Miscellaneous Facebook posts & comments in or around November and December 2021
When author of post or comment is not mentioned, it should be assumed that it is me (Ravi S. Iyer).
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Wow! I had not known of that. I am recalling the Niagara Falls that I saw in mid 1980s and comparing it with what the pic shows. What an awesome contrast! The power of nature is truly awesome.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE3ZYM3mrEk . I saw slightly over 1 min. of the video as I think rest of the 2 min. 30 secs. repeats the key video clip.
[The video is about a UP sub-inspector candidate cheating using a microphone in a wig.]
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I am pleasantly surprised to know about India being placed 3rd in number of unicorns worldwide, as of April 2021 as per https://www.statista.com/statistics/1096928/number-of-global-unicorns-by-country/ .
"A unicorn company is a privately owned startup that has a current valuation of one billion U.S. dollars or over. Once a company has gone public (IPO) or has been acquired it is no longer termed as a unicorn."
Top-ten list of countries with no. of unicorns as of April 2021
USA: 288
China: 133
India: 32
UK: 27
Germany: 15
South Korea: 11
Israel: 11
Brazil: 10
France: 8
Switzerland: 5
I think this is good news for India. IMHO, flourishing private enterprises are crucial for India's economic well being, in combination with social welfare schemes by government that uplift the poor, which are funded in significant part by direct & indirect taxes coming from flourishing private enterprises and their products & services.
Flourishing startups are a critical part of private enterprises, IMHO. Some of the top company giants of today worldwide like Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon were startups a few decades ago!
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Interesting South India history pic
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Interesting glimpse of the past about beggars & kings !
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As a former Indian software industry techie (1984 to 2002), I find it just awesome to see how software has become a significant part of Indian industry today. "India will export software worth more than oil exported by Saudi Arabia in 2021"! Unbelievable man! Unbelievable! Note that most of my software industry career in India was in SEEPZ, Mumbai, where the big software export story of India started in the 1980s. So I am just blown away by the above quoted statement/claim.
10% of India's GDP by 2025! Wow!
Shared post is by MyGovIndia, a Govt. of India organization.
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Chernobyl disaster is unforgettable for me! After that, nuclear power was never a "100 %" safe technology for me, no matter which top scientist/technologist of India, or other parts of the world, says so. The images below of the nerve center of that nuclear power plant capture one aspect of that tragedy very well.
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I will never forget 'Enter the Dragon' movie of Bruce Lee - it was just awesome. I think I saw it in the 1970s or perhaps the early 1980s in Mumbai - it was released in 1973 (in USA). I think I should watch it again on youtube sometime.
I don't recall which movie I saw of Chuck Norris but, in that film, he was a very impressive martial arts guy too. Note that Chuck Norris is still alive as per his wiki page.
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It is after I did a lot of reading/viewing, in the past few years, on history of past centuries that I came to have a much better understanding of the great and very obvious class divides that were a reality of societies in most parts of the world including India for sure, if not the whole world, even one century ago.
Of course, there are class divides today too in most societies in the world but I think they are not so obvious and they are quite surely not as great as they were a century ago. Perhaps democracy and communism which are the dominant political systems in the world now, have to be credited for these improvements in societies.
The shared pic which seems to show the class divide in Britain around 85 years ago, is worth a thousand words.
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Very interesting interview. Heard around half an hour of it today and will be hearing the rest of it in the near future.
Ex-CJI Ranjan Gogoi Speaks To Rahul Kanwal On Ayodhya, RS Nomination, NRC & More | Exclusive, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QbryBXQyVY , 42 min. 46 secs., published on 10th Dec. 2021.
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1971 hit Hindi film song: Duniya mein rehna hai to kaam kar pyare - English: If you want to live in the world, you have to work, (my) dear
Duniya Me Rehana He - Kishore Kumar @ Haathi Mere Saathi - Rajesh Khanna, Tanuja, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7jnz5mbmDg , 5 min. 50 secs. The song proper starts around 47 seconds into the video.
This is a popular Hindi film song of the early 1970s from 1971 film 'Haathi Mere Saathi' (Elephants are my companions). The singer is Kishore Kumar and on-screen stars are Rajesh Khanna and Tanuja. The music directors are Laxmikant-Pyarelal and lyrics are by Anand Bakshi.
I recall having seen the film as a kid living in Dadar, Mumbai (I was around 9 years old when the film released) and having enjoyed it.
The song's main lines reflect tough realities of working class masses of India then (half a century ago), and I think they would apply to India's working class masses today too!
Hindi: Duniya mein rehna hai to kaam kar pyare
English: If you want to live in the world, you have to work, (my) dear
Hindi: Haath jod sabko salaam kar pyaare
English: Join your palms together (as a salutation) and salute everybody, (my) dear
Hindi: Varna yeh duniya jeene nahi deegi
English: Otherwise this world will not let (you) live
Hindi: Khane nahi deegi peene nahi deegi
English: will not let (you) eat, will not let (you) drink
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The film's wiki page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haathi_Mere_Saathi_(1971_film), informs us that it was the biggest (Indian) box office hit of 1971. It was produced and directed by Tamil folks (Sandow M. M. A. Chinnappa Thevar and M. A. Thirumugam respectively) and was based on Sandow M. M. A. Chinnappa Thevar's 1967 Tamil movie Deiva Cheyal.
Hmm. I had no idea about the Tamil film background and Tamil director & producer background for this film till I read the wiki page today.
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A nice live rendition of the song in presence of one of the music directors, Shri Pyarelal, who also says a few words about the song: Rajessh Iyer - DUNIYA MEIN REHNA HAI THO with PYARELAL JI, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1-hh36R5gs , 7 min. 21 secs., published on 7th July 2019.
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Modi-Putin Meet | 'India-Russia Ties Stronger Than Ever': PM Modi at 21st annual India-Russia summit, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAhftVVgec8 , 15 min. 45 secs.
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Welcome to India, President Putin! Russia is a time-tested and loyal friend of independent India. We Indians must never forget that.
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Good to see that such pics which depict the realities of the past, are being shared today. Knowing the harsh truths and realities of the past will help us better navigate through life in current times, IMHO. In the 1930s, while some people in USA were super-rich, there were large number of Americans who were very poor, with most of them being in rural USA.
With such pics, we see that the very poor of New York City then had to live in shacks in Central Park which today is viewed as a great landmark of NYC.
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Hmm. Never saw even a pic of a parade like that before, IIRC.
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