Ahead of India’s general election, fact-checking initiatives are mushrooming online.
Media organisations in India are using fact-checking to hose down online rumors that have fatal consequences in real life. But are they so willing to take on duplicitous politicians?
The world is a vampire! Sucking the truth from our reality. India is finding the same problem we have in the US. Over the past few years our fact checking systems have become compromised. Wikipedia also not so long ago having gone towards misleading and ending availability of certain elements leaning progressive. Search engines today make it near impossible to find certain material that was once easily found. Now you have to have near precise wording in the search window if it's of material they wish to hide from you.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.No government exposure, no corruption exposure, no revelation about anything illegal such as massive illegal nation looting, murders of opposition streets, removing of judges and back door releases of criminals and government cronies and also of the rich ad powerful has made any difference whatsoever in the 71 years after independence in 1947. All ills have continued and will continue in the future. Political leaders continue in office until they die and install their incompetent children in power.
The majority of India lives in rural areas where there is no infrastructure, no electricity, drinking water or let alone access to the internet. How do I know this? I know because I was born in India, lived for 30 years, have seen other advanced and happy societies outside and recently traveled 6,000 miles on the road from South to North India last year. I noticed that many things still have not changed since I left 30 years ago. I saw the same poverty, lack of infrastructure, housing broken road, no electricity and so on. As of today, 49% of the entire nation of 1.3 billion people still does not have toilets. India is called the world's largest open toilet today.
So, my point is fact-checking, internet research etc. are the least of India's problems. If even the facts were known and proven today, it would make no difference e in the lives of Indian people. See what ails India and what will continue ailing India in the future.
Slow changes will not help. India needs a massive revolution to just begin changes in people's lives while making sure just alternative factions do not step into the void.
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Feb 24, 2019
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So you're basically telling us India is today as when the Brits finally left it? Where then is all the advanced technology and growth they are to have accomplished then? Concentrated in one to a few areas?
@William_Mary The advanced technology and growth are due to a very small minority of Indias who are enterprising and brilliant. According to Huff Post, only 6% of Indians (out of 1.3 billion) are in technology outsourcing but it accounts for 33% of the total foreign cash flow in India.
Yes, India's technology growth primarily due to outsourcing by the large foreign corporations is concentrated in Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune, Noida-Delhi, and Bangalore. You can easily find the new research online that India's outsourcing is due to shrink rapidly due to the rise of new young English speaking and very low-cost countries that have emerged from the previous Soviet block such as Romania, Bulgaria, and so on. Read = [huffingtonpost.com]
An important thing to remember about India is that it is very tribal and regional. It is not as homogeneous as the U.S. is. The characteristics of people of a state and its people and those differ from state to state. For example, you will see that the Northern state of Punjab has prominence in defense, transportation and agricultural. They do not have a footprint in information technology either in India or overseas. You will rarely or almost not come across a person from Punjab working in IT overseas. While most IT personnel coming to the U.S. and U.K. are mostly from one state called Andhra Pradesh (Hyderabad city) and a few from Bangalore (city).
It is painful for me to point out how bad the situation is for common people in India today but those are the facts and it is even more painful to know that their life is unlikely to change any time soon.
@Tiramisu that's quite interesting. I'll have to do some research in this area. Thank you for the information!