Piyush Goyal ji couching reduced employment figures in the economic survey in the fourth industrial revolution and the gig economy on NDTV. As creative as it can get.

One of the greatest features of the hyper digital era, more information than we can process juncture, euphemistically called Big Data, unimaginatively reduced to a term which no one really understands properly, is the obsession with the instant, outcomes and monetisation of our everyday activities think how social media companies make money of our likes, shares and quips. The lack of the reasonable long term is changing the superficial without tackling the basics of rights, agriculture and climate change. The vexed is so uncool.

Trump and his shock doctrine decision making is reframing how we define our everyday life and the larger geopolitical narrative arc since 1945. Our lives are in a flux between the structuralist modern, a broach from the traditional, brushing with new radical thought and a revision back to our primal selves, as a addressing to that globalisation has not created winners, jobs have been lost to China. The post modern is surreal, a blur and the world order is being disrupted with very old school racist pandering. The digital, which is so called modern is a surveillance tool in the eternal panopticon, is being deployed to amplify the neo-colonial prejudices. Then in this times, I wonder; what is the true modern? Are the data points on the digital a reflection of history making? Or is a brief distance in terms of time critical in meaning making of the continual discourses of our time? Power to frame what is considered modern, is also an interrogation in to the modernity that we celebrate. Silicon Valley is suddenly realising that Capitol Hill is relevant, and not the past masters. Trump is manufacturing a rupture in terms of the status quo. Peter Thiel has a back up plan with a NZ Passport since 2011. 

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38,500 cr for MNREGA in the Budget is the biggest validation Modiji can give for a social sector scheme which was once derided do its graft. Food and Income Security Schemes are band aid for the rural sector, but very relevant as these are the often the last resort for the poor. Even if the two Arvind’s with US Green Cards criticised subsidies, the politics of the hinterland not Dalal Street matter with regional polls around the corner. By the way, the real need for MNREGA is 48000 cr as a base figure and 80,000 cr demand from the states. It is a demand led program from the states. 
It’s a ‘Munim ji’s’ Budget as Nitin Desai quips in Rajdeep Sardesai’s program today evening. A conservative budget to patch the deleterious impacts of Demonetisation. The Big Bang was carried out on 8th November 2016.
As a flip side mirror image, the Mobikwik CEO says, that digital and cashless payments was mentioned for the maximum number of times.
Good point of the Budget: Affordable Housing gets infrastructure status

The meltdown is real and it is showing across media and digital. State power lies in the legal and security apparatus, and no amount of soft power and business can help. The passport control queues are the greatest equaliser available. The ability of the tech class to undermine the political elite will bite back in ways unforeseen as the non globalised class, the rural white poor who have realised that they cannot eat their globally mobile passports while living on food stamps. The ban on visas for a few selected (fragile and poor) countries is the biggest hint of de-globalisation and the resurrection of walls, which were present but are amplifies now. The 9/11 backlash is not over. It is just getting started. Social Media reactions although algorithmically skewed, are currently a rough draft of history as the real time archive of events.

The modern is being curated every second. This backlash is also a revolt against modern values, privileging primal biases. The man from a ranch from Montana cannot place Mogadishu, without googling it. The realtor from NY is no better, with properties in Pune and Kolkata. The ‘Us versus Them’ binary is the process of othering and othering is symbolic violence. The world has changed forever.

The ‘Remonetise India’ Campaign sponsored by the powerful Times Network is an amazingly skillful spin on humanising the impacts of Demonetisation, deploying celebrity power to influence the english speaking middle class to use less cash (the entire point of the demonetisation debate), so that the rural hinterland has access to cash, and they can keep their jobs. Such a deep indictment of the crisis. Glamour does not band aid the situation.

Stardust Sansui Colors Awards 2017, the presenters Abhishek Bachchan and Retiesh Deshmukh crack a joke by paying ‘Homage’ to the 500/1000 rupee denomination note, making every one stand up on the pretext of honouring the departed souls for the past year. The celebrities cracked up. Another anecdote in the popular imagination regarding demonetisation.

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