Answer - by Vishnu Elayath
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Vishnu Elayath, Clerk at Indian Bank
Answered 5 years ago
Now this is a piece of news on Albert Einstein that most people all over the world don't know about.The Travancore Kingdom and the royal family were known for their visionary approach in ruling. They ... read more
Answer - by Vishnu Elayath
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Vishnu Elayath, Clerk at Indian Bank
Answered 5 years ago
When you search the name "Patanjali" on Google, most search results that appear are about an FMCG company. Let us look beyond that and see the namesake of the company who are the real heroes here. ... read more
Answer - by Harshil Mehta

Do you think we should celebrate bloodless Eid Ul Adha?

We should move towards sustainable steps for ensuring our environment. Meet consumption is one way which increases pollution and global warming. Can we move towards green festival?
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Harshil Mehta, Electrical Engineer, Columnist
Answered 5 years ago
As a vegetarian and the one who is trying to be vegan, I will say we should stop slaughtering animals and it will protect our environment and ecology both. Here is the water foot print for the food ... read more
Answer - by Ashok Dhamija
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Ashok Dhamija, Supreme Court Advocate, Ex-IPS, Founder of chAnQya.com
Answered 5 years ago
When you suddenly feel angry, start counting from 1 to 100 with full concentration (may be, count silently). It may divert your mind from the cause of anger for about 1 to 2 minutes. And, this much ... read more
Answer - by Chandraprakash Bora

Do Enlightened people feel emotions?

How do you define Enlightenment? If it is the end of all emotional suffering, then does it mean they do not feel emotions at all? If yes, then how can they be compassionate without emotions?
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Chandraprakash Bora, Meditation practitioner
Answered 5 years ago (Edited 5 years ago)
I am not an enlightened person in the spiritual sense of the term, but I can answer this question from the point of view of neuroscience.Enlightenment, the word, immediately evokes a sense that it is ... read more
Answer - by Vishnu Elayath
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Vishnu Elayath, Clerk at Indian Bank
Answered 5 years ago
India is known as भारतं in our ancient languages.It is said in Vishnu Purana :-उत्तरं यत्समुद्रस्य: हिमाद्रेश्चैव ... read more
Answer - by Chandraprakash Bora

What is your opinion about general questions like "what made you happy today"?

This question is specific to the type of questions to be allowed on Chanqya from the users point of view. As a user/reader, is it good to not report such general questions like "what made you happy today?" or "what made you sad today?", etc?
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Chandraprakash Bora, Meditation practitioner
Answered 5 years ago
While I am the one who has asked this question, I would also like to answer it from my own perspective. I am a relatively new user of Chanqya. The site itself is just one month old. However, I have ... read more
Answer - by Chandraprakash Bora

What is being open minded?

Every second person claims she is open minded. When confronted in an argument they stick to their own biases. So, what exactly they mean when they say they are open minded?
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Chandraprakash Bora, Meditation practitioner
Answered 5 years ago (Edited 5 years ago)
Being open minded is letting people be with their own biases. If we are into an arguement with someone and feel an urge to correct them, then we are the one who is not being open minded here. The ... read more
Answer - by Ashok Dhamija
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Ashok Dhamija, Supreme Court Advocate, Ex-IPS, Founder of chAnQya.com
Answered 5 years ago
The answer is “yes” and “no”. The answer depends on how you look at it. I’ll explain it a little later.Before that, please appreciate that chAnQya.com is not funded from outside. It has to ... read more
Answer - by Ashok Dhamija
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Ashok Dhamija, Supreme Court Advocate, Ex-IPS, Founder of chAnQya.com
Answered 5 years ago
If, for this reason, you can call the Right to Education Act as communal, then for the same reason one can call Constitution of India also communal because there is discrimination against Hindus for ... read more
Answer - by Uday Kiran

I'm a medical student, but interested in studying Vedas. Where and how can I start?

@kiron-krishnan I've learnt a few Suktas from a Guru, but continuing this is going to be difficult because of my busy schedule. Is there any alternative way (e.g. Books or online sites) which I can use?
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Uday Kiran
Answered 5 years ago (Edited 5 years ago)
Sorry for giving free advice, In 1940s, in my caste, there are people who read these vedas and used to debate between each other trying to understand interpretations it seems. If it is true, then ... read more
Answer - by Vishal Prathyani

What are your views on Ramachandra Guha's article in Washington Times that it is time to downgrade India's credentials?

Why eminent personalities like him are not supporting this decision? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/08/14/india-was-miracle-democracy-its-time-downgrade-its-credentials/
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Vishal Prathyani
Answered 5 years ago (Edited 5 years ago)
He is a known Gandhi and Nehru worshipper According to People of this category everything that happens good in India is because of this two only.Even in his book India after Gandhi, he credited Atal ... read more
Answer - by Ashok Dhamija
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Ashok Dhamija, Supreme Court Advocate, Ex-IPS, Founder of chAnQya.com
Answered 5 years ago
It will depend on what powers are given to the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS). Whether it will be a formal office with nominal powers or a substantive office with full powers.Right now, we have a ... read more
Answer - by luit baishya

What does 'Dharma' mean in 'Sarva Dharma Sambhaav? Is it for duties or professions etc or Religion as often taken?

Hindu Dharma is interpreted by Supreme Court as way of living life so no conversion is possible to Hindu. A person born to christian parents may practice Hindu Dharma? No other religion existed when these shlokas or Maxims were written.
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luit baishya
Answered 5 years ago (Edited 5 years ago)
Dharma, as per Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism is exactly same as Tao in Taoism... the "natural Path".The best way to describe it is via the "Philosophy of Flow" in Taoism."The Daoist ... read more
Answer - by Ashok Dhamija
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Ashok Dhamija, Supreme Court Advocate, Ex-IPS, Founder of chAnQya.com
Answered 5 years ago
This issue has been discussed indirectly in the recent judgment of the Supreme Court in the case of Emkay Global Financial Services Ltd. v. Girdhar Sondhi, (2018) 9 SCC 49. It was held that:“…an ... read more
Answer - by Bramhatanu Banerjee

What does 'Dharma' mean in 'Sarva Dharma Sambhaav? Is it for duties or professions etc or Religion as often taken?

Hindu Dharma is interpreted by Supreme Court as way of living life so no conversion is possible to Hindu. A person born to christian parents may practice Hindu Dharma? No other religion existed when these shlokas or Maxims were written.
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Bramhatanu Banerjee, Bharatiya and Bangali Hindu. Student of Physics.
Answered 5 years ago
Unfortunately many people confuse sect(panth/marg) and Dharma. They are unaware that Dharma is applicable only to Hinduism and it's successors. Dharma mostly means duty, ethics and "ideal ... read more
Answer - by Kiron Krishnan

I'm a medical student, but interested in studying Vedas. Where and how can I start?

@kiron-krishnan I've learnt a few Suktas from a Guru, but continuing this is going to be difficult because of my busy schedule. Is there any alternative way (e.g. Books or online sites) which I can use?
Thanks for asking me.If you mean oral learning of Vedas, you have to learn it only by hearing and repeating. Though some do use semi-literate methods to reinforce what you have learned through ... read more
Answer - by Shekhar Kumar

Should there be Sex Education in Indian schools?

As a part of the Biology course or as a different course in itself, in which adolescents are taught about puberty, safe sex, STDs, sex, gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, etc.
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Shekhar Kumar
Answered 5 years ago (Edited 4 years ago)
What is the need of it? In India most of us have our first sexual encounter after some 20 years of existence. ... read more
Answer - by Ayush

Who was behind the name change of Chennai Central this year?

Who was behind the name change of Chennai central changed to Puratchi Thalaivar Dr.M.G.Ramachandran central Railway station? Is it also the second largest name for a railway station worldwide?
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Ayush
Answered 5 years ago (Edited 5 years ago)
The Chennai central railway station was renamed on April 5, 2019.The change of name from Chennai Central to Puratchi Thalaivar Dr MG Ramachandran Central Railway Station (named ... read more
Answer - by Ashok Dhamija

What are the alternatives for Customers instead of Polythenes for carrying items like Rice, dal, Sooji etc?

Recently PM of India has urged to Limit use of Single use polybags . They are mainly used to carry items like Rice, Dal, some small sized vegetables, etc
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Ashok Dhamija, Supreme Court Advocate, Ex-IPS, Founder of chAnQya.com
Answered 5 years ago
Many persons of the younger generations may not perhaps be aware that previously there used to be no polythene carry bags.During my childhood, there were no polythene bags. We used to have regular ... read more
Answer - by Ashok Dhamija

How to report functionality bugs on chanqya?

For eg. I can upvote my own content, and also increase its views by reloading the page. Also, can't scroll through notifications on the app because it justs refreshes the page that way. Etc. Etc.
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Ashok Dhamija, Supreme Court Advocate, Ex-IPS, Founder of chAnQya.com
Answered 5 years ago
You can report any bugs or give your feedback about chAnQya.com by sending an email to info@chanqya.com, as mentioned in answers to similar questions previously.Let me also respond to the three ... read more
Answer - by Ashok Dhamija

What will happen to the pending Consumer Cases in the Consumer Fora after the new Consumer Protection Act, 2019?

What will happen once the sections of the new Consumer Protection Act, 2019 are notified?
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Ashok Dhamija, Supreme Court Advocate, Ex-IPS, Founder of chAnQya.com
Answered 5 years ago (Edited 5 years ago)
Existing pending cases under the Consumer Protection Act, 1986, will continue till their final disposal in accordance with law. At the most, some of these pending cases (which are in their original ... read more
Answer - by Ashok Dhamija
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Ashok Dhamija, Supreme Court Advocate, Ex-IPS, Founder of chAnQya.com
Answered 5 years ago
Prime Minister Modi today stated in his Independence Day Speech that nearly half of the households do not get drinking water in their houses and ladies have to bring water from distances up to 2 to 5 ... read more
Answer - by Aniruddha Rao

Why do test cases go wrong on hackerrank assuming the programmer applies the valid logic?

I made a submission on hackerrank on an easy question related to basic data structure called stack. My code fails some test cases of large input. Like 3000 push/pop/find max operations. There are some test cases with 100000 inputs going right.
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Aniruddha Rao, Student of Information Technology
Answered 5 years ago
This has happened to me too. The question was to simply find the product of an array of numbers. Quite simple right? Yet when the numbers and the size of the array become sufficiently large, the test ... read more
Answer - by Manoj V
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Manoj V, Engineering student
Answered 5 years ago
'India, China are no longer developing countries'-Trump. This is the best thing that I have seen today. Footnote: ... read more