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Why is affordability crisis not the top-most political issue in India?
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Gotcha! Yemen! Somalia! These are our new benchmarks.
- Iran: 1,200+ schoolgirls poisoned to stop them from studying; women arrested for a strand of hair showing. - Yemen: Girls married off at 8, never allowed outside again. - Somalia: Women beaten by militants for walking without a male guardian. The country ranks among the
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Wow! Just wow! Who are we benchmarking ourselves against now?
But here’s the bigger point everyone ignores: In many parts of the world, women don’t even have the freedom to step outside their house. Forget metros at 3 AM or even 3PM even daylight mobility is a privilege.
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Does anyone know the name of these flowers? They are everywhere in Delhi. Do they cause any allergy?
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Today, @IndiainThailand and @COIChiangmai in coordination with various agencies of the Royal Thai Government and administration of Tak Province of Thailand, facilitated repatriation of 269 Indian nationals including 11 women through Mae Sot, Thailand by two special flights
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IMPORTANT : Health Ministry Moves To Rewrite Rules To Appoint India’s Top Drug Regulator, Tightens Eligibility Govt is examining a proposal for Amendment in Recruitment Rules for the post of Drugs Controller and have prepared draft rules.
news18.com
After re-employment row, the central government is redrafting rules for DCGI's appointment. The latest draft rules seek a technically stronger model
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Know what to say. Talk about how to give a child a sugar fix!
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making a reel. I wished the child a ‘happy birthday.’ The aunt winked at me and whispered it wasn’t the kid’s birthday. But apparently he associates birthday with cake. So the child comes every evening with mother and entourage and everyone has a pastry each. Every day ! Don’t
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Amazing! Sitting in a cafe in GK 2. Nursing a very bad cold. Needed to eat something before popping a medicine so walked in. A mini celebration is going. Looked like a toddler’s birthday celebrations are in progress. The whole family is here including grandma. The mother is
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Many of us never had a colonial mindset. Ever. And we will not slavishly follow anyone, indigenous or otherwise. What is important is critical thinking, not accepting anyone’s belief system mindlessly. National or international.
Come, let us collectively resolve to free ourselves from the colonial mindset that was nothing but a mindset of slavery.
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Unwilling to learn from others. Look around in Asia.
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Acknowledging your weaknesses as much as your strengths and learning from others, including adversaries, is not a mark of an inferiority complex. It shows self-awareness, absolutely a must for forging ahead. No country has ever become a success story by being smug and
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And when you are confident, you don’t need to shout 24/7 about how superior you are. This is not pride in one’s country or culture. It’s inferiority complex masquerading as nationalism.
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Those who talk incessantly about a colonial mindset are the ones with a huge inferiority complex. Not everyone.
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In Paris as a student. Sure, people were richer, the infra was better. But at the intellectual level, was not awestruck by anyone purely because they happened to be from a more developed country. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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Not sure why we are told repeatedly that we harbour an inferiority complex, that we must shed the colonial mindset. Many of us never felt inferior. Never. Not even when India’s GDP was much lower. I don’t remember feeling inferior in 1989 when I arrived
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40% of what children breathe can reach their deep lungs 🟦 Children show the maximum PM2.5 deposition in the pulmonary region (deep lung), where pollutants linger the longest. 🟦In my peer-reviewed study, 8 to 9 year olds had a pulmonary deposition of 0.40, meaning 40% of
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@pakistan_untold @imMAK02 Fact check: False. This is a persistent myth, often circulated in politically charged online spaces, but it has no basis in history. Urdu evolved gradually between 12th–14th centuries in and around Delhi and west UP. It was not “created”, specially not in Lucknow brothels.
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