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Desh Kapoor

Desh Kapoor

Seeker. Searching. Exploring. Indiscriminately chronicling his times.

Yediyurappa government cancels Tipu Jayanti – started to snub Hindus in the State

Yediyurappa government cancels Tipu Jayanti – started to snub Hindus in the State

B.S.Yediyurappa is the new Chief Minister of Karnataka. One of the first things that his government has done is to cancel all observation of Tipu Jayanti. This event was started by the Congress government to spite the Hindus. Anybody from Tamil Nadu knows what he had done. In

Sunny Deol saves a woman from slavery as she was sold to a Pakistani man

Sunny Deol saves a woman from slavery as she was sold to a Pakistani man

A lady woman, Veena Bedi, was reportedly sold to a Pakistani man by a travel agent on the promise of a housekeeping job for Rs 30,000. But she was sold as a slave in Kuwait. A Indian woman had been sold into slavery in Kuwait to a Pakistani. Sunny

Wild tiger numbers in India are up by 33% in four years

Wild tiger numbers in India are up by 33% in four years

Based on an extensive study involving information collected across 146,000 sq miles (380,000 sq km) and data collected from almost 350,000 images from 26,000 camera traps in known tiger habitats, the census found that Tigers in India were finally growing! > India’s wild tiger population

Think India – ABVP’s Innovative Internship program for IIM, IISc students to assist MPs

Think India – ABVP’s Innovative Internship program for IIM, IISc students to assist MPs

BJP’s student body, the ABVP, has started a “Think India [https://www.abvp.org/think-india]” initiative. It is a students’ forum to bind the students with an “Indian nationalistic string” to harness them as national treasure in furthering its aim of “national reconstruction”. It is a forum for researchers,

Khalid sets himself ablaze in Chandauli and blames ‘mob lynching’ which forced him to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’

Khalid sets himself ablaze in Chandauli and blames ‘mob lynching’ which forced him to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’

These days, it is easy and trendy for the Muslims to chalk up any issue, any accident and any problem to “lynching” and “Jai Shri Ram”. Lynching is the new caricature [https://www.drishtikone.com/dissecting-the-lynching-narrative-and-its-very-serious-ramifications-in-india/] of Intolerance narrative in India. The going around narrative is that if you do

Why we need new ways to measure Employment Numbers in India

Why we need new ways to measure Employment Numbers in India

TN Mohandas Pai shared in an interesting article that between 2014 and 2019, the Indian Nominal GDP grew by an estimated Rs 78 lakh crore. That is a a growth of 69.2% at a CAGR of 10.9%. Old ways to measure employment via CMIE and PLFS are passe

Dissecting the Lynching Narrative and Its Very Serious Ramifications in India

Dissecting the Lynching Narrative and Its Very Serious Ramifications in India

Recently, 49 self described celebrities sent a letter to the Indian Prime Minister discussing the “increase in lynchings” in India. And these lynchings, they asserted were against Muslims, Dalits and other minorities. Interestingly, they never discussed that so-called “lynchings” happened to any community and had nothing to do with one