Those who have power to impose sanctions would continue to do so unreasonably as well, unless we rise to that level of economic, technological or defence empowerment and could design enforceable sanctions favouring us, it is futile exercise to sulk. Currently the direction we are in, doesn’t cue towards anything optimistic for next few decades unless we reset hard. Only the era of Nehru was completely transformative for India. Had we continued with that vision we would have been ahead of China today. Rest all episodes of political changes were merely fall and recovery phases only. The present one being the abyssal. It will take time from here to return to even normal what we had been.
राहुल गांधी
देश के हर नागरिक को राजनीति करने का अधिकार है। जिसका बाप प्रधानमंत्री भी रहा हो उसको भी।
यदि सन् २००५ में १०० मीटर की स्प्रिंट दौड़ते और जीत जाते थे तो शायद लोग कह पाते कि इनको तो नाम का, ख़ानदान का, और पिता का, माँ का, और रेस के आयोजकों तक का सहारा मिला होगा और स्टार्ट लाइन से आगे खड़ा कर दौड़ाया था। सही है, किंतु ये राजनीति की रेस दो दशक से भी ज़्यादा की मैराथन निकली। आज २५ साल बाद और मैराथन के लाखोंवें मरहले या गर्दिशों के बाद भी कोई ये कहे कि परिवार के नाम की बैसाखी लिए है तो ये निरर्थक बकवास होगी।
इस दौरान राहुल ने इस दौड़ के हर मरहले, लैप में अपनी निजी क़ाबलियत का प्रदर्शन बखूबी किया है। सब्र से इतने ताक़तवर दुश्मनों का सामना कर, तिरस्कार और गाली गलोच तक सह लेना किसी को भी तपा के ख़रा कर सकता है। जो धनाढ्य व्यवसायी अपनी अयोग्य औलादों को बोर्ड में ऊँचा बिठा लेते हैं, जो नेता अपनी संतानों को नाकाबिल होने पे भी बड़े सरकारी पद या खेल का प्रबंधन दे देते हैं, जो फ़िल्मी हस्तियों अपनी औलादों को हीरो बना देते हैं और उनके लिए फ़िल्में बनाते हैं, वे सब मुनाफ़िक़ भी परिवारवाद का इल्ज़ाम लगा कर राहुल का उपहास करते रहे हैं। लेकिन ये शख़्स अपनी क़ाबलियत पे खड़ा है, परिवार की नहीं । किसी का डरना मुनासिब है।
US not laggard , man. You are.
For those who are foolishly saying India is doing great while US is laggard!
Any entity which is prosperous and whose business is widely spread tends to carry more debt also.
For instance, Reliance Industries has debt exceeding ₹1 lakh crore, and Adani Enterprises has debt over ₹50,000 crore—because these are wealthy business conglomerates. In contrast, the small grocer next door likely would not even have a ₹1 lakh business loan.
Next, growth of an entity or even a nation even if it seems modest in percentage terms, is significantly higher in absolute value. 6% growth on $4 trillion economy (₹4 lakh crore dollars) would yield $240 billion next year. But even a 3% growth on $29 trillion economy (₹29 lakh crore dollars) would results in $870 billion. Means $630 billion more. Lower percent growth on larger base yields much higher absolute growth.
let’s not even discuss per capita income in the U.S. and in India. It would be embarrassing. It’s less than 4% of US per capita income.
Herbs, Ayurveda, Homeopathy and modern medicines
Traditional knowledge might have been useful for the limited needs of the people of old times for being of magical novelty and also because the raw observations and heresy instead of scientific logic were the settled regime for healthcare in that period. Adopting those ancient practices for love of past without test of science is dangerous. If it works it should prove through science.
Even many of modern medicinal practices , when looked closely, evolved through what had been observed or known as raw knowledge. However those observations were tested through scientific methodologies, refined, developed and debated in community of experts before bringing them to our hospitals and dispensaries after years of research.
Just because some herb was known to people in old times as useful doesn’t make people of that period any scientifically advanced. Since beginning , people used to discover random herb or animal product useful for health through sheer experience. This is like they learnt to sow seeds for food or make stone tools or started fire or smelted for iron. These were chance discoveries of human. However those people could never explain what caused all that they found nor did they possess that urge to know what actually worked behind these discoveries. That's why they were never able to isolate antidote from snake venom or pencillin from fungus. That was exactly what we call lack of scientific temperament.
Now in present times we work with rational of science and have to test and validate every finding on established scientific principles. That’s why modern medical system is superset of all medicinal knowledge known so far and everthing which doesn’t conform to scientific validity must fall outside this sphere of acceptability. Even this also could be argued that many modern medicines are product of some plant, mineral or animal but here every process is scientifically reasoned, documented and validated on proven standards, principles and evidences besides questioning by regulators and peers.
Govt wants to Regulate ACs at home
It appears rulers have got addicted to Orwellian high. Covid’s arrival was providential when they found limitless authority over people. Once in life time dream of people to own a car is already strangulated with huge taxes and only 10 year roadworthiness. Every now and then they ask people to go to banks for KYC. In Delhi from early morning they start barricading roads to jam traffic and to line up endlessly till Mr VIP passes away. Now even AC temp they want to control. AC has become basic need these days. Every state road transport public bus , every public train , every school should be aimed to be made compulsorily Air conditioned. Such steps will actually make us perform better and achieve high rank for most valued economy status , instead they use easy shortcut to enrich few bulky businessmen for garnering some overall 3rd 4th rank on GDP which is actually inconsequential to most of those who suffer on roads during summer heat and perform inefficiently
Patriotism
Govt is not nation. Patriotism is never directed or valued for govt in power. Sometime going against incumbent govt too is patriotism. Questioning failures of govt is just and democratic. Don’t judge anyone just because they are judging govt officials in power. Also the labels of patriotism if any is gained for how consistently our actions help our nation grow stronger in stature, strength and reputation in future, these virtual labels of patriotism are not distributed by bullies who think sloganeering and politicising for garnering votes and creating disruptive narratives is patriotism and having illusion that such certificates they would be distributing.
For perspective, US lost Vietnam war not because it fell weaker against locals but because of strong US media which reported atrocities of US forces and uselessness of war. Same was for Afganistan. Those true patriots were never called antinational. Some were even honoured. Seymour Myron an investigative journalist exposed notorious the My Lai massacre of Vietnam for which he got Pulitzer Prize, also received public and govt recognition in US. It was free US media which was first to expose such wrongful acts of their own country without any fear of being called antinational. Watergate too is fresh.
Godi Media during war
Our brave hearts were anyway dealing with the enemy the way they best capable of, but how godi media was found dealing with Indian sensibilities with shameless warmongering, spreading fake provocative news with doctored visuals, anchors indulging in juvenile theatrics with communal tones, is nothing short of war crime, something which must never go unpunished even if that takes few more years of waiting knowing the hands of protection they enjoy. They sullied India's name and image during war time in eye of international community. Who in global audience would believe our factual official communication now given this 'wolf and shefard' narrative created by these channels. This is an antinational act of first degree. It's unfortunate that we have weak opposition acting ineffectively.
Get prepared
Though people who have nothing to lose are the most charged ones on social media calling for immediate action, practically it does indeed take time to be effective for gaining success in modern multifaceted war.
For perspective, even though for some ignorants of today who learn common basics at whatsapp, the war of 1971 might be just a quick fortnight one, however it had practically spread over one and half years since the time West Pakistanis started their nefarious atrocities over Bengalis in east Pakistan.
While army prepared the ground and fought adroitly when the actual time came, the war machinery in terms of international diplomatic manoeuvres, public mobilisation and resource built up were being fortified months earlier. That enabled forces to keep focus on the task they were best at, rather worrying about external interventions and resource crunch or lack of public support which was handled by political leadership. Govt not just proactively took people of every opinion along but also prepared them well ahead and also held extensive international diplomacy at the same time to win crucial support. Imagine the outcome, if the plan went day or two to either side of operations when even US was at our doorsteps but before we completed the task and declared 'it's over'. Leadership played most vital role.
Much before all that, black out drills were norm for more than a year in towns and villages across northern and eastern India. All vehicles were forced to blacken upper half of head lights. Residents were asked to paste black papers on window panes ( people even used carbon papers). School used to have army officers address students about safety and precaution very regularly months before the war. Bunkers too were prepared in most of the border states for public.
War is fought by every citizen alike.
This is just to post a perspective when we drill out a practice now.
Muslim are indeed taking over most of the casual professions
It's reality that not just the puncharwallas but majority of the plumbers, electricians, barbers, carpenters, masons, vegetable vendors, mobile repairers, riggers, mechanics, runners, couriers, tailors and hospital staff are now muslim youth. We also see now comparatively far many muslim doctors and lawyers. This is the story of every town or city today. Meanwhile almost all essential skilled jobs are being given away or proudly sacrificed on the altar of faith by those youth who prefer to remain engaged months in yatras, kanwars, organising bhandaaras amnd jagrans, chasing cattle vendors, brandishing sticks and swords on roads , dancing in front of places of worships of other faiths, making and watching communal reels and whatsapp messages and also monetising self respect by becoming use and through cheap gadgets and rubbers of political parties during elections. It's like getting high on some drug unbothered to the crippling of the society. They are right that their faith is definitely in danger, but from within.
यह हकीकत है कि सिर्फ पंचरवाला ही नहीं बल्कि प्लंबर, इलेक्ट्रीशियन, नाई, बढ़ई, राजमिस्त्री, सब्जी विक्रेता, मोबाइल रिपेयर करने वाले, रिगर, मैकेनिक, धावक, कूरियर, दर्जी और अस्पताल के कर्मचारी भी अब मुस्लिम युवा हैं। हम देखते हैं कि आज कल मुस्लिम डॉक्टर और वकील भी बहुत हैं। आज हर कस्बे और शहर की यही कहानी है। इस बीच लगभग सभी आवश्यक कौशल वाली नौकरियाँ उन युवाओं द्वारा आस्था की वेदी पर गर्व से बलिदान की जा रही हैं जो महीनों तक यात्राओं, कांवड़ों, भंडारों, मवेशी विक्रेताओं का पीछा करने, सड़कों पर लाठी और तलवारें भांजने , अन्य धर्मों के पूजा स्थलों के सामने नाचने, सांप्रदायिक रील और व्हाट्सएप संदेश बनाने और देखने और चुनावों के दौरान राजनीतिक दलों के सस्ते गैजेट और रबर बनके अपने आत्मसम्मान को भुनाने में लगे रहते हैं। यह समाज को अपंग बनाने की चिंता किए बगैर किसी नशे में धुत्त होने जैसा ही है। और वैसे ये सही हैं कि उनकी आस्था निश्चित रूप से खतरे में है, लेकिन भीतर से।
Dehradun- The decay
There would always be some connoisseur of relaxed living, who can understand the guillotining of slow leisurely life and the drive, best. To reach Dehradun, there are two expressways build in past few years and two more under construction from Delhi and Yamunanagar. What for? Is it some heavy trading port city? Why people need to speed up to Dehradun from Delhi in two hours as being proudly claimed, when they are already just good four and half hours drive away only now. Have we completed all rural infrastructure? Dehradun once used to be holiday or retirees' retreat with lots of lichee and chakotra gardens and several streams or rivulets. In name of offices it had few cool elitist ones like Survey of India, Indian Military Acedamy, Headquarters of ONGC or its institutes, Geological survey offices or iconic Forest Research Institute. The authentic doon bakeries used to flavour the streets. Now it is turning into noisy and ugly road side highway town.
Namaz on roads and streets
It is illogical argument that muslims spill over to roads as show of power or because they are indisciplined. Even if others dislike or fail to appreciate, the way muslims indulge in worship is as per a defined set of rules which are obligatory on them. How namaz is offered also has set of commands requiring muslims to pray in particular way, standing, bending, sitting and prostrating to complete the namaz with such units of prayer. This all needs far more space per person than usually others occupy when they pray as per their faith. Mostly those in masjids which are smaller and get crowds beyond capacity, people occasionally spill over outside onto streets as community namaz can't be performed in cramped up space. People of other faiths holding ceremonies and marches too spill over to streets and roads if their place of worship fails to offer enough space. It's normal. Harmony is in tolerance. For nuisance there are of course law enforcers.
Roads in Mumbai
In early nineties, they started concretising the roads in suburbs with same great fanfare and with promise that within couple of years when that finishes Mumbai (then Bombay) would be transformed. They gave example of durability of Marine Drive concretisation done in thirties to raise hopes about this round. It is surprising that roads are still dug up after 30 years. It is never ending loop. You finish the last and restart the first. Civil works particularly roads are biggest money making machines for making black and white wealth.
Popular people misuse fan following for misdeeds
Beware of those who use eloquence, magic skills, reputation of their parents or ancestors, talent of yoga , success of the business, or success in films, to bring large followers around them and then use that occasion or platform to give political or racially or religiously bigoted sermons on usefulness of being a dumb follower and to further indoctrinate useful public to turn into low quality citizens. Ram Dev, Harsh Goenka, Anand mahindra, Mittals, Rahul Kanwal, Sadguru, SS Ravi, Akshay Kumar, Dhirendra, Pai to name few who use this very jugglery to vitiate societal harmony.
Vile people use social media and other comm channels like television and stage performances to deliver goodies of niceties to make significant crowds of fan following but once surrounded, they actually deliver poison capsuled in sweet candies to intoxicate gullible commoners to follow theirs and their master’s bigotry too.
Judiciary and a democratic nation
Anywhere, in a democratic nation, people don’t elect absolute monarchs or dictators. They elect some officials like Presidents and Prime Ministers and representatives to assemblies who occupy positions defined by set of rules governing a democratic country, which are called the constitution. There has got to be an independent parallel institution to check that these elected guys actually keep their assignments as per constitution and don’t get into thermal run away kind of uncontrolled flare to please a popular vote bank. That is judiciary. It defines and moderates (not controls) the actions of President, Prime Ministers or other elected officials to ensure those remain within limits of constitution. That’s why on that perspective judiciary is indeed powerful and should be so. It’s defiance should be punishable to make it effective.
NPS and market crash
Stock market crash must have impacted NPS and employees’ pension hugely that no one is speaking about. Whether for those in govt or those in private service, one important very concerning issue should have been continued fall of stock market. 30-40 percent of valuations have been wiped out even from most of the mutual funds. NPS corpus too is market driven and is nothing but actually mutual funds investment only. And mind it, the bedrock of old age pension or security whatever you call, had been pension funds particularly NPS. Employees particularly govt employees in states and centre have all future retirement contributions transferred to NPS. NPS as alternative to old pension has been sold with big dreams by govt. There must have been massive devaluation in this corpus of the employees during this crash. Every employees private or govt must have been hit particularly those who are retiring now. Most of the people may not be knowing as their direct exposure to market is bare minimum. They will realise it sooner.
Zelensky and Indian leaders
Laughing at Zelensky is disrespecting bravery. Scores of Indian rulers from Marathas to Rajputs stood against invading forces and we respect them even when we know many got defeated and killed. We never call them weak immature jokers. There were others who surrendered and gave in and gave even their daughters and wives to invaders to buy so called peace as some of you most clumsily appear to prefer. They are not our heroes. We admire Indira who showed spine in Oval office and did not buy peace from Nixon and Kissinger on their terms. She rather raised peace on javelin in battle field and gave fitting reply. We must not admire a leader who doesn't give back on being bullied by host. We want strong wiser leader who can look into the eyes of global adversaries and stand for India. We don't want actors who have zero knowledge but have audacity to display infinite stupidity in full public glare. They can only giggle when get humiliated abroad.
For politicians and faith charmers religion is mere prank
Politicians have created icebucket challenge kind of frenzy for a religious event with lies to ensure strengthening of captive vote bank. People are taking up this as challenge just because others are doing it. On other hand the political and religious chieftains who are spearheading this mass conversion of innocent people into zombies with mindless medieval irrationality, themselves exactly know the futility of religion and rituals because they have no fear of God or his disapproval of their own acts of befooling public in name of religion.
For politicians and faith charmers religion is a prank. For them urge to promote paramountcy of their current political and material gains is far more compulsive than to be seen as benevolent leaders or saints any time in future. They actually know and laugh at the gullibility and stupidity of the puppets they play craftily with.
Civic manners: Why India is in contrast with rest of the world
Unless we let our false supremacy bloated egos not control our lives and accept what others show us from the mirror, we will remain a globally despised trash bin. A routine image search on today’s Rwanda would open our eyes as to how a most hopeless considered society could transform itself within two decades and is almost matching west in hygiene, cleanliness and infrastructure. One should check on urban life in Africa and Central Asia. One would feel ashamed how fast those economies are developing leaving us eons behind. Mongolia, even today for some Indians could be a remote tribal desert land. That opinion would get shattered watching city of Ulan Bator which looks much advanced , clean and disciplined. Most importantly whole of central Asia , Europe, Americas are full of pristine natural beauty where mountains, lakes, rivers are left as nature built them. There are ravines and glaciers and snow capped beautiful wilderness. No where one sees these captured and sacked by local religious zealots. Here in India nature has been left with no significance of its own to be appreciated for. Every single pond, lake, mountain, river, stream, steppe, cave has been turned into religious place of worship. Fresh new mythical stories are being weaved even today to justify this associative obsession. This empowers religious rituals to control daily lives of commoners who sadistically love to be slaves of charlatans calling themselves political and religious leaders but having zero calibre to lead people towards better community. These rituals don’t include good civic conduct or teach caring for common societal causes. We would wash temple premises in housing society every morning but would be okey with overflowing drain nearby. We are almost done being left incorrigible by world.
Why do we fail to make Indian AI ?
Every transformative technological revolutions since the dawn of modern industrial period, has been brought and led by youngsters only. Youth were honed through groove of critical thinking and scientific temperament and were made to understand their responsibilities towards next generations and how important was to hard work for making human lives better. This still continues as we see great advancements blooming in west and in China, Japan and Korea being led by youth. Contrastingly, look what our youngsters are doing? For them participating in kanwad yatra, dips at Kumbh, being part of gangs of cow rakshaks or moral polices, promoting fake neo-mythical tales on reels and podcasts and hawking religious frenzy on streets are their ways for being successfully alive. These youngsters are not some uneducated ones, even persons who managed to study at prestigious IIT and IIMs can also be found doing these time-stalled rituals. Who will make Indian AI model?
Neither working 4 hrs extra every day waiting for Boss to leave office and spending weekends sorting his mails, nor raising a generation which loves dancing outside other places of worships and thrills partnering gangs preaching morality on streets, builds AI.
Why a lake or mountain must be place of worship to be of relevance to us?
I have been recently watching an arduous but beautiful journey of a youtuber biker travelling via Afganistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan Kazakhistan, Russia, Mangolia to Japan. The central Asia is beautiful with landscape we have only seen in pictures or paintings. The mountains, lakes and steppe are awesome. The remoteness itself is so pleasing and peaceful that one wishes to stay back there. At the same time these countries are reasonably developed with well to do people, great roads, and good facilities for visitors and tourists even in remote places. Most surprising had been an observation that so beautiful, vastnesses, lake and mountains, but none of them being worshipped by locals or cluttered with places of worship or dedicated to local deities. People go there only to look, appreciate and enjoy the raw nature. In contrast I never understood here in India why every place of natural wonder whether mountain, cave, lake must get dedicated to some deity and compulsorily must be a place of worship to be of any relevance for visiting it. Raw nature as it is given to us seems loses all meaning here.
UPI is good but not good
It is easy to blame commoners for their folly to fall prey but question should be how banking has become so transparently hackable. There has got be something missing in security protocols in banks which enables this. They must introspect. There used to be built in difficulty to transfer money earlier requiring some kind of physical contact like cheque, debit card, payout slip, signatures. Those have gone and replaced with four digit pins. This makes it easy to send money but for criminals too it has become much easier to crack and enter our accounts to syphon off savings.
There are much more secure and convenient ways to make quick payments by touch of phones, watches and cards which almost all other nations prefer. Using such physical interfaces for authenticating a transection is globally recognised and widely used safer practice. UPI even though no doubt, is hugely convenient but depends on virtual authentications using OTPs and PINs which have been observed to provide easier means for targeting bank accounts by fraudsters. This is not considered a sound practice to promote quick street payments. UPI kind is a proven technology everywhere not something only India can have as some would like people to believe foolishly.
Future of EV
Most of the nations or their leaderships are smartly shirking away from sustainability goals or are only indulging in optics while doing little. Meanwhile, the EV manufactures equally backed by world govts are goading consumers to buy these cars as if expecting them to share up responsibility of meeting sustainability goals. Promotional ads too are becoming sentimentally alluring and challenging buyers to join the mission and jump in for helping clean up air. It's trap at least for some years more. It appears that for years due to lack of govt, societal and manufacturer support, owning EVs particularly cars, in developing countries would remain a charitable show off rather than becoming real means of fulfilling everyday transport requirements.
Contrarian opinion on pollution in Delhi
Fog has always been part of winters in Delhi and surrounding areas. Even 40 years ago, one can recall driving through fog was tough task and planes used to be diverted on failing to land. But office and schools used to be open. It was much later somewhere in 2017 that people started calling it 'smog' because instruments to measure pollutants in same suspended 'fog' particles had arrived and installed and started giving some numbers we call AQI. Smart watched and phones too showed out these numbers adding to our concern or rather panic. Life changed, masks arrived, schools closed and traffic evened on odds !!! Were there those same farmers burning paralii half century ago also? Or, were there those thousands of factories surrounding NCR spewing pollution into the air unchecked as can even be seen today. Go out and drive through radial highways from Delhi in early hours couple of hundred miles after midnight and watch chimneys making clouds. Farmers and car owners come last in this blame game actually.
Corruption in India: why to blame bureaucracy
Cause at the root of degrading society is the political corruption that gnaws. Majority of the bureaucracy is merely pliable and submissive, not always corrupt individually. Having an option most would not go for it. They are unfortunately executing or operational hands of the corruption machine which is more visible and thus identifiable when investigated. Also, once the greed at top is kept nourished, everyone down is permitted to taste other means of garnering wealth with seeming protection. It’s broad and lengthy task to achieve corruption free country. Possible though.
Elections must be made most affordable to run so that even a minion worker, street vendor or a tribe head but having stricter credentials of integrity, education, proven legacy and some legally bound commitment, is able to contest There should be zero campaigning using commercial means. No rallies, road shows or adverts or sponsorships to be permitted. Only personal social media to approach public with credentials. Elections must be a silent affair. This will eliminate commitments of returning favours the contestants make to ‘business houses’ and ‘contractor’ and other ‘promotors’ in lieu of money they get for running elections. That is the root of corruption they institutionalise when get elected. People with integrity would be able to ascend up the power ladder and attempt to cleanse the system.
Why Indians love Maruti cars?
For decades Maruti and some other local brands have sold cars so well only by cracking ultimate Indian consumer’s final question to a sales pitch as to ‘what if my car breaks down in middle of no where’. Maruti retorts with expanded chest that one gets the ‘Mistry’ for their cars even in a village miles away from town. However they never explains as to why the largest number of cars stranded on roads are theirs always. Indians don’t appreciate reliability as a concept which must be at top of the priority while buying. They just don’t know why and how to confidently rely on the quality which promises to rarely fail unless they are riding a aeroplane which never needs a ‘Mistry’ on way. In 15 years of continuous use I never saw even once my two Hondas ever stopping midway looking for help. So goes for Volkswagen or Hyundai I assume. But people love to have Mistry ready looking for a car to break down. Those who make cars below mediocrity but forget to price not so mediocrely, thrive.
Work from home and city traffic
We had some opportunity to decongest the cities when Covid made us test 'work from home' successfully. Continuing with that with necessary tweaks could have brought transformational change to how we productively contribute to growth while relieving roads sans unneeded commuters. However short sightedness of corporates and triggered by some so called respected business leaders made us lose that opportunity. Govt should now reconsider to enforce such practices for some industries like software along with bringing in staggered office timing to save the cities.
Buying car of a local brand?
Never fall for buying some inferior products for sake of your love for country unless you have enormous money which you can easily forgo for patriotism. If it is your hard earned money and car being an aspirational possession, one deserves best what a consumer anywhere in world could buy.
Do thorough research on not just popular brands and models but their track record of after sale services and more importantly quality of the manufacturing and work ethics at the shop floor where faulty designs, casual workmanship and loose superintendence could result in bringing out substandard product.
Some local brands spend disproportionally high on PR for some reason.
Global brands operating here too are as much Indian as these claimants are in terms of material used and manpower. What separates is the quality of even tightening of a small bolt somewhere and the organisational discipline.
Languages: Fittest only would survive
Fittest only would survive is true for the languages too.
Nothing should be compulsory except the local language and English in Indian context of present times.
Let other languages slug it out in open for wider acceptance on their strengths. Only those which have street smartness, proven legacy of popularity, ease of learning, inclination for localisation and adaptability, vast vocabulary that a speaker never fumbles for a word would emerge victorious.
This is how powerful languages stayed concurrent for centuries. Kannada, Punjabi, Awadhi, Bhojpuri, Malayalam, Telugu, Urdu/Hindustani, Bangali or Tamil could be few examples of such power languages.
Those which could not become street languages of any geographical part in any era or which require state clutches to survive either left the battle field long ago or exist sparingly only for rituals and historical relevance or for love of pedantic exhibitionism.
Urdu
What native north Indians speak formally on streets is Urdu or Hindustani as Urdu was known once. Hindi, a renamed version of khadi boli ( contrasting with more natural and older Awadhi, Bhojpuri etc) of 19th century primarily remained a spoken or rather a written language of official state communication only. Fifteen Crore Pakistanis speak Urdu either as first or second language. Most of the north India too speaks mix of Urdu and modern sanskritized Hindi in bazaars and streets though they may use Devanagari script for writing. The syntactic usage from Urdu or Hindustani defines foundation of Hindi or Khadi Boli. Urdu with whatever name it was known earlier had been official language of intercommunication for three centuries or more for large part of India. It had been a universal court and revenue language with rich vocabulary even during British times. Land records had been all in Urdu during English period too. It acquired and built its large vocabulary from various Indian languages and also from Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian. Charlatans of communal bigotry have associated it with one religion only and created negative enigma around its script. Urdu script is not that difficult and can be mastered with much simpler learning curve. Its popularity and sustenance for centuries is proof of its ease of use. True worth and depth of any language can be measured from popularity of its poetry. No one needs a proof for guessing popularity of Urdu gazals, sher and nazms. Urdu is without considering its usage of script is widest spoken language and has a legacy we should be equally proud as much as we love Tamil, Panjabi, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi, Bhojpuri or Bangali.
Making integrated chips in India
Making IC chips of current capabilities now requires achieving extremities of design and manufecturing technologies. Starting from scratch here is impossible when one is in competition with giants like TSMC or even Samsung or Intel and needs infusion of scores of billion dollars and lead of decades. Only very few companies claim designing an IC of scale of current sizes and there are foundries (fabs) like TSMC who control 50 percent of manufacturing. World is global village we need to collaborate and lure bigs into making fabs here rather trying to boast to go for impossible targets. Not immediately at least. We made real great step with Semiconductor Complex Limited in 1984 itself making chips up to 800 nm a good comparable achievement of those times. That was completely gutted in fire in 1989 and not revived successfully when we had more pressing national priorities like Ram Mandir and Mandal. Now we are ages behind. We would have been much higher in catching up. Now catching up does not need just rhetorics it needs building massive ecosystem starting from curriculum changes to incubating talent in universities and providing financial incentives to talented youth to stay back. And also this needing many billions of dollars investments without still achieving development and design capabilities of current scale, weighing it with our national priorities is logical step, every nation does that. What do we need first must be first in our priorities. No nation aims to source everything in house until other priorities are met. Diplomatic advocacy and friendly business relations is also important component of self reliance. World is one large village and all need to work together unless one wants to lock oneself in.
Jaloos, Pheries, Jhaankiya, Jalsey
Religious Jaloos, Pheries, Jhaankiya, Jalsey, all such apparently intimidating street practices to show off class, clan, cult or faith camaraderie might have been of value in medieval times when these used to corroborate accompanying militery prowess of the royal who used to exploit faith for expansion and domination.However such acts should have no place in 21st century of our times when moral rather than the physical conduct of the practitioners should define the public acceptability of a faith or a thought. Street demonstrations organised in name of freedom of practicing faith, are becoming increasingly pronounced and frequent and all faiths are indulging in this oneupmanship or rather supremacism. A modern society should shun all such provocative street shows.
Wolves practicing magic remedies survive on grasslands of foolishness
The wolves and vultures practicing magic remedies, the practitioners of tricks and untested and uncontested medicines and treatments, the quacks, the sorcerers, occultists and fake preachers earn their success on the universal truth that majority of all the sick and ill would heal by themselves with little effort and time and most of those in despair and melancholy would also come out of it by themselves helped by time. That is how these rogues continue to steal credit for themselves and for the fake knowledge they claim to practice.
And those few who remain unhealed physically or mentally despite visiting these thugs either blame themselves or are too minuscule in numbers to be of any significance to bring disrepute or suspicion over acts of these quacks, and fake healers. Their glory thus continues because the world is mostly full of fools.
Being left is not being communist
Socialism and leftist ideology must not be considered same as communism as we saw sometimes in Russia and China of last century, which might have been ill implemented ground application of a noble thought.
Most evilly indoctrinated people (idiots) confuse ‘socialism’ with ‘communism’ or deliberately try to mislead available equally biased idiots among commoners. Every democratic govt anywhere in the world strives to be 'social' welfare state. This is what a state primarily exists for, though some confuse that objective of existence of state with military prowess and controls over people. These also could be some of the means to achieve a welfare state though a wrong way.
Free healthcare, free education, free commuting, free power or free internet are target aims of every govt for their citizens, be it Germany, US, Norway, France, England, Emirates, Vietnam or Korea or any African nation or even India. It is the quality of delivery which would measure the efficiency of such a task not the profit it generates for state.
Despite many alleged aberrations it is for the leftist ideology, Marx, Lenin and Mao that humanity is spared of atrocities of royals, rich feudal lords and oligarchs and fascists and present day neo-fascists who for three thousand years since rise of bullies who became kings, landlords and rulers and their vassals had been rampantly trampling over commoners, poor, women and underprivileged. The emergence of left ideology in late 19th century led to founding of true democracies based on principles of equality and justice for all in most parts of the world and continues to do so as those principles never die. Left ideology would remain till democracy is there, forcing even more aspired and glamourised capitalism to become humane.
With Trump world order may disorder
Listened to live x space last 13 August, Monday of Trump with Musk on twitter space assuming US elections have global impact and everyone should know how the leadership there would help shape the world order. It was pessimistic outcome in the end. The conversation between the two was eyeopener and rather scary as to how people so important and powerful could be megalomaniacal, and egotistically unconcerned about universal values of discipline, and peace which has made world a much liveable place during past few decades of modern era. It may not remain so for long.
The strikingly concerning clips out of this conversation which may define the world order after November was open and wholehearted praise for Korean leader Kim who was mentioned as a strong leader, calling him a even Boss ! while at the same time using some harsh taunting words for European leadership and display of awe for Putin !! Lately there have been sort of finality to the national boundaries even though surface tension at borders is prevalent between few nations. These status quos may not be respected any more in future. World could be in for darker times if these views are acceptable for deciding whom people vote for. US too may brace for the impact.
Why it’s ok to politically pamper communities
Pampering is part of expectations arising out of REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY that is what we are. If Mayavati and Kashiram can champion cause of dalits and Yogi wants to represents only Sanatani Hindus or Owasi projects himself as Muslim representative so can DMK’s Karunanidhi and Stalin call for voters they think would look to them as leaders. Representative democracy is best as it gives chance to all communities to vent their expectations through elections and democracy.
Our institutions like courts are there to check excessive political leaning at cost of hurting other citizens or not treating all equally once elected.
If communities are not heard or politically silenced to get their representation at governance we have situations like punjab and naxalites or Assam and northeast.
Divergent communities when forming one single nation need to be accommodating to each other to stay existing as one.
We need left of center rule for achieving progress for every single individual. Presently ninety eight percent possess just one percent of all wealth. All talk of trillion dollars economy or third largest one is hogwash because 25-30 large business owners own ninety percent of all wealth. If they comprise some nation ‘India’ as group, yes their country is fast growing and progressing but for most of fellow countrymen it is a laggard state offering few jobs and sundry opportunities.
All that we observe in India, the social disharmony or the political partisanship or the religious frenzy or our collective refusal to adopt social reforms etc, are byproducts of poverty. Once you address poverty muslims and dalits too would become expectedly well mannered and upwardly like one thinks brahmins or other upper castes are. Arabs of soudi and UAE were tribal nomads few decades back. Now with wealth they are some of most well mannered and socially hygienic race. It’s all affordability of good life which every one wants to enjoy. Govt should work for that for every single individual.
Expressways are not built from our taxes
How will Govt build expressways without taxes, is commonest refrain to justify squeezing taxpayers further as if these ventures are welfare schemes of govt. No. If built using taxpayers' money these would have been toll free.
Facilitating public by building roads and expressways is inherent actions for development and no one denies that, but for private firms who contract to build these highways, the real motive behind this disguised facilitation is always business. The fact is the expressways are business ventures being built to earn profits for private firms, for which they collect tolls. The thousands of crores which private firm invest on these roads are borrowed from public banking institutes funded by public. Why will a private firm undertake to be part of these ventures if not for any profit?
Besides tolls, manyfold collateral gains accrue on secondary townships and facility developments along the route which are most of the times real but surreptitiously hidden treasures for these firms and for govt too.
Kerala and Cochin Shipyard
Kerala has pride of place in India which many so called self proclaimed advanced states would struggle to compete in skills, professionalism and integrity. During period 1991-98 for seven years I had been to Cochin several times and happen to stay one to two months each occasion on assignment for dry docking at Cochin Shipyard ( @cslcochin) for vessels owned by my company. Those were times when private sector in large scale ship building and repairs had not really built capacity and pubic sector Cochin Shipyard was perhaps one of the largest and best available. CSL employed hundreds perhaps thousands of workers, and engineers working simultaneously on several ships on its dry-docks and jetties. Whole experience of workmanship, integrity and discipline I encountered at CSL during those days had been unique and unforgettable to this day. Our ship was specialised technical vessel built at France for saturation diving and geotechnical investigation and several expats used to work onboard. It was pleasingly astonishing to see simple ordinary appearing workers possessing world class professionalisms providing successful solutions which that time we used to consider hiring from abroad otherwise. I remember one rigger Manoharan who used to install critical heavy equipments like thrusters with such an ease and dexterous accomplishment that all that used to appear magical and we used to watch those installations with awe like sitting in a theatre. Much later after decades I learned that Manoharan had won several accolades including for work on aircraft carrier.
Malayalis indeed were way ahead of national average on skills and integrity metrics those days and must be even more ahead of those days today.
Why Himachal and Uttarakhand pay for your pilgrimage, tourism and your evironment
While every other state in plains have million opportunities to expand horizon of growth, hills of Himachal, Uttarakhand and other Himalayan states have restrictions. Unlike other states HP can't use its natural resources unrestrictedly because they have responsibility to ensure good weather and rains for the people of plains in rest of India.
We don’t let Himalayan states start lucrative timbre or mining industries in large scale for fear of environmental consequences knowing that these states take this responsibility as custodian for protecting environment for all of India. Does it get compensated for?
People of hills do need good roads but bringing multilane expressways through fragile mountains only benefits people from far of places in Gujarat, south, Punjab , Bengal etc who want to spend good time for their recreation or for seeking salvation at remote pilgrimages where they want to reach faster, more conveniently and in larger numbers. They want even railroads tunnelled through hills to reach Badrinath and Ketharnath quicker. Left to them locals will not need these expressways and trains needlessly. These activities of heavy construction using massive blasting and mega boring through mountains have broken and damaged the very foundations of the hills which are now susceptible to landslides after getting soaked with heavy rains as is being experienced now. Do these states like Himachal get compensated for by people of the plains who reach in millions as tourists and pilgrims up the hills and for whom needless infrastructures need be created mindlessly.
While these states and people of plains expect and demand restriction on industrial commercial activities on hill states to save their own skies, should centre and other states not consider suitably compensating them, who find even needs at times of disasters difficult to meet because of the lack of funds. At times of difficulty like being experienced this season, every state from plains should be held responsible and made to pay large cess proportionate to number of people who travel to hills from these places.
All unnecessary large construction activities must be stopped which benefit only large contractors and may be corrupt enablers of these projects but proportionately very few commoners. Tourism and pilgrimage must be enjoyed in natural convenient setting. It can't be pilgrimage being able to drive your SUV from Surat right to the doorstep of Kedarnath or enjoying extra cool weather reaching Shimla one hour earlier while causing miseries to local people. Let's stop all this.
Baalak buddhi: Ridiculing opposition are designer tactics
This is the tactic of schoolboys. Caricaturisation has become a institutionalised weapon to show opponents in poor light and make them items of ridicule. As is often seen in school children, they bully their opponents by making them the object of ridicule, and find it better to win a dispute by ridicule rather than arguments.
It is well thought out strategy of cunning to make others look unworthy so that the public has no choice but to elect them, even if they do not like to do so. It is a clever political ploy. Remember that in schools, bullies if they cannot come up with any other argument to win, they taunt their opponents on their clothes, belly, teeth, height even family, class, caste, colour and background, so that they feel defeated. It is unfortunate that a section of the general public enjoys such childish and senseless antics.
But such games never last long. By successfully facing these small but ugly political oppositions, a person grows up, gains confidence and emerges a winner.
यह आज़माई हुई स्कूली बुल्लीज़ वाली रणनीति है।Caricaturisation, व्यंग्य चित्रण, विरोधियों को उपहास का पात्र बनाने का सफल संस्थागत हथियार बन रहा है।यह दूसरों को अनुपयुक्त दिखाने की चतुर राजनीतिक चाल है ताकि जनता के पास चुनने के लिए अपने अलावा कोई विकल्प न बचे। जैसे स्कूली बच्चों में अक्सर देखा जाता है कि बुल्लीज़ अपने विरोधी को मज़ाक़ का विषय बना कर धमकाना, और किसी विवाद को जीतने के लिए तर्कों की बजाय उपहास उड़ाना ज़्यादा बेहतर समझते हैं।स्कूलों में बुलीज़ अगर तर्क से आगे नहीं बढ़ पाते हैं तो वे अपने विरोधियों को उनके कपड़ों, मोटे पेट, दांतों, छोटे क़द, यहां तक कि परिवार, वर्ग, जाति, रंग और पृष्ठभूमि तक पे ताना मारते हैं, ताकि वे खुद को पराजित महसूस करें।
लेकिन ऐसे खेल कभी ज़्यादा दिन नहीं चलते। ऐसे भद्दे राजनीतिक विरोध का सफलतापूर्वक सामना करने से व्यक्ति बड़ा बनता है, आत्मविश्वास कमाता है और विजेता बनता है।
Journalism in India is all in dumps
Classical Journalism as profession with discernible and identifiable ethics is all gone. We are left with only individuals having professional access to public media calling themselves journalists. They are no more bound by those values for which journalism was once a profession independent of national, racial and religious affiliations.
The most important training a journalist must learn to possess is the neutrality particularly when reporting on a conflicts, social, religious or economical, where only NEWS should outflow not the running commentary colored with personal biases and instinctual national or ethical prejudices.
US lost Vietnam war not because it fell weaker against locals but because of strong US media which reported atrocities of US forces and uselessness of war. They were never called antinational. Some were even honoured. Let consumers of the news judge. Independent doesn’t mean no scope for errors or intrusion of bias. It must not be part of a policy. Contrast this with policy driven biased, sold out news houses in India which are spewing venom everyday as policy of management and politico-business exigencies.
Emergency: a perspective
We were not small enough those days to not know of politics or couldn’t understand emergency and its impact. We were in 9-10th during 75-77. I recall all that from days of chaos, daily strikes, police actions, police mutinies ( on political provocations) during days prior to june 1975, emergency brought considerable peace and order.
Discipline, civility and the order, the kinds we saw during emergency in offices, streets, factories and universities were never seen in India again and even not observed to this day.
There were some rogue sections of power who misused authority but general public was commonly never troubled except for few cases on family planning.
Primarily some section of politicians, some newspaper barons, some lawyers were the only classes which found themselves subject of govt toughness and some people were jailed too though most were under house arrest as political prisoners only unlike what we observe today when politicians slug out in jails along with hardened criminals on arbitrary charges.
Buses, trains, university exams everything ran in order and in time. Economy was better because industrial out put improved. This was also time when Panjab and Haryana started giving record food grains output and our infamous imports from US and Europe almost stopped. We became Nuclear power that too during time of cold war when resistance was maximum. We also launched our first space satellite. There was secularism and discipline in society. One can recall there was a white paper on seeking opinion on an ordinance to drop use of surnames. Constitutional Institutions were left untouched and functioned well leading to holding of free elections in 1977 which Indira herself lost.
Yes , these all could have been done with normal laws also avoiding emergency. However politics don’t not follow logic.
Whatever we hear about atrocities of emergency are mostly gas and part of fake stories made up later or during months immediately after lifting of emergency to win elections. Excess were indeed there but not on public. India was much better though normal aberrations of politics creeping in can’t be denied and but these had never been so grave as to be projected as monstrous as being done by some politicians of this day to confuse public.
Emergency period should be compared in contrast to the days two years prior to emergency when we saw dirtiest of street politics played which stalled general administration making society suffer. Rail strike of George Farnandis brought full nation to grinding halt leading to food grain shortage and decline in industrial output. Gujarat and Bihar saw worst kind of student movements led by Jaiprakash Narayan. Even it was alleged that forces were provoked openly to disobey command. Indira’s election was disqualified on flimsy administrative lapse by high court on technical grounds on which too she was allowed to challenge in Supremely court. But opposition didn’t want to wait. That was not the provocation of declaration of emergency but culmination of avoidable happening of those days.
Section of lawyers, journalists and politicians who received supposed brunt of emergency have also been most vocal and have power to influence public discourse. They misuse that power to confuse public and sell fake narrative. This is what’s happening. Politicians who were not even born or were at side line during days of emergency today create fake stories and narrative. Social media has come handy for spreading lies.
The futility of all this propaganda which brought Janata party to power was observed in aftermath of emergency. We had worst govt ever which spent all time in infighting and brought new culture of politics in India which even continues to this day and impacts progress.
Indira was brought back to power with majority of 380 seat in 1980 by same people who removed her. Next elections congress took 403 seats. It was people’s mandate. People know right from wrong. One can’t challenge that. This is premise even govt of today makes.
It is useless to make fake stories about emergency and Indira for present day politics. Our democracy which we proudly claim as pillar of unity was strengthened by leaders like Jawahar, Indira, Narsimharao, Vajpayee, Manmohan Singh. Even Devgawda provided quite fine govt being son of soil and secular.
During seventies and eighties it was period of cold war and India despite being third world nation and having economic challenges made its mark globally which no one could ignore. Society was in peace. India was founded in strong grounds which makes it what it is today.
You can’t have trillion dollar economy without becoming few billion dollar economy first that too at the times which were like digging our own road to move ahead. This is what our leaders like Indira did for India. It is the same road we now can move faster and claim extra credits.
No muslim minister in NDA 2024
In electoral democracy, representation is not earned on talent only. The elected one is most of the time merely a representative of popular public emotions. Elections decide how public gets represented for their cause in the house but the govt formation ensures how nation is governed. True leader is not just the one who leads administrative functions of the govt but the one who can check anomalies of electoral politics to make every citizen feel politically participative. It's the job of an inclusive leader to sieve societally balancing talent from diversity of classes, castes, faiths, gender, languages and regions to make every section of citizenry feel not just empowered and represented but active participant in the governance too.
Scriptures can't be followed blindly
Scriptures are also written by some hominoid or a human similar to us only but during the times our race was still primal, most likely of lesser intellect as the wisdom and the intellect have been linearly progressing since life began on planet. The newer you are the wiser you become. The ones who lived centuries back can’t be always more rational thinkers. Not everything written by someone 1200 years back be guiding us today when we are morally more evolved. Most fundamental driving force of Human progress has been adoption of community living which enabled our species become what we are today. Community and family require us to accept differing opinions and move along together. That made civilisation grow. Those who don’t learn this are failing to partner humanity and its progress.
Calling someone who differs with one’s opinion a Cobra is stagnantly primitive and reprehensibly avoidable view. Both who opined this 1200 years back or the one who accepts this in 2024 would be grossly wrong.
(this is in response to someone quoting following in our WhatsApp group:
"To partner with someone who is not in agreement (not compatible) is like living with a snake". This is taken from ancient scripture Thirukural supposedly written by philosopher Valluvar of Tamil origin.
PSUs and privatisation
There is problem that large sections of intelligentsia keep pushing for privatising public companies expecting that only scions of rich business lineage are equipped with inborn skills to bring in efficiency. That's resulting in farcical giving away of public property for ultimate liquidation.
There is no denying that several PSUs had been unnecessarily created or have outlived reasons being in hands of govt. However there are corporations working in oil exploration, oil marketing, railways, airlines , mining, banks and shipping which act like counterbalances to private run off profiteering and need be in public hands. Most of PSU suffer not from lack of managerial skills but because of too much of political interference which has been increasing over time. That false superintendence needs complete removal. From bureaucracy to ministers and even their personal secretaries, everyone treats PSU as personal fiefdom to bully down and micro manage operations. Even scores of parliamentary committees and their members reserve rights to question day to day small decisions of PSUs. There is too much of external control which hinders fulfilling performance expectations. Corporate decision making in PSUs has been increasingly orphaned task leading to failed results.
ONGC in 1999-2000 was declared on deathbed and was considered a lost case when Subir Raha was brought in as C&MD and given free hand to transform and rescue this key infrastructural public behemoth. Subir Raha, in next two years not just turned around ONGC into profit making efficient organisation but made it most valuable company in bourses among all public and private firms in 2004-05. The inertial momentum he pushed in lasted another decade and half. He bought gross loss making private company like Mangalore Refineries from Birlas and turned it around in one year. That was the pinnacle of his managerial competence.
Why can't govt, instead of selling these gems to private business houses on false hopes brings in reforms like complete deliverance from political interference and appointing of proven professionals to the boards with complete autonomy.
Cheetal Grand
It’s almost 40 years we have been experiencing this marvel of great stopover The Cheetal Grand. I always thought of it as the best restaurant in North India and being on highway, the best stopover anywhere. They never diluted quality. It rivals any multinational chain in service and food quality. Their chicken ring rice ( besides Omelette and pakora) is exceptional delicacy. Chai is unforgettable. Have always seen owners supervising the servicing. Our trip to Dehradun always has this planned stopover at Chital.
Distribution of wealth : a noble objective of welfare govt
India is nation with sharp economic imbalance among citizens. Redistribution of wealth through govt efforts is what any public welfare oriented govt must work for. It doesn't mean snatching away anyone's income as some mischievous politicians try to make it out. In fact strengthening of earning capabilities and job creation facilities of entrepreneurs and farmers is must to fulfill such noble objective. Govt must work for helping channelise fruits of wealth creation to all needy so that we have society with balanced prosperity. That would require encouraging policies for agriculture, industrial and service sector growths too. Those who oppose such policy are twisting the noble intension to confuse the public. They appear in a way against public welfare and must be called for that.
Childhood and present
It’s always beautiful reminiscing the past our generation enjoyed living though. The discipline in our actions and words soaked in social values naturally imbibed into our childhood and was not even taught much. It surprises me that words which used to be taboos to speak in public are now part of common parlance. Disrespecting customs and gods of other faiths is something we were damn scared to even think fearing the same retribution as ill words to our own faith or god would have brought on us. Sin was common. Now it is embarrassingly shameful to watch people literally abusing crassly the gods and symbols people of other faiths believe. Social accommodation which carried us to this day successfully has sunk with political froth surfacing and ruling over Indian society. We need to rescue ourselves from this fall.
EV too pollute
1.It's efficiency of mobility which makes new age cars popularly desirable irrespective of fuel/ propulsion used. E in EV should primarily refer to 'ELECTRONIC' not 'ELECTRIC' as that makes vehicles technologically efficient to run even on gas and controls emissions as well.
2. Batteries too are largely polluting if not to that extant as hydrocarbon fuel. Production and disposal of batteries is known to be one of the most polluting industrial processes.
3. Lithium mining is environmentally and ecologically hugely damaging. Massive quantity of fresh water is wasted in dry regions for this depriving human and animals. Besides, enormous quantity of sulphuric acid and other chemicals are used in mining which penetrate the soil and poison it irreversibly.
4. Most important from Indian point of view - China controls majority of the lithium production making aatmanirbharta bit suspicious to hold.
5. Who benefits? Check AI, Google for manufactures of EV and their owners.
Swords and religions
Swords or guns can’t bring in large scale cult build ups.
Like we see people recently metamorphosing into new social order destroyers, due to some political favour or indoctrination they are showered with, people have been changing their faiths or adopting new opinion about gods for thousands of years regularly and repeatedly on some impulse. No one used to hold others differently on social scale due to that change in faith.
There had never been any anti defection law anywhere in the world in human history before foolishness descended upon our generation. Rigidity of faiths as we see presently is new phenomenon.
What path people followed spiritually had always been very fluid and they kept moving from one opinion about god and rituals to another depending on which preacher in neighbourhood influenced them. Some faiths were more widespread and we call those religions now. Swords had little sporadic role in that. It would be foolish to believe that super powerful Ghanzez Khan’s and Helago’s mangol decedents were brought into islam by some sword while they were successfully destroying the geographies themselves?
It’s not possible to change faith en masse unless indoctrinating powerfully or tempting appealingly those people who are intuitively submissive and weak. Only few of those directly under a gun or a sword would submit to a new faith permanently. Not millions or billions of ordinary public as Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Shaivism, Vaishnavism brought in at different times with community indoctrination of their respective views about god and associated rituals.
BTW, All religions are curated myths bringing some false order into society or providing power and aura to some preacher or cunning ruler who themselves or their followers, wanted world to remember them as god’s images. These faiths always have limited utility for progress of the humanity the kind of what we achieved. Kings merely used faiths to rule and suppress masses as rulers are doing now.
Digital payments need review
In its present form digital payment system may be at core of widespread thuggery we are facing from smarter crooks who are tricking us into emptying our bank accounts in seconds. No where such blatant ease is offered to people for transecting and transferring money without much restrictions and validations that it becomes equally easy for cheats to get into our accounts in seconds. This is not to disrespect Govt and hope hopping citizenry for having so much faith on this so called convenience of digital payment revolution which people claim is globally unique and is a fintech trophy only India could hold. It is not that such system is sort of unique technical achievement which no other country could evolve. It is rather a decision to go for it or not. Most of the advance nations have yet not decided on that. People there prefer to use physical card or mobile phone which is equally convenient but more secure. That ‘on the go’ kind UPI is excellent as currency less system but needs systemic background strengthening so that cheats can’t use bots and just a four digit pin to clean sweep our bank accounts.
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