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A half truth is a whole lie - The Dishonest Sarahah.

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By: Altamash Khan 'People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.' - Ralph Waldo Emerson. TO the world of larger curiosity,where Social media had already made us slaves, awaking us scrolling the tiny screens looking after messages and News-feeds from known to estranged persons. Sarahah- an anonymous messaging application, adds to the world of inquisitiveness also creating a buzz over the web.  Sarahah, meaning 'Honesty',honestly lets you send text messages anonymously to your friends over the Social media.The app created by Saudi developer ZainAlabdin Tawfiq, has crossed all expectations of the developer leading to  11 million downloads on iOS and 9 million on Android. Although the word Sarahah stands for 'Honesty' or 'Openness', Unfortunately exhibits no-honesty while revealing the identity of the Sender. The repercussions of the app can be very serious for the youth albeit it has got wide acce...

Politics beyond 'Vikash'- The changing ideology of politics.

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By: Altamash Khan July 27,2017. It is the best time when the people of Bihar need to revisit their ideological intellect and introspect how the politics of ideology has been dis-planted by the politics of benefits. The people of Bihar need to be more careful henceforth for the man of 'Shushashan' will leave reasons un-left in order to justify his course of action.But it is the time when we need to be more insightful about the voracious nature of our leader who are capable of dismantling the political stability of a state, for their political benefits.  During the moment when the state started to be counted among the best growing states of the country with GDP estimated at 7.6%, even more than the national average for a five year period from 2011-2016 at constant prices with 2011 as the base year. As per CSO (Central Statistical Organisation), Several sectors that have been the drivers of growth in Bihar registered more than 10 per cent growth - manufacturing 17.7 ...

Silent leaders- a pitfall in democracy.

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By: Altamash Khan. The major responsibility of the democratic nation lies in the hands of representatives to the people, It is equal responsibility of the winners and the opposition to play as the watchdog of the democratic practices. After every electoral phase the leaders who happen to loose the election get disappeared till the next onset, whereas they are supposed to be accountable for the social building as the democracy interpretates itself. Moreover, During the interim it is the best time regaining lost trust among the people. How many of you remember when Mr. Akhilesh Yadav, ex-chief minister of Uttar Pradesh lastly spoke at any public forum. Growing atrocities or the fascist nature of the ruling Government, None of them have been able to attract the attention of the pseudo secular leader in any cases. Silence is condemnable in democracy, as said by our great leaders in the past. Amid the lynching incidents growing unhesitatingly in our country, exemplifies the natu...

The iconic age of Anger in India.

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Source:Google. Image only for representation purposes. By: Altamash Khan. Sleepless nights, horror dreams, newspaper thoughts, viral videos and what not…….. It scares me everyday, I walk by the roadside, crossing crowded lanes, disorderly crowds, cults of any religious views even of my own….. It is astounding for me or anybody with an healthy state of mind that an e-rickshaw driver is beaten to death by youths of a Central University, Delhi university for not allowing them to pee in public space. The kind of enraged community development happening across is deplorable in the human society. It is a serious concern for research, what led the people of India become so outrageous in the past three years. It earnestly need to be addressed, if the low rise in employment than expected or the advent of new media technology cum digital India is to be held responsible. In the incident that took place at Rampur, Uttar Pradesh shivered my heart, where two girls were molested open...

Excessive digitisation without awareness.

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By: Altamash Khan. Nothing other than rumours lead to lynchings and mass murders, It is all well known to each one of us. Two days back when in the old city of Aligarh, a buzz left on what's app and Facebook about the demolishing of the Mosque created a riot like situation in the city. Albeit the truth was just not even 0.5% of the same. It was just a matter of replacing the old Minaret of the Mosque with a new one, enlarging the diameter of the same. Soon after the District Administration stepped in and came to the conclusion by a peaceful assimilation of the duo-community. Similarly, the situation of Jharkhand where six people were lynched in a short span of two-three days in the name child lifting gangs, where the administration kept on ascertaining that no such gangs is active in the locality and if it persists it is the job of the Police to solve the case not the common people, But what happened is ahead all of us. Reminiscent and indistinguishable repeated ...

Facebook, Replacing your natural social-identity building capability…

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By: Altamash Khan. HUMANS considered to be the social animal on the planet earth seems to be losing empathy towards each other. Emotions have been confined to Like, Comment and Share consequently, making the outreach null thereupon. From a Harvard social-networking website to a global internet phenomenon, Facebook has made it all possible under its own cloud. While studying psychology at the Havard University, Mr Zuckerberg embarked the journey of Facebook originating from Havard reached Boston and later on eventually to all the Universities of the United States. It became the prestigious Facebook.com in the year 2005 and later on flourishing beyond educational institution to any one with a registered email address. Initially Facebook started its earning through advertising revenue but when we made it a US$10.217 billion company, even we are still not aware of it completely. Facebook, which has more than 1.9 billion monthly active user till last year end is the worlds mos...

Sonu, You don't deserve such engrossment.

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By : Altamash Khan YESTERDAY, while I was walking down street with my friends for an evening walk, My friend told me about the sonu nigam twitter troll which created controversies and rows of hullabaloo all around. I simply asked him who is Sonu Nigam? He earlier thought I was kidding but I seriously asked him back again who is Sonu Nigam ? Aftera long recalling process, I came to remember of "Chanda ki doli..." Now the matter is why do we get so serious with all these , Is Sonu Nigam's remark a threat to the Muslims residing in the Country. After all who is Sonu Nigam to create the fuss all about...... It has become a very common phenomena to troll , tweet and retweet , for being in controversies has become ever simpler. The point is the more hike and attention we may convey shall lead to ever lasting argy-bargy........

Digital Volcano for an honest India.

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By : Altamash Khan . “Web Applications are not the answer, to all your common worries”……. Soon after the emergence of Mr. Narendra Modi in 2014, among all the implications from black money to corruption free governance, Digital technology and E-governance boomed at a large scale as a panacea for addressing all the issues of the common people. While digital governance seems to be the most transparent form of governance with lesser opportunities for circumvention but not completely fraudulent free. On July 1, 2015 two years ago when Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi launched the “Digital India” Program with a purview to enlarge digital literacy among the country people providing high speed Internet facilities and wifi in six crore rural as well as urban areas, was sought to be a well admiring step by the government. Giant companies like Facebook, Google, oracle and top CEOs from India and abroad committed to invest approximate  ₹224.5 lakh crore  (US$3.3 trilli...

Slaughter Houses in an Un-Romantic era : Uttar Pradesh

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By: Altamash Khan On December,2012 the apex court of India directed every Meat Slaughter houses constituting form all States and Union Territories to follow the Food Safety (Licensing and Registration of Food Business) and Regulations 2011. Under which all slaughter houses were required to be issued license and registration with FSSAI, since the State government didn’t take pain to bother about the guidelines is what bothering us now when the present state Government is taking heed of it. FSSAI asked all the food commissioners and secretaries of urban local bodies to prepare an action plan and present it at the meeting of the Central Advisory Committee. The FSSAI wanted meat and slaughter houses to run their shops in Compliance with legal provisions, Keep animal welfare measures in mind, Prohibit slaughter of animals other than those allowed by the food safety regulations. Soon after the swearing of the new Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh , Mr. Yogi Adityanath took stern...

Intolerance : who made this thing?

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| By: Altamash Khan | Intolerance has sought to be one of the biggest challenge in India post 2014 loksabha elections. After the uprising of the Hindutva ideologue in a span of last three years many new eggs have been hatched into the society in the name of religion and tradition albeit known for the massively rich cultural diversity. You would hardly remember to see words such as intolerance, muslims, hindutva, polarisation before 2014 era. what happened to the society all of a sudden that sees itself not polarised but re-polarised again and again. Where has the assimilating behaviour of we Indians lost on the dusty roads of politics. Be it Beef, religious practises or any conflicts which is incongruous to us thus, creating a gap between the blended varied community of our country. Where has the quality of forming a pleasing and the complete whole lost ? So many questions alike might hover to your mind if you maintain an non-yogic healthy state of mind. According to WHO, a...

Aah... Who is she ??

“Society transforms itself inadvertently, we all should be ready to accept it. “ Love in the time of squads, Anti Romeo Squads are turning nightmares for love birds, who walked every evening holding their hands, fighting the societal backlash, hiding from familiar faces but unfortunately caught by the police Uncle. After the dramatic annunciation of flying squads being deployed on the roads of Uttar Pradesh under the advent of Yogic era now sees an autumn fallout on the roads.  “She is my friend” or “She is a friend of mine”, are the most misinterpreted and fastest communicative subject in our community as well society. when the concept of coeducation started in India it was the only much concerned subject to be studied deeply and poorly equally. Natural feelings which tends to be the outcome of hormonal changes is beyond any one’s grip should be assimilated by all of us. In my younghood days two words were very often and interchangeably used in common conversation one bein...