Youtube comments of nrusimha11 (@nrusimha11).

  1. "Literally entire Tibet, huge population of Mayanmar, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka people are living in India. What xenophobia is this grandpa Biden talking about?!"
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  2. "A patient cured is a customer lost"
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  3. "If we Abdul Kalams are increasing - that's a WOW but if its Hijabis and 7th century return ticket seekers than we are heading into a dark abyss."
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  4. At some point, we should stop using pejorative terms like 'vernacular' or 'regional languages' and just call them what they are - Indian languages.
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  5. "Left is never liberal. Indian women are more intelligent to recognize this dichotomy."
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  6. What the Modi administration has done in India that no other administration has really paid attention to before, is building for the first time, the structural foundations of Indian economy. They are not just teaching a man how to fish, but building fishing wharfs, fishing boats, and a whole fish processing industry to support fishermen. What Nehru did with the dams and steel mills is negated by the damage he did to the foundations of Indian economy and democracy. IITs have been a free gift to American economy.
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  7. Another perspective on Shri Soros's 'philanthropy': He is a venture capitalist that invests in chaos and misery. Makes a buck when the investment pays off.
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  8. The lack of intellectual curiosity in comments is utterly befuddling. Politics apart, this is widely acknowledged to be the greatest unsolved script decipherment challenge in the world.
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  9. "The farmers of West Bengal get lowest MSP still there is no protest by farmers whereas Punjab farmers get higher MSP still they are on road of protests, explain it please."
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  10. "Local biodiversity is the way to feed the world". Bravo!
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  11. "Yeah guys. lets not celebrate any achievement. Lets keep crying until the day we die. Because there is no such thing as an effort or journey just destination and outcomes."
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  12. "They are asked to show their faces in Egypt, Syria, Algeria, and Morocco!!! So why not India!!!"
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  13. "If Europe if allowed a single currency why can't other countries use a shared currency"
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  14. I am glad the Center is nudging the states toward good habits of governance by holding some carrots.
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  15. One word for Shri Modi which Shri Gupta tried to ‘mask’ over with many words - integrity
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  16. Wonderful interview. Shri Ruto seems wise and sincere in his desire to develop Kenya, and in his friendship toward Bharat. There IS an India way, briefly encapsulated in vasudhaiva kutumbam, as opposed to cliques and coteries, but speaking of the India way may be too early. The results in Bharat have to advocate for it.
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  17. OTT needs censoring. India owes her children that much.
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  18. If she did that in exchange for cash and gifts for HIranandani, it is natural to be curious if any one in the Parliament or in the Press is getting cash and gifts in exchange for bad-mouthing Bharat or its government. The former is corruption and the latter would be treason.
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  19. "Infuriating how SG is talking about how these are problems for Pakistan. I'm sorry, that land is Indian. We will take it back."
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  20. Dr. Gagandeep Kang communicates science so well. Minimal jargon and a calm manner. Thank you.
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  21. This interview will be a big morale boost and an eye opener to all naive new comers to Hindi cinema.
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  22. Any Hindu with a basic familiarity with dharma will understand Shri Modi’s performance of his rajadharma. That worldview has a very long lineage in Bharat and is certainly not an invention of Shri Modi.
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  23. Bharat agencies should change the tone of their response. Something more muscular than, "India convicted without evidence". For example, say that: Bharat government has a responsibility to keep its citizens safe and takes all threats against them seriously, no matter where they originate; Bharat will use all tools available to appropriately 'pacify' such threats.
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  24. "Congress party is owned by the Gandhi family". Congress party Pvt Ltd.
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  25. "This woman has singlehandedly destroyed the quality of TV in India."
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  26. My subjective observation is that even people raised under a certain ideology are grudgingly beginning to admire the hard work of Narendra Modi administration. Bharat is a supertanker and turning it around is a mammoth task. At this critical juncture, anyone with children or planning to have children and care about their future, should consider if they want to put the steering back in the hands of the 'child' and his cauliflower farmer.
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  27. Ruhi ji, you lost a lot of credibility with one viewer when you declared that dynasty politic is not evil. Maybe, journalists have to put some work to think through what ailed Indian democracy.
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  28. For the sake of the Chinese people, I hope China comes out of this crisis soon. Their struggles now, with an economy 5 times India's and 3 years of COVID management experience, makes India's management of COVID crisis remarkable. The society came together, with a few exceptions, and Shri Modi's administration moved heaven and earth.
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  29. With N. Korea efforts not going anywhere, Mr. Trump may be looking to Kashmir as a backup plan to show as foreign policy achievement before US 2020 elections.
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  30. Shri Rahul Gandhi's approach suggests that he is on a dogged personal journey of redemption all his own, unconnected to the fortunes of party or country.
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  31. In Shri Gupta's books, pretty much everyone has a 'complex legacy', except for the rajamata and the young prince-in-waiting.
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  32. The headline is very true. Thank you, Shri Shakti Sinha, for articulating it.
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  33. "pappu should be tried under juvenile law !!! ☺"
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  34. Very well thought out budget by all accounts. I am equally glad that Nirmala ji models the beautiful Indian saree as professional attire. Everyone is free to choose what they wear, but my preference is that professional Indian men and women wear clothes that speak an Indian design language, suit India's climate, and that the emerging epidemic of pantsuits as uniform for working women in india, subsides.
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  35. I was impressed that Shri Gupta could hold forth on Congress’s Hindu hatred after Shri Rajiv Gandhi, without once mentioning Smt. Sonia Gandhi. Also, the cat-pigeon metaphor is a bit strained here. Congress is the cat that drank out of Bharat’s bowl of milk with closed eyes, hoping that no one would notice. The people of Bharat did.
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  36. "Safe in England? What a joke"
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  37. The real headline here is about the nuts and bolts improvements in logistics. ThePrint of course can't help going for the sexy but light weight headline.
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  38. A little branding and marketing help can help the Indian farmer. 'Organic' is an original Indian concept, that was properly branded and marketed in the US and came back to India. There must be other such uniquely Indian opportunities not yet tapped.
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  39. Shri Gupta’s most personal adjectives were reserved for the benign Hindu examples. It is not his fault alone but still should be called out.
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  40. There is no pleasing some people. Shri Gupta is not impressed with the forward-looking professionalism of Modi administration and yearns for the grandstanding budgets of Chidambaram days when budget day was a spectacle of empty-calorie sops.
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  41. RG has no clue what Hindu dharma is. I do not believe that he has even the basic vocabulary of the culture.
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  42. Some of the comparisons are simplistic, in my simple-minded opinion. Going from 30+ year life expectancy under British occupation to 70+ years now as an independent country is real, tangible progress. So are a number of social indicators, including in education. GDP is not just about individual wealth; it is also about excess wealth that governments can use to buy national security, e.g. warships and supersonic missiles. Again, there is no comparison to 75 years ago. Finally, it is a fair question to ask, as the wise have already done, if all countries aspire to 'western' level of consumption (which is really what we are talking about when we say wealth), is there enough trees, water and air to sustain it? At some point, all countries will have to assess whether there is a medal to be won at the end of the rat race of countries, or if all countries have to ease off the gas pedal of consumption and reasess what development means, beyond equal access to health, education, and a social safety net.
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  43. It is shameful that the L wing press continues to do casta-wise analysis in 2024.
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  44. "If the problem is related to food and money, then the protest should happen in whole of Pakistan, why is it happening mainly in Pok."
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  45. Beautifully articulated
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  46. Important CTC. The most important news in my opinion is that the traditional lower income states are catching up. This is not the only big and positive change happening in India. Economists have to put the poverty numbers in context with the remarkable improvements in direct benefits transfer efficiency and the overall improvement in efficiency in many things like infrastructure, which improve productivity and ultimately incomes.
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  47. The L wing still has too big a megaphone in Bharat. On IE and Print pages, the horror of Sandeshkhali turns into a discussion of political strategy. 60 years of Congress rule was honey and roses and 10 years of NDA is the end of democracy. A Kejriwal who schemed a way to divert people's revenues to party funds using the liquor scheme is the beacon of democracy while traceable electoral bonds are stop-the-presses corruption. Up is down and down is up.
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  48. "This Narayanan don't have knowledge waste to watch his talk"
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  49. "BJP has increased share of its votes even in 24. So there is no evidence to allege that Modi has weakened. "
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  50. Can ACLU file a law suit against this specific denial of the first amendment right to peacefully assemble and protest?
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  51. Very nice analysis, particularly about the F-16 shoot down.
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  52. Rhea ji bringing up the private medical history of SSR's mother is beyond despicable.
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  53. 'Modi will change the Constitution if he comes to power'...😄
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  54. Thank you Neelam Pandey, for a thoughtful interview. We need more of these.
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  55. It is heartening to see that The Print is now covering Indian government COVID-19 news conferences as well. Probably more relevant for Indian audiences.
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  56. "Savarkar stands taller than Gandhi as a patriot and thinker."
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  57. Bharateeya EV makers should up their game. They are doing their best but they are still small in the global car market. They have to do better R&D and buzz creation to stand a chance against the Hyundais and Toyotas, leave alone Tesla and BYD.
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  58. It is to be noted that 'welcoming more Indian specialists to the US' won't do much for chip manufacturing in India, unless it is for training and technology transfer.
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  59. Saying 'Congress Dynasty' without blushing in a democractic India shows how inured and accommodative journalists have become to the idea.
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  60.  @mdr6714  Not at all. They make wonderful future American graduate students and employees. Not the fault of the students.
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  61. "First abolish cast from children birth certificate officially"
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  62. The Kashmir Files is not about 'mass killings' of rage or of wars. It is about the genocide following the choice to 'convert or die' (and oh, if you do leave, leave your women behind).
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  63. With the turmoil of COVID, there will be less patience for all avoidable trouble. This could be the template for the much needed reformation of Islam around the world.
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  64. "Shriman Gupta and DK Singh looked like they were at a funeral when the young lady was narrating the improvements in UP".
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  65. The host and the guest must be awarded points for trying to start the conversation in Hindi, before relapsing into a more familiar language.
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  66. "How can this people be so calm and cold blooded in this issue.......only guess is that they have their own bias,political preferences and little humanity." Innocence abounds.
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  67.  @madhavdiwakar1100  "And it has been documented that Nehru, as a hindu felt he had the legitimacy to interfere in Hindu tradition, legally speaking." I am not sure that kind of thinking has any legal validity. The observations of SC on Nupur Sharma, or even the occasional religious liberties of Shekhar Gupta however show the long shadow of Nehru's taking-Hindu-for-granted thinking.
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  68. 0:38 "We know a lot of states are capable of doing this" is right indeed. Too, Wikipedia is infested with religious, and left-wing, zealots. Any page concerning religion, history, or sociology is best taken with a pinch of salt.
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  69. English-speaking India's presumption of innocence unless proven guilty for anything of 'west' or 'western', and guilt unless proven innocent for anything of India or Indian, needs to be called out. BBC, Hindenburg, and Soros are just the latest examples.
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  70. BJP's success can in fact be reduced to one issue: It appears that voters believe that BJP is actually emotionally invested in the country. For proof, cull through the comments on your various Print YouTube videos.
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  71. "Congress party needs the Gandhi family to keep it together" = fig leaf of biblical proportions to cover the nakedness of the Congress monarchy. Or was I thinking of invisible clothes?
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  72. OTT needs curbs
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  73. Prof. Babones puts his finger on the problem. The surveys by ‘international ranking agencies’ are not randomly sampled, even if Shri Shekhar Gupta and his ilk dutifully echo the poor computations.
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  74. "That religion of peace 😂"
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  75. The innocence with which people below ask Shri Gupta to cover Sandeshkhali brings tears to my eyes. ThePrint has done a perfunctory '50-word edit' and dusted its hands off. Sufficient for future deniability of biased reporting. Don't expect too much more.
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  76. A section of the press is so fixated on putting Shri Modi in a hard position that they are losing sight of India's interests (cutting one's nose to spite the face). India has options, and is exercising them to good effect.
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  77. "Succession in Congress party is not going to go away". As succinct an argument as any to bring the 13+ crores down to zero.
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  78. also known as I.N.D.I. Alliance bloc, or I.N.D.I. Alliance Alliance, Adding the 'bloc' tail was an invention to circumvent criticism of the superfluous 'Alliance', since the last letter in I.N.D.I.A. stands for Alliance.
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  79. In the evolutionary hierarchy of social and political consciousness, Shri Mani Shankar Aiyer is somewhere between the flat worms and the round worms.
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  80. Reposting my tweet from Twitter: "Even when the GOI provides a subsidy to any group or individual, they should receive a paper statement indicating the amt. due and the fraction paid by the govt. Otherwise they are liable to think of subsidies as magic money".
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  81. The most interesting part is at 23:55.
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  82.  @Valkyri3Z  You seem to be mixing up a few things there. To make the mix up explicit, in your opinion, is the economy worse than it was 10 years ago? What are the numbers that support that conclusion? When you say 'Its a bit too late', you now seem to imply that the economy is better than it was 10 years ago, but that improvement is too late. Is that assumption true? Why do you think it is too late? In summary, your comment is confusing and maybe a bit not thought through.
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  83. Tis the same vision. Shri Vajpayee did not get the chance to complete the work of rebuilding India from the ruins of Congress corruption, that Shri Modi is continuing. He will not be done either.
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  84. Nice conversation, thank you. Minor point of English grammar - it is southern India, not South India.
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  85. That answer was incredibly articulate and not 'savage', contrary to what the blurb unfortunately suggests. It was not merely clever, but articulate, sincere, and hence convincing. Not many people can present their country's position with such dignity and honesty, without creating a feeling of insecurity in others. I have always admired Shri Jaishankar but now I am in awe of him.
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  86. "Shekhar - Stop eulogizing RaGa - We all know his intellectual prowess, oratory skills and planning & strategizing power - By any stretch of imagination do you think in your wildest dreams also - he will by any match to Modi inside or outside the parliament...?"
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  87. Is important to note that when Congress loses, the L wing press moves the discussion towards INDI Axis. Had Congress been winning, the L wing press would have moved the spotlight to the young prince.
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  88. Naimil Gandhi below: "All Congressi media is trying to create a new caste based hero (just like Hardik Patel) hoping that the caste vote would come back to the Congress...".
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  89. "SGPC is radicalised and nobody is talking about it."
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  90. "Anything that happens anywhere in the world, you have a lesson for India… agreed learning is a continuous process. But let us not stretch it"
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  91. To paraphrase Mr. Gupta, Imran Khan's talents as a public figure are quite modest :) :) :)
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  92. Do we know if specific types of tech jobs are going, or are they proportional across the board - developers, testers, business analysts, MBAs?
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  93. "china is looking for trouble then india and us will make it double… china greediness are overwhelming. they not acknowledging the international law of the sea.."
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  94. As I said before, CAA was misnamed. It should have been called 'Keeping promises made during Partition Bill'.
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  95. This is the true liberal culture of the world. No cookie cutter lives; everyone free to pursue their own path to salvation.
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  96. "Good move. But please do a test each bar of gold throughly. Even god couldn't trust the British in the dark "
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  97. tiny Luxembourg owns - $371B US debt. ?!!!!?? Why?
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  98. He knows. He was cross with the BJP for efficiently providing services to the poor :-)
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  99. A better title would have been, ‘Modi’s stature goes beyond the BJP’.
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  100. I first noticed this during the 2019 elections. Shri Gupta pulls out strained parallels between Nehru/Indira Gandhi and Shri Modi as elections get closer.
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  101. "Shekharji In a nut shell you are in support of the oppressors of Hindus in Bangladesh. God bless you."
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  102. "Shelhar Gupta finally saying in a polished manner what the entire rw analysts been saying since 1900s. Sir you are sadly 30 years late."
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  103. One of the most wholesome and good sense comments that I have read on YT (and I read a lot of them).
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  104.  Shattered Dreams  They weren't rioting in front of the WH, no? People scattered when teargassed but there is no evidence of rioting in this instance.
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  105. "Arnab sir & team, are you unaware of tech tools like voice faders. Kindly implement in all debates. Couldn't hear Suhel Seth sir and his educative logical points properly."
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  106. "1.48: it's not Tamil nad.. it's Tamil Nadu. Being an Indian news reporting Channel, atleast pronounce the name of the state in the correct way."
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  107. How self-centered! I imagine that many of the crores of kiraaNa owners being uprooted also currently belong to the middle class, though not for long at this rate and with such selfish attitudes.
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  108. Interesting tug of war. Jyoti ji trying to pull the conversation towards the Center, and Shri Mattu keeping it firmly focused on people who had state level responsibility, viz the Abdullahs and the Muftis.
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  109.  thezoldics7648 Luckily, the BJP does not think that way, and provides equal social services to all.
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  110. The Chinese standoff seems more like the result of an emotional over-reaction at a lower level, or a perturbation experiment coming from the top to see how India would react. Regardless, peace without bruised egos is always valuable and should be welcomed.
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  111. Mr. Jaishankar should spend some of his precious time nurturing and molding the minds of young foreign ministry talent. Indeed such interviews are a part of that.
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  112. Arnab is right, we need to hold big tech to account. Start with Meta-FB. Notwithstanding the great work that the minister is doing, I am uncomfortable with his parroting the narrative of 'we don't want to get in the way of innovation'.
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  113. Thanks to Mr. Gautier for keeping focus on the foundational truths of Sanatana Dharma. Sometimes political colour creates noise that can try to drown out the simple truth.
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  114. "Started looking the video as standup comedy once I heard the comment that Congress has always been tough on national security "
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  115.  Adam Balleyballey  no you are a putrid shithole
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  116. I am copying Venmash's comment, which is pertinent: "It's amusing to see PK talk about integrating the region and country. Remember he gave highly-paid consultation to political parties on how to win by breaking up voters into castes and regions by whipping up their passions."
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  117. To my simple mind, there is no alternative to smartly done Atmanirbharta to build a technologically advanced society. Competition however exerts a powerful selective pressure to improve standards. The government should map out a sector-vise calibrated exposure to competition, perhaps internal to begin with, and then external, as players build up their standards to compete at an international level. Where there is FDI, there must be a mechanism for technology transfer.
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  118.  @mdr6714  That is wonderful if true. May be IITs are finally realising their true purpose under Shri Modi. Until a few years ago, the default goal of IIT graduates generally was getting 'schol' and settling in the US. Do you have a sense for whether majority of the unicorn founders are US returnees or have never left India? I don't know the answer but it would be interesting information for policy makers.
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  119. Thank you for a timely episode. As the doctors suggest, washing hands frequently, not to touch surfaces you don't need to touch (railings, counter tops), use the back of hands and not the finger tips for rubbing eyes - that too if absolutely necessary, self-quarantine yourself if it feels like you are coming down with something (6 feet away from others seems to be a safe distance) and seek medical attention, cough or sneeze into your sleeve, and don't miss meals or sleep. Avoid shaking hands for a couple of months until this settles down - people will understand. Even better, imitate the Israelis and say namaste. Finally, the time-honored Indian home remedy of a glass of hot milk with turmeric works well to provide relief from symptoms of the common cold if taken early.
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  120. "Yet people ask why RSS exists when Hindus are not even allowed to organise in the name of culture, Religion."
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  121. The British Museum is like a "kidnapper caring for their victims". Well said! Call out language misuse where ever you see it.
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  122. Worth repeating: "Kejriwal of Orissa? Really? It should be the other way, Kejriwal shout be called Patnaik of Delhi."
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  123. Up voted for the quality of the discussion. Mr. Bahl makes a true distinction between Air India and Indian Railways. Where might one find similar discussions in Hindi?
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  124. More devout actually means more dangerous in this case.
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  125. Today I learnt on CTC: BJP's style of governance is to drive 'visible development', essentially a trick to get more votes in the next election. Congress's style on the other hand, involved 'invisible development' - where what became invisible was not just development, but also vast sums of budgeted monies.
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  126. "7 min video and not a single mention of asi survey and temple remains found there.good way of portraying things one sided"
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  127. "Indigenous, My aRse!! Says the community who fears NRC more than they fear their own God!"
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  128. Kangana ripped open the drug underbelly of Hindi cinema. The government should make a rule of drug testing for film actors the same way it is for athletes.
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  129. The privilege Shri Rahul ji is enjoying is called having one’s cake and eating it too.
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  130. Bharat needs to withdraw from the colonial vestige of the Commonwealth, and wish it well from a distance.
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  131. My summary of the interview: Ms. Malhotra repeatedly asking if it isn't it mean for India to not condemn Russia, and Amb. Varma patiently exhorting Indian analysts to grow up and develop an independent perspective.
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  132. Insightful comment! Most people don't understand the statistical nature of these things and fret without any thought about access to childhood nutrition, sports facilities, etc. etc..
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  133. Loved Shri Jaishankar's thoughtful perspective as always. Also loved the Bharateeya idiom of the formal attire of all three people on the stage. Hopefully, 'business suits' will become a thing of the past in India.
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  134. Whenever I hear mention of 'regional party' or 'regional language', I marvel at the long shadow of the Delhi Sultanate on the 'upper crust' Indian mindset.
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  135. L w ing journalism and L w ing history are similar in methods - the ends justify the story-making. The bravado of truth-certainty in both is staggering - they simply know that they are right. However, satyameva jayate!
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  136. Urban poverty and rural poverty are not the same. Urban poverty is much harsher. Also, making the big cities into further bigge rcities is not the answer, in my opinion. Smaller populations centers have to be smartly planned around employment opportunities in a "Gati Shakti' kind of synergy philosophy where spatially distributed production feeds larger hubs. The population centers will need to provide quality of life (connectivity, schools, parks, culture) so that everybody does not flock to the big cities. Ministry of housing and urban development have their work cut out.
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  137. Ms. Khan and Shri Chidambaram may have a justification for not wearing a mask when facing the public. But it would have been the responsible thing to do when ICUs are overflowing.
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  138.  @madhavdiwakar1100  You are getting a little vague there so I will narrowly answer your question and end from my side. More than anything else, I want Hindu temples freed from government control across India, free to be managed by Hindu, within the bounds of the constitution. Further, any asks on Hindu religions or places of worship should be commensurate with those on any other religion in India.
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  139. You are a little late to the party. There is no Harappa 'frenzy' (it is clear that someone asked you to insert the word). People like Sanjeev Sanyal have been talking for years about the vastness and unity of the Saraswati-Sindhu dig sites, which include the relatively smaller sites of Harappa and Mohenjodaro. We would welcome any 'frenzy' about Bharat's civilizational heritage, even if it is 'Harappa frenzy'. Right now, it is just crickets.
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  140. "Funny how Shekar supports the congress dynast while blaming Modi for policies which the dynast pushes for!!"
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  141. If his work bears out, it is not an exaggeration to say that Yajnadevam should be honored with the Bharat Ratna. And they don't have to wait till he is an old man. This would be the most exciting and consequential discovery on Bharat's cultural history since the archeology in Harappa.
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  142. "Although I condemn unnecessary fetishising in 1st scene". Lame.
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  143. We still haven't understood him because we are measuring him by the Congress yardstick of charity + 85%. He is incorruptible, which is a novel concept for Bharateeya analysts.
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  144. "Proper socialism" is Utopia. Policymakers have to contentd with real, unchanging, human behavior. I believe America's founding leaders discussed this when framing their form of government in the late 1700s. Having said that, government should get out of the way of people who can run faster, within the rules, and use some of the excess output to invest in social services.
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  145. For 3 months every election, Shri Shekhar Gupta takes off his disinterested mask and comes out as truly partisan. Once the elections are over, he goes back to his ambiguous mode.
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  146. Very insightful!
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  147. "Please make video on post poll violence in Bengal"
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  148. Good diplomats do not wear their intentions on their sleeve, except when it is useful to do so.
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  149. "The same way we have been indifferent to atrocities on Hindus in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Hindus of Minority dominated areas in India as well. Exactly the same way Mr. Gupta."
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  150. Astute observation. That distinguished Shri Shekhar Gupta, and indeed the entire leftwing establishment, follows this strategy.
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  151. This needs to be said again, so I am copying Shri Rajesh Daviyal's comment, below: "This quality of discussion and intelligentsia makes me realise why regional langauges are important. Bcz it is sad it reaches to a very less % of Indians than it should."
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  152. Wonderful to see the mostly India focus of the questions. That should naturally be expected from an Indian journalist, but I feel is unfortunately rare.
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  153. I like it that they are actually 'blind' and not plain blind.
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  154. Can Rahul ji's t-shirts be any tighter and sleeves any shorter?
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  155. "In India left and Islamic radicals are the two sides of the same coin . "
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  156. Blame it on the school system he came out of. Not enough communication opportunities in our curricula.
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  157. You had me at, “we were wrong”. I didn’t listen to anything else after that. More seriously, this episode seems to have hit a nerve considering the energy in the discussion.
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  158. I imagine that whoever crafted the gem at 20:30 went home that evening feeling rather proud of 'their English'.
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  159. This is a big story that deserved decluttering, thank you. Both issues (data and edtech) have urgent relevance to India, and India will do well to study closely what and why they are doing and see if there are ideas that can be borrowed. Communist-capitalist ideological distinctions are a distraction.
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  160.  @jahanzaibwaheed8683  I thought the 5 pillars of Islam were the core points?
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  161. Worth repeating: "“Forward CLASS muslim” “Upper CASTE Hindu” Notice the vocabulary of DK Singh. Is it accidental? Of course not!"
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  162. Who can draw the straight line from this to khata-khat khata-khat? I am surprised that Shri Gupta did not.
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  163. Makes sense. Some people have likened #COVID19 to a natural disaster, I would add, without property damage. There is no rebuilding needed to get people back to work, just a medical solution. However, for the small businesses that closed down, I don't know if or how they can be restarted.
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  164. If you are voting in America, the question is not whether she is acting or if she has Indian roots. Ask yourself maybe when you are hugging your child at bedtime, who is more likely to plunge the world into chaos in the next 4 years if another crisis strikes. For the sake of the people you love, pick the other side.
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  165. It is one thing for a shady 'hedge fund' to target an Indian business in coordination with the balak right before parliament session. It is something much more serious if the coordination in timing extends to an organ of the foreign government.
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  166. ...of Tamilandu, and of Bharat.
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  167. This moment provides an easy test to identify anti-nationals. Anyone who indulges in criticism and comparisons in the middle of a crisis instead of boosting morale and rolling up their sleeves to see where they can be useful, is anti-national.
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  168. Going slightly on a tangent, the biggest absurdity of the Pegasus story is depending on a foreign country for snooping tools. The risks are many. More R&D needed in India. This will happen when the best motivated computer science graduates stay back in India.
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  169. Shri Gupta is not shy of calling Hamas terrorists. He gets into a 'militant' mode only when it comes to terrorists in Kashmir or Kanada.
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  170. If anyone knows either-or-Raghuram-Rajan's contact, please share this video with him.
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  171. "Well looks like a nice guy who read the writing on the wall....but then millions of Indians decades ago would have also read the writing on the wall."
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  172. I love it!
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  173. I couldn't help smiling at the arrogance and smugness in this innocent comment. There are deep thinkers in RSS and have been, far deeper than the average YT commentator, and pretty uniforms are low on their order of priorities.
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  174. "Modi Govt needs to act on this God sent opportunity and reverse the Rajiv Gandhi Law and implement at least some form of uniform civil code."
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  175. "They give so many disclaimers before saying the obvious thing - Yogi is an awesome CM"
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  176. This episode in brief: parties lose elections when they campaign on a record of reforms. Shri Modi should campaign on reforms.
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  177. Now there is. Otherwise Congress would not have moved a muscle.
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  178. Shri Gupta's is leadership at its best. I don't agree with 95% his positions. But that is more a problem with the influences that shaped him than any personal defects, in my humble and personal opinion. I say that because clearly, he is raising a force that is here to stay in Indian journalism. Hopefully, these young journalists will build up Indian society and not break it in future years.
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  179. Only time will restore an intensely self-conscious, navel-gazing India with one that looks outward with a confident gaze. I believe that Shri Modi is doing what he can to make that happen quickly.
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  180. Any party that brazenly allies with communists must be looked at with suspicion (as if there were no other reasons to do so).
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  181. What the government has done is a 'partial lift of the lock down'; they just haven't called it that for reasons best known to them.
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  182. Common playgrounds is a great idea, although using large stadia may be impractical for school-age children (unlikely that large stadia will have swing sets and slides). City planners could plan school locations and budget common playground space, within safe walking distance of both government and private schools in a hub-and-spokes manner. Private schools can pay a usage fee. Schools with large playgrounds can also be encouraged to share their play space with neighboring schools following the philosophy of commons.
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  183. The opposition, at least some, see themselves waging a war, and the generational interests of farmers as a small price to pay for a more glorious ideological victory. Oh, the irony!
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  184. Just about everyone in responsible positions looks tired and worried except mr. trump and mr. pence.
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  185. The sensible press needs to show this emotion and outrage more often.
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  186. Whatever you may think of his politics, Bharateeyata is seeped into every atom of Mr. Modi.
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  187. You might be making a mistake amplifying the voice of this young adult.
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  188. This is the tone and calibre of conversations we want to see even in national politics on Republic.
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  189. We need Shri Vir Radia Sanghvi give his gyan on this. May be Tavleen ji too, and Shri Panag as well. How about Dash-bhakt?
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  190. Rahul ji lacks empathy for an injured 70 year old man bleeding in front of his eyes. How will he have the empathy to lead a country of 140 crore people?
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  191. Not 76. Most of the brand building happened in the last 10 years.
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  192. A more thuggish version of Shri Mani Shankar Aiyar. This man is better suited as a loyal Kattappa for the Gandhi monarchy than as a truly democratic representative of the people in modern India.
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  193. I hope that even as India rises economically, it will continue to hold the label of a third world country as a badge of honor.
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  194. It is fascinating to see how much oxygen the Gandhis still suck up in public discourse. They verily are coated in teflon. Apologies for any mixed metaphors.
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  195. Thank you for the Hindi content. The comment stands even if it were Malayalee, Tamil, Telugu, Assamese, Bangla, Marathi, Gujarathi, Rajasthanee, or any other Indian language.
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  196. Mumbai government’s rule of law has lost much credibility after the lightning speed demolition of Kangana Ranaut’s property. Seems like vendetta politics.
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  197.  @islandsunset  Tulu, Gondi or Bhil are all Indian languages in my book. For arguments sake, what would you call Hindi or Malayalam? And what language in India is a 'not-regional' language?
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  198. One wonders if the sweat on Shri Patnaik's brow mirrors the strain of masking the cognitive dissonance. Or may be the ac was not working?
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  199. I could look past the subversive ‘history’ creation out of the deeper truth of Itihasa by Shri Kanisetty, but not the ‘westernised’ pronunciation of his own last name. There is irony and a deeper truth hiding somewhere in there.
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  200. "No surprises here. The money goes to parties in terms of it's popularity. Clearly the BJP is the most popular party based on this and this will probably reflect in the poll results too. The fact that BJP's contributors are well distributed is a good sign. "
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  201. For those unfamiliar with the art of rhetoric, this piece had one major and three minor rhetorical objectives. Major objective - spread the blame, starting at the beginning of time with a laundry list of names, to shield Smt. Sonia Gandhi from charges of nepotism. Minor objective 1: To present young Mr. Gandhi in the same light as his father, thus elevating his status without explicitly saying so. Minor objective 2: To create an impression that young Mr. Gandhi's elevation to president-ship is a fait accompli. Minor objective 3: Hit some political targets in an oblique fashion, including Shri Narasimha Rao and the BJP.
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  202. Innocent overuse of ventilators may turn out to be one of the great tragedies of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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  203.  @Venmash-kx9zf  So pertinent to remember his history. We all have short memories.
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  204. "Please don't give credibility to people like Veer Sanghvi by granting them high profile interview like this."
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  205. "I must say he protected Lalu better than his party could"
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  206. The gentleman on his way out queered the pitch for his successor. Such poor form, and such irresponsibility!
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  207.  @msdadsfsx  Claiming India’s roads are worse than in 2014 is breathtakingly bold, and patently not true.
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  208.  @msdadsfsx  In the last 10 years, India's our capita GDP increased by 60%, and climbed up from 212 to 172 among roughly 270 countries and independent economic entities. That's not an economy getting worse. About the water clogged roads, with rains like in India and with climate change, it is well outside the hands of any one country. If you say the roads are worse than they were in 2014, well, there is no satisfactory comeback for a brilliant claim like that.
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  209. Blame the enfeeblement on the draining Turko/Mongol/Mughal occupation (those were not religious identities, by the way).
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  210. It may be more to the point to spend an episode strategising on how to loosen the stranglehold of the Gandhis on the Congress party.
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  211. Reposting my tweet from Twitter: "Even when the GOI provides a subsidy to any group or individual, they should receive a paper statement indicating the amt. due and the fraction paid by the govt. Otherwise they are liable to think of subsidies as magic money".
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  212. The gloves came off after the Punjab bridge incident with Shri Modi - the Khalistani went too far that time. There will be a learning curve for Bharateeya agencies in this new style of operating, but surely they will get more sophisticated with time. I would like to more smoothness, and at the same time a harder edge, from the MEA when responding to these allegations. For example, "India convicted", complaint by an MEA official was a self-goal and unsophisticated. Disclaimer: there is no evidence that Bharat was involved, although that really doesn't matter in this situation.
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  213. This episode is "putting lipstick on a pig". :-)
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  214. As one journalist phrased it, "that is not how it works. You can't export vegetables with a side of terror".
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  215. It has to be all that A2 milk that people in the subcontinent drink :)
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  216. In one essay, Shekhar ji succeeded in insulating Smt Indira Gandhi from criticism for shaking the foundations of Bharat democracy (it was a weak moment, it was the fault of the sycophants), for propping up the monster Bhindranwale (Zail Singh's fault), and turning B_wale into an Amitabh Bacchan (don't mess with him!), and letting him off on a technicality (he didn't ASK for Khalistan and breaking up India but wouldn't mind it if he were offered it). He also worked in a snarky swipe at the redoubtable Kangana (her make up looked bad). No wonder clever writing in irresponsible hands can send society to dogs (I am sure Aristotle or his ilk had something to say on this count). Other thoughts: imagine a senior American journalist figuratively wagging their finger at a Hollywood director saying - don't mess with Osama! American society would disown such a journalist for the disrespect to the memory of the thousands of American lives lost. Sadly, there is no such sensibility in Bharat, yet.
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  217. Shri DK Singh has the rare original voice in Bharateeya English journalism; the rest of it is a wasteland which resells 'western' opinion and worldview for the consumption of Bharateeya 'elites'. I hope that he won't sell out when it is time for him to lead.
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  218. De facto banning of industrial-scale religious conversions, freeing Hindu temples, and fixing lopsided history books is 80% of my Hindu agenda.
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  219.  @madhavdiwakar1100  As I said, I was referring to the 'loose lips' observations, which raised real legal issues because of their prejudicial nature. If you think that Nehru had a special dispensation to tinker with the law specifically as it applied to Hindu and not with other religions, that to my mind turns the leftwing story of secular Nehru on its head. Also, not so fast with, "Because everyone felt they got what they wanted.". UCC debate shows that 'everyone' did not feel so.
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  220. It is not, 'South India'. It is southern India, or 'the southern Indian kingdom of...' etc.
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  221. 2004-1014 was one lost decade, if the clock were started from 1991. But what about all the lost decades from 1947 - 1991? Especially, the Indira Gandhi decades of brazen, black, hopeless, bottomless, corruption?
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  222. Going forward, the government needs a strategy for building public opinion by directly addressing the most vulnerable sections of the population, in their language and idiom, months ahead of any new changes. This can be done subtly, and should be attempted even now with the farm reforms.
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  223. Even more than the first rocket that Abdul Kalam transported on a bicycle looked like?
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  224. Wonderful survey and results not surprising. Perhaps in future surveys, you can have an 'anything else' fill-in last question that can inform on potential questions to ask in future surveys.
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  225. The people have given the BJP their trust and mandate to take big decisions for the nation.
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  226. "Congress and CCP are like minded?? What does it mean??? 😂😂"
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  227. If Indian news media makes a lasting habit of inviting Indian scientists and physicians on air to talk about such topics (even after this crisis), the scientists will also get much better at communicating complex topics to the public.
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  228. He is quick with the ‘we are like this only’ when it comes to the Hindu.
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  229. Meanwhile, sahibzada goes on about non-populist, jitna abadi utna haq.
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  230. Some of the questions were variously grating, unnecessary in a moment of celebration, trivial, and inappropriate to ask Dr. Swaminathan's daughter. Seemed like the interviewer was trying to stretch the conversation out for lack of genuine curiosity and warmth. Better preparation please! Appreciate Dr. Soumya Swaminathan's grace and poise in answering.
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  231. Someone has coined the term Level 5 leaders to describe such people. I think Mr. Sisodia is the textbook example of a Level 5 leader.
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  232. Awards for artistic excellence, ideally, should not be about identity politics or about ‘making a point’. Subhangi Mishra nailed it when she rightly called Barbie an extended commercial for Mattel. Let’s not confuse the issue.
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  233. The deal should also allow for funding joint R&D work in technologies, not just building factories in Bharat. That will build stronger long-term relationships.
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  234.  @savioblanc  200 years
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  235. Palki, you need to take this video down and upload one that doesn’t show the boy’s full face in the thumbnail. The lack of care is ironical considering the topic.
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  236. Important coverage but confusing denigration of spices when the real issue is with contamination. A straightforward focus on ‘contamination in spices’ would have worked better.
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  237. The honorable judges have ruled that electoral bonds, a big improvement over the cash payments of Congress-era, do not meet their standards of perfection. Neither does the colonial collegium system. Is an oligarchy within a republic.
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  238. Can the lady get any more fawning?
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  239.  @pardeeptandon  This is a fine joke, about a religion which does not recognise any other religions but Islm.
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  240. "He is the gaffe. Have you seen him talk on AI ?"
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  241. Adani should launch a long term corporate/brand advertising campaign (not product advertising), educating the public on the vital role their group ports and airports play in strengthening Indian economy growth.
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  242. Imagine the scandal of Shri Nitish Kumar being invited to join a cabinet that has stalwarts like Jaishanker, Nirmala Sitaraman, Nitin Gadkari, or Ashwini Vaishnaw.
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  243.  @anjandash_  Why did he promise he'd give 300 units before election when Punjab's police force and judiciary needed a serious overhaul to curb the drug problem in the state?
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  244. That young Mr. Gandhi is able to take a step, let alone do a yatra, carrying the burden of parental expectations on one shoulder, and those of leftwing ideologues and courtiers on the other, is in itself a wonder.
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  245.  @mdtausif3480  Brother, you sounded a little down. The old cliche is true - bad times don't last for ever. If things are not going well now, my prayer is that you see better times soon!
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  246. In retrospect, we could have predicted this from NYC's experience. I hope they are studying New York experience closely and talking to people there to see if there are ideas they can borrow.
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  247.  @endofworld200  You are late to the party. It has already been done, thousands of times over.
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  248. Income inequality is not a good measure under all circs. Consider a country of five people, and they all remain poor (Congress years). Income, inequality will be low. However, if one of them succeeds under improved business conditions (BJP years), then suddenly income inequality will become high.
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  249. "Interesting SG calls Naveen Patnaik as Monarch…but never for Rahul Gandhi or Gandhi family…so much for neutral journalism"
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  250. Shri Sampath was not alert in puncturing Shri Sanghvi's caricature of RSS at the opening. He should have said something briefly in defense of them.
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  251.  @amarakbar9317  That sounds like absurd slander being passed off as fact. What is the evidence?
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  252. "I'm amazed at Mahua Maitra.. Her shamelessness is beyond the realm of possibility.. The TMC is the most facist party in India if not the world.. They rigg every election in West Bengal and still she has some nerve to comment on EC being unfair.."
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  253. Hindu marching for the protection of Hindu from M in Bangladesh, get attacked by M, in India! Oh Hindu, junk your victimhood as Gupta ji says.
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  254. Bharat certainly knew this at one time: Vaidyo narayano harihi. Although, I should add that it is one thing for grateful patients to call a doctor God, and altogether another thing for a doctor to call themselves God :)
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  255. You left out Al Jazeera, which fits in nicely with the other two terror outfits.
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  256. Wonderful progress. However, with sincere apologies, it was deeply disturbing to hear Shamika Ravi saying that packaging and processing of food is a sign of progress and a natural evolution, is ignorant recitation of capitalistic catechism. Policy makers need more enlightenment on this for a truly Bharateeya view of economics. This doesn’t take away from the sincere hard work being put in by people like Ms. Ravi.
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  257. Strong opinion and a prediction there! Worked for 3 in 4 years? Have you been switching jobs frequently or worked for multiple companies at once?
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  258. Brings back memories of Shri Reagan vs Japan from the 80s, for those who remember.
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  259. "What we are doing is confusing morality with rationality."
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  260. So long as Congress leaders act contemptuous of ‘native’ (read non-English speaking) opposition leaders, the party deserves to be obliterated. Which would be an unfortunate thing for the health of Indian democracy, but a necessary destruction. It is not a question at all of mere tactics but of a deep reformation of attitude. They could start fixing things by celebrating the robustness of Indian democracy that let a chaiwala become PM, Instead of sneering at the achievement. And yes, Rahul Gandhi could start learning about sabhyata even in his 50s. Never too late.
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  261. Boss :-)
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  262. Congress on average made 1.6 amendment/year to the constitution, adding up to a total of 88. Parivarvadi voters should look at the data, not Shri Kharge's rhetoric.
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  263. The level of bot spam in comments is getting absurd. Is Google losing its grip on YouTube comments section?
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  264. That bright advert by the lady at the end of the segment is in garish contrast to the somber news. Bad miss by the editors.
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  265. He is speaking an Indian language.
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  266. Ye SP wala toh bully hai.
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  267. "Can no body see, Congress Communist Muslim League is diverting the attention from Nehru's love letters from nothing. How naive can you all be? And BJP?"
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  268. "Earlier they used to complain about stub burning smoke from Punjab. Now that they are in power there , they say wind has changed direction and smoke comes from UP !"
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  269.  @irenesharma7791  What a wonderful journey you had! I would like to add too that there is no N and S, only I.
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  270. All the learned members of this panel and the distinguished anchor, many of whom I am sure look up to America as a model democracy, should start writing alarmed letters in the American press every time they see the American president lighting a Christmas tree in his residence, or when president, senators and all show up at the church to hear the National sermon from the pastor.
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  271.  @gibsongumera7299  Japan GDP is ~ $5000 B, owns $1100 B in US debt. Luxemburg GDP is $85.5 B, owns $371 B in US debt. And that is not surprising?
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  272. Tech consortium is an interesting idea. Bharat companies and research labs and universities should come together to develop select national tech priorities.
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  273. Getting a foot in the door is an insurmountable challenge for many. From my understanding of dharma, it is better for society that spreading that first opportunity in as random a manner as possible will ultimately produce the best outcomes for society. We can't mix up all professions in one basket. The stringency against nepotism has to be in direct proportion to the sphere of public influence the profession commands. A rough order of stringency in my view is politicians > cinema actors > big businesses > small businesses > etc. Talent may often succeed in the long run, but such long runs swallow up many a lifetime even within a generation.
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  274. Open AI-Microsoft has already normalized the potential threat to humanity from AI. The global south needs to urgently speak up against it. Greater skeptical and critical scrutiny from journalists will help.
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  275. Bharat has to make an intentionally bland statement that appropriate actions will be taken to pacify all entities that threaten the safety of Bharateeya. Knowing fully well that this could be a bait.
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  276. finally? finally??! where have you been the past many years?
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  277. "And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth."
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  278. I believe Shri Gupta speaks with good intentions. But you can't defend the indefensible and you can't dress up a wound before washing and cleaning it. Uma Bharati spoke in 1991 of the consequences (reported in today's Indian Express). We need reconciliation - irrigating and cleaning the wounds is part of it.
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  279. Shri Gupta does not know his Itihasa. Smt. Indira Gandhi was not testing the opposition when she corruptly dismantled Bharat democracy by imposing the Emergency. It was a desperate attempt at self-preservation.
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  280.  @NoNonsense_01  yes and no. As they say in Thermodynamics, there is no such thing as a free lunch. ‘Western’ countries do have cleaner environments. Part of it is better care. Part of it is outsourcing the pollution to poorer countries that produce the goods the ‘west’ consumes. Also, you shd reread my sentences starting with, “At some point, ALL countries…”.
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  281. If young Mr. Gandhi at the age of 50 hasn't yet read Machiavelli's tiny tome on how to scheme your way into power, I doubt that he will suddenly muster the intellectual energy to do so now.
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  282. 'The Lonely Crowd' is a useful book to read in the context of this episode. May be Indian people need to self-impose an import ban of unhealthy diets and cultural values.
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  283.    Six decades of Congress dynasty rule set up the corrupt institutions that India is operating under. Institutional memory is long and takes time to erase, which is why Congress will continue to get blamed for some time. It is possible that you are very young and don't have the perspective or the first-hand experience of living through the times. The Congress dynasty has a long and inglorious history of subverting and weakening the democratic institutions of India. I too am critical of the BJP, not so much for the things they have accomplished, but for the things they have not yet done. Things move slowly in a democracy but they are losing valuable time in not making India's health and education priority No. 1. Having said that, they have two major accomplishments 1) Weakening, but unfortunately not yet destroying, the institution of Gandhi rule at the center and 2) Eliminating higher-level corruption and making decisions more transparent and rule bound. In defense of the BJP though, they are somewhat a product of and are working within the inefficiencies of a corrupt system. May be the next generation will be less used to living and breathing corruption all the time.
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  284. Ha ha. That is why the NE was closed off to all religions except the ‘Lord’s word’.
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  285. Time was when the highest aspiration of IITs was to place 1-2 graduates in each of the top 25 ranking Universities in the US and see them serve as university professors and top corporate executives in the US. Is it is now to see IITs in the top 100 world university rankings? The better question is, how can IITs better serve the pressing technological, economic and societal needs of India at the present moment? They already have the quality of (undergraduate) education fully addressed (largely powered by American textbooks - not necessarily an issue). I suggest, 1. Take a hard look at the context and the case studies that they are presenting to students while imparting textbook knowledge. 2. Articulate as clear a mission for knowledge creation as they have for teaching existing knowledge. They are laggards in original research, hurting QS rankings. 3. Why confine your headline to just the IITs?
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  286. I am seeing signs in recent reporting which indicate troubling issues with the inherent character of The Print.
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  287. Why do people keep saying Congress's decimation (Roman origin, loss of one in every 10 soldiers), to actually mean obliteration (meaning utter rout, or loss of 10 out of 10, so to speak).
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  288. Poor audio inexcusable for the Prime Minister's speech.
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  289.  Rohit Mahajan  No need to be pessimistic. Colonial rule followed by political corruption left a long and tragic damage to the Indian psyche, but it is slowly being repaired. Positive thought can change things.
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  290. This is valuable analysis for public health policymakers. The most striking aspect of it is the remarkable strides in public health India has taken, compared to say, America at a similar stage of economic development. The difference between birth-castes is probably explained by differences in wealth. A good test of this hypothesis, and an internal control, will be to look at life expectancy between the creamy layer in the 'lower castes' and the non-creamy layer. Similar sorting can be done between ashraf muslims and pasmanda muslims, and between 'upper caste muslims' and 'lower caste' muslims. May be future studies will address this.
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  291. Excellent information from knowledgeable people. We need more such interactions.
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  292. India will need cradle-to-grave tracking of trouble over the entire subcontinent. Doubling homegrown efforts to develop more sophisticated technologies for electronic surveillance and satellite imaging with novel modalities to track the movement of trouble from source (no one else will simply give away the needed data to India), and highly mobile sharp-shooters to arrange for the graves at the border. May sound harsh, but is necessary.
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  293. "Ladies and gentlemen, we have looked at the numbers carefully and we can now report with confidence that it was not a pogrom but in fact a communal riot. Had the numbers been a little that way, we might have called it a pogrom but as things stand, we are forced to call it a communal riot." English is not my first language, but a pogrom? Really?!! Are these decisions made in a secret WhatsApp group? - "OK folks, we decided to spin the Delhi results as a rout for BJP, even though the big story is AAP's big RETURN to power".
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  294. "Did the Tibet invasion by China not happen after 1942? Even Indian anchors forgetting Tibet is disgusting."
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  295.  @Shawpaw  Apple chips are made in Taiwan.
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  296. "Deep down they are a little bit of a phuss" :) Jokes apart, loved the analysis as always.
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  297.  @bishalchakraborty115  Also, don't forget who the hiring manager is.
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  298. Young Mr. Gandhi should hear himself. 90% of the country live as day laborers! Not exactly crowning glory for Shri Manmohan Singh or for 6 decades of Congress rule.
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  299.  @amarakbar9317  I did a little bit of research on the Jain Commission report. None of it connects to Shri Narasimha Rao except your conjecture and guilt by association. Also, there is something off about your original statement. If I believed that a former PM were involved in the assassination of another former former PM, I would be horrified, certainly not blase about it ("he was a good PM ... but..."). I still think that you are indulging in casual slander on a serious topic. Will not stretch this further from my side.
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  300. Ideally India will maximize it's opportunities to work with both America and China, while minimizing ill will with both. After all, we all share the surface of the same tiny sphere.
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  301. The endnote is the most transparent Shri Gupta has been in his election campaign for the young prince.
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  302. Are there Indian manufacturers of hydroxychloroquine? Can they scale up?
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  303. "This whole upheaval can’t just be written off as an evolution without the explicit support from PM. One area which attracted attention of the public is the way ‘Padma’ awards are being selected. ‘Diversity’ is his mantra and it’s playing tremendously well for the country and satisfying public, especially youth."
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  304. It is either the Congress politicians eat (remember Rajiv Gandhis '15% of every rupee reaches the people' comment?), or the people eat.
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  305. Rather than read text from a bunch of publications, Shri Gupta should have put this in context for Bharat. For example, how is this related to the often made argument by 'western' countries that Bharat is a closed market. It is all a question of relative efficiencies.
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  306. There are so many gracious messages of thanks and gratitude below that represent the true attitude of Indians to Kenya's loving gift. Any controversy is probably manufactured. Wonderful episode backed by numbers, nevertheless.
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  307. I sometimes wonder if Shri Xi Jinping is a secret 'western' agent set up to destabilise China (you could say the same thing for Shri Trump wrt to the US :-).
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  308. There is a new narrative building in some parts of Indian press the last two weeks, soft accommodation to China. Is it being orchestrated by Congress party?
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  309. Brief and thorough, couldn’t have Asked for a better presentation of a science story. Wish the Research were led by an Indian lab for obvious reasons, although access to analytical instrumentation and such trace analysis expertise may have been a stumbling block. Hopefully, lack of curiosity was not one.
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  310. Shekhar ji got a head start on campaigning for 2024.
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  311.  @thecerebrum.  The rewards are worth trying. India has the talent to make it happen with effort.
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  312. Retrieve the costs of the Tabligh's actions from them. Bankrupt them, then ban them.
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  313. With everything else going on on the show, do you really need the psychedelic graphics in the background?
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  314. Are there other Tablighi Zamat meeting places elsewhere in India?
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  315.  @ajitattasseril2818  Great comment. Remarkably, the timeline coincides well with Smt. Indira Gandhi's rise to power.
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  316. The government should make an easily shareable short video that uses animation and simple visuals to show the points that Shri Yogi Adityanath presented here. What the existing state of farming with highly fragmented small holdings is, and how the new laws promote farmer's cooperatives which can bring the benefits of mechanised farming to the smallest farmer. + How farmer's cooperatives can participate in every part of the agricultural value chain.
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  317.  @ashakuldip1657  balak buddhi
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  318. 90 hours is two peoples' work at 40 hours per person. Double the number of employees and your problem is solved.
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  319. Dear Republic, nice show. Also, Sehzad Poonawala did not 'fume', he called out a sexist remark.
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  320. What is being done to reach members of the population such as day laborers who do not have access to English language? The virus is not going to distinguish whom it uses to hop across the population. Are public health messages being prepared in accessible formats and being taken into the poorer sections of the cities and into the villages? Same question for members of service and retail industries who would come in contact with multiple people as a routine. Distribution of SOPs for placing hand sanitizers at store entrances, periodic wiping down of railings and bannisters, etc.
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  321. Sanju Verma ji says sensible things in a grating manner. We need more honey and less vinegar.
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  322. Fascinating conversation between someone instinctually Bharateeya and someone instinctually ‘western’.
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  323. Twice Shri Lavrov diplomatically called Shri Joshi ignorant but the diplomatic language went over the latter's head. The third time, he had to address him directly. Tone deaf analysts like this are deliciously devoid of genuine curiosity or mental flexibility, and come to ask preset questions that satisfy their allotted quota, I believe.
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  324. This is wonderful progress. Wish it could have been for a longer term.
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  325. 4:52s simply not enough to cover such an important topic. This looks like hurriedly assembled Goog research around a headline. FP shd invest in ‘in-depth’ reporting including interviews and real analysis. Costly but needed.
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  326.  @nmew6926  Is childish and disrespectful to play with a country’s name like this.
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  327. "Why do you use dollars while referring to money? Why not use our own currency The Rupee"
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  328. "I don't understand why the west/USA doesn't criticise Pakistan's army for undermining democracy in the country."
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  329.  @sampatkalyan3103  You are right that people probably like to restrict opportunity to family members or clan members. However, that is not a good model for a society to operate on. An ideal society would have more equal distribution of wealth than such a model would allow, while allowing that perfect equality is not naturally possible, even though Marxists continue to experiment with such foolish ideas. Besides fairness arguments, it also makes for a more efficient society, because ability and potential are not distributed only in (current) wealthy or powerful families. Hence, government laws should gently disallow such concentration of wealth and power and promote procedures that spread them around.
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  330.  @nmew6926  I don’t think that is true at all. In fact, the wording, 'Indian specialists', probably means that it is about tech transfer. I was just making explicit as to what it should mean.
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  331. AI really has to rethink or renegotiate their order. These safety numbers are terrifying.
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  332.  @saanjanibaar8085  Sikh are Bharateeya just as Vaishnava, Shaiva, or Jain. Khalistani are Canadians.
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  333. Please do everything possible to prevent families, especially children and pregnant women, of day laborers from going hungry because they can't go out to work.
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  334. Ayurveda should withdraw the royalty-free license given to allopathic surgeons to use and modify the surgical instruments and surgical methods described in the Sushruta Samhita.
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  335. Print editorial policy is not to give much respect to Canadia or France. The US and the UK on the other hand, they are careful and cautious around.
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  336.  @joedias7946  Your response reeks of meanness. How is it related to OP’s criticism of Shri Gupta?
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  337. "Islam does not allow a pragmatic approach to Life."
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  338. No analysis of the muslim condition in Bharat can be done without a sentence on what Nupur Sharma is going through for repeating their text, or on Salman Rushdie, who paid with an eye and a lifetime of fearful living for his sins. Shri Gupta shields the mull.hs just as he shields the corruption of the Gandhi-Vadhras. Not good-faith journalism, and not in the interests of Bharateeya muslims.
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  339.  @mrgyani  It should be noted that all the examples of services jobs you gave can't be done trans-border, unless people physically move. In other words, they are useful for the internal economy but not for trade.
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  340. One must recall Roger Bannister and the 4-minute mile barrier. Until he broke it, people came up with all kinds of scientific theories for why it was physiologically not possible for humans to run a mile in less than 4 minutes. Once he broke it, his record rapidly fell to multiple others (within an year, I think).
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  341.  @ontisalaga1789  'Shady' is good when it comes to national security. All 'shady' things however must be done with proper oversight and follow previously agreed upon, written-down, rules (i.e. not be done ad hoc).
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  342. "Sovereign country is ok to say but in Bangladesh hindu massacre is humanitarian crisis also...... Which should be addressed by india"
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  343. The ICMR recommendation about plasma therapy is probably a practical statement to guide doctors plan treatment rather than a theoretical assessment of whether neutralizing antibodies block the virus.
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  344. One has to assume that the driving force is China, unless otherwise proven. Regardless, there is much that is opaque in recent events in terms of long-term implications. Peace is always welcome if there is visibility and predictability, and if this is not a temporary tactic.
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  345. CAA was misnamed. Should have been named ‘Keeping promises made during Partition Bill’.
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  346. Much food for thought for the BJP and Mr. Modi. Eternal vigilance is the price of not just liberty but political power as well.
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  347. Enthusiastic reference to caste by intellectual journalists brings Divide and Rule to mind for some reason.
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  348. Wonderful to see in concrete practice what the finance minister announced before. The government should motivate the IITs and other engineering schools and Indian entrepreneurs to develop the technology to real-time dub, or at least closed caption such announcements in all Indian languages, and optionally in English.
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  349. Not sarcasm. They need India to buy their goods.
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  350. Great explanation of a complicated topic, thanks. Helpful to add more annotation for technical terms - not done for 'repo rate', done for 'term loans'.
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  351. "He is so archaic when he says Hindi heartland. Sometime i feel that people who live in Delhi, do they really know India."
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  352. 'BBC isn't ideological' is an SG whopper in the same category as 'Rahul Gandhi is the pre-eminent leader of Congress party'.
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  353.    You make a few good points and many weak points. The relativistic argument, times were corrupt but heaven compared to now, is the weakest and the most dangerous of all. Rather than quibble, I will let the government learn from your good points and improve society. I am curious though, why do you think the BJP and Shri Doval are indulging in all this blatant corruption?
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  354. Starts by trashing Chanakya and Sun Tzu, ends by quoting Sun Tzu :-)
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  355. Looking at the title, I thought for a moment that all these PSUs were established in the past 6 years.
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  356.  @kakun63  I think the way you used 'breaking point' is not the usual sense it is used in. That might be causing confusion.
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  357.  @anjandash_  Hence the hon. Supreme Court's interest in the question, can political parties make any financial promise to voters without taking revenues into consideration.
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  358. Probably not irreparable, but certainly unforgivable.
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  359. This is an important and timely interview very well conducted. I hope there will be many more such.
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  360. I am finding it hard to decide whether this episode is brilliant or fascinating, probably both. Kudos to Mr. Jairam Ramesh for the research and scholarship. I only wish he were in a position to play a more active role in Indian public policy. The same goes for Mr. Shashi Tharoor.
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  361. Thank you for bringing clarity to the science of and possible solutions for Delhi's air problem through the IIT-K study. It is a pity that such an important study is not more widely known. I hope that you will continue this work by inviting scientific experts for public discussions on the topic, wherever you can.
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  362. Wonderful reporting and awe inspiring initiative by the wrestlers. Along with the training, which should be taking up the bulk of their time, it will be nice if the young children also get continued education in reading, writing, and maths. I hope the Haryana govt can help the akhadas provide the technology and resources for this so that the kids will grow up well-rounded. Not all of them will be able to earn a living as professional wrestlers.
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  363. Satyam Singh, below: :The biggest scam with our country is "Congress before independence and after independence is the same entity". So true!
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  364.  @endofworld200  Tell that to Shri KK Muhammed, or to India's Supreme Court.
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  365.  @xavierprayersingh8219  Many people might have an issue with the thought process that any one country is better than any other country in all respects. It might be easier to accept that America is better than other countries in some respects, and worse than other countries in other respects. The issue arises when any criticism of the worse parts is not accepted. No country gets a blanket pass.
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  366.  @veereshpm  You left the best point for last.
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  367. There is no alternative to the RSS process for nurturing clean, disciplined people who can grow as leaders. Personalities make life interesting, but are incidental to the fortunes of society over the vastness of time. Processes are much more important.
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  368. Correction, Gandhi-family revival plan.
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  369. International L wing wants Modi out while international business interests want Modi win.
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  370. Wow! Consider the life-changing impact on the lives of the children of all these workers living with their parents and growing up without the anxiety of urban poverty. Blessed are the entrepreneurs and the administrators who made this possible.
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  371. "Varnashram reservations". Huh? Do you even know what you are talking about?
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  372. True. Indian press sometimes acts like a foreign press or the International Court of Justice when it comes to talking about Indian national security issues. Everyone has to be nationalistic when it comes to national security.
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  373. Very nicely conducted interview, thank you. Open-minded skepticism expressed with respect and without bias is a good thing for science and for truth in general.
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  374. Not to trivilaise an important topic, but various Op-Ed writers in The Washington Post have been venting at the erosion of the economic freedoms of India's farmers because of the new farm laws. It is clear that they are deeply felt pieces, but they all follow remarkably similar rhetorical devices including an obligatory reference to the 1984 attacks on Sikhs carried out by Congress party leaders after Smt. Indira Gandhi's death. In other words, nothing remotely approaching the depth and the nuance of the debates and discussions going on in Indian media on the range of issues involved with the farm laws. But that is how Indian issues get stylised, when viewed from the distance of a few thousand miles. And, that shapes 'international opinion' which can in turn trickle down into all kinds of things.
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  375. Unnecessary distinctions if you want to have friends
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  376. That sounds utterly heartless and lacking common decency. You should consider deleting it.
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  377. Flowery language is not a substitute for real application of the mind in strategic affairs. Leftwing attempt to position Nehru as a dreamy if ineffectual idealist must be demolished. He was the original Sahib and fountain head of two mega ills that India is trying to rid herself of - the corruption of dynasty politics, and worse, pervasive, stubbornly colonized mindsets ( I know, I know, he built some dams and IITs).
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  378. Sounds like a good idea, on the face of it. To be certain that it is, the net carbon cost of excavating two large holes, and petrol costs for + any other sundry carbon costs moving have to be added to the carbon foot print of the transplantation. Hopefully, it will turn out to be net positive.
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  379. Dollar value of healthcare spending in US is driven by the market, a little bit like real estate prices at Nariman Point. Not a useful measure of intrinsic value by itself.
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  380. Hostilities at home will go down by 55% if young Mr. Gandhi stops tweeting.
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  381. Bravo! Spot on in my books.
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  382. "These guys live and breath in castes but blame bjp as communal party"
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  383.  @rafimohammed7689  Honor and pride are not about separating peoples necks from their bodies at perceived insults.
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  384. For some more perspective, in America supreme court judges are appointed for life, and the current oldest serving justice is 87 years old. This may or may not be a suitable model for India but useful to know about.
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  385. It has to be a given that everyone at that pivotal moment in India that is Bharat's history tried to do their best by their own lights. Some of Nehruji's decision India (and other countries) benefited from, and some pivotal decisions India is still paying for. It is best to learn the lessons from history, fix what needs to be fixed and move on. Having said that, one thing that stuck me as curious, and this is a question for historians, is about Sardar Patel's letter to Pandit Nehru. It indicates to me an awareness of the Nehru-Mountbatten conversation. Again, without ascribing motives, was that the style in which Sardar Patel normally wrote?
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  386. Qualitative is wonderfully convenient if you want to put your finger on the scale. Can be changed based on which side of the bed the powers-that-be wake up on, unlike hard data which is stable. On the positive side, Bharat is finally being forced to react. Along this progression, we need to develop proactive ways of measuring the world from the perspective of dharmic values.
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  387. Very interesting story. I would have liked to also know what specific new innovation made the ultra-high frame rate, and the UV sensitivity possible. May be the first story could have been more helpful by focusing more on the specifics of the new technological innovation (for a general audience of course). Please keep going! We love this focus on science.
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  388. Thank you for a fascinating story. It is relatively easy to breed dogs for desired characteristics. The army or some other security agency, if they don't already have such, should create a wing to create new breeds and research dog training methods.
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  389. This reminds me of some of the early episodes of cut the clutter. Very nice critical survey of key slices of history.
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  390. "Shekhar smartly devalued the work of modi...still see wanted to defame on not holding panchayat election and not fighting election ..,modi knew the candidate life will be in threat..."
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  391. I cannot get over the fact that Indian commentators with a certain accent speak with such emotional distance over Indian issues - reminds me of Shatranj Ke Khiladi for some reason. It is a very uniquely Indian phenomenon and not seen in the west, probably not also in China.
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  392. NYT + Independent + Al Jazeera have always been safe places for India bashing writers to publish. Plus it may be less about right-left and more about a well-oiled Pakistan lobbying machinery in full swing. Need more voices in these fora giving the Indian perspective.
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  393. At a time when nations are getting physically isolated because of virus fears, Shri Modi's attempts to keep conversations going between world leaders is to be applauded.
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  394. English is my second language. With that proviso, I cautiously point out that equitable generally means just, while equal means the same. Therefore, the honorable MP, in his question, should have used 'equal' and not 'equitable'.
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  395. To be fair, that was the exact response of the uber rich too. In their case, they could arrange for the airplanes to fly their kids home.
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  396.  @bloodwargaming3662  It won't stay that way unless they maintain fiscal discipline.
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  397.  @chethanshajan9047  There was no India either, though there was Bharat. Even by that measure, it should be souther Indian.
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  398. May we also not get into the habit of hyphenating the leftwing with liberal. The two words have very different, and in some senses opposite, meaning.
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  399. Read the title this way: 3 blunders by Indira, Rajiv, Vajpayee, Advani that turned into a blessing in disguise for Bharat.
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  400. "Had it had happened with even a bjp party worker, there would have been at least 20 articles from print and news all over the foreign media as well. How this 3rd degree physical assault is being downplayed is terrible terrible terrible to say the least"
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  401. Love the detailed analysis and the organic style.
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  402. Wonderful interview and a review of truths the younger gen has never experienced. On a more personal note, please do avoid ‘sir’ ing guests. It is really not Indian culture and does nothing to build democratic habits.
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  403. Very perceptive.
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  404.  @vinsin328  Sounds suspiciously like you belong to the beef industry lobby.
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  405. Maybe, Indian security agencies can recruit the help of Indian movie makers to model on-screen the kind of behaviors related to evidence collection and preservation that Mr. Doval talked about.
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  406.  @Krsna234  Like in everything, some are and many aren't. The job is for those who aren't.
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  407.  @bobsmith3983  You started with state and ended in culture. Very slick 🙂
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  408. Great observation. It goes deeper than diplomacy though. The diplomacy is driven by a cultural value.
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  409. Palki's is the tone India's Twitter warriors should have taken. America was there in the 60s and 70s, and China in the 2000s. The question is, how should a country have economic development without a rise in pollution?
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  410.  @judewarner1536  Although the origins are long lost in time, some believe that Aesop's fables may have been influenced by the Hitopadesa or Panchatantra of India.
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  411. Wonderful and informative conversation. Dr. Desiraju gave a well rounded perspective of why India is actually Bharat. Although, his saying that Bharat can do 'what we want' once we are rich, does not reflect the Bharateeya ethos of vasudhaiva kutumbam - the world is one family.
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  412. India needs her own watchdog of social, economic, political and religious freedoms around the world, and should release an annual report that ranks countries by how well they behave. It will also be responsible for finger wagging whenever there is any social, political, or religious disturbance anywhere in the world.
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  413. A question to the producers at Republic World: what was the purpose of the busy snaking ribbon in the border of the video (which takes up 50% of the area of the video)? How does it raise the production values of the video? And how does it help the audiences focus on the serious discussion happening?
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  414.  @pghaokip2212  you need not be bitter. The government is for all Bharat citizens. The twin threats of rampant religious conversions and unchecked border crossings have created in national security situation. As in many wes_ern countries, NRC would protect the country’s citizens.
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  415. Wonderful interview with Pandit Sharma. I think Arnab was being polite when he wondered how NYT, BBC and Guardian can all sound the same on Bharat. Of course they coordinate!
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  416. Poor etiquette and attitude, Arnab. Probably testing out Shri Annamalai, but lacking in courtesy of saying hello.
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  417. Yogi ji did not say Hindu need to stay united, he said Bharateeya need to stay united. Irony died when Owaisi labeled a call for unity as divisive. Spinning that as a call to Hindu alone, is shameful.
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  418. If anyone dies because of this blatant irresponsibility, there should be consequences for her career. That is the least that Mumbai film industry can do for society.
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  419. If it is a personal transaction between two individuals, why even mention Yes Bank unless it was a veiled threat against the bank?
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  420.  @anshuverma7777  Makes sense. Thanks!
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  421. "This video title is so biased and has a mocking tone to it. You could have used a more neutralised title."
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  422. "There is no one to one comparison between India and China, China is >90% han, in India even though people are similar there are castes, sub castes etc. No elections in China, Labour Unions are banned, Govt owns all the land of China, no opposition to their plans. Compare this to India and India is playing this game on super Hard mode."
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  423.  @Wcheqkxieqqceeqaewruwa  Whoa! a prediction there! You sound like you will jump if his theory fails.
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  424. "BJP has never blamed Judiciary even if the judgement does not go their way. I have never heard that even when they were in opposition."
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  425. "Pls invite Rajiv Malhotra on such discussions, i am surprised by not seeing him such enlightenment talks." Indeed, he may reasonably be called the father of modern (since the 90s) Bharateeya renaissance.
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  426. Shastri ji too, but he was taken early, we don't know yet by whom.
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  427. We need to know what Sonia ji and Rahul ji put in that 2005 'deal'. Could that be the cause of the lost lives in Galwan?
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  428. I believe Akash is Hindi, Akasa is Samskritam.
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  429. People such as Mr. Manish Sisodia are the quiet giants on whose shoulders Indian society rests. There are many others and voters don't always give them the opportunity to put their ideas into action. I am glad that he has the ability to.
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  430. Going after propaganda outlets is an important thing to do when a country is at war.
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  431. This ball-by-ball reporting is good but misses the forest for the trees. By now we have enough information to firmly link this to AI. WSJ just had story on this. Software jobs from MNC contracts are a national security issue to Bharat. More broadly, increasingly powerful AI, without the hardware or software tools to produce it in the global south, is a global security threat. Will be nice if Firstpost commissioned a more comprehensive story to envision the security implications of this megatrend.
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  432. The countries who buy the debt (bonds).
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  433. "Vantage team are you really India or why you spell slang Hindi in the words of Tamil Nadu .. It's not Tamil nad .. In Kannada also you say kannad "
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  434.  @TheMarketingMan4U  Indeed that is true.
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  435.  @alvanrigby6361  Yeah. And they are also paying free hotel and air for anyone who wants to travel to the island to see them for free.
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  436. "Is the current CHESS game originally from India?? Woww I thought it was from England or something."   NCERT has much to answer for.
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  437. Apologies for being OT but ten Hindu pilgrims get murdered by terrorists, and crickets from BBC, NYT, Organisation of Islamic Countries, Germany, Britain, Vatican, America, and EU. No headlines like "In Modi's rightwing Hindu nationalist India, _ pilgrims murdered by _". Echoed then by the entire US west coast press, the European press, and Al Jazeera. Nothing from Hindu religious leaders in Bharat either - they could have at least express helpless horror? Truly, no one stands up for the Hindu, including Hindu themselves.
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  438. Two consenting adults should be free to have casual sex without living together. Nevertheless, imposing the status of a couple on people living together may imbue live-in relationships with a greater gravitas in the minds of both parties than currently exists, with good outcomes for society. 'No other democracy does this', is hand-waving and not an argument in itself.
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  439. "someday they start creating AI powered leaders so someday an AI world leader declares war on another AI leader, and they bring in their AI armies, AI fighters to fight each other!"
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  440. "The problem with india is it tries to incorporate western techniques and system specially the US one. If one day, US would bare females from voting rights, india would copy same. If US would bring 7 day week program for employees, india would do same. If US won't control illegal immigration and peaceful community, india won't do either. If US follow dictatorship, india would do same. When wokeism started in hollywood, indian film industry also got impacted. Does india only born to follow USA, she doesn't have its own system and values. Learn something from China, Russia, Israel.....always stand on their standards even if US turning to woke or like taliban. We have to stand on our values, US was nothing 400 yrs ago but only a barren land with few tribes. But india has been here since indus Valley civilization with its own values ."
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  441.  @BigHardExcellentFish  Not the minimum wage, the top wage. Minimum wage is designed to pay enough to sustain life, not much above that.
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  442. Allopathic medicine as an engine of GDP growth is primarily an American invention and a bit of a Ponzi scheme. Pity that Bharat seems to be copying it. It is eminently possible to lower healthcare costs by smart focus on prevention and aayush-promoting life styles, and reserving expensive procedures and lab work to critical cases. The government can work to elevate the prestige of aarogyam over surgical procedures and health sera such as statins, by using appropriate educational strategies. The artificial epidemic of diabetes is a low-hanging fruit.
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  443. "When Azerbaijan support Pakistan that is ok but as soon as India supported Armenia they are throwing a tantrum. First watch your foreign policy"
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  444. The other shoe hasn’t yet dropped on what the Pfz Mod ones do. They do over activate, and linger in tissues.
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  445. We need rules on 'how big is too big'. Otherwise wackos with dollars can lead us all down the drain. It really is a small world and the consequences won't remain confined to America.
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  446. Dig deeper. Considering US inflation, one 2011 us dollar was 100 cents, and now is 73 cents. The rest of the difference in dollar and rupee depreciation can be explained by the subsidy US dollar enjoys as the reserve currency across the globe. The subsidy keeps US inflation artificially low.
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  447.  @SoYappy  I am very real, but such 'eat or be eaten' logic is good only till trouble comes to ones own doorstep. Bring this logic to America, the home of Amazon, which is complaining about 'overcapacity' and cheap imports from China. Ultimately, commerce has to work for building society, not for shredding it to bits.
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  448.  @SoYappy  How fussed up is this thinking! Your lack of understanding of things is staggering. Are you proposing that each of the crores of independent kiraaNa owners 'go national'?
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  449.  @kevinmathew2973  YT appears to not want me to answer you. They deleted my reasoned response.
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  450.  @kevinmathew2973  Thinking only about what you pay for without thought for what is happening behind the scenes, is cheap mentality.
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  451.  @TakGurung-xz5cx  Those are negotiations related to trade. I certainly hope that they resolve it in a mutually beneficial manner.
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  452.  @knightofceylon-ms1us  The point really was not about the math among neighbors. It was to point out that Shri Biden's comment was not very sensible.
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  453.  @pritsingh9766  There is nothing like Arya people, Dravid people and Astreloid people. We are all defined by our shared value of Dharma.
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  454. High time
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  455.  @ajaysharma6811  Sure. He is very good.
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  456. Modi 4.0 was clickbait. As they have repeatedly acknowledged, nobody at The Print knows what the BJP is going to do. The real purpose of this video was to scare and then offer free political consultancy to all the leftwing dynasts. Not a good look, Shekhar ji.
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  457. Thabo Ya Botswana below, uncovers the straw horse and sets flame to the logical structure of Shri Shekhar Gupta's essay: "Since when BJP's politics has prevented India to have best relations with Islamic countries!? Why then this urge on SG's part to link this with BJP's not surrendering to Islamic political pressure in India?".
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  458. Tobacco is a colonial legacy of the Portuguese and about 400 years old in India. Regardless, this ordinance is not aimed at adults already addicted to nicotine - it is about protecting impressional teenagers drawn like moths to e-cigarette flavors such as strawberry and chocolate. Keeping in mind Mr. Gupta's caution about bans, the government should look at the example of New York which is experimenting with banning flavored e-cigarettes.
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  459. Disappointing to see no mention of the word ''corruption'. Mr. Gupta's entire argument boils down, to let sleeping dogs lie.
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  460. The Print's journalism on Sandeskhali thus far has been one mealy-mouthed 50-word edit, one Mc Kinsey-style SWOT analysis for didi on how the rapes may affect her electoral prospects, and now this. No famous, ThePrint trade-mark, anecdotal, emotional, personal stories with quotes of suffering. The basic strategy is to ignore it till it passes away. Pardon, your hyphen is showing.
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  461. "Sir Your analysis is most of time correct when you think and write as neutral writer but unfortunately your hate for BJP and Modi is deep in your heart."
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  462. People buying this argument for services and not manufacturing (instead of both), should check the advances being made in AI by Google and OpenAI. incredible computations that took days to run are being done within a few minutes. It is a matter of time, and not too long a time for that matter, before AI will perform a lot of human back-office jobs. Economies that hitch all their jobs to that cart will go the way of horse drawn carriages when automobiles came on the scene.
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  463. Shri SG could have saved time by editing out everything else except 4:00 to 4:30 and used the remaining time to make a case for re-examining the so-called Tajmahal and the so-called Qutub complex. (Shri Krishna janmabhoomi is already a done deal).
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  464.  @sharadhsubadra18  You may be right, but disrespecting yourself is not the solution. There is good psychology research to show that it does not help.
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  465. Rather than kick yourself, which is a common response of many Indians, think of what needs to be done.
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  466. Can they not buy a retired sub at a low cost purely for tech demonstration?
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  467. In other news, we note in the passing that the NYT coterie/cabal/clique has resumed its regular programming on India. Clearly, what kept them preoccupied for the past 3 months appears to be waning.
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  468. Sri Gupta gets his aggressions out in doing a transactional analysis of Bharat – France relationship. Remarkable, when you consider the gingerness with which he steps around topics related to America, Britain, or the Gandhis.
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  469. Shows that even though the big ship of government is run by bureaucrats, it is really the leader that points the way the ship should go. Food for thought for people that gripe that Shri Modi does not have a Ph.D. or a Doon school accent.
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  470. Shri Nitish Kumar is Golam from the Lord of the Rings and kursi is his Precious. There is no discernible nor demonstrable higher purpose behind his attachment to power. Biharis can do better.
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  471. I would have liked if you placed it in a broader context with other world players involved. It is clear that the Chinese economic engine bore some costs, time will tell how big. There’s also more to explore about how this episode will alter entrepreneurship in India. Regardless, it is good if peace between India and China is one of the outcomes.
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  472. Well said! I was searching for the right words. It looks like a deliberate strategy, and there are close to 10 recent news and opinion items in The Print to prove it.
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  473. The criticism of the hosts in some comments below is surprising to me; I thought the questioned asked explored substantial issues in the domain of international relations.
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  474. southern India, please; not South India.
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  475. Shri Sanghvi is clearly too young to remember the ubiquitous 'pure vegetarian restaurant' signs outside mom-and-pop Bharateeya bhojana 'hotels' before the sophisticated aesthetic of Mc Donalds and Pizza Hut chains pushing 'enriched wheat fluor' took over.
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  476. This has to be the most astute comment here.
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  477. It is not a difference in the bias, just a difference in the degree of sophistication in using language. Shri Gupta's modus operandus is one of suggestion and innuendo and not direct accusation.
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  478. A copycat is bad enough, but a pretentious copycat is insufferable. That is the ad at the beginning of every CTC episode. Virtually every scenario shown is an American cliche copy/pasted into an Indian context.
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  479. One might also add that some of the perceived glamour (in some quarters) of Al Jazeera comes from the utterly delightful British accents of their English presenters, not to mention previous BBC work experience. Would also explain (to some others), the lock-step march with the 'clique/coterie/cabal' in their news coverage.
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  480. Such disputes happen in international commerce. Learn if there is something useful to learn and move on.
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  481. "Print is new wire 😂"
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  482. I scratch your back, you scratch mine.
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  483. The pressures of having something interesting to say daily results in hyperbole and casting around for something, _anything_. Sweden should have the highest death rate if the policy were a failure. Fifth highest with minimal disruption sounds like a resounding success, certainly not 'shambles'.
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  484. Somebody has a to do enthusiastic reviews of the Sabarmati river front development and the Kashi Viswananth temple project, weaving in interviews with the principals involved. Those would be a pleasure to watch. Public spaces are important anchors of civic pride and Indian media can do a little more to cultivate such a sensibility in us viewers.
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  485. Looks nice! The dense tree cover inside the complex in the concept seems like it could be a security issue. As a non-expert, seems to me it is better to have a clear line of sight.
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  486. The man at 3:20 makes a true point. Part of the planning for the future should include infrastructure that facilitates the work of such vendors all over the country.
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  487.  @maheshjambardi771  Also, build it in Canada.
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  488. It is like the Kanishka bombing never happened. More recently, how 'bout the 'farmer agitation' which cost 100s of billions of US dollars in economic opportunity costs for Bharat's farmers and the economy? Khalistani pose a real, strategic threat and let us not muddle the issue with Punjab politics. Yet, Gupta ji lectures the silly Indians to not worry. On the other hand, I like the idea of building a Kanishka memorial and inviting Canadian diplomats to the inauguration. I hope the government takes that idea seriously and with solemn respect for the lives lost.
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  489. Fabulous comment
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  490. Mr. Gupta, please consider exploring if there is a nuclear tech. quid pro quo between Turkey and Pakistan vis a vis Kashmir.
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  491. Someone below said that is there is no option to English. As an infamous propagandist is believed to have said, "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
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  492.  @danishtiwana  The Congress dynasty of Nehru->Indira/(Sanjay)->Rajiv->Sonia->Priyanka->Rahul-> and whoever is right now waiting in the wings to be sprung on the public at the right moment, is very much like the Mughal dynasty of Timur->Babur->Akbar->Shah Jahan-> Aurangazeb-> and so on. Democracies assume that you don't need to be born in a specific family to get the privilege and the opportunity to lead the people. Journalists, particularly people like SG who make much noise about freedom and democracy, should be horrified at the situation but they got used to the idea over the many decades and even thrive in it. The Congress model has so corrupted that country that you now have many little dynasties all over the country (yatha raja tatha praja). In a bass ackwards manner, so to speak, the Congress dynasty is now pointing to the system they have helped create to justify its own existence. All in all not healthy for a democracy.
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  493. At the least, the idiots who don't know much about the importance of their businesses to India and are thinking of the stock rout as a political game, will be better educated.
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  494. Recall Los Angeles air in the 1960s and 70s, or Beijing or any other big Chinese city air in the 1990s? Not to be flippant, but all that pollution? it is the result of economic activity.
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  495. "As it alway/often happens, a lot of the cultural ideas flow from the American system". Yes, if your cultural diet consists solely of Avengers movies and NYT best sellers lists. True for about 10% of India - you may recognize yourself as one if you have any kind of a 'coffee table book' at home.
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  496.  @akhiljames8807  what a messed up knowledge of history you have! Equating colonial plunder and killings with normal business between countries. Shame.
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  497. @ the colonial, British policy of exclusion or partial exclusion in the early 1900s insured rapid Christianization of the region while other religions were kept out. There have been slight changes since then, but for taste like Nagaland and Mizoram, protecting their recent Christian identity has now perversely come to mean protecting their tribal identity.
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  498. Pakistan need only ask. I am sure that India will consider the request favorably.
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  499. Shri Nitish Kumar may have a genuine kursi addiction.
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  500. To understand the clever wordsmithing that Shri Gupta does, read the video title this way: "Why the Gandhis undermined the authority of former PM Manmohan Singh and that of his office". Always protect the Gandhi brand and shift the blame. Recall the fate of Shri Sitaram Kesri; the Gandhis created a hostile and intimidating work environment, mafia like.
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  501. Poverty comes in many shapes. If there is not a good road to a village, it cannot attract services dependent on roads, from good teachers to small businesses. If there is not a toilet or running water at home, the time spent in searching for those leaves the searchers poorer in time they could have spent more productively. It is possible to be so oblivious to one's own privilege that easing these most basic burdens of living to those lacking them may seem like an election gimmick to get votes.
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  502. You should spend some time looking at how countries with orders of magnitude higher per capita income are struggling with this crisis. May be that will give you a better appreciation for what India is doing.
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  503. I was told this story by a very senior scientist who retired from a major government research agency: he had gone to France for postdoctoral research and was assigned an office that was dusty from lack of use. His advisor came to check on him after a couple of days, and wondered why the office was still dusty. My friend replied that he was waiting for the cleaning person to come by. The advisor wordlessly took him to the broom closet and nicely asked him to grab a broom and get busy cleaning. Hopefully this new policy will instill dignity of labor from school age.
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  504. "People fallowed family planning promoted by government. Now they are saying who have more numbers will get more benefits then what about family planning !!!!!"
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  505. Shri Gupta once admiringly narrated a quote from a former finance secretary, "when others hit sixers we Indian try to get into the photo frame". That pretty much exemplifies his self-image. But I thought Sri Syam Saran's essays on the Print and now these videos cross a line. It is a time of tensions and people in the know should speak with great tact and not dredge up the most negative stereotypes of Indians that they can think of. The same with Ms. Malhotra interview with Chetan Bhagat. Things need to improve, but there seems to be a sudden coordination of effort across the spectrum at a moment of multiple crises, to throw any mud that can lay their hands on.
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  506. "He just makes up things.
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  507. I believe, it is not pronounced nav-ic, it is naav-ic.
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  508.  @d2849  YOU ARE A DISGUSTING PERSON
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  509. The 'Happy Seeder' could be one possible solution at least for the stubble burning part: https://www.publish.csiro.au/an/ea06225. There must be others - there are big moneys to be made by businesses depending on which solution is picked (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-pollution/indias-230-million-plan-to-stop-crop-burning-that-pollutes-delhi-falls-short-of-estimates-idUSKCN1FY0IA). Hopefully, decisions will be based on firm scientific evidence.
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  510. The utterly smug certainty of Shri Sanghvi never fails to irritate.
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  511. Thank you for a timely episode. Most pubic health announcements seem to suggest washing hands frequently, not touch surfaces you don't need to touch, use the back of hands and not the finger tips for rubbing eyes - that too if absolutely necessary, self-quarantine yourself if it feels like you are coming down with something (6 feet away from others seems to be a safe distance) and seek medical attention, cough or sneeze into your sleeve, and don't miss meals or sleep. Avoid shaking hands for a couple of months until this settles down - people will understand. Finally, the time-honored Indian home remedy of a glass of hot milk with turmeric works well to provide relief from symptoms of the common cold if taken early.
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  512. Kundan Kumar Not at all. The virus doesn’t care for religion; everyone has to be extra responsible particularly those in positions of power. I just called out language that needed to be. Read my words carefully and watch the video again.
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  513. This is stream-of-consciousness journalism. It was not a week ago that The Print was giving advice to India to develop a thick skin and printing ‘Nobel Laureate’ in every headline. Did they think India MEA did not anticipate this development while supporting ’dictator’ Hasina ji? We need more thoughtful, higher calibre journalism.
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  514. The poi soning of JP has not been investigated yet, neither has that of LBS. So many sk eletons in Con gr ess cupboard.
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  515.  @vinod1147  insecure, the answer is.
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  516. Shri Ram Madhav always impresses with his eminent good sense and reassuring manner.
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  517. Very helpful interview with a real expert. Complicated stuff! I kept hearing about middle-men all my life but really understood for the first time the nuts and bolts of how they actually operate. Thank you.
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  518. One imagines that at one time being in the external affairs ministry only meant speaking 'good English', knowing how to properly hold a knife and a fork, or wear a suit and tie spouting harmless inanities. Now it is an adult's game, with the principals having the actual sensibility of doing the people's work.
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  519.  @jackhoward5822  I meant Shri Singh's plan for the young prince.
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  520. This is nice science, relevant to Indian audiences in more than one way. In the future, it would be wonderful to mix in conversations with the science teams along with description of the science. Models exist in how Nature or Cell podcasts present their stories.
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  521. Valuable information. I hope the Center will coordinate a 'Lessons learnt and plan for the future' conference with all the state governments once this crisis is past.
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  522. To the extent we can tell the purpose of this episode, it is deeply troubling.
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  523. "So you spent freaking how long!! half an hour reading a freaking propaganda piece and you call this journalism ? OMGoodness."
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  524.  @130vaibhavrathi3  They are more expensive because they reflect the real costs of usage. You have to add in environmental costs. Yes also America doesn’t invest in public transport, maybe to help the car sellers.
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  525. Income inequality is not a good measure under all circs. Consider a country of five people, and they all remain poor income, inequality will be low. However, if one of them succeeds under improved business conditions, then suddenly income inequality will become high.
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  526.  @smitaswarup8562  I read the RSS position statement at RSS.org. I did not see anything remotely to suggest that they harbor a racial social vision similar to that of either the Nazis or White Supremacists. They do have some sentences about Muslims that made me shake my head at the obtuseness. If you know your history, the often quoted verbiage from RSS leaders of early 20th century is mild compared to that of the democratic leaders of that era. There is only so far that horse can be flogged. I do share their misgivings about the potential for conflict of Hindu cultures with expansionist ideologies - that is just a reality of human societies. The only solution out of this is for all exclusionary religions in India to undergo a reformation to give up expansion and conform to the Indian value system of mutual recognition and respect. I am in fact an enthusiastic supporter of their social vision that advocates for a society that lives in harmony with mother nature and with a smaller ecological footprint. The real reason I think RSS gets out sized attention is not because of any resentment they may hold against Turkik and Mongolian invaders from the past - that is just a red herring - but because they present a Hindu social vision in competition to the two other dominant ideologies of the world, i.e., capitalism and communism. One that hopefully, does not include caste.
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  527.  @almightypain1307  I don't believe that Shri Rahul Gandhi is corrupt, in a narrow sense of the word, although he supports a corrupt establishment. Because of the powerful position he holds, he poses a real danger to India's democracy. He has also gone through a lot of trauma in life and I personally wish him well.
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  528. The even more stupendous outcome of the poll is that so many people think that young Shri Rahul Gandhi is the second most suited person to be the next PM. Head-scratcher, that.
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  529. A parallel to China's rise in the world is their staggering rise in scientific and technological productivity, both in new science and new patents. India is woefully behind. Both of these are the engines of the modern world economies. Indian universities and and research centers should have a clearer vision of their role in building Indian economy. It's not just up to the business people.
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  530. Wonderful explanation as always! One minor nit to pick: for every 'rupee' India exports to China, India imports '3 rupees' worth from China (my small push against the seemingly inevitable Americanization of Indian English usage).
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  531. spot-on. I think these things are decided in a group call between leftwing papers, because Indian Express took the same line.
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  532. Seeing episodes such as this one and some of Corona episodes where the latest shiny paper is heralded as the last word on the topic makes me think that there are big risks of error propagation in popular journalists attempting to digest nuanced, complex topics and then 'de-clutter' them for the public in a study guide format, all under tight deadlines.
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  533. Wonderful episode, thank you. I’d also add cause and effect are very difficult to separate, especially with multiple factors at play in a hospital. Stress for example could increase susceptibility to infection and disease.
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  534. Anyone who sees this and does not believe that there is a secret WhatsApp group that jointly decides on the narrative to push on the world's events is probably kidding themselves. Remarkable concordance between the coterie and some sections of Indian media.
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  535. Everyone affected is by definition herd immunity.
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  536. What got Shri Trump's attention is the response of the stock market, I think.
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  537.  @Manish_Kumar_Singh  I think faculty offer a course and students take a course. But, we can agree to disagree.
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  538. Great idea. I think you mean offer courses?
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  539.  @ankur.mahajan  The sheepish borrowing into a context that has little relevance was certainly cringe for me.
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  540.  @hpssahota1977  Independent and questioning, not motivated and biased.
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  541. It is detestable to even think that India will play the colonial game of protectorates and spheres of influence. It is however entirely reasonable to try to build bridges to the Afghan hearts and minds using our shared history and heritage based on mutual respect. This underutilized strategy holds true for many other countries in Asia. Finally, a shout out to Shri Shekhar Gupta for mentioning Chanakya neeti! I hope it catches on.
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  542. I don't think India believes in a 'sphere of influence'. As a good neighbor, India must build many more soft bridges to other South Asian countries through people-to-people connections. Travel, cultural exchange, educational exchanges + learn and teach languages + make the COVID video conferencing that Shri Modi did a few weeks ago routine and not a special event, the same way Europe and America routinely engage with each other without much fanfare. Bonus is that even in normal circs. you don't have to cross an ocean to go visit.
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  543. Not clear if dividing up will solve the problem of extrajudicial killings. We need one more episode on what is needed for police reform.
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  544. They are far right when it comes to personal enrichment.
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  545. One has to applaud the door drishti (foresight) of Modi, Shah and Jaishankar in seeing the coming dark clouds, back in 2019.
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  546. southern and northern India, if you please; and yes, seems to be generally true, although UP bears the brunt.
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  547. Complicated topic, great CTC.
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  548.  @anishmohan7813  No financial improvement, no peace of mind.
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  549. Ms. Malhotra, you should also occasionally invite left-wing idealogues on your show.
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  550. "It’s a pristine forests of Telangana pls don’t destroy it if it’s necessary with national interest pls plan it in Gulbarga district it has a lot of barren lands for such operations."
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  551. Once I again, this suggestive piece reinforces my suspicion that the leftwing in India is the lobbying arm of some deep, foreign force. May not even be something as simple as a country, but something foreign is there for sure. (Readers should consider this piece together with Shri Panag's recommendation to take some dramatic step with China at the border. They both advocate different things, but rhyme).
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  552. All isms are odious, as I believe Gandhiji once said. May the government have the wisdom to present an ism-free budget which will further unshackle the entrepreneurial spirit and reduce friction to economic productivity, while providing safety to the most vulnerable people in the country.
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  553. Almost like an exam guide for strategy in Indian rajneeti chaturanga. Brilliant! I hope Mr. Kejriwal wins a third term and grows in political strength as another unifying force for the country.
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  554. (repost with edits) Behavioral differences could possibly explain some of the differences. My non-scientific observation based on YouTube videos is that Asian people adopted wearing masks much earlier than did Europe and America. Worth studying if behavioral differences between UK and Germany explain some of the variation seen. Masks may be at least as effective as some of the more popular drugs out there, in tempering virus severity.
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  555.  @neogenesis_indica  The advanced mathematics of much of engineering and science today is founded on Vedic mathematics - try modeling airplanes without using shoonya - all planes flying now are Vedic planes already. Blessings of ShriRama can only give this project a boost.
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  556. People are lumping together pace of progress under 60 years of the '85%' Congress culture and the new Bharateeya culture. The pace of project completion has quickened across the board in the last 10 years, more so in the last 5 years. New under-the-hood structural changes in defense RnD have been initiated as well, which will further boost tech development.
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  557. Of all the things Shri Sabharwal said, focusing on education probably will yield the biggest bang for buck. It is not like Indian states are not spending the money, what is not clear is where the money is going. This will not solve the COVID19 crisis, but we might have a more prepared society for when the next crisis will inevitably strike.
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  558. I have had some small success in popularizing 'left-illiberal' to label the leftwing mindset.
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  559. "Extorsion by which party BJP - 6500 Cr, or Congress 1500 Cr or TMC - 1400 Cr or DMK 1000+ Cr.. Pls specify the party and we can explain that party's extortion.. But you need to explain further that other parties didn't extort."
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  560. "Shekhar, you are found missing from the Kajwiwal subject all week and the only mention you did in this post almost puts him as a victim. Are the Delhi govt(AAP) ads money to your establishment guiding your column. The print may loose credibility if you do not present your unbiased coverage(or openion) please comment. Unlike print media, you see in this digital age, we get to ask you the question too. Please comment"
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  561.  @doncorleone9297  True that. There a bit of collaboration going on on that front between IE and Print there. IE also behaves like a bit of a pimp when it comes to foreign tech and brands. I don't know if the corruption is at corporate level or individual reporter level.
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  562. Another great comment from the The Print article: KB Singh 5 December, 2020 at 12:30 pm "Big ticket reforms are always resisted. Govt should and is apparently giving a patient hearing to the farmers genuine grievances. MSP written assurance must be subject to farmers adhering to limited controlled wheat and rice produce. Country can not afford to purchase unwanted grains that will later rot in godowns. Protesting farmers should keep the national interest in mind along with theirs. Undue concessions under pressure must be avoided which will later prove policy blunder. Keep having dialogue to clarify the apprehensions even if it takes time. But the genuine grievances should be addressed!"
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  563. My own two cents is that farm reforms should lead to better efficiencies in the flow of farm product across state borders and a better mix of what is grown on farms. I hope the entrance of corporations is to facilitate these goals and NOT to recreate 'value-added' processed food monstrosities like 50 flavors of oily potato chips and another 50 flavors of sugar-laced cereals.
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  564. US-style language is slowly permeating India. US-style black and white thinking is a short step away.
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  565. I hope Young Mr. Gandhi will be the one to bell the cat and make such a commitment if Congress comes to power. But seriously, the BJP should propose such a system as the British have. It may be uncomfortable, but seems like a good way to safeguard against 'tyranny of the majority'.
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  566.  @EdwinTyler  Makes sense. Thanks.
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  567. Alleles can be thought of as different flavors of a gene, e.g. for the 'eye colour gene', one allele may give the black eye color and another may give brown eye color.
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  568. "Hey can you do the same analysis from the opposite point of view? Like how did they win and where etc?"
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  569. Shri Gupta built up a long story as if Khalistani are an organic outgrowth. Palki Sharma cut to the chase and asked the question, why do the Khalistani never speak up for the Sikh hunted and persecuted in Pakistan and Afghanistan? That shows their origins that Shri Gupta did not want to talk about, not even using his famous technique of suggestion and innuendo.
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  570. The many suggestive dog-whistle references to Hindi in this episode had me wondering again, what if he is not just a harmless political hack but a closet anti-national and a troublemaker?
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  571. At some point, we should stop using pejorative terms like 'vernacular' or 'regional languages' and just call them what they are - Indian languages.
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  572. Yours is a reasoned argument but one I don’t agree with. The TMC goons behavior has to do with social norms, which can be discussed on its own merits, separate from the suspensions. Old faithfuls like PBM have been hyperventilating about the destruction of Indian democracy with the suspensions, once again, as expected. I haven’t seen anyone speak up for upholding social norms on the highest debate stage in the country. School age children are watching. There is room to criticise both the suspensions, and the TMC goon, separately, without ring fencing the latter with the former. Both the US and the UK, countries that many at the Print worship, protect the dignity of their institutions and don’t let it be damaged. Even SNL skits don’t cross the personal line that the TMC goon did. Such intensely personal mockery is not a form of self expression that should be protected. Even if legally protected, social norms should develop that turn the offender into a political non-entity.
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  573. Anyone remember the 'world hunger index' report on Bharat? Much gyani ink was spilt on it.
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  574.  @AmitKumar-Inferno  Is that not a problem in India to use US stats? I mean, is there not statistical data to know what the norm is in India? How about comparing with economically richer Asian nations such as Japan?
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  575. Thank you for a timely episode. I hope justice Gogoi's choice doesn't cause any (lasting) damage to the prestige of the supreme court.
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  576. "Hello sir. Waiting for your coverage of kallakurichi bootleg liquor tragedy"
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  577.  @therelaxlead676  Yes, perhaps a 'sane person' with zero sense of self respect would 'humbly' accept someone gratuitously calling them a 'hutiya', and thank them for it. Strange world the rude Lwing lives in, where left is right!
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  578.  @rjrocks249  That was my guess as well.
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  579. Let us not forget Malvinas/Falklands; Britain saying, 'I used to be great'.
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  580. So Indian taxpayers from all states are giving free money to dalaris from Punjab and Haryana.
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  581. Perhaps the government can show a translated version of this episode to the farmers at the next negotiation meeting?
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  582. This CTC is awe-inspiring in its breadth and depth. Hope the quality stays consistent.
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  583. BJP has to colour the entire opposition in the AAP keechad - violence and disprespect to women, and naked corruption. Sab ek hi rang ke hain.
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  584. It is really not complicated - Shri Jaishankar has laid out India's position in plain terms. What is novel though is that for the first time, an Indian government is frankly arguing that its proper constituency is the people of India. It is doing so while being guided by India's civilizational ethos of Dharma, as opposed to untrammeled expediency.
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  585. It is not clear to me why saying 'hamare poorvaj itne mahaan the' " is not compatible with working for economic or technological development. Does any one know?
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  586. Is a pithy summary of L wing journalism
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  587. By Anglo-American media, Shri Macron probably meant British and American media, and not the English-speaking media of America. It would be superfluous to mean otherwise.
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  588. I hate to be harsh but this is too much what is, plodding through clearly displayed numbers, and too little WHY is. Some of the comments below have filled the gap. Labour reforms (and farm laws) might help if the do-nothing opposition allows them.
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  589. We suspect that the school teacher story is made-up.
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  590. Rarely is Shri Gupta this ingratiating to his Indian audience. Usually he delivers the sermon from the preachy heights. He is trying hard, but why?!! (Dear viewer, my comment does not address the merits of his argument, only his manner).
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  591. ​ @sublimefermion2205  Your comment seems like a leap of logic. You don't have to be a diplomat to make a comment on nature of the press, just an active interest enough to follow the news. Now, it would have been another thing if I were commenting about how western and chinese diplomats operate - something which I still might do, but I did not here. Just to forestall some useless back and forth, Ms. Rao is here as a commentator, not an active diplomat.
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  592. There will be no one anywhere left untouched by this - it has already come to everyone's doorsteps. This is a good time for the Indian middle class - engineers, journalists, statisticians, mathematicians, doctors, scientists, business people, and most importantly political leaders, to remember Gandhiji's talisman. Or, 'dharmo rakshati rakshitaha'.
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  593. Wonderful feature from The Print. Such thoughtful public conversations on topics other than political cricket are still rare in India and it will take some time for the mechanics of the interaction to mature. We would like more conversations in many more topics - language, art, architecture, education, theater, dance, cinema, science, life in India’s villages - the watchword being conversations.
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  594. "When has the world cared about Hindus of Kashmir, Pakistan and Bangladesh? When has anyone cared about Tibetans?"
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  595.  @JohnSmith-vn8dm  Language is just a medium for communication is the greatest lie ever told, and many people even believe it, even though countries like France and America spend great efforts to promote and propagate their respective languages. Because, it is the vehicle for culture too. People stop eating dal-rice and switch to burgers and breads, etc., etc., when they switch to English (I am only mildly exaggerating, and won't engage further).
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  596. How about a two-minute piece titled, "Some sections of Indian press do not use suggestion and innuendo to sow doubts about India's institutions, says Shekhar Gupta".
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  597. Rohit Thaosen below: "So you people caught up after weeks and months? Honestly this is a failure of journalism too as well as AAP government. Especially when it was clear to even me a disaster was brewing.". These episodes increasingly feel like live game commentary than anything with a productive intent.
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  598.  @biswa1577  Bravo! That has to be one of the best fact-based replies I saw to a YouTube comment.
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  599. Two pompous gasbags on one stage. How insufferable!
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  600.  @akh-007  1) The massacre in the Sabarmati Express railway bogie was of 59 Hindu, not of hundreds or thousands. Shri Modi was not responsible for it, a 1000-people strong Muslim mob was 2) Shri Modi‘s frantic attempts, as a newly minted and inexperienced chief minister, to unsuccessfully contain the initial days of ensuing violence, are well documented.
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  601.  @Con_founded are Democrats referred to as liberal Christians?
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  602. Individuals using small metal boxes to move themselves from place to place is so 20th century. India should really push the envelope on public transportation + dramatic innovations in city design and the-nature-of-work design. COVID has given a small opening for new thinking. If Tesla can bring back tonnes-heavy rocket shells from space and reuse them, surely thinking outside the box is allowed?
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  603. The inexorable law of dharma is universally applicable, even to Islamic countries: 'dharmo rakshati rakshitaha', protect dharma and it will protect you. It is pertinent too, that much of Bangladesh is Islamic in religion, but very much Hindu in culture.
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  604. Need to be said again, "This is not analysis on any scale. It is just highly opinionated discourse". Anything approaching analytical has to meet the criterion of like judgement of like situations. Pontificatory tone against one side, and waffling or making-excuses-tone when it comes to another side, seems like a disrespectful attitude for Shri Gupta to take. I hope that he does not think Hindi speakers are ignorant of world affairs.
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  605. Great irony in the Soros-sponsored THEPRINT adding the 'angry' tag to the establishment narrrative-questioning Palki Sharma. In America, where the 'left' and 'right' wings are cleanly separated, the rightwing reserves the label for the leftwing.
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  606. This is the problem with parroting talking points from another culture without really thinking it through.
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  607. A vital conversation and thoughtful questions; thank you for conducting it.
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  608. After that long buildup, he says that BJP choosing under-represented groups for Rajya Sabha is pure politics. An idea for a next episode: why BJP chooses under-represented artists from remote corners of Bharat for Padma awards instead of powerful Delhi and Mumbai socialites. Is this sold-out journalism?
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  609. When thinking of Kejriwal, 'unsavory' is the first word that comes to mind. And he is the PM face of Sorrows.
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  610. This is a most insightful comment. I wish Jyoti Malhotra could read it. She sounded almost jealous of India's position.
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  611. EV yes, Strlink no. Please.
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  612. Mr. Gupta, slightly off topic, Ratan Tata recently said that structural changes were happening which will yield fruit. Was that wishful thinking, makkhan, or the truth? We all know the bad numbers. It will be nice have a CTC on whether there are any structural reforms being put in place for a robust long term economic health, or not. I personally don't know the answer but am hoping for a silver lining.
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  613. "The govt. is responding to the will of the voters (cue the electoral mandate). It is exactly how a democracy should work."
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  614. "This is a strong and reasonable opinion. As the middle class grows in size and acquires more voting power it will be taken more seriously. Plus, the BJP thinks the middle class will vote for them anyway and therefore it can afford to take it for granted. Ultimately it all boils down to politics. Thanks for writing in, Prasuna…shekhar" Shekhar ji still in campaigning mode. Now that they have tasted blood, won't let up in injecting grievance and disaffection where they can.
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  615. Shri Gupta offers nothing less than a touchstone to understand leftwing journalism. Let's reverse the gaze and ask, What did Shri Shekhar Gupta and other Print journalists read in 'school'?.
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  616.  @millennialmind9507  Indeed. The quality of students is comparable to that from top notch public and private colleges in America. At a conservative estimate, that is about 0.5 million US dollars worth education into each student. The policy blind spot over 6 decades is staggering. Nobody cared. Edit: For context, the current cost (before subsidies) of 4 year private college in America is $280,000 (MIT and Princeton). The average annual tax payer cost of K-12 public school education in America is $14,500. For 12 years it is $174,000. Total = ~ $450,000. This is conservative estimate because it neglects lost opportunity costs for society in tax revenues and creativity when those citizens join the work force, and the intangible value of time put in by families in driving, cooking, etc. etc.for the children.
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  617.  @vinsin328  Sounds suspiciously like you belong to the beef industry lobby.
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  618. "This government has to learn to how to implement some actual good policies & ideas, because a lot of times it seems like these actual good ideas & policies are literally dying at birth just because some overenthusiastic smarty pants implements them in most horrific way possible, and kills them for ever or atleast for a very long time."
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  619. If I may, southern Indian or Indian from south.
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  620. Yet another virtuoso survey of world politics. Thank you! By now, this show should be required viewing for entering IFS officers.
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  621.  @AjitJoshi686  Brilliantly succinct and accurate at many levels.
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  622. As Shri Gupta plainly said in a recent article, his attempt is not defeat the BJP, but to contain its majority using any smears possible.
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  623. I think Nebraska is going to end up as a case study in epidemiology. I hope people stay safe.
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  624. Thanks for a good laugh :-) You must be writing for a living? At any rate, your sense of humor is unimpeachable.
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  625. I see resilience under pressure.
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  626. It will be interesting to hear more specific details about how Shri Sharif's grandparent purchased the factory from a hindu. I suspect that it was not a purchase in the conventional sense. Shri Sharif considering the seller's religion significant enough factor to mention in the story shows the fundamental issue with Pakistan.
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  627. "we made it clear that we want to see them make a full investigation.." Language...language...
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  628. It is risky for sure, but India won't be safe if there are hot spots of COVID-19 in the immediate neighborhood even when India is free. The decision is humane and makes sense as well.
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  629. This is a significant change in stance to more forward-leaning.
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  630. There is a whale of a difference between roaring (which your headline correctly said), and fuming (which is not what Shri Modi did).
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  631. Presence of mind under unexpected circs is very much a requirement for responsible positions.
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  632. Palki, this is thoughtful and timely. Now, we need to move past what is, to a clear understandings of the why, and develop a childhood vaccine against this disease. It is too late for the adults.
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  633. Wonderful conversation. I believe the presenter got the pronunciation of Prof. Babones’s name wrong. Important to research such things beforehand.
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  634. The interviewer got properly scolded in the exchange starting at 20:40. Alas, the ENTER key had already been pressed in his brain and it is processing the sensible sounds out of Shri Chomsky's mouth through a peculiar filter.
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  635. BJP kept them limited to two digits.
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  636. Doesn't need to, according to current law.
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  637. 24:45 Sneeze into your sleeve, please. Bless you!
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  638. Is The Rajiv Gandhi Foundation a front for money laundering? I hope not.
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  639. Thank you for a timely episode. Most pubic health announcements seem to suggest washing hands frequently, not touch surfaces you don't need to touch, use the back of hands and not the finger tips for rubbing eyes - that too if absolutely necessary, self-quarantine yourself if it feels like you are coming down with something (6 feet away from others seems to be a safe distance) and seek medical attention, cough or sneeze into your sleeve, and don't miss meals or sleep. Avoid shaking hands for a couple of months until this settles down - people will understand. Finally, the time-honored Indian home remedy of a glass of hot milk with turmeric works well to provide relief from symptoms of the common cold if taken early.
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  640. He is not operating w/ a full deck
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  641. "Why does Bhagwat not open his mouth on the Sambhal riots against Hindus."
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  642. The quality of this discussion is amazing!
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  643. To the shriman at 17:00 who seems to imply that the (NYT/WaPo/Guardian/Independent/ Al Jazeera) ecosystem outside India exists as a counterpoint to the BJPs ecosystem in the country: that equation is just so disturbing at many levels.
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  644. Good forbid no one catches corona but if they do, I hope they follow the exemplary behavior of Sumiti Singh!
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  645. Saying 'circuit' is grating on the ear. Please think of a more euphonious word to describe the parikrama.
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  646. Why can't Mr. Goswami nurture a culture of more such conversations at Republic? The other kind (the fish market kind), may be good for business and TRPs but are ultimately damaging to the India that he clearly loves and her social habits.
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  647. What is the Indian government's national security action plan for fighting the systematic NYT/Washington Post/Guardian editorial and op-ed page violence against India's world image and economic prospects? They need a cadre of writers countering the lies on the same pages - both offense and defense.
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  648. This is absurd. It is like imposing a special tax on the small diagnostic businesses that the country needs the most now. If it is not 'free' but it will be reimbursed later, call it 'on credit' and then debate the practicality of imposing that on every small business each with their unique cash flow situations.
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  649. Would you ask Walmart and Amazon India to open up their warehouses of food for free to people in this hour of need?
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  650. There is one problem with the current Indian technical educational system. The textbooks are all set in a different time zone and the case studies do nothing to develop a habit of thinking about national needs. And then these students grow up to be managers of research programs and so it goes. Engineering faculty should go the extra mile to attune the minds of the students to India's national needs by developing national priorities as case studies. There is also a need to inculcate a precision and accuracy mindset right from school age with a low tolerance for 'good enough'.
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  651. Fascinating take. How centre?
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  652. If there is a Prime Minister's relief fund, send money to it. You don't need to stir out of your house.
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  653. So heartening to see bagged food being distributed by the security personnel. Many thanks to these Corona heroes!
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  654. "Rahul says 2 businessmaen do all the business.He forgets that one family and one family alone has ruled and further want to rule for ever india"
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  655. Good fences make good neighbors.
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  656. Can govt compel all cell phone operating system providers (Google, Apple, others?) to make it mandatory that Aarogya Setu app be running for the phones to be able to make and receive calls and SMS?
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  657. "There is literally no one who would look at that chart and will say china imports are declining . There is no trend in imports. Please don’t interpret statistics."
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  658. Seems like this quote, 'the Hindus will not accept me', explains his virulent anti-Hindu policies post-'47 and potential silent electoral understanding with Maulana ji.
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  659. The interviewer appears to be a complete i d I o t. She is being set up on from every side, and trying to get a gotcha out of her is, frankly, disgusting. She is very intelligent and articulate and the interview could have proceeded in a higher plane than just rehashing the done and dusted controversies that she had addressed many times already.
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  660. "They want secularism, they got secularism.. Now only seculars cry about it. Beauty of Indian secularism "
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  661. Yogi ji did not say Hindu need to stay united, he said Bharateeya need to stay united. Irony died when Owaisi labeled a call for unity as divisive. Spinning that as a call to Hindu alone, is shameful.
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  662. Sanjay Jha ji is childish and boorish.
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  663. The bigger point still remains. It just shifted from Windows to Crowdstrike.
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  664. Indian Exp and Print are tying themselves in knots in figuring how to present the street violence. They seem to have settled on ‘blame the police’ for not ‘anticipating’ the stone hurlers.
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  665. "Any movement towards a stable relationship between two giants is welcome for the neighbourhood and will bring prosperity to the whole region. Jai hind"
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  666. The part on history of Indian Constitution should go straight into NEP civics curriculum for school kids. Wonderful reporting on India's rich democratic tradition going back thousands of years.
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  667. Bharat not just in Hindi, is in all bhasha including English.
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  668. Shri Poonawala's idiom is so American, "the great state of Uttar Pradesh" 🙂 May Shri Krishna protect Bharat from semi-Americans!
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  669.  @floracelin8823  This IS science, although I suspect that some people cannot recognize science if it landed vertically where they are standing.
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  670.  @onetrueindian1  The lack of intellectual curiosity is utterly befuddling. Your politics apart, this is widely acknowledged to be the greatest unsolved script decipherment challenge in the world.
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  671. An understanding of the superstructure behind organizations like V Dem has not percolated deep into any levels of Bharat press or society. Most reaction, even at the level of MEA, tend to be of knee jerk anger at the hypocrisy, with minimal impact outside Bharat. I am waiting for it to transform into a long-term strategic response that starts in the home countries of coverts like V Dem; we are some ways from that.
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  672. This discussion is not framed correctly, Rahul, if I may say so with all due respect. There are rules and laws, and then there are social norms. Juxtaposing a potential misinterpretation by the government of parliament rules, with the demolition of social norms by the TMC goon, is utterly wrong. The fact that the TMC commentator did not think that it is a serious issue, is food for thought for people working on the new Bharateeya education system.
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  673. Thank you! That is very detailed and very helpful.
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  674. Fascinating! Congress couldn't breach 100 seats and they literally doing a victory lap! Say what you might about the Lwing, they sure know how to drive the narrative
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  675. India may be the only place in the world there is a tyranny of the minority.
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  676. The rah rah buzz around AI is hopefully veering around to the reality of AI. Is a threat to humanity.
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  677. "Time to ban Al Jazeera and BBC in India". Follow Amrca's lead of banning RT.
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  678. India needs all hands, 360 push on tech. Using beg, borrow and steal, China has become a tech giant rivalling Amer ca. The story is in plain pictures for those who can see. The onus is on Tata, Mahindra, Infosys but I suspect they lack the education (no offence) or urgency to see it.
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  679. Clincher: "So, what can we learn from these pests? And should we?"
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  680. Fair point, but I am sure it pinches a bit
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  681. Is so cold in November. Election time in America. They should be held spring time.
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  682. On what basis does China want better relations with Bharat?
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  683. Yawning gulf between Shri Joshi's premise, absurd as it was - we don't choose our friends and allies - and his question, why did Russia go to war over NATO expansion? I was expecting modest syntactical coherence, even if not logical coherence, in phrasing of questions.
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  684. What a betrayal it will turn out to be if the misunderstandings are discovered to stem from secret agreements on the border that Congress party signed with a foreign govt.
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  685.  @solconcordia4315  High income people living there is true for countries like Japan or UK as well.
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  686. "It is very sad that Kasparov is being put forward as a figure to admire and a standard to meet. In the 1995 Anand vs Kasparov world championship, Anand took the lead in game 9. In game 10, every time Kasparov made a move, he got up to go to the bathroom and slammed the door behind him so hard the room shook. The young and mild mannered Anand did not complain to the arbiter, who also did not act. Bullying destroys lives, and bullied children suffer lifelong low self esteem. Kasparov is no role model, and if he needs such tactics to win he is no champion. He needs to be made to confront his behavior and answer for it."
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  687.  @Mr.Coffee576  Not true. Look at the official government spelling.
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  688.  @Mr.Coffee576  Not true, according to the government of Bharat: https://knowindia.india.gov.in/states-uts/
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  689. Llama comes with the baggage of its biases and party lines. How will Reliance clean them up so that Bharateeya can use Reliance AI without compromising their self-respect?
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  690. Deeply unfortunate and hateful tragedy. However, this is not an ‘India’ incident. It is rape by some men in Jharkand. The press which is usually alert about a casta angle to everything in Bharat hasn’t yet asked what the ‘caste’ of the perpetrators is.
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  691. Probably what Ukr is all about.
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  692.  @vicmath1005  I'll give you 3 examples and stop there. It will be my good deed for the day in helping improve you: 1) Nataraja bronze smuggled out of TN in 2006. Recovered from National Gallery of Australia 2) Ardhanariswara smuggled out of TN in 1980s. Recovered from Art Gallery of New South Wales. 3) Buddha head from Bihar. Smuggled out of India and auctioned in UK. Recovered in 2006. There are many more examples. Please use this as a starting point to research more and better educate yourself. Good luck!
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  693.  @vicmath1005  do you know where the market for them is?
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  694.  @vicmath1005  I think you shd look up the literacy rate in Bharat when the British left.
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  695.  @alvanrigby6361  Actually, you are right. TVs are trivial. It is more like snatching your family photo album and charging you a fee to look at it.
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  696.  @alvanrigby6361  A bit like your neighbour snatching your TV and charging you a fee to watch it in his living room.
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  697.  @vicmath1005  This is so laughably ignorant that I won’t waste further time engaging in discussion on the point itself. You are either knowingly spewing colonial propaganda, truly ignorant, or brainwashed. Consider this elementary statistic: what was the literacy rate when the British left?
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  698.  @vicmath1005  "They never celebrated their art riches. " Yeah, they were too busy trying to survive under colonial occupation.
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  699. NYT headline from last year: "Argentina Elects Javier Milei in Victory for Far Right: Argentina’s next president is a libertarian economist whose brash style and embrace of conspiracy theories has parallels with those of Donald J. Trump." Bodes well for America. This one from CNN: "Far-right outsider Javier Milei wins Argentina’s presidency". The LW ing press scatters far-right epithet like bird seed.
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  700. Dig deeper please, this looks like a structural shift.
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  701. Is interesting, Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity council. There is a need for a Bharat Hindu Buddhist Sikh Jain Unity council.
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  702. Palki telling it as it is. As Indian news increasingly turns the spotlight on the 'west''s hypocrisy by measuring them with their own yardstick, the world will slowly turn kinder and more just.
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  703. This is good, but curiously, I don't see any stories on how much NVDIA 'compute' Indian firms have bought. What does bringing AI to Indian firms mean? We need concrete numbers, for example, on how many H100 chips were bought by Indian firms.
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  704.  @SATWIKRAJ-x3b  that’s a bit like saying Shakespeare didn’t write in current English, he wrote in proto English. 😀 true though, modern editors cleaned him up quite a bit.
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  705.  @PranitSuman  The right question is, which book of NCERT taught children that chess originated in their country?
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  706. Palki, why are the videos of safe'd people and scenes from paschim countries. This is not healthy for Bharat viewers. There should be more effort to create video repositories of Bharat relevance that news agencies can use.
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  707. "pro India is perceived to be anti west."
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  708. "​ @RoseRose_2022 my grandfather used to ride cycle. My father also used to ride cycle. Modi came, and everyone shifted to two wheelers. I was about to shift to 4 wheeler but if Congress came, we'll go back to pathetic hopeless times"
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  709.  @LopGin  He must be a very efficient bad person if he accomplished more than 10 years worth of bad in one year! Can you give us specifics?
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  710. "This is a good thing… era of expansionism policy is over. Nature needs a break"
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  711.  @summerbreeze5115  Not really. Jan aankh khule tabhi savera samjho. New car companies coming up all the time.
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  712. They are not anti-Muslim rallies, they are a cry-for-help rallies.
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  713. "This grave development is expected but still terrifying. People cheering this like it is a Hollywood movie are a burden to the human gene pool."
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  714. Beauty pageants are a poorab socially sanctioned objectification of women. So-rose gyani should speak up in op-ed pages. Somehow though, I think they will be venting instead on women's right to be objectified.
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  715.  @phillipchan6919 IMF white people delusion
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  716.  @sariat2307  We all need to buy things that are locally manufactured and and sell things that are locally manufactured.
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  717. Did you outsource the thumbnail creation to BBC-NYT-Guardian combo? India 'militarising' its own territory?! What kind of language is that?
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  718. Getting overly partisan to any group is not good. This includes making societal arguments favouring one or the other sex.
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  719. This is what Shri Shekhar Gupta's Cut The Clutter could have been if he would venture a bit away from the tired Congress-BJP political cricket and bhajan of the 'west'.
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  720.  @sampatkalyan3103  Whatever floats your boat. I would suggest however also re-reading what I wrote.
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  721.  @Abhilashreddy4  I am awed by how you could insert casta even into a discussion about chip manufacturing!!
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  722. What was in the MOU signed between a political party of Bharat and the govt of China? Very relevant in this context.
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  723. This is trial by fire. The ones that survive in an environment of no easy money will emerge stronger.
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  724. Bad idea. Economic backwardness serves on its own for the purpose of social justice, without everyone having to be stamped on the forehead with casta label. Will only strengthen casta consciousness. Many people agree that casta consciousness must be annihilated for an egalitarian society - you can't have it both ways. The jiu jitsu balak only wants it as yet another societal wedge.
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  725. When is someone going to hold Rahul ji to task? The siblings are The Untouchables, as in the Hollywood film. Had they won, it would have been all about Rahul ji, now the loss is all about Congress.
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  726. Govt should use policy to tweak what food gets processed. Engineer policies that encourage minimally processed foods like canned tomatoes and rajma, and discourage potato chips, breakfast cereals and a thousand varieties of snack mixtures. Taxation may be a route to achieving this.
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  727. Shri Rajiv Gandhi, former PM from Congress party said that only 15 paise of every rupee the govt spent reached people. With Shri Modi as PM, people are eating better because middlemen are swallowing less. In other words, hard data shows that he is a liberal in practice, not in slogans like the Congress.
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  728. Walmart and Amazon squeeze the last drop of blood out of small businesses - ask the small businesses in America about them. You get what you pay for, and greed for cheap goods destroys society.
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  729. How incredibly self-centered! Also short-sighted.
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  730. Fascinating comments section. I am certain that Walmart and Amazon are not behind the 2-paise propaganda below that protecting kiraaNas and small businesses is somehow anti-middle class.
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  731.  @jaswath9378  Idiotic response. What you call 'bodies' are the government too, not just the people sitting in the parliament. Laws are created for public good and are not written in stone. They can be amended to achieve desired societal ends using all levers available to policy makers. That is, you don't need to turn into a police state to shut down gambling apps. People opposing this reasonable thinking also likely think that insisting on seatbelts is a nanny/police state.
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  732. ​ @NSKTheRipper  Let's drive across the road instead of along it and get rid of traffic police and lights. If people get into accidents, you can't blame the government.
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  733.  @gadgetgirl2k  "Time for us to shrug and let it all fall to pieces maybe" How irresponsible!
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  734.  @kevinmathew2973  you should care because none of us is an island, and we are all connected to each other as part of society. to give you an example, let us say a company says ‘let me chop of all the trees in the fores’ and I give you lumber at such prices that it will feel almost free. I am sure you wouldn’t want that because cheap in this context has a cost associated with it that is easy to visualise. Destroying established Kirana networks has a similar cost to society, and if each of us only cares about what we pay to Amazon, that is neither fair nor safe in the long run. You should look up anti-trust laws in America, if you’re not familiar with them.
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  735. Ministers need to talk smarter and act sharper. Without moralizing, make policy to structure the market in a way that is equitable. There is a Lwing word that the government can adopt! - equity. Amazon and Walmart are hardly equitable.
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  736. Any Mattel manufacturing facilities should operate as quarantine zones and the production should be consigned for direct export without contaminating Bharat children. Barbie is that detrimental to mental health, not to mention all that plastic, ugh!
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  737. Bharat EV makers should clearly articulate their needs in terms of tech. And then, they can't do the development alone. Form a consortium (e.g. Tata, Mahindra, Maruti, and more) and then coalitions with university labs and govt labs and fund the lab research. Not clear that this is happening now. Most of Tesla's battery tech comes from a single university professor's research lab.
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  738. Kanedda straightening up? Not really. The cynicism in Shri Trudeu's actions is vomit-inducing.
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  739. The tourism minister should be putting pressure on his President, not on Bharat.
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  740. "Are we xenophobic, I don't know coz we have a history of foreigners coming and not leaving for almost 200 years. "
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  741.  @One-OH-1  So true. The comment was only addressing Shri Biden's remark that Indians were somehow xenophobic. There is a lot of intermixing and travel within the region.
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  742.  @AlvinYap510  don’t miss the forest for the trees
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  743. Is good
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  744. This is a serious threat with military-like escalation and is no longer an 'ethnic clash'. The discussion cannot be just on new channels. The government has to raise the profile of the threat in the Parliament so that the public is prepared for the necessary counter actions.
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  745. Brexit, then, was the tyranny of the English majority over the Irish, Scottish and Welsh minorities.
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  746. :) :) :) Memorably spoken truth :)
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  747.  @anshuecon  In the interests of equal opportunity offending, you should include Christianity in the list of religions to be destroyed. If your problem really is with all religion. don't also forget the myriad other religions that India has offered home to over the millenia If you stick with your tone, I am sure that at some point everyone will all come to their senses and give up religion. Ah the sorrow that humanity has suffered over the centuries in the process of being forcibly 'civilized'. With your terrifying moral certainty, you would make a star pupil of Chariman Mao. I just pray that you never get real political power. Or for that matter, any sort of power over other human beings.
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  748.  @anshuecon  That was incredibly in poor taste and utterly tone deaf.
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  749. Cheap shot. Passable for a dinner conversation with friends but not in a public forum speaking about the elected head of state.
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  750. You should let the Indian government go about its normal, benign responsibilities of governance without bringing out the water color set every time. On the other hand, excellent advice at 14:00.
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  751. If you are a worshipper of 'advance' countries like America, do look up the widely followed University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index. Positive sentiment is both a portent and an engine of growth.
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  752. To many scratching their heads at the opaque episode: my observation is that Gupta ji talks in riddles to appear profound, when he suspects something’s up but is not quite sure what is up. Not honest journalism.
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  753. This is an opportunity for the country to build bioanalytical capabilities in the private sector (not just testing, but also the R&D capability for developing new tests).
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  754. Although, India should not stop talking. India should never stop talking, officially or unofficially.
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  755. NDTV is a great example of the leftwing noblesse, charity+80% mindset. They scratch each others' back. Any corruption is accepted as inherent cost of doing business.
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  756. Looks like you can draw converging lines to certain individuals from at least a few occasions when India's defense interests were negatively affected. It will still be useful to dig deeper to understand and improve processes.
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  757. Shekhar ji, we are looking forward to a serious analysis of American Senator Kamala Harris's selection as the Democratic vice-presidential nominee. Please lay it down as it is, without the usual gratuitous/presumptive digs at India or Indians.
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  758.  @GonzoTehGreat  He is a diplomat and spoke like one. Your reasons for India's abstention are assumptions, however sure you may be of them. If Ms. Malhotra had brought the sensibility of her yesterday's essay to the conversation, it would have been a more fruitful conversation, instead of a single-point agenda about, "but the American press is saying..".
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  759. What's with the free political consultancy that leftwing press offers the young prince every election season?
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  760. Remarkable vaccination achievement by India! The equally bright other side of the picture is that there will be more vaccines available for the rest of the world. India should milk it for all it is worth. Wishlist could include: advanced technology especially of the terrorism-fighting kind, trade deals, more influence in international institutions, and military bases where that makes sense.
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  761. The cutting of clutter starts a full 10 minutes into the episode - equal parts data and 2024 spin. A lot of the import bill looks like went into capacity building for building large warships, high speed trains, tunnel boring, road laying equipment, iPhone assembly lines, etc. etc. India has started the flywheel turning with Atmanirbhar Bharat. You can't expect the same results in 2+ years ( Atmanirbhar announced in 2020) what China with full earnestness achieved in 40+ years of focused effort. India is on the right manufacturing path, with much more to do.
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  762. I think you are half right. It is undisputable that modern analytical methods have revolutionised the molecular understanding of many things. The health care philosophy of western medicine however is deeply flawed. In the long run, Ayurveda's holistic and preventive philosophy will prove superior. Ayurveda practitioners can easily update themselves with the analytical tools while their preventive philosophy of health is not something western medicine will adopt - because it doesn't let you bill for procedures. That, and the whack-a-mole approach of modern drugs. Oh, and by the way, the reasons for the downfall of Ayurveda are easy to guess from India's history.
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  763.  @siddhanti  Shri Aiyar's corruption comes not from taking money under the table (I have no evidence either way), but it is more of a moral corruption. He espouses grand democratic ideals in quaint language, but his actions are diametrically opposite that. As far as I can tell, his sole purpose in the Congress party is to protect the Gandhis from any attacks, and block inner party democracy. Just as dangerous for the health of any democracy.
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  764. Therefore, the gyaan of one Rahul Gandhi = the gyaan of 3 ordinary women or men who are otherwise wise.
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  765. We shall look for answers in all places except in a capable administration :-)
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  766. How is 'vaishwik mahaamari' scarier than 'pandemic'. Don't the two mean the same thing in different languages?
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  767. Fair point that there is a lot of room for improvement in government-to-people communication, and this is not new. Hope the government is on a continuous journey in improving the habits of communication in society.
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  768. I remember the headlines when Bharat's USD reserves were just shy of $600B. There were breathless headlines from the gyani every time they dropped by $1B. I now suspect there was some wider coordination behind the headlines.
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  769. That is the typical nomenclature. Anyone who is not blessed by the leftwing cabal is typically a 'strongman' or an 'ideologue'.
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  770.  @DKSingh-wf8tn  Thank you. 'office boy' is a similarly soul-crushing term. The use of 'boy' for grown men was common in American history where grown black men were referred to as 'boy' to diminish their dignity.
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  771. If I may make a suggestion, 'peon' has its origins in the feudal past and even if the Indian government in its ignorance or laziness carries over such colonial terms, it does not befit an enlightened journalist to do the same.
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  772.  @Maiazaadhoon  yes. He almost incited a mob to lynch a reporter.
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  773. yat bhaavam tat bhavati :-)
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  774. 🙂
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  775.  @piyushagarwal1350  'Mc Kinsey-style SWOT analysis for didi'
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  776. Shri Adani is an exceptional businessman with a genius for building infrastructure businesses. The worst allegation against them is that stock price may be inflated. They operate real businesses giving a very real and not easily replaceable boost to India's economy. If the worst that American business titans got was a slap on the wrist after the 2008 creative shenanigans, surely Shri Adani will emerge stronger after this crisis. I mention America as that is a reference standard for many English-speaking Indians.
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  777. Could be. Congress minus the Gandhis, that is.
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  778. Smt. Gandhi's enduring legacy is one of thoroughly dyeing the nation's moral fabric in the color of corruption, in the broadest sense of the word. The country is still trying to wash it off.
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  779.  @yusufpathan9714  The Hindu in RSS 'Hindu rashtra' is cultural Hindu, not religious Hindu. There are many Hindu religions.
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  780. "How many Hindus has AIMIM fielded?"
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  781. "Rahul played caste card. Then Modi took Hindutva "
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  782. Shekhar ji truncated Shri Bhargava's name to Bhargav. Not nice.
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  783. UPSC should test for critical thinking and empathy
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  784. The Khalistanis crossed a line on that bridge.
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  785.  @mrgyani  :-)
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  786. Shri Prashant Kishor said that '400 par' was half a slogan. Adding a reason 'why' would have made it good. (this is not an encouragement to BJP to try it again in 2029).
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  787. Shri Gupta says in his article that Muslims voted in a religious bloc to defeat BJP. Some Hindu joined them. And that made this a truly secular vote. Lwing gyani are so far gone that they wouldn't recognise irony if it smacked them in the face.
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  788. M minoritarianism
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  789. Programs like this uncover inefficiencies in society and improve overall efficiencies. Snehesh, thanks for the push on reporting on drone capabilities. (Aside, your microphone has too much echo, may be the position has to be changed.)
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  790.  @joyid  If you want a practical solution, watch the video again. If you want theoretical gyaan, read "The Importance of Being Earnest". It is a bit dense philosophy but you might still enjoy it.
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  791. My simple minded thought is that larger wheels may be needed to allow landing on rough terrain.
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  792. There is a much work to be done, with more love and less judgement.
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  793. An American general once said that history of the world shows that the less civilised groups have more aggression and tend to overrun the more civilised groups. I certainly mangled his words, but the challenge for the more civilised groups in Afghanistan is to find the animal spirits within to defeat the terrorists, for the sake of their future generations. No one else can or will do it. They don't have to look far to see what is possible both for better and for worse, and that such seemingly inconceivable reemergence is possible. It literally is do or die.
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  794. India needs more such thoughtfully designed public spaces which inspire civic pride. Loved the thoughts on the need to rejuvenate Varanasi Kasi Viswanath temple area!
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  795. Need to be said again, so posting Vyom Sinha's comment from below: " @Shekhar Gupta Ji: I like when you said about this development in Delhi "This also raises suspicion as it happened very quickly". I think it happened normally, it is just that we are so used to being very slow and anything normal seems quick." Many other commenters with a similar opinion.
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  796. We need a CTC on the late Shri Pranab Mukherjee's views on the Prime Minister.
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  797. Itihasa, not 'epic legends'.
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  798. It is a no-brainer that this is driven by q dismal Pakistani economy, but details on the primary driver are missing yet. Clearly, India's management of the COVID crisis in all aspects and deft moves in Kashmir has likely motivated these overtures, but even that is not specific enough. I doubt that they are acting entirely in their own enlightened self-interest. My guesses: 1) The cost of fighting COVID has ensured that no country has spare change for nurturing their private little terrorist group in Pakistan anymore. Add to this, oil countries have seen peak oil and are preoccupied with rewiring their own economies to a less-oil future. 2) Europe has shown that there will be increasingly overt action against violence in the name of one God. It is clear that at least some Arab countries, who were a source of funds, are in sympathy with this view. Reading too much into this, this could also be another sign of an emerging reformation in Islam, and 3) China is nudging Pakistan with some specific goal in mind, which may not necessarily be sinister. Anyone interested, please vote your choice or add more.
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  799.  Papa  Something about your wording makes me uncomfortable. The principal relationship at schools must be between the teachers and the students.
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  800. Great idea, I agree. They don't necessarily have to go abroad can study here, but do need to find occupation as faculty in Indian university campuses after study to make a lasting impact.
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  801. Ms. Malhotra's dominant impulse seemed to be to find one or another way to tweak Shri Lukyanov's nose rather than to understand with curiosity the Russian perspective during this global crisis. The war certainly has serious implications for 'the Indians'.
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  802. "I will never understand SG's loyalty to the Gandhi family. Modi is not even 1% as authoritarian as Indira Gandhi was."
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  803.  @Avinashm7  Money was never an issue for luxe 'pada' yatra.
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  804. "Gaffe free is achivement "
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  805. Rahul ji wants to eliminate poverty by handing out money. The people that elect him will deserve him.
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  806. Shri Gadkari exemplifies the RSS way.
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  807. Mitra Bhed is one of 5 books of the Panchatantra.
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  808. Nice story told well, Mohana. I hope you and your colleagues find more such stories with immediate relevance to India. It is not about nationalism, but about effectiveness of time spent in digging up a story. Think of your platform as a vehicle not to spread GK about esoteric topics in the universe, but as a tool to sensitise people to their immediate challenges that need to be addressed, while not losing sight of the universal need to nurture wonder and curiosity. There is a vast number of such challenges in health, environment, learning psychology, etc., and there is also a proportionately large number of people addressing such challenges. Their stories need to be told. It requires the independence of thinking to not be swept up by the topic du jour in the western media, but pick topics guided by enlightened self-interest. If you can influence the career choice of a bright high schooler or college student toward solving some of these problems, that, I humbly suggest, is a worthy goal.
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  809. If anyone is indeed demonising any Indian community whatsoever, that is uniformly despicable and condemnable. Responsible journalists have to do a proper Twitter search to figure this out.
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  810. India needs her own watchdog of political and religious freedoms around the world, and should release an annual report that ranks countries by how well they behave. It will also be responsible for occasional finger wagging whenever there is any social, political, or religious disturbance anywhere in the world.
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  811. Important topic but Shri Fukuyama's criticisms on China, international relations, and defense purchases don't add up. 1) China: would the critics want the government to lay out in black and white what is happening at the border? Not going to happen. How will it help? The government is playing the hand it was dealt adroitly, and has managed to put considerable international pressure on China. So long as they don't concede anything legally, they can bide their time. 2) Defense preparedness argument seems to be about not spending enough foreign exchanges on buying up arms. A casual examination of the facts shows that this, unfortunately, is not true, certainly within the 6-year tenure of the BJP government. So that sounds like a fake or at least a misguided argument. 3) International relationships: the government has not been shy of being bold in openly showing its hand where it is useful to do so. Numerous recent acts support this this. If Shri Fukuyama wants India to formally join an alliance, I don't believe that is going to happen or should happen. Sworn enemies become close allies as the West and Germany did in two short decades after the second world war. There is no reason not to hope that America and China cannot become friends again. They should on the contrary, for the sake of peace everywhere. Although this is the wrong time to say this, the same can be hoped for India and China as well, if only China stops doing to India what she accuses America of doing to her.
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  812. I should have waited one day :-) The NEP addresses this issue.
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  813. If there is one serious failing of the BJP government, it is in its apparent lack of recognition of the critical importance of nurturing the human potential of the nation. The unfortunately named Ministry of 'human resource development', should be a top priority, at least equal to Home, Defense, Finance, or External Affairs. The quality of individuals (including ministers) that India will produce, will determine the quality of future leadership in all aspects of the nation's performance in the coming decades. Based on anecdotal reports, and comments on social media, there is much work to be done both on the humanities and science/technical education side to produce individuals who can realize their full potential. It is far too big a topic for a YouTube comment but a simple measure of success for me would be when I see the country producing teachers who are confident enough to write high quality text books in all domains of learning.
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  814. Is the industry communicating and conducting outreach with the workers?
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  815. Thank you for highlighting an important issue. Just to make sure that the focus stays on the most vulnerable sections of the society, dry foods like rice and wheat have long shelf life and are a form of easily transportable life-sustaining calories. 1) It is important to make sure that no one goes to bed hungry, particularly young children. 2) Universities and the National Institute of Nutrition have to work on developing innovative approaches to preserving the nutritional value of easily perishable foods. 3) Structure society in way that small producers of fresh vegetables can sell them house-to-house as it was done decades ago in India. In the west they have something similar called "farmer's markets" and are very fashionable (and good). Not everything has to be routed through a super market.
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  816. Very nice analysis and graphics. You could round off the numbers to the nearest 100s or even 1000s to make grasping them easier. Also, the graphics could use bigger font and less text, may be.
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  817. Does anyone else find the language coming out of the courts to be intemperate? Not injudicious mind you. More staid and less colourful/scolding language might better fit the ambience and station. I wonder how big a role pre-independence history might have had in the tradition. Might make for a fun English masters thesis for someone daring enough to explore the topic.
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  818. Shri Xi no longer appears to be a rational player. Although this could be a biased opinion, it seems like he has perversely set out to dismantle the progress China made in the past 3 decades.
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  819.  @GuruPrasad-qu4vg  You forgot to add, all over the world.
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  820.  @ontisalaga1789  What I mean is there need to be previously agreed upon rules, dharma if you will, that the courts can refer to if need be. These things need to be done in secret, but should be verifiable by high legal authority if the need arises.
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  821. Shri Gupta does not know his Itihasa. Smt. Indira Gandhi was not testing the opposition when she corruptly dismantled Bharat democracy by imposing the Emergency. It was a desperate attempt at self-preservation.
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  822. Words mirror deeply held attitudes. Shri Gupta, who should rather think dynastic politics as the disease, considers people like Shri Shinde fighting the dynasts, as the disease. Freud would agree that the title was a slip.
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  823. This has become a pattern with The Prnt these days, every time BJP makes an internal election choice, The Prnt is looking for opportunities to engender complaints. Certainly did not expect this blatantly political strategy from Shri DK Singh. Slanted reporting was expected, but this goes beyond that, venturing into a political strategy. Unbecoming of a news paper!
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  824. "So The Print is now agent provocateur"
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  825. The question that journalists and Congress people must be asking themselves is, why should they have to ask in whispers in the first place? And for 16 years?
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  826. The only saving grace of this episode is the acknowledgement that the BJP should be respected as a political party, even if you can't love them. Anyone who caricatures BJP leaders instead of viewing them as serious, professional politicians are living in an alternative universe.
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  827. Kindly, well-meant, avuncular talking-to better suited for a dinner table conversation at the Gandhi residence than for public consumption. This video should be an embarrassment to both Shri Gupta (for professional reasons) and to Shri Rahul Gandhi (for obvious reasons).
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  828. Rahul Gandhi has the ability to put the Congress party on the path to reform and walk away if he can muster the personal resolve to do so. For a lengthier version of this comment, see https://tinyurl.com/y3tlj6mk
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  829.  @akhiljames3435  I want to amend my answer after watching this: https://youtu.be/QPLA5vpFclU. Whereas I previously believed that the state had no legal role in resisting conversions, I now think that there is an Indian legal framework to ban conversions made under false promises.
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  830.  @akhiljames3435  Obviously, that is not a solution. I actually don't know how it is to be done, but am sure that conversions are a problem. Dismantling birth-caste is probably a key part of the solution but that is not something which can be done by force either.
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  831. The business (literal) of conversions is un-Indian and has to stop. The argument about escaping from caste has long been shown to be fake. This is a national security issue and has nothing to do with religious equality before the law.
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  832. The gap between recovery rate and 100 minus death rate is the people on path to recovery, that cannot be counted until they are certified to have been recovered.
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  833. Very nice CTC, although myth is a misnomer. Lay people misunderstanding of data maybe.
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  834. It is puzzling that only a few labs can do the neutralizing antibody titer. It cannot be from lack of capability. Maybe you could do a CTC to uncover the bottlenecks?
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  835. It is reasonable to assume that Remdesevir is beneficial. Just for accuracy, it should be pointed out that the US FDA did not take the WHO study into consideration when announcing their approval.
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  836.  @PahadiProgrammer  IITs are an investment which bore fruit elsewhere. Things may be changing a little now after 3 generations, but that is a long time to wait for change when we have examples of Japan and South Korea in the neighborhood. IIMs are slightly better as an investment but not by too much.
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  837. Shekhar ji, we are gratified that you pay attention, and will continue to call things out as the issues merit.
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  838. MEA should directly address Khalistani threat through statements, not just play defense through denials. They missed an opportunity to say that Bharat takes all threats to the state seriously, wherever they arise. Similarly, missed an opportunity to call a press conference to address the absurd intrusion by Bangladesh to stop mandir construction in Bharat. There should have been appropriate noises about securing the situation and monitoring the situation closely etc.
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  839. Sikh and Hindu are happy in Bharat. Bharat should take appropriate actions to pacify Canadian/Khalistani threats.
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  840.  @sarthakmohanty1006  Which is precisely my point as well. What I am saying is, generally speaking, is the ever-moving target of highest possible consumption (which GDP practically stands for), the 'best' that everybody else will measure themselves to? At US rate of consumption, the earth will be stripped bare in a few years. Then what do we do? The conversation around, and the benchmarks for development have to change.
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  841. Necessary reforms, which go a long way to break the Communist stranglehold on Indian society. It need however be said that worker rights were earned after long and difficult fights over a century. Employer commitment to workplace safety should be sacrosanct.
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  842. While we should celebrate these necessary reforms, interested viewers may read 'The Jungle' by Upton Sinclair. It is a helpful reminder to not let the pendulum swing too much to the other side.
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  843.  @VenkatPrasad  I think siege mentality freezes the brain. Mr. Gupta is an experienced and respected voice in journalism and should not be dismissed offhand. Otherwise there is no public discussion and everyone retreats into the comfort of their own corner.
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  844. Is Mamata Banerjee minoritarian, as opposed to being majoritarian?
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  845.  @tanvirpanjwani6622  Can you share the evidence?
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  846. That's the story being spread.
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  847. Tharoor ji is too young to remember the rise of Ronald Reagan. Too, continuing to call zealots as 'liberal' sounds so anachronistic.
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  848. Excerpt from Mr. Pavan Gupta's comment below, which makes a lot of sense to me: "From a crony capitalist model to a broad based development model is a paradigm shift since 1947. For 65 years our economy was largely urban and concentrated in the hands of 1%. This government has put the entire financial sector on notice and brought in the rule of law to this much abused sector of a developing economy like India. The massive pain should have been anticipated by experts and explained to the people who are genuinely hurting. This slowdown is unlikely to stop anytime soon."
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  849.  @PrabhavShukla1  Under section 14 of the Disaster Management Act of 2005, states are responsible for establishing 'state disaster management authorities'. That falsifies your claim that disasters are not under state jurisdiction. Look it up at https://ndma.gov.in/images/ndma-pdf/DM_act2005.pdf. It is OK to be an idiot, but to be a rude idiot like you is a bit much.
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  850.  @PrabhavShukla1  What you are saying is that the center coordinates large events and states manage smaller events. Just for the record, it seems that disaster management is a state responsibility in India, and NDMA provides coordination when the states request it. In other words, there are no 'facts' involved that would prohibit one term vs the other.
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  851.  @abhishekdeshmukh7628  Nobody is denying facts or asking to change the response. What is the mathematical equation that separates the boundary between a disaster and an emergency? Emotion is the engine that drives positive or negative action.
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  852. 'Disaster' management, and 'Disaster' response, sound like a surefire way to further shatter the morale of people in the middle of a 'disaster'. Can they not rename them as 'Emergency' management and 'Emergency' response?
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  853. Apologies for the OT: I don't think this is cool enough or controversial enough to make mention in a CTC, so I bring it up. The government proposes to spend money to mechanize sewer drain cleaning to help sanitation worker safety. I am thinking there is a caste/religion angle somewhere.
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  854. The all-grabbing Hand was strangely appropriate.
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  855. Liberal means liberal; not 'left-of-center'. Let's not distort words.
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  856. Liberal means liberal; liberal does not mean 'left-of-center. Le's not distort words.
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  857. "Using the term "Right" in India is not appropriate. India's Right is socialistic and women friendly. Sanatani ideas are good for everyone. In the Western democracies the Left (more socialistic) and Right (mainly anti immigration / anti white / anti Muslim)"
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  858.  @parvadhami980  Better to state that with data rather than with opinion. Someone ought to be collecting the data.
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  859. "Why no analysis of Muslims castes? Why break only Hindus?"
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  860. spot on
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  861. "Like there is so much of slicing and dicing of the Hindu vote , there should have been a slicing and dicing of Muslim votes as well across male-female, Shia Sunni, Pasmanda Ashfaq categories"
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  862. Unless you sat till the end, you might have missed out Shri Shekhar Gupta saying that Samajwadi Party selectively applied the law against Hindus. Worth repeating. If true, voters would be shooting themselves in the foot if they brought such a party to power.
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  863. I suspect people believe that a cure is at hand - paradoxical if that makes the world a more dangerous place. India must invest in growing her technological capabilities if she wants to act on principle, and not be led by needs.
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  864. You can either try to keep dissecting identity to the level of single cells, or aspire for unity in diversity.
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  865. The point is that the government must build and monitor non-official channels of communication and design processes to raise red flags.
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  866. Is 'insurgency' a ephemism for terrorism?
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  867. Even young Mr. Gandhi staying away does not seem to have helped!
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  868. I wonder, how many more chastenings can Congress take? It is remarkable, the Gandhi death-grip, in spite of the repeated drubbings.
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  869. "Now BJP is on the right track Asking questions in Congress style"
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  870. So, the Congress is no longer a 'left' party, nor a 'liberal' party.
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  871. What is a 'liberal' view on national security?
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  872. The real elephant in the room is the proliferation of 'cool' drugs which turn brains into khichdi, and a proper accounting of the money flows in the drug economy and its practical implications for security.
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  873.  @LarryWu-es7nc  It is true that the Iranian people are suffering and need relief. The destruction of the nuclear accord was a horribly destabilizing event. I hope it gets resurrected next year.
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  874. Iran is a proud, ancient civilization very protective of its independence. It would be extremely surprising if it turns into a vassal state like Pakistan.
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  875. India should extract some definitive actions related to Pakistan before making purchase commitments. This could be good intentions but obviously caution is needed.
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  876. Chinese factories are almost back up to full capacity but all the ports in the Western worlds are not ready to receive the goods as they are struggling with the virus.
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  877. The mention of Panchsheel was unfortunate.
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  878. Granted that foreign correspondents are expensive, Indian media houses can pool resources and share the costs. Say, one person per region of the world.
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  879. Relevant to India, Wikipedia says, "Some observers have argued that Al Jazeera Media Network has formidable authority as an opinion-maker. Noah Bonsey and Jeb Koogler, for example, writing in the Columbia Journalism Review, argue that the way in which the station covers any future Israeli-Palestinian peace deal could well determine whether or not that deal is actually accepted by the Palestinian public.". Substitute "any future Israeli-Palestinian peace deal", with 'India', etc.
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  880. Indian media houses need to widen their gaze and be curious about what is happening around the world - not just regurgitate syndicated feeds. Some are now. When they do, America and Britain get the lion's share of attention. It is as if the rest of Europe, Asia, and Africa barely existed.
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  881. In this context, George Washington's farewell address to America in 1796, when people were quire ready to have him stay on as a quasi-king, are quite relevant. "Washington urged Americans to avoid excessive political party spirit and geographical distinctions. In foreign affairs, he warned against long-term alliances with other nations". The language is old-fashioned, but the message is still relevant: https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=15
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  882. In this context, George Washington's farewell address to America in 1796, when people were quire ready to have him stay on as a quasi-king, are quite relevant. "Washington urged Americans to avoid excessive political party spirit and geographical distinctions. In foreign affairs, he warned against long-term alliances with other nations". The language is old-fashioned, but the message is still relevant: https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=15
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  883. Nothing in "humen de'khnaa hain.." Rajiv Gandhi's life suggest the intellectual bandwidth or the striving to prepare oneself to understand if not prepare, to govern a country as large in every sense as India. If events had not parachuted him into PM seat, he would probably have been content continuing to fly aeroplanes and looking charming. With the small exception of contributions to the Technology Missions, his Doon School entourage was nepotism writ large.
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  884. I think the title firmly belongs to Shri Modi for his commitment, consistency and superb political acumen. Shri Kejriwal showed promise at one time, but has lost credibility with recent flakiness. He certainly adds value to Indian public life, together Shri Sisodia, for clean governance and innovations in education and public health.
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  885. Shameful of Print. Is a pattern same as with Sandeshkhali. Turning coverage outrageous acts of INDI Axis members into political analysis of impact on party. Where is the trademark print outrage?
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  886. "Shameful of Print. Is a pattern same as with Sandeshkhali. Turning coverage outrageous acts of INDI Axis members into political analysis of impact on party. Where is the trademark print outrage?"
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  887. DK ji is squarely on retainer now. Pity.
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  888. If the elections had gone the other way, guess whose name would be plastered all over the leftwing press network? The usual wall of silence around the name when there is defeats is regular as ever. Charmed life the 53yr-old young prince leads; all the benefits of victories and none of the responsibilities of defeats.
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  889. Great scientific perspective and the right reassuring tone. A real leader. Thank you.
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  890. She wrote a book...
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  891. "The inc isn’t the same congress as well , remember it was mrs Gandhi who broke away"
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  892.  @ameytiwari1247  "What was the reason of separatism which killed Indira Gandhi? Shekhar always beat around bush when it comes to punjab"
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  893. The kerosene politics of Rahul Gandhi may culminate in such a tragedy unless gyani firmly show their disapproval of his inflammatory rhetoric.
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  894. Taking the conclusion from this episode at face value, the Indian government's policy was both prudent and very successful in slowing down the spread of the virus.
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  895. Shri Modi must be thinking, 'first the #leftwing ridicule you, then they laugh at you, then they try to imitate you, then they claim your ideas as something they already thought of'.
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  896. Shri Gupta speaks without conviction or clarity: at 6:45, he describes secularism as it is practiced by the #leftwing, a dead and cynical thing. At 14:51 he brainstorms on how the #leftwing can come back to power by offering 'something more to the Hindu'. Is that still Nehruvian secularism? Gyani viewers please chime in.
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  897. Hope all of the FM's announcements turn to reality. One little thing that bothered me: she said something in the passing about forest wealth. Hopefully, it didn't mean an attitude of harvesting forests or turn them into amusement parks for 'safari' goers. Forests really are the property of India's wildlife, and the few vana vasi's who live with a small ecological footprint. Forests have to be left alone as wilderness in the true sense of the word.
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  898. Great point of Abhishek Saini below about education. So many farmer children these days are separated from their parents at a tender age to attend private residential schools because there is simply no good schools, or even any schools, in the villages. This crisis could also be an opportunity to reform 1) 'Government schools' so that schools all over India are as good as in Delhi and 2) As part of this, give a boost to online delivery of primary education so that any decently competent teacher can make use of the structured materials to provide a high quality education to young children in the remotest village. Although States run the schools, the Center could contribute in developing the pegagogical tools and nudge them toward good habits.
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  899. What a wonderful topic! all too uncommon in Indian public conversation. Yet, I also agree with the comments below that Ms. Malhotra's tone and attitude were not suited for interviewing an architect. He probably came there as an artist excited to talk about the new public space he is creating and his artistic vision for it, not to defend doing so (not his job to do so either). Regretfully, a missed opportunity because of the rarity of such conversations.
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  900. According to Google, Shri Putin's daughters are in their 30's. If true, the daughter vaccinated gave informed consent as an adult. Regardless, all the voiced skepticism is well warranted and natural because of how complicated our immune system is. Here's hoping that it actually turns out to be a safe and effective vaccine.
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  901. Interesting slip of the tongue thinking of ministries as a gravy train. Certainly true, were it a Congress government.
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  902. Good call on Education. It is one of the top 5 ministries: Education, Home, Defense, External Affairs, and Finance. Allies get a seat at the table if they get a portfolio, but there will only be one boss all ministers will be reporting to and will have to show results to. Simple matter of organisational efficiency.
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  903.  @TRUTH1288  🙂
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  904. India should do something like what China did with Tencent - no exclusive media deals with foreign companies. Outlaw transfer of rights to India-created media (books, music and cinema) to foreign entities, only allow licensing for commercial use.
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  905. Facebook exhibit number 1.
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  906. When, if ever, did Shri Gupta use 'vicious' to characterise the attack of Congress against the BJP?
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  907.  @baraks7487  Do you grudge the poor farm laborers their pay? (for those wondering, @baraks7487 saracastically commented that the economic opportunity cost I mentioned was for 'Bihari' laborers, hence my followup question. He or she since deleted their comment, probably ashamed at making it.)
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  908.  @mikesheth5370  Sikh need help recognizing what is happening and in organizing. Sometimes, it is hard to see what is happening when you are in the middle of it. SGPC is also extremely militant and suppresses dissent.
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  909. Nehru ji’s lack of strategic vision is staggering, on the same scale as his sense of self-importance.
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  910. While the Congress mouthpieces in the press are trying to downplay Katchatheevu controversy, BJP's point is not whether it was done so much as how it was done, quietly and without consultation, during Emergency, in the way mai baap party always took decisions for Bharat.
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  911. Don't hold your breath.
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  912. @Jon Simon I don't know the answer. I am curious to know though. (I am not a big believer of -isms, although any system has to be bound by a reasonable protection of individual liberties.)
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  913. International trade is a good thing, but you can't jump into the heavyweight ring after years of snacking. Setting dogma aside, India has to first build some manufacturers of scale that can withstand the competition. India is such a large market that free internal and may be even some carefully metered outside competition can raise standards.
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  914. Mr. Gupta once again brings a life time of journalistic experience to present a panoramic sweep of the middle east in 30 minutes - as much a master class as it is journalism. Make cut the clutter required listening for young journalists and school children learning social studies!
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  915. I like this tone. That journalism has to be honest when presenting facts is a given, and that journalists have biases is also allowed when part of clearly labeled opinion. What is not allowed is for journalists to float above the concerns of surrounding society, as it happens in some cases of English-speaking Indian journalism.
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  916. "In 2014 bjp got 31% vote and 282 seats, this time 36.5% and they are down to 240, it is what Indian political system is, now. It's time for party to bring original workers stop this importing everyone, go back to drawing room, empower regional satrap which used to be power of bjp, start matching opposition freebies to pacify middle class, if they do all this and get some momentum in next 3 years, pm should call snap poll in 2027 or 2028"
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  917. Shri Nadda has done a capable job overcoming anti-incumbency helping get a 3rd term, and sweeping Orissa. Shri Annamalai did a stupendous job almost tripling BJP vote share in TN and shd be considered for national level strategy role - that is, if BJP can afford to take him away from TN before 2026.
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  918. It true that India has to do more in its immediate neighborhood. The episode with Nepal brings a Panchatantra story to mind (will not say which). Perhaps one way is to identify areas of respective competitive advantage with each of them, which can grow bilateral trade and thereby strengthen relationships.
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  919. Sounds like this episode was created to complement and supplement the pre-eminent leader's tweet. Shri S. Jaishankar has demolished the pre-eminent leader's tweet already.
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  920. I highly recommend the book, ‘Good to Great’ for all would-be public servant Congressmen/women. In particular, the episode of Kimberley Klark.
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  921. Three observations: 1) Political leaders have to be very careful about what they say to the English press 2) DK Singh may be reading too much into what Shri Nadda said. Remember that this video is an opinion piece and not a news report 3) RSS is a cradle for leaders - Vajpayee and Modi are but two examples; I doubt that BJP has an organizational structure for nurturing deep leadership. If with 10 short years of power, cracks truly emerged between RSS and BJP, it would not be surprising that the Br...sh were so successful with divide-and-rule.
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  922. The BBC is a capable news agency at home and a propaganda arm abroad.
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  923.  @normalhuman6581  :-) :-) :-) They were worth a good laugh. I wish the government put more faith in subject matter experts. It doesn't make sense to do otherwise in this technological age where common sense only gets you so far.
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  924. Criticizing the almost empty Prasar Bharti board is valid. The situation is very concerning and should be corrected.
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  925. Did people who are paid to plan for contingencies like this, anticipate this happening?
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  926. How much does it cost to bus all these people for free within 20 km of their destinations? Run buses at 50% capacity to maintain public distancing.
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  927.  @curiosity6219  It is not like that at all. Qualitative differences in operational efficiencies, and synergies, matter to whether a port is competitive wrt competing offerings from other ports around the world, or not. True that India has had ports for a long time before Adani.
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  928. Rather than courts passing abrupt bans of firecrackers two weeks before Diwali (what about all the vendors who look forward all year to the Diwali season to make a living ?), the establishment has to evolve an economic model to clean up the air, that also grows the GDP.
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  929. Not ONE sentence about the costs of cleaning air! Indian intellectuals talking ad nauseum about the minutiae of air particulates without ever wrapping their minds around the costs of cleanup for the economy, is frankly not surprising, but this needs to change.
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  930. For a more thoughtful opinion on this issue, read this essay in the Indian Express: https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/carbon-emission-paris-covid-19-7055252/
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  931. For heaven's sake, even the foul mouthed Shri Trump showed greater sensitivity for what the economic implications of cleaner air standards are in terms of adding costs to his people, than does India's upper crust that never burdens its mind with the concerns of the hoi polloi.
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  932. Stop paying so much attention to old fogies like Chanakya, Sun Tzu, and Shekhar Gupta, and think modern (= western).
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  933. In Europe and America, people would think it ignorant if someone trashed philosophers like Plato or Socrates. Six decades of a rootless Indian education system has produced many influential individuals uneducated in the liberal arts.
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  934. Debabratta Dash your thought makes better sense.
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  935. Could this be a message to America? Ease up on Huawei or we will start a fight with India.
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  936. "16:01 That’s an interesting proposition. I can’t think of any country doing that as a process or a framework. Can you? It would be interesting to hear you expand on the possibilities of states and political parties being included in the discussions. "
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  937. The end of phone call Raj and focus on statistics may turn out to have the biggest long-term impact on India's governance.
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  938. Astute, as always. Imagine a world where the all powerful BJP government were as corrupt as the "previous dispensation". Gives me the shudders even to think about it.
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  939. The hidden story here seems to be the robust growth of the private sector.
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  940. Fire sale when markets are down may not be smart. Why not allow lateral entry into PSUs to bring their value up, first?
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  941. Yes. And I will go one step further and say also build relationships with foreign press which drives opinions in the country. Which is what foreign countries are certainly doing now in India.
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  942. Harvard is hardly a liberal bastion, perhaps the opposite. But that is a minor point about a great university.
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  943. As someone once said, isms are odious and India should not be importing them wholesale. Isms draw a circle around themselves, where there is the 'us' folk, and everyone outside is the 'them' folk. There is such a thing as a liberal racist (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/28/opinion/sunday/suffrage-movement-racism-black-women.html), and when people in certain countries say feminism, they implicitly mean white feminism (https://www.thelily.com/how-many-women-of-color-have-to-cry-top-feminist-organizations-are-plagued-by-racism-20-former-staffers-say/).
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  944. It is hard to find fault with the message of the signatories, but one wonders how high in their list of intellectual priorities actual survival, as in, "I cannot breathe", kind of survival, is. If it is not in their lived experience, they may not feel the existential urgency of BLM in their bones.
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  945. Really important topic and greatly appreciated for addressing it! I wanted to say that first, as there are less complimentary comments I want to add later.
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  946.  @nteihwang6451  We're splitting hairs here. The British colonisers were the enablers. American evangelists took advantage of the 'law'. I wouldn't be surprised if there was coordination between the two. The end result was mass Christian conversion of tribal populations.
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  947. Makes sense in that a prolonged complete lock down is not good for the economy or public health. Data from the antibody test should help to create a good model on what to expect in terms from flare ups down the road. The opening up should be done armed with a strong forecasting ability.
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  948. Shri Gupta's gyaandeepikas have increasingly become overt smear sessions of Indian political targets under the guise of discussing world politics.
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  949. 'Globalisation' has been pushed through in the 90's with the blithe promise that Americans will move up the creative work ladder by worker retraining, and the grunt work will be outsourced to 'third' world countries. The ensuing social upheaval has been predicted too - American society just has not used the last 3 decades to build the safety nets to address it. All the savings have gone to sell ever cheaper toys at the department stores and create ever bigger 'share holder value'.
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  950. As an arm-chair economist, I humbly think the real issue is the changes that technology and trade are driving in societies, certainly in America.
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  951. Trump and Modi in the same breath? Really? How can Shri Trump's denial of Corona be compared with Shri Modi's responsible acknowledgement of the seriousness of the situation. Also not sure if Shri Gupta correctly understands what 'woke' means.
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  952. This affirmative speaking out in support of sensible government ideas is needed, across the spectrum, by anyone with a megaphone and a thinking mind. Far too many sit on the sidelines and enjoy the fun.
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  953. Rather than power games, the world should focus on eliminating the source of the current crisis. Verifiably eliminate wet markets/wild animal food. That is the clear and present danger and should be the only focus. It can't be done without China buying in 100%.
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  954. What chemical and does it get into the food chain?
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  955. There is so little of such critical analysis in the Indian political discourse that Mr. Gupta is a rare and welcome exception. At the same time, UPSC aspirants and others should learn to distinguish between factual content and editorial opinion in any news show.
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  956. May I suggest saying 'so-called upper castes', and 'so-called lower castes'. Not to deny historical injustices, but to deny legitimacy to a birth-determined social hierarchy.
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  957. Heartening story about Dharavi. It seems like aggressive testing and isolation has worked - with pulse ox as stand in for biochemical testing. India should perhaps update care guidelines around the country to make the Dharavi model the standard of COVID-19 response as access to RT-PCR is going remain limited for some time. There is a lot of knowledge to be mined here and hopefully healthcare workers are using comprehensive survey questions for further epidemiological analysis.
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  958. The Indian government should set up a system for institutionalizing hard-won knowledge from such crises so that society get stronger with each experience. One practical meaning of this idea is perhaps setting up a searchable web knowledge database (i.e. NOT a bunch of pdfs or paper scans!) with standardised means of entering statistical data as well as prose summaries of what worked and what did not. This should be accessible to the state governments and have a role-based access and auditing for each functionality.
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  959. Love your can-do spirit!
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  960.  @a-woke5283  That is exactly what is happening, if you listened to Shri Rajnath Singh's statement.
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  961. Charles Darwin was supposed to have said, "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most responsive to change.”.
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  962. In virtually every episode where Shekhar ji starts with a grand conclusion in the title, he massages or navigates between the facts, sometimes deftly adjusting their weights, to fit the conclusion. It has become a fun game to try to spot the sleight of hand (or rhetoric) in each episode.
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  963. Is this laying the ground work for a fresh coup in P?
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  964.  @tharunmangattil2759  I did not know that but suspected something like that.
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  965.  @tharunmangattil2759  For simplicity, I would say Eastern India, but I could be quibbling.
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  966.  @mohinderkumar7298  Your multi-name calling shows that you are a partisan. Never mind; the issue is not about wisdom but access to information, which is a different thing.
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  967. Not all citizens. Only those middle class idiots who have access to information and should know better than to spread the disease.
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  968. Nice story but you missed an opportunity to present the story of PCR in this context and how it revolutionised biology and medicine (not to mention the relevance to COVID-19 testing). The convenience of modern PCR is of course from the use of a high-temp polymerase cloned from an extremophile. May be you can do another episode where you cover that?
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  969. It is not news that films stars (or even star journalists) can be self-absorbed and even narcissistic. More relevant to Sushant's death, it is important to trace the flow of money in the Hindi cinema industry so that any unwanted activities can be terminated.
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  970. You don’t know what you, till it’s gone. People in Bharat have it good in the past 10 years, and it is so easy to take it for granted and experiment with the jiu jitsu balak.
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  971. The 9 seconds from 14:09 to 14:18 to show the dangers, and even the incompatibility of the nuance and restraint of science with the black-and-white/24-hour news cycle demands of internet journalism. A famous mathematical modeler said decades ago - all models are wrong, some are useful.
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  972. Sweden appears to be an exceptional case according to someone I heard - there is a lot more citizen trust of public institutions, and vice versa than almost any where else in the world.
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  973. Succinctly put! Polished English is no substitute for real class.
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  974. Everyone should prepare for some disappointment in the initial few years as there will be some resistance. Hopefully the govt has factored it in and developed contingencies for how to spot and address it.
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  975. Most of India is living in The Matrix where knowing English is confused with having real knowledge or ability. The number of people who have occupied important positions in Indian society in the past few decades only because they can speak 'good English' is a legion.
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  976. The government has to make teaching in Indian languages until 5th grade uniformly apply to all schools, especially private schools.
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  977.  @rylumrai  You should lay off the drink. I imagine, "with a few exceptions", applies to you, if you were in India.
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  978. For the 'India vs. America', Twitter warriors: America has had for decades a law banning government employees from accepting foreign contributions in cash or kind. Restrictions on foreign influence on the Press as well.
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  979. Die-hard Congress voters remind me of die-hard Trump voters in America.
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  980. Re: the title, not just education, health infrastructure, roads, food for the COVID unemployed, MSP for grains, vaccines, etc. and etc., need finance. Having said that, it is an important consideration.
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  981. It should be noted, a necessary condition for being an 'eminent personality' in India is for one to operate in the English-speaking economy of India. Pronouncing government as 'guvment' is bonus.
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  982. This is slowly turning into an essay :-) but the VHP should have a friendly conversation with Shri Gupta to educate him on the conception of God in Hindu religions.
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  983. Looks like FCRA addresses some of these issues. More knowledgeable people, please comment.
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  984. With respect to Justice Chandrachud's excellent comments on improving the Indian press: India should establish a law like America's FARA law of 1938, that would make all foreign influences on Indian press more transparent. There should be a streamlined process for all members of the Indian press to declare any foreign cash or in-kind contributions, and influences. The need for declaring press-professional memberships in foreign WhatsApp groups, foreign scholarly societies etc. may be debated as well.
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  985. Smt. Indira Gandhi can do no wrong. Even when she does an Emergency, it is actually a blessing in disguise for India. We hope this is not Stockholm syndrome speaking :-)
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  986. Anyone who believes that India is equal home to all her citizens should enthusiastically agree with the Supreme Court decision. Shows such Bindas Bol can bring to life the devil that one section of Indian press has forever been painting on the wall.
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  987. Press freedoms are not absolute as another judge famously observed. A simple example is how 'hate speech' is regulated. However, one would always urge caution about importing buzzwords, social models, and ideas from outside without careful deliberation about their relevance and need.
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  988. I get the feeling that when Shekhar ji says 'our' or 'we', he is using code to address fellow Hindus among his audience. A more inclusive outlook is expected of the President of the Editor's Guild of India.
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  989.  @ligmaballz3584  Massive leap of logic there :-)
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  990.  @homosapien6414  And yet, it is remarkable that the word 'casta' or 'caste' is not found in any of the voluminous Indian literature, until the Portuguese Christian colonizers introduced it. Incidentally, the same colonizers infamous for one of the cruelest 'inquisitions' anywhere in the world, the Goan Inquisition. British Christian colonizers added concrete to 'the system', as their contribution. "Muslims , Christians, sikhs who always gave message of equality developed caste system in india due to most converts from lower caste hindus." Hardly a fitting excuse for 'messengers of equality'. Sikh are not part of that Abrahamic group, and are Sanatani. They know what dharma is, unlike Cristians or Muslims. PS: The irony of clubbing Sikhism with the two Abrahamic religions, when its origin itself was a Sanatana kshatra response to Islamic marauders, surely escaped you.
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  991. Americans have a wonderful maxim that should be widely circulated in the Indian political and Press community. All politics end at the border.
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  992. There is a season for everything. The problem landed in Shri Modi's lap thanks to the aristocracy in power before him, and he is managing very well without foreclosing his options.
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  993. He got anxious too often.
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  994. Not clear to me why the % minorities going up is a virtue. Balance is a good thing for stability. If the trend continues, then minorities will become the majority one day, and then do we reverse the tune?
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  995. Unfortunately, by homogenizing the tremendous plurality in culturally Hindu society and reducing it to one 'Hindu religion', we are doing a disservice to the discourse.
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  996. Couldn't help bringing up another movie reference :-) At times, did anyone recall Judy the traffic bunny from Zootopia and the department of motor vehicles sloth scene?
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  997. Shri Gupta was doing the 'white man's overbite' in face of Dr. Ravi's cogent arguments. Any movie buffs who got the reference?
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  998. Jyoti ji, we would love to hear Shri Manish Sabharwal's thoughts on the new labour laws. Could you invite him back for a conversation?
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  999. Helping the Pakistani people without strengthening Rawalpindi. Tough needle to thread.
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  1000.  @BharatThatIsIndia  Mitler was like that for his followers....
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  1001. If you follow the international press, there is a sly narrative building that the lock down did not achieve anything. This interview clearly puts such speculation to rest.
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  1002. Can't agree that Maldives is not that important neighbor, coming particularly from someone as astute as Mr. Gupta about national security issues.
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  1003. I think she (and Shri Shekhar Gupta) have always been clear about their preferences. That besides, your comments about about how journalists have no qualms dissecting caste/religion numbers while playing political pundit, or their blind eye toward AIMIM, should rightfully hit home. Somehow, I doubt that they will.
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  1004. The US has to confront, understand, and address the structural changes in society that brought Shri Trump to power, to provide for long term stability. The dispossessing forces of technology will only get stronger, and America should perhaps earnestly discuss universal basic income.
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  1005. Biden: ""They weren't protesters. Don't dare call them protesters. They were a riotous mob, insurrectionists, domestic terrorists. It's that basic. It's that simple. WSJ editorial board: "Mr. Biden will become President at noon on Jan. 20, and until then the police need to restore order with as much force as necessary.". Food for thought, although the second quote chills my blood some. In some ways, civil liberties are stronger in India, but it is important to also not let protests impinge on the livelihood of others.
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  1006. And this is WaPo trying to assuage their wounded pride by dragging Indian into what is purely a domestic issue, using hired lackeys: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/08/trump-capitol-mob-india-modi-political-violence/
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  1007. Shekhar ji, If there ever was a story needing cluttering, this was it! My only complaint is the classification of killings by caste but that was unfortunately built into the nature of the story. More than the killing itself, it is worrisome to think that people will shrug it off as business as usual. Perhaps you can address the kind of reforms needed to improve things in your National Interest episode - especially police reform.
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  1008. 'Extremist image' is a manufactured one.
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  1009. Hopefully, these informal meets at the top level will become common enough that people will not think twice about them. There is no alternative way forward to peace and security.
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  1010. Strikes the right tone, thank you. All the same, people with a megaphone should use some of the precious airtime to keep the focus on health and education. So much airtime is sucked up by shiny scandals or political guessing games that there is no focus on capacity building. What if every reporter made a commitment to spend 20% of their time reporting on health and education? It just might change society.
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  1011.  nyc king  Hardly a sane comparison. The question is not of political polarization which can happen in broad daylight in a democracy, but of political freedom, as in not being in jails.
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  1012. Mr. Gupta, you should submit the first half of this video as an article to nyt or the Independent titled 'The crisis of political freedoms in Pakistan'. You can depute an assistant to write the first draft. As unbiased, freedom loving mags, they would love to publish it.
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  1013. This episode reminds me (for some odd reason) of Jai defending Veeru to mausi in Sholay.
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  1014. Making villages synonymous with agriculture is low-IQ thinking. We should envision a future where agri is only one part of village economy. Overcrowded cities should become a thing of the past.
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  1015. "Why is Vir asking same questions that others have asked"
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  1016. "Vir Sanghvi - CAUGHT IN RADIA TAPES - BEING reset by Shekhar Gupta "
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  1017. A bit more on turmeric: pubmed.gov is a widely used biomedical research database. A search for 'turmeric' returns 5319 research articles on turmeric, 703 of them published from USA. Two of the articles described preclinical research on turmeric and ARDS, or acute respiratory distress syndrome. ARDS is probably the most serious consequence of COVID-19. This doesn't necessarily lead to any conclusions about the utility of turmeric for COVD-19, but it is one of those sensible things where if you would any way drink a glass of milk for nutrition, it may provide some relief to add half a teaspoon of turmeric to it.
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  1018.  @a141tho2  Bravo!
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  1019. Is remarkable that print is allowing dissenting voices to publish on their pages. This is downright subversive.
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  1020. Rajneeti indeed for satta. Satta is mandate, not strength. Shri Chautala missed school the day they were teaching the neeti part of rajneeti.
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  1021. Higher taxes on petrol to reflect their real cost of usage is a progressive move. Europeans understand that.
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  1022. Can anyone recollect Shri Gupta ever making a Hindu cultural reference in a positive light? I can't.
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  1023. "You might laugh while mentioning Guardian council a few times, but you will not dare do it against our very own SC Collegium system. What hypocricy..!"
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  1024. Shri Shekhar Gupta would get laughed out of any business classroom for showing a token digital camera to hold up Kodak as an example of a business that adapted to photography's transition to digital. Kodak has been a miserable failure at leveraging their once-superb brand value into digital and are now grasping at straws. This is yet another example of The Print's lazy journalism.
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  1025. Nothing wrong with India's neighborhood, it is what India and her neighbours will make of it (with the unmalleable exception of Pakistan). The other neighborhood options are 1) Europe, which spent most of time until a few decades ago in a death match for supremacy amongst themselves, and on two occasions dragged the rest of the world into it. 2) Near America, which is a wonderful place, but not sure how it would feel like to be a neigbour of, 3) The Middle East, which is mired in internal conflict and not a fun place to be in right now. 4) Africa, which is working through the same scars of history that India and her neighbors are - A public service message brought to you in the interests of responsible journalism.
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  1026. Most Indian journalists, apologies for the broad brush, rarely go beyond the 'what' to understand the 'why'. Blame it on the old educational system which did not prioritize critical thinking skills. No way the INSAS system or the MBT fell by the wayside without some active help in slow-walking them. There is a good story there for a curious reporter.
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  1027. It would be interesting to investigate what gave Mr. Ajit Pawar the impression that he could get all/the majority of NCP MLAs behind him.
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  1028. One sincerely hopes Shekharji doesn’t get a commission for this public service.
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  1029. "Secularism for getting social benefits. Sharia for escaping personal Responsibilities."
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  1030. This is all so much blah, blah, blah. The Khalistan underground is real and rich Canadians supporting it is too. The real question is, what new issue will the opposition use to completely stall proceedings in the parliament.
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  1031. You must realize that 2024 elections are nearing and exploring and exploiting everything through that lens has already started.
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  1032. Couldn't agree more, except for the 'unexplored' part.
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  1033. An example of how you can bias the reader with half truths: Hannah Elijah-Petersen writing in the Guardian Apr 1, 2020: "The outbreak from the Nizamuddin mosque gathering also inflamed religious tensions in a city still reeling from communal riots last month that took 50 lives, with Hindu mobs rampaging through the streets attacking Muslims in their homes". It should be "Hindu and Muslim mobs...attacking each other in their..."
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  1034. Can’t cell phone data be used to spot gatherings in real time? Overlay on Google maps.
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  1035. India should take some ideas from New York police after 9/11
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  1036. They got a ready quote from Shri Rajdeep Sardesai on how bad India was in linking virus to muslim event etc...
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  1037. Most Indian speakers of English don't know what an agent in a sentence is. Al Jazeera in its first trial of a headline (Parth MN, byline) said, 'India links muslim event to virus cases'. After the damage is done it now reads, 'India tracks attendees after Muslim event linked to virus cases'. This is not an isolated example and is the modus operandus of the esteemed NYT as well.
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  1038. I thought Shri Animesh was a promising journalist early on. He turned out to be Shri Ra vish Kr lite.
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  1039. One does wish that India already had a higher economic base to work with, just like S. Korea or Japan. Such progress comes from steady purposeful work of decades, not years.
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  1040. Important to reiterate, a large part of the world wishes Bharat well. Even if hard to believe amidst the noise that the R.na A..ubs of the world make.
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  1041. “Hinduism = Animism”
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  1042. Mr. Modi choosing NYT has everything to do with pragmatism and nothing more. It is both naïve and laughable to think that NYT has no agenda. Due to the advantages of time and history, they do have a built-up infrastructure of news collection and distribution channels which cannot be ignored.
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  1043. The polls are remarkably close: this after apparent nepotism, 'Corona will disappear by itself', 'hydroxycholoroquine', 'inject bleach', Russia sniper gate, America's abysmal show in responding to COVID compared to Europe, economy in COVID shambles still compared to China, and just overall dysfunction in the White House compared to the smooth efficiency of the previous admin. Shri Trump appears to be very resilient and many voters appear to be just begging to give them a reason to vote for him. A big vaccine announcement and roaring economy (% vise) in 3rd Q may be two.
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  1044. Tis is a peculiar verdict. Kashmir's brute majority robs Jammu people of representation in the government. If the shoe were on the other foot, you can be sure that the gyani would be hyperventilating. Omar Abdullah saab should think about it and invite Jammu representatives into the government.
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  1045. No angle and no 'makeover' here. Law and order is a prerequisite for development. Yogi ji got that out of the way in his first term. Many comments below attest to a cleanup of Shri Akhilesh Yadav's jungle raj.
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  1046. Hope the Oxford vaccine moves forward. As an aside, the DCGI issuing a show-cause notice to the Serum Institute seems like a completely avoidable press release. Better communication and coordination please!
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  1047. Basically, "the give and take of competitive electoral politics". also known as revdi, can fuss up the financial future of voters.
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  1048. "Atleast the free power should be given as direct cash transfer instead of forcing companies to give a discount. That way debt is transparently shown on govt's budget sheet, not hidden as discom's debt."
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  1049. "In short YSR family and people who believed in Free Lunch destroyed telugu people future"
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  1050.  @islandsunset  So, you are basically an idiot who switches on the idiot mode when challenged with things you don't know much about. Unfortunately, it takes a little poking around before one is revealed.
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  1051.  @islandsunset  I find it laughable that the examples that you could come up in Itihaasa to compare with the Nazi-level hatred for the 'others' of the Quran are the rasa leela and agni pareeksha. Rasa leela, crudely translated into leftwingese as sex between consenting adults, hardly qualifies as hate. Bhagwan Rama did not emerge unscathed from the agni pareeksha (unlike Sri Sita), and often comes for blame. Try blaming Allah for something, or even his prophet.
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  1052. It is too late to punish for what has already happened. Best that can be done is to restore what was damaged, like what is being done in Ayodhya. I am not a fan of communities hurting each other. But when conversation loses all semblance of fairness, it does get me irritated.
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  1053. This agenda sounds nothing less than a complete overhaul of the American government to make America unstoppable for the next several decades. Too much corruption had set in under the wink-and-nod oligarchy of Ms. Pelosi and her ilk.
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  1054. No one should be surprised by Shri Nixon's gutter talk of 50 years ago, when racism is literally a burning topic even in today's America (cf. BLM). COVID only gave to young whites a sudden intuition for what is feels like to be dispossessed in their own country. Hope the fellowship lasts.
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  1055. Good to see you back, Shekhar ji.
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  1056. One hopes that the AAP analogy with Facebook/Instagram is not too exact. Rekindles latent suspicions in people that Shri Kejriwal's personality and maturity may be similar to that of Shri Zuckerberg.
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  1057. Who else was reminded of the Red Wedding from the Game of Thrones after the Congress CWC meeting?
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  1058. As someone commented of the Court loyalists, "Like frightened children, senior Congress leaders old enough to have grand children and great-grand children of their own, tug on the Great Mother's hand, begging to please, please not abandon them."
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  1059. Who else was reminded of the Red Wedding from the Game of Thrones after the Congress CWC meeting?
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  1060. Congress wrote the book on booth capturing and ballot box snatching. Do they have an independent audit mechanism for their internal elections?
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  1061. Delivering services to the people is not a trick. It is a key reason for which governments exist. Other parties with power in states should try it with the funds they have, instead of sending money bags to a certain house in Delhi.
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  1062. Not interesting. Not useful either.
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  1063. Is it just plain Md Yunus or even plainer Yunus now? Wasn’t it just weeks ago that he was ‘Nobel laureate Md Yunus’. 😢
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  1064. When Shekhar ji said army mukt Pakistan, I couldn't but help think of the parallels between the significance of that for Pakistan and Congress mukt rule for India.
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  1065. We thank you for not pulling out the phrase du jour at The Print, 'social engineering'.
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  1066. Shri Gupta is quite enamored by modern weapons of death.
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  1067. Shri Vir Sanghvi shows his vintage when he says, 'Indians are like this only'. That kind of sahib mindset toward the natives is slowly going extinct, barring a few lumbering dinosaurs. Stringing a pet theory based entirely on anecdote is suited for party talk, may be with a glass of whiskey in hand, but not for responsible journalism.
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  1068. Eyeopening. Seems like society takes journalists for granted a bit like it does school teachers.
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  1069. The only bit of bright news in all this is that most or many Indian language papers are profitable.
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  1070. What is true for Indian real estate developers is a 100-fold truer with foreign entities funding Indian news organizations, either directly or covertly. It is pocket money for them. The government should keep a close eye on funding sources for both public and private news companies and require them to be easily accessible for public scrutiny (e.g. with a prominent 'sources of funding' link).
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  1071. Relevant to my earlier comment about agendas, it is fascinating that the WaPo/NYT/Guardian/BBC Al Jazeera coterie headlines that typically start with, 'In India the police watch on as frenzied mob lynches..' are not to be found anywhere about Palghar lynchings of sadhus. Normally, the coterie has ultra sensitive hearing when it comes to any kind of disturbances in India.
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  1072. Feels like print dropped all pretenses of un-hyphenated, post-elections.
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  1073. UPA WAS corruption. Saying they failed at anti-corruption is somewhat superfluous.
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  1074. Both are equally to blame may be more than little disingenuous when the evidence is weighted 60:6 against the Congress. Worse, and very telling, the Congress party never forgave Shri PV Narasimha Rao for ushering in the only economic reforms that brought some prosperity in the past three decades. Just setting the record straight.
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  1075. Shekhar, ji, your Freudian slip at one point shows the blind spot that all of us, self included, suffer from. With that out of the way, your path breaking experiment with CTC is very important and much appreciated!
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  1076. Perhaps under Shri Doval and in coordination with the PMO, could India set up a small group (5 - 30) of very smart mathematical modelers whose only job is to constantly ask what if questions and perform scenario analysis? In hindsight, if someone had asked who are ALL the people that will be affected by the lockdown and how will they react, the problem might have been caught before it began. Of course, they will need pipelines to early data on what is happening at town and district level, and to new policy initiatives. They should also be tasked with growing a library of such analyses for future reference.
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  1077. The vast number of examples of public health pamphlets I saw on YouTube, as at 1:26, are in English. The Maharashtra government 2 days ago said that they will now (!!) be developing such literature in Marathi. I hope people in power across India have a clear sense of who the target audience for their COVID-19 messages is, and how to design them.
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  1078. The land of Oz is a better analogy for the Congress party than a headless chicken. It is truly wonderful, i.e. scarcely believable, that the facade could be sustained for so long.
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  1079.  @anders2447  You may offer a counter, but such hatred?!!
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  1080. Wrt to Shri Mani Shankar Iyer reference, one should note that the days of MEA officials looking pretty and saying tremendously witty things among the old boys are over. The stakes were always high, but it is only now that the MEA is acting like adults. Future generations will thank them.
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  1081. Two suggestions for Shri Gupta: 1) Considering not putting words in India's mouth 2) As Sadhguru said, if you stop demographic change, all disturbances will settle down.
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  1082. What is the economic cost of training someone like Abhijit Banerjee only to lose them to the Harvards of the world? It was an acceptable cost in the era of Har Gobind Khorana (1960s) when India was still building its teaching institutions, but not in the 21st century when research should be flourishing. Rather than offer niggardly praise when grace was called for, Indian ministers should focus on what is lacking in growing Indian Universities and research centers as places of unbounded intellectual pursuit. That is a robust long term basis for economic growth.
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  1083. Thank you for another great science episode. Can you do one in-depth on the locust problem, current solutions, how successful, they are, any technologies currently being researched in the lab, and the outlook for next year?
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  1084. A sincere suggestion: 'wrecked' suggests a done-with finality which may not be true, and certainly not helpful. May be substitute with, 'is ailing'? or, 'created the trouble in''? Most Indian news orgs. seem to reach for the easy hyperbole when a more judicious word or phrase will do better. Many unfortunate examples abound from recent news.
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  1085. DRDO has their work cut out for them.
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  1086. Shri Rahul Gandhi is slowly graduating from being a public nuisance to a national security threat.
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  1087. Shri Rahul Gandhi is slowly graduating from being a public nuisance to a national security threat.
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  1088. Shri Rahul Gandhi is slowly graduating from being a public nuisance to a national security threat.
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  1089. It is one thing for the cow-worshipping BJP leaders to raise these critical comments during the UPA rule, but it is another thing for the 'suffisticated', liberal standard bearer, 'pre-eminent Congress party leader', Rahul Gandhi to behave just the same way during NDA rule.
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  1090. So, is good hygiene actually bad hygiene? :-) Certainly, the pandemic of 'anti-bacterial' in everything seems like a bad habit that the world needs to shake.
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  1091. 'poor' and 'rich' nations seems like such an absolutist position :-) 'poorer' and 'richer' nations leaves room for all nations to aspire for a more prosperous tomorrow.
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  1092. Hindus need to squarely address birth-caste and put it past them. Birth-caste has to crumble so that it does not drag Hindu identity down with it. That is the principal way to protect the syncretic Bharateeya ethos from the political ethos of monotheism (we await a future CTC on the creeping encroachment of Christianity in the southern states).
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  1093. And with that, Shri Gupta created "Belchi moment". I am sure 98% of the viewers did not remotely know what it was until mentioned.
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  1094. It is possible that such ranking agencies use rankings to bestow and take away to 'send a message'. India must judge and work for the freedom of her own press, without looking up to or down on any country or agency. Goes for religious and other freedoms too, not just press.
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  1095.  @dip-tree  A valuable comment and I shared it on Twitter. The gratuitous 'Brahmin' swipe took away from some of the impact.
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  1096. Good points, but you can't dismiss it out of hand. Academic research is meant to give interesting projects to students to teach them how to do research, not necessarily to directly build products that can sell. Some one in Japan recently demoed a public toilet where the glass can change transmittivity - I don't know the mechanism. Curtains may work at homes, but there could be industrial or commercial applications electronic light control could be very useful.
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  1097. I remember a story on TV about Nehru's turn left. I believe he had gone to America to ask Roosevelt (?) for financial help for the new country but was for some reason unsuccessful. Then he turned towards the USSR.
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  1098. Shri Swami's balancing act is not just disgusting, it is dangerous. There is no social threat in the world now that is comparable to the one he is talking about. Masking that with weasel-talk is dangerous.
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  1099. "Zakir Naik is a very very moderate compared to millions of people who really believe and follow THE BOOK."
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  1100. Shekhar ji, there is an immediate concern of many day laborers running out of food and their families enduring severe difficulties. I request you and all media outlets to use your valuable public reach to sensitize and canvass for community level efforts to alleviate suffering - particularly of young children and pregnant mothers. Additionally, may be the government can use aadhaar card data to deliver rice and essentials to the neighborhoods in the greatest need.
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  1101. This is one of the best CTCs that I personally watched. Shekhar ji is in his element and Snehesh is a rising talent. India needs to bolster defenses around ALL the border states and not put any contingencies off the table, howsoever far fetched they may seem.
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  1102. Islam needs its own Martin Luther.
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  1103.  India raj  You may be right.
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  1104. Why do Pakistan and Bangladesh appear to be on different development trajectories? (edited)
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  1105. There is nothing like a happening in the 'west' to get the attention of Indian 'intellectuals'.
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  1106. I feel that assuming that people can go out to work, the government could convert the presumed spending to grow India's fixed assets by employing rural labor in massive infrastructure projects (roads, container handling facilities, communication networks, SEZs, granaries, food processing facilities, vegetable wholesale markets), AND tree planting. This could be a good time to tackle India's perennial infrastructure shortfall while providing jobs to semi-skilled and unskilled labor. The crisis might make it easier to muster the political will and support. Plan with a 360 future vision (e.g. provide for fiber optic cables while building roads, etc.). Look into the future and announce tenders so that entrepreneurs can come up with home grown technologies that will find a guaranteed market - this is true in high-tech and biotech as well.
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  1107. It is a little clearer now why Shri Ambani struck the deal. Non-discretionaries will be one place where people will continue to spend and time is of the essence to reach out to those consumers, with Amazon at their heels. Hope this will be a significant source of employment to the kiranas and delivery people.
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  1108. I suggest putting some thought into understanding where the bottlenecks were as there is a wealth of fresh data from the crisis to know what worked and what gummed things up in delivery of services. Talk to not just the MBAs, but also to vendors, transporters, haulers, health workers etc. to think how small investments and clever engineering can smoothen workflow AND dramatically increase economic throughput. This is the time for the creative people of the country with design degrees to look at daily transactions around them with fresh eyes to see where value can be added. It may not necessarily mean a big big paycheck for them, but it could be deeply satisfying work and transform the lives of others.
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  1109. People can just read this for their ctc and avoid Gupta ji’s tedious ball-by-ball of obscure details without any sense of analysis. Nice comment.
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  1110. America needs to adjust the price of petrol to the real cost of usage, more like Europe and India.
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  1111. 19:06: That Shekhar Gupta, a sly one he is.
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  1112. The key to a just society was given by Vidura to Dharmaraja, as narrated in the Mahabharata, "तस्माद्धर्मप्रधानेन भवितव्यं यतात्मना । तथा च सर्वभूतेषु वर्तितव्यं यथात्मनि ||". The Christians have something similar, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you".
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  1113. The answer to Shri Gupta's apparent puzzle is in an Alfred Lord Tennyson quote.
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  1114.  @maxk1911  You might call them 'deplorables'.
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  1115. There was the guilt-by-association with Shri Trump again, and mental gymnastics to fit data to one's narrative. Entirely different leaders and different voter responses. Shri Modi's supporters doubled during a time of adversity while Shri Trump's base appears to be shrinking.
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  1116. Since Ayodhya found indirect mention in this episode, I will note that the current headlines in the esteemed NYT online on Ayodhya read, ""Indian court favors Hindus in Dispute over Ayodhya religious site" (7 h ago). "Indian court gives disputed religious site to Hindus in landmark ruling" (5 h ago). If you don't see the issue with language, consider the different emotion evoked by a small change I made, "Indian court rules in favor of Hindus in Dispute over Ayodhya religious site". No agenda indeed!
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  1117. Someone below warned another user to beware of Mr. Gupta as he is a Gandhian of the highest order. I hope it is true. Talk of an unwitting complement!
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  1118. subtly ??!!!
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  1119.  @suryaprakash72771  😀
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  1120.  @suryaprakash72771  'International' acclaim is not necessarily a rock-solid measure of true worth. By some measures, young Rahul Gandhi has international acclaim but any objective viewer would consider that acclaim with suspicion. I am not trying to be sarcastic, but to just state that we each have to develop our own personal measures of good and bad in people rather than just point to Hollywood or New York Times recognition to indicate greatness. It is a difficult thing to do in a deeply colonised culture such as India's, but I am confident that most Indians will develop such self-esteem and self-assurance in the coming decades.
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  1121. Part of Gandhiji's mystique appears to be manufactured.
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  1122. He seems to lack gravitas or a sense of responsibility for this crisis moment. Without quickly restoring order the country will go to dogs.
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  1123. There are many similarities to the opposition to Obama's healthcare act and Modi's farm laws. Both are long-standing problems that urgently needed a solution, and both had an implacable opposition that was worried about letting people taste the benefits of the new laws (okay, the second part is a supposition but only half so).
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  1124. We need to know what Sonia ji and Rahul ji put in that 2005 'deal'. Could that be the cause of the lost lives in Galwan?
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  1125. "I do not know why SG is demeaning India ; For eg, India is far far far far far less on this & that ; India is NOT a Vassal to Uncle Sam and that’s it ; For the past 10 years India is more assertive ; Full stop ;"
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  1126. Handwaving is essential for gyan sessions to work. Real data is too much work.
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  1127. The roots of the problem can't be localized as tidily in time. They lie in vote bank politics invented by 'you know who', and the engendered bad blood which is paying rich interest. No matter, CAA was poor naming. It should have been called the "Persecuted minorities from neighboring countries naturalization act" or "Keeping promises made in 1948 act".
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  1128. Arun srivatsan Ramakrishnan below, "Wat if there is a connection for this decision, with Angela Merkel's visit to India.🤔🤔". Better than an even chance, I think.
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  1129.  @akshitbajaj1364  Fair enough. However, the US dollar has been the de facto world currency since the 1950s. Without offering evidence, I posit that thinking of all monetary transactions in dollar terms is a relatively recent phenomenon.
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  1130. When will ThePrint print personal stories from Sandeshkhalil with quotes from victims?
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  1131. Loved the scarf brand endorsement at the end. Happy New Year to everyone at The Print!
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  1132. There is no doubt that India will continue to produce more rice and wheat than needed, IF the monsoons continue to cooperate down the long decades to 2100. Rice and wheat in themselves do not make India nutritionally self-sufficient and there is a tiring long way to go toward ensuring that everybody eats well. Over-population is a major resistance to achieving that.
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  1133. If you don't believe that population explosion has already happened, try taking the metro at Dadar station between 4 and 6 in the evening. The new generation has to set aside the 'good enough' attitude of previous generations and make life more than about mere survival.
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  1134. It is a straw man argument to say that people in the know think India's population will keep going up for ever. India's population explosion has happened decades ago and society is creaking under the challenges of providing BASIC services of education, health and nutrition to ever increasing numbers of people. If ostensibly responsible intellectuals can't see clearly the problem all around, what of us simple people who depend on them for clarity.
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  1135. There are many superb chemists and biology researchers but currently there is not much of a national capability for developing, _designing, and _building analytical instruments for chemistry and healthcare in the land of C. V. Raman. This may be a strategic area for the country to pay attention to during a review of the current crisis, once it passes.
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  1136. You missed an opportunity at 16:50 to relate it to why India is doing the lockdown.
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  1137. 'sarvamata samabhaav' will do very well, thank you very much.
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  1138. Might these be the early rumblings of a Reformation in the Islamic world, led by the Arabs? I hope so.
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  1139. More generally, I think India is so vast and diverse that bench marking best practices across the nation can quickly improve processes in many fields, not just disease management.
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  1140. Might ICMR or the relevant national agency adapt the planning aspects of the Bhilwara model to create an enduring, concrete, national model for all disease surveillance (not just response) across India? teams, surveys, analysis, and overall management. The obligatory chain of communication should start at the RMP level in the villages.
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  1141. Most of us were not expecting this pace of recovery from the pandemic, which is still not done with. That resilience is the real story behind this data.
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  1142.  @123xyzabccba  I don't have a problem with the usage. I was appreciating the originality and sly humor in calling it unionisation, a term conventionally used for workers.
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  1143. Nations unionising :-) Have not heard that usage before. Very original.
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  1144. "And you try to generalize all farmers as uniform. Which is a fallacy. Punjab farmers are different from Bihar farmer. Big farmers are different."
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  1145. Shekhar Gupta’s YouTube channel… etc.
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  1146.    Could be. The crisis in China has come months ago and subsided a couple of weeks ago. The US stock market started tanking 5 days ago and his tone changed about 3 days ago.
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  1147. America is struggling with ramping up testing too These resource barriers will remain in India as well. What is more easily accessible is the diffusion of safety information, particularly to the most vulnerable pockets of the population without connections to high-quality information networks.
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  1148. Snehesh, really engaging discussion, but your microphone sounds awful. Not enough dynamic range? + too much echo.
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  1149.  @Manish_Kumar_Singh  Sure, I agree with you. My comment was only about the use of 'take' when you probably meant 'offer'.
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  1150. Modi ji's call for a secular civil code to replace the current communal one clearly struck a nerve, as evidenced by the flurry of fantastical and ironic objections from the usual suspects. Hopefully, this signals a BJP that is becoming more adept at coining names. While the dharmic BJP may never reach the linguistic cunning of the left, it could still move away from missed opportunities like the clumsily named CAA.
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  1151. "2019 was sense of satisfaction that we are on right patth. Balakot was a small issue."
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  1152. An additional sorting is of the 'upper castes' by wealth. If the poorer 'upper castes' have worse life expectancy, that will throw further light on causal factors for policy makers.
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  1153.  @PlatypusPerry-  No point in complicating things is the death of science. Christianity has made great inroads into the 'upper castes' in recent decades so there must be sufficient data to understand how wealth plays into it. I am not contesting that birth-caste is still prevalent in society, although decreasing. You should read the paper if you haven't already. It is shoddy science and a political statement. No control for confounding factors, and leaves out clear, optimistic findings in their data that go against the conclusions that they set out to justify. I won't say more.
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  1154. I wish other religions were included in the analysis. That would have thrown some light on causality. At the least, a similar analysis could have been easily done for christians, sorted by 'upper caste' and 'lower caste'.
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  1155. Dharmo rakshati rakshitaha - protect dharma and it will protect you. Invest in Indian education and research, and it will protect the country when a crisis strikes.
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  1156. Love the Dharavi idea! Could set a model for the rest of the country. There must be a mechanism to fund running costs and keep them as vital and vibrant communities where families can raise children safely and hope for a better future. Otherwise they will turn into the infamous 'housing projects' of America.
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  1157. I thought that this India-Pakistan false parity was something that America did, at one time.
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  1158. I see several people below asking for pdfs of books. There is no cost to making an electronic copy, but it is really not free. If you can buy the book, it will pay the author who must have put in countless hours of his or her life writing the book, the families of the people who worked for the publisher who may have typeset or proof-read the book, and the families of the booksellers themselves, and many others in the value chain.
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  1159. This is one case where the saitan hides in the details. It is important to know the life influences of the 'gig terrorists'. Are they madrassa educated, as someone suggested below? Such analysis, rather than dry numbers, will give actionable inputs to government.
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  1160. My comment on Twitter: Is ‘targeted attacks’ the new euphemism for Islamist terror attacks?
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  1161. 9:36. "Although a general war between India and Pakistan is unlikely, crises between the two are likely to become more intense, risking an escalatory cycle". One hopes that is not true for the US and China. For entirely selfish reasons, I would like to avoid witnessing the scale of destabilization, destruction, and misery that would entail.
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  1162. Internet-connected cameras in public places need to be regulated in a transparent manner so that they serve the public good.
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  1163.  @adeshfafriya3884  Thank you for your response; I feel that your heart is in the right place and can perhaps see where you are coming from. Since I asked, I will give my understanding of the two terms as well. Patriotism: I love my country. Nationalism: I love my country AND my country is better than your country. Patriotism is a little bit like love for ones family, flaws are not the first things you see, and making it better is legitimately a driving impulse. To give a concrete example, I understand Sadhguru as a patriot and not a nationalist.
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  1164.  @adeshfafriya3884  can you define the two? Thanks.
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  1165.  @rohitroll2119  interesting. Can you provide a reference?
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  1166. The intense horror and cruelty of Hathras should not be conflated with a mob breaking the Babri structure.
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  1167. In other news, it will be useful for folks to understand the nuts and bolts of the social network driving the simple event of a foreign NGO closing shop, taking over 60-80% of search engine results on India.
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  1168. This is a little more like what I hoped from this CTC https://youtu.be/vlRpAqBdsP0
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  1169. Masterful frame-shifting from George Floyd to Trump, assigning guilt to BJP by association with Trump, and general innuendo and smear with nothing specific to pin down.
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  1170. In an ideal world, a Cut the Clutter episode on why there are riots in America over George Floyd's murder won't degenerate into a realpolitik analysis of comparing and contrasting election strategies in America and India, but such is the world we live in.
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  1171. Rather than dissect all the clever juxtapositions, I'd point out two errors in this CTC to those innocent, impressionable young IAS aspirants who deserve better. 1. The fundamental difference between the Democrats and Republicans is an ideological difference about a) what role the government has in providing essential services to people, and the related b) how much in taxes people should pay. 2. The Congress strategy of vote-bank politics has more in common with the colonial British strategy of divide-and-rule, than to anything that happens in American politics.
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  1172.  @tm3793  Agreed. You can think of this as a toilet system to flush down terrorists.
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  1173. Shri S. Jaishankar called it right. The real negotiations will start now.
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  1174.  fairplayall  As someone might have said, needless violence is always avoidable. When necessary, it should be undertaken with great caution and greater vigor.
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  1175. The Sri Lanka port example is welcome wake-up slap to any sleepy Indian leader.
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  1176. Pakistani leadership is driven by spite and delusions of being the successors of the Mughal empire. It has been and likely will be a losing game engaging them. India may have better luck engaging Pakistani people by unconventional means.
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  1177. Vibrant cultural and economic ties with each of India's neighbors, with a temporary exception of Pakistan, are vital for a peaceful and a prosperous world, and may well be a key economic engine to drive world growth post-COVID. Governments before the present one thought that all the cool kids lived 5,000 or 10,000 miles away. It is nice to see this government prioritising friendships in the neighborhood.
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  1178. Does ‘Urban Land Ceiling’ apply to Waqf?
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  1179. Shri Sigmund Freud would have made something of young Mr. Gandhi.
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  1180. I don't know if it is already in place but compulsory quarantining for recent foreign returns, without a choice of place of treatment, and a tech-based system to make sure that they don't run around and spread the virus (door monitors and webcams are cheap). Unbroken chain of custody is key. For the foreign-returns: If the bathroom is not clean, pick up a bucket and broom and get busy.
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  1181. I think you left out a critical detail that Prime Minister Modi called on the people for a self-imposed curfew on Sunday. Regardless of how it is implemented, it is important to note that he did not announce the imposition of a curfew.
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  1182. India has many pockets of excellence, such as healthcare delivery in Kerala as someone said below, or new innovations in primary education in Delhi. The challenge is to identify, study, and replicate best practices across India. May be the central government can start biennial conferences to encourage this habit of internal bench marking.
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  1183. Exciting idea by Dr. Gobardhan Das and collegues. Considering the urgency, I hope the government provides them with research funds quickly to start working on the BCG+COVID epitope vaccine idea.
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  1184. "Shekhar Gupta, Please make a CTC on why Germany and other European countries have parties called "Christian....... Party" .... Do they represent majoritarianism ...? These things are often overlooked in western world..."
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  1185. As India starts with blank slate for its model of development, she is only obligated to borrow ideas that work within the context of the coming challenges of climate and population. Innovations are possible in urban and rural planning, the delivery of education, even the nature of work itself, that empower the many to be economically productive while leading meaningful and fulfilled lives. Perhaps look to the explicitly moral Chanakya more than to the amoral invisible hand of Adam Smith for inspiration.
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  1186. They have been, for well over half a century. Hope things improve now.
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  1187. I would discount all the soft metrics, which could at least in theory may be used for 'sending a message'. The only one that is worrisome, is the one related to child well being. If there is a true deterioration over time, the reasons for that need to be understood by Indian academics and policy makers.
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  1188. Framing a national security issue in macho terms is clearly not in the National Interest.
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  1189. India must maintain ambiguity, not legally concede anything, and work on removing internal inefficiencies hindering growth. It is slow and frustrating, but the only way forward.
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  1190. Economic growth is the best national defense there is.
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  1191. It is more useful in this moment to game China’s mind than try to game Shri Modi’s mind.
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  1192. Even if there were war, India cannot take her eyes off of economic and educational reforms.
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  1193. Vidyadhar Khare says, "...the facile art of cluttering under the garb of decluttering".
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  1194.  @msdadsfsx  oh that was Valkyri3z, sorry mix up.
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  1195.  @msdadsfsx you said 10 years ago
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  1196. While any rape is detestable, even if 70 rape cases a day puts the incidence of rape in India below 2.5 rape cases/100,000 people. This is substantially below that in Botswana (92/100,000), UK (53/100,000) and USA (42/100,000). It is important to understand what cultural issues make the incidence of rape so high in Botswana, UK, or USA. By the same measure, it is also important for public policy to understand what cultural values make India so much safer for women. Finally, as Indians increasingly imitate American values, it is important to keep a close eye on the number to make sure it does not trend up.
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  1197. "While any rape is detestable, even if 70 rape cases a day puts the incidence of rape in India below 2.5 rape cases/100,000 people. This is substantially below that in Botswana (92/100,000), UK (53/100,000) and USA (42/100,000). It is important to understand what cultural issues make the incidence of rape so high in Botswana, UK, or USA. By the same measure, it is also important for public policy to understand what cultural values make Bharat so much safer for women. Finally, as Indians increasingly imitate American values, it is important to keep a close eye on the number to make sure it does not trend up."
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  1198.  G Prasad  Agree on deaths part. Can you expand on laws against misery porn?
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  1199. A tidy grouping, but probably not accurate to place Mr. Modi in this group based on publicly available information on his thought and conduct. I do agree with Mr. Gupta's deeper observation about a certain atavistic trend in world populations. It is worth researching what global mega trends might be driving these needs for apparent certainty and stability.
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  1200. That snuck in too casually at 11:35, but first time I am hearing of 'Hindu missionaries'. Would like to see more of them :-)
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  1201. Wonderful story about Shri Balbir Singh. The challenge for modern Indian leaders, which they have not quite grasped in seven decades, is how to institutionalize the knowledge and memory of such generational talents to develop enduring institutions of excellence.
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  1202. As you seek, so shall you find conclusions.
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  1203. Great comment! except for the asinine, "despite being..." part.
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  1204. Episodes like this bring viewers including me, in to watch daily. The press is the fourth, informal leg of government and is very much a part of the process of stabilizing and moving society forward. It can't be a clinically distant observer without an emotional stake in the success of the government of the day.
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  1205. Shri Kharge was talking of Congress swallowing smaller parties. Congress kare’ toh shringar…
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  1206. Aside of my skepticism of objectivity in NYT coverage of India, Indian papers have a long way to go before they achieve the reach, the energy, or the level of curiosity of NYT. Not of now, that even of a 100 years ago. Even for stories in India (!), news shops are filling space with foreign syndicated feeds.
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  1207. Ironies abound on all sides.
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  1208. Shekhar ji got to hit all his usual targets, under the guise of defending Arnab Goswami's rights :-)
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  1209. In this instance, time starts 3 years ago. The decades before that? Wiped clean.
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  1210. "This is the sum and substance of bharat jodo abyan by rahul"
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  1211. "This is typical congress mentality. Seems that Congress do not think of India as a whole unit. This tendency will create animosity between peoples of different state and thus an insecure India. Shame on you Congress!!!"
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  1212. "If all the states pass this kind of bill, I will become stateless"
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  1213.  @MAR-lo7vu  It is nothing personal. Shri Khan had proven to be a security threat not just for India.
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  1214. I guess if India had the information, opportunity, and threat awareness, Shri Khan would have been a legitimate target in mid 1970s. I wonder what Israel would have done in a similar situation.
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  1215. Embarrassing mistake to make for someone specialising in strategic issues.
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  1216. As an armchair international expert, I would say that China is not strong enough economically or with enough goodwill to throw its weight around the world, certainly not with India. It would sour the world's view of China, and coalesce the now confused murmurs in Europe into firm resolve. Countries will set aside considerations of convenience to economically oppose China.
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  1217. "Can't we all just get along?"
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  1218. True. The govt is not taking any chances with the election outcome, pushing through the big defense purchase.
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  1219. ​@Sandro Sadhukhan If you think that the financial shock of COVID is in the same class as 2008 or demonetisation, I respectfully disagree with you (I, and probably most people). That aside, 2008 is a decade + 2 years ago! And 61 years after Independence! All the other smart countries of the world have long left 2008 behind in the rear view mirror because they already had a robust shock absorbance capability in place. Japan and Korea come to mind as countries as good points of comparison to India, as also China. They were in roughly the same boat in the first half of 20th century. India continues to suffer because 6 lost decades under Congress rule. I will leave it at that. As to demonetisation, it took India's lowest income individuals for granted the same way the first lock down did. I don't know more about the real objectives of demonetisation of how well they were achieved. Having said that, I cannot see any way in which a country with India's per capita income, infrastructure, and population density could have done any better with Corona. I stated my only objection to the lock down; I am curious how you think it could have been managed better.
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  1220. While in 70 years, India's economy did not grow enough spare reserves to absorb the once-in-a-century shock, young Shri Rahul ji is trying to stoke anger in the midst of the trouble and steer it against the BJP. We'll have to see if the ploy works.
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  1221. Mr. Chidambaram may or may not be punished for his alleged crimes. Mr. Gupta, you should not further punish him by mangling his name: it is pronounced chi-dum-buh-rum not chi-daam-brum.
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  1222. I would suggest renaming Max Mueller marg as Mark Twain marg.
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  1223. The reference to Chankya and Chandra Gupta left my mouth agape. Was that simple unmitigated ignorance of history, or a deliberate stirring of trouble? Neither is excusable, but the latter would also be unforgivable, especially in someone in a responsible position as Shri Gupta.
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  1224. I second Manish's opinion below. Also radip Chauhan's. Also Virtual Shastra's, especially the point that this may not be a random event. Global competition for primacy is better viewed and engaged as sibling rivalry than as a death match. The alternative is carpet bombing.
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  1225. This episode in brief: parties lose elections when they campaign on a record of reforms. Shri Modi should campaign on reforms.
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  1226. One sincerely hopes that the mental gymnastics of this episode were not thinly disguised corporate lobbying.
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  1227. In 25 years, it will have to be seen if an affluent Indian society will look more like that of the Scandinavian countries, or like that of America.
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  1228. In 25 years, it will have to be seen if an affluent Indian society will look more like that of the egalitarian Scandinavian countries, or like that of winners-take-all America.
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  1229. It is insecurity indeed. Recall that Shri Kejriwal employed Shri Raghav Chadha as a viceroy for Punjab, a curious arrangement that has escaped comment from commentators.
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  1230.  @CosmicValkyrie  Clearly, I did not deny that: "Dynasty politics is a cancer that started with Pandit Nehru and metastased into state politics". Causal events are important. Individuals who self-identify as an 'intellectual', or should know better because of better exposure, get held to a higher standard in my books.
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  1231. CosmicValkyrie Shri Shekhar Gupta was entirely a sophist and an apologist when he spent an entire episode saying the Gandhis get blamed for dynasty politics when everyone else does it as well. That is textbook sophistry. I think his knowledge of Indian political history is better than that. Dynasty politics is a cancer that started with Pandit Nehru and metastased into state politics. Breaking it with Congress will change the norm for Indians as it will set the most important example.
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  1232.  @CosmicValkyrie  Until Indian 'intellectuals' squarely address the absurdity of continued feudal 'loyalty to the Gandhis as a reward for their forebears' past contributions', in a modern democracy, and put this absurdity front and center of any conversation about democratic values in India, they will continue to be called out for sophistry, that is lack of intellectual honesty.
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  1233.  @CosmicValkyrie  For the sake of democracy in India, I hope that Congresswalla Gandhi loyalists stop behaving like sheep.
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  1234. The Greeks had their sophists. India has her 'intellectuals'.
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  1235. I believe the former USSR had a narrow but golden window of opportunity to establish democracy during the heady days of Shri Gorbachev. The 'international community' came up short in supporting them financially till they could get over the hump. The community did the littlest they could to secure their own safety, and no more. The bills are coming due now. As they say in physics, there is no such thing as a free lunch.
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  1236. Excellence in encryption technologies is critical for this to be useful. Bharat shd invest in the research too.
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  1237. It needs to be figured if these were the terms of the timely aid from Saudi Arabia.
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  1238. One would expect the death rate to not change, if people with new infections have similar characteristics.
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  1239. The fact that the rich and the famous who have the resources to keep themselves isolated are now (seemingly) testing positive more suggests that virus penetration is at high levels. That is also a positive sign (under the circumstances) so long as the death rate stays low.
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  1240. (repost with edits) Very nice. Almost too much data to digest in one episode. Nice to see the graphics. Maybe try including some of the graphs as insets in the corner of the screen (too many spoken numbers) + consider adding spatial mapping.
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  1241. So is virtually everyone on this planet :-)
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  1242. You should label your statement as hypothesis rather than as proven fact.
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  1243. So, the defenders of Shri Nehru say that it was other people's fault that he did not act like a leader when he needed to. What does, "too much of a democrat" mean anyway?
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  1244. Fisticuffs and stones are bad, but smarter than guns and rockets.
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  1245. Terrific catch at 9:00!
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  1246. 'Dynastic establishment' is one word too many. Just dynasty would do just fine. Also, it is clever but incorrect to say 'congress dynasty', it is 'Gandhi family dynasty'.
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  1247. We eagerly await a statement from Smt. Sonia Gandhi paying respects to Shri Narasimha Rao.
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  1248. SG: radical Islam is evil. So I might add for balance, could be radical Christianity and radical Hindutva, not to mention any other radical versions of religions out there.
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  1249. Nice interview. What was Shri Pompeio’s meaning by Hindu and Christian countries?
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  1250. In the cause of preventing the whitewashing of history, Gurjot Singh 's comment below: "A correction* Guru Arjan Patshah, the Fifth Guru, attained martyrdom in Lahore and Ninth Guru, Guru Tegh Bahadur ji got martyred defending the human rights(Right to worship of Kashmiri pandits) at Chandni chowk Delhi. To add further, the seeds for Sikhi's {Sikhism's} defiance against the tyranny of oppressors started way back when Guru Nanak stood against the cruelty meted out against Indians by Babar by calling him Jaabar, Oppressor."
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  1251. I suspect that this verbal diarrhea was designed to confuse and distract the young IAS aspirant-fans of Shri Gupta from a story that the leftwing never even acknowledged till now. Shri Agnihotri forced them to take notice and acknowledge the horror.
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  1252. How many more days before CTC can no longer avoid addressing the George Floyd riots around the world and how many seconds into the episode before it turns into a 'lesson' for India? Best guesses?
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  1253. Timely action, thank you. To those complaining about the middle class not getting anything: you IDIOTS, this is not about distributing government largess equally to everybody. It is putting the government's limited resources to best use so that NO ONE DIES OF STARVATION during this crisis. It is for the poorest of the poor. Count your blessings and be thankful if you are not in that category.
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  1254. He is telling the hard truths and is singularly well informed. Structural changes are slow and take years and decades to show results. The government is not a money tree, the people of the country are. Higher per capita GDP comes from higher productivity. The only way to grow India's wealth is to remove barriers in the way of people being more productive.
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  1255. Ms. Malhotra, thank you for a really important interview. It would be nice if you could dub it in Hindi.
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  1256. Reposting my tweet from Twitter: "Even when the GOI provides a subsidy to any group or individual, they should receive a paper statement indicating the amt. due and the fraction paid by the govt. Otherwise they are liable to think of subsidies as magic money".
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  1257. Bless your caring heart for making this video. Please consider dubbing it into Hindi as well. Ideally, someone in the government should make a little press kit in all Indian languages with this information and put an item on their calendar to remind radio & TV stations to give 2 minute annoucements to people every lightning season - I don't know if the government does this or not. My guess is that the people most likely to be hurt by lightning are the non-English speaking Indians working out in the fields.
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  1258. Seems to me, Indian left-wing has bought wholesale and imported into the country the divisive idiom and the constant wedge wars of American politics.
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  1259. Los Angeles went through this in the 1970s. There are lessons to be learnt from the American experience.
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  1260. I hope that there are at least some engineering classes in India modeling Delhi pollution and teaching students to think about solutions. Please comment below if you know of any.
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  1261. May be you don't mean it but you sound as if countries' economies go up and down automagically and some lucky administrations catch the up wave and get all the credit. Many vectors from the Modi administration lead to 'India is stronger'. These include foreign policy, healthcare, economic policy, industrial policy, and infrastructure. Virtually every one of which came for criticism from gyani like SG and Karan Thapar. I won't go in to details, and there is plenty to nitpick, but someone saying 'India is stronger' while removing agency from Shri Modi's leadership, is odd.
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  1262. I imagine that this critical comment has not been shadow banned by Shri Gupta because it was in his interest for this perspective to be known.
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  1263. Interested folks should check out comments on the The Print article on this. A vigorous debate with elements of constructive suggestions, pessimism, cynicism, and some sweet flavors of religious crusade thrown in. Quite engaging and entertaining at the same time.
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  1264. Great comment from the website article by Ravi: "Ravi 6 December, 2020 at 8:18 pm . Why are we not seeing “intellectuals” and economists who agree that the farm laws are in general in the right direction coming out in full force and speak in support of the laws and suggest compromise that the govt and farmers can adopt and accept? It is not healthy that we only hear “award returns” and opposition always heard, even if they have a genuine grievance with the law. We cannot progress as a country otherwise."
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  1265.  @contactpjoshi123  That's a bit rash. Bharat has a legal claim on PoK and the parliament has reaffirmed it. On the other hand, native Americans have the first claim on California and it would be inappropriate for Bharat to lay claim on it.
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  1266. Lt Gen H S Panag's assessment on the Print makes more sense to me. It is about India bolstering her border infrastructure more than about what happened in Kashmir. If so, China may be preparing to oppose a qualitative change in the balance of advantage in the border region and an open engagement cannot be ruled out.
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  1267. Diplomacy should always be the first option. But as the saying goes, speak softly and carry a big stick.
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  1268.  @mkganya6013  Diplomacy is never a bad thing and should always be encouraged, in my opinion. Diplomacy alone, without military preparedness is a bad thing.
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  1269. The perception of threat has been weak in modern Indian history, with the noted exception of Chanakya. While working for a world as one family, we must be fully prepared to deal with existential threats as they arise.
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  1270. Despite all the finessing in language, glad to see Shekhar ji finally give credit to “somebody”.
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  1271. Can Rahul ji's t-shirts be any tighter and sleeves any shorter?
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  1272. The amount of attention devoted in Bharat to an obscure, somewhat seedy U.S. hedge fund with a poor reputation, even in the U.S., is frankly embarrassing. There is scant journalistic curiosity about their timing and possible motivations. But that is where Bharat's English-speaking press is at this moment.
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  1273.  @vineetrailko  Good to know. I hope that you are a doctor or doing this under medical supervision so that there is no possibility of raising antibiotic resistant bacteria in your body. You will have to be rigorous with both the dose and the duration if you start taking azithromycin. You can't go on and off or you will create antibiotic resistance.
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  1274.  @vineetrailko  I am sorry, did you mean that you are taking azithromycin as a prophylactic?
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  1275.  @vineetrailko  Thank you. Are you taking it as a prophylactic?
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  1276.  @Someone-cj4np  Would you know if Azithromycin is made in India as well? That looks potentially useful in combi with Chloroquine.
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  1277.  @Someone-cj4np  I see. I wonder why they are restricting it to healthcare providers only. May be it is a temporary restriction.
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  1278.  @jagdishjoshi8841  So true. It will be good to know if this drug is/can be made in India.
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  1279.  @irshadhussain2856  Preventive
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  1280. I suspect that a few people below don't have any kind of relationship with reality. Sense of proportion, anybody?
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  1281. The print should fix the typo in the title. The axis is named I.N.D.I.A., not INDIA.
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  1282. How is it that Shri Rahul Gandhi's name has all but disappeared from the discourse when there is bad news? We are only hearing of 'Congress' and the 'opposition'.
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  1283.  @gopisampath468  Very succinctly put.
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  1284.  @falsafayg  Hyperbole much?
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  1285. I suggest the temple builders add an educational wing that showcases the archeological findings at the Ram Janmabhoomi site that the Supreme Court cited in its verdict. This can include a well appointed building housing replicas of all the temple sculptures and pillars unearthed from under the Babri structure. Also, audio visual exhibits of archeological expert testimony and other videos, tasteful and accurate museum labels and relevant selections from historical writings, on changeable electronic displays which can be read in all Indian languages and English. This is so that temple visitors leave cleared of any lingering doubts that some injustice was done, but rather that a great wrong was righted. This could be particularly educational for international visitors.
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  1286. A better prism may be people's formative experiences, which colour their worldview. Few rise above them, not even Gandhiji. In Independence time India, Dr. Ambedkar was probably a rare and admirable exception. Certainly not the aristocratic Pandit Nehru or his daughter , who never made the effort to develop the common touch other than in photo-ops (needless to say, IMHO). Smt. Sonia Gandhi's 'hard secularism' probably comes from a certain Abrahamic view of India's religions, formed at a distance. She is now of course an Indian, but she came to India as an adult.
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  1287. My humble suggestion, northern and southern is more appropriate language-wise than North and South. If you need a model from an English speaking country, that is how they refer to places within America.
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  1288. Very helpful, thanks. One suggestion, polymerases are better thought of as tiny molecular copying machines.
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  1289. Shekhar ji, this rousing story of civic engagement from the Wall Street Journal about an unorthodox collaboration in America to fight COVID-19 deserves a CTC episode. Please do take a look: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-secret-group-of-scientists-and-billionaires-pushing-trump-on-a-covid-19-plan-11587998993?mod=hp_lead_pos5
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  1290. Is Shri Shekhar Gupta working on commission for Shri Imran Khan? His sly linking of Shri Modi's government to the worst dictatorships around the world cannot help bring investments to India at a time when it needs them most.
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  1291. The 1962 China war debacle was not the fault of the aristocrat Pandit Nehru - the natives made him do it.
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  1292. Bringing up dictatorships is appropriate in the context of the purge by feudal diktat happening in Congress right now.
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  1293. Establishing a public health and educational infrastructure (scholarly knowledge + social habits + administrative structures) that could have offered some protection against the virus is the work of decades, 7 decades to be precise.
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  1294. Tom Christo You are right about the incompetent part, but wrong about the powerless part. Since Congress is showing nascent indications of a democratic impulse, I would provisionally distinguish Congress from the Gandhi family and say that it is the Gandhi family that is still dangerous.
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  1295. Looks like triple crises minus one already.
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  1296. Lot of bitter tears being shed. Bitterness is never a good look., even among the suit-boot types.
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  1297. "I wish print makes a program reading out the comments on this Vlog! Both RR & VS will die of shame knowing how this thrash is being seen !"
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  1298. It is frankly lazy of Indian journalists. Do not blithely assign to yourselves 'liberal' and 'conservative' labels. They are better suited for inherently dichotomous cultures which have an 'us vs. them' worldview, than for a syncretic culture like India's. Call each issue by its merits, not by what your club membership dictates.
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  1299. Watch for it the next time. I am sure that it is entirely innocent and not designed to create an impression of guilt by association, but Shri Gupta invariably takes Shri Modi's in the same breath he takes Shri Trump. If it were done on purpose, that would be extraordinarily short-sighted and damaging to the 'National Interest'.
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  1300. Fair point. It is still a useful distinction to (try to separate) separate news reports which ideally provide facts without injecting opinion, from editorials which are designed to provide opinion. It gets troubling when news reports become a sly means of injecting opinion into people.
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  1301. In matters of national security, American newspapers are generally 'conservative' at home and 'liberal' abroad. Or is it the other way around?
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  1302. Is it going to be a contested election or someone elected by 'unanimous consent of the party' ?
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  1303. FWIW, purse-wali auntie had lost my respect a while ago. I was enamored by her apparent idealism, and then saw through it.
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  1304.  @rohitsharma2619  I guess Punjab Mercedes farmers' aspirations are in Canadia while WB farmers' are rooted in the soil.
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  1305. Elon Musk's rush to get humans to Mars makes eminent sense now. Even if that is a fool's errand, this will follow to Mars unless humanity adopts a philosophical and legal framework that limits the amount of damage weapons can be allowed to cause. Otherwise, you can postulate a country acquiring sufficiently advanced technology to win and inherit a graveyard Earth.
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  1306. This is not PUBG.
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  1307.  @temp-key-999  Wion is a response to the cabal. Not yet clear how successful they are in countering the propaganda.
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  1308.  @temp-key-999  That never stopped NYT or BBC, and more, from giving advice to India. And continue to do so, day in and day out.
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  1309.  @kallachi729  That is why I said that it is a very sophisticated operation.
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  1310.  @kallachi729  Freedom of the press is a good thing, and this video is yet another proof that press freedom thrives even in the face of anti-India propaganda such as this. This is propaganda for sure, though extremely sophisticated and well funded.
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  1311. We-are-like-this-only mindset. Unfortunately, he holds a megaphone.
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  1312. Incredible science reporting, again. One critical comment though: each time you start a sentence with "maybe it is..." and end the sentence with "I don't believe so", you insert in the middle some very self-flagellating speculation which is insulting and doesn't add value.
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  1313. Seems like entirely legitimate criticism. However, it remains to be seen whether it was an innocent document (e.g. could have been prepared to engineer a crisis) or a journalistic storm in a teacup (e.g. many such points of view documents are normally created and journalists latched on to the most controversial one). Based on the government's disavowal, hard to believe this was imminent policy.
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  1314. There is a range of things you could do: the least effort would be to NOT POST self-hating comments on public fora (there is excellent research to show that they don't solve anything and add to the problem). Then there is things such as starting a blog or YouTube channel with ideas and solutions, getting involved in local politics, volunteer to tutor low-income kids or adults, start a discussion group among your friends on creating solutions to problems that you see around you. If you are tech aware, create an app that can do something socially useful. The possibilities are many and is up to your interests and abilities.
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  1315. So, get busy and do something useful to change things.
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  1316. Whenever Smt. Indira Gandhi is mentioned, it is always a wonderful opportunity to remember the past, lest we forget it. She arguably hyphenated India with corruption. Watch https://youtu.be/xOlbfbsQqXE at 1:14 for a pithy reminder of 'the Congress way'.
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  1317. The imposition of English is a form of linguistic apartheid (not my words) imposed by the hyper-vocal English speaking minority of India. It goes against all research findings on the benefits of learning in the mother tongue.
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  1318. 'Overnight' experts on any topic under the sun can lead people astray. If you want to hear the opinion of real educators who have thought deeply on this topic, see Shri Rajdeep Sradesai's conversation here: https://youtu.be/t9I6roop4xo. Citing cutting edge early childhood research, they all applaud teaching in the mother-tongue.
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  1319. Shekhar ji, you tried to build a grand sculpture out of khichdi :)
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  1320. This episode of the National interest is crying out for a Cut The Clutter of its own.
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  1321. Kya SC ‘the liver doctor’ ko phaad ke rakh degi?
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  1322.  @ivihari  Doctors and nurses are doing the hardest work right now, at great personal risk - trust me, I should know this better than most. Bharateeya samskriti venerates the doctor/vaidya as Narayana or Hari, both names for God. Thank you for your good work and please stay safe.
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  1323. This is a welcome program, thank you. I hope you will focus more of the content on science stories around India and her technological needs and challenges.
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  1324. Wonderfully lucid coverage of an important new paper on COVID in India. Thank you.
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  1325. I will indulge in a small rant: It is troubling that the work based on Indian data was helmed by a scientist from the US. Troubling not because it was helmed by someone from the US, that is not really an issue, but because there has been few such analytical studies out of India on COVID. It happened because of a convergence of Interests in this case, but there are many uniquely Indian problems that need study and analysis, and Indians can't always depend on someone from an outside country to take interest in such questions and gather a team to address them. The Indian education system and scientific establishment have to give the breathing room for young scientists to muster the self-confidence to identify and pose important scientific questions.
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  1326. On the occasion of #VAIBHAV global science summit, it is disappointing that none of The Print, NDTV, Republic World, or The Hindu have it on their landing page, or even covered it. As of now, The Hindustan Times is the only one that covered it (among the ones I saw). To their credit, The Print is the only with with a COVID collection of articles prominently displayed on the top of their landing page. Indian press has to realise that science and economic development are intimately connected and their coverage is at least as important as that of political cricket.
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  1327. India's scientific leaders should be alarmed that the vast majority of scientific papers on COVID out of India (about 90% in my very rough estimate) are position/opinion/survey/review papers, and very few research reports. Surely the many epidemiology experts that come on YouTube panels can do better than that? That is a lot of human labor that can be put to use to uncover more actionable findings.
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  1328. I hope India got a private commitment that the term 'allies' includes India. May not mean much, but the little it does will still provide a useful diplomatic IOU for the future.
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  1329. Wonderful conversation with a legend in Indian public life. Thoroughly enjoyed it although I winced at the very occasional intemperate language, and discounted the comments on Shri Modi (may be I came under the spell of the beard :-).
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  1330. I really don't buy the hyperbolic equating with Erdogan/Bolsenaro/Trump. Seems to be the fashion though.
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  1331. It is deeply troubling if ministers can't really push back against Shri Modi. I hope that is not true, or it suggests trouble in the future.
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  1332. Shri Gupta, and indeed the entire leftwing establishment, goes into election campaigning mode a few months before elections. Engendering anger toward BJP through sly leading language is Shri Gupta's tool of choice.
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  1333. Mr. Biden can seal the deal if he picks Mrs. Obama as running mate (she did rule out running though).
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  1334. Delhi, Maharashtra, and Telangana might already have reached herd immunity?
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  1335. The protests against farm laws seem very much like the protest against Obamacare in America. In both cases, large financial interests are involved, and in both cases the most vocal voices are also the most vulnerable who would benefit the most.
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  1336. To my simple mind, there is no alternative to smartly done Atmanirbharta to build a technologically advanced society. Competition however exerts a powerful selective pressure to improve standards. The government should map out a calibrated exposure to competition, perhaps internal to begin with, and then external, as players build up their standards to compete at an international level.
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  1337. There is nothing holy, advanced, or necessarily desirable about genetically modified seeds. In fact, non-GMO foods often command a premium price.
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  1338. Source of problem is the idea that cities are panacea.
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  1339. you got it
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  1340. Gupta ji, the elections are over. You can suspend your campaign of stoking anger now.
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  1341. "We need MORE coverage and analysis of the attack on pilgrims in kashmir. You can't just treat it as a news item."
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  1342. "Seriously !!! this media is making a conscious effort not to fish in troubled waters but creating troubled waters.."
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  1343. "I am not sure why we should start looking at everything from communal angle? Again same old complaints on why not Muslim, how about the merit factor, winnability?"
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  1344. Shri Rajiv Gandhi, former PM Congress party said that only 15 paise out of every rupee that the govt spent reached the people. With Shri Modi as PM, the people are eating better because middlemen are swallowing less. In other words, data shows that he is the true liberal.
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  1345. Housewives are the major food shoppers, providers, and the first teachers of food habits anywhere, especially in India. Get them more nutritional information in form of accessible and entertaining TV shows. NIN can develop simple, low cost educational pamphlets that simplify cutting edge research for new parents that can be distributed online and to doctors. Fiber containing carbs, low salt and sugar, more greens and pulses + modest physical activity. Recruit the help of religious leaders to teach that fasting is better done taking water and no tea/coffee than the other way round.
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  1346. From https://www.vrg.org/nutrition/iron.php : "you would have to eat more than 1700 calories of sirloin steak to get the same amount of iron as found in 100 calories of spinach. Another reason for the satisfactory iron status of vegans is that vegan diets are high in vitamin C. Vitamin C acts to markedly increase absorption of non-heme iron. Adding a vitamin C source to a meal increases non-heme iron absorption up to six-fold which makes the absorption of non-heme iron as good or better than that of heme iron". Look at tables on the web page for more data.
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  1347. Anyone who watched the US task force briefings and the ginger-stepping by Drs. Fauci and Birx should know that it happens. These are issues of the intersection between politics, science and practical limitations. Shri Gupta often says that journalists have to operate under political pressure; well, it is not just journalists. Turning specific problems into criticism of the institution ICMR which is working hard to fight COVID-19, and insinuating a political motive is unfortunate.
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  1348. Public trust in institutions such as ICMR should not be casually weakened. You can't jump from hypothesis to conclusion just using hints and innuendo as a filler.
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  1349. Sad situation all around. The only redeeming feature here is all these bright journalists learning the tools of their trade firsthand from as distinguished a journalist as Mr. Gupta. With all due respect, I also do hope that these impressionable young people learn clear thinking and expression, while at the same time learning to form an independent world view informed by independent reflection. May peace prevail soon, and irresponsible politicians disturbing the peace brought to justice.
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  1350. Don't we all?
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  1351. Since the Gods are not English lords, can we stop saying’Lord Ram’, and start saying Bhagwan Rama? The Lord appellation was surely invented by a clever British colonial.
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  1352. “In god we trust”, is printed on American dollar notes.
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  1353.  Bubbly Srinath  I hope that you are right. That will put this event in a different perspective. I just checked and Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad is holding both Law and Technology ministries. Each of them requires someone full time.
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  1354. Perhaps, India can afford a a universal basic nutrition scheme that guarantees nutrition to the poorest of the poor. It should explicitly exclude processed foods to avoid corruption by the processed food industry. It will be an investment in the future-rich of India, and could set a model for the rest of the world.
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  1355. I predict that the congress is getting ready to re-annoint Shri Rahul Gandhi as president. When you see it in the news, remember you read it here first.
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  1356. Even though this is a somber and extremely important topic, I cannot resist making two observations: 1) Shri Gupta is on first names basis with Shri Rahul Gandh? ! 2) Shri Rahul Gandhi is the pre-eminent leader of INC? !!!
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  1357.  @reach2prasanna  A.and Rang.nathan has succinctly described what is needed in a video on Intellectual Guy Channel, addressing the PM. There is a job for the government. But as an individual citizen, mobilise opinion in your circle of influence, seek accountability from local sanatani orgs (mandir, veda pathashala, etc), and last but not least, donate money to sanatani institutions (not to Hundi, at least until mandir are not free) - at a level comparable to Tithe or Zakat.
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  1358.  @reach2prasanna  people have to demand in public fora that Hindu have the same rights that other religions enjoy in Bharat. This includes the right to control the resources of their mandir and freedom to set up ‘church’ schools with the same freedom as Cs and Ms.
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  1359. It will not automatically happen. Govt, following the colonial model, systematically starves Hindu institutions of resources and reach.
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  1360. Hindu don't do STSJ but there ought to be gentle guidance from the acharya that Shriman DK and Gupta shall not speak for Bhagawan Sri Rama (not 'Lord'), or on behalf of any of our devi and devata. Chrstians say, 'thou shalt not take Bhagawan's name in vain'.
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  1361. Crypto Rhul Gndhi supporters in this election threw a surprise to Modi ji, similar to how crypto Trump supporter threw a surprise to Hllary Clnton. The pre-election survey trends were similar.
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  1362. Shri Karan Upadhyay says below, "Sir , i have a question which you can de clutter may be .. when we say that india economy was booming between 2005 to 2010 .. i understand this boom was because banks has given enormous loans and hide NPA .. AFTER 2013 this was unearthed.. is'nt this earlier problem which govt trying to sort out??"
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  1363.  @dharmeshparikh7837  Shri Shekhar Gupta once praised it as a fine news agency. I suspect that there is an informal global in-network of friendly news agencies, though I'll let you draw your own conclusions.
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  1364. India will have to balance the needs of raising up national champions with heft, with the need to widen their number. Does anyone know if large contracts to companies have a requirement to have a certain percentage assigned to MSME partners or subcontractors?
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  1365. The leftwing press so chalta hai accepts corruption that the idea of prosecuting corruption looks like political persecution to them.
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  1366. Shri Modi should steal Shri Manish Sisodia from Delhi and appoint him HR/education minister for the country. That one act will strap on booster rockets to India's development trajectory. If not possible, the next best thing is to copy his ideas - start with raising Central outlay for education and health.
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  1367. Serious topic, but this episode is led by emotion without supporting data. I believe that that the government's decision should be based on what India will be able to handle. The partial lift of lock down should give data on both how the virus and people will behave.
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  1368. My comment on Twitter (slightly edited): "The world has a responsibility to delete the invitation to terrorism of, 'an insult to Prophet Mohammad is punishable by death'. Without addressing foundational issues driving terrorism, preaching secularism will be ineffective."
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  1369. This has to be the best CTC so far. I hope this crisis will lead to a lasting trend of increasing science and tech content in Indian news.
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  1370. Shri Rajiv Gandhi was the 3rd generation of the Nehru-Gandhi family business. The 4th generation young prince-in-waiting currently busy with one more yatra, is well past the best-if-used-by date.
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  1371.  @theniravpanchal  Better late than never.
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  1372. Not sure if the conclusion is accurate, but regardless, these Chinese insults are serving the role of a vaccine for the national defense establishment. Two pieces of evidence are the recent profusion of productivity from the DRDO and the rewiring of the defense infrastructure.
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  1373. Every column of Shri Panag on India vs China stresses at least 4 times that India is the weaker power, and just in case someone missed the point, states it once more in the closing. One should certainly be glad that he is no longer in active service.
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  1374. Shekhar ji, this comment is unrelated to this video. You should stop code switching with your attire - tweed jacket when talking about anything related to America or UK, and khaki kurta and muffler when discussing UP/Bihar politics. Our fashion experts recommend the latter uniformly for all videos.
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  1375. I did not understand. Can you elaborate?
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  1376. Correction: this is not a political fight. It is a government investigation into corruption.
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  1377. "Fortunately no one is blaming EVM this time"
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  1378.  @rajtaov909vlogs  True. Congress won decisively with 99 seats.
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  1379. It is my impression that had pro-democracy forces strengthened Shri Gorbachev's hand with financial assistance when he needed it, thus preventing utter economic collapse and the emergence of bread lines, Russia might have been on a different civic trajectory today.
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  1380. What Shri Narasimha Rao probably meant; all social changes have to take the existent society into account. Social change happens 'thro' soft degrees', as Alfred Tennyson said in his famous poem. This is true for any people.
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  1381. 'Arvind' finally gave up on the cryptic approach.
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  1382.  @YourTrueBro  Brilliant
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  1383. Important correction for non-Hindu journalists like Shri Gupta: Panchajanya is the conch of Bhagawan Shri Maha Vishnu. He blows on the conch in preparation for war whenever dharma is threatened. Vishnu, by definition, is all pervading and ever present, and the correct grammar tense to use is the present continuous tense. Finally, he is not an English lord.
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  1384.  @jimkuan8493  if you think about it, it is the looted blood and sweat of ‘crown jewel’ India, and countries in Asia and Africa that directly or indirectly financed much of the industrial innovation.
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  1385. We can turn the question a bit on its head and ask, was there ANYTHING different about the Bharateeya ethos? For example, what would explain the diversity of faiths in India? Put another way, why did not a 'religion of the Book' emerge in India that scorched everything in its path, like Christianity did in early parts of the first millennium Europe, or Islam did in latter part of the first millennium Asia. There is also the troubling issue of the Hindu sayings: the world is one family, or, there is one truth called by different names, that structured Indian thought. Did such universalism emerge anywhere else in the world?
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  1386. Case in point, Bhavya Dore writing in Foreign Policy, "...though given the relatively low rate of testing, the real figure is likely to be far higher". This is the new refrain for anyone who wants to slip in their biases in the guise of reporting on COVID-19 in India.
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  1387. 360 vision by planners can allow the design of retails channels that maximize local consumption of perishable foods. The less time and energy spent storing and moving perishable food over long distances, the more nutritious it will be. People should be willing to pay a premium to buy directly from small farmers for fresh nutritious food, without needing it to be first blessed by a super market.
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  1388.  जय हिंद  I respectfully disagree. An efficient marketplace is one key component of the objective function if farmers realize a greater fraction of the final value of food stocks sold than is now - in fact I think that is was the stated primary rationale for the new ordinance. However, the government can still promote efficient markets while being opinionated about what kind of agricultural activity they prefer. 'Enriched wheat fluor', the industrial cow, chicken and pig, feed corn, and 'value addition' though processed food are some of the bad consequences of not having an opinion and blindly trusting the invisible hand of the market to guide such activity. Unlike semiconductor or aircraft manufacturing, agriculture does not need big monopolies, it needs more cooperatives. This is not an argument against free markets or the need for technical innovation or improving efficiencies of workflow (my original comment). The long suffering Indian farmer badly needs them. But making greater economic activity the sole objective may be good for the government coffers but not necessarily good for society. May be we are saying different things.
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  1389. Slightly off topic but the government should provide the infrastructure for farmer's markets (retail mandies) and for individual farmers to bring vegetables to people's door-steps. We had this in India when I was a kid. It is now all the rage in the cooler communities in affluent countries. Small thoughtful infrastructure investments can make life a little easier for these hard workers that break their backs to feed the country.
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  1390. Good catch!
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  1391. Ms. Rao seems to suggest 1) europe should come together to boost arms to Ukraine and give it a decisive win 2) the global south should rejoice in such a prospect. While it is clear that negotiations in Ukraine would be a cause for celebration across the world, it is somewhat confusing how an Ukraine win will promote freedom of navigation in the Red Sea half a world across. Ms. Rao seems to suggest that preserving the ‘Western’ liberal order, a euphemism for ‘Western’ hegemony, is in the interests of the global South. Not a very convincing or cohesive thesis for a Covid-wizened global South.
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  1392. What PM Modi said in sarcasm abt Ambani-Adani, Shri Gupta turned into a moralising-moment, for BJP (!). Un-hyphenated indeed.
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  1393. Frankly, this shouldn't surprise UPSC aspirants. And not just China. It would be disappointing if India were not doing this already, and not just with China.
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  1394. 'Pathetic economy' is rash choice of words, and dare I say, disrespectful. To be fair though, it is not an issue of intention so much as a problem we all face of navigating the nuances of a foreign language.
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  1395. It is unseemly for democratic press in India to be batting for dynastic politics, be it at a state or national level.
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  1396. This is nuts. Commandeering Gargi as a prop to hang leftwing vocabularies like patriarchy and men-vs-women. An interesting story told in a Cliffs notes style, but fails the fundamental scholarly requirement of deep honesty.
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  1397. One critical point you left out is the famous Congress corruption. That is a broad brush and does not apply to everyone, but does to most of Mrs. Indira Gandhi's generation which was in active politics. Mrs. Indira Gandhi corrupted the nation by turning a blind eye to corruption, as that was a way for her to sustain power among ambitious congress men. The second and third generations has the advantages of all the wealth & connections accumulated from that corruption, and developed a delusional and grandiose attitude of noblesse oblige & charity + 5%. As Mr. Modi said once, the congress party has (for the most part) eaten the country hollow from the inside like termites. There are notable honest exceptions like Mr. Manmohan Singh but they have no real voice in such a culture. The current Gandhi family has much to lose from giving up the reins of power, even if the party is damned. Talented young Congress leaders will see their productive lifetimes whittle away to nothing if they don't take charge now. Complete extinction of the Congress will mean that the country is deprived of a meaningful opposition which is vital for any democracy.
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  1398.  @nagraj2k1  Again, the sweeping statements makes me suspect that you are very young. Since you are confident that 'no one' in China thinks about such things, I suspect that your wealth-creating spree doesn't really give you any time to stay knowledgeable about happenings in the world :-). In such a case, I can only urge more self-awareness and reflection.
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  1399.  @nagraj2k1  Ah, I take it from utter moral certainty and insulting manner that either you are very young, or are older but an idiot in a narrow sense. Also since your answer appears to be b), there is really not much to engage further on this account.
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  1400.  @nagraj2k1  I am not familiar with who a salaryman is. Is that a new cool kid insult? Regardless, do you think a) the points in my agenda are legitimate, but not relevant to job creation or economic growth? or b) you don't care or have an opinion about anything in my agenda.
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  1401. The conclusion from the graph at 10:28 is that economic activity in India has risen, no more and no less. It will take time to rewire supply chains to reduce imports. At times that will not be possible, if there is no good alternative. That is OK.
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  1402.  @SRINATHKADIAM-o6f  🙂
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  1403. You probably noticed that the lip sync is off. Doesn't take away from the fascinating story though.
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  1404. I am sure that Shri Mehta's resignation is troubling. I am much more troubled by the mention of private 'universities' run like convent schools. I don't know the full story, but surely they can't be producing world-changing graduates under such infantilising conditions. Hope the government discourages such environments.
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  1405. Something is up with Pakistan, and with China. I would like to know what is driving the seeming good behavior and take advantage of it if possible, to buy enduring peace. Some answers here: https://youtu.be/cTLQn6IHj68
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  1406. I am sure that Shri Mehta's resignation is troubling. I am much more troubled by the mention of private 'universities' run like convent schools. I don't know the full story, but surely they can't be producing world-changing graduates under such infantilising conditions. Hope the government discourages such environments.
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  1407.  @ThomasWright-jw6eo  This video was made expressly to bust such myths. Well worth your 16 min: The unmaking of India: How the ...
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  1408. "The entire world using Windows OS, using Microsoft Office, using common search engine, common spreadsheet tools, common video publication and sharing. Can that be considered over capacity as it also stops the innovation, competition of almost all corners in the world."
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  1409. With the disclaimer that it is a specialised topic etc., NAM feels like it was more of an vanity project than carefully crafted foreign policy - from what little I can read of Pandit Nehru's personality from publicly available material.
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  1410. 'Indigenous vaccine' sounds deliciously subversive if it is being thoughtfully applied to describe modern, high-technology efforts. Bonus, it is doubly fitting as the idea for vaccines first came from Ayurveda centuries ago in the form of teeka/tika. That said, setting an Aug 15 deadline for the success of an experiment not yet completed sounds very troubling and can have serious consequences if not done with rigour, and not just to people's health.
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  1411.  @RK-it9jb  That is an enlightened view. However, my worldview of respect allows for disagreement - all cultures need periodic renewal according to the yuga dharma. If respect is too strong a word for you, I would suggest, disagree without disrespect. This worldview allows for accepting that there were some terrible things. If you can erase obvious things such as birth caste from Indian culture, there is much that is valuable and can only be acquired by multi-generational lived experience. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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  1412.  @RK-it9jb  Which is why I said in a different comment, straw men abound in this conversation. Who do you think is saying that we stay with the past glories and not innovate now? Without a healthy sense of respect for their past, societies become unmoored. It is like respect for your ancestors. Which I hope that everyone feels respect for. That does not mean that every generation does not have to go out and earn their own bread. Standing up a straw man argument using truisms, and slight bit of derision between the two about maryada purushottam Ram, is just counter productive. Its just a dog whistle for the so called 'left'.
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  1413. Straw men abound. To say that ANYONE is asking the people to go to the Himalayas, when the ask is for a 5 trillion economy! Pick one thing to criticise. One wing of the society seems to say, "I don't care, just give me something to criticise".
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  1414. The set design is refreshing although a bit obvious. Assuming that it was not done as an internal joke, and Ms. Malhotra is not running for office, you should approach it with a subtler touch. Maybe.
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  1415. Alert viewers already reminded that America has NRC, CAA, and Uniform Civil Code. America also accords state visits to the Sankaracharya of Christianity and the status of a sovereign nation to the mattha that he heads. This is not to demean anyone - but just a gentle suggestion to the India's 'secular' standard bearers to be sensible and have faith in India's millenia old cultural ethos that has been rich soil for the greatest diversity of religious expression anywhere in the world. That ethos however, is by definition antithetical to any groups that begin the conversation by denying the validity of all other faiths or forms of worship.
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  1416.  @ThePrintIndia  Thank you for the reference. It will be very helpful if you can briefly show a slide or mention the citation when you discuss specific new research. The will help strengthen the habit of attribution to sources in young people who watch your show.
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  1417. Very nice summary, thank you. Please do also mention where the paper was published.
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  1418. You are right, to some extent. That is because, academic research is primarily meant for discovery and for teaching students how to think. For more context, you should look up Michael Faraday's famous reply to the English parliament about the importance of basic research, when they asked him what use electricity is.
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  1419. Precisely in anticipation of such a bhashaN, we made an earnest request on a previous video to Shri Gupta (https://youtu.be/zMf829r0V6Q), "Shekhar ji, we are looking forward to a serious analysis of American Senator Kamala Harris's selection as the Democratic vice-presidential nominee. Please lay it down as it is, without the usual gratuitous/presumptive digs at India or Indians". Apparently, I was asking for too much :-)
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  1420. Senator Harris's genes have nothing to do with it. One hopes for the sake of world stability that Biden-Kamala Harris team wins it, even if it might be a slight irritant for India. This may be someone with whom India's EAM will be potentially dealing for the next 4-16 years. In that light, they should try to understand the sources of her worldview, to engage her without compromising Bharat's interests or point of view.
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  1421. To people who get hung up on Ph.D. degrees, it is worth pointing out that degrees or 'having good English' don't make a great leader. Having the 'right stuff' does.
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  1422. "While others hit centuries and capture wickets, we Indians try to get in the picture frame". That just about sums up the self-image of Shri Shekhar Gupta and his generation.
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  1423. Health + education have to be priority 1, 2, 3. India could have weathered covid19 better if there was attention even 10 years ago. Health is the easier challenge. Education is much harder - but India's technological and economic growth and even military might depend on nurturing a qualitatively different kind of graduates, starting with 10+2. Shri Modi needs young, super-organized, knowledgeable, curious and motivated ministers, particularly in these two portfolios. Challenging bec. states are the key players, but the center has to figure out a way to make the country move towards a common goal.
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  1424. "For how many more years are we supposed to hear the same boring and repetitive discussions on 'future of Congress' and 'what went wrong for Congress this election'? Write its obituary once and for all and move on with your life!"
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  1425. Gandhi-Vadra, not Nehru-Gandhi.
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  1426. More vaccines are needed but not the urgent answer to this crisis. There will be inherent rate limits to making more vaccines. Coordinated (Center-State-District-Village) communication across the country to change behaviors can be done without any time lag and will yield a quicker bang for the buck. Masks, signages requiring mask usage and social distancing in food shops, restaurants, barber shops, religious places, political rallies. Lakhs of new patient zeros are emerging every moment and the urgent thing is to stop them.
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  1427. Do we know if the new rise in cases is seeing the same predominant strain as in the first wave?
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  1428. Shri Gupta has hit the ball for a sixer with this episode. Superb!
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  1429. Manmohan Singh ji was a middling beautocrat and even a competent cabinet minister, when provided direction by a truly independent leader, Shri PV Narasimha Rao. He was not a leader on his own. He was a good man by all accounts though.
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  1430.  @vivekkrishnan.r7811  I disagree again. Although it is a little removed from the purpose of my original comment, I will respond - diplomats are expected to 'lie abroad for the sake of their country', not be disinterested third-party observers. I am certainly not a fan of seeing the daily war-like rhetoric by some commentators on Youtube. In the specific case of China, there is no alternative to peace so every effort must be made for that. But that is not my point. My point is about the level of emotional engagement by a certain class of Indians towards Indian concerns. When I can criticize the one extreme, I can just as rightfully criticize the other extreme as far as commentary goes.
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  1431. Fascinating! Congress couldn't breach 100 seats and they literally doing a victory lap! Say what you might about the Lwing, they sure know how to drive the narrative.
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  1432. Not even considering any conspiracy theories, or lofty questions like party democracy, the Gandhis have virtually no incentive to release their stranglehold. Do the thought experiment of imagining their personal fortunes with and without the prestige of party leadership. Congress being in power doesn't even figure in the equation. Either the leadership is pried out of their fingers or Indian politics as an organic creature create a new credible opposition.
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  1433. I don't believe that the transition from Pandit Nehru to Shastri ji was a good example to show that Congress allowed other leaders from time to time. That was a different Congress and that was a normal transition in a healthy political party. Something profoundly unhealthy happened in the transition from Shastri ji to Smt. Indira Gandhi. The new Congress party and the sycophantic Congress culture of today are almost completely a creation of Smt. Gandhi.
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  1434. Love the highly abbreviated but accurate description of the science - not an easy thing to do. One small correction of names: Alek-chender fought with Purushottam, Alexander did not fight with Porus.
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  1435. State 'no negotiation with terrorists policy', and get the public used to that expectation.
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  1436. You are entitled to your opinion, but your comment is so wrong on so many levels that I feel embarrassed for you.
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  1437.  @stee896  Just for the record, I gave a reason, rather than just a position statement. Also, I do not think that Shri Modi is perfect. But I am with the poor of Bihar in thinking that his intentions are honorable.
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  1438.  @stee896  It may sound true if you are a lazy thinker, but equating Shri Modi with Shri Trump doesn't pass the reasonableness test (except in the mind of Shri Shekhar Gupta). What Shri Trump and Shri Xi Jinpping have in common is that they have both gone about systematically dismantling their respective country's international alliances, hence my comment. Shri Modi has been doing the exact opposite. His government has been very successful in strengthening India's international friendships.
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  1439. Shri Gupta seems to have cheerfully bought into the narrative that prosperity between India and China is a zero sum game. That is dangerous and destabilizing thinking. Almost all countries in the west have collectively prospered without it turning into a dog fight. India should seek out opportunities as they arise without poking a finger in China's eye (as Shri Gadkari unwittingly seemed to have done recently).
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  1440. Congratulations to The Print team on the milestone! As an aside, both of you look brilliant in your handloom (?) dress choices. Shekhar ji, may we know where you got this particular outfit?
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  1441. Good to know there is a dedicated graphics person - we shall be more demanding :-) The graphics are very helpful but the axis labels are too small. Fewer tick marks and a bigger font.
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  1442. Thank you for mentioning the book. I did not know of it before. Just read Sanjeev Sanyal's brief foreword putting India's current social debates in context. That itself is worth the price of the book. It is critical to point out that the authors humbly say, 'A New Idea', not 'The New Idea' - something that Sanyal noted.
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  1443. I think a major scientific study on COVID was shortchanged by hiding it behind the Prime Minister's speech, important as the latter was.
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  1444. You should read this scientific paper. It is one paper, but with extensive supporting facts, unlike opinion pieces: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0238972
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  1445.  @monarch3724  Who bought it?
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  1446. Outlets like this count on a short public memory. Gather ye round for another episode of babaji ka bayiskope. Whither Nobel Laurate? And whither 'democractic uprising'? Clearly, the novices at the MEA did not anticipate this. Right?
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  1447. Rohit Thaosen ekam sat janaah bahudhaa vadanti :-)
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  1448. Echoing Aadi below, distribution using vans and trucks is key to maintain the integrity of the lock down. The people manning the trucks need basic training to make sure they don't accidentally spread virus. The poorest also need the means to cook the wheat and rice.
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  1449. 🙂
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  1450. Wow! Was that exchange actually on the tapes? edit: I went and listened to the excerpt (https://youtu.be/WC_tG5o6SYk?feature=shared). Ms. Radia comes out looking better than Shri Sanghvi. I am astonished at his gumption and sanctimony in the face of such evidence. His brazenness is rivaled only by Shri Chidambaram who carries on in the gyan pages of IE.
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  1451. Even as we speak, Indian epidimiologists should be modeling the effect of these migrations on the spread of the virus, and the government using the analysis to improvise its response. To do this, they need mobile testing with smart population sampling strategies along the routes to provide the input data for the models.
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  1452.  @RamNath-dl3cx  We have no argument there. There is no over-ground Saraswati now.
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  1453. @Kumara1008 That is a wonderful thing that Tamil culture is the oldest in Bharat. No need to be angry.
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  1454.  @vivek1raja  You are being silly
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  1455. "They too know, they just want to keep click bait title & then use north, south propaganda like others😂"
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  1456. You do never know with human beings. I just hope that the eternal record will not be broken because of CRISPR/Cas. The world should forestall that from happening.
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  1457. It was somewhat odd and perhaps even surreal to hear both of them refer to 'the Indians'. May I suggest 'we', or if that feels too intimate, 'India'.
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  1458. That is a false premise. The Gandhi's don't get a bonus chance with each new election, till the end of time. They ran out of bonus chances about 2 years ago.
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  1459. "None of the Islamic states condemned Pakistan, Bangladesh for their atrocities committed against Hindus when there was a genocide against Kashmir Pandits none of these countries criticized Pak backed terrorists groups."
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  1460. "Just like the rest of the world didn’t care about Bangladesh hindu situation now its not rocket science"
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  1461. "Does Palestinian support india on any issues? Specially kashmir issues? In geopolitics there is always return favour."
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  1462. "100% Agree with you. Only those who suffered because of Islamic terrorism and Muslims would truly know pain and suffering of any other nation that is going through the same."
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  1463. @P Pierre We may be going in circles here so I'll end with one last comment. It'd be silly to equate America with left-wing so I don't, when it is engaged in a death duel between a left-wing and a right-wing. That simple and even dangerous dichotomy won't do for India which had a traditionally syncretic outlook.
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  1464. @P Pierre I said 'appear' instead of 'are', to reflect the fact that it was an impression. Someone reading this needs to piece together the lineages of junior journalists as an academic project as I am sure it would be interesting. Coming to the editors, who do you think does the hiring decisions on the junior people at a news paper? These changes do not happen overnight and probably take decades to trickle down (hence the "or influenced by"). It is my impression that this started in the late 90s and things are coming to a head now. Coming to your 3rd point - leaving out your personal opinions on different universities - it does not appear that you necessarily contest that many Indian journalists may be getting educated in the US. That in itself is not a bad thing. My subjective observation was about the appearance of a left-wing slant. Even there, I sense tacit agreement when you seem to suggest that US journalism schools have an 'ideology leaning'. I don't believe that is true as universities are supposed to be places of liberal thought, and even if it is, hope that it is not 'left-wing'.
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  1465. @P Pierre Really good question and someone should do a careful sociological study for the stats. Anecdotally, both Shri Raj Kamal Jha (editor-in-chief, IE) and one of the younger Goenkas are US-educated. Even someone as senior as Shri Shekhar Gupta of The Print shows a strong US left-wing imprint in his views. He described a stint at The NY Times as a visiting fellow if I remember correctly). Some more tangentially, I have noted Americanism such as 'seventh innings stretch and the chips are down' :-) in Indian news paper writings in the late 90's. In short, there is evidence that at least in two important Indian publications at senior-most positions with a capacity to influence editorial slant, there are US-educated people in place. Note added in proof: I just checked that Shri N. Ram the (former) editor of The Hindu is US educated as well. That would make it three important Indian publications. There could be more but I did not check them all.
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  1466. Loved the recap of important Hindi movies! I would also add - many of the younger journalists appear either US-educated or influenced by left-wing American journalism. They are importing and litigating in Indian society, the cultural and political wars waged by American Press. This ought to be concerning to sensible people.
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  1467. Your science episodes have found great resonance. Please don't go back exclusively to politics. Do a significant portion of programming on regular, not crisis-driven, developments in science and education. That could be a lasting legacy of Corona.
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  1468.  @mayaout7808  Ah! so that makes all the difference.
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  1469. I believe that the intellectuals are looking at Shri Modi's actions through funny glasses that minimize real impact (e.g. efficient delivery of services to the poor) and magnify the aesthetics of his solidarity message (taali, thaali, diya, mombatti). Would they be more comfortable if he said light candles and gently sway to the background of choral music, like they show in the movies?
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  1470. Do pink ribbons cure breast cancer?
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  1471.  @sanaproper  or southern India, northern India, etc.
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  1472. I love that he does that. It is a natural thing to do, not disgusting, and may he continue to do so if he chooses to.
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  1473. Dire necessity has been the mother of brave governance in India. Hopefully, there will be national level coordination to avoid redundancies, and synergise local advantages with India's needs in competing with the rest of the world. (Looks like I spoke too soon, and without care. As more details come out, it looks like they took out corporation responsibility for worker safety, and basic necessities like clean bathrooms. This is ridiculous and counterproductive! Hope they will put those protections back).
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  1474. Please also add your opinion on saying, 'South USA'.
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  1475.  @chethanshajan9047  Can you give a couple of examples of subaltern sources each from Tamilnadu, Kerala, Andhra, and UP. While you are at it, also for France, UK, and Germany, continuing with your European analogy.
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  1476.  @chethanshajan9047  You do realize that there is physical evidence of the Sankara PeeTha, right? Even if your analogy to Europe is correct, nobody says 'South Europe'.
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  1477.  @chethanshajan9047  That is demonstrably not true. Adi Sankara of the 7th century establishing peeTha in the four corners of Bharat is a modern example. The idea of Bharat stretching from the Himalaya to the Indian Ocean well predates him.
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  1478.  @itisvinit  Not at all - that is true for any country. It is in fact the primary function of the press to shine non-partisan light on the happenings in the country. There is a credible way to do that, not hit-and-run. In this instance, much was wrong in the way the questions were framed. If they were asked in a court, they would be called 'leading questions', designed to lead the thinking of the jurors (which in this case are the viewers).
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  1479. Rajiv Gandhi launched his 1989 election campaign from Ayodhya. ‘Nuff said.
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  1480. Lovely!
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  1481. Are there Indian manufacturers of chloroquine/hydroxychloroquine?
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  1482. Is an exciting period for unearthing Bharat's history with wide-eyed wonderment. Ideaological prejudice clouds vision and robs the fun of discovery.
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  1483. The timing of the criticism of Dr. Banerjee when he is celebrating a Noble win is unseemly and sets a poor example of sabhyata by high leaders.
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  1484. The extensive annotation of terms that would be fairly obvious to Indian viewers suggests that The Print is setting its sights on an international audience. A welcome development; do be responsible with your headlines though.
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  1485. Wonderful to see high-quality Hindi content. Please cross publish in other Indian languages.
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  1486. #notnotBollywood went wrong in getting their culture entirely from 'In Style' and 'Access Hollywood'. Audiences are administering corrective action.
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  1487. WB and probably Jharkand have crossed critical demographic threshold and achieved permanent majority mark. Something the R party was afraid of happening in America.
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  1488. Underrated comment
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  1489. Remember though, the NDA has to be right every time. INDI has to be right only once.
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  1490. What is being done at the northern border has to be replicated in India's forests. Needs home-grown resources.
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  1491.  @mg.f.9023  In fact, that statement is the invention, when repeated enough, passes for truth.
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  1492.  @subhashithaks  Shri Vajpayee said something about ‘rajdharma’ after the Godhra massacre of Hindu.
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  1493. I responded innocently but just occurred to me that naughty Mr. Gupta might have been making a sly reference here.
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  1494.  @allensnea9335  what you call ‘criticised’ is more like a frustrated mamaji offering strategy advice coupled with gentle scolding to his underperforming bhatija.
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  1495. From Wikipedia:"Gender debate Further information: gender bias Since 2011, the World Economic Forum has been addressing its very own gender quota, to introduce at least one woman for every five senior executives that attended. Female participation increased from 9% to 15% between 2001 and 2005. In 2016, 18% of the WEF attendees were female; this number increased to 21% in 2017, and 24% in 2020, five years of growth.[114][115] Several women have since shared their personal impressions of the Davos meetings in media articles, highlighting that issues were more profound than "a quota at Davos for female leaders or a session on diversity and inclusion".[116][117][118] The World Economic Forum has in this context filed legal complaints against at least three investigative articles by reporters Katie Gibbons and Billy Kenber that were published by the British newspaper The Times in March 2020."
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  1496. It will be nice to know what percentage of the marks are based on reproducible, transparent metrics, and what percentage are due to subjective metrics which depend on the mood of the examiner and the phase of the Moon. Skepticism of such 'global' entities apart, this is still an opportunity to identify problem areas and improve, motivated by an enlightened self-interest.
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  1497. Thank you.
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  1498. Even seemingly intelligent journalists think that paying for the present and future COVID effort, MNREGA, stationing thousands of soldiers in bitter cold at the border, miscellaneous spending a little on the poorest of the poor, supporting the MSP, and massive upgradation of infrastructure neglected for decades, will be paid by some magik source of money unconnected to taxes. May be the government should subsidise a course on introductory economics for journalists.
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  1499. We need a CTC on Shri Biden's announcement of atmanirbhar America, prioritizing purchase of made in America goods by the US government.
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  1500. Mrs. Indira Gandhi had her good moments, but so much of India's stubborn and pervasive corruption can be traced to her dismantling India's political institutions to serve her political survival. Even without mentioning the emergency, you can start with the institution of Chief Minister which turned into puppets that served at her whim.
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  1501. I can see the the reason for the irritation with Ms. Malhotra by many people commenting below. It is really difficult to go into a conversation with an open mind to explore a topic, even for a seasoned and expert journalist as her. Notwithstanding that, a superbly informative conversation.
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  1502.  @brahm-ahamasmi  Young Rahul talks about the dead people with great reverence. In fact, he wants to carry on their legacy.
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  1503. He was, as the Americans say, putting lipstick on a pig.
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  1504. Gupta ji is, as the Americans say, putting lipstick on a pig.
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  1505. A key takeaway is that Young Mr. Gandhi only went up to 10% from 7% despite all the venting over the past year, and still stands below Yogi Adityanath. This also despite the upheavals of the past year! Suggests to me that he has done little to inspire confidence.
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  1506. Even if the pandemic of ADHD and drop in male fertility cannot be conclusively blamed on some synthetic chemical in the food chain, there is a strong economic argument to be made for organic farming. It commands premium pricing for farmers.
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  1507. For an exhibit on how journalists sneak in innuendo and editorializing into news reports see the New York Times piece https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/world/asia/ayodhya-supreme-court-india.html. For an example of news as conveying information see The Times of India piece https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/accounts-of-european-priest-travellers-suggest-both-worshipped-pre-1857/articleshow/71989488.cms. It is amazing that there is even a debate about Ayodhya!
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  1508. Asha ji means well. So does, one imagines, Tellis ji. One imagines too that both have inherited a noblesse oblige attitude toward Bharat - they certainly display one, in a well meaning way. Before dismissing the brilliant Shri Jaishankar with a wave of the hand, one should ask specific questions to these people about what Bharat should have done about vaccines, or, whether we should have purchased the oil, and what was the offer from America on both occasions? There are more questions one could ask, but these come to mind immediately. As they say, sweeping details under the carpet is fine for dabblers, but serious thinkers worry about the details.
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  1509. I am so sorry for your ignorance. It seems like you slept through the lessons on the history of 'western' colonialism, racism, civil rights movement, and so on in school. If you ever visit America, you should try to do an investigation of which races form the majority of cleaning staff in office buildings, or the prison population. It is a telling measure of the unfortunate prevalence of racism in 'western' societies.
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  1510. Businesses by definition cannot survive without making a profit. While encouraging the growth of other areas of the economy, perhaps the government can de-risk selective new products that serve the very low income people by guaranteeing sales, at least until a new market gets established. I am not an expert, but this seems like the idea behind Shri Bill Gates's vaccine initiative, where he promised to buy up the vaccines, a low profit business that served mostly low income countries (pre-COVID that is), if companies made them.
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  1511. We all run the developmental programs put into us. If there is nothing in the Indian education system that asks her young people, when their minds are being formed, to thoughtfully consider the society around them, you cannot expect them to grow up and magically run a different program when it is time to participate in the society as adults. To paraphrase someone, India's education system airdrops her young men and women into a different time zone by the time they are out of it, and therein lies the disconnect. It is not the knowledge, but the context in which the knowledge is presented to them.
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  1512. Start with saving; then you can think of investing.
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  1513. Congress milked for several decades the goodwill from the halo of pre-independence INC, which was different and truly national. It was a good trick while it lasted, but as generations pass, that memory fades.
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  1514. This discourse meshes nicely with Shri Shekhar Gupta's conspiracy theory that Shri Modi is tricking people into voting for him by providing them with good roads and clean water at homes.
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  1515. Mr. Gupta is turning into the social studies teacher that I wish I had in school. Some of these videos are valuable reference material for teachers who wish to bring modern Indian history and geography to life for their students. #NCERT
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  1516. Shekhar ji will gladly grab any stick to beat Modi ji with. RSS is no longer a far r.ight, H.indu nationalist, almost N.zi organisation if it appears to be scolding Modi ji.
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  1517.  @MohitKumar-jf8lz  Thank you.
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  1518. Minor correction - FBI is America's central police, like CBI for India, while MI5 is Britain's spy agency. The American analogue to MI5 is CIA, or for India, RAW. At least that is my understanding.
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  1519. (The ads in the front are jarring. Not ads per se but the sound and the, camera angle, etc. etc. I doubt that the advertising company is making any friends with the poorly designed ads.) Having got that out of the way, the issue at hand is not so much whether state governments can give subsidies, but how transparently the subsidies are being accounted for on the state balance sheets. Right now they are being swept under the carpet, and will create a stink at some point.
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  1520. It is too late for the existing generation of ‘taang adao’ opposition to think in terms of national missions. Too old and too set.
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  1521. Shri Gupta quoted liberally from the leftwing bible of NYT but failed to make the connection to thinking of pseudoscholars like Shri Suraj Yengde, or brilliant thinkers like Shri Rajiv Malhotra, both of whom have highly relevant things to say about ‘DEI’. Why should Bharateeya readers care about ‘top’ places on distant shores, if they have no relevance to life in Bharat? We are counting on Shri Dilip Mondal to do a better job on this count. Reservations, needed as they are, need a relook from someone with greater intellectual courage than Shri Gupta.
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  1522. Respectfully, it is VAranasi or VAranAsi, not VArAnsi.
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  1523. I hope this leads to more agri-Cooperatives and not more agri-Corporations. Until the current MBA education focus on 'share holder value' widens the definition of share holders, it is dangerous to bring MBAs into agriculture. For an example of how 'share holder value' can pervert the definition of value, see healthcare in America.
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  1524. May I add to Gen. Naravane's point from a wider angle lens: land is not just about direct ownership, i.e., a country's own landmass. And political will is not just about making a point, like Clint Eastwood or Amitabh Bacchan in the movies. It is more hard-nosed. It is about which column a piece of land (i.e. a country) will fall into - our side, or the other side. In that sense, when America promises to defend Taiwan, it is promising to defend land in its column (and a massive contributor to world GDP). Loss of land, once removed, were what the existential anxieties of the 'west' were about with communist expansion toward Europe, and of Russia about 'western' expansion toward Russia.
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  1525. To all the comments in chorus to, 'we are like this only', down below: having a carrier is not about taking it to offensive war with another country. India has vast coasts on either side. It is about having a piece of land out in the ocean hundreds of miles away from your own cities, from where aircraft carrying all kinds of weapons can be launched when your real land needs to be defended. Last I checked, India has not exactly been sitting on its haunches with respect to development of missiles either.
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  1526. What's true for politics is true for war too, mostly. It's the size of the economy (the fuel in the tank) and level of technological advancement (the smarts in the tanks) that determines win on loss. The 'west' is a monolith and there was no way Russia was going to match them in either resource or tech in Ukraine, and neither is China anywhere close to matching them. Tactics only come into play for adversaries with comparable sized economies and war tech. (To be honest, there is a hefty dose of hindsight in that opinion).
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  1527.  @ThePrintIndia  Shekhar ji still in campaigning mode. Now that they have tasted blood, left won't let up in injecting grievance and disaffection where they can.
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  1528.  @subhxsish  I don't know the details of it, but sorry to hear that if they did so. That would be two decades of lost time and a generation of farmer families' opportunity lost for a better life. It is also a question of building the resilience of Indian society as a whole to withstand economic shocks, and unfortunately, there will be more in the coming decades.
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  1529.  @naturemeditation3751  :-) I haven't read it but I can believe you.
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  1530. Somebody ought to give The Economist a Nobel peace prize for the occasional factual reporting on India.
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  1531. There really shouldn’t be any sunlight between foreign policy and national security. Looks like ‘tis so.
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  1532. Too many “is”s where “might have been”s were called for.
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  1533. Shri Gupta's forte is the realpolitik minutiae of strategy and tactics. Unfortunately so, he misses the forest for the trees.
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  1534. J&K as it existed before cutting 370 was not an Indian state in the sense we understand the rest of Indian states. It was an autonomous entity within a country masquerading as a state.
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  1535. Is this whack enough to get rid of the Gandhis along with Congress's septuagenarian leaders? Hope springs eternal. The only other option is for the entire party to take the leap off the cliff with them.
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  1536. Pandit Nehru for all his learning, did not trust the native genius of India to manage her own affairs. He never taught those who followed him how to “say good bye”, unlike George Washington. Now we have dynasties all over the place.
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  1537. The stranglehold of the Gandhis on Congress Party feels a lot like that of Shri Trump’s on the Republican Party, with similar results for their respective parties.
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  1538. "RaGas Grand Mother wanted to Jail Modiji. Ragas mother got authorities behind Modiji got Amit Shah Jailed. Raga puts all kind of abuse on Modiji. The duo is not modern Prithviraj to forget this."
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  1539. Romesh Sabharwal of Rahul Gandhi's Congress party, the same Rahul Gandhi that wants reservation in Miss India competition for dalit women, makes the misogynistic prayer that may god make even dalit women beautiful. I am ashamed to even type this, but 'liberal' people should know whom they are supporting.
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  1540. For a truly unhyphenated perspective, search YT for, "Has the BJP government delivered a good election year budget? | Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan".
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  1541.  @indiamusically  You sound genuine, and displeased. Hence, I spent some time to present my lengthy perspective: I asked a computer god what the connotation of the related headline in ThePrint was. Here is what the cg said: "Overall, the headline conveys a critical view of the budget's approach, suggesting it avoids populism (perhaps commendably so, but open to interpretation) while still being mired in political calculation. The mention of "blandness" and "electoral nonchalance" further conveys disapproval of its lack of vision or engagement with the electorate, hinting at a strategic rather than a visionary or empathetic approach to governance.". The scale of dishonesty in Shri SG's damning with faint praise can be measured by contrasting it with this genuinely unhyphenated observer's comments on the budget you can find by searching on YT for, "Has the BJP government delivered a good election year budget? | Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan". This budget is unprecedented!, period, but you wouldn't know that from Shri SG's niggling praise + ending on a sour note. Context is everything. Best wishes
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  1542. ​ @indiamusically  You sound genuine, and displeased. Hence, I spent some time to present my lengthy perspective: I asked a computer god what the connotation of the related headline in ThePrint was. Here is what the cg said: "Overall, the headline conveys a critical view of the budget's approach, suggesting it avoids populism (perhaps commendably so, but open to interpretation) while still being mired in political calculation. The mention of "blandness" and "electoral nonchalance" further conveys disapproval of its lack of vision or engagement with the electorate, hinting at a strategic rather than a visionary or empathetic approach to governance.". The scale of dishonesty in Shri SG's damning with faint praise can be measured by contrasting with this genuinely unhyphenated observer's comments on the budget you can find by searching on YT for, "Has the BJP government delivered a good election year budget? | Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan". This budget is unprecedented, period, but you wouldn't know that from Shri SG's niggling praise + ending on a sour note. Context is everything. Best wishes.
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  1543. "You sound genuine, and displeased. Hence, I spent some time to present my lengthy perspective: I asked a computer god what the connotation of the related headline in ThePrint was. Here is what the cg said: "Overall, the headline conveys a critical view of the budget's approach, suggesting it avoids populism (perhaps commendably so, but open to interpretation) while still being mired in political calculation. The mention of "blandness" and "electoral nonchalance" further conveys disapproval of its lack of vision or engagement with the electorate, hinting at a strategic rather than a visionary or empathetic approach to governance.". The scale of dishonesty in Shri SG's damning with faint praise can be measured by contrasting it with this genuinely unhyphenated observer's comments on the budget you can find by searching on YT for, "Has the BJP government delivered a good election year budget? | Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan". This budget is unprecedented!, period, but you wouldn't know that from Shri SG's niggling praise + ending on a sour note. Context is everything. Best wishes."
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  1544. The Covaxin kerfuffle was somewhat avoidable - I wouldn't dare say 'entirely' with people like Akhilesh Yadav around - but still there are issues in anticipating and communicating that need to be ironed out. Both between regulators and companies, and regulators and the public. We need a 'no drama', process-driven, style in the public sphere. Regardless, India and the world should be thankful for companies like Bharat Biotech and SII, and for how well in general the government is handling the COVID crisis.
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  1545. You may also like Barkha Dutt's interview of Kiran Shaw for its clarity and declutteringness: https://youtu.be/cFKrWfqhEBQ
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  1546. Very nice science journalism; thanks particularly for the optimistic note which we all need right now. Blood anti-coagulation therapy as an approach for treating COVID may be of interest to your viewers as well: https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/85865
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  1547. Very knowledgeable and informative perspective. Thank you! One suggestion would be to have an internal process at The Print that would train these expert reporters in the technicalities and pitfalls of audio and video recording. Very basic tools of trade long known to people in playback singing and the theater - wouldn't be too expensive to implement (one person who would keep an eye on these things would be sufficient), but make the presentations much more pleasing to the eye and the ear.
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  1548.  @Critic224  SC mentioned China. You responded to his comment, mentioning the Chinese. Where did you see hate in SC's comment?
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  1549.  @Critic224  where did you see hate?
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  1550. The New England Journal of Medicine had 7 retractions in the past 10 years, featuring researchers from India, USA, Spain, UK, Israel, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, South Africa, and Thailand. Just goes to show how widespread the problem is and why countries should remain vigilant.
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  1551. Indian journalists should strive to build up rather than kick down the society they live in.
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  1552. Someone below said, very clever, "training your mind to hate your own country".
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  1553. :-)
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  1554. Scientific journals have been prioritizing work related COVID-19 to share the knowledge, similar to how the pace of drug approval for vaccines has quickened. The world is anxious, and so have been journal editors and they should not be blamed for trying to share urgent information. That means though some things will slip through the cracks.
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  1555. Science has no boundaries and unfortunately neither does scientific misconduct. Responsible journalists should in their pettiness not extend existing divisions of religion and politics into science too, and instead be thoughtful about how they report on science.
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  1556. The Lancet had 8 retractions in the past 10 years, featuring researchers from the UK, USA, Switzerland, China, Germany, Iceland, Sweden, France, and Canada. Even though there have been no Indian researchers thus far, India should be vigilant against scientific misconduct.
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  1557. I see two kinds of comments below: one that echo Shekhar ji's self-hatred ("greedy desi scientists", "shame to India", "'IJMR' lowly rated" and so on...), and the other, which point out that it is poor journalism and a kind of racism to drag India into a discussion of science, when it is not even factually correct.
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  1558.  70 Roadrunner  You should have just taken the fifth :)
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  1559. Even when the right lies, it does so with strident, self-righteous indignation. Even when the left speaks the truth, it can't bring itself to go beyond an even tone.
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  1560. The slicked back hair completes the caricature. Would have been funny under different circs.
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  1561. There are many deserving candidates but I would say that Mrs. Michelle Obama too has an obligation towards the country to accept, if offered the spot. These are special times that overrule past misgivings about doing so.
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  1562. Sounds like paint-by-numbers cinema. Might this be a portent of movie-making in the age of DALL-E?
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  1563. Tom, can you give names of some AI tools that you are using for voice and video?
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  1564.  @fayezahmad112  I certainly don't know the operational details and must believe that whoever is planning this is taking care of those needs. When they went to Iran, they took medical equipment with them.
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  1565. Tsla might have linked EV w/ allowing strlnk. Anyone know more about this?
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  1566. There is a US 'plunge team" that is rumored to step in and act as such a shock absorber when American markets drop acutely above a threshold (this is not the circuit breaker mechanism which halts trading).
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  1567.  @sivaprakashs9082  It is a credit to the inventors of this dress that it has spread widely. That is a good thing.
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  1568.  @shyamsr87  Aren't people endlessly creative in fabricating excuses!
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  1569.  @prabhakar0076  That's a bit rash. Living on the same planet, we do need to care about what EU and the US do as they have real consequences to what is good for Bharat. 100% tariffs will hurt everyone. Even Sri Krishna cared about public opinion, which is one of the reasons why he went to the Kaurava sabha.
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  1570. @ your response does not make sense. Can you explain more clearly what does garden or jungle have to do with autonomy?
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  1571.  @aliancemd  Are there any signs if this is early effect of chatGPT? I saw some reports that BuzzFeed (news co) is firing people and relying on chatGPT.
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  1572. Unfortunately, India's legacy business environment reputation still lingers though there has been a sea change in the regulatory and infrastructure scene in the last eight years. That perception is sure to change as roads, railways, and airways are being expanded at a rapid pace (Tata recently placing one of the largest aircraft orders in aviation history is a representative example). Unnecessary regulations are being removed. Aside, I wonder how the recent announcement of large Li deposits changes the situation for Tesla, provided that the initial findings are verified.
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  1573. The smiley is a refreshing change from the end-of-the-world-is-nigh cybertruck design.
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  1574. He has the receipts.
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  1575. Did they mistakenly spell 'oversee' as 'foresee'?
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  1576. Those who have masks should get comfortable wearing them in public, when they do have to go out. Lot more videos from China and India show people walking around with masks than from US.
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  1577. I think the Greeks pronounce Aphrodite as Afro-die-tee.
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  1578. I loved the topic but your conclusion may be off the mark. They hit the ball for a sixer with their new M1 chips and probably broke the meter on carefully metered innovation in PC chips, pioneered by Intel. May be it is not yet widely understood what an accomplishment it is for a consumer products company to outdo chip makers at their game. The full implications of their new capabilities may not be known for a couple of years. A better title might have been, 'Will Intel be the Next Nokia'.
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  1579. I could be wrong on this one. India should consider wildly extreme scenarios and prepare contingencies.
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  1580. Good point. Rama though is entirely an entirely valid Indian name and has nothing to do with the British.
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  1581. English is a medium for communication, just like any other language. In India, knowing it became shorthand for genius.
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  1582. Palki, you won me over to WION with this episode. I hope it resounds in Indian society and we will see at least some quick results (may be an end to mylords and lordships, for example). A minor note - vernacular is an inherently pejorative term to indicate a language of lower social stature. As you so rightly point out, no India language is.
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  1583. If the British built an English hut in India with 'spit and baling wire', Pandit Nehru carefully reinforced it with concrete and steel. His utter lack of vision and energy in building new institutions to suit the needs of a new nation, to put it politely, is sorely disappointing.
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  1584. Palki, you have the gift of patience while unwrapping a complicated story - some thing 'rare' among Indian newscasters who assume too much and jump steps in covering such stories. Please consider including human-interest science stories from science laboratories around India. It could be tremendously motivating for future scientists and engineers.
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  1585. I call this putting conclusions before data.
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  1586. Very nice. I do want to point out what is perhaps the single healthiest source of protein for anyone - dal.
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  1587. Anyone with large financial cheating cases in India should in public interest, have their passports automatically suspended and put on no-fly while the issue is pending in courts.
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  1588. How do they treat extradition requests from the US and other English-speaking countries, and EU countries? That could be a useful starting point for negotiation to fix this issue.
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  1589. If the looted money is really Britain's primary interest now, I suspect that at some point it will become secondary to lost business opportunities in India.
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  1590. Glad they raised the issue. Somebody had to say it.
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  1591. I am not a fan of the Pakistan government but punching at someone in a lower weight class doesn't look very dignified. A bland, 'Thank you, we appreciate the offer and will get back if needed.' statement from the MEA would have been much better.
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  1592. Do stop saying 'fair' for light or pale skin color. The opposite of dark is light or pale, not fair.
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  1593. CoWIN is a platform technology and potential threat for competing technologies.
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  1594. Appreciate the 'southern India' and not the absurd, 'South India'. Do note that the 's' is not capitalised.
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  1595. You should look for prophecies from people with an emotional investment in the place.
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  1596. They are going sell them to raise money.
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  1597. Shri Shekhar Gupta could learn a thing or two from Palki Sharma.
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  1598. A public statement about underuse of O2 plant funds could have shamed the various state governments into action. India needs a scientist-spokesman like Dr. Fauci or another technocrat to call out troubling behaviours. That means that politicians should not play all-rounders and yield the megaphone to subject-matter experts on technical and scientific matters.
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  1599. can you elaborate?
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  1600. Wonderful report. I do however object to the tone of grievance against 'Western' nations. It is important history for all countries to learn from, and may be also serve as a reminder for any country that gets preachy, that we are all human, and fallible. A permanent sense of grievance against any one group serves no one well.
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  1601. Whither capitalist dogma?
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  1602. Wow this sign of dissent got me worried. What if Shri Xi Jinping is not a rational actor? I thought that recent Chinese moves were testing the waters in a rational manner. What if they are/were for real? What if he is really talking of taking Taiwan next year? All hell would break loose. The trust that he broke with Shri Modi has already proved materially costly for them. What if Shri Xi Jinping is irrational and can't read feedback from the rest of the world? Does the modern Chinese Communist Party have sufficient checks over irrational leaders (I am not talking of Mao's time CCP but post Deng Xiaoping)?
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  1603. bom-ber, not bom-mer, not boo-mer, not bo-ner.
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  1604.  Shiba TootheMoon  Whopper! Easy there, buddy.
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  1605. Get them in, integrate them, and be prepared to use them if need be. It is good that they are here, and hopefully we will be making similar caliber fighter jets in the future. We don't need anymore airtime spent on the Rafales and should move on, thank you very much.
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  1606. Thank you for covering this. I will wait with bated breath for The Print, The Wire, and sundry other Indian news shops to cover it as well (not really).
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  1607. Good news, hope it holds. No need to show pushing and shoving videos if it looks like peace may re-establish.
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  1608. India should watch France closely for useful ideas.
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  1609. People should really stop idiot jokes and support all efforts to strengthen friendship between neighbors.
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  1610. With the turmoil of COVID, there will be less patience for all avoidable troubles. This could be the template for the much needed reformation of Islam around the world.
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  1611. China is ruining a good thing. A prosperous China is a good thing for the world if it raises all economies of the world. They are shooting themselves in the foot and creating anxieties in the world rather than continue their peaceful progress toward prosperity. Friendship with India and other countries of the world is a necessary condition for this.
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  1612. Blame it on Shri Chidambaram. He put all of India's eggs in the software basket in the late 90's as if manufacturing was already passé.
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  1613. Even without knowing whether FB was correct in their assessment or not, this shows the risks to independent nations of massive power being concentrated in a few transnational social network companies.
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  1614. The only thing that saved any country is skills and education. The gulf countries had 5 precious decades of incredible prosperity to prepare for the inevitable end of oil. I hope they are working on it.
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  1615. @Tim Onk Well, it is difficult to address fluff and triangulation. I won't stretch it further.
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  1616. @Tim Onk Technology = wipe out the largest economy in the world pre colonization and transfer it to Britain, mass education = literacy was 12% ! when the British left (today it is 75%), development of rural areas = when the British left, Indian life expectancy was 30 yrs (today it is 70 yrs) and, unification = vivisection of India into India and Pakistan, unification of princely states was the work of Sardar Patel. So yeah, it IS like black and white. India is just barely got its head from under the water of the economic and spiritual depradation that was British colonization.
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  1617. Writing-in a random name on the ballot is a peculiarly American distortion of the basic idea behind voting and wastes it. Hopefully, the habit won't spread elsewhere.
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  1618. Reposting my comment from elsewhere, with slight edits: "In current stage of India's economy growth, infrastructure is where it is. Building up infrastructure requires scale, and Adani has it. India should do what is needed to fix business loopholes. But knocking EVERYTHING that Adani is doing to build up India would leave a gap that the country will be hard pressed to fill. India needs big players with hustle, like Adani."
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  1619. 7 decades of Congress rule during which India lost territory. Yet, there was no attention to border roads. Congress rule in India is a gift that keeps giving.
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  1620. The term B**lywood and its cheerful mutations across India show a blissful ignorance of the value of perception. When audiences perceive a product to be a caricature of the original Hollywood, you can't expect them to take it seriously.
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  1621. Spot on. Most people probably, don't know that the term B**lywood was coined by a gossip columnist in the 80's (in Stardust?) to show derision for Hindi cinema.
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  1622.  @eurekarebellion7504  Could be. It is a case-by-case decision. It should be done based on what each party wants to get out of the deal.
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  1623. India can't afford to open up to cheap imports before building Indian companies up a bit to give them a fighting chance.
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  1624.  Professor Liberal Avenger  Wow!! I am surprised there are not more up votes or counters to your hard-to-argue-against evidence.
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  1625. Kamala Harris is America’s Rahul Gandhi.
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  1626. Sarcasm won’t cut it. Republicans need to engage with these youngsters with respect and reassure them. Otherwise you will push them away when you need to be drawing everyone in.
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  1627. Fascinating! Congress couldn't breach 100 seats and they literally doing a victory lap! Say what you might about the Lwing, they sure know how to drive the narrative
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  1628. Is that a rudraksh in Shri Imran Khan's hand?
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  1629. "India needs to test each of those gold bars to check its really gold."
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  1630.  @4ev3rmore  There isn't enough time left for the planet to keep producing factory-farmed beef at the current rate. Numerical efficiency isn't the only term in the whole equation.
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  1631. He is offering the real formula for MAGA. I doubt that the powers-that-be are listening.
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  1632. He is a great leader, but efficiency has its place and no more.
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  1633.  @gautamdesiraju9717  True enough. Yet, thought leaders should weigh their words more carefully.
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  1634. It is Dr. Amte, not Mr. Amte.
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  1635. Vitally important tech for National Security. Will grow in to a Cisco and more in the coming years.
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  1636.  @mathermathew5619  Dear Mather Mathew, my apologies for letting anger get the better of me in my response. I will be deleting my response to your comment. I still urge you to think if your comment was appropriate or appreciative at a moment when the nation is celebrating a significant technological achievement by the team lead by Dr. Sivan.
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  1637. The Lwing papers carefully avoiding showing the stark 240-99 number and instead putting up 292-242 🙂
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  1638. 24 h seems like an absurdly short time for anyone to respond to a government notice. Something must be done at the central level to disallow such demolition notices unless the government can prove to a court of unusual public harm if not urgently demolished.
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  1639. You can't leave it here. Ask for a paper trail that shows that it was in fact an error and at the stage of gazette notification.
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  1640. My wish is that Indian schools will have a profuse amount amount of education in public discussion and debate so that by the time the students get to be the age of these gentlemen here, they have a better understanding of how to have a public conversation which does not involve screaming and talking over others. You know, the battle of Trafalgar and Eton etc.
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  1641. NYT is pulling out all stops on Kashmir. Fruits of the decades of careful cultivation by Pakistan or a case of nose-cutting to spite the face by well-meaning Indians?
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  1642. It is too late for "the government will look into it and take action", after the money has been siphoned off. India needs to sit down with finance experts to devise a system that will red flag mega loan applications before or as they happen, using some good old knowledge of financing chicanery scenarios, and AI/machine learning tools.
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  1643. This is a fish market. We need better models of public debate. That however, doesn't take away from the quality of the content, which is great. Truly, some of the people here have an unblushing western media fetish. I guess that will take time to change.
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  1644. Block all apps, and the insertion of Chinese news videos into Indian news papers. Don't block the traffic of physical goods like raw materials that are value-added in India.
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  1645. It is wonderful to see ICMR directly talking to the public. Such scientist-citizen interactions are vital to getting accurate information out. Does anyone know if this has always been the practice or this is the first time this is happening?
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  1646. The question at 7:00 was unintelligent, to put it politely.
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  1647. One possible wish-list: 1) Continuous eyes-in-the-sky (may be AWAC loitering drones) with machine vision to recognise hostile drones that originate across the border. 2) High velocity, long-range drone-killing rifles with hybrid computer- and human-controlled targeting, that can take input from the AWACs 2) A 50 km drone-free zone along the border with stiff monetary penalties for violation. Alarm-to-shot-time should ideally be on the order of seconds to a under 5 minutes. Creating and deploying this rapidly does not seem out of reach to me.
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  1648. It is remarkable that the billions of dollars of investments India made in Afgh similarly went down the drain overnight. Is economic warfare too, it seems.
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  1649. This new visual format with one proponent and one opponent on the screen at any time and lower decibels is a significant improvement over the old one where everyone was shown and talked at once. If this was a deliberate design change, it is much appreciated. (As I continue to watch, I think I might have spoken too soon...)
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  1650. I am sorry to say, some people, not necessarily bad people, get energized by opportunities for anarchy. Burning the place down is not the way to build a bright new society.
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  1651. Many of these players could be a flight risk.
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  1652. Please, words matter. They were not the 1984 Sikh riots. It was the 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom orchestrated by the Congress party.
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  1653. It is not enough that news channels cover this as that does not ensure uniform coverage. The govt should bring this up in the parliament to inform the public about a new threat. They have to plan the presentation carefully to prevent ji jtsu balak and his sidekick from drowning the seriousness of it in the usual noise.
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  1654. @ Congress always ate bananas. But Shri Bhagwat should know better.
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  1655. "Duel citizenship case pending in two courts. National Heard case pending and Mody name and charged all thief case pending Central government not doing any action. His sister Mrs.Priyanka vardha recent waynod case pending. Why not taking any action. Jaihind"
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  1656. Term limits on members of Congress and shutting the revolving door for regulators into the corporate world are both consequential and will move the needle on US corruption.
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  1657. Is there a legal path to ban Communism in India? Seems like it should be done.
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  1658. @republic, please cover India's Unified Payment Interface, UPI, which is getting international attention.
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  1659. This deserves a Cut the Clutter by senior journalist Shekhar Gupta.
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  1660. Came here seeing the name of Mr. Jayaram Ramesh in the title. It is too headache-inducing to actually hear the show so it is on mute and I am averting my eyes from the psychedelics, but just want to show my support to Mr. Ramesh for his brave statement of truth. Of course the Congress pit bulls will be after him for "betraying their cause by helping the natives". I sincerely hope that this snowballs into a reformation of the Congress.
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  1661. The Supreme Court did not scuttle the arguments, it forestalled them. Minor point but worth pointing out.
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  1662. People should not be calling an ambulance if they suspect infection. Ambulances should be reserved for the critically ill who need urgent medical attention. Call the COVID helpline for guidance on how to get medical attention in such a case.
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  1663. Regardless of what happened here, any review of the Corona/COVID-19 crisis will have to look at govt failings in talking with the poorest of the poor. I don't believe that now such networks exist to collect and relay information either from the government to the poor or vice versa. Designing such systems will take some thought to get through language and accessibility barriers.
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  1664. I predict that the congress is getting ready to re-annoint Shri Rahul Gandhi as president. When you see it in the news, remember you read it here first.
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  1665. Graph looks convincing because 1. The amount of testing is going up (true?) 2. The shape of the curve still appears to be flattening. Stats types, your thoughts?
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  1666. Kanika kapoor imp. data point if she is a true positive. Surprising none of 52 caught it. Her virus strain must be genotyped if possible.
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  1667. This is a serious threat with military-like escalation and is no longer an 'ethnic clash'. The discussion cannot be just on new channels. The government has to raise the profile of the threat in the Parliament so that the public is prepared for the necessary counter actions.
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  1668. Parts of Bharat press are taking money to mouth what Shri Soros wants, and breaking public trust. A dangerous situation.
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  1669. 1:02:40 the definition of a sheepish grin.
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  1670. Stop using the terms very important person (VIP), and very, very important person (VVIP). Societies around the world are discovering in times of COVID-19 who the real VVIPs are - nurses, doctors, sanitary workers, ambulance drivers, food sellers, and many others.
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  1671. Arnab, when one person is speaking in their allotted time, mikes have to be muted for the others. Otherwise it becomes a fish market, which are wonderful places, but not the places to have a reasoned debate.
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  1672. New Waqf act is about justice for all and favors to none. There are significant national security issues with such concentration of public wealth in an autonomous entity. The BJP has to do a better job of managing public perception by bringing the corruption in Waqf to light.
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  1673. This is a serious threat with military-like escalation and is no longer an 'ethnic clash'. The discussion cannot be just on new channels. The government has to raise the profile of the threat in the Parliament so that the public is prepared for the necessary counter actions.
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  1674. What has changed in how the world views India, is the size of India's economy. Cynical unfortunately, but true.
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  1675. ‘Wades in’ suggests suggests lack of caution. In this context, Hindu Mahasabha is a legitimate stake holder and so joined the debate.
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  1676. You can wear a dhoti and ride an airplane, or a bullock cart, no? Is 'western christian outfit' a required uniform to live in the modern world?
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  1677. Nirmamata Banerjee
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  1678. He reminds me that knowledge does not equal wisdom and that not everyone can wisely wield the power that comes with knowledge for public good.
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  1679. This is not just about art but also a national security issue if unfriendly people outside India are monopolizing and diverting channels of revenue. Movies is big business anywhere, esp. in India. For art and for country, people have to vote with their money purses.
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  1680. Someone like Aamir Khan is an exceptional talent that will shine anywhere. Salman Khan or Saif Ali Khan on the other hand, I have my doubts about. The less said about the flaky imitation artist Karan Johar, the better. Strictly commenting my opinion as a movie goer.
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  1681. Shri Gurumurthy's concrete citations of Congress suppressing press freedoms over the decades demonstrates how in many ways they have been a continuation of the colonial British occupation force, with rare honest exceptions. It is delicious irony that they have self-anointed themselves the 'liberal' face of today's India.
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  1682. This is nothing to get emotional about. In my humble opinion, the British are trying to stall the progress of CoWIN as an internationally accepted standard.
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  1683. Partition is in Congress genes.
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  1684. Looks like the proprietors of the Congress party think of the whole of India as their private estate.
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  1685.  @tigre1857  The 'free testing' is underwritten by a congressionally passed law that sets aside money to reimburse for the tests. All the details are not clear yet but what is clear is that the US supreme court did not pass an order that all labs should test for free.
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  1686.  @jameslan4514  I don't belong to the pharma industry. I also don't think the diagnostic labs are refusing to do the tests. May be follow the example of the great society America where GM insisted on a proper contract from the government before embarking on making ventilators. Don't kill the golden goose.
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  1687.  @tigre1857  see my reply to paul john.
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  1688.  @pauljohn5011  Walmart stocks food, which arguably is as important for the country as blood tests at the moment. I find the idea about as appalling as asking Diagnostic Labs to give away their product for free.
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  1689.  @swethas5335  Such a wonderful reply! Thank you for sharing useful information!
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  1690. Don't get into the 'western' habit of hyphenating Bharat's relations. We need good relations with both China and USA and that can even help tamp down the mutual distrust between those two. Let Bharat's relation with each country stand on its own without, without "With an eye on China.." or "With an eye on America.." kind of tricky headlines that the 'west' practices. Makes for a safer world.
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  1691. He is an acharya?!!
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  1692. Love the phrase, 'single-source journalism'. Applies to virtually the entire coterie lead by NYT.
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  1693. Arnab, you heard the viewers, and have been hearing them for years. If you are set against muting others, set others' volume to 50% when you give the floor to a set of speakers. Producers can practice with archival debates to see if this on-the-fly lowering of sound is feasible. Otherwise, the noise makes it hard to hear what is being said, and sets a poor example of public debate for any school children who might be watching.
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  1694. As there is noise of India Ch border talks, important to make certain that these drones were not a ‘false flag’ operation.
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  1695. What the Bihar DGP said is very damning of Maharashtra police. He is not a casual rumor monger but someone very much a part of the criminal justice system, at the highest level.
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  1696. I hope he emerges whole when he does and not his body.
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  1697. Now I understand why Karan Johar is blamed for Sushant's death. He carefully coordinated set of blows to Sushant's psyche. I hope that Shri Johar doesn't get away with it and pays for his actions with his own career.
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  1698. This is a carefully thought out plan in the farmer's benefit - the most important component being economies of scale realised by promoting cooperative farming. It will be a tragedy if farmers shoot themselves in the foot by continuing to protest the new laws.
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  1699. Dr Saab aap video me’ document keejiye. Useful for future planning of such situations.
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  1700. Yogi ji did not say Hindu need to stay united, he said Bharateeya need to stay united. Irony died when Owaisi labeled a call for unity as divisive. Spinning that as a call to Hindu alone, is shameful.
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  1701. Congratulations on your win! One minor quibble: judges are judges not lordships. India is no longer under British occupation and India should discard the old ways of speaking, certainly 70 years after independence.
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  1702. Great reporting. Left out an important point that the bikers had removed silencers on their bikes which lead to the original complaint.
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  1703. Sanju ji, that is a powerful point about Rajiv foundation. Don't let it get drowned in the noise of debates. Strategise on how to present it so that the balak's cynical strategy stands clear across the nation.
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  1704. I used to watch this show for righteous indignation that Mr. Goswami appeared to have against corruption. But the cure appears to be worse than the disease and has become tiresome. A pity, because he appears to be someone who genuinely cares for social good.
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  1705. They should analyze his tissue samples for suspicious medicines. Take the help of reputed international labs if need be. Neuropharmacology is very sophisticated and some medicines may make people more vulnerable to suggestion.
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  1706. I suspect the PR campaign about drug use may be to forestall any findings from SSR tissue analysis.
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  1707. Love the signature music!
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  1708. The government should encourage companies to develop a secure electronic system for hospitals to e-mail medical forensics reports to designated contacts in police departments. It should be a national law.
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  1709. I will wait to see what the legacy media headlines say tomorrow.
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  1710. Are you hoping for one?
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  1711. Nupur J. Sharma talking about Rahul Gandhi: "I have an overall bias against politicians who are overall moronic".
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  1712. The similarity between Trmp supporters in Amrca and anger and viciousness among Sahebzada supporters in Bharat is striking. T supporters continue to believe that the vote was stolen.
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  1713. The BSF jawans operating under pressure at the border know best, but extreme restraint in the face of clear personal danger seems like habitual inhibition. They need SOPs to not come in such close contact with civilians, and clearly communicate red lines which the other side cannot cross. This seems a bit like a free for all and could have easily gone south.
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  1714. It is fascinating that the usual WaPo/NYT/Guardian/BBC Al Jazeera coterie headlines that typically start with, 'In India police watch on as frenzied mob lynches..' are not to be found anywhere about Palghar lynchings of sadhus. Normally, they have ultra sensitive hearing when it comes to any kind of disturbances in India.
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  1715. All these are potential new patient zeroes waiting to seed a new cluster.
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  1716. The rest of the country is moving heaven and earth to tamp down the disease; a few invulnerables have can't suffer the inconvenience.
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  1717.  @danialredcliff8867  Not possible. They will take others with them, like that religious leader from Punjab who infected thousands.
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  1718. If this is a demonstrably fake 'demonstration', aren't there laws to arrest the said supervisors caught on camera for inciting public unrest during a time of national crisis?
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  1719. Shri Vinay Tiwari showed great presence of mind in the responsibility and restraint with which he answered questions. I scrolled down the comments after writing this, and clearly his exemplary manner did not go unnoticed.
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  1720. No discussion of biases in the Indian media makes sense without a handy cheat-sheet of who ultimately owns or financially supports each media house.
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  1721.  @howsertsaezzwerstgoationgr9027  You first :) Way to contribute to the discussion.
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  1722. The language of certainty is worrisome. Vaccine will make things better, much better. Responsible journalists shouldn't sell it as a absolute protection and engender bad habits.
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  1723. 70% ethanol-30% water (surgical spirit is another name for ethanol), 70% isopropyl alcohol-30% water (rubbing alcohol is another name for the mixture), or 10% bleach work well for wiping surfaces to kill most germs including many viruses. Check the bleach container to make sure that it is within expiry date.
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  1724. Dr. Krishna Ella deserved a quick apology for the glitches in the audio connection.
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  1725. How many patients can the plasma from one convalescent patient treat? If this works, how many hospitals in a state may be able to collect the blood, process and store the plasma?
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  1726. What is significant here is the fact that the Modi-hostile person had easier access to NYT - 'western' elite institutions are mostly opaque and inaccessible to even someone with the stature of Shri Swapan Dasgupta.
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  1727. First fruits of the new era.
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  1728. This is a most unusually pro-India stance to take for Shri Sanghvi who usually says that 'we are like this only'. He doth protest too much.
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  1729. Shri Trudeau is a ‘fine young man’ the way Al Jazeera was also described as a ‘fine outlet for journalism’. The similarities are more than skin deep.
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  1730. Democracy prevailed in Canada today.
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  1731. Well said
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  1732. A national security policy is not a panacea. Bharat could straightaway copy-paste these elements from another country's, without any magical benefits. In fact, these would fit any sensible country. 1) Protection of the Homeland 2) Deterrence and Military Readiness 3) Strengthening Alliances and Partnerships 4) Counterterrorism and Countering Violent Extremism
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  1733. Developing secure channels of collaboration with the top engineering schools on specific high technology components may be one way forward. Certifying the security of the process to protect defense secrets and keep doing it, is not a trivial challenge, but worth it. Bharat is moving this way, slowly. Evidence suggests that HAL or DRDO do not have the bandwidth to do it all alone without collaboration. Not a strike against them - it is a big project and needs more hands.
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  1734. Both Germany and Japan are tiny populations compared to China. Scaled to their populations, theiy had a massive surplus at peak compared to China's.
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  1735. There is actually a trend of increasing imports.
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  1736. I am sure other countries are looking at these figures with alarm, or concern at least. Bitterness and self-abnegation though, are a uniquely Indian response. I present you the comments as evidence.
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  1737. How about narrative-ism?
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  1738.  @tbirdfalcon6545  If you count all the waqf encroachments in the last 10 years, they are several times 5; and that is one minor example of their two-sides-of-the-same-coin/joined-at-the-hip major impact on Indian life.
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  1739. I count this as one of three pro-India pieces by the print in two days. I call out that something peculiar is going on.
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  1740.  @manurr10  You will be surprised at how quickly his language changed elsewhere to keep up with the trends.
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  1741. "Shekharji the name "Bombay" got changed to "Mumbai" in 1995."
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  1742. 11:37 Shekhar ji a closet Mormon?
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  1743. "Since 2014 under the guidance and leadership of RaGa, Congress lost the elections 88 times (once he himself lost as MP in Amethi). Can anyone other than RaGa get these many number of chances to prove? If PM Modi fails, will BJP and RSS continue him? He will be sacked like anything. The power of family, legacy and hereditary is the back bone to RaGa no matter how many times he will fail."
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  1744. This is a fusking interrogation, not an interview. Who let this namoona interviewer out into the civilized world?
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  1745. No Lwing paper is going to write headlines saying, "The SC rights a wrong to M women brought about by a law hurriedly passed by Rajiv Gandhi in 1986"
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  1746. The language of ‘legitimizing’ is remarkably similar to that in the the wealthiest country in the world. There, that country engaging another is viewed as a great honor for the latter. Here, the church stands in for that country. Something comical.
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  1747. I think Rahul, you mean 'polled' when you say 'called'.
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  1748. I wonder if Shri Shekhar Gupta will find this worthy of a cut the clutter 🙂
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  1749. Can you the dates and quotes for what they said that was objectionable?
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  1750. Batoge' to katoge'!
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  1751. The crazy side of young Rahul Gandhi is showing. This is scary. Why are gyani not writing outraged op-eds on Indian Express and The Print?
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  1752. "Stop saying her Didi. Didi is a righteous word means elder Sister. And she is not the elder sister of Bengal. The End."
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  1753.  @RabiulIslam-jo5sy  Om shanti
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  1754. "New generation knows nothing about emergency and they should be taught about those days."
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  1755. "Creating a super PM out of Sonia Gandhi and formulation of a super cabinet called NAC- overriding the Constitution which had no provision at all!"
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  1756. "My interpretation of Article 25 has not gone wrong. My interpretation of Article 25 is upheld by the court today . Article 25 guarantee right to enjoy your own religion but not right to convert others ."
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  1757. Thanks to Kamru ji for so clearly laying out his double standards in the open.
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  1758. TTD has to document their 'ask' so that it can't be denied later.
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  1759. Pavan Varma ji, administration, not ‘regime’.
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  1760. Tis an interesting, flexible, and amorphous phrase, 'religious character' as of the cutoff date. May dharma prevail.
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  1761. Shri Salman Soz is an un-intelligent (mentally substitute the right word). Roads pave the path to economic growth. The ancients knew it, American in the post-western-world-war II knew it, the unintelligents experts on economics don't know it.
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  1762. I don't believe China will get many more chances of winning trust with Bharat. They have to honestly work together to restore peaceful conditions at the border.
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  1763.  @grapeshott  Learn some maths.
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  1764. They produced Yajnadevam! What you are asking is 'why can't the alumni of Indian universities think freely in India?'.
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  1765. @ without being rude, I must say that you don’t have first inkling about what China does in the field of culture.
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  1766. Can Kharoshti be the forerunner of Arabic script?
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  1767. "but them suddenly everything else be written completely normally". I was confused by your comment. When did this sudden switch to 'writing normally' happen?
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  1768. Partition and division is in Congress genes. No exaggeration.
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  1769. divider-in-chief AND pappu.
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  1770.  @anonymouslyopinionated656  Well said. But an understanding of the superstructure behind organizations like V Dem has not percolated deep into any levels of Bharat press or society. Most reaction, even at the level of MEA, tend to be of knee jerk anger at the hypocrisy, with minimal impact outside Bharat. I am waiting for it to transform into a long-term strategic response that starts in the home countries of coverts like V Dem; we are some ways from that.
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  1771. ​ @harrybaker8008  Technically true, through German planes bombing London is within living memory. You have to add to that the sensibility of whether Indians would trust their gold to a country that sucked their people dry, that too within living memory. Finally, add to that the 'sanctions regime' habit of the 'west', and the island really doesn't feel like the place to park your family gold.
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  1772. Smt. Sonia Gandhi 'offers' to resign :-) The only thing missing from the farce is someone self-immolating demanding that she stays in power.
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  1773. We predict that it is now or never for young Shri Rahul Gandhi, and he will take the leap with 'great reluctance'.
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  1774. It is good to see the numbers for USA and Britain, but these are easily available online. What is the number of ventilators in India, and what is the manufacturing capacity? You need to do some leg work there.
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  1775. Hollywood shied away from showing interracial couples on screen for the longest time, and even now pussyfoots around the issue. Societies are complicated and have long memories, and need a wise government to forge a strong society. Having said that, this is worrisome. There is no way to justify the Tanishq roll back. The government should do something to heal this rift.
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  1776. This is great progress. I am curious if the scopes and lenses are made in Bharat?
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  1777. Substantive debate. Please provide closed captioning in Hindi and other Indian languages to widen your reach.
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  1778. Like frightened children, senior Congress leaders with grand children and great-grand children of their own, pull on the Great Mother's hand, begging to please, please not abandon them.
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  1779. We predict that it is now or never for young Shri Rahul Gandhi, and he will take the leap with 'great reluctance'.
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  1780. Yamini Aiyar nails a key issue at 17:45, grow innovations that serve the domestic market.
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  1781. "This show is so much underrated and why this show is not available on NDTV app on firetvstick. There is no tab for india ascends. ??? Why"
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  1782. I am thrilled that AAP got (is getting) back into power! Having said that, it is unrealistic to expect the BJP to unseat AAP which literally swept the polls in the 2015 elections with 67/70, and provided good governance in the last 5 years by many accounts. There was probably little discontent for an opposition to exploit. While most of the panelists are focusing on BJP not coming to power this time, I think the big story is the seat gains that BJP made from last election (3 in 2015 to 18 now). If the trend continues, they will pose a serious challenge to AAP in the next election. And we know that BJP plays the long game.
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  1783. This is a serious threat with military-like escalation and is no longer an 'ethnic clash'. The discussion cannot be just on new channels. The government has to raise the profile of the threat in the Parliament so that the public is prepared for the necessary counter actions.
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  1784. Parts of Bharat press are taking money to mouth what Shri Soros wants, and breaking public trust. A dangerous situation.
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  1785. Weakening the prestige of India's Supreme Court by suggestion, innuendo, and unsupported allegations of bias (actually, smoothly jumping from allegation to conclusion without so much as a pause), does not really suit a distinguished panel such as this.
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  1786.  sagnik Mukherjee  Appreciate your comment. But we all have to continue talking. We can't afford to disengage from each other.
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  1787. ​ @seemabkarbelkar3920  (It looks like my reply got deleted, apologies if you are seeing it twice). I am sorry you feel that way. Indian constitution guarantees equal rights to people of all religions, including Hindus. This is a case that has been running for 4 decades (or 5 centuries depending on how you count), and a temple is being built now after the Supreme Court gave a verdict in favour of the Hindus. This was based on extensive archaeological evidence in support of a large pre-existing temple under the Babri structure, millenia old itihaasa record of Ayodhya and Sarayu, and over five centuries old historical record of Hindu worship at the Ram Janma Bhoomi, not to mention extensive supporting evidence around the world and India of how Turkish conquerors created symbols of power in new lands they entered. If none of these satisfied you, it is unlikely that any evidence will. I won't respond further but would suggest you do this self-assessment for yourself. What is the form of evidence that would have convinced you that the verdict should have gone in favour of the Hindus? How would you have reacted if the verdict went in favour of the Muslims?
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  1788. The sooner 'Indian secularism' dies, the better. In its place, may true secularism flourish, based on Sanatan Dharma ethos which welcomes all comers asking only in return that they live and let others live.
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