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?
The COVID lockdown has brought us face to face with our greatest contribution to our planet and consequently our lives. How humanity has spectacularly destroyed the only habitat it has.
vizag disaster
Nothing brought this home than the terribly scenes from the leak in Vizag. Videos on twitter show bodies and people lying all over the roads and one which shows a woman fall down on the road from the effects.
The LG Polymers plant had 1800 tonnes of Styrene at the time of the leak. Several people from villages - RRV Puram, Venkatapuram, BC Colony, Padmapuram and Kamparapalem - were found unconscious on the roads.
Map of where the gas leak happened
The police is saying that the gas maybe “non-poisonous” can be fatal only when one is exposed for longer durations.
A specialized CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear) team of the NDRF and medical specialists are being rushed to Vizag.
social diversity and freedom
We investigated the ideal of social diversity and the challenges that different situations bring in its path. And asked the question which is shunned by almost zombie like fanaticism - Is Social Diversity really a strength?
Is social diversity really a strength for any society? It goes against the grain of liberal thought and indeed what is called the core strength of Indian civilizational ethos.
The idea is not to argue against diversity. That would be foolish. But to look at the overwhelming evidence of different ways in which inclusive and exclusive groups interact with each other and how societies take shape.
A court case has been filed against Zee TV anchor Sudhir Chaudhary against his discussion of Jihad. In India, it is acceptable to abuse Hindus, their symbols and gods, but unacceptable to even discuss terrorism and Jihad with evidence. It is a sign of how diversity gets bastardized by the very intent to perpetuate it. Listen to what is happening in detail.
Jihad Vs Zee | Sudhir Chaudhary Show
The entire media outside of Zee is quiet at this throttling of a news anchor’s voice.
media bias
There is a media bias which is by commission. They say things in ways that benefit one side. But more than that, there has been a bias of omission or more importantly for researchers of social trends and events - the problem of unobserved population.
In most cases, only the news organizations that assembled the stories are aware of the potential stories that were not selected for distribution. Outside observers—especially prior to the advent of new media—could only view the final product of the newsgathering process; any “raw material” that ended up on the cutting-room floor was part of an unobserved population. (source)
We can only create trends out of things that were reported. Not ones which were thrown out by over-zealous editors. Those who are being exposed now.
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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