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Part catch up, part complacency, part ideological exclusion - many reasons, but PRC institutions are catching up fast.
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Succinct and apt summary.
The Interim Budget for FY 2024-25 in an election year is quite remarkable. Exceeding fiscal deficit targets, not yielding to the temptation to resort to pre-election individual short-term welfare measures, continuing focus on infrastructure, investment and R&D, maintaining healthy balance between welfare and growth are all admirable in a complex, fractious democracy. The greatest challenge in a poor country is to reconcile between the short-term welfare and long-term public good. On that score, the Budget is very successful, and it shows:
1. GoI's quiet confidence that the people will recognise and value their achievements over the decade.
2. The govt's commitment to practice fiscal discipline and boost investment.
3. A recognition that financial stability is vital for investment and long-term growth.
Congratulations to the FM, Ms Nirmala Sitharaman for an excellent, growth-oriented Budget.
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No subsidy can match higher incomes. Union government is giving subsidies to a tune of ₹6,00,000 crore, States are spending ₹3,00,000 crore more. But the lot of the farmers is not improving because of short-sighted policies and knee-jerk reactions.
freepressjournal.in/analysis…
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Prakrit is believed to be a middle Indic language enroute to the evolution of regional vernaculars from Sanskrit - yet the verses of the Gaja Sattasai don't readily resemble modern Indian languages. The Sanskrit translation is easier to comprehend.
Translator: Radhagovinda Basak
ALT Excerpt verses from Gaha Sattasai / Gatha Saptashati of Hala Satavahana, translated by Radhagovinda Basak.
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Following their brave sisters in Iran these Afghan women are courageously protesting against their goverment's move to deny education to women. More power to them!
A day after of the Taliban BANNED female university education, women & girls have come out on the streets of Kabul protesting against the decree.
They chant —“Either for everyone or for no one. One for all, all for one”
Amplify their voices.
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Author and historian William Dalrymple (@DalrympleWill) is quite forthright in what he has to say; British people would do well to listen. As would anglophile brown sahibs.
“Britain’s misplaced nostalgia for its imperial past is one of the reasons why Britain believes it can survive without any allies post-Brexit.”
@DalrympleWill on why Britain needs to face up to its colonial past and apologise
I am reminded of an image from a few years(Nov 2018 so 4 years) ago of Mr Dorsey with some womens activists and journalists holding a placard "Smash Brahmanical Patriarchy". Looks like Brahmanical Patriarchy is going to handily outlast Twitter. 🫤
Neat back of the envelope calculation . . .
Sir
Apprx 120Billion Lt per annum (12,000 Cr Lt) of Fuel is consumed in India
Diesel:Petrol Ratio=65:35
Fuel consumption in 1,2 gear is Min. TWICE of 3,4 gear
So if only 20% vehciles r impacted 20% of times due to Pothole=> 480 Cr Lt or Rs 0.5Lac Crore WASTED annually Minimum
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It's even more striking if you put GDP per capita on a log scale - this one I happened to have lying around, from the Social Progress Index report in 2015.
To be clear, I don't think GDP/cap is a good measure of social welfare, but it IS correlated with such measures.
“GDP per capita is not a measure of social progress. It just happens to be extraordinarily closely correlated with social progress” @TimHarford
• #Growth #GDP #Truss
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*sigh* thereby further dooming a possibility of a credible opposition to the ruling dispensation coming up in the near future.
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Sadly for Indian democracy, too few are asking this question.
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This is a brilliant thread.
Sitting in an airport let me give you a list of principles I'm willing to bring any discusion around China and Russia upon:
1. The United States is not at fault for the autocratic mobster rule it has suffered through almost uninterrupted since 1989. As loathsome his work 1/n
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Vasudev Balwant Phadke, often called as the father of the Indian armed revolt, passes away on this date in 1883 in a prison in Aden.
Thread on a great revolutionary.
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Conscious of the fact that a batallion of "professional" historians & some crazy trolls have begun discrediting me, my work & whatever I said at @IndiaToday conclave with Dr @ShashiTharoor & @sardesairajdeep . Selective screenshots of NCERT books (usual ploy!) to prove falsehood+ – at Bengaluru South, India