#WATCH | Delhi | At the 'Vishwa Mangalya Sabha' event, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat says, "...When we were young, it was an era of obedience. That's not the case anymore. The new generation asks questions. We have to explain the reasoning to them. We need to give them a lot of affection. We need to spend time with them. We need to communicate with them... Nowadays, conversation has stopped even within families..." (24.07)
Inside Track on Key Cabinet Meet:
- PM asks Ministers to boost Instagram presence.
- PM to Ministers: Get active on Instagram, don’t limit yourself to X
- Prime Minister tells Ministers: Share reels on government schemes, reach out to youth through Instagram
These are the students who this country needs to HEAR
Drop whatever you're doing and listen to HARSH
So much pain in his VOICE
So much anger for right reasons
He questions reservation
He questions Alternatives
He questions Options
ALL SO VALID
First time I've seen someone speak so openly and aggressively against the caste-based reservation system on live television. Well done boy.
Will Abhijit Dipke raise this issue too? He claims to be fighting for students and this is a student issue as well. But he won't, because he doesn't actually care about students.
ORBIT ACHIEVED. 🚀
Vikram-1 Test Flight-1 has reached orbit. India's first privately developed orbital rocket has completed its final burn and injected its payloads into a ~450 km orbit, making India the third country in the world with private orbital launch capability.
History is made. 🇮🇳
#Vikram1 #JourneyToOrbit #SkyrootAerospace
Julien Laurens doesn't hold back on Tuchel after England's World Cup exit💥
He says the manager should be sacked and that he hasn't accepted the blame for last night's defeat🫣
#BBCFootball#FIFAWorldCup#England
This is quite moving.
As a City player, Wonderwall has become part of Haaland’s culture. He’s so used to hearing it sung by his own fans in moments of celebration. To hear it like this, while his World Cup dream slips away, feels strangely poignant. 🩵
Who Is Che Guevara? The Communist Hangover That Holds Us Back
Like most university students, I too went through my Che Guevara phase. His posters were everywhere. His quotes felt immortal. One line still stays with me: "We cannot be sure of having something unless we are willing to die for it." At that age, revolution always sounds poetic.
Years later, I stopped reading the revolutionary and started reading the administrator. The irony is fascinating.
The same man whose face today is printed on T-shirts symbolising freedom spent much of his life after the Cuban Revolution helping build a system where dissent had little room to breathe. As the head of Cuba's National Bank and later its Ministry of Industries, Guevara believed ideology could replace economics. Monetary incentives were abolished, industries were centralised, profits became morally suspicious and businesses were expected to function out of revolutionary consciousness rather than self-interest.
The revolution succeeded. The economy did not. Yet the romance survived. Perhaps that is socialism's greatest success, not in creating wealth but in creating stories and appropriating leaders into GODS.
India inherited many things from the twentieth century. One of them was this quiet suspicion of profit through its socialist policies. Whenever someone makes money, our first instinct is not to ask how value was created. It is to ask who got exploited.
This mindset runs particularly deep in regions like ours. Our parents belonged to a generation where everything was achieved through protest because of the historic neglect of our region. Roads came through agitations. Universities came through movements. Political rights came through resistance. Protest became part of our political DNA. This is India pre-1991, before the advent of a market economy.
The problem is that somewhere along the way, we forgot that markets don't negotiate the way governments do.
Take Guwahati.
Thousands of young people from across the Northeast migrate here because this is where private jobs exist, however little. Many of these businesses are owned by entrepreneurs or companies headquartered outside Assam. The local population often participates only through rent, small contracts or employment. Naturally, many feel left behind as someone else appears to be making the larger profit.
Into this resentment walks a familiar character. The self-appointed protector of the locals at times dressed up like Che Guevara. Sometimes an organisation. Sometimes a union. He tells people that the businessman is exploiting them, that being born here automatically entitles them to a share of someone else's profits. If that share doesn't come voluntarily, pressure must be created. A protest here. A bandh there. A phone call. A visit to the office.
It is extortion with ideological packaging. The businessman eventually pays.
But capital has one quality that ideology rarely understands. It leaves. The factory simply shifts to another state. The unemployed youth remain exactly where they were.
This is why I found the Assam Budget conversation so interesting. We all seem to have missed the big story....
A ₹1,164 crore semiconductor ecosystem around the Tata Electronics chip plant with a Japanese partnership. ₹77,353 crore worth of energy investments with the reopening of trade routes with Bhutan and Bangladesh. Since 2015, there has been a 9x increase in capital expenditure from Rs 2,951 cr to Rs 26,531 cr.
As India looks east again and reconnects with Southeast Asia, the Northeast has an opportunity history denied us after colonial borders and wars disrupted our natural trading routes.
The question is whether we wish to participate in this new economy or continue standing outside the factory gate explaining why the businessman owes us something.
There are only two ways to become prosperous.
You either create capital or you attract it. Everything else is just applause for a revolution that ended long ago.