The west at the same time is in utter chaos.
Greta, Mia and Rihanna are paid foot soldiers of a faceless enemy but that faceless enemy itself isn’t paid. It does it out of fear. The fear of a truly awakened India, the Bharatvarsha of yore.
Let me explain how.
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The west at the same time is in utter chaos.
West is still busy fighting.
West starts rising.
West is turning into a colonising power.
West has colonies all over the world.
West is back to its warring tendencies.
West is searing inferno.
The west is eerily calm.
West is simmering again.
West is torn.
West is synonymous with progress.
West is observing India with watchful eyes.
West is interested in India.
West has one of its own running India.
West is confused.
Who is Modi? West asks.
He is plugging all the holes, West is confused.
What next?West wonders
This is the end of our monopoly, the west exclaims.
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Harvard's discriminatory policies are becoming increasingly well known, across the political spectrum (see, e.g., the recent lawsuit on discrimination against East Asian applications.)
It's refreshing to hear a senior administrator admits to personally opposing policies that attempt to remedy these basic flaws. These are flaws that harm his institution's ability to do cutting-edge research and to serve the public.
Harvard is being eclipsed by institutions that have different ideas about how to run a 21st Century institution. Stanford, for one; the UC system; the "public Ivys".
