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We are in the middle of a new AI revolution that is going to change media forever. This could give a push to the saturating and plateaued social media. It could also make it even more difficult to reach a wider audience due to higher competition. To contemplate and guess what may happen, we must understand how changing media changed societies and civilizations. It does three things – unites a type of people, divides or polarizes a group, democratizes a previous media system, and makes content more local, but reduces wider reach. Creation of Insiders, but also Outsiders   Invention of Languages When early humans invented languages, they became more organized and developed tribes and societies. But this also clearly defined the concept of an ‘insider’ and ‘outsider’. When they came in contact with tribes which didn’t speak their languages, the idea of insider and outsider became clearer. This also led to clashes and cultural feuds.   Invention of Writing Systems When...

 India is full of colours, flavours, and contrasts. This is quite evident in the country’s cuisine. But for the past few years, everything has been moving towards homogeneity. Earlier, some kinds of foods were consumed only on a certain occasion. This kept the taste utility intact. Thanks to capitalism, now any food anytime and anywhere.  Then entered some new cuisines to enrich our taste buds. But slowly, even they adopted to Indian taste and became very Indianised. While all this was reaching its saturation, a new wave of food flooded the markets. Experimental fusion of anything and everything possible. By fusion I mean, the same common ingredients being overused everywhere. Once there was butter chicken, pizza, pasta, and shawarma. But now we have butter chicken, butter chicken pizza, butter chicken pasta, and butter chicken shawarma. Butter Chicken Pizza This fusion wasn’t a bad idea initially. But only a few popular flavours slowly started taking over every diverse fo...

 Hello! I have created a new YouTube channel where I express and explain ideas related to history, mythology and popular fiction. Its posts are somewhat similar to my blog here. I have also created a new blog for that channel where I post same content but in blog format. I am sharing links of that channel. So, follow and subscribe them as I am kind of migrating to that channel and blog. I would continue to post my other thoughts here in this blog. Thank you for your support. - Pranav Gogwekar PRAV YAV NAV YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsZVlrebUPU2COP0NhpzNvw Blogger:  https://pravyavnav.blogspot.com/ Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/pravyavnav Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/prav.yav.nav

I have seen people many times discussing and ridiculing the term 'Hindu atheism' in social media comments. They find it hard to comprehend how can an Atheist be a Hindu or how can a Hindu be an atheist. Hinduism is a religion and so a Hindu must be a believer of God. If he believes in God then how can someone be an atheist? Well it's not as simple as that. Hinduism is not a monolithic religion with one book, one ideology. Hinduism is actually an amalgamation of many schools of thoughts and philosophies that existed in ancient India. These philosophies sometimes disagreed with each other. These schools of thoughts were broadly divided into two types: Astika or Orthodox and Nastika or Heterodox. Today Astika is translated as Believer and Nastika as Atheist, but that was not strictly the case then. It was with reference to simply accepting or rejecting the authority of the Vedas. Nastika schools of thoughts included Jainism, Buddhism, Charavaka, Ajivika etc. which later...

Diwali also known as Dipavali, which is festival of lights. Although the present scenario in cities of modern India (@least in Mumbai) contradicts the meaning of the festival. The festival of lights is celebrated as festival of noise. Fireworks were used as they gave lights, which were followed by bombs & other crackers which gives 2% light, 48% smoke and 50% noise. It seems like the main intention of celebrating a festival is to trouble people around. Many people have asthma problems; many people mostly due to old age have timid ears and can even get a heart attack after listening the kaboom noise of the crackers. Even during marriages and Ganpati visarjan , traffic jam and making loud noise with weird dances on the streets are common. They don't care if an ambulance have to pass by or if there is hospital in that area.  Indian festivals have now became the best examples of mockery. Festivals are celebrated by troubling other people. Not ju...