Progberg @progberg

I just like being right. Joined December 2009

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Progberg @progberg

7 years ago

Right to criticise one’s own history and the right to ‘offend’ are rights protected under free speech. While it is essential to protect national integrity, it should not be misused as a tool to curb free speech.

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7 years ago

Populist leaders undermine democracy by harnessing its mechanisms for their own benefit. They succeed by purporting to have a unique ability to speak for voters disadvantaged in unequal societies. Authoritarianism festers in such conditions.

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7 years ago

We are heading towards a situation where we are discrediting the institutions that build collective trust, and creating conditions where only force determines who is right.

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7 years ago

India does not yet have a law to ensure data protection or to define the process of obtaining consent from individuals before using their data.

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7 years ago

Seven in 10 Indians trust regional news over English-language sources, according to a 2017 study by KPMG and Google.

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7 years ago

The total number of individual taxpayers as on September 30, 2017, at 6.08 crore, constituted only 4.86 per cent of India’s total population of 125 crore.

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Progberg @progberg

8 years ago

A house divided against itself cannot stand. In the Mahabharata, as long as the five Pandavas stood together, they ruled over Indraprastha. The Supreme Court should remember this.

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Progberg @progberg

8 years ago

Lack of thirst for truth and knowledge is our downfall.

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8 years ago

An independent judiciary is imperative for a democracy. Critical questions raised by four senior most judges of the Supreme court have not been resolved. The CJI is one among equals on the judicial side, but he has vast powers on the administrative side.

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Progberg @progberg

8 years ago

Defend Institutions: It is institutions that help us to preserve decency… Do not speak of “our institutions” unless you make them yours by acting on their behalf. Institutions do not protect themselves.

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8 years ago

Caste is perhaps inescapable. But we can be more self-aware about its imprisoning logic. We don’t know who we are. We get that confident certainty that we know who we are, or who other are by slotting them into boxes.

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8 years ago

Tamil Nadu is on the top of the states with a potential loss of Rs 10,537 crore each year, followed by Kerala with Rs 7,773 crore and Andhra Pradesh with Rs 6557 crore if the 15th Finance Commission goes by the its terms of reference.

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Progberg @progberg

8 years ago

Battery experts recommend that you avoid leaving your phone on overnight charging, avoid hitting the 100% mark (95% good) and inculcate the habit of juicing up the device frequently and in small doses.

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Progberg @progberg

8 years ago

Facebook says, it does not collect the content of messages any longer — and will delete all logs older than one year and Messenger apps will now “only upload to our servers the information needed to offer messaging — not broader data such as the time of calls."

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Progberg @progberg

8 years ago

All efforts at crushing free voice have been fought and eventually defeated. But the threat is never far away. If freedom and democracy are things to enjoy, they are equally, and more critically, things to defend.

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8 years ago

Troubled governments often turn on the media as first resort. The Emergency isn't the only example of it in our annals, although it must rank as the harshest, most determined effort at dictatorship. Rajiv Gandhi framed and floated the anti-defamation bill.

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8 years ago

WhatsApp now has 1.5 billion monthly active users (MAUs) who are exchanging nearly 60 billion messages on a single day. It has over 200 million users in India.

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8 years ago

The total seizure and attachment of diamond, gold, precious and semi-precious stones and other movable and immovable assets in the Nirav Modi case stand at Rs 7,664 crore.

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8 years ago

The amount transacted through mobile wallets went up 34% year on year in Jan 2018 compared to January 2017.

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8 years ago

The previous few months have seen the resignation or ouster of several editors who ran their newspapers or channels or television shows with a high degree of independence and who kept their distance from the NDA-led Narendra Modi government.