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?
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Mamata Bannerjee, the crazy, delusional and out of depth, West Bengal CM is having a major meltdown. She doesn’t like chants and invocations to Hinduism and its Gods and in a bid to appease Muslims, who seem to be the sole vote-bank for her, she is doing crazier and crazier things.
In the election campaign, PM Modi referred to this and challenged Mamata Bannerjee to arrest him.
“Didi has thrown people in jail for chanting ‘Jai ShriRam’. I thought of saying Jai Shri Ram here today so that she can throw me inside jail too. That way, the people of Bengal might be protected from the wrath of TMC regime,” Modi said (source)
And, she lost so many of TMC seats in Bengal. Many say this is just the beginning of the slide. The reign of terror and fascism needs to be checked. And if her imbecile ways do not stop, her government may have to be taken out.
Just look at how the TMC MP is caught on camera directing the party colleagues to ensure that Hindus should not be allowed to vote any more.
Meanwhile, many in West Bengal and indeed around the country have started rubbing it into her for ostracising the chant for Shri Ram and making it a punishable offense.
This is not just a simple one-off protest now. This is quickly becoming a movement!
And no one is taking Mamata Bannerjee on like the kids in Bengal. So many memes are coming out that it is truly amazing! Just watch these incredible video memes, which have been uploaded to Tik-tok and many other sites.
One hopes that the fascist TMC does not hit these kids or the creators of these videos with the might of State machinery.
This is how democracy works. When evil done by the rulers goes beyond all bounds then people retaliate. With their freedom to express.
Whoever has tried to bury such expression and harmed those who truly stand up for their rights, has always faced ruin. Mamata Bannerjee is no exception. Her days of violence and fascism are numbered.
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.
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?
This visit of India left me with many questions. Many observations and inputs from different people and sections. Food for thought that I have tried to contemplate on and make sense of. Sharing all that with you.
When you analyze the last 60 years of the economic miracles of Singapore, South Korea and Malaysia versus the continued impoverished Indian economy, you get very interesting lessons. Can Indians have the wherewithal in them to do in one generation so that the coming generations may rise?
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