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<title> - Introducing project Manidhayam</title>
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<a href="/" class="logo">Manidhayam</a>
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<div class="logo"><a href="https://manidhayam.org">Manidhayam</a></div>
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<h1 class="post__title">
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<a href="https://manidhayam.org/introduction/">Introducing project Manidhayam</a>
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<span class="post__time">2022-06-11</span>
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<p>Situation at home is less than ideal: my friends and family are taking
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more and more unhealthy radical stances. I wanted to live a life of
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writing Free Software only because I was convinced that it would bring
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people together. It would be my way of serving humanity. But what good
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is software going to do if the people around you are at each other's
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are distrustful and utterly hateful?</p>
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<p>What baffles me is why people in general are more prone to hatred than
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love. If it is someone that one isn't familiar with, then it is possible
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to brush such people off as, well, strangers. But it changes everything
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when they are the ones you see everyday and deeply care about. A life
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without them, which seems to be the only solution at these desperate
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times, would be impossible and even unimaginable.</p>
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<p>As mentioned, I could always choose to be alone, shun all friends and
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family and chose a life of total solitude but what kind of a person
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would I be if I abandon my folks at their most desperate times? Flight
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is my goto solution for such cases, I avoid confrontations at all costs.
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But I think, in this case flight will only make it worse: who's going to
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be there to help them see better things?</p>
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<p>A world of hatred and distrust wouldn't
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survive very long. How can one live if they can't even trust their
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neighbors? History is ripe with such unfortunate events and if they've
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taught us anything is that, a culture motivated by hatred and distrust
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will always seek a new scapegoat when the old one's disposed of. So I'm
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confident that the situation will automatically resolve itself when
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people are tired of living a life of total distrust.</p>
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<p>But 50 years is too long and I don't wait that long to live in such a
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world. So I'm lancing Project Manidhayam (Manidhayam is Tamil for
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Humanity) in an effort to help solve some of the social issues that we
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currently face.</p>
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<p>I am in no way qualified to deal or even comment the social issues that
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currently plague our little planet. But I am a
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker">hacker</a> and I refuse to believe
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that there isn't a cheap and elegant solution that ratifies most
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requirements while keeping trade-offs minimal. Project Manidhayam will
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look at seemingly impossible social issues, document and analyze them
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from all angles without bias and suggest a way out that is based on
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love, trust and respect. It will not take sides with any party invoked. It is a
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pursuit of a lone (keyboard) warrior, nothing more nothing less.</p>
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<p>Interested folks are always welcome to join the project, it only
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requires that one is willing to not fall for hateful ways.</p>
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<p>Project Manidhayam will not aim to achieve any kind of publicity for its
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work and will not accept any funding. Whatever resources needed will be
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sourced and provided for by its members. In very simple terms, it is a
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puzzle club that is also the last refuge/resort of those of us that are
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hurting and not willing to give up just yet.</p>
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<p>Like I said, I'm not equipped or even qualified to work such issues: all
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I know is that if everyone were nice and kind to each other, we would
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all live in a very happy and very productive world. I only hope that I
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eventually gain wisdom to deal with such things eventually.</p>
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<p>That said, despite my best efforts bias might still leak into my
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analysis and suggestions, so let me state my background and identity so
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that a baseline can be established:</p>
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<p>I am a 22 old Hindu by birth but atheist by choice aromantic asexual
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Indian male hailing from an upper middle-class South Indian nuclear
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family living in the third-tier South Indian city of Coimbatore who
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speaks Tamil, Hindi and English in the same order of comfort but with no
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strong preferences that resemble forceful imposing tendencies. I am
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politically liberal and generally when it comes to matters that concern
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others' lives while choosing conservative ones for myself. For instance,
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I believe people should be able to consume whatever they wish (drugs,
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etc.) without having to commit crimes while being an uncompromising
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teetotaller myself.</p>
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<p>I hope to live in a world where Humanity's <a href="https://batsense.net/blog/03-12-2021-basic-needs/">basic
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needs</a> are satisfied
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and so are able to overcome materialistic needs. A world like that, I
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imagine, would be one is focused on creative pursuits and
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self-betterment goals. But I fully acknowledge this is only a dream and
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would take centuries to achieve. So not planning/expecting a revolution
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in my lifetime.</p>
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