stunning essay on fraud, scientism, blind faith during #wuhanvirus pandemic

and its analog during the autism wars.

i could add the cholesterol scare, tulipmania, and now probably the climate change/renewables crusade.

and maybe crypto?

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/i-have-been-through-this-before-bauer

mearsheimer on america's flawed china policy that is boomeranging now

john mearsheimer in 'foreign affairs'. #deepstate failed to contain china (but they are pretty sure they can prevent the rise of india, and they will damn well try).

Is Evergrande China's Lehman Moment In The Making?

Quick notes: Homework burden | Dr CP Mathew...

• Way to go: China seeks to lift homework pressures on schoolchildren



• Two Chinese Supercomputers Break Exascale Barrier: China is first to exascale and with two separate machines based on two different (but fully Chinese native) architectures.



• Atmanirbhar China: Alibaba open-sources XuanTie RISC-V cores



• ‘Sputnik Moment’: "Much of the Chinese military’s R&D is led by state-owned companies in the commercial sector, which isn’t counted as official defense spending". . . . . . . China's military progress is 'stunning'



• Baryaktar TB2: Ukraine destroys pro-Russian artillery in its first use of Turkish drones



• Fluvoxamine: Cheap, generic anti-depressant sold under the brand name Luvox, significantly reduces Wuhan Flu. "Fluvoxamine may reduce the production of inflammatory molecules called cytokines, that can be triggered by SARS-CoV-2 infection".



• Ghar Wapsi Oncologist: Dr. CP Mathew, renowned cancer specialist, passed away at 93... The turning point in his life came in 1983 when he learnt that a terminally ill cancer patient who had been sent home to die not only survived but thrived with Siddha medicine. The oncologist immediately went all the way to the patient's home, and when he found the man was hale and hearty, Mathew Sir was determined to meet the wandering 'vaidyan' who had cured him.
  
  A month or so later, a phone call around midnight informed him that the 'vaidyan' had been located. Mathew Sir drove at 2am to meet the 'vaidyan'. The oncologist humbly volunteered to be his disciple and learn medicine at his feet. Quickly taking leave from the medical college and wearing a simple sanyasin's robe, Mathew Sir accompanied his newfound guru on his travels, often on foot.
  
  From 1983 to 1992, Mathew Sir and his team of junior doctors from various streams, including modern medicine, documented more than 3,900 cases of terminally ill cancer patients who survived on integrative medicine, after failed treatments at renowned cancer centres... He received Upanayana from Suryakaladi Mana and spent the rest of his life as a Sanatana Dharma Acharya.



• The Folly of Our Universal Vaccination: The danger is that immunity to one strain alone may lead to permanently impaired immune response to the three other serotypes, causing worse and longer illness. In chasing an empty fantasy of herd immunity, authorities are denying human populations everywhere the opportunity to develop the layered resistance against successive SARS-2 strains.



• Unsafe at any speed’: Made-in-India Maruti Suzuki Baleno scores zero in crash test, Toyota Yaris gets one star



• Make Paris ‘100% Cyclable’: Paris will gain 180 kilometers of new permanent segregated bike lanes and the number of bike parking spots will more than triple.



• Sand Baked Potato: Amazing Indian street food, Mainpuri, UP

Mounting Evidence Of COVID Cover-Up

Mitlets: Vehicles for Mitochondrial Transfusion (Anti-Aging)

 Mitochondria are the energy-producing powerplants of the cells in our body, but they do wear out over the course of our lifespan. An average cell in a 70-year-old person may only generate one third the power output of an average cell in a newborn child.

A recent discovery in 2014 of small mitochondria-containing membrane bodies in the bloodstream - now dubbed mitlets - may potentially hold the possibility of transporting and transfusing fresh mitochondria into our aging cells:

https://www.longevity.technology/exclusive-mitlets-hold-potential-for-mitochondria-transfusion/

Indian Economic Growth Back on Track?

 Is the "growth story" happening again?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-26/festive-season-fuels-india-s-return-to-world-beating-growth

And if so - could that mean rate hikes are imminent?

The $8 Trillion Debt Time Bomb Which China Hid

Quick notes: GM rice | Lying under oath...

• Reputation damage: 500 tonnes of genetically modified rice found in a consignment exported to the EU... India is yet to approve commercial cultivation of GM crops but allowed confined field trials resulting in “contamination and leaks” that made their way to the food chain.. "Only feeds the MNCs".



• 2-DG for Covid: Texas company to commence Phase 1a clinical trial. . . . any credit to DRDO?



• Muslims not minorities: “There are 20-22 crore Muslims in the country. How can 22 crore people be a minority?”.
  
  'Facebook post led to violence against Hindus in Bangladesh': Key suspect confesses crime
  
  BBC: Violence in B'desh is Hindus' fault: "The BJP has stoked fear of immigration from Bangladesh, causing anger in Dhaka, and Hindu hardliners in India have called for immigrants to be deported to Bangladesh".
  
  A German Muslim convert has been jailed for 10 years for letting a five-year-old Yazidi "slave" girl die of thirst in the sun.



• Lying under oath: Executives at Amazon, including founder Jeff Bezos, may have misled or lied to Congress about the firm's business practices.. A trade group representing thousands of India's brick-and-mortar retailers called for action against Amazon.



• Engineering courses in Hindi and Marathi: Pimpri Chinchwad College Of Engineering, Pune gets approval from AICTE to start BTech course in Marathi.



• Like your American counterparts: start paying for your own education and all expenses

I “like” how the youngsters of India have started taking their own decisions and keeping their parents out of it like their American counterparts!

Just do one thing: start paying for your own education and wedding and all expenses from 18 years of age on first!

Then talk!

— Gautam Govitrikar DMD (@Gautaamm) October 17, 2021




• BikAss ain't BikAss: Vikas that destroys a fragile ecosystem, leads to deforestation, causes landslides, loss of lives and homes, is not vikas. Mindless construction in the Western Ghats and the Himalayas in the name of development is destroying all that is good and wonderful



• Facts that should be in Greta's toolkit:

₹400 crore worth of hay burnt in Punjab yearly.
2 crore ton!
77,000 ton of Nitrogen emitted.
56 lakh ton animal edible nutreants lost.
10 LT crude protein, 3 lakh ton of digestible crude protein (DCP), 80 lakh ton of total digestible nutrient (TDN) lost.

(Yes HR & UP burn too) pic.twitter.com/5y1RyZHolq

— Kiran Kumar S (@KiranKS) October 17, 2021




• Plastisphere: The planet's seafloor is littered with an estimated 14 million tonnes of microplastics



• Enes Kanter: NBA player wears ‘Free Tibet’ shoes to game, China cuts livestream. . . . caught between free speech and lucrative Chinese market.

The 'Sinicisation' of Mosques in China

xijinping's revenge for the opium wars

wokeness is coming for you. be afraid, be very afraid.

the wages of wokeness. now in SF, soon coming to your neighborhood, north america pack.

 

yet more dicey statistical sleight-of-hand to blame modi

i wrote some time ago about how the "gold standard" randomized controlled trial or RCT is basically bullshit. https://www.rediff.com/business/column/abhishek-banerjee-and-the-mystique-of-the-nobel-prize/20191101.htm

now here's more abuse of statistics to support regime-change. as they say, "lies, damned lies, and statistics". can't include the whole article for copyright reasons, but it says there is no correlation between hunger and under-nutrition and stunting. i bet the 'research' was funded by china. 

 

worthwhile thread on what's going on in china

the author may not have all the answers, but makes an entertaining case. she may even be right.

https://twitter.com/RealNatashaChe/status/1451624407672123394?s=20

 

what about the 10% of kids who CAUGHT covid in #pfizer clinical trials?

did these 5-11 year olds, um.... die?

this is an ethical problem in RCTs. you expose both the vaccinated and the non-vaccinated to the virus. then what happens to the poor devils who were vaccinated, and were unlucky enough to get infected?

sputnik moment, 2021

quel surprise! booster shots are approved! who'd have thunk! #bigpharma rulz!

Twitter Shuts Down ISKCON Accounts Over Tweets on Bangladesh Violence

New West Asian QUAD to Tackle China

Why China Cannot Abandon Communism

And yet China was existing since long before the time of Mao...

'Look West' Policy: Indo-Abrahamic Accords?

 C Raja Mohan writes about the possibility of what he calls the "Indo-Abrahamic Accords" which would build on the Abraham Accords signed between Israel, UAE and Bahrain under the auspices of the Trump administration:

https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/india-middle-east-relations-israel-uae-abraham-accords-7435298/

This idea seems to be the brainchild of others, but India should certainly give it a look if it means the possibility of new trade corridors.

Shall we call this a 'Look West' policy?

Quick notes: Trade-deficit | Self-preferencing...

• Hindi-Chini-Bhai-Bhai: India-China trade to touch record $100 billion this year. India's trade deficit reached $46.5 billion and is expected to climb further by the year-end.
  
  Trade deficit widens to highest level In 14 years
  
  China Stuns U.S. Intelligence with Hypersonic Missile Test: China’s orbital test suggested it would be able to send its missiles over the South Pole if it desired, avoiding U.S. tracking systems concentrated on the North Pole. The U.S. Army is scheduled to begin deploying a long-range hypersonic missile in late 2023. The Army weapon has a range of less than 2,000 miles, making it much less ambitious than the one tested by China.



• $7 billion - 22ULP/28nm: TSMC to build semiconductor fab in Japan co-funded by Japanese govt and Sony.. TSMC is also constructing an R&D center in Japan and cooperates with the University of Tokyo.
  
  “This is just the first step. There would be no revival for our semiconductor industry if we stopped here.” . . . . . . Screw-drivers won't cut it, dear India



• Barring Tech Companies From ‘Self-Preferencing’: Legislation to bar internet companies from favoring their own products on their platforms is gaining support. Threat to the business models of tech giants like Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc.
  
  Amazon puts its own “brands” first above better-rated products.
  
  Copying, rigging and killing Indian brands: “Amazon is causing a great disadvantage to the small manufacturers. They are eating the cake that is not meant for them,”



• Mohan Bhagwat: “There is no control over what is shown on OTT platforms. Even children are getting addicted. The use of narcotics is rising. Money from such businesses is used for anti-national activities”.



• Ecological disaster: When Communists join hands with the Church


Refused to implement the Gadgil Report. The stone-quary mafia, the sand mafia, the timber mafia, the encroachment mafia - all patronized by the two major political alliances.#Kerala pic.twitter.com/vz2XalfU73

— R.S. Bains (@HerrBains) October 18, 2021




Yes i cannot diasgree. I had however shifted to Rural Develolment in July 2011. https://t.co/hsZsgr78jK

— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) October 17, 2021




• Violence surges in Pakistan's tribal belt: "We are at war with Pakistani security forces. We are hoping to take control of Pakistan's border tribal region and make them independent".
  
  Pakistan suspends flights to Kabul over 'inappropriate' Taliban behavior.
  
  Pakistanis arrested after 13-Year-Old boy raped in public park in Italy



• Sajeesh Pulavar: Using Robotics to revive Tholpavakoothu, a form of shadow puppetry

#china is a continent-sized #nazi #germany: excepts from my 1997 piece

 https://www.rediff.com/news/aug/04rajeev.htm

i said this 25 years ago. today, we have to be afraid, very afraid. and the US is totally losing it as biden kowtows to china: the humiliating afghan withdrawal is signaling that the US will abandon taiwan as well, the atavistic Atlanticism and retreat from the indo-pacific implied by the downgrading of the Quad and the focus on AUKUS, and the climbdown over the huawei CFO hostage-taking.  

re #vikramsampath: the use and abuse of history, my 25 year old column

as vikram sampath mounts a spirited defense of the unbiased study of history, and gets pilloried and attacked for it, you might find this column of mine from 25 years ago (in two parts) worth reading. 

history is a weapon, as i said in 1997. 

https://www.rediff.com/news/aug/04rajeev.htm and

https://www.rediff.com/news/aug/04rajee1.htm

the persistence of time, salvador dali. 

so obama screwed up after all? boy, that's blasphemy!

the conventional wisdom is that obama, if not quite a god, was god-like. 

i guess not. 

here are lefties saying he seriously messed up. so trump wasn't the problem, obama was? i have been saying for a long time that obama was the worst POTUS in living memory, yes, even worse than clinton, reagan and the bushes. 

https://bostonreview.net/forum/finding-future-radical-rural-america/matt-stoller-don%e2%80%99t-blame-capitalism

looks like a good law from singapore: control lobbyists for foreign powers

india needs something like this pronto not only for FT, the economist, NYT, etc, but also for facebook, twitter and youtube. 

my views on AUKUS (written oct 4, chintan took a little time to publish it)

contrary to the spin, it shows a retreat from the indo-pacific, and a return to atavisitic atlanticism. 

shows biden and co are badly out of touch with the existential threat from china. this won't end well.

and say, what about the nuclear proliferation concerns? the US proliferating almost-weapons-grade nuclear materials and know-how to NPT fundamentalist australia is just fine? hypocrisy, esp as aus made such a song and dance about uranium supply to india. 

https://rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com/p/ep-44-aukus-is-a-bad-pact-poor-optics?r=66qfh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source= 

NYT hack exhibits present-day symptoms of 'white woman's burden'

so goddamn profound, that bit about noun vs adjective! of course, it reveals more about her and the nyt mindset than anything about india. this is like a UCB prof (goldberg?) said when barbara crossette (a clueless nyt hack in india some years ago) wrote a book about india: "if you know nothing about india, you will learn nothing from this book. if you know anything about india, you'll realize this is complete nonsense". let us also recall that a recent nyt ad for a hack in india said that qualifications for the job included hating modi and wishing to put down india. 

this is what i said about these pathetic creatures a few years ago: https://swarajyamag.com/ideas/when-it-comes-to-india-most-expatriate-journalists-display-an-inherent-racism it's just gotten worse over time. their agenda is regime change and the return on the nehru dynasty to power. 

meanwhile, back at the ranch. this is also from the NYT.

Quick notes: Amazon campaign | Solar ambitions...

• Reuters exposes Amazon's dirty tricks in India: A trove of internal Amazon documents reveals how the e-commerce giant ran a systematic campaign of creating knockoff goods and manipulating search results to boost its own product lines in India - practices it has denied engaging in.
  
  Amazon executives including Bezos have maintained it's against company policy to use data from third-party merchants to build future products. Bezos told a congressional committee in July 2020 that Amazon has a policy that safeguards seller data from employee access.


Indian awe of American brands! Nothing to do with high-tech transfer. Just low IQ consumerism with middlemen like Ambani adding more billions. Is this the path to Vishwa-guru or Vishwa-coolie? https://t.co/eS7P8nQO4C

— Rajiv Malhotra (@RajivMessage) October 7, 2021




• Did the OECD screw India? India may have to withdraw equalisation levy if global minimum tax deal comes through..
  
  "The devil is in the details, including a complex web of exemptions".... will India fall into this trap?



• Solar ambitions: Ambani accelerates push into green energy.



• Overnight fasting: Time-restricted feeding extends healthy lifespan by promoting autophagy (cellular recycling), specifically at night



• Meat-alternatives: Plant-based seafood is taking the spotlight.. India has a lot to lose as it is the top prawn exporter to the US.



• Vegan Meat DiY: Seitan, the wheat meat




• Navratri Special: India imported 87,000 tonnes of ‘sendha namak’ from Pakistan... Neither healthy nor Himalayan.



• China's EV lead: Volvo parent Geely reveals $9,000 EV, bullish on battery swapping. . . . . . Japanese inertia gives China an opening.



• Japan needs drone technology to counter China: Chinese drone company DJI controls around 70% of the commercial drone market. And Beijing promotes its Military-Civil Fusion strategy



• Practice what you preach:

Milords have asked the Government to ensure 100% vaccination by the end of the year… The Government, in turn, should ask them to clear this 4 Cr pendency by 31 December…
Please RT if you agree! pic.twitter.com/QKaz1tHecX

— Harish Puri 🇮🇳 (@harishbpuri) September 15, 2021




• Transitory support:

Lot of BJP voters (young ones or the ones who dont follow politics closely) think that BJP has some super high core voter base. Modi has expanded core vote from 20% to 25-28%. But thats it. Rest 10% of the votes are non core, can and will leave in some LS elections.

— Realist_Indian (@India_Progress) October 8, 2021




• Eroding middle class: America's top 1% now hold more wealth than all of the middle class



• Gen Z's battle with social media addiction:

china already defeated the US in AI, says ex pentagon software chief. could be a problem for us too

(firewall) https://www.ft.com/content/f939db9a-40af-4bd1-b67d-10492535f8e0?emailId=616673669b11ff0004702156&segmentId=1315b184-f9a7-4265-3689-bcf707fc0d68 

Theranos scam too, for your listening pleasure

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly92aWRlby1hcGkud3NqLmNvbS9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcy93c2ovdGVjaC1uZXdzLWJyaWVmaW5n/episode/ZWM3MjQ3OGEtMjBmMi0xMWVjLTk4MzYtZWI1MjAyNTA4NzM2?ep=14

Podcast on the Enron scam from WSJ. When will virus scam come out?

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly92aWRlby1hcGkud3NqLmNvbS9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcy93c2ovYmFkLWJldHM/episode/MzkzMTAwZDQtMmI0My0xMWVjLWI5NjUtYTc4NjU5ODY2Zjdh?ep=14

ka-ching, mRNA vaccines

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/09/business/moderna-covid-vaccine.html

nuclear submarines, again

i bet the unnamed country was china. 

Deep State Undermined Trump Presidency: Glenn Greenwald

there are no corrupt american politicians, you hear me?

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From: 

Quick notes: Chip dreams | Anti-viral...

• India’s Chip Dreams Aren’t Crazy, They’re Just Misguided: While Taiwan is eager to build closer ties with New Delhi, facilitating India's chip fantasy is not high on its priority list given India's lack of expertise in the field. Today, India has a large talent pool of chip designers, but the roster of process engineers is much shorter and certainly not long enough to run a Taiwanese front-end chip factory.
  
  Keen to get their name in a press release alongside blue-ribbon names, generations of Indian leaders seem to have forgotten a far more suitable match: chip packaging and testing.



• Anti viral game changer: An oral medication with this type of effectiveness could bring the pandemic to a functional close, turning COVID-19 from a life-threatening experience to a passing respiratory illness that can can be treated at home more often than not.
  
  Indian companies looking to price the drug at ₹880-1,000 for a full course.
  
  Like the vast majority of medicines on the market, molnupiravir was developed using govt funds.



• Instagram harms teens: Celebrity Instagram posts detrimental to the self-image of young girls.. 13% of British teenage users and 6% of American teenage users studied traced suicidal thoughts to Instagram.
  
  Indians had a glimpse of life without WhatsApp.
  
  Fraud on advertisers: Facebook misled investors about shrinking user base, ex-employee alleges.



• New technologies can make underwater vessels “visible”: China has already developed submarine-spotting lasers. CSIRO is working with a Chinese marine science institute that has separately developed satellite technology that can find submarines at depths of up to 500 metres.



• End of the road for Panjshiris? “What the Taliban have now is unstinting support from the Chinese, fairly unstinting support from the Russians – and of course they have unstinting support from the Pakistanis. They also have in their possession all the war matériel that the Americans could not destroy, and that was substantial. So the Taliban are in possession of one of the world’s largest fleets of Black Hawk helicopters. The Taliban are not terribly technologically sophisticated but their handlers in [Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency] the ISI are. They also have Chinese drones and they’re getting assistance in operating them from the ISI.”
  
  “This Taliban is a lot better armed, they are much more capable, they are much more lethal, they have better international ties than the Taliban before 9/11, and in contrast the Panjshiris have less support. Essentially the resistance in Panjshir has failed and they’ve retreated to Tajikistan. And I don’t see a way in which they’ll be able to retake that territory.”



• The Gift: The legend of Shohei Ohtani.




• Child abuse in Church: French Catholic Church inquiry finds 216,000 paedophilia cases since 1950



• How to divide Hindus: The Samuel Reddy playbook.

Caste based reservations in Tirumala Darshan.Yet another mindless,vote bank centric decision by YCP Subba Reddy

TTD to provide Free Travel,Food and Free accommodation to daily 1,000 members.Eligibility: Backward " Castes"

Ideally,All Free should be on financial basis,not caste

— Telugu360 (@Telugu360) October 4, 2021





• Hasdeo Arand forest: Once designated as off-limits to mining, the Hasdeo Arand forest’s status has been steadily undermined by complex legal and administrative manoeuvers by successive governments handing out major contracts.

🚨NEW

While we have been distracted by all the ongoing controversies in India, on Saturday, @moefcc quietly began public consultations about some problematic changes it has proposed to one of our key environmental laws.

Worryingly, it has given only 15 days to send feedback. pic.twitter.com/injGPwILci

— Akshay Deshmane (@DeshmaneAkshay) October 4, 2021

nice spin: this from wapo

it's actually biden and his wokes everyone's afraid of, not trump. trump didn't go to war, and he didn't default.

no, no, no, they're questioning trump, who's not even in the picture. #facepalm 

nobody's worried about joe "senile dementia" biden and minions.

beijing joe in action: re-coupling with china?

biden probably only has a vague idea what's going on. deepstate, on the other hand, knows what it's doing.

perfuming the pig: the elites' real goal IS indeed population control, esp of blacks and browns

and incidentally to make some money on the way. i'm not specifically pointing the finger at bill gates, but with the climate obsession these elites have, it stands to reason they want depopulation.

i had identified this is as a possible reason why covid was unleashed on the world in this substack from april 2021:

https://rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com/p/ep-29-how-to-use-wuhanvirus-for-world

virtuoso performance by alleged 'whistleblower' haugen is #deepstate PR

seems... too convenient. chances are that ms haugen is a deepstate plant. 

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/democrats-and-media-do-not-want-to

digital colonization: india is facebook's biggest market, user-wise

so why haven't indian companies managed to produce competing products? yes, we know, the services mindset and lack of R&D investment by companies.

cultural continuity in japan?

unlike in india, where we extol the 'father of the nation' and 'first prime minister'. 

we don't even realize how absurd these terms are! we are so brainwashed by whites and english.

anantha nageswaran column in Mint today: '​Beware the trap of premature celebrations'

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From: Venkatraman Anantha Nageswaran 
Date: Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 11:06 AM
Subject: My column in Mint today: 'Beware the trap of premature celebrations'
To: 

https://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/india-should-never-fall-into-the-trap-of-premature-celebration-11633364513671.html

Beware the trap of premature celebrations

4 min read . Updated: 05 Oct 2021, 01:29 AM IST

V. Anantha Nageswaran

We must focus on doing things right before getting too exuberant over the country's economic ascent

In the last 18 months, I have done nearly 100 hours of online teaching. The experience makes me worry about India. Attendance is poor. Students do not turn their cameras on. We don't know if they are present. As an instructor, I cannot look at students' faces and figure out if they are following me. As a result, there is perhaps far less learning that happens in these virtual classes than in physical classrooms.

"Getting an education through a screen, text files, videos, and audio files simply doesn't compare to face-to-face instruction. People don't value this kind of education, so they don't really commit to it," wrote Matthew Lynch in June 2019 (bit.ly/3uECBs4). This is true of online learning in general.

Indian states have kept their schools shut for nearly two academic years. Some are re-opening now. The extent of damage caused to student knowledge acquisition, be it their habits of and motivation for learning or their ability and willingness to absorb new skills, is difficult to estimate. It is unlikely to be trivial. We must factor this in our medium-term growth prospects.

Some paranoia should be our default state of mind, given the mammoth task of raising per capita incomes. Instead, a self-congratulatory tone is creeping in.

There is talk of the BSE Sensex at 200,000. In 2019, a year that India's gross domestic product (GDP) growth cratered, there was talk of achieving a $10 trillion nominal GDP by 2030. Such talk has begun to resurface, though a recovery has barely begun. If we are to avoid another boom-bust cycle, such triumphalism is best eschewed.

We need to get a few things right.

... deleted for copyright reasons. the above is fair use. 

itihasa series on sansad TV: sounds like a must-watch

itihasa = thus it happened. in a mixture of hindi and english.

recommendation by Dr. V Anantha Nageswaran.

Sansad TV has announced a new television series to be anchored by Dr. Bibek Debroy: 'Itihasa'.

This is the page to bookmark:

https://www.youtube.com/c/rajyasabhatv/search?query=itihasa

This is the inaugural episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUXldd3eYFA

Dr. Debroy promises us not monologue but 'yatra's through India.

The 2nd episode is a conversation with author-(ex.bureaucrat) Pavan Varma and it is on Adi Sankara.

here is the teaser:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2p9QaPKc-c

medicine+economics nobel should have gone to pfizer and biontech

for their wonderful work in building a medical monopoly out of thin air. #sarcasm.

NYT does its usual sly massaging of data for political purposes

https://outsidevoices.substack.com/p/the-nyts-partisan-tale-about-covid

Fwd: Time for investors to focus on India | Financial Times

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From: Rajeev Mantri <rajeev.mantri@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 8:40 PM
Subject: Time for investors to focus on India | Financial Times
To:

https://www.ft.com/content/45e771b9-2ab1-4e40-b799-1a3e6b19adcc?shareType=nongift

Time for investors to focus on India

Country offers opportunities, especially with China falling out of favour

3 hours ago

© : Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg

.... deleted for copyright reasons. it says esp in the wake of china's troubles, india is the right place to be and has low P/E. 

but i don't think brits are welcome. they can go eat AUKUS.

air india to become a tata airline. again!

air india to revert to being a tata airline. i think this is good, and poetic justice. reversal of nationalization. hope tata + partner singapore airlines (they are partnering in vistara now) will do a good job. not sure what will happen to another tata venture, air asia india. merge air india express and air asia india as a low cost carrier? thus keeping air india/vistara as full service carrier? https://twitter.com/amitsurg/status/1443836751320010753?s=20

hat tip to @narenmenon1