Lots of people wonder how this AAP strategy makes any sense. Strategically, it makes a lot of sense... It’s brilliant!
By attacking Congress, they position themselves as an opposition to INC - a space that BJP occupies. Then voters unhappy with INC have a choice: (Thread)
Next step in the AAP journey will be to present it’s Delhi model of schools, mohalla clinics and water+electricity to these states to show they’re better than BJP. But for now, they’ll embed in people’s minds that they’re anti INC.
There’s other stuff that AAP is doing with Hinduism - the Diwali puja and Hawans etc. that are politically ingenious.
We can all keep criticising it, but they’re doing what politically is very logical, shrewd and effective!
Won’t happen immediately, but few years down the line There’ll be a proudly Hindu but not fanatic political option that is against the INC as vehemently as the BJP is.
Before it works everyone will hate on them - the RW and the Liberal Ecosystem - but once it starts working...
They’ll literally pull people from both sides! Because there’s a HUGE number dissatisfied with BJP on policy who thinks INC is terrible, anti-Hindu and incompetent.
PS: This isn’t an opinion, it’s an analysis. Counter it with fact if you want to, not with normative values.
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[Thread] This scheme for giving villagers land title to their houses seems to have skipped public discussion, but it's shocking, and HUGE!
The government really needs to talk to people who understand how things work there! It's not like it is in cities... hindustantimes.com/india-news/ove…
I really hope this goes smoothly, because the ability to get bank loans will indeed be a major positive for villagers - but the potential for disaster is so high, it's almost a certainty.
I told a few people in my own village about the scheme and they're in shock. Here's why:
1. Houses in villages are owned by families, not individuals. Giving a title in one person's name is a guarantee for conflict. This will happen in a significant number of cases, and then there'll be fights and bribery by a brother to get a larger share in records - inevitable.
I always knew having a book published was a big deal, but I couldn’t pinpoint why... I’ve finally figured it out:
Lots of people have really informative blogs, columns, tweet threads, FB Pages or YouTube Channels, but a book gives you vastly superior street cred...
This, I now understand, is because a book publisher essentially validates your work with their reputation, but more importantly their money.
The other mediums are essentially free for creation. In a published book...
someone deemed it worthy enough to invest serious monetary resources into it!
A publisher thought your work is worthy enough to invest a huge sum of money into editing, printing, distributing and marketing it. That’s what gives it the credibility.
I’m paying more tax than Donald Trump paid in the US!
After Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, Nirav Modi, DHFL and even things like WeWork, OYO and now Trump... there’s one thing I’m starting to understand about the world of money that’s very counterintuitive...
Profits don’t matter! No one who’s truly wealthy has done it by accumulating profits in their bank account.
I, like most people try and save money, maybe invest a bit and try to build passive income... that’s a good way to stable finances. It’s a terrible way to richness!
I’m starting to understand the concepts of leverage and cash flow that will destroy the minds of anyone with a normal, working professional family. We just don’t think in those terms...
I’ve been following some data security hygiene since 2012 and some might have thought it was paranoid, but suddenly everyone thinks it’s really smart... so sharing it for your information:
1. If you don’t want your internet search known, incognito mode isn’t enough...
Good VPN + incognito of a separate browser is an okay practice.
DuckDuckGo + TOR is the best!
2. Online backups aren’t really secure unfortunately. iCloud, Google Drive have all been compromised in the past. Encrypted local storage (external HD/SSD) still wins in my book.
3. Keep 2 Factor Authentication on for everything! External token is ideal. Authenticator apps are good. SMS OTP is good enough.
4. Nostalgia is great, but don’t keep content. I stopped hoarding chat backups and documents long ago. If you stop using a device, wipe it.
The RWA saga has gone sort of viral, and it has a very sad lesson.
Politics is incredibly fractal in nature. Same behaviours from National level to RWA level. India wants to be a superpower, but all we really do is waste times with petty power struggles all over!
Now that lady sees opposition to her oppression, she’s taken a page straight from a political handbook - financial allegations.
Tomorrow in RWA meeting, hangama shall happen over audit of RWA finances and it shall be bigger than CoalGate!
RWA President’s wife has responded on WhatsApp, audit check do whatever but please refrain from sensationalist allegations.
But now that this financial angle is introduced, the mob shall be whipped in a frenzy. This is a true narrative battle now...