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Why are the fruits of Colonial influence greatest in the South of India compared to its Northern areas - the funnel theory

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          India is a country which is a mosaic of different ethnicities, languages, cultures and religions. Historically, it is located at a very strategic location of trade routes linking China with the West. Much of what is Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan now were once a part of India. This makes India a melting pot of cultures spanning across several millennia and this makes India that much more unique and special as a rich land. While the modern political scenario of India is one which seeks to vilify and portray India's colonial past in the worst possible way and its proponents seek to do everything in their power to spread this anti-colonial mindset among our country's masses especially in the North. Colonialism in India never began with modern European powers landing in India from the 1600's, rather it began much earlier going back to the dawn of time with the Aryan immigration from Central Asia - something which is currently being denied by Hindutuv...

The Christian doctrine of Trinity as opposed to the Islamic Tawheed - Is simplicity really a measure of truth as claimed by the proponents of the latter and what are its implications in the real world?

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           The doctrine of the Holy Trinity is what is at the core of mainstream Christian doctrine. It is the core theological doctrine that helps us understand the other doctrines around it. While Jesus in the canonical Gospels presents the persons of the Trinity individually as in the case of the Holy Spirit as being a distinct person from the Father and Jesus Himself (The Son of God the Father) as well as in 1 verse which is Matthew 28:19 where Jesus gives His disciples the "Great Commission" which is to carry the message of the Gospel far and wide and make disciples of all men baptising them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In the New Testament, Jesus also goes on to explain that unless He (Jesus) goes back to heaven, the Father would not send the Holy Spirit to the world who would lead Jesus' followers into all the truths of the Bible as they read them in John 14:16. The Trinity makes perfect sense when we take into account the events i...