Gaurav Tyagi

Malaise of Cheating in Indian School Exams 0
- Commentary
- March 20, 2018
by Gaurav Tyagi 21/3/2018 One out of every six examinees abandoned the Class 10 and Class 12 board examinations in the U.P. province of India. This was due to the fact that the government of U.P. after a long time took strong steps to curb the menace of cheating and copying in the exams.
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South African Corruption with Indian Flavor 0
- Commentary
- February 24, 2018
Jacob Zuma resigned as the President of South Africa on 14th February after days of defying orders from the ruling African National Congress to leave office. This came on the eve of a no-confidence vote against him in the parliament. The 75 year old Zuma’s resignation in a televised address to the nation ended an
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Modi should ban all elections in India 0
- Commentary
- February 21, 2018
by Gaurav Tyagi 21/2/2018 Western-style democracy is effective when a country’s population is highly educated and possesses mature and rational thinking. Nehru after independence from the British rule in 1947 wrongly provided “universal adult suffrage” without facilitating the basic educational standard of India. This policy of giving voting rights to a largely illiterate, semi-literate population
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Sex, lies & corruption in the U.S. Navy 0
- Commentary
- February 18, 2018
by Gaurav Tyagi 18/2/2018 The USS Blue Ridge is the flagship of the U.S Navy’s 7th fleet, overseeing all American maritime operations in Asia and the Western Pacific. It is the U.S Navy’s second oldest active duty vessel and has survived the Vietnam as well as the Cold war. The Blue Ridge has
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Modi government has turned India into a medieval Hindu fundamentalist nation 0
- Commentary, Issue 24 – Spring 2018
- February 1, 2018
By Gaurav Tyagi 1/2/2018 India celebrated its 69th Republic day on 26th January. The political party BJP currently holds power at the center as well as in the majority of Indian provinces. Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh provinces governed by BJP moved the Supreme Court of India for a recall of its January 18th order
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Indian politicians advised Netanyahus how to get away with corruption 0
- Blog
- January 26, 2018
by Gaurav Tyagi 16/1/2018 Yair Netanyahu, the 26-year-old son of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is currently in the spotlight. Channel 2, Israels’ top-rated news broadcaster aired a recording recently. The conversations in the recording are from three years back. Yair is heard making misogynistic comments about women, going on a late night search
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Rising Urban Unemployment & Farming Woes Confront India 0
- Blog, Issue 24 – Spring 2018
- January 15, 2018
by Gaurav Tyagi 15.1.2018 Results of the Gujarat provincial elections held in December 2017 were declared on 18th December. This province is the home base of Indian Prime Minister Narender Modi and his chief strategist, Amit Shah. Modi’s party BJP emerged as the largest party and formed the government in Gujarat however, BJP’s
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India is not a democracy but ‘demon-o-cracy’0
- Blog
- October 28, 2017
India as per its constitution, is a secular nation but secularism has been blatantly misused by the majority of political parties in the country. The Congress party, which held power for most of the period since independence from the British rule in 1947, openly indulged in communal appeasement. The following case is an apt example
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Modi must commit Indian army to Afghanistan 0
- Blog
- October 14, 2017
On 26th September, India said that it wouldn’t send its troops to Afghanistan. There would be no Indian boots on the ground, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman stated, while addressing a joint press conference with U.S defense Secretary James Mattis in New-Delhi. (1) ‘Boots on the ground’ in military terms implies putting troops on the ground.
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The Curse of Religion & Casteism in India 0
- Blog, Issue 23 – Winter 2018
- October 7, 2017
by Gaurav Tyagi Nirmala Dattatraya Yadav, a 60 year old woman was booked in the first week of September by the Pune City Police, in a case of impersonation following a police complaint filed by Medha Vinayak Khole, , a scientist with the India Meteorological Department (IMD). (1) Khole had accused Yadav of hiding her
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India’s Growth Story – biggest rumor being propagated in the world 0
- Blog
- October 7, 2017
~~By Gaurav Tyagi There are lies, damned lies and statistics. This phrase describes the persuasive power of numbers, especially the use of statistics to boost not so strong arguments. India defied expectations by coming up with an annual gross domestic product (GDP) figure of 7 percent for the October-December 2016 period and following the
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H-1B Visas; How Hyderabadis & Indian IT firms fooled Americans 0
- Blog
- September 23, 2017
U.S. government created the H-1B visa program in 1990 so, that U.S.companies could hire foreigners with special skills. Approximately 85,000 H-1B visas are distributed annually. (1) Majority of them go to technology companies, which claim that U.S has a shortage of skilled technology workers. (6) Critics, however say that H-1B visa program has been hijacked
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Seeking publicity in the name of absurd religious sentiments 0
- Blog
- September 19, 2017
by Gaurav Tyagi Gaurav Tyagi, reflects on the recent row over an Australian advertisement for meat. India has lodged a diplomatic protest with Australia over the ad. The Catholic Secular Forum (CSF) in India also raised objections to it and sought a boycott of Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA) and a ban on their products.
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India needs to look internally not externally 0
- Blog
- September 19, 2017
India is over-sensitive about China’s engagement in South Asia. China’s defense minister visiting Sri-Lanka and Nepal was hyped up a lot in Indian media during March. (1) Chinese Vice-Premier Wang Yang holding talks with his Nepali counterpart last month also made India quite anxious. (2) This is an assertion of India’s underlying tribal and collectivist
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