MODI HAS FORGIVEN. SO, CHAPTER CLOSED? NO. NOT QUITE.
Prime Minister Modi has forgiven minors and young people who have used abusive language. So, is this it? Chapter closed? NO.
Because this is about something much bigger than the youth. It is about a culture that is steadily normalising abuse. Remember the NETFLIX series Adolescence.
Let's be clear. As we saw in that series abuse is ugly, especially when it comes from children. But this week, during the NEET protests, India got a glimpse of its all pervasiveness. But how did India get here?
The reality is that our young people are taking their cues from the real world around them. That world has changed. The code of conduct has dropped.
Minors, young adult are now neck deep in a political-social culture where abuse is increasingly excused, even rewarded.
Second, they are in a social media ecosystem where outrage and obscenity are amplified because they generate clicks and virality. Virality is the new currency. It's literally an income for a demographic that is down on its luck.
Third, they are picking cues from a society that has become so desensitised that behaviour once considered unacceptable barely raises an eyebrow anymore.
So what next?
Yes, the law has a role. Punishment is a detterent. But it doesn't guarantee reform.
So perhaps we also need stronger guardrails on social media so algorithms reward responsibility, not outrage. This will got to some extent in restoring civility to our public discourse.
But we must also above all, look at parenting/mentoring. Because values are taught at home and in schools.
This is an opportunity for the country to reflect. There is a need to reset and reclaim the standards of public conduct we want adolescents to inherit.
Under the leadership of my friend Shri Chandrababu Naidu Garu, Andhra Pradesh is thinking of the future and working towards it with great vigour. The state is working hard in sectors such as semiconductors, IT and innovation. This will benefit the youth of the state.
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A heartwarming moment at Guru Nivasa, Sringeri, as a little girl offers a beautiful recitation of the Fifteenth Chapter of the Bhagavad Gita in the divine presence of Jagadguru Shankaracharya Sri Sri Vidhushekhara Bharati Mahaswamiji during Chaturmasya.
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ಮೈಸೂರಿನಲ್ಲಿ ನಾಳೆ, ಆಗಸ್ಟ್ 1 ರಂದು, ಸ್ವಾಮಿ ವಿವೇಕಾನಂದ ಸಾಂಸ್ಕೃತಿಕ ಯುವ ಕೇಂದ್ರ—'ವಿವೇಕ ಸ್ಮಾರಕ' ಉದ್ಘಾಟನೆಗೊಳ್ಳಲಿದೆ. ಇದು 1892 ರಲ್ಲಿ ಸ್ವಾಮಿ ವಿವೇಕಾನಂದರು ಮೈಸೂರಿಗೆ ನೀಡಿದ್ದ ಐತಿಹಾಸಿಕ ಭೇಟಿಯ ನೆನಪಿನಲ್ಲಿ ನಿ���್ಮಾಣಗೊಂಡಿದೆ. ಈ ವಿವೇಕ ಸ್ಮಾರಕವು ತರಗತಿ ಕೊಠಡಿಗಳು, ಗ್ರಂಥಾಲಯ, ಧ್ಯಾನ ಮತ್ತು ಯೋಗ ಮಂದಿರ ಸೇರಿದಂತೆ ಹಲವು ಸೌಲಭ್ಯಗಳನ್ನು ಒಳಗೊಂಡಿದೆ. ನಮ್ಮ ಯುವಜನತೆಯನ್ನು ಸಬಲೀಕರಣಗೊಳಿಸುವಲ್ಲಿ ಹಾಗೂ ಸ್ವಾಮಿ ವಿವೇಕಾನಂದರ ಉದಾತ್ತ ಚಿಂತನೆಗಳನ್ನು ಪ್ರಚುರಪಡಿಸುವಲ್ಲಿ ಇದು ಮುಂಚೂಣಿಯಲ್ಲಿರಲಿದೆ.
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Testimony of a police officer’s daughter: My father was on duty at Jantar Mantar. He was almost lynched. He remained unconscious for hours. He was brought home drenched in blood. His attackers are now filing complaints against him.
The price of bravery in this country is blood.
Brilliant!
“Until now, Indian satellite builders mostly had to import this critical component at high cost and long waiting times.”
TakeMe2Space's PowerBank-50 becomes first India-made satellite battery.
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Few people know that Prof Kamakoti is perhaps the only Director of IIT who doesn’t have a Passport. One of his conditions while taking this position was that he would not be forced to go abroad. Has over 20 Patents to his name. What a nationalist!
These girls are preparing for NEET. They are a part of Sadhana program run by RSS inspired Rashtrotthana.
It makes me feel so happy to see these kinds of GenZ girls. Future Doctors!
They make their families and teachers very proud 🙌
Unlike some we saw at Jantar Mantar.
Namaste, Ma'am...Aapko 1 story sunata hoon....
In the summer of 1980, a distraught 7th grade boy stood in the courtyard of a modest house in Mylapore, watching his father toss his cricket bat down a deep well. A fast bouncer had shattered the boy's spectacles during a local match & his father, a renowned Sanskrit logician, was terrified for his son's sight.
"Your cricket days are done," his father declared, handing him a violin. "If you want to master precision, master this."
The boy did not throw a tantrum. He directed his focus toward the strings, training until he was performing alongside musical legends, even taking direct corrections from Bharat Ratna M.S. Subbulakshmi.
5 yrs later, he suffered another blow: he failed to clear the IIT-JEE examination.
He did not give up. He enrolled in a regional engineering college, quietly mastering computer science logic gates. He eventually worked his way into IIT Madras as a postgrad researcher, earned a PhD, joined as a prof & eventually became the Director of the very institute that had once turned him away.
By 2011, while the world was building consumer mobile apps, this prof was looking at a hidden national vulnerability: every radar, fighter jet, banking server & defense system in India was running on foreign-designed microprocessors.
He had a single question in his mind: "We can test that a foreign chip does what we WANT it to do. But can we guarantee it does not do something we DO NOT want it to do when a war starts?"
He proposed building a completely indigenous, industrial-grade microprocessor from scratch. Global tech giants insisted it could not be done w/o billions of dollars in infrastructure & massive foreign patents.
He did not care. Working out of cramped labs on long shifts, he & his team adopted the open source RISC-V instruction set. They hand-coded logic gates, mapped silicon layouts & verified billions of instruction cycles.
In July 2018, a tiny 16mm² piece of silicon codenamed Risecreek arrived back at the lab. The team wired it up, flipped the switch & watched a flickering monitor as the Linux operating system booted on 100% Indian-designed silicon for the 1st time in history.
Today, his SHAKTI processor architecture powers everything from defense communications to space grade controllers built in collaboration with ISRO.
That young boy whose father threw his cricket bat down a well...
The student who missed the JEE list in 1985...
The violinist who turned down the official IIT Director's mansion to stay in his family home & protect his late father's Sanskrit library...
His name is Prof. Veezhinathan Kamakoti.
Why do conservative parents have children who turn leftist? I will narrate my own childhood experience.
I studied 6th to 9th standard in a free government aided school started by a DMK affiliated person. I did not hear any DMK messaging there.
Then 10th to 12th, I moved to a free school funded by an RSS affilated person and had an RSS man as trustee. I did not even know what the RSS was and heard nothing about the RSS as a student.
But in my 10th standard in that school, I had a Marxist Tamil teacher. His entire class was about the coming Marxist revolution (this was in 1982-83). For a period I became a Marxist and atheist thanks to him. I was 14.
He taught us to question everything and question authority and I asked him "Sir, when the revolution comes and everything is owned by the government, would everything become corrupt like the electricity board or the telephone department?" and he said "After the revolution, people will develop socialist consciousness and so everything will work better".
I could not accept that answer so Marxism lost its appeal for me but thanks to his influence that one year, I remained an atheist for many years. My mother saw this transformation in me (I used to be a religious kid) and always blamed him for it but even she would say "you must respect the Guru".
This is what conservative parents have to endure. Their very respect for the educational system has been weaponized by the Marxists.
Remember that the school had an RSS man as trustee and as a student I had not heard one word about RSS, yet the Marxist teacher was free to brainwash kids like me. That is right vs left for you.
A traditional Yakshagana Bombeyata (Yakshagana Puppet Show) was offered by Sri Gopalakrishna Yakshagana Bombeyata Sangha, Pilikunje, Kasaragod, at Guru Nivasa in the divine presence of Jagadguru Shankaracharya Sri Sri Vidhushekhara Bharati Mahaswamiji. Led by Sri K. V. Ramesh, the internationally acclaimed troupe has dedicated itself to preserving and propagating this centuries-old art form through performances across India and abroad. Jagadguru Sri Sannidhanam blessed the artists and delivered an Anugraha Bhashanam.
ಶ್ರೀ ಗೋಪಾಲಕೃಷ್ಣ ಯಕ್ಷಗಾನ ಬೊಂಬೆಯಾಟ ಸಂಘ, ಕಾಸರಗೋಡು
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