Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.
cigarettes account for only 10% of tobacco consumed in India, and India is the 4th largest market in the world for illegal or counterfeit cigarettes. ITC employs 90% of its capital and employees in the non- cigarette businesses like foods, personal care, hotels, agribusiness etc. cigarettes at least are a matter of personal choice and there is nothing to show that cigarettes are no more harmful and possibly much less harmful than the polluted air we breathe, the pesticide mixed vegetables we eat, the junk food we consume and our 5g wifi and our sedentary lifestyle, none of which we do by choice.
There are a less no.of e-cigarette users in India and far more traditional cigarette users. So if we look into the matter carefully we will get to know that govt. Is trying to eliminate the less no. Of individuals who are open to the cigarette trend. Everything starts from the first step and this first step is very much admirable
Its the same old colonial mindset, the rule by diktat!
The ban should have come after proper consultation with stakeholders, the major one being the vapers themselves, and the scientific evidence.
The British rule was a “ Maa Baap sarkar “ the British rulers felt they a right to intervene in the lives of people as Indians were looked on as the ruled.
A medical enquiry and a recommendations from medical bodies for a ban is absent here too in this arbitrary ban.
cigarettes account for only 10% of tobacco consumed in India, and India is the 4th largest market in the world for illegal or counterfeit cigarettes. ITC employs 90% of its capital and employees in the non- cigarette businesses like foods, personal care, hotels, agribusiness etc. cigarettes at least are a matter of personal choice and there is nothing to show that cigarettes are no more harmful and possibly much less harmful than the polluted air we breathe, the pesticide mixed vegetables we eat, the junk food we consume and our 5g wifi and our sedentary lifestyle, none of which we do by choice.
There are a less no.of e-cigarette users in India and far more traditional cigarette users. So if we look into the matter carefully we will get to know that govt. Is trying to eliminate the less no. Of individuals who are open to the cigarette trend. Everything starts from the first step and this first step is very much admirable
Do you have any permanent solution for this ?
Its the same old colonial mindset, the rule by diktat!
The ban should have come after proper consultation with stakeholders, the major one being the vapers themselves, and the scientific evidence.
The British rule was a “ Maa Baap sarkar “ the British rulers felt they a right to intervene in the lives of people as Indians were looked on as the ruled.
A medical enquiry and a recommendations from medical bodies for a ban is absent here too in this arbitrary ban.