While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.
Taylor ‘Fema’ Hiester, commander of USAF F-16 Viper Demo Team, hit out at air show organisers for continuing with the show after Wing Commander Namansh Syal lost his life in the incident.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
I don’t think the reading is accurate here. On one side, you have a first world nation which has enjoyed unparalleled cultural and socio-economic privileges for over the last 20 years and then, you have a country like India where the average movie-goer is just glad to be able to afford the luxury of watching a movie in an ac theatre without having to deal with death threats from the boss.
Raya Sarkar’s list was a good effort but a lot of people were largely unverified and because of that nobody took it seriously. The problem in India is people operate on the basis of furthering personal agenda or vendetta which is what happens everywhere. But India is slightly special We are unable to stand for what is right for our sense is clouded by what we can get out from the person or situation. I think largely Raya is not that different, sadly. She failed to take accountability and that is why it is so hard for SJWs to be taken seriously. A real dialogue is becoming impossible.
So people should punish someone without any proof?
Victim blaming for everything else is wrong – but not for unexplained delays in complaining.
Anyone can gather 20 people who will blame any celebs of sexual assault in the past with verbal accusations without explaining why they did not protest at the earliest possible moment.
No one was punished without proof. They were not just random accusations, they were all verified by independent sources. What do you think NYTimes, Post, NewYorker… are your typical republic, ndtv or toi? Big claims require big proofs. Their investigative journalists go to painstaking lengths to thoroughly verify any such claims.
There were hardly any unexplained delays, most of the delays (in the genuine cases) were well explained (like news suppression, trade-offs for career prospects, fear of being targeted by the perpetrator, embarrassment from social stigma etc.)
Of course, anyone can gather 20 people and accuse. In fact, one single person can make up fake twenty people and accuse. Such news is typically published in tabloids (like postcard, lankesh-patrike), republic, local news channels etc.
But no one questions the authenticity of any explosive reportage from the likes of NYTimes, TheHindu, BBC etc. Because, the evidence they gather for such news are backed by strong evidence, which are strong enough to stand well in courts.
That’s asking too much from Indians and also a bit unfair. In US, the fight against misogyny began in 1950s. After 70-80 years of numerous civil rights and feminist movements, the entire country was socially conscious about women rights. Decades of popular Hollywood movies/music/series/novels had trained most people to easily see through victim-blaming and other straw-men attacks. Under already ripe conditions, the #MeToo movement served as a trigger, and no one was spared. The success of Roman Polanski and other such people in 70s through 2000s show that a #MeToo movement could not have had the same impact if it was before 2010s (in fact, a metoo-like movement in the 90s lost its juice in just 2-3 years).
Coming to India, where to begin? A large majority of people are unenlightened and at the risk of being blunt, somewhat stupid. Other than the book reading “elitists” (god forbid, don’t include those who read the likes of chetan bhagat), no one else gets trained to think critically. There are no mainstream, entertaining movies/shows which compel one to think critically. The entertainement-industry (which includes the “news” channels) are making sure that people keep worshipping the idols and remain stupid. Until masses are somehow trained to subconsciously think critically, the country will remain a collection of largely brainless brutes.
Surprising.that kevin spacey’$ latest made such less money.
I don’t think the reading is accurate here. On one side, you have a first world nation which has enjoyed unparalleled cultural and socio-economic privileges for over the last 20 years and then, you have a country like India where the average movie-goer is just glad to be able to afford the luxury of watching a movie in an ac theatre without having to deal with death threats from the boss.
But for that we shall have to imbibe Gandhiji’s non-cooperation theme.
Raya Sarkar’s list was a good effort but a lot of people were largely unverified and because of that nobody took it seriously. The problem in India is people operate on the basis of furthering personal agenda or vendetta which is what happens everywhere. But India is slightly special We are unable to stand for what is right for our sense is clouded by what we can get out from the person or situation. I think largely Raya is not that different, sadly. She failed to take accountability and that is why it is so hard for SJWs to be taken seriously. A real dialogue is becoming impossible.
So people should punish someone without any proof?
Victim blaming for everything else is wrong – but not for unexplained delays in complaining.
Anyone can gather 20 people who will blame any celebs of sexual assault in the past with verbal accusations without explaining why they did not protest at the earliest possible moment.
No one was punished without proof. They were not just random accusations, they were all verified by independent sources. What do you think NYTimes, Post, NewYorker… are your typical republic, ndtv or toi? Big claims require big proofs. Their investigative journalists go to painstaking lengths to thoroughly verify any such claims.
There were hardly any unexplained delays, most of the delays (in the genuine cases) were well explained (like news suppression, trade-offs for career prospects, fear of being targeted by the perpetrator, embarrassment from social stigma etc.)
Of course, anyone can gather 20 people and accuse. In fact, one single person can make up fake twenty people and accuse. Such news is typically published in tabloids (like postcard, lankesh-patrike), republic, local news channels etc.
But no one questions the authenticity of any explosive reportage from the likes of NYTimes, TheHindu, BBC etc. Because, the evidence they gather for such news are backed by strong evidence, which are strong enough to stand well in courts.
That’s asking too much from Indians and also a bit unfair. In US, the fight against misogyny began in 1950s. After 70-80 years of numerous civil rights and feminist movements, the entire country was socially conscious about women rights. Decades of popular Hollywood movies/music/series/novels had trained most people to easily see through victim-blaming and other straw-men attacks. Under already ripe conditions, the #MeToo movement served as a trigger, and no one was spared. The success of Roman Polanski and other such people in 70s through 2000s show that a #MeToo movement could not have had the same impact if it was before 2010s (in fact, a metoo-like movement in the 90s lost its juice in just 2-3 years).
Coming to India, where to begin? A large majority of people are unenlightened and at the risk of being blunt, somewhat stupid. Other than the book reading “elitists” (god forbid, don’t include those who read the likes of chetan bhagat), no one else gets trained to think critically. There are no mainstream, entertaining movies/shows which compel one to think critically. The entertainement-industry (which includes the “news” channels) are making sure that people keep worshipping the idols and remain stupid. Until masses are somehow trained to subconsciously think critically, the country will remain a collection of largely brainless brutes.
Beautifully put.