Tag Religion and Development

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Shaji Choudhary's October 2026 reel asks why a society that reveres wealth, learning, cows, rivers and craftsmanship does not lead in every related field. Its challenge to public priorities has substance, but several rankings are wrong or misleading, and the claim that Indians worship instead of working is unsupported.

Open Post: Shaji Choudhary contrasts worship with India’s development: what the evidence shows about work, education, rivers and industry

A Ramyagy Kumar reel reproduces Osho’s claim that poverty will be removed by science, not religion, alongside Bhagat Singh’s Why I Am an Atheist. The Osho passage is authentic in substance and the material-solutions argument has support, but poverty reduction is not caused by science alone: evidence points to growth, jobs, infrastructure, human capital, institutions…

Open Post: Osho’s claim that science, not religion, will end poverty captures part of development’s story—not the whole mechanism