That's why such jokers shall never be elected, whether AAP or Dipke, they are most vile, shrewed and dangerous to the democracy, they will turn India into pure banana republic if it's not almost there.
VIDEO | Amritsar: During a joint press conference with AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal, Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann (@BhagwantMann) says, “Our MLAs and ministers have been summoned by Sri Akal Takht Sahib tomorrow to present their side before the high religious authority. All of our MLAs and the ministers who have been called will appear there. We consider the supremacy of Sri Akal Takht Sahib to be of the highest importance. When I was summoned earlier, I left the President's programme and went to pay my respects at Sri Akal Takht Sahib. Tomorrow, all of our MLAs will present their side there. Whatever happens thereafter will be shared with you tomorrow when they speak to the media after coming out. All of our MLAs and ministers will appear as instructed. Some ministers have only been asked to submit their explanation in writing, and they will do so accordingly.”
(Full video available on PTI Videos - https://t.co/bIyFWTfmBd)
India's Biggest Economic Challenge Is not Inflation, Oil, or War - It is an Unskilled Population Addicted to Distraction.
Every time oil prices rise, economists panic. Every time a war breaks out in the Middle East or Europe, television studios declare that India's economy is under threat. And yes, both matter. But neither represents India's greatest economic challenge. The real crisis is unfolding much closer to home.
It is a generation that spends more time consuming content than creating value. A workforce that debates geopolitics without mastering spreadsheets, artificial intelligence, coding, welding, precision manufacturing, sales, finance, communication, or even basic problem-solving. An economy where attention has become the most wasted national resource.
India is one of the youngest countries in the world. That should have been our greatest competitive advantage. Instead, we risk turning our demographic dividend into a demographic liability.
The Age of Endless Consumption
Never before has information been so accessible. Yet never before have so many people spent so much time learning so little. Hours disappear into political debates, celebrity gossip, cricket controversies, influencer reels, conspiracy theories, and outrage cycles that have absolutely no impact on an individual's earning potential. Ask someone how many hours they spent on social media last week. Then ask them how many hours they invested in acquiring a new professional skill. For many, the answer is uncomfortable. We have become experts at commenting on the economy while contributing very little to it.
Degrees Are Not Skills
India has no shortage of graduates. It has a shortage of employable graduates. Companies repeatedly report the same problem: vacancies exist, but suitable candidates are difficult to find. Not because people lack certificates. Because many lack practical skills. The world is rewarding competence, not credentials.
- Can you solve problems?
= Can you communicate effectively?
- Can you sell?
= Can you lead a team?
- Can you analyze data?
- Can you use AI to improve productivity instead of merely asking it amusing questions?
- Can you create something that another person is willing to pay for?
Those are the questions that determine economic success. Not the number of degrees hanging on a wall.
Attention Is the New Currency
The biggest theft today is not of money. It is of attention. Every notification fragments concentration. Every endless scroll delays mastery. Every hour spent consuming outrage is an hour not spent building expertise.
Modern economies reward deep work, specialized knowledge, creativity, and disciplined execution. Algorithms reward emotional reactions. Unfortunately, millions choose the algorithm.
The Coming Divide
Artificial intelligence is not replacing everyone. It is replacing people who refuse to learn. The future will belong to workers who continuously upgrade themselves. Those who combine human judgment with technological tools will become dramatically more productive. Those who stop learning will find themselves competing for fewer opportunities at lower wages. The divide will not be between rich and poor. It will increasingly be between skilled and unskilled.
National Growth Begins With Individual Discipline
Governments can build highways. Businesses can build factories. Universities can build campuses. But none of them can force an individual to develop skills. Economic transformation begins with personal responsibility. Spend one less hour arguing online. Spend one more hour learning. Read instead of scrolling. Build instead of complaining. Acquire one valuable skill every year. Become indispensable.
If millions of Indians made that simple choice, the country's economic trajectory would change more profoundly than any fiscal stimulus, any election promise, or any temporary fall in oil prices.
Wars will end. Oil prices will rise and fall. Markets will recover. But a nation that neglects skill development while surrendering its attention to endless distraction will struggle long after those headlines have disappeared.
The strongest economy is not built by the loudest voices. It is built by the most capable people.
#JaiHind
Today everyone is an #AI expert either on the side of the Indian IT services firms or against. The Indian IT services firms like TCS, Infosys, Wipro, TechM, LTM failed Indian. 18 yrs back I served in the office of Strategy for the CEO for one of these firms.
Last year after 1/n
We think the Economics Nobel Prize confers some kind of real economic insight about how a poor country becomes rich. It does not.
If you want real insight about how a developing nation gets rich, study Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, study Japan, study South Korea, study Taiwan, study post-Mao China. They have all lifted people up from poverty, produced widely shared prosperity but they do not produce Nobel Laureates in Economics.
The book "How Asia Works" by Joe Studwell is a great read.
Tldr; ignore Nobel Laureates in Economics. That is not the path to wealth.
When a rogue Nation loses any sense of dignity, this is how they behave. US under Trump has become a Pakistan with an overwhelming economic power. India 🇮🇳 is a big market but not a big power. Our power comes from big purchases we make from the French and the Russians not from what we produce. Just as India couldn’t invade US or break relation with the US after Bhopal gas tragedy killings 10000 people or invade China after Galwan or Doklam. Not that India has many cards to play in the hands now which it hadn’t had earlier that it can play without hurting herself. Opposition being opposition will play the rerun of Afghanistan plane hijack case. That won’t be a service to the nation that India acting pragmatically on the killing of three Indians in stray firing is insult to 1.5 billion Indians but Rahul Gandhi having dinner with the Chinese after targeted attack on Indian soldiers killings many was a big revenge. Great nations act sensibly in accordance with what is good for her citizens not as individuals in the throes of emotions.
There you go again @TVMohandasPai. We went through this before and when I challenged you publicly to compare track records while I was in industry, you ran away. You avoid addressing the issue that you lack any tech background and expertise, being a mere bean counter/admin who exploited India’s tech youth with wage arbitrage to enrich yourself. The “big industry” you built was about exploiting our hard working youth as coolies. I advocated that Indian tech talent be channeled into Indian IP, and not rented out. You are obliged to suck up to the Murthy family without whom you were a nobody. History has proven that India should have followed China example of domestic IP and not the quick buck selfish approach. Compare Indian industrialists in tech with China’s. Why is India dependent on foreign licensing like a beggar? India has immense talent but its industrialists have been short sighted, selfish and arrogant. Now Indian youth face massive challenges unlike China’s as a result. The total market value of India’s tech industry is a mere 1% of the global tech market cap. Shameful for a nation of talented youth.
I have argued against Nilekani, @TVMohandasPai and others for decades, on their quick buck mentality. Made millions by renting Indian brains for building US intellectual property. Their selfishness got rewarded by Indian elites and feel good masses. Now India is paying the price. China had different strategy to protect sovereignty.
@TVMohandasPai Ridiculous.
SOTA models can be trained for $10 billion with $5b spent only in getting the top 50 Indian AI brains in the US back to India. Give them $100m each to come back. They will. Add another $5b, create a small city for this endeavor with world class infra and buildings.
Ridiculous.
SOTA models can be trained for $10 billion with $5b spent only in getting the top 50 Indian AI brains in the US back to India. Give them $100m each to come back. They will. Add another $5b, create a small city for this endeavor with world class infra and buildings.
"European sells weapons which are used to attack India, for many many years. We Indians have never done anything to endanger Europe", EAM Jaishankar says when asked about India's stance on Russia Ukraine conflict
Yes, comparing Modi era with Nehru’s is right. Not to do so would be injustice to millions who suffered because of Nehru.
For example, Hindu Bengali refugees. Their children, grandchildren must never forget that their people were abandoned and thrown to the wolves by Jawaharlal Nehru before, during and after Partition.
Nehru despised dark-skinned Hindu Bengali refugees, among them my father, his siblings, their widowed mother and grandmother, fleeing rapacious and murderous Muslim League mobs in East Bengal; he did not want them to seek shelter in India.
Nehru wrote to CM BC Roy, instructing him not to let Hindu Bengali refugees enter West Bengal. Push them back from the border, Nehru said, don’t let them in.
Nehru insisted Hindu Bengalis of East Bengal / East Pakistan were coming to India for free-loading at the expense of Indians. He cut back Central funds for West Bengal to stop the meagre refugee assistance by way of a couple of kilos of inedible worm-infested rotten rice for Hindu Bengalis.
Hindu Bengali refugee women and children separated from their families, or widowed and orphaned in the Noakhali genocide and subsequent Partition Massacre of Hindus, rummaged in garbage bins and pitifully begged for morsels of food.
Hindu Bengali refugee children in rags with dark large sad eyes greedily licked on used banana leaves dumped on the streets by eateries, also known as ‘pice hotels’ in Kolkata parlance, of which there was a profusion in the post-War years. Emaciated babies and rickety children of Hindu Bengali refugees huddled with stray dogs on pavements.
Many Hindu Bengali refugees lived on ‘rice water’ or ‘fan’ (the starchy water that is thrown away after boiling rice) collected from homes of compassionate Bengalis who had little food to share.
In the morning and evening there were pheriwallahs hawking their wares; in the afternoon there were Hindu Bengali refugee women in tattered sarees that barely covered their bodies and naked children with battered and bruised aluminium pots going from house to house, begging for ‘rice water’: “Ma, fan daao Ma…”
Those voices of has hunger were to haunt Hindu Bengali refugees like my parents for long, often till death.
Driven by hate for Hindu Bengali refugees, Nehru ordered horrifyingly, nauseatingly squalid and disease-ridden refugee camps to be named ‘Permanent Liability Camps’ or PLCs — PLC 1, PLC 2… — reminiscent of the ‘Permanent Solution Camps’ of the Nazis.
When despite his best efforts Nehru failed to push back the Hindu Bengali refugees to be slaughtered in East Bengal/East Pakistan, Nehru brought his devastating Freight Equalisation Policy which collapsed industry in West Bengal. Tens of thousands of jobs were destroyed and the Hindu Bengali was rendered jobless: Those who lost their jobs and businesses began turning on Hindu Bengali refugees just as Nehru had hoped.
Yet Nehru could not break the spirit of the Hindu Bengali refugees who were grateful to Bharat and determined to help rebuild this great nation savaged by invaders and colonisers especially John Company.
Through generations we Hindu Bengali refugees toiled, we built, we paid taxes, we sacrificed for the Nation, our Nation, we succeeded in establishing ourselves as dutiful, law-abiding, loyal citizens of India. Having lost our home and hearth, we had no other home but India.
We Hindu Bengali refugees were hived off to malaria-infested inhospitable Dandakaranya and we cleared forests and made the soil fertile. We were packed off to Andaman and we rebuilt our lives there. When we tried to set up home at Marichjhapi we were slaughtered: the estuaries turned red with our blood.
We grieved, we got up, we overcame that setback.
We lived with dignity and honour, we earned our food, we were not freeloaders. We were poor but we were honest: we had integrity.
Cut to 2026.
So who have proved to be India’s ‘Permanent Liability’ cadging off the state and living on unearned money? Nehru Dynasty.
India simply put is run by emotions, logic has left the country.
Emotions are very important, but one cannot abandon logic.
#Reservation#SCSTAct#DowryAct
What happens when an undercover Cockroach enters CJP protest at Jantar Mantar?
Behind the slogans, aesthetics, and social media hype, the so-called Gen-Z movement appeared less focused on students and more obsessed with pushing a political narrative.
While genuine student concerns took a back seat, cameras and activists seemed busy chasing engagement, outrage, and anti-government soundbites.
Who was the 'Unknown Cockroach' behind the mask who infiltrated the CJP protest, exposed the agenda of "topi media"? @RitikaChandola
@CountryGulshan First of all all the police personnel shall be asked to salute the civilians once they stop them, as in most of other countries, this will make them understand that they are public servants not the master or mafia in uniform.
#CIBIL एक अव्यवहारिक, मूर्खतापूर्ण तंत्र है। अगर आप लगातार कर्ज लेकर चुकाते रहते हैं तो आपका सिबिल स्कोर अच्छा रहेगा। अगर आपने कर्ज लिया ही नहीं तो भले आपकी कर्ज चुकाने की क्षमता हो, लेकिन यह तंत्र आपका स्कोर नीचे कर देगा। कर्ज लेकर चुका दिया और कुछ वर्षों बाद कर्ज लेने गए, तब भी सिबिल स्कोर कम हो जाएगा। कुल मिलाकर सिबिल आपको समय पर कर्ज देने से अधिक लगातार कर्ज के जाल में फंसाए रखने के लिए है। अब मेरे जैसे लोग कभी क्रेडिट कार्ड नहीं रखते तो उसके आधार पर भी सिबिल स्कोर कम ही रहेगा। यह न समझ आने वाली बात है कि, भारत में इस तंत्र को क्यों मान्यता दी गई है।
“Civilizational inheritance is not just about geography or ruins; it is defined by living customs, symbols, rituals, and an unbroken cultural consciousness. India is the enduring living continuity of the Indus-Saraswati Civilization.”
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This 4,500-year-old terracotta dice from the Indus-Saraswati Civilization is a powerful reminder of India’s living heritage. Dicing is also mentioned as a popular game in Rig and Atharva Vedas (two of the four sacred Vedic scriptures).
From symbols and craftsmanship to rituals, yogic practices, and collective memory, numerous elements of ancient Indian civilization continue to thrive in the daily social and religious life of Indian society across regions and communities.
Civilizational inheritance is not just about geography or ruins, it is defined by living customs, symbols, rituals, and unbroken cultural consciousness. India is the enduring living continuity of the Indus-Saraswati Civilization.
#IndusSaraswatiCivilization #AncientIndianHeritage