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🔍 @Evening: Finding The Flaw, Karnataka Maate And More
1. 📰 Catch up
A new leaked video showed Delhi Minister Satyendar Jain getting an elaborate meal in Tihar jail after his lawyer claimed of him having lost 28 kgs.
A letter surfaced where Shraddha Walkar complained to Maharashtra police in 2020 that her live-in partner Aaftab Poonawala tried to kill her and she feared he would cut her into pieces and throw her away.
BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari skipped the oath-taking ceremony of the new Bengal Governor Dr CV Ananda Bose over "humiliation" in seat allocation.
Aaditya Thackeray arrived in Patna to meet Bihar deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav, said "this friendship will continue".
Sixth Vande Bharat Express to hit the track in December; Railways likely to miss target of running 75 such trains by August 2023.
2. ❌ Flawed global indices
The paper investigates three opinion-based indices: Freedom in the World Index, EIU- Democracy Index and V-DEM. (Read details here.)
It comes in the backdrop of India's 'poor performances' in recent global indices on democracy and freedom.
It is authored by member of EAC-PM Sanjeev Sanyal and deputy director of EAC-PM Aakanksha Arora.
The analysis: EAC-PM finds four "serious problems" in methodologies of these indices:
These indices are primarily based on the opinions of a tiny group of unknown “experts”.
The questions that are used are subjective and are worded in a way that is impossible to answer objectively even for a country, let alone compare across countries.
There are questions that should be asked but are excluded. For example, it is never asked if the head of state is elected for a democracy index.
Certain questions used by these indices are not an appropriate measure of democracy across all countries.
3. 📘 India, Bharat And Pakistan
The second book of J Sai Deepak's trilogy takes direct aim at the origins of the two-nation theory.
In a total of nine chapters, the first chapter titled The Seeds of Pakistan focuses on the roots of Muslim separatism in the ideas of Wahhab and Dehlawi.
The book also looks at the roles played by Syed Ahmed Khan and his Aligarh movement in fanning the separatist sentiment among Muslims.
Why it's a must-read: It corrects a key aspect of doctored and “secular” history, which places the blame for the country’s partition on Congress politics and the rise of Mohammed Ali Jinnah alone.
Based on strong research, it provides effective counters to the bogus “secular” history of the Left-liberal dispensation.
It is a must-read both for those who believe that Bharat is a civilisational state, and also for those who believe that India became a real nation-state because of political unification under the British, and the secular sahebs who ruled us after 1947.
4. ⚔️ India-Indonesia bilateral exercise
Garuda Shakti 2022 commenced at Cilodong, Indonesia on 21 November where a contingent of Indian Special Forces troops is engaged with Indonesian Special Forces.
This is the eighth edition of this bilateral exercise which aims at enhancing understanding, cooperation and interoperability between the Special Forces of both armies.
The focus of this edition is counter-terrorism operations, close combat battles, and marksmanship training.
The scope of the joint exercise includes orientation to advance special forces skills, sharing of information on weapons, equipment, innovations, tactics, techniques and procedures.
It will facilitate both armies to know each other better, and share their wide experiences and combat experience on countering terrorist operations, Regional Security Operations and Peace Keeping Operations in an international environment.
The joint training would also focus on a high degree of physical fitness and tactical drills.
5. 🙏 Official image of Karnataka Maate
It's official! The Karnataka government has finalised the above image as the official depiction of Goddess Bhuvaneshwari, revered as Mother Kannada.
It was finalised by a five-member committee to ensure one official image as representing the ‘Naadadevate’ and now will be used for all official purposes.
An official image was needed because most images 'looked like calendar art, distant from the rich art tradition of the state and were far from reflecting the uniqueness of Karnataka‘.
The image is created by renowned artist K Somashekhar.
The map of the state features as the background of the image and the Kannada flag stands for Kannada pride.
The green saree reflects the state’s ecological wealth and flora and fauna.
The Goddess is two armed - to keep her as close to reality and her facial expression is one of natural beauty and divinity.
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