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Important Learnings from Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  1. Important parts of ourselves can be found in history Hegel preferred to believe that every era can be looked at as a repository of a particular kind of wisdom. It will manifest with rare clarity certain very useful attitudes and ideas which then become submerged, unavailable or more muddled in later periods. We need to go back in time to rescue things which have gone missing, even in a so-called advanced era.  2. Learn from ideas you dislike Hegel was a great believer in learning from one’s intellectual enemies, from points of view we disagree with or that feel alien. That’s because he held that bits of the truth are likely to be scattered even in unappealing or peculiar places – and that we should dig them out by asking always, ‘What sliver of sense and reason might be contained in otherwise frightening or foreign phenomena?’ Hegel’s move was to ask what underlying good idea or important need might be hiding within the bloody history of nationalism – a need waiting for recognitio

Advantages of dairy cream in pastry

  Every time you eat an overpriced pastry at a five star hotel you are probably being cheated by an unscrupulous chef who uses cheap synthetic cream that may be bad for your health. Hindustan Times | By  Vir Sanghvi UPDATED ON DEC 11, 2019 12:38 PM IST One of the many ironies about food in India is that a nation that claims to venerate the cow, subjects milk, the one cow product that we all respect, to so many indignities. For decades, we were told that  ghee  and butter, both delicious  milk derivatives , were bad for us. We should not cook in ghee, we were instructed. Far better to cook in vanaspati, which had no dairy content and was, therefore, much healthier. We now know that this is nonsense. Vanaspati is not exactly poison; but it comes pretty close. It is made by a process that creates unhealthy (hydrogenated) fats and can damage your health. Doctors will tell you to avoid vanaspati and it survives in some markets only because of its low price. Fortunately, the demonisation of

BEST STOCKS: HOW TO FIND 10 BEST SHARES TO BUY FOR LONG TERM?

  Best Stocks: how to find 10 best shares to buy for long term? - GETMONEYRICH [Updated: 27-Mar-2021 ] Buying shares of  exceptional companies  does not ensure that one has bought the  best stocks . But people get confused between the two. Being a share of companies like RIL, TCS, HDFC Bank, Apple, Microsoft, does not guarantee that they are great stocks. [ Check this list of the best stock in India ]. What can make a stock best for its investors? It will be a combination of the  quality of business  and the  price valuation  of its stocks. Indeed, investors cannot buy shares of any company.  Understanding a company  is essential to judge its strengths. Why? Because one must buy shares of only strong companies.  But after we have  identified a strong company , its stocks cannot be bought straight away. We must check further its price valuations. List of best stocks in India (Updated: 27-Mar-2021) SL Name Price (Rs.) M.Cap (Rs.Cr.) Income (Rs.Cr.) PAT (Rs.Cr.) Size GMR Score 1 Dolat Inv