Aarca Research won the 5th Commonwealth Digital Health Award

My wife Gayathri's startup Aarca Research's product IHRA (Intelligent Health Risk Assessment) won the 5th Commonwealth Digital Health Awards in the non-communicable diseases healthtech category. The awards are from the Commonwealth Center for Digital Health CWCDH which serves as the central hub of the Commonwealth Digital Health Network. Judges included medical practitioners, regulators, and policymakers.

This year, 14 products across the Commonwealth were the winners in different categories.

#cwcdh2022

'Temples of India' website

'Temples of India' is the world's largest online repository of Hindu temples. It is a not-for-profit knowledge platform to document and store possibly all details of temples. 

templesofindia.org

As of now, it has details of more than 7.5 lakh temples. The young team behind this initiative have done an excellent job of bringing out a decent first version of the portal over the last three years. However, it is surprising that none of the cash-rich temples or religious organisations started such an initiative earlier.

Oh no.... Abe...

You were a gift... born to play your notable role for peace and order globally.

I learnt today that the idea of Quad was actually from Shinzo Abe. My respect for him has increased even more.

#ShinzoAbe #geopolitics

Example of fake propaganda against India by certain media powers

See this media post in the homepage of the highly popular CNN. The headline is blatantly false. The headline says that the Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi left BJP. That is not factually true. He remains within BJP and did not resign from the party. His Rajya Sabha term finished, the party took a decision to not to give him another term and thus he had to resign as a minister.

There are many such fake propaganda news articles that frequently get published in the Western media. Only a fool denies an agenda-driven operation behind this.

Note: This post is not in defence of any political party or any religion. This post is to throw light on the ongoing propaganda that is against Indian interests.

Venkatesa Suprabhatam rendition at a natural pace

The length of commercially-available tape recorder cassette is typically 22 minutes. So the great singer MS Subbulakshmi and few others had sung Venkatesa Suprabhatam over the last few decades in a bit rushed manner to fit to 21 minutes of recording. Now listen to the rendition at a natural pace in 27:36 min.

We can observe that the suprabhatam is more beautiful and soothing if sung at a natural pace. This latest rendition is sung by Divakar Subramaniam.

Glad that AP Government has dumped the total liquor prohibition policy

Gradual decrease of liquor availability and eventual total liquor prohibition was one of the "Navaratnalu" of Jagan's Government. It was a poll promise. I am glad that this policy has been dumped because it did not make any practical sense.

An adult should have access to buy alcohol if he/she can afford it. There is already substantial awareness about the ill-effects of drinking alcohol. In spite of this, if someone drinks alcohol, it is their choice.

Indian Defence Forces are not an employment creation scheme

The purpose of Indian defence forces (Army, Navy, Air Force, other wings) is not to act as an employment creation scheme. They devise a mechanism for recruitment based on their requirement and the budget allocated to them.

Coming to Agnipath scheme, it is a wonderful approach. The obvious benefits are:

• The composition of the Forces becomes younger. Now it is a bit older than desirable.
• The Forces save money (our taxpayers money) that can used to buy valuable combat equipment.

What about those fail to get a permanent job after 4 years? Well, they can try for a job with their existing skills. Or, reskill themselves for their desired job.