@tdkarnataka I need help updating my mobile number. I want to apply for NOC and address change as I moved to Kolkata in 2017 for a job. Later, I was transferred to other states and could not update my address with Kolkata RTO.
Now, after 9 years, I am back in Kolkata.
My bike is registered here since my permanent address is in Kolkata. I am unable to renew my PUC.
Please guide me on how to proceed with the mobile number update, address change, NOC, and PUC renewal. @OfficeOfNG
If Rahul Gandhi can lift weights, ride a bike, do push-ups then he is a fit candidate to be a gym trainer in West Delhi, not the Prime Minister of a nation with 140 crore people.
This article (link in comment) from India Today by technology editor Javed Anwer spells out some harsh truths on how Indian IT services firms missed the bus.
The roots go much deeper. Sadly, the intellectual environment in India, the kind of people we respected and listened to, had a lot to do with this. Just recently, Raghuram Rajan advised India that we should focus on services and not manufacturing. I have discussed the damage management gurus like C K Prahalad did to us with bad advice arising from bad philosophy.
Let us also not forget the Jagdish Bhagwati school, including people like Arvind Panagariya, who never understood how Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and later China all followed a similar trajectory that traces its origins to Friedrich List and the German School of the 19th century. List was the intellectual alternative to the Adam Smith school. We missed that entire economic philosophy because our economists only knew the Anglo-American schools.
It is time to reexamine and reflect deeply. Let us start with calling out bad ideas as bad ideas. We need to start with an economics philosophy that would work for our ground reality in India.
Real life #KeralaStory narrated by the person who herself went through hell and came back
Make this viral mitroon, it has to reach every WA number in Bharat
Talk to your kids about Dharma else we are doomed 🙏🏻
By now, I hope it is clear to all of India's educated elite that we must build up our capabilities here. The mindset "we can buy whatever we lack" or its much deeper axiomatic version "money can buy everything" won't work in this new era. For one, money cannot buy national security nor sovereignty nor resilience. We cannot stand up to bullies if we don't build ourselves up.
More broadly, educated Indians must reexamine our fundamental belief systems. As one example, why are we paying so much for a degree from abroad (and here I am not referring to the low cost medical education in Vietnam - we must examine why medical education is so costly in India!)
Second, should we still value English as the _medium of instruction_? We should learn English _as a language_ but does it make sense to make it the medium for teaching mathematics or history or technology or medicine? English as the medium of instruction is a status symbol from our colonial past. Should that be our future as well?
Why I repeatedly come back to this question is because language has separated us into two classes and that division has only grown worse. English as a status symbol is a bigger barrier today than caste. I know how deeply it is holding back our rural youth.
The solution "government schools offer English medium to everyone" does not work and has never worked. Instead I propose that all our children - rich and poor - must be educated in our own languages as it happens in countries big and small and as it happens in all of the nations of EU.
Yes that means that every kid in Bengaluru must study in Kannada (not just learn Kannada!) and in Chennai must study in Tamil. Countries like the Netherlands with a quarter of the population of Tamil Nadu make it mandatory to learn in Dutch only after a year of enrolling in school there. Children do learn quickly.
So before you react emotionally to my suggestion "how dare you suggest my English fluent children study in Tamil or Kannada medium" ask yourself if that has served our nation well. Are we bringing up our children to have no pride or attachment towards India, particularly the vast majority of our people who do not speak English? Are we not alienating our own children from our roots?
Please don't bring up "IT jobs". We build sophisticated tools like compilers and the team mostly speaks Tamil. We never made it a requirement to be fluent in English and our engineers learn enough English to read English documentation, just as engineers in Japan and China and Korea and Germany all do.
And we do have a lot of non-Tamil speaking engineers too and since they choose to live in Tamil Nadu they learn enough Tamil to work with colleagues. This is what Indians learn to do when we migrate to, say, Germany. It is not the big deal we often make it out to be.
So we must stop making excuses. It starts with our mental attitudes towards our nation and our fellow citizens.
Very good analysis of recent India-Pakistan conflict by @ajeetbharti.
Congress ecosystem isn't mentally capable of understanding this, but our side must watch and understand it...