Yuva Uttarakhand

By Mukesh Devrari  It has been repeated quite often in our media that the economies of India and China were almost equal in size nearly three decades ago. However, today China’s economy is more than six times larger than India’s. The remarkable success of China’s economy has not only changed the global economic landscape but has also pushed the frontiers of human achievement in various areas, including space exploration, artificial intelligence, and manufacturing. Perhaps the most significant impact of China’s economic development has been the lifting of more than 800 million people out of poverty—an unprecedented achievement in human history. As a result, the entire developing world now looks up to China in an attempt to understand how such an economic transformation was made possible. Many countries in Southeast Asia, most prominently Vietnam, are actively replicating China’s development model. Meanwhile, India continues to struggle with industrialization and is attempting to emu...

By Mukesh Devrari The BBC’s film on PM Narendra Modi repeated the allegations that have been making rounds for the last two decades. The Gujarat riots took place in 2002. The riots started after the Godhra train was burned by Muslims, killing 59 Hindus. The Hindu mobs attacked Muslims with a sense of impunity, and Narendra Modi, as the Chief Minister, watched the carnage for three days. The first allegation against him was that he did nothing to stop people from killing each other. Rather, right-wing media and low-ranking office bearers of his party justified the riots as a reaction to the attack on the Godhra train carrying Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya. The BBC’s documentary also mentioned that the Home Minister of Gujarat, Hiren Pandya, was killed in dubious circumstances by a bullet wound at some place and later his body was placed inside his car. It indirectly suggested that Modi was behind the killing. The documentary also alleged that two police officers who spoke agai...