But the Modi that the world has been seeing is highly democratic, visionary, hardworking, tech savvy and result oriented. I'd argue that a human being, especially a politician cannot transform from what press had shown earlier to what the world has witnessed in last two years.
Clearly the press got a wrong POV about Modi earlier and I'd not hesitate to say that it was a strategic and intentional propaganda from Modi's opponents in the country, as he's made life hell for the corrupts in his state Gujrat and they were clearly frightened as he'd be the face of the party in future for national election.
>>> The websites that have been blocked were based on an advisory by Anti Terrorism Squad, and were carrying Anti India content from ISIS.
This was the reason of block. No doubt blocking the whole site (especially if it's a platform/user curated content site) isn't intelligent response, but it only indicates incompetence (and not blanket ban on free speech) on behalf of some officials as many of them may still not have good understanding of how the latest web stuff works.
What’s your ideal for democracy? In India it's not only easy to build political parties and contest elections but also very good chance of winning them and having a majority/influential stake in the assembly/Parliament. Unlike many popular western "democracies".
Giving one instance of 1984 just demonstrates stark biasness/ignorance, in fact it was the pre-private television/internet era. Since those two things have arrived on the stage, free speech has taken itself to an extreme level and powerful politicians/celebrities are ridiculed like anything.
You seem to have zero understanding about Modi and in fact it's due to that "free speech", that perception of yours have been created. He hardly responds on allegations and instead focus his energies on doing the work, which gives opponents/critics a free hand of propagandizing wrong perception about him through that free speech.
The India you might have lived has changed a lot, it’s more open, more daring and more “democratic” than ever before!
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My first task in any project is to design the whole data model based on current requirements and while designing it I think of the interfaces and how would they read and write data (to refine requirements). Writing views and actions/APIs on top of well-formed data model then becomes a breeze.
I have an Acer laptop (2008 model) which doesn't boot when pressing the power button (since a few years).
Interestingly after pressing the power button you've to close the lid and then gentally press the closed lid once/twice (top center of lid where back of the camera is positioned) and then it immediately boots :)
The power button is on the opposite side (at the bottom left of the lid) so it can't be getting a pressure when lid is pressed after closed.