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The social media tweets and Instagram/Facebook posts sent out by dealers and outlets of some top order multinational consumer brands in Pakistan in support of ‘Kashmir Solidarity Day’ and ‘Right to Freedom’ are simply shocking and deserve universal condemnation. Such posts by dealers of those popular MNC brands expose, if anything, their thoughtless marketing misadventure in business extremism. They mock at the 21st century’s most famous marketing strategy ‘think local, act local’ promoted by Coca-Cola’s former global CEO Douglas Daft in 2000 AD and management thinker Theodore Levitt’s provocative classic ‘The Globalisation of Markets’ published in Harvard Business Review so many years ago.

New Delhi: Rattled by Saturday's shock defeat to France, India pumped in all their pent up frustration on South Africa thrashing the hosts 10-2 for the second time in the FIH Hockey Pro League on Sunday at Potchefstroom.

Chennai: Agra teenager Shahan Ali Mohsin clinched the premier MRF F1600 category title in Indian National Car Racing Championship at the MMRT, here on Sunday.

The first fully democratic nation with assured independence for living and for pursuit of religious beliefs is now caught in a torrent political controversy only because few conservatives in the political group of young pretending to be serving the old religious norms are insisting on denial of independence to few. India was hailed in 1950 with her constitution assuring full freedom and voting rights to all regardless of their gender or economic status. Even America had not granted voting rights to women or economically not independents though accepted as citizens for 450 years.

New Delhi: High flying India came down with a thud as they lost to France 2-5 in their 2nd leg match of the FIH Hockey Pro League in Potchefstroom (SA) on Saturday.

New Delhi: Delhi Capital acquired the Australian opener David Warner along with compatriot Mitchell Marsh on Day 1 of the Tata IPL 2022 Mega Auction in Bengaluru on Saturday.

Chennai: Veteran Arjun Balu, and teenager Suriya Varathan ( both from Coimbatore) showcased their driving skills with superb wins in their respective categories in the fourth and final round of the Indian National Car Racing Championship at the MMRT, here on Saturday.

Lata Mangeshkar’s art was shaped by the fervour which accompanied independence when music, indeed culture, was freeing itself from feudal patronage, opening up spaces for democratization and a wider participation.

Will the Congress be able to regain its lost base in Indian politics? Many political commentators say it may, but they are uncertain about time by which it may be possible, or even the factors that would contribute to its recovery in Indian politics. Moreover, they seem to forget or overlook an important factor of self-respect without which none can or will work for others. The million dollar question is how many of them going to work for recovery of the Congress, even without that self-respect which they are not finding within the party? Most people in political arena at present are self-seekers. Are they going to work for the party without hope of great future for themselves? The party adopts resolutions after heated debates in closed quarters goading others to act, but will it really work?

BOSTON: 2022. This is a year which might signal the way American politics is going — towards the virtual dictatorship of a right wing cult leader, or a renewed liberal bourgeoisie democracy.