India lies below Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in Press Freedom Index 2026. This is because our mainstream media is totally cringe today. Many people advise not to watch TV for better mental health.
The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (Undergraduate), known as NEET-UG, is the gateway to studying medicine in India and is required for joining medical colleges across the country.
Nearly 2.28 million candidates wrote the exam on 3 May at more than 5,000 centres across India.
But within days, allegations of a paper leak sparked anger among students and parents, with protests and political backlash mounting through the week.
On Tuesday, the federal government's National Testing Agency (NTA) - which conducts the exam - said that based on its findings and an ongoing investigation, "the present examination process could not be allowed to stand".
Freebies promised by BJP in Bengal elections:
Just think how much money will be needed for that and where else this money should have been invested.
People are questioning the investment in IITs/IIMs. This shows that we prioritise money more than research. We worship the same billionaires who are largely responsible for climate change. That's why, we need to inquire within and ask ourselves that what is our real responsibility.
The Core Paradox India is rapidly expanding AI data centre infrastructure that consumes enormous volumes of water, while those very facilities run the climate models warning of worsening water scarcity.
Scale of Expansion India's data centre capacity hit 1.5 gigawatts by end-2025, with Deloitte projecting 8–10 gigawatts by 2030 — a six-fold jump in four years. The Union Budget 2026 extended a tax holiday until 2047 for foreign companies building data centres here, and PM Modi has invited the world's data.
Water Consumption Most Indian data centres use evaporative cooling, where ~80% of water is lost to evaporation. Karnataka's IT Minister stated each megawatt requires 25 million litres per year — meaning current 1.5 GW capacity already consumes 37.5 billion litres annually. A Morgan Stanley report (Sep 2025) projects global AI data centre water use reaching 1,068 billion litres annually by 2028 — eleven times 2024 levels.
El Niño Makes It Worse The IMD's 2026 monsoon forecast is 92% of the long-period average — the lowest opening forecast in 25 years. NOAA puts El Niño probability at 62% for June–August 2026. El Niño raises temperatures, compresses monsoons, and intensifies heatwaves — which in turn forces evaporative cooling systems to consume more water, precisely when less is available. In Noida, summer temperatures already reach 48°C.
A March 2026 Cambridge preprint found that land surface temperatures rise by an average of 2.07°C within a 10 km radius after a data centre opens — affecting over 340 million people globally — termed the "data heat island effect."
Geography of Stress Nearly 75% of India's data centres sit in already water-stressed regions. Hyderabad faces a projected deficit of 870 million litres per day by 2027. Chennai hit Day Zero in 2019 when its four main reservoirs fell below 1% capacity. Mumbai and Chennai account for 70% of India's data centre absorption in 2025. Bengaluru extracts almost 10 times the water it recharges annually, per Karnataka's Central Ground Water Board.
The AP Framework and Marxism operate on entirely different registers and diagnose human suffering from opposite directions.
Marxism locates the root problem in external economic structures: class relations, modes of production, the distribution of material resources. It holds that changing these structures will liberate human beings. The solution is collective, political, and material. Revolution transforms the world; transformed conditions transform consciousness.
The AP Framework locates the root problem in the ego itself — the felt sense of "I am X" — which is physiological, not economic. It holds that no external change, including economic restructuring, can dissolve the ego's fundamental incompleteness. The ego will appropriate whatever conditions exist — capitalist or communist — and use them to inflate itself. The shopkeeper and the renunciant are both on the horizontal axis. So are the capitalist and the revolutionary. Both are moving in the world; neither is moving toward freedom.
Marxism is entirely horizontal-axis thinking. It assumes that changing X and Z (material conditions) will produce Y (human liberation). The AP Framework calls this the biggest lie: Y = F(x, z) is structurally false. No horizontal movement produces vertical displacement.
Marxism is also fundamentally collective. The AP Framework is fundamentally individual — not in the sense of selfishness, but in the recognition that the ego is body-based and each body must see through its own ego. No collective action can do this for you.
Finally, Marxism is prescriptive: it offers a method, a path, stages of historical development. The AP Framework rejects all prescriptive methods. It asks only for honest self-observation — the ego catching itself in the act of being the ego.
Both diagnose suffering. They simply diagnose different things.
There is wedding season in India.
Whole night, there are lots of crackers noise and loud music everywhere. I can't even concentrate on my studies. Also, it is harmful for stray animals.
I live-in tier 1 Indian city. There is only one public library in my city and countless wedding halls.
I also heard the news that last year billionaire Mukesh Ambani spent 10,000 crores in his son's wedding.
Do you think this is a problem?
What Is It? The Indian government has approved a massive ₹82,000 crore (~$10 billion) development project on Great Nicobar Island — the largest island in India's Andaman and Nicobar archipelago, previously untouched by large-scale development. The project includes:
A transshipment port An international airport A township A solar power plant
Why the Justifications Are Weak Transporting materials from mainland India costs nearly 3× more. India cannot charge higher port fees than Sri Lanka or Singapore. Estimates suggest the port may operate at a loss, borne by Indian taxpayers. The island lies in a highly seismic zone — after the 2004 tsunami, the southern part subsided ~15 feet, and ~60 smaller earthquakes have since occurred, meaning perpetual infrastructure risk and repair costs.
Scale of Deforestation Phase 1: ~10 million trees cut across ~50 sq miles Phase 2: Expansion to ~90 sq miles Phase 3: Full island coverage by 2042 Total project footprint: 166 sq km, including:
86 sq km of protected tribal land 130 sq km of forest land
(For context, the Hasdeo forest controversy involved 450,000 trees — this project involves nearly 20× more Human & Tribal Impact The island's current population is ~6,500, including:
Shompen (~250 people) — hunter-gatherers, highly isolated Nicobarese (~1,200 people) — farmers and fishers Settlers from Punjab, Tamil Nadu, and Bengal Ecological & Environmental Impact Scientists have identified approximately 2,500 species of flora and fauna, including ~400 endemic species (found nowhere else on Earth).
Notable Species at Risk: Nicobar long-tailed macaque Coconut crab Saltwater crocodile Crested serpent eagle Nicobar pigeon Leatherback sea turtles (Galathea Bay is a major nesting ground for hundreds of them) Dugongs (sea cows) ~15 species of dolphins and whales Vibrant coral reefs, seagrass meadows, and underwater
USA vs China vs India: Emissions & Consumption Compared
🇺🇸 United States Population: 340 million Total Fossil CO₂ Emissions (2024): 4.9 GtCO₂ Per Capita Emissions: 14.4 tCO₂/person — the highest among the three Energy Use Per Person: ~280–300 GJ/year — again, the highest
🇨🇳China Population: 1.41 billion Total Fossil CO₂ Emissions (2024): 11.9 GtCO₂ — the highest in the world Per Capita Emissions: 8.4 tCO₂/person — middle of the three Energy Use Per Person: ~120–140 GJ/year
🇮🇳India Population: 1.45 billion — the largest of the three Total Fossil CO₂ Emissions (2024): 3.2 GtCO₂ — the lowest of the three Per Capita Emissions: 2.2 tCO₂/person — the lowest by a wide margin Energy Use Per Person: ~25–35 GJ/year — roughly 8–10× less than the USA and 4-5× less than China.
USA is the second largest emitter in the world. It has lot of oil and gas resources and it imports more than export. Thus the consumption of an average American is much high which leads to overall high emissions of the country.
India, the third largest emitter has the highest population in the world. The average Indian is poor and does not have much consumption capacity. So Indians produce a lot of babies. The total emissions add up to a large value
China is the largest emitter in the world. The fun fact is china is also the largest producer of renewable energy like solar panels and EVs. But China has increased its total energy consumption throughout years. It's industry based economy depends a lot on coal.
All the three countries have one thing in common - The growing demand to consume. People throughout the world want to consume more and more to fill their inner dissatisfaction. In fact, example of china shows that without intent renewable energy do not decrease emissions. That intent only comes through wisdom or right philosophy of life. This shows that climate change is a spiritual problem.
Thats what , AP is delivering.
A “super” El Niño isn’t a term used by the Met Office or by many other scientific organisations, but it is used to denote a very strong El Niño, where the warming of sea surface temperatures is higher than 2C above normal. This has only occurred a few times since 1950 and only once have temperatures surged past 2.5C. The US Climate Prediction Center gave a 50% chance that a strong or very strong El Niño would develop between November and January.
Each El Niño event is unique, with impacts that are highly variable and change considerably depending on region and season. But the cycle tends to create drought and heat across Australia, around southern and central Africa, in India and in parts of South America, including in the Amazon rainforest. Heavy precipitation, meanwhile, could hit the southern tier of the US, parts of the Middle East, and south-central Asia. It also flips hurricane activity, suppressing development in the Atlantic Ocean while increasing the likelihood that powerful tropical storms will churn out of the Pacific.
The stronger it is, the more likely it will supercharge weather events around the world. A super El Niño in 2015 brought severe drought in Ethiopia, water supply shortages in Puerto Rico, and smashed records after unleashing a vicious hurricane season in the central-north Pacific, according to an analysis by US federal scientists.
Most people says that pre vedantist like Adi Shankaracharya were casteist people. So, how can Acharya Prashant say that vedanta is the highest philosophy.
AP hasn't blindly followed his previous philosophers. He cristises openly where he thinks they were wrong. One of the points was caste. The AP framework answers this question.
The AP framework shares Advaita's foundational recognition that the bounded separate self is an error and the root of suffering.
The departure happens at two precise points. Classical Advaita posits Brahman as the positive non-dual ground behind the illusion of duality, and liberation is the recognition of one's identity with that ground. The AP framework makes no such move. When the ego dissolves, what remains is not Brahman but the absence of the one who was claiming and suffering. There is no hidden wholeness, no inner light, no uncovered treasure.
The second departure concerns the sakshi, the pure witnessing awareness that classical Advaita says observes the ego's dissolution untouched. The AP framework rejects this entirely. The witness is not what remains when the ego goes. It is the ego's most refined appropriation, claiming the position of the eternal observer precisely to survive its own dissolution. The framework deals strictly in absences, not in a positive non-dual ground.
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