#Ayurveda again. In 3 tweets.
Some pictures from the Focus section of The Week magazine, India, from March 12.
A 'Focus' feature means it is a "paid for marketing / PR initiative"
One of the 2 "Ashtavaidyan's" was quoted as saying
Another was asked about the recent #G20 healthcare summit in Kerala. He said,
2 points. Paid for inserts look convincingly like properly researched news stories. They are not. They are called #advertorials, I.e. where advertising masquerades as editorial content. Of course, much of India's media is the same only they overtly claim it is news.
Since it was not real editorial content, there is little chance to challenge some of the claims made in this piece. It's like #MannKiBaat. You just have to listen and take it or leave it.
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Re: A (desparate) search of some scrap of evidence for "Hinduphobia".
The latest is an epidemic of hyperventilation in the Indian news media about a "shocking level of Hinduphobic attacks in Britain's schools."
Let's examine where this comes from. (1)
If you google, as I did just now, "hate against Hindus in schools in UK", you'll get scores of hits of Indian news portanls and videos of panel discussions about the topic.
What are they all discussing? getting their knickers in a twist in breathless consternation at the plight of Hindus in the UK.They are discussing a report that was out a few days ago from the Henry Jackson Society - a UK charity named after the US Senator (Washington D)
Stand by for some interesting findings re the Uttar Pradesh Global Investor Summit and and at least one of the Companies that is said to have signed up to an investment of 1 lakh crores (1 trillion rupees= 12.5 billion USD) to manufacture Electric vehicles. All very dodgy.
Okay here goes. The UP Global Investor Summit was organised bu the UP Govt in India between Feb 10 and 12, 2003. The President of the Union of India, no less, graced the occasion. #Rakshamantri Rajnath Singh talked about it.
Social media influencers and the officials inc the Chief of Defence Staff talked it up. UP was heading for a 1 trillion dollar economy - (India itself was aiming for a #5Trillion economy)
India's scientists are forced to do research in areas such as cow urine and 'cow-pathy'. They waste precious talent, time and research budgets on coming up with amazing results such as this. But no matter their findings, cow-piss will still sell, such is the power of blind faith.
The fundamental problem is that India lacks the most elementary of attributes required for a "scientific temper" - scepticism. The burden of proof should be on those who promote cow-urine as an 'effective' remedy for some disease or condition.
If you deny this basic premise, and in consequence, place the burden of proof on others to show that cow urine is either useless of worse harmful, then you open the door to every charlatan in town to promote his version of #BullShit, and challenge the sceptics to prove him wrong
From the US State Department, @StateDeptSpox .
At the routine Press Briefing by US State Dept in Washington yesterday 27 March, See here: state.gov/briefings/depa… There was a question asked about India.
After a series of Questions about the Israel situation, dealing with accusation by Israeli PM Netanyahu's son that the US was funding/backing the unprecedented huge protests there (@StateDeptSpox denied it) and the Israeli decison to close their embassy in DC, the Q turned to IND
QUESTION: — I just want to ask about the Summit for Democracy.
MR PATEL: Israel is an invitee to the Summit for Democracy this year, as it was last year, and —
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QUESTION: Could I piggyback off that?
MR PATEL: Sure.
From the news archives. this day 3 years ago, 26 March 2020.
The lockdown was int its secoind day.
Finance Minister @nsitharaman announced a 1.7 Lakh Crore (= 21.25 Billion USD) package of assistance. pib.gov.in/PressReleasePa…
What was in that package: 1) Insurance cover of Rs 50 Lakh per health worker fighting COVID-19 to be provided under Insurance Scheme. 2) 80 crore poor people will to get 5 kg wheat or rice and 1 kg of preferred pulses for free every month for the next three months
3) 20 crore women Jan Dhan account holders to get Rs 500 per month for next three months 4) Increase in MNREGA wage to Rs 202 a day from Rs 182 to benefit 13.62 crore families 4) An ex-gratia of Rs 1,000 to 3 crore poor senior citizen, poor widows and poor disabled
The Covic pandemic became the cover for postponing the 2021 Census. Those further orders have yet to come.
The Prime Minister "expressed gratitude to the people of Varanasi for performing rituals & offering prayers to Goddess Shailputri to give us all the strength to fight the country's battle against Coronavirus.." pib.gov.in/PressReleasePa…