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BJP giant-killer Parvesh Verma’s MP connection

BJP’s ‘giant killer’ Parvesh Verma, who defeated Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the Assembly polls, has a strong connection with Madhya Pradesh, as he is the son-in-law of BJP’s veteran leader and former union minister from Madhya Pradesh, Vikram Verma (81).

Missed Calls~I

On the one hand, is the glory: A phone in every Indian hand with a massive subscriber base of 1,203.69 million. On the other hand, is the goriness of an unequal populace with more than 680 million people remaining offline across India (early 2024 numbers), making India “home to the world’s largest ‘unconnected’ population.”

Waking to a larger tragedy

Loneliness is the supreme fact of our existence. How many of us have close friends with whom we enjoy sharing our life? How many couples live without a single word of empathy in a day or a week? How much and how often do we sense that we have none to share a special thought or feeling, the odd sensation you had seeing something on television, reading something in a newspaper, hearing something on the telephone?