Monday, April 9, 2012

Caste system is there in all religions in India

I have come across several people blaming Hinduism for caste system. Bull shit. This documentary tells us that caste system is present in all religions in India. That doesnot absolve Hinduism of the caste system but than Hinduism is not necessarily the reason for it.

A lot of things happen in a society and not everything can be explained by religion. For example if people steal, that doesnot mean that religion is the only factor responsible for it and the religion of the person tells one to steal.
Name of the video: India Untouched by Drishti and Navsarjan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_UnVZT0-0k

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Regulations!!

Mr. John Stossel writes in the piece titled "Cancer of Regulation" in Freeman


Jestina Clayton. Ten years ago she moved from Africa to Utah. She assumed she could support her children with the hair-braiding skills she learned in Sierra Leone. For four years she braided hair in her home. She made decent money. But then the government shut her down because she doesn’t have an expensive cosmetology license that requires 2,000 hours of classroom time—50 weeks of useless instruction. The Institute for Justice (IJ), the public-interest law firm that fights such outrages, says “not one of those 2,000 hours teaches African hair-braiding.”