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The Bihari Renaissance: Reviving the Biharee Spirit | From the ashes of empire to the architect of the future | Trying to elevate discourse on Bihar

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मनु नहीं, मनु-पुत्र है यह सामने, जिसकी कल्पना की जीभ में भी धार होती है, बाण ही होते विचारों के नहीं केवल, स्वप्न के भी हाथ में तलवार होती है। स्वर्ग के सम्राट को जाकर खबर कर दे, "रोज ही आकाश चढ़ते जा रहे हैं वे, रोकिये, जैसे बने इन स्वप्न वालों को, स्वर्ग की ही ओर बढ़ते आ रहे हैं वे।
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Imagine the amusement of that IAS officer who casually suggested it as a joke, only for the minister to approve this scheme seriously. At that moment, he must have thought, "If the minister is this much of a gadhā, why not have some real fun at his expense?
News18 Bihar@News18Bihar

बिहार सरकार का बड़ा फैसला: अब हर तीन महीने में पर्यटन स्थलों का दौरा करेंगे सरकारी कर्मी

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BREAKING: #Bihar Govt to stop ministers and officials from going on foreign tours at taxpayers expense. Instead they will now be required to visit districts across Bihar under “Bihar Darshan” initiative to inspect development, promote tourism and to know ground reality.
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Prōject Bihar@ProjectBihar·
Now is the time to do something for your motherland. If you cannot contribute directly through investment, or if politics remains hostile, then at least write about and share better ideas, keeping Bihar at the centre, what Bihar's future should look like, and how, despite existing constraints, we can build a better Bihar or at the very least share the knowledge that you gained there with fellow Biharis. 🙏
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And here in India, instead of learning that divine language, people are excessively and sentimentally attached to their petty languages, which they believe is "great," despite the fact that no science or philosophy has been produced, or can be produced, in those languages. I pity those who engage in language activism in the name of protecting their culture and earn the praise of illiterate, unaware masses.
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I’ve been reading the Vedas a lot recently, and what’s stood out is how it doubles as an encyclopedia as well as a religious text. Astronomy, medicine, mathematics, metallurgy, linguistics, are all woven through hymns and rituals as one body of knowledge. Simply calling it “religious” forces it into a Western category that didn’t have the apparatus to recognize what it actually was. It’s closer to a tradition of formalized epistemology in which metaphysics, observation, and language form one continuous inquiry, which as a result led Indian civilization to develop along a fundamentally different path because of it. You can see the effect most clearly in the sciences. Around 600 BCE, the Vedic record describes a surgical procedure that matches modern rhinoplasty and is still foundational to reconstructive surgery today. Centuries before Western Europe stopped treating eclipses as supernatural, Indian scholars had calculated the circumference of the earth within 0.2% and explained eclipses as shadows. Centuries before Plato and Aristotle rejected atomism, the Vedic tradition already held that matter is composed of indivisible particles combining into binary and triatomic compounds, transformable by heat. The first formal rules for zero and negative arithmetic appear in the Vedas, along with infinite-series derivations of π, sine, and cosine centuries before Newton and Leibniz. The interesting question is how did they get so much right, so early? My best guess is language. The Vedic tradition is unique compared to other oral traditions as it demanded letter-perfect oral transmission across generations. Around 500 BCE, scholars composed a generative grammar of Sanskrit called Panini so rigorous it anticipates Backus-Naur form, the notation that defines programming languages today, by 2,500 years. Sanskrit is recursive, rule-based, and built to minimize ambiguity. It reads more like mathematics than English. When you think in a language built like that, the precision of the language becomes the precision of your reasoning. The West didn’t formalize this until much later. Kant argued our categories of understanding shape what we can know, Wittgenstein wrote that the limits of language are the limits of one’s world, and Kripke showed that naming doesn’t just describe things, it constitutes what they mean and how we can reason about them. All three touch the same insight which is that thought is downstream of language. The Vedic tradition operated on that insight thousands of years earlier. To the point that they built a whole language first and used it to think clearly about everything else after. I find that all really fascinating.

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> AI is taking over all aspects and almost every sphere of life. > India still has no globally competitive sovereign LLMs, and most Indians rely on US's AI systems(ChatGPT/Claude). > Now, their LLMs will abide by Christian ethical principles, not Hindu or Buddhist or Jains > Slowly, in the long term, it will be absorbed by everyone who will use AI > Universalisation of Christian values ✓
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Mythos kind of AI will reshape India. There's no escape. Change for the better fast or get wrecked. CBSE or IRCTC or HDFC or Ambani or Adani, none will be spared by such AI in the hands of adversaries unless these Indian orgs and companies invest in the right innovations and adapt. But if they still continue to have lousy cyber security policies and continue to be stingy about IT and innovation, god save India. The adversaries are going to mess with us big time.
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An observation on why does India look so ugly? A 🧵
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Haven't read it yet, but I certainly will. This reminds me of an interview with Lee Kuan Yew, where he explained that, in Singapore's initial years, he ensured that the roads from the airport to the city were clean, orderly and lined with massive greenery. His logic was simple that even a hesitant investor could change his mind upon witnessing the discipline and care embodied in the public environment.
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I call it the poverty of imagination. When people cannot even imagine greatness or virtue in the first place, why would they possess aspirations at all? Aspirations arise later. They emerge from material and spiritual abundance. But imagination is the first order faculty. Most people are unable to distinguish the good, the great and the beautiful from the vulgar, the degraded and the ugly.
Kshitiz Anand@thekshitizanand

@ProjectBihar I call it the Poverty of Aspiration, and have spoken about it in many forums, during the lectures, talks, panel discussions. It is something that prohibits someone from thinking big when it comes to Bihar. I have many instances that I have experienced. Sharing a couple below.

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The Pope of the Catholic Church in the West released his first encyclical and cautioned his followers about human dignity and morality in the age of AI. And just look at our babas. What are they doing? Our elites are a curse upon us.
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The problem is that even our elites lack refinement in almost everything, from the clothes they wear to the way they speak and conduct themselves. So whom should our masses look towards? High culture in a society often develops through the imitation of elites. But even our elites follow a low culture. Take the example of DGC. It is exclusionary, but not particularly refined or tasteful either. The bathrooms, for instance, are apparently quite ordinary, as @Iyervval informed us.
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Rudradeep Mukherjee@RudraMukh·
@ProjectBihar Only 3/20 adults have college education. Learning outcomes in maths, science, engineering, logical tests are poorly ranked. Instead of honking, ugliness and chaos, India needs District Redevelopment Boards to cultivate contemplation and thought via nature parks. Singapore way.
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True. If that is indeed the only path, then at the very least, we should imitate better societies.
Rudradeep Mukherjee@RudraMukh

@ProjectBihar India has poorly designed towns, cities and villages. No tourism either. Vietnam a small country receives twice as much tourists as India. India cannot solve congestion, honking, tourism, beauty, liveability without redevelopment on highest standards already achieved.

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