The Indian budget every year has always been an eagerly awaited event. For many decades, the best minds in economics, finance, tax, business and industry throng the media house to analyze the provisions shared by the Financial Minister.
Sometimes major events completely disconnected may be data points for the plans of the different powers around the world. The challenge is to discern what purpose they serve? More critically, what are we moving towards?
When the US Ambassador threatened India's "Strategic Autonomy" policy over India's friendship with Russia - much more than meets the eye was at stake. Let us unpack how the Ukraine war has fundamentally changed the US and the world. And why are we here anyway?
Due to a personal preoccupation, we could not send last night's newsletter. Apologies. Here it is. Hope you enjoy it.
1. Change your life - one small habit at a time
How do you bridge the gap between the person you are and the person you wish to be? You want to work out regularly, eat healthily, learn a language, work on your novel, read more, or do something interesting instead of wasting time.
Even when you get into discipline and use your willpower to make the changes, you can slip back into your old ways. How how do you make changes in your life? By changing the small things! Here is an excellent video on how to change your life.
2. Paths and you
Paths are not a function of places. They are often a function of the people who take them. Just as people take a path, those paths become an indelible part of those people as well. Here is a very intriguing short write up.
Is literature becoming more minimalistic? The urge to create an "ever greater simplification and aesthetic minimalism" - has probably robbed literature of its beauty and intricate nature. New writers have been indoctrinated into believing that monotonous boring and minimalist writing is the thing to do. Sure, Simplicity is hard to get in prose and poetry but is this the end of beauty that the intricate prose brought to the fore?
Some 100 international scientists conducted one of the largest studies. It was published in Scientific Reports journal.
Their topic of interest?
how country-level factors such as modernization, gender equality, and collectivism were correlated with levels of love
Participants in the U.S., Italy, Portugal, and Hungary reported some of the most loving relationships, while participants in China, Germany, Turkey, and Pakistan reported some of the least.
With the advent of ChatGPT (and AI in general), many professions and skills are in danger of being upstaged. Teachers and the use of words - so humanities as a discipline - are under threat.
In one essay, high school teacher (and former professor) Daniel Herman declares that with the advent of ChatGPT, his life “and the lives of thousands of other teachers and professors, tutors and administrators is about to drastically change.” In another, Stephen Marche, also a former professor, offers a timeline for the coming apocalypse: “Two years for students to figure out the tech, three more years for professors to recognize that students are using the tech, and then five more years for university administrators to figure out what, if anything, to do about it.”
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The I.N.D.I.A alliance has clearly expressed its election plank - annihilation of Sanatan Dharma or Hinduism. In order to dismantle the Modi government. It is not an electoral battle anymore but a civilizational battle now.
Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven wrote about disruptive militant protests in 1966. Movements like Occupy, Woke protests were its offsprings. Even in India, anti-Modi government protests bear its imprint. An analysis.
'The Vaccine War' is a beautiful story of very complex times. Vivek Agnihotri has weaved together a masterpiece dealing with a subject very few would have touched. The pandemic and the triumph of India.
Chandrayaan-3 landing on South side of moon was not just the triumph of scientists at ISRO today but a tradition and history of science that looks at exploration as a spiritual path. It is a story of a battle against all odds and challenges!
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