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So there's this man - Dr. Khader Vali, also known as the "Millet Man" of India.

He DOES indeed recommend a whole food plant based diet, but he goes even further so as to say that there are 5 special kinds of millets (foxtail, browntop, kodo, barnyard, little) that provide tremendous health benefits when they're cooked properly and eaten. He also recommends a special kind of porridge-concoction out of these millets that he calls "Ambali" that he says introduces and fosters growth of good gut bacteria.

He claims that a diet with these 5 millets and Ambali and with other WFPB foods, can reverse many kinds of diseases, including those generally considered incurable like diabetes, PCOS, and certain kinds of cancers as well.

He's said that he indeed has reversed many people's chronic illnesses through this diet. Not only does he recommend this diet for people with illnesses, but to everybody and says that such a diet is optimal, ideal, and the best possible diet, that can provide wholesome and complete nutrition for the human body.

He's against consumption of rice and wheat - saying that they've come into fashion only due to mass production, industrialization and commercialization of food, urbanization of society, fast-paced consumerist culture. And that apparently, millets are actually the original diet that humans have been having for thousands of years prior to industrialization, and hence perfect for us nutritionally as well as environmentally far superior to rice and wheat.

He has views against foods like soy, chocolate, quinoa, GMO food, R.O.-purified water, bottled water; and he has views against some kinds of exersize. As I watched various podcasts of him, he seems like a typical old man who has rigid and wrong views about some things. But on the whole, I think he has done a great service of bringing a lot of awareness about millets and their benefits.

Just wanted to write about this. It's sounds pretty impressive, and I want to try out his recommendations. Is there anybody here who eats millets regularly... any comments?

What if Amon had a valid point that bending was used to intimidate and suppress people? He clearly did, as we've seen the crime gangs like the Triple Threat Triads.

Not to mention bending very often did damage to public property.

Is a law being passed that every bender needs a license to practice their bending, a good solution to this problem?

To get the license, each bender has to train in their bending style, and acquire demonstrable self-control and trustworthiness in it. The training should be free of charge, state sponsored. And the state administers licensing.

I already mentioned a leeway for exceptional bending uses.

Any bender bending without having license should be illegal and punishable by law. At least if it's done in public.

It's just like any other skill, like driving. And to analogize further with driving - Pro-bending would be akin to Formula 1 racing.

And sure, an unlicensed bender doing small scale acts of bending in private need not be illegal. Say, if an unlicensed airbender uses airbending to cool his hot tea (reference to Aang when he met Toph with her family at the dinner table.).

And of course, the law would allow enough leeway to account for unlicensed bending uses in some exceptions, genuine accidents and mishaps by children, by people with licenses, and by people who've chosen to not take the license and thereby effectively renouncing their bending.

We've seen that not everybody even wants bending. In Book 3, some of the commonfolk-airbenders outright rejected Tenzin's offer to train them, and some of them didn't even want or embrace their bending ability. So it is fair that some wouldn't care to get the license, in this system - and that's their free choice.

Another two points:

1. Non-benders should be offered training in Chi-Blocking as self-defense and should be licensed for the same, just like benders are to be offered training and licensing in their bending form.

2. The city council has to have representation from non-benders. The city police also has to have a representation of non-benders who've learnt chi-blocking.

Would Amon be happy with this system? Is it fair? What do you think? I think it is a fair system of checks and balances.

I would like to see Mr. Kejriwal and his party, AAP, get a shot at ruling the country.

He may not be the most experienced or seasoned, he may not be the most efficient, but by far (compared to the other major players) he is the most sincere politician we have at a national level.

He's a well-educated, well-articulate man, who can reason and think fairly clearly.

He may not walk the talk for everything he talks, but at least what he talks, he talks with reasoning, well-intent, and decency, clarity.

For the most part, he's not into showmanship or into polarizing the population, that the other big players are - and that's a sign of sincerity.

I also think that like many other politicians, he's been hypocritical in some ways, by his willingness to join hands with other parties, and he has occasionally banked on religous showmanship too.

But in terms of intention and skill - I particularly like how he tried to set up a technocratic commitee to advise him in Delhi. I like his idea of the LokPal bill. I've heard very good things about his work on Delhi government schools, infrastructure-wise at least.

I've also heard criticisms about AAP's governance in Punjab. Nevertheless, I still see it as a decent and worthy party (by far, compared to INC or BJP). I also think AAP doesn't have defectors from other parties entering into it.

But to those who disagree - name one other politician at the national level, whose intentions and sincerity for development and good governance, is crystal clear, and who's also well articulate, qualified and well-educated.

I can think only of Mr. Tharoor, but he's been sidelined by his own party unfortunately.

Also, no, I'm not paid, nor a member of any IT cell, nor any political expert... but mostly a random dude from B'luru, who's been an observer of Indian politics for a while.

Views are mine only, and I'm writing this to see what others say, what others may agree or disagree with.

Respectful and civil comments and discussions welcome. I'd like people to have a genuine discussion and not attack or label me/others.

Whataboutism, strawman arguments, red herrings arguments, and ad-hominem comments will not be responded to (look these up FYI).

Edit: (copying from comments)

As a relatively fresher face than INC or BJP, and a more educated alternate to their leaders, I see AK as the best current option.

His party is much younger than INC and BJP, both of which have decades of past baggage, a long legacy of both corruption and development and many iconoclast figures.

So his party being young, doesn't have that historical baggage, nor the jingoistic fanbase and legacy - that's the way I see it. So it might have potential. Just might. I wrote this post to give it the benefit of the doubt.