Jigyasa - The Quiz Club

  On November 24, 2020, the government of India's most populated state passed an ordinance against forced religious conversion done for marriage. Its formal name was the Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion ordinance, and it got a very media-friendly catchy term: "Love Jihad" Months later the ordinance was converted into an act by the legislative assembly of UP.   You may think that it's a normal incident occurring in only a single Indian state. But Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttrakhand have introduced such laws. Now you could say that this issue exists because these states are BJP-ruled states and it wants to impose Hindu-nationalistic politics in the country. But there is another side - several Indian citizens are supporting these laws. A research study published by the Pew Institute in 2021 reported that 76% of Hindus who feel being Hindu is very important to truly be Indian, feel that they need to stop Hindu women from marrying outside their rel...

  India was a miracle democracy, in my opinion. It's time, though, to reduce its credentials. A nation forged from the ashes of many others Even the most daring venture capitalists would not have invested in the country if it had been founded in 1947. “The Sikhs may try to build up a separate regime,” wrote Gen. Claude Auchinleck, the final British commander in chief of the Indian Army, shortly after India gained independence. I believe they will, and that this will be only the beginning of a widespread decentralisation and dismantling of the idea that India is a country, rather than a diverse subcontinent like Europe. A Punjabi and a Madrassi are as different as a Scot and an Italian. The British attempted to consolidate it but were unsuccessful.No one can construct a nation out of a continent full of them.” Predictions like these were common in the early years of independence. According to the wisest Western observers, India could not exist as a single entity, and it could never ...

  Hey, would you come with me to the 1950s' India? Think about that time for once, The country is made independent recently, and there are very few opportunities, Poverty is there in the country, And the women's condition was even worse, They have to be at home only, Most of them were not educated, Hence, starting a startup was a big deal for anybody at that time, And if all of them are women, and they talk about starting a startup, then people would have laughed, But during such times in the 1950s, seven women came together, They met each other on the house's roof, Contributed 80 rupees and started making 'Papads' And this startup was profitable from the first day, And the name of this startup was Lijjat Papad.  Actually, these were Gujarati women and lijjat means tasty in Gujarati, And today, this business has become a company worth 16000 crores, Which even exports different things to other countries too, And to tell you what they did, I will tell you the story in...