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Some food for thought "I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father." —William Shakespeare (English writer 1564-1616) Word for the day Ideogram (n) A written symbol that represents an idea or object directly rather than a particular word or speech sound, as a Chinese character.   First thought this morning I chanced upon a twitter handle @theworldindex. It has some very interesting data about various countries in the world. Though there is no way to authenticate the data, but intuitively I can say it does not sound too off the mark in many cases. The following is some data I found interesting to note and actionable for the government. Chart of the day Use PSE for public good There are hundreds of not for profit organizations that have been set by government in post independence period. These organizations are f...

Some food for thought "If you have tears, prepare to shed them now." —William Shakespeare (English writer 1564-1616) Word for the day Remora (n) An obstacle, hindrance, or obstruction.   First thought this morning In past two months the BJP led NDA governments have done few uncharacteristic things. That must have confused a lot of political strategists advising the opposition parties. For example, (1) Transgender rights bill has been introduced in the parliament; (2) unprecedented high number of top bureaucrats has been arrested/suspended in corruption cases; (3) no major BJP leader has uttered the "Ram Mandir" or "Ayodhya" word post election results; (4) BJP accounted for 93% of all corporate donations in run up to the elections, still BJP has refused to concede to any demand of corporate lobby in the recent budget; (5) Women right to work at night and domestic workers' rights bills cleared b...