaries. No mine and yours. This no hero or villain. No predator or prey. No them or us. He sides with both killer and killed. For him, in wisdom, everyone is family. Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam.
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Devdutt Pattanaik (Shyam: An Illustrated Retelling of the Bhagavata)
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India’s minimum wages
are among the lowest in the world, except for some
sub-Saharan African nations.
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Rukmini S. (Whole Numbers And Half Truths : What Data Can And Cannot Tell Us About Modern India)
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Student life is tough anywhere, and more so, away from the support systems one is used to at home. Even for the most adaptable among us, in alien surroundings, eating food that is familiar is comforting.
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Rukmini Srinivas (Tiffin: Memories and Recipes of Indian Vegetarian Food)
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From which country you have come, from which direction, I do not know. But you understand our sorrows and you are kind to us. - Rukmini (a young devadasi)
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Catherine Rubin Kermorgant (Servants of the Goddess: The Modern-Day Devadasis)
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His compassionate words had a way of stilling my emotions. Then he added, “What life does not have great challenges? Without them, how would we ever grow in understanding? We who live during these times are very blessed to have Krishna and Rukmini as our friends and guides. Never for a moment do I forget to be grateful for that.
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Dena Merriam (Rukmini and the Turning of Time: The Dawn of an Era)
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Let’s remake the classroom | The Indian Express This “teaching at the right level” model is straightforward and effective. The process focuses on children currently enrolled in Classes III to V. By Rukmini Banerji and Esther Duflo
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Anonymous
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If the delayed 2021 Census produces unexpected estimates of where Indians live, it’s going to be hard to tell if what changed was the country or the trust that allowed people to tell the country their truth.
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Rukmini S. (Whole Numbers And Half Truths : What Data Can And Cannot Tell Us About Modern India)
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A person whose height-for-age is below two standard deviations less than the median for the reference population is described as ‘stunted’.
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Rukmini S. (Whole Numbers and Half Truths: What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us About Modern India)
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In Adi Parva of the Mahabharata, Shakuntala lectures Dushyanta about the status of a wife, Ardha bharya manushyasya bharya srestatamah sakhaa Bhaaryaa moolam trivargasya bharya mitramarishyatam (A wife is half the man. A wife is the best of friends. A wife is the source of three objectives—dharma, artha, kama. A wife is a friend till the very end) —The Mahabharata Volume 1 by Dr Bibek Debroy
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Saiswaroopa Iyer (Rukmini: Krishna's Wife)
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Hold on and he will be compelled to. Give up and he would follow too.
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Saiswaroopa Iyer (Rukmini: Krishna's Wife)
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Satyabhāmā tried to balance Krishna with gold and precious stones, but could not do it. Then Rukmini put a tulsi-leaf with the name of Krishna on the scales. That balanced the Lord.” The doctor was
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Ramakrishna (Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna)