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I don't understand the hype behind the messaging app. The hype exists only because the app is made in , which don't get me wrong, is indeed a plus point for us Indians but it also needs to compete with established players in terms of tech, you can't just expect people to blindly jump ship just because of the tag.

It doesn't even have end-to-end encryption for messages which is laughable for a messaging app in 2025, seriously!

Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India by Knut A. Jacobsen, 2015

India is the second largest country in the world with regard to population, the world’s largest democracy and by far the largest country in South Asia, and one of the most diverse and pluralistic nations in the world in terms of official languages, cultures, religions and social identities.



Indians have for centuries exchanged ideas with other cultures globally and some traditions have been transformed in those transnational and transcultural encounters and become successful innovations with an extraordinary global popularity. India is an emerging global power in terms of economy, but in spite of India’s impressive economic growth over the last decades, some of the most serious problems of Indian society such as poverty, repression of women, inequality both in terms of living conditions and of opportunities such as access to education, employment, and the economic resources of the state persist and do not seem to go away. Now available in paperback, this Handbook contains chapters by the field’s foremost scholars dealing with fundamental issues in India’s current cultural and social transformation and concentrates on India as it emerged after the economic reforms and the new economic policy of the 1980s and 1990s and as it develops in the twenty-first century.

⚠️ Confirmed: Network data show a disruption to internet connectivity in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, amid clashes between Hindu and Muslim communities, as authorities issue a shutdown order to telecoms operators in order to restore "peace and tranquility"

Graph from NetBlocks showing network connectivity by region in India from September 25, 2025, to September 27, 2025. The y-axis represents normalized connectivity, ranging from 0% to 100%, and the x-axis represents the dates. The green line representing Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh's connectivity remains stable most of the time period, with a sharp drop on September 27. The drop in connectivity aligns with protests between religios groups. The minimum and current connectivity levels are indicated as 0% and 17%, respectively. The chart has a dark background.

The Ganges River is drying at an unprecedented rate, new study finds

The Ganges River is in crisis. This lifeline for around 600 million people in India and neighboring countries is experiencing its worst drying period in 1,300 years. Using a combination of historical data, paleoclimate records and hydrological models, researchers from IIT Gandhinagar and the University of Arizona discovered that human activity is the main cause. They also found that the current drying is more severe than any recorded drought in the river's history.

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-ganges-river-drying-unprecedented.html