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Felled by insensitivity, incompetence Updated: Updated: May 02, 2021 07:23 IST A catastrophe has hit India and there is no sign that the ferocious second wave is being dealt with competently Share Article AAA A catastrophe has hit India and there is no sign that the ferocious second wave is being dealt with competently Earlier this week, a young woman in Uttar Pradesh tweeted a cry for help. Her grandmother’s oxygen level had fallen to 40. “Pls help us in getting one bed in hospital in Bare...

How the British Invented Globalism But what is it? Modern globalism was born in Victorian England, and later promoted by Britain’s Fabian socialists. It is now the dominant belief system of today’s world. George Orwell called it Ingsoc. In his novel  Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell foretold a future in which the British Empire merges with the United States to form Oceania, a superstate driven by an evil ideology called Ingsoc (an abbreviation for English Socialism). Orwell’s dystopia was ba...

The progressive linguistic sleight of hand that has invaded America was forewarned more than eight decades ago by George Orwell and here it is now in living color. As Neil Sheehan wrote about the Vietnam War, it is our bright shining lie. Americans are now living with a progressive linguistic lump of coal in our political stockings. It has been abetted faithfully by the MSM, the Biden administration en masse and the academy, save for Hillsdale and a few other conservative institutions of higher...

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Louis Menand’s new book traces the decline of a defining ideal. ILLUSTRATION BY LINDSAY BALLANT In America today, the right has a monopoly on the word “freedom.” Conservatives talk about “freedom” at every opportunity, while liberals and leftists do so only with embarrassment, shielded with qualifying clauses. “First they came for our Free Speech, then they came for our Free Markets, next they’ll come for our Free Shipping on orders $50 or more with promo code: FREEDOM50,” Repub...

Daily Times April 19, 2021 “In Pakistan38 percent of the children under five years of age” UNICEF reports “are stunted”. Stunting, a serious threat for the country, impacts not only physical growth but also the cognitive development of the child perpetually. UNDP has projected the percentage to the mind-boggling 55%. Lack of nutrition awareness and poor hygienic conditions are the common causes cited by these agencies. Pakistani ruling class has thrusted it to be thetenth largest import...

"Your personal brand is the sum total of the online and offline you": Sumanto Chattopadhyay Share Via: In a world where people are brands and social media is a personal rooftop equipped with a virtual microphone, how does one balance sensible personal branding with shameless self promotion? Jeff Bezos famously said that your brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room. Building on that, I would say that personal branding is about improving the chances that people say the...

Reuters Though the explosion of social media and messaging apps has made our lives very public, this is not the first time that society has had to grapple with the issue of privacy. As the writer Gabriel García Márquez famously said. “All human beings have three lives: public, private and secret.” The boundaries between these spheres and our understanding of these lines vary with time, the nature of the society to which we belong and, often, the class of society from which we are dr...

Question: In "In Praise of Big Brother" , James Stacey Taylor argues for the optimistic conclusion that, with the right legal and procedural safeguards, large-scale governance surveillance would have many positive consequences.   What are Taylors best reasons for rejecting the pessimistic worry that such surveillance could lead to an "Orwellian nightmare" that Taylor discusses at the beginning and end of his article?   Answer: Introduction The essay aims to analyze James Stacy Taylor’s In P...

LIVING in Scotland these days you could be forgiven at times for thinking that the entire world order was being addressed through the arguments for and against Scottish independence. Any cursory glance at online forums or readers’ comments in this or most Scottish newspapers will confirm that. At times it wouldn’t matter whether one was discussing let’s say the political travails of Equatorial Guinea, there would still be those who manage to construe such a discourse through the len...