The Howling Lupine

The IT revolution has bought several changes in India. It changed what was an agriculture based economy to a country with strong service sector. It opened avenues for employment in the form of foreign based and even domestic IT/ITES companies using the extensive skill force available in India. The government has also realised the importance of IT and decided to use it for what we call it e-governance. The prime minister of India SHRI Narendra Modi has introduced "Digital India" to revolutionize e-governance and digitalise Government departments. Taking an inspiration from Digital India the government of Andhra Pradesh has introduced e-pragati, it was launched by SHRI Nara Chandrababu Naidu on october 9th at Visakhapatnam. The IT revolution is not new to the Telugu land. Mr. Naidu, when he was the chief minister of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh (Telangana and Seemandhra combined) was always a proponent of IT to bring out a sustainable development. Due to his efforts Hyderabad

“India lives in her villages” these words were said by Mahatma Gandhi. Yes, Majority of the Indian population lives in rural areas hence to attain sustainable economic prosperity it is necessary to focus on the development of rural areas. Every state must develop programmes towards upliftment of the rural economy but one state has already started focusing on rural upliftment   and that state is Andhra Pradesh. Under the leadership of Shri Nara Chandrababu Naidu the government of Andhra Pradesh has brought the revolutionary scheme called “Smart Village”. Smart village is a village adoption scheme which enables responsible citizens or simply partners to adopt a village of their choice and develop that village in collaboration with gram panchayat committee. Quite an innovative scheme isn’t it? It involves citizens and making it a social responsibility. This scheme has achieved wide scale recognition and many NRIS, film personalities, industrialists, corporate houses and even bureauc

Recently the country has witnessed writers and film personalities returning awards in protest over the rising intolerance and government’s inaction to contain it. This led to a wide scale debate in the country spread across various platforms like media and  social media whether the protest is justified or not How did it start? It all started with a lynching incident in a village called Dadri , Uttar Pradesh where a man named Mohammad Akhlaq Saifi was killed by a mob over the allegation that he killed a cow . This incident has sparked the whole nation with leaders across various parties taking advantage of the incident and “communal politics” entered the scene. Famous writer Nayantara Sahagal who happens to be the niece of Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru started this “Award returning” campaign by returning her Sahitya Akademi Award in protest over the  Dadri incident. Then many writers followed suit returning their awards later joined by film personalities and even scientists.  Every cit