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Yet another Wave!!

If you can win after disastrous strategic actions like demonetization, sloppy implementation of GST, unemployment at its peak, contentious and corrupt defence deal, instigating divide in the country on religious basis, interfering in central institutions like RBI and CBI then you need a miracle. If not, you need a weak and clueless opponent. During last election, there was modi wave for a change owing to disastrous non functioning of UPA 2 and corruption charges against the allies. The Modi-Shah combination ambushed the incumbent leaving them clueless and the landslide that happened was on expected line. The Congress was in the other side in this election, still BJP exceeded their previous tally while Congress ended up in similar range as that of last election. The country is painted saffron from Bengaluru to Banaras and from Gujarat to Arunachal Pradesh. The Congress has won around 31 seats (from kerala, Tamil Nadu and Punjab put together) and a meagre 20 seats from the
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Alarming differences

Everyone has the right to a good standard of living. Food, clothes, shelter and access to healthcare facilities are the most fundamental things. However it is really a very sad state of affair that many people are struggling to get these basic things. The sad part is growing inequality of income and wealth over the period of time. The divide between the rich and the poor has increased a lot. The richest 1% in India owns more than 50% of the wealth and the richest 10% own more than 75% of the wealth. The bottom 60% of the population owns less than 5% of the wealth. This stark divide is causing resentment in the society and will not allow harmonious relationship in the country. These staggering number reflects the sad state of the nation and we cannot overlook these differences. The poor state of affairs in agriculture, infrastructure facilities in rural India contributes to worsening deficit. By measuring GDP on standalone basis and claiming that nation is progressing is an unac
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Evolution of human in embracing differences

Human beings are different from each other on number of aspects such as gender, race, religion, color, caste, sexual orientation, wealth they possess and the language they speak.  Over the last century there has been substantial change in the thought process of the human beings in embracing the differences amongst ourselves. While there is a change in thought process, there are differences created to divide people which cannot be overlooked. Nevertheless the evolution of the human mind in embracing the differences has been a remarkable journey and is heading in the right direction.   Some of the thought processes around natural differences and how they have changed over a period of time is analyzed below. Let us consider the first example of Gender differences. For centuries women all over the world have not been treated on par with men. The King has always been the head of the empire, there has been very less number of queen known to have ruled an empire. The number of r
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