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Yogi’s ordinance on Love Jihad; a necessity or a pure evil?
There has been a lot of noise on the recently enacted ordinance by the Yogi government; the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020, popularly known as the anti-Love Jihad Ordinance. Bureaucrats complaining, writing letters to the CM, retired IAS officers complaining about the law. Finally, after a lot of searching I…
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How is it like travelling to India during Corona?
When I was planning my trip to India this time, I had very similar kind of anxieties that I had when I travelled to Germany for the very first time: Do I have all the required documents? Did I miss anything? What is going to happen next? Travelling during corona re-invigorate the very similar feeling.…
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Petrol at 100; Is it the new normal?
For the past few years, I have been observing that the petrol prices in India do increase in proportion to the rise in the international prices, however when the international crude prices decrease the local prices don’t decrease in the similar proportion. It does sound unfair. Doesn’t it? This is the new normal I am…
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A tale of two states: Punjab, Kerala and Paddy cultivation
Although, the two states, Punjab and Kerala are different in a variety of ways, the geographical location, the size, the population, the people, the culture, the climate etc. but they have one thing exactly the same. The flawed and shortsighted agricultural policies eating the states from the inside. The incompetent agricultural policies running in the…
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Busting the myths and fake news regarding Contract Farming
An old friend of mine shared this video (use the hyperlink to navigate to the video) on Facebook, where a man explains why the bills are evil. You can find a lot of other such videos by the very same person on a youtube channel that goes by the name “The Nation”. I listened to…
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The reasons behind Rahul Gandhi’s obsession with Ambani, Adani!
If we follow Mr. Rahul Gandhi, it looks like whatever is happening in India or has happened in India in the last six years is Ambani’s and Adani’s doing. You don’t have to go by my words, you could have look at his twitter timeline or his speeches or his official statements, or whichever way…
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Deep Sidhu and the pro-anarchy brigade
I am really surprised at the way some people are reacting to the incidents happening since January 26, 2021. Did they not see this coming? They did! They are pretending to be surprised. They are acting like little girls who act surprised on a “surprise party” for which they themselves had approved the list of…
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Interesting “Tandav” challenges the conventional entertainment in India
Since the recently released web series Tandav made a lot of news in the past few days, I decided to binge watch it and see for myself as to what is so tandav worthy in the show. The reviews about the web series that I saw before, no matter which website I chose, were bad,…
Infinite Sea of Opportunities 