EDITORIAL: Don’t Blame Nature
Last month, India faced the wrath of Mother Nature as cloudbursts over Kedarnath and Rambada in the northern state of Uttarakhand brought in flash floods and land slides of humongous proportions that swept away entire towns and villages. Roads, bridges, and lines of communication broke down and countless were lives lost and those still alive, were in peril of succumbing soon. Though it was deemed an act of Nature by the government, the magnitude of the calamity could have been a lot less if the government had acted soon enough. To add insult to the injury, the government took almost a week before any help was made available.
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As it stands, the only choice for India to minimize cataclysmic climatic disasters, is to practice sustainable growth and regulated development, or face a future with recurrent furies of Mother Nature, writes Priyanka Bhardwaj.
Crowdsourcing is relying on the public to solve a particular problem. When it comes to catching dangerous terrorists who are planting bombs at large public events, there is an even greater responsibility that comes with crowdsourcing.
Apparently, this was overlooked by every element involved in the 3-ring circus following Boston: from the irresponsible news outlets that published certified trash and then patted themselves on the back, to the FBI who decided to crowdsource information it should have already known in the first place, to the online users who quit their day jobs for new detective gigs. There was plenty of blame to go around, writes attorney Lalit Kundani.
The 2013 Scripps National Spelling Bee was an event for Indian American history books. This year the top three positions were all secured by Indian American kids. Siliconeer presents a report.
Identity politics is the workhorse of most analysis of human interaction in India. For decades, the cleavages of caste and community have been viewed as the most important forces shaping social, political, and economic dynamics. The extent to which individuals participate in violence, act collectively, succeed in delivering public goods, or make decisions on Election Day — all of these are perceived to hinge on issues of ethnic identity, writes Milan Vaishnav.
The Madras High Court, in a recent judgment, has equated the act of sex between two adults to marriage needing a “decree” of divorce to annul the same. A one-night stand, pre-marital sex or even an extra-marital affair could translate as legal commitment to be wife or husband, as the case may be, should one party choose to exercise the option. In urban liberal India such a view is preposterous. Going by recent trends, it seems when a couple is really serious about each other, sex actually becomes secondary, writes Siddharth Srivastava.
Siliconeer wishes all readers a very happy 4th of July!
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