Some readers have been asking what #India2030 is all about.
Here’s a chapter-by-chapter thread on the 20 forecasts by 20 thought leaders on 20 themes that will define India in the 2020s. 1/n
Chapter 20 of #India2030 by @davidfrawleyved talks about how the Civilizational Resurgence of India will reconnect its ancient past to ride into a dharmic future
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Chapter 19 of #India2030 by @devdip tells us what the new idea of Nationalism in the 2020s will be — an integral union of the nation with the self
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Chapter 18 of #India2030 by @sandipanthedeb examines how ideologies and technologies will intrude into and redefine Friendships
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Chapter 17 of #India2030 by @authoramish studies the Soft Power of India and says its global influence will be through the confluence of materialism and spiritualism
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Chapter 16 of #India2030 by @rameshmashelkar on Science and Technology shows how India will be a producer, not merely a consumer, of knowledge
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Chapter 15 of #India2030 by @ajay_shah envisions the rise of science in Policymaking
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Chapter 14 of #India2030 by @parthjshah makes four fantastic forecasts in the field of Education
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Chapter 13 of #India2030 by Manish Sabharwal looks at what the future of Work will look like
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Chapter 12 of #India2030 by @nebuer42 tells us what the future of Urbanization (hint: India will thrive in liveable cities)
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Chatper 11 of #India2030 by @KiritParikh6 defines the contours of Energy and how it will fuel India’s development
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Chapter 10 of #India2030 by @monikahalan gives us a detailed account of what the future of Money looks like
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Chapter 9 of #India2030 by @AmritaNarlikar studies how India will engage with Multilateralism — from principles to transactions and back
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Chapter 8 of #India2030 by @samirsaran on Foreign Policy forecasts that India will be a ‘bridge nation’
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Chapter 7 of #India2030 by @Vikram_Sood on Spying tells the intelligence fraternity to rethink and reinvent itself to face emerging challenges
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Chapter 6 of #India2030 by @Iyervval talks about the nine trends that will dominate the Defence sector in the 2020s
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Chapter 5 of #India2030 by Justice B.N. Srikrishna forecasts that technology will deliver exponential efficiency and a greater accountability
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Chapter 4 of #India2030 by @bibekdebroy on the Economy sees a fundamental shift from wealth redistribution to wealth creation
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Chapter 3 of #India2030 by @rammadhavbjp on Politics defines the changing contours of India’s rise to becoming a great power
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Chapter 2 of #India2030 by @drrajeshmparikh on Health prepares us to look beyond a cultural extinction event
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Chapter 1 of #India2030 by me (@gchikermane) shows that the rise of India this decade onwards will be driven by a rajasic force
On #GitaJayanti, I prostrate before Sri Krishna for conceptualising the Bhagwad Gita, Ved Vyasa for compiling these powerful spiritual ideas, and Sri Aurobindo for taking them to the next level.
A thread...
The one shloka from the Bhagwad Gita that has dominated the 2020 discourse is on dealing with death:
नैनं छिन्दन्ति शस्त्राणि नैनं दहति पावकः ।
न चैनं क्लेदयन्त्यापो न शोषयति मारुतः ॥
Weapons cannot cleave it, nor the fire burn, nor do the waters drench it, nor the wind dry.
I have had to send these words of solace to many friends and relatives this year.
But finding solace requires us to read the Gita, live it.
Die the body will but death is only a passport to the next life, next evolution, the Bhagwad Gita tells us.
That’s how I read this shloka.
A thread on, and chronology of, past 20 years of discussions, debates and discourses around farm reforms — which committee said what — says end the tyranny of APMC and Essential Commodities Act, allow farmers to flourish
[Links to all primary documents below.]
19 December 2000: Expert Committee set up by the Ministry of Agriculture under the chairmanship of Shankerlal Guru.
• Call for ideas to promote agricultural growth
• Ensure that a greater share of the ultimate price of the agricultural produce goes to farmers
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29 June 2001: Shankerlal Guru Committee submits report
• Practically, farmer has no liberty to sell his produce in his village or to retail chain, processor, bulk buyer directly
• Remodel APMCs
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Until China reforms, Made in China firms must be treated with as much caution and precaution as India is treating the Made in China pandemic orfonline.org/expert-speak/t…
Apart from a thin ideological constituency and vested business interests, China has limited appeal left in much of India’s imagination orfonline.org/expert-speak/t…
Between 1951 through 1976, seven amendments—1st (1951), 4th (1955), 17th (1964), 25th (1971), 39th (1975), 40th (1976), and 42nd (1976)—were brought in, all of which were struck down by the Supreme Court.
Finally, with the 44th Amendment (1978) and the repeal of Article 19(1)(f), the right to property was taken away.
With two exceptions: 1. Minorities to establish and administer educational institutions. 2. Persons holding land for personal cultivation within the ceiling limit.