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A note I received - Author Unknown - But provokes thought

I share below a note that a friend of mine forwarded to me. I can claim no information on who the author is nor on the veracity of the contents. My limited response is as follows. I have since sometime strongly believed that India is on the cusp of a repeat of the 1991 financial crisis but one that could be worse in magnitude due to a domino effect than on its own. I have on my TL predicted that this crisis can hit India over the next 3 to 7 years depending upon how our own economic policies, political changes, global economics play out. But given current state of affairs I would be surprised if we did not face such a crisis given the profligacy of our economics, paralysis of our administration, obstinacy of our politics and the inward looking attitudes emerging in western economies. Whatever the veracity of these claims in terms of numbers popular perception is that many of the percentages  and issues are infact correct. Remember perception is NOT fact but often does mirror fa...

Social Media strategies by political parties today

Reading some news items and the reactions on social media especially by the Congress netas, their followers and  especially the tweeple I felt compelled to share these thoughts from a strategic perspective. If I were a  Congress  leader  what is my objective ? To win enough votes and get voted  back to power again. Like all political parties in India I do not have any conscience and will divide, kill,  blackmail, stoke hatred, announce freebies,  do development work, show progress, sell family silver, buy media, advertise etc  and do whatever it takes to win. After all in elections in India as they say everything is fair in love and war and elections are war. In my younger days 2 political teams campaigning when they met on the road clashed and fought  but have now  moved to TV stations and Social Media. There are already a set of supporters and die hard fans of Congress so I would be wasting my time appealing to them. That’s...