Gautam Karhadkar
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@HoopAficionado
Lawyer. Oasis. NBA & Bundesliga. Tweets/RTs/Opinions expressed here are personal and not the views of my employer.
The World Cup has converted me to a full time fan
This is the first time I’ve seen a politician speak in detail about the education system, acknowledge its shortcomings, and discuss the need for improvement. Rahul Gandhi should have been the Prime Minister, but unfortunately a large section of the population seems more interested in targeting and harassing Muslims than in discussing issues like education, jobs, and governance.
भारत की शिक्षा व्यवस्था आज सिर्फ़ एक वसूली तंत्र बन गई है। ज़रा सोचिए - देशभर के परिवार जितना पैसा सिर्फ़ NEET की तैयारी पर ख़र्च करते हैं, वो भारत सरकार के पूरे शिक्षा बजट के बराबर है। आज कोटा से, और देश के हर कोने से, लाखों युवा एक सुर में कह रहे हैं - इस व्यवस्था ने हमारे साथ अन्याय किया है। हर युवा अलग है, पर सबकी कहानी एक - या तो सपने देखने नहीं दिए गए, या देखे हुए सपने तोड़ दिए गए। ‘छात्रों की गूंज’ सिर्फ़ अभियान नहीं - एक क्रांति है। हमें एक ऐसी व्यवस्था बनानी है जो आपको बड़े सपने देखने का हक़ दे और आपकी ज़िंदगी गिरवी रखे बिना, उन्हें पूरा करने में आपका साथ दे। #ChhatronKiGoonj
The branding says "unstoppable global visionary," but the reality shows a leader who looks completely lost if he isn't staring down at pre-written cue cards or teleprompters. It’s genuinely embarrassing to watch the self proclaimed "Vishwaguru" unable to hold a basic conversation without a literal cheat sheet on the world stage. Where is the actual substance?
Today's Telegram ban is proof of why an indigenous social media or messaging app can never grow in India. If @durov was Indian, he would be in jail along with his entire team and his entire infrastructure seized because a question paper was supposedly leaked on Telegram. It would have taken a few months to get bail. Line of FIRs stretching to Kanyakumari. Court cases dragging on for a decade or more. TV channels would have gone to town with all kinds of consipracies of how Soros is involved. We have vaguely written laws, open to the worst interpretation and bureaucratic overreactions. It's not a stable foundation for anyone to build on. The same applies to now AI. Anyday someone will be offended in this country by anything an indigenous AI generates in text or images and the founders can find themselves in jail and fighting court cases.
