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Happy Independence Day 🇮🇳

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Happy Independence Day 🇮🇳- Grapevine

Remember as a child how excited I would be, and how patriotic it would feel. Now it's just a holiday. A long weekend. I don't know why my feelings/patriotism went to die.

I'm curious but, what does it mean to you?

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The date when India said to the world:

“We’ll take it from here” 🥰

Happy Independence Day!

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I’ll start first, 
Within my lifetime, we sent a spacecraft to the moon. We also succeeded in our Mars mission on the first try.

There are seldom moments like such that remind us that we are one country. 

We are a force to be reckoned with, continually working to move the needle of progress.

We’ve achieved so much and there’s way more to achieve.

But I’m hopeful. We’ve gotten this far and we will go further than ever before.

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Happy Independence day to all Grapevinites💐

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Entire India celebrating (?) this day today

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Two parts of the movie
First half has a scene of Hrithik showering (I don't mind, but duh why!)
Deepika is trying so hard to flirt with Hrithik, but he doesn't budge (Girls and their obsession to be attracted to unavailable men!)

Second half goes crazy
A detailed section on martyrs and their unpredictable lives (I cried buckets 🪣 )
A Beti bachao-beti padhao message too (cried there too because beti relates)

Such a great setup for Republic Day tomorrow! 🇮🇳 

Anyone else watched it?

[Shitpost] Fighter Movie firstday thoughts

- Delhi Metro will begin operations at 4 am on all lines from terminal stations on Independence Day to facilitate public attendance at the ceremony.
- Trains will run every 15 minutes until 6 am, after which the regular schedule will resume for the rest of the day.
- Individuals with a bonafide invitation card from the Ministry of Defence can enter and travel by showing a valid government-issued photo ID at stations.
- This special entry arrangement is valid for exits only at Lal Quila, Jama Masjid, and Chandni Chowk metro stations, and the same cards can be used for return journeys from these stations.
- Regular announcements will be made inside trains to inform passengers about these arrangements, with travel costs reimbursed to DMRC by the Ministry of Defence. 

 Source: [https://www.business-standard.com/india-news/delhi-metro-services-to-commence-at-4-am-on-all-lines-on-independence-day-124081300874_1.html](https://www.business-standard.com/india-news/delhi-metro-services-to-commence-at-4-am-on-all-lines-on-independence-day-124081300874_1.html)

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I always post out a heart felt note on Independence Day for all the brave warriors who stood out for us. But today, somehow it feels wrong to post it.
It feels I am putting up a farce to hide the real truth. What happened in Kolkata was a slap of shame to all the people of our society. And the bigger problem is that this incident somehow did get some news but there are so many cases which are either unregistered or if registered, didn't even get attention. 
This "Let it go" approach of Indians will definitely take us down someday.
I still don't understand what's the mentality of these rapists or what is triggering them to go to such lengths. 
Independence is really far right now.

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Post the oldest picture on your phone when you ever enjoyed the Independence day. Flying kites, blue sky and the DJs on the terrace. 

#Nostalgia

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Question came up because it’s Independence Day 🇮🇳
A lot of us have had the privilege to be able to go abroad, but ended up choosing not to.

For me, it was just believing there’s enough growth here in the coming few decades + friends/family

Looking to hear if the reduced brain drain is actually true, and what makes people stay.

To people who choose to stay in India, what made you stay? 🪷

For me it was the army and followed by my corporate job. I never felt like leaving the country. It’s always better to live like a first class citizen in a 3rd world country than a third class citizen in a first world country. 
  
 In addition to this, family is what defines us as Indians and that kept me hinged back home

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While we complain and whine about all things wrong with our country, which is well within our rights to do so, we also need to acknowledge the cost others paid to get us this freedom. 

1. As per British Administration records, about 6000 British died in the Indian Mutiny. The casualty count for Indians is at 800,000. This includes figures for those who died during the mutiny and the subsequent uprising as well as in famines and epidemics that followed in its wake.

2. If we estimate excess mortality from 1891 to 1920, with the average death rate of the 1880s as normal mortality, we find some 50 million people lost their lives under the aegis of British capitalism," they write. "But this estimate must be considered conservative. India's 1880s death rate was already very high by
international standards. If we measure excess mortality over England's 16th- and 17th-century average death rate, we find 165 million excess deaths in India between 1880 and 1920.
This figure is larger than the combined number of deaths from both World Wars, including the Nazi holocaust.

3. The British colonial regime looted nearly $45 trillion from India from 1765 to 1938. The amount is 15 times the annual GDP of the UK today. Even if it wants, it still can't return India the money it looted to not only build itself as a major global power but also fund much of the development in the today's developed world.

4. The Indian peasantry and workers produced the second largest merchandise export surplus in the world for at least four decades from the 1890s," writes Patnaik. "But India was never permitted to show current account balance, leave alone current account surplus. These enormous exchange earnings, appropriated by the then world capitalist leader, Britain, allowed it to export capital to develop Europe and the regions of European settlement, despite its running large and rising current account deficits with these same regions. The rapid diffusion of capitalism was ensured thereby to what constitutes today's advanced countries.

With this amount of human and economic costs paid to attain the freedom that we have, let’s not forget the contributions of those who came before us and let’s not get blinded by party loyalties or religious identities to undermine what we got!

Cost of Freedom

..unless either of the two mess up insanely bad

We'll probably get to the #3 spot if things go well. But it seems impossible that we'll ever go beyond that.

Internal reasons that are very hard to fix:-

(1) Our population TFR fell below standard replacement rate in 2023. This means we will not be able to follow the same economic growth trajectory required to reach developed status before population stagnation or declination. This is not a death knell but definitely very VERY bad news.

(2) Our blue-collar workforce skill levels are not only subpar but are slowly falling behind the world standards every year. Much of our youth aim to join government orgs like the Army or the Railways which train for the job later, not before. Despite a national shortage of skilled plumbers, electricians etc, our vocational training orgs have been unsuccessful in attracting people towards these careers as well as churning out skilled workers.

(3) Our bureaucratic environment is extremely slow with pathetic turnaround times on initiatives. This is not government specific and has always been the case so it seems like this will always be. This is not even a problem unique to India as many other countries have been facing this too but it is still a factor that negatively impacts our growth massively.

I wish it was just internal reasons but a large part of it also comes down to both China and US being aggressively great at ensuring their successes:-

(1) Chinese manufacturing seems nearly impossible to overcome - not just for India but also for the US. Yes, we might win over some industries and companies like the US, Vietnam, Thailand etc. have been doing but the amount of autocratic control in China allows them to crush competition easily. Case in point - the recent tussle between India and China on solar manufacturing which China won by autocratically lowering their prices.

(2) If de-dollarisation succeeds, it will benefit China the most because (contd. in comments)

Controversial: India will never overtake China or US

Let's do our part, instead FOMO, have an abundance mindset,keep building and shipping.

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