Why Shimla is crumbling : Infrastructure development has not been climate smart August 21, 2023 TIKENDER SINGH PANWAR The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report states that the coastal areas and the Himalayas are poised to experience a rise in extreme climate events and a shift in rainfall patterns. Consequently, the developmental strategies for the Himalayan region should prioritise climate resilience instead of solely pursuing unguided infrastructure expansion.
Moulding the Himalayas needs caution https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/moulding-the-himalayas-needs-caution/article67576291.ece TIKENDER SINGH PANWAR November 27, 2023
The Uttarkashi tunnel collapse has thrown light on the major flaws in the infrastructure development in the Indian Himalayan Region the infrastructure development trajectory in the Himalayas comes under serious clouds — once again. Can the current model of widening roads, rampant construction of hydropower projects, and the unbridled impetus for tourism be a sustainable way of development? The Char Dham Project, all-weather roads, being constructed by the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) in Uttarakhand, linking the four religious pilgrimages of Gangotri, Yamunotri, Badrinath, and Kedarnath, has brought into focus two major issues in the Indian Himalayan Region (IHR).
what should be the carrying capacity of the IHR. Also important are the processes in which environment clearances were sought, undermining safety protocols, and a new form of architecture that should be built to construct and monitor infrastructure projects, if at all they are desired, in the region. The irony is that the flash floods of 2013 in Uttarakhand are suggested as the reason for the construction of the Char Dham Yatra. In a way, a tragedy becomes a source for many tragedies in the offing!
Ram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHEIrc7ze7g written/performed by: Psycho Shayar Dec 25, 2023 some unseen aspects of lord Rama! Jabardasti Jai Sri Ram ke nara me sab kuch hai par Ram nahin? Soch kar Ram kaho!
GG Parikh - 100 years celebrated by all shades of Socialists - https://youtu.be/9RgDLT1f4Uo the Quit India veteran, who went to jail in 1942, and again during the Emergency. GG, as he is called, was part of the Socialist Party.
socialists from all over the country, as well as children of prominent socialists, had come to pay their respects to “not only the last of the socialist giants, but also the last of the freedom fighters.. For links the lecture and speeches click read more
जल, जंगल और ज़मीन के लिए संघर्ष- मेधा पाटकर Bahujan Sanvad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KXrlMUCLw0
*2023 क्या खोया क्या पाया* रविवार, 31 दिसंबर 2023
मेधा पाटकर से डॉ.सुनीलम की बातचीत।
What is Apple’s ‘state-sponsored attackers’ alert, received by multiple Opposition leaders? https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-sci-tech/apple-state-sponsored-attackers-alert-opposition-explained-9007362/ November 2, 2023
Apple's threat notifications are a way of alerting and helping users who may have been targeted by state-sponsored attackers. Here's how they work and why an Apple user must take such alerts seriously.
Apple के अलर्ट पर वाशिंगटन पोस्ट का दावा, Modi सरकार ने कंपनी को बनाया निशाना! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhLzJK2hTF0 News 24 Dec 31, 2023‘
State-sponsored’ attacks on phones of India opposition leaders, says Apple https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/31/state-sponsored-attacks-on-phones-of-india-opposition-leaders-says-apple Tech giant warns several prominent politicians and journalists their devices were likely compromised by ‘state-sponsored attackers’. Among the politicians who received the alert were Trinamool Congress parliamentarian Mahua Moitra, MP and chief of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen party, Asaduddin Owaisi, and Congress leader Shashi Tharoor and its spokespersons, Pawan Khera and Supriya Shrinate.
https://twitter.com/MahuaMoitra/status/1719202978530570708
https://twitter.com/oratorgreat/status/1719217171560276335
Why Jammu Is High On Terror Radar Since 2021 India-Pak Ceasefire? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lMGNGf6BgA NDTVJammu and Kashmir witnessed a drop in locals joining terrorist groups this year. According to the police, only 31 local terrorists are now active in the region. But with local militancy dwindling, battle-hardened foreign terrorists are filling the gap. High on the terror radar is Jammu - especially Poonch, Rajouri district. The region that was largely free from militancy has become the main theatre of violence. While the recent ambush on army and the civilian deaths in army custody brought challenges to the fore, the problem began after the India-Pakistan ceasefire in February 2021.
Yanis Varoufakis: Is Capitalism Devouring Democracy? GBH Forum Network https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGeevtdp1WQ
Is capitalism dead? Yanis Varoufakis thinks it is – and he knows who killed it https://theconversation.com/is-capitalism-dead-yanis-varoufakis-thinks-it-is-and-he-knows-who-killed-it-213992 November 8, 2023 “now computers speak to each other, will this network make capitalism impossible to overthrow? Or might it finally reveal its Achilles heel?” Varoufakis’s new book Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism argues that we no longer live in a capitalist society; capitalism has morphed into a “technologically advanced form of feudalism”.
Traditional capitalists, he proposes, have become “vassal capitalists”. They are subordinate and dependent on a new breed of “lords” – the Big Tech companies – who generate enormous wealth via new digital platforms. A new form of algorithmic capital has evolved – what Varoufakis calls “cloud capital” – and it has displaced “capitalism’s two pillars: markets and profits”.
Markets have been “replaced by digital trading platforms which look like, but are not, markets”.
Access to the “digital fief” comes at the cost of exorbitant rents. Varoufakis notes that many third-party developers on the Apple store, for example, pay 30% “on all their revenues”, while Amazon charges its sellers “35% of revenues”. This, he argues, is like a medieval feudal lord sending round the sheriff to collect a large chunk of his serfs’ produce because he owns the estate and everything within it.
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In is address to the Cambridge Forum in Massachusetts, Economist and fierce EU critic Yanis Varoufakis considers the need for a radically new way of thinking about the economy, finance and capitalism.
Is Gujarat model a Miracle or a Disaster? : Indian Governance case study
Think School https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm86VOSf3rc Gujarat has been one of the most progressive and developed states of our country. in 2001 Gujarat’s GDP only grew by 1.1 per cent. Its Agricultural growth was just 1 per cent and one third of Gujarat’s villages were facing water scarcity.
But in the next 20 years Gujarat focussed on developmental oriented policies and as a result of it today Gujarat is the fourth largest state by GDP in India with massive industrial output accounting for 33% of India’s total exports. The major contributing factor in the turnaround story was the vibrant Gujarat summit.
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