r/CriticalThinkingIndia

This is just sheer crass behaviour. Dehatism at its peak.

I am really curious as to why someone would wanna do this in such a peaceful place like this. Look at the river and the mountains.

And then look at these morons. No sense of clothing to suit the place, unnecessary loud music and lame ass dancing. If that's all u want to do then why make the effort to go there and ruin it. Do this in your city, ur homes.

But no, it's not that they just want to do this and enjoy themselves. It's the urge to show and seek attention.

Yes you have all probably seen this video, ik not all people are same but one thing I feel is just over the line "hamare tax se sabka salary ate hey...", what does she think of herself and the army personnel? Do they risk their lives just for money? It takes courage to be on one of the most volatile piece of land in the world... Somebody please send her to the Frontline or one of those most remote places with a ration of rice and potato, I will personally pay for her salary, let's see if this gen d still thinks salary matters most in army... This entitled *, they don't know how the real world works outside of IG...

Edit: more context https://www.freepressjournal.in/amp/viral/we-are-gen-zs-wont-tolerate-this-female-tourists-outburst-at-ladakh-minimarg-check-post-over-restricted-entry-goes-viral-watch

The video is reportedly from July, where a woman is seen aggressively confronting army personnel as a crowd gathered at the spot.

For context, roadblocks and travel restrictions are not uncommon in the Kargil region, particularly on routes affected by weather, security requirements and road conditions.

In this case, police sources said the hold-up was to facilitate the road movement of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Army Chief General Dhiraj Seth. They had planned to travel by air, but bad weather forced a helicopter leg to Gumri followed by road travel toward Kargil. The timing overlapped with Kargil Vijay Diwas (July 26) commemoration

Therefore, the question arises. When the Gen-Z of our country explicitly invokes their generational identity during public confrontations, does this signal a healthy shift toward accountability, or is it just a sign of ignorance or entitlement? What are your thoughts on this?

Forty schoolchildren falling ill after detergent powder was reportedly served instead of salt is not merely a tragic mistake; it is a shocking failure of safety.

These are children entrusted to the state for something as fundamental as a midday meal. Yet a system that should have safeguards allowed a cleaning chemical to reach their plates.

The response will now follow: an inquiry, assurances of strict action, perhaps a suspension. But punishment after the damage is done cannot substitute for prevention.

The real question is why such an error was even possible. Food items and non-food chemicals should never be stored, handled or distributed in ways that leave room for confusion.

A checklist and standard operating procedure could prevent such incidents. Why don't we follow a SOP to avoid all these human errors? Don't we respect human lives at all?

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/detergent-in-place-of-salt-in-mid-day-meal-36-students-fall-ill-at-bihar-school-11929102/amp/1#amp\_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17871437795564&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com

Article link: https://theprint.in/opinion/modi-india-governance-economic-growth-study/3018487/

BJP zombies will probably read this and immediately scream “Soros funded!”, “Western propaganda!”, “Congress conspiracy!” because apparently the only acceptable research is research that says Modi is perfect. But the actual study by Texas Tech researchers Kevin Grier and Robin Grier uses the synthetic control method, creating a “Synthetic India” from comparable emerging economies to estimate how India might have performed without the Modi era.

The study finds that all 10 governance indicators measuring institutional strength declined under Modi, including liberal democracy, judicial constraints, political corruption and freedom of expression. More importantly, India’s per capita income in 2023 was about 10% lower than the study estimates it otherwise would have been, translating to a roughly $2.65 trillion cumulative notional loss over the decade. The article also argues that India’s growth has been slower than during the UPA period, while demonetisation badly hurt growth, private investment and household savings remain weak, and estimates suggest earlier GDP growth was understated while later growth was overstated.

And before the IT cell starts celebrating “fastest growing major economy”, the point is not that India has stopped growing or that GDP rankings mean nothing. The argument is that India could have grown more while maintaining stronger institutions. Basically, the supposed “Strongman Bargain” was meant to be weaker institutions in exchange for better economic performance, but according to this research India may have got both weaker institutions AND slower growth. Even the article admits this is one study, not gospel, and notes methodological criticisms, including some results not reaching statistical significance.

2 important things happening this week in India

First, the absolute disaster that is India’s public education system.

The situation of schools at all levels, local body, district, state and Kendriya, is horrendous. Leaking roofs, improper roads, inaccessible distances, shortage of teachers, lack of uniforms, lack of books and even a lack of educational toys in Anganwadis. Almost every rural school seems to be struggling with one problem or another. Imagine schools not even receiving the adequate number of uniforms they are supposed to get.

I have friends who have been working in this area for almost 6 years now, and what they have noticed is that the root cause is systemic corruption on a massive scale, starting from the top and reaching the bottommost rung of the organisation. I am glad GenZ and GenAlpha have started voicing their discomfort, and they need all the support they can get.

The entire thing increasingly feels like an effort to ruin the education system for upcoming generations because an uneducated youth will never question the Government.

Second, Modi’s Independence Day “Dimagi Naxal” circus.

People have started identifying themselves as “Dimagi Naxals”, a.k.a. Brainy Defiant, after Modi apparently decided to use Independence Day to curb criticism by labelling defiant people as Dimagi Naxals.

And the BJP zombies are celebrating, claiming that one statement from Modi made all these defiant people identify themselves and isolate themselves. Little do they realise that by refusing to identify as Dimagi Naxals, they are essentially confirming that they are the brain dead BJP zombies who have simply isolated themselves in the other silo.

Just like they once proudly identified themselves as Chowkidars, only to have their Chowkidar turn into a corrupt thief who apparently did not even spare the Ram Mandir. But shamelessness is apparently a permanent feature, just like Narendra Modi.

By taking the oath of office as PM, Narendra Modi may have legally become the Prime Minister of India, but for me, he remains a criminal first and last. He took the oath because it is mandatory. Had he been given an option, he would probably have taken an oath contrary to the one mandated by the Constitution and sworn to protect only Hindus and destroy everyone else.

Kya kare, majboori hai.

Personally, I would like to see him rot in jail. This is the absolute need of the hour.

Dharmendra Pradhan’s reported resignation amid the NEET controversy has now acquired an interesting afterlife. Pradhan says he offered to step down to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, insisting that students’ aspirations mattered more than his ministerial position. He also claimed that attempts were made to mislead Gen Z during the protests.

But the bigger question remains unanswered: how were protesting students treated when they took to the streets demanding accountability?

While political leaders continue to debate who misled whom, they appear remarkably reluctant to address allegations of students being manhandled and subjected to police action during the agitation.

Instead of answering that uncomfortable question, leaders from across the political spectrum seem more interested in defending their positions and deflecting responsibility.

Perhaps this is the new script: question the protesters, dismiss their anger, avoid accountability and eventually offer them forgiveness.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DbzWtIGj-En/?igsh=MWJ2NzFhcmdueHVxNQ==

CJP is basically a pressure group that operates at the country level and represents the people between age 15 and 35 or so, around 35% of Indian population.

The concept of pressure groups is not new. Traditionally, they are institutionally organised like Textile or tobacco lobby, or a group of people putting pressure on their local MP or MLA to get something done.

That model works well. But not for the young Indians.

We live in a globalised world, and this age group in particular is probably more geographically mobile than any generation before it. People move across cities and states for education, jobs and opportunities, kids education and what not. Our social and professional lives are increasingly not confined to the constituency we happen to be born in.

Ask an engineer in Bengaluru how represented they feel by their local MP or MLA. My guess is that most are barely aware of who their MP or MLA is. And even if they are aware, they may not necessarily feel that the local political system represents their concerns.

More importantly, if I am unhappy about the education system, E20, paper leaks, food adulteration, or some other issue that is important to me, there is very little my local MLA/MP can do about it. And any political party does not have to worry about these things as it neither has a geographically concentrated electoral penalty or reward.

And this is the problem CJP is addressing.

Suppose 2-3% of India's population, say 3-4 crore people, are unhappy about E20. They are spread across the entire country. That sounds like a huge number, but its insignificant. Those 2-3 crore people being angry doesn't translate into any party losing even a single seat.

If the exact same 2-3% population was concentrated in one state or region, every political party would be trying to figure out how to appease them. The difference isn't the number of people. The difference is concentration and visibility.

Another point, until we had CJP, I made noise about E20, someone else about Paper Leak and so on. These noise cancelled each other even though all these things mattered to each one.

A platform like CJP ensured that for a month or more the topic of discussion remained paper leak for each one of that 2-3% people. Just that meant that the noise did not cancel, it started echoing.

PS: Not associated with CJP or any political party.

Source: https://transparency.x.com/en/reports/removal-requests#2021-jul-dec

Congratulations guys, first in my bloodline to see India be rank 1 in suppressing verified journalists!!!

I do suggest you read the whole link, India is 5th in number of requests to suppress posts on X.

But if you dive deeper you would see the kind of posts restricted, Japan is number 1, but they suppress posts regarding financial crime the most, Russia I was surprised actually suppresses mostly self harm related content.

India suppresses URLs the most, no one should visit the CJP website I guess 🤣.

If you look at journalist requests suppressed and the rank in total requests, one could infer that news and reality is being suppressed, but I’d rather not get there.

In other news, meta was threatened by the govt of losing its protection and being legally liable for User generated content on their platforms. In any free system, this would be a clear case of blackmail, but I guess this is what we call digital vishwaguru.

If you’re gonna comment, Japan is number 1 without reading body text, I’ll reply with “Chota bandar ka chota Angoor”

>The man says "I am from UP, I am earning in Mumbai, Maharashtra. But the people from Maharashtra should learn the language of UP, we won’t learn Marathi. "

The problem is not about the Language, its about this elites entitled attitude, which this man is showing, and its seen is all level from a panipuri seller to CEOs, which is rotting the core social & cultural structure of this county's diversity.

Cities like Mumbai & Bengaluru, and its people layed down foundations, build ecosystem for growth and show inclusivity towards others in the spirit of nation building and its grown, which a significant number people migrating, reciprocated with same spirit.

But, the problem starts with influx of migration of people - who has no sense of humility, no gratitude towards the city that put bread and butter on their table and the people who hosted and accommodated them (can confidently say about BLR) .

• Sitting in an authoritative position and driving away natives for not speaking Hindi.
• Showing dominance once comfortably settled, claiming Hindi as National Language and demanding it.
• Getting agitated and brawling with natives when they don't respond in Hindi.
• On top of it aggressive display of entitlement, condensing the regional culture, people, language.
• Now this dominance have transformed into such assault .

This is when the natives, that were once welcoming go resentful, and that turmoil begins destroying the ethos of these cities/state in this country. And all this is increasing day by day.

This is the main reason Hindi is not welcomed in southern states. Its because of this mindset, not the inability to learn the language !

It’s easy to display patriotism through symbolic acts like hoisting the flag or singing patriotic songs. The real test of patriotism is whether a person is willing to live by those values.

Source: https://x.com/MNSReportEng/status/2087165485829988452

The Ram Temple donation controversy raises a question far bigger than the allegations themselves: can public faith and massive donations ever receive truly independent scrutiny?

Now, the Special Investigating Team has reportedly given a clean chit to former trust general secretary Champat Rai, while former trust member Anil Mishra has also been found not guilty. Both had resigned amid the ongoing probe into alleged irregularities.

A clean chit is, of course, welcome if the evidence genuinely proves innocence. But when allegations involve people closely associated with the ruling establishment, the public is entitled to ask uncomfortable questions about the investigation, its independence, and the standards applied.

Accountability cannot mean merely announcing that the accused are innocent and moving on. Why does everyone accused who is connected with the ruling party eventually turn out to be not guilty and innocent?

https://www.instagram.com/p/DcKs2QkmpIF/?igsh=dTEwNXdjenB1a3B6