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The real heroes of Make In India are not guys on the Forbes 500 list but those unknown, ignored, under-the-radar entrepreneurs and innovators who are coming up with ideas that can, perhaps, save this planet from its ordained Apocalypse.
“Life begins at the end of our comfort zone” – The challenges are daunting. Harari asks “How do you live in an age of bewilderment, when old stories have collapsed and no new story has emerged to replace them?” And yet change is the only constant.
The “middle path” may be okay for the likes of the Buddha or Confucius but it is not what an independent judiciary needs to follow in a country slowly being dragged to the brink by an aggressive majoritarianism and a pampered minoritarianism.
I detect a similarity between the current #MeToo movement (it’s more a twitch, actually, than a movement ) and the Et Tu moment of Julius Caesar: shock, surprise and anger that the worm could turn, or bite the hand that, well, fingered it. But whereas Caesar accepted that the game was up (“Then die, Caesar!”) our present day mandarins are more in the denial than the dying mode.
To the Tibetans the horse represents a very sacred animal, thought to be a spiritual communicator, messenger, and carrier. It symbolizes stamina, endurance, beauty,…
Having got over the initial teething (tweeting?) problems, I am now discovering new worlds, though, like Christopher Columbus, they may not be the right ones
As things stand today in the Indian ‘Me Too’ movement, the dice is fully loaded in favour of the victim. All those who are being charged have very little voice or say in the matter.
Bureaucratic misdemeanours can be corrected by the judiciary, similar malpractices by the latter are much more difficult to remedy.
The air violation by a Pakistani helicopter in Poonch Sector of J&K on September 30 may well have been to cock a snoot at…
News of a Dubai court ordering AugustaWestland scam middleman Christian Michel’s extradition to India is hogging headlines. Michel’s lawyer denies it for the time…