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Perfecting 'weapon of mass distraction'

While we are being distracted with inconsequential issues like Vande Mataram and an actor's neckline in an innocuous advertisement, AI data centers which are being resisted tooth and nail for very good reasons by citizens all across the world are being sought to be set up in India.

Paper leaks, massive corporate debt forgiven, rising prices of everything, the falling rupee, adulterated petrol, crony capitalism, unemployment, rising social inequality, destruction of education, encouragement of superstition, mob lynching, rise of Hindutva groups which go about threatening everyone, and so many issues are pushed out of public attention using nonsensical issues being manufactured out of thin air by a desperate government, which has no answers to the aforementioned questions. The Sanghis have perfected the ' weapon of mass distraction'.


VINAY DWIVEDI,  Benaulim 

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Special privileges for uber rich in India

The Goan Network
Published Aug 30, 2026, 10:33 PM IST
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The uber rich in India are a class apart. The top  1%  of the country  own approximately  60%  of the nation's wealth. They have special unwritten  privileges.  While hundreds of farmers in distress  commit  suicide,   as they cannot  pay  back farm loans, the rich default  on several thousands of crores of rupees and go scot free. The recent case  of the privileged TV  moghul  getting…

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