The two-day conference was filled with many insightful sessions with various experts. It also included a Climate Policy Hackathon on Air quality and adaptive responses. I led a team of 10 cohort members to present our solution to air pollution in Dhaka. @mail2genlab (2/3)
An Article authored by Dr. R A Mashelkar, former DG, CSIR and Shri Adil Zainulbhai, former Chairman, Capacity Building Commission highlights the need for Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) to significantly scale up student intake and capacity so that it remains globally relevant by its centenary in 2031.
Please read the full article.
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If Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, were Indian :
> ED would raid Telegram's office
> Babus would drag him into cases
> Netas would threaten him
> IT cells would declare him anti-national
> And in the end, Adani would buy Telegram
Europeans travel more because:
• Their countries are tiny and connected like Indian states
• They get stronger passports, cheaper flights, student hostels, work permits and social security
• Average salaries are much higher relative to travel costs
An Indian middle-class kid often carries family responsibilities much earlier. Supporting parents, saving for home, education loans etc.
And calling temple visits or family trips “not travel” is peak elitism. If a family saves for 2 years to visit Kedarnath, Goa or Kerala, that experience matters just as much as a backpacker smoking weed in Bali “finding himself”.
Also funny how people romanticize European gap years but ignore:
• Indians already migrate, struggle and adapt more than most populations globally
• Millions leave hometowns at 18 itself for coaching, jobs and survival
• Indians work in every continent on earth
Travel doesn’t automatically make someone deep, cultured or intelligent.
Some people return from 12 countries with only fake accents.
And honestly, there’s nothing wrong with wanting stability either. For many Indians, that stability is the result of one generation’s sacrifice.
Travel should expand your mind, not your superiority complex.
If Bhalla is saying that 12 years of Modi have brought India to Fragile Two, worse than the Fragile Five of the taper tantrum crisis in 2013, imagine how alarming India's actual economic situation is.
नोएडा के सेक्टर-34 में रहने वाले वाणिज्य कर विभाग से सेवानिवृत्त एडिशनल कमिश्नर केशव लाल के घरों पर छापा मारा था।
कानपुर स्थित लखनपुर में एक किराये के मकान में करीब चार करोड़ रुपये ���िले थे,वहीं, नोएडा घर से करीब 10.77 करोड़ रुपये नकद और तीन करोड़ की ज्वेलरी बरामद हुई थी।
नोएडा में घर के गद्दों, पूजा रूम, अलमारी और बाथरूम के बंद पड़े फ्लश से नोटों की गड्डियां मिलीं।
हर एक सरकारी अफसर भ्रष्ट है सबने जी भर के देश को लूटा है....
Indians have now been entirely restricted from protecting their savings from inflation in every shape and form:
Invest in stock market - pay 20% tax & STT on top of it.
Invest in gold - pay 15% tariffs, 10% customs duty, & 5% AIDC tax.
Invest in real estate - pay 9% registry tax, then 12.5% capital gains tax when you sell.
Invest in crypto - pay 1% TDS then 30% tax, and govt still won’t even regulate it.
The average indian is now stranded because neither their salaries are rising, nor they can grow their savings.
Nobody’s coming to save you; instead now you’re also being restricted from saving yourself.
He buried the demonetization disaster and his first 5 yrs incompetence under Covid impact
Now he wants to bury his last 5 yrs failures & mis governance under the US-Iran war impact
Sunil Gavaskar at the pitch report today: "Runs on offer. Pitch looks good for 190."
He has singlehandedly damaged the Indian commentary/punditry scene. Somehow, he has lasted forever and been paid well while seemingly turning up with zero research, watching almost nothing outside the games he is assigned. Offers the viewer almost nothing insightful on technique or tactics, just the same cliches repeated again and again. Generations of Indian cricketers have seen this and assumed that is good enough to become a commentator, so it is no surprise we are where we are.
DK and Mukund have been exceptions, and given the reception they have received, one can only hope Gavaskar is soon forgotten and the benchmark finally changes.
“By means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms—elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest—will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of non-violent totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days. Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial—but democracy and freedom in a strictly Pickwickian sense. Meanwhile the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite of soldiers, policemen, thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit.”
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited