Sunil Rajguru's World: Recent Episodes
Sunil Rajguru
Whether it’s the financial crisis of 1991, the Y2K alarm of 1999 or the pandemic disaster of recent times, you can always count on India to get out of any crisis and be in a much better position than before.
To me a visit to the multiplex is unappealing. The prices. The commute. The security checks to get in. The overpriced bad food.
It is quite possible that in a few decades, the Top 3 powers in the world will be America, China and India.
In the New York Film Critics Circle awards, SS Rajamouli picked up Best Director, beating all the Hollywood directors. It even picked up a Saturn.
He has the greatest story to tell full of struggles, ups and downs, humiliations which he triumphed from and of course records galore.
Today Pakistan is a country is shambles and a failed state. But if you look at the last 75 years, then Pakistan has only itself to blame.
1930s had the grand airship, while subsequent air travel was still luxurious and laidback till the 1990s. In the 2020s, it promises to be a nightmare.
Bollywood seems to have finally lost its mojo. Can it keep up with the times and survive the onslaught of streaming?
What new monster will rise from the ashes when mainstream media finally bites the dust and Social Media goes on steroids?
The way we disseminate news has been changing for millennia. But the greatest disruption has occurred in the Social Media Age. We’re all in Global Village Silos.
In at least one aspect, MS Dhoni has won much more than all the Indian captains put together in its entire cricketing history.
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Whether it’s the films that are made or the causes that we take up, there is no more room for local solutions, but it has to be one global solution.
It’s been 20 years since 9/11, but the entire world continues to suffer in its after-effects in more ways than one.
America became supreme with the fall of the USSR in 1991. But Afghanistan, the Graveyard of Empires, claims its latest victim.
It’s not just about the epidemic, but the functioning of the world itself has changed along with all our lifestyles. We are getting locked inside our personal well-stocked digital silos.
Millionaires and Billionaires are so passe. Why can’t we use terms like Kharabpatis and Neelpatis? The Indian numbering system has its own popular and not so popular terms.
The Rs 1 Crore Club was created in 1943 with Kismet. The 350 Crore Club was created with Dangal in 2016. Thanks to Covid, will we never have the 400 Crore Club? Or will that be with OTT revenues?
The Kargil War ended in July 1999. Since then there has been no outright war between India and Pakistan and no major conflict too. May it stay that way.
It is a myth that there is a Fossil Fuel Industry. We are in fact a Fossil Fuel Civilization. And we may not come out of it in the near future.
We have an unlimited demand for oil. We have an unlimited supply of oil. What that means is that oil may last forever, or as long as mankind lasts. We may never come out of fossil fuel dependence.
Certain industries have gone into terminal decline. Others have seen a growth acceleration. We can’t imagine what 2030 will be like. We are witnessing a brand new era unfolding in front of us.
If you look purely at the data, then we are living in the greatest age in human history. We may still come out of the Covid Crisis stronger.
So much of the school syllabus that we studied is outdated but many more changes are in the offing. The global textbooks are yet to keep pace with all of this.
Hinduism has been evolving over the millennia and is totally different from what it used to be. It still continues to change thanks to its adherents, much like open coders.
A look at the global elections in the 2010s in the time of Social Media feeds tailored by algorithms. Mankind may have already lost out.
Why I think Artificial Intelligence will create a newer world with job types we cannot imagine and augment a declining global population. That's been the story of any new tech that comes into play.
What are the chances? My life is full of co-incidences from little ones to elaborate ones. Talking about some of them.