Tag: Amitabh Bachchan

Rupee is falling…

I am no financial pundit that I can comment on falling Rupee against Dollar, it has fallen in the PM Manmohan Singh era and has fallen in PM Narendra Modi’s era, so it is not a political issue.

I asked Chat GPT and Grok, Why Rupee is falling against Dollar

Chat GPT Grok
1. Global Economic Factors
2. India’s Trade Deficit
3. Capital Outflows
4. Inflation and Interest Rate Differential
5. Weak Economic Data
6. Central Bank Policies
7. Geopolitical and Market Sentiment
8. Speculation and Hedging		 1. Strong U.S. Dollar
2. Foreign Investment Outflows
3. High Crude Oil Prices
4. Inflation and Interest Rate Differentials
5. Geopolitical Tensions and Global Economic Uncertainty
6. Current Account Deficit
7. RBI Interventions
8. Market Sentiment and Speculation

Rupee falling is consistent, but what has fallen during Modi’s era is First Amendment

Here are the comments made by celebrities before 2014

Falling rupee matters least to these celebrities as they all stay and are invested in Western Countries. What is sad is that they have lost their voice – Freedom of Speech.

Selfie by Shweta Bachchan

 

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Russian daredevil Kirill Oreshkin taking a selfie atop a hi rise building

I have conveniently dropped the Nanda at the end to make it more appealing. Yes it is Sr Bachchan’s daughter writing about Selfie. Not surprisingly very eloquent article; she hails from writers family, her father and grand father. Found it very interesting to note that she is totally against the selfies while she is surrounded by huge personalities.

Selfie was immortalized by Ellen DeGeneres of course promoting the phone she held at Oscars. The picture itself was beautiful with all the Hollywood stars posing  triumphantly for the shot, then it went viral on Twitter.

I am not so much against the selfies, but I tend to agree with Shweta on the self indulgence of we humans. Although selfie can be used as medium to capture everybody in the group, but like she says, why do it, if there several other tourists around you who would be glad to help you out. Builds human interaction and social acquaintance.

She also vents about the children taking selfies with duck face. Sure she being a mother herself would be annoyed by that, but it is still cute as long they are limited to children. Unfortunately lots of adults have never grown out of their childhood and progress into belfies.

Selfies has taken a sinister turn, which she is not addressing, the deaths related to Selfies is overwhelming. The picture posted above is that of a Russian daredevil Kirill Oreshkin has earned a name as Russian Spiderman for his selfies atop a hi-rise buildings. Call it daredevil or dumb move, one mis-step could cause his death. Other daredevils have not been so lucky who have succumbed to death, pricenomics lists such deaths in this article.

Mumbai police has posted a sign for Selfie daredevils,

Don’t make ‘taking a selfie‘ mean ‘taking your own life‘.

scores of people are dead taking a selfie near Marine Drive or Bandra seaface. Statistics have shown that India had almost 60 percent of deaths of all selfies.

Finally Shweta ends her blog with a satirical note, where she contacted her doctor for sunburns over the phone, to which her doctor responded, “Send a Selfie”, you can read her entire article here.