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The signs of Being the “Andha”Bhakt and What we can do about it?

So, the topic seems relevant isn’t it? Everyday the twitter, facebook, whatsapp seem to be flooded with the terms such “anti-national”. The hatred, misinformation, fake information, religious so called “thoughts”, the historical references, the great Indian History of Mahabharata and Ramayana (I am proud of them but I oppose the false interpretation being widespread on national media just to spread the Hindutva Propaganda), and much more strikes us on whatsapp university daily. The fact that most of us consider this true without verifying the source and authenticity of information is alarming. Educated individuals who consider them literate are no exception as well. Infodemics in this digital era (i.e. the spread of the fake information) is more dangerous and needs to be tackled. Many governments and international organisations are working on this. Just to illustrate the scenario consider the below photo and the views expressed in it regarding the #9Baje9Minute diya lighting activity ...

FaceApp:A threat to privacy...Really...???

FaceApp a name which you might have heard a few days back or today as well... It's the app which increases your age and shows how you would look up when view would have grown up... Many memes appeared on the internet on this topic and as usual the discussion stopped. So why do you really need to bother about it? Recently some news media flash news with titles like “Faceapp is a privacy threat and it has acquired data of 120 million Indians” . If you say this is a threat to our privacy, then it might not be wrong to say that Facebook, Google and Snapchat are the king of this privacy theft industry. As a topic has come to mind let's explore it... You install many apps or you might have been using hundreds of apps on your smartphone. Have you ever wondered what the privacy terms and condition included? Or else without reading those long privacy statements you just accepted them and started enjoying the app. In fact, it might take days to understand th...