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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 ...