Thursday, May 21, 2020

20,000 Crore Central Vista Redevelopment - Mungerilal Ke Haseen Sapne? | Analysis on The Deshbhakt

Our economy may be in the ICU and our nation may be battling an unprecedented medical / financial emergency...yet the Govt is moving ahead with its ambitious plan to redevelop the capital's Central Vista area. The project, which will be executed by HCP designs, includes construction of a new triangular Parliament building next to the existing one, common Central Secretariat and revamping of the 3-km-long Rajpath — from Rashtrapati Bhavan to India Gate. It also proposes a new PM residence at Rajpath. Many existing heritage buildings are expected to be demolished soon - so that the new central vista is ready by the time India celebrates its 75th Independence Day. Under normal circumstances and with a growing economy - this may have been acceptable and even welcome...but with Govt. coffers running on empty and economy touching historic lows - this vanity project is a poor joke on people who are struggling to make ends meet!


Tuesday, May 19, 2020

it's Migrants vs Apathy!! | The Deshbhakt's - RoastChallenge for CarryMinati

Who wants to shed tears seeing migrants battle for survival - trying to get home?? Even if this video does not get demonitized (which it will) / it may be pulled down - even if it survives - it will never get the views that catfights do. However The DeshBhakt family wanted this - so we did it. We cried a lot while making it and if this video upsets you - then that is a good sign - shows that there is humanity around us ..... and finally towards the end this video - there is little challenge to CarryMinati - because he is so talented & he can can really create an impact - IF he wants. BUT FIRST A LITTLE BACKGROUND FOR THOSE WHO LIVE UNDER A ROCK AND DONT KNOW ABOUT THE BIGGEST SOCIAL MEDIA BATTLE OF OUR TIMES - It all started with a squabble between creators on the TikTok platform and YouTubers.... over who is better / more original & pulling in more viewers (read money). It landed up being a full scale class war - with cuss words / allegations / homophobia and derision - that has torn the competing social media platforms into two. Not only that - there is a full blown communal angle being added by the media in this. While the nation has been witnessing the WORST internal migrant crisis in its history (on the back of an unprecedented medial and economic disaster) - YouTube has been agonising over why CarryMinati's roast video of Amir Siddiqui was taken down by the platform managers..... So for a brief moment Team Deshbhakt was in self-doubt over the whole point of making a video on migrants .... when majority of people didn't give a flying F over what was going on, when every second video on the platform was YouTube vs TikTok. Finally a quick poll in the Deshbhakt Community (with close to a lakh voters) gave us the confidence that we were doing the right thing. Feels good to have a mature / sensible audience - no matter how small. SO HERE WE ARE This video is a sorry to migrants - whom we have failed.This video is a tribute - to those brave journalists who are out there reporting the truthThis video is a wake up call - to social media brats to wake up for once and smell the rot that is brewing around us This video is meant to make us uncomfortable - because then maybe we can start feeling something Hope you like it - hope you join us on the Deshbhakt to more such hard hitting videos.