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In today’s world, millennials have enormous obstacles when it comes to choosing jobs or getting into institutions that need high percentages. There are several possibilities and choices available, but it is difficult to choose one due to family and peer pressures, as well as incorrect counselling. Following in the footsteps of previous generations, the military forces have been the primary professional choice. The government last week introduced Agnipath, a recruitment paradigm for inducting personnel into the armed services for a specific timeframe. The two objectives of this scheme were one, to create a younger force and two, to develop a disciplined youth that would be available for employment. A good first step is the government announcement of 10% reservation for agniveers in Central Armed police forces, Assam rifles and Ministry of defence. Some of the benefits of this scheme include: 1) Exposing India’s youth to a disciplined lifestyle instilling valour, nationalism and passion ...

Some argue that 25 years after independence, we Indians haven't accomplished much in terms of standing on our own as self reliant, Aatmanirbhar citizens. From then till today, we've squandered and lost a lot of time. Two generations have passed with nothing of great eminence taking place. I, on the contrary believe that we as Indians have accomplished a great deal in the first quarter century, which we should never forget and be immensely proud of. In this year, when we commemorate the 75th anniversary of our country's independence, it's important to remind ourselves of the milestones we've achieved since then. Three years after independence, India gave itself a constitution to eternally boast of. It enshrines the value and freedom we cherish today. The country had its first national election two years later, in which every adult, rich or poor, literate or illiterate, had the right to vote. This is taken for granted nowadays, but it was a newfound freedom back then....

Telephone… radio… television… the Internet... the Printing press… Papyrus... Throughout history, whenever a new medium of communication emerges, many people, including many government officials, get highly anxious about the new power and the purported new dangers and evils it brings along. With the increasing impact of social media, there are eruptions of fear and outburst of terror about the new power to disseminate information and the potential harm that information and disinformation may cause. Today's social media platforms present the same difficulties that we've been dealing with with regard to older media. The social impact of big tech is at an all time high and so is the censorship of content on these platforms. As the power of the common person waned, the power of the Big Tech grew - power over attention, over time, over users’ judgment and eventually power over their speech. Censorship is a problem that has managed to visit every corner of history, from ancient civili...

“Privacy isn’t about something to hide. Privacy is about something to protect! Nobody wants their confidential, sensitive, and intimate information to be communicated and viewed by others on the net. Encryption is a valuable privacy tool that allows us to share with the world who we are on our own terms. An encryption algorithm protects the data we send and receive by altering the legible data into jumbled cipher text/randomized code that hides the information’s true meaning and makes it impossible for the hackers to decipher. The text is made to be illegible, and only those with a secret code or decryption key can decipher it. The algorithms restructure this jumbled data in such a way that a decryption key may readily convert it back to a readable format. Nowadays, WhatsApp is the most popular and secure instant messaging application and most of its users feel safe when interacting on it. That’s because all the chats are end-to-end encrypted and no third party apart from the sender an...