Miscellaneous posts & comments on Facebook in October 2018
When author of post or comment is not mentioned, it should be assumed that it is me (Ravi S. Iyer).
In FB post, https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2321553988061165, dated 25th Oct. 2018, I wrote (slightly edited):
Woh hai zara khafa khafa
Hindi film oldie goldie (1960s), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmqJaXF-AFI, Sung (by) Lata and Rafi, Lyrics - Majrooh Sultanpuri (note the video quality is not that great).
Nice remake of that in 2010s (perhaps 2016), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFPS2jvD29E, around 4 mins.
Comparison of the remake with the original captures so well how life and cultural mores in urban India (especially a city like Mumbai) have changed over the nearly half a century gap btw the original song and the remake.
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A 2017 orchestra rendition of it which is quite good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVstSPErPj4
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In FB post, https://www.facebook.com/BarbaraJoyPlattnerMullen/posts/10215775120723099, dated 9th Oct. 2018, the following video was shared: https://www.facebook.com/ABCForeignCorrespondent/videos/341160256629718/ with the text, "The world’s first digital dictatorship: China's Social Credit System is already impacting millions".
Ravi S. Iyer wrote: Seems like Orwellian 1984 Big Brother stuff! While I can see that such information may help the state weed out criminals quickly and protect law-abiding citizens, the ****big fear**** is how the system could easily be abused by authoritarian rulers to intimidate anybody who dissents with them.
The 20th century history of brutal suppression of dissent in Stalin ruled communist Soviet Union and Mao ruled communist China tells us that such big fears are not imagined fears but are grounded in the history of the past century.
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Ravi S. Iyer's FB post, https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2309118475971383, dated 11th Oct. 2018 had the following text:
Quite true on FB. Monkey business! You scratch my back (like my post) and I will scratch yours (like your post) :-). But then I think some amount of such monkey business is the reality of life, on the virtual world and in the real world. Might as well accept it and play the game of life, to some extent at least :-).
The Hindi text in post below would translate to:
Hey listen ...
You are my best friend, aren't you?
Quickly praise me.
[And it shared the following FB post: https://www.facebook.com/TheFunnyIndianPage/photos/a.1730394903915591/2305796403042102/ ]
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In FB post, https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2321553988061165, dated 25th Oct. 2018, I wrote (slightly edited):
Woh hai zara khafa khafa
Hindi film oldie goldie (1960s), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmqJaXF-AFI, Sung (by) Lata and Rafi, Lyrics - Majrooh Sultanpuri (note the video quality is not that great).
Nice remake of that in 2010s (perhaps 2016), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFPS2jvD29E, around 4 mins.
Comparison of the remake with the original captures so well how life and cultural mores in urban India (especially a city like Mumbai) have changed over the nearly half a century gap btw the original song and the remake.
...
A 2017 orchestra rendition of it which is quite good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVstSPErPj4
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In FB post, https://www.facebook.com/BarbaraJoyPlattnerMullen/posts/10215775120723099, dated 9th Oct. 2018, the following video was shared: https://www.facebook.com/ABCForeignCorrespondent/videos/341160256629718/ with the text, "The world’s first digital dictatorship: China's Social Credit System is already impacting millions".
Ravi S. Iyer wrote: Seems like Orwellian 1984 Big Brother stuff! While I can see that such information may help the state weed out criminals quickly and protect law-abiding citizens, the ****big fear**** is how the system could easily be abused by authoritarian rulers to intimidate anybody who dissents with them.
The 20th century history of brutal suppression of dissent in Stalin ruled communist Soviet Union and Mao ruled communist China tells us that such big fears are not imagined fears but are grounded in the history of the past century.
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Ravi S. Iyer's FB post, https://www.facebook.com/ravi.s.iyer.7/posts/2309118475971383, dated 11th Oct. 2018 had the following text:
Quite true on FB. Monkey business! You scratch my back (like my post) and I will scratch yours (like your post) :-). But then I think some amount of such monkey business is the reality of life, on the virtual world and in the real world. Might as well accept it and play the game of life, to some extent at least :-).
The Hindi text in post below would translate to:
Hey listen ...
You are my best friend, aren't you?
Quickly praise me.
[And it shared the following FB post: https://www.facebook.com/TheFunnyIndianPage/photos/a.1730394903915591/2305796403042102/ ]
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