Reflections

  Does Merit Matter To Us? How many qualify amorally, creating a victim who lost to your dishonesty for each such case? For every person who qualifies through dishonest means, someone else pays the price — a victim of a system that let them get away with it. At the start of this article, let me be clear: I am 53+, and not dissatisfied with how my life turned out. I am perfectly happy - if I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't change a single professional decision I made. But the recent events surrounding the NEET exam protests have forced me to look back at the past years, towards rumours, reports and claims   of paper leaks, job scams,   and gaming attempts. From Vyapam in MP to the repeated compromises of a multitude of entrance exams, we may be looking at a system in crisis. It is disgusting and frustrating even to me, a person who is not affected; not anymore. And yet I feel the shock of what happened – how must it be for those who are actually impacted, whet...

India’s Rail Mastery And The Silence Of Global Media It was a morning news scan, when yet again the hydrogen train in India came to mind. And then, next came my daily scan of a top US daily – I scan Indian and Global news daily. It occurred to me, when I saw a negative article on India judging from the headline, that this hasn’t received attention globally, at least judging from my limited daily scans. Then I started on 3 LLM portals to research this – ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. What follows is a article from that quick research. A quick random dip stick checking of the facts has been done, followed by a full article scan through claude for fact checking. One fact – ticket price was found slightly off in my check, and was edited in the text. What I want to point out in this article: 1.       India’s stunning record of railway development, laying a strong backbone for the nation’s development 2.       Western Media’s absolute ...

  In the millennia before the 1700s, 1800s and early 1900s there were large families. Not only were people living in joint families, parents had 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 children and more. What that did was it these two factors, the joint family system and large immediate families, parents with large number of children built a strong interconnected family structure. The effect of this was compounded by the gotra system wherein the relationship was supposed to be maintained over the past five generations; after five generations you could intermarry because then it was considered that the blood relationship had broken. Now in this contextual background it developed a society which was deeply interconnected and it developed a family system which was deeply interconnected. People cared about each other not just real brothers and sisters but even cousins. That is why when marriages took place entire villages were involved and a lot of people came because there were a lot of interconnecti...