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Return to India Memories: Poor As God and Poor As Customer Providing Work - The Great Indian Escape From Poverty

For the five years before traveling to US , I was mainly working with a computer for my earning . I work ed with people in an affluent space and people outside as well . I dealt with real humans on the ground and outside, when interacting and working with the under privileged on countless occasions . Be it during pandemic times working in public hospitals, distributing food, grocery items during lockdowns , distributing covid kits , taking surveys of the affected, teaching students in public schools, preparing them for scholarship tests, working with great NGOs and government etc ; the heck of activity was around serving poor. I was really in wonder at the time how we are working on the ground for the under privileged and the immense activity undertaken in a mission mode. The beautiful times took me to US and nothing else. This is the job at hand for me on the ground and nothing else. The poor are my most important customers and the poverty has been transformed into...
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Should They Be Jailed: World's Two Most 'Dangerous' Leaders of Contemporary Times

The meaning of "dangerous" has never been fixed. It has evolved with every generation of powerful men who wielded it. Napoleon Bonaparte's danger lay in armies on the march—conquest measured in territory seized and dynasties toppled. A century later, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin industrialized destruction itself, converting entire state machineries into instruments of mass death and demonstrating that ideology could kill on a scale battlefields never had. Mao Zedong and Pol Pot turned that danger inward, showing that a ruler could devastate his own people as thoroughly as any invading force. Saddam Hussein carried the model into the late twentieth century: regional aggression, internal repression, and defiance of the international order combined in a single figure. With each era, the nature of the threat changed—from the general on horseback to the totalitarian bureaucrat to the regional strongman—but the constant was a leader whose personal decisions determined wheth...
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