Alyssa Ayres — Our Time Has Come: How India is Making Its Place in the World

India has a different concept of democracy and liberalism than America and Indian traditions and values are different from America's. This is true of other democracies, such as Russia. 

These differences are often not understood or appreciated by the US and this leads to disappointment, pressure and even conflict.

There is more than one way to be free, and imposing a particular view of liberalism is illiberal.

OUP Blog
Our Time Has Come: How India is Making Its Place in the World
Alyssa Ayres

Yagnesh Mehta — Proud dad of 472 happily married daughters

On Father's Day, Mahesh Savani, a businessman, receives greetings from his 472 daughters. These women are actually girls who have lost their fathers. Savani has been their father figure and organized their weddings over the past few years.

After the death of his brother, Savani, now 47, had to perform the 'kanyadan' for his two nieces, around 10 years ago. The event left him thinking about the many girls without fathers. He started supporting such girls from 2008, helping them get married and supporting them through their married life. He has been organizing weddings annually since then.

Feel good post. There are caring people out there.

A dowry is still a necessity in many parts of the world where marriages are arranged.

The Times of India
Proud dad of 472 happily married daughters
Yagnesh Mehta | TNN

Sam Calamine — The Founder of Dogfish Head on Flouting a 500-Year-Old Beer Law

There's a lot in here, not just a applicable to brewing bear commercially. It's about tradition and innovation.

Harvard Business Review — HBR Blog Network
The Founder of Dogfish Head on Flouting a 500-Year-Old Beer Law
Sam Calagione

The challenge of liberalism

The challenge of liberalism in a world of different traditions and cultures.

Irregular Times
Hindus Threaten Violence Over Image Of Krishna With Coca-Cola
J Clifford

The Vineyard of the Saker

The West: the most sexually dysfunctional society on the planet

Vineyardsaker

Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy

There are various answers depending on different traditions. The attempt to impose the American version of liberal democracy on the world is destined not only to fail but to provoke conflict.

American Conservative

Putin’s Philosophy — The Russian leader’s paradoxical, strong-state “liberal-conservatism”

Paul Robinson | Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa

The World Post
Xi Launches Cultural Counter-Revolution to Restore Confucianism as China's Ideology
Nathan Gardels | Editor-in-chief

Patheos
Shri Narendra Modi, Hinduism, and Resurgent India
David Frawley, (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri) is an American Hindu author

Narendra Modi is a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh faction of the BJP, a Hindu nationalist party (Hindutva). RSS is dedicated to Indian culture and values. Modi has also stated that he will reinvigorate India's ties to Buddha, who is also recognized as one of the ten Hindu avatars (incarnations of the God in human form).

And no, the Islamic revolt against the American Empire at its periphery is not about their "hating our freedoms," but rejecting Western liberal values that they see the US attempting to impose on the rest of the world by force against the will of the vast majority who are traditionalists.

Matt Bruenig — Tradition-Aggression-Desert Whack-A-Mole

Matt debates against the non-aggression principle and propertarianism.

Tradition-Aggression-Desert Whack-A-MoleMatt Bruenig