Now that the festival whose middle name is joy has formally come to an end, what with all the farewell processions, local to international, finally over, time it is to 're-turn' to mundane issues. They, being humdrum, are banal for sure. Highly dangerous they, however, are!
One such danger, truly a dis-ease, I personally witnessed this evening, was an online literary meet. So obvious it was that most all people present had not touched the text, neither with the proverbial barge pole nor with the witches' broom stick. Yet there was a pretence of high-funda discussion.
Pitiable was the extremely shallow attempt to appear knowledgeable by using the ChatGPT! People copy-pasted info there and then, too! Talk of chatterati, and I shall always remember this empty verbosity without an iota of conscientious scholarship, but full of prejudices. Sound and fury signifying empty high-horse pretences! Dangerous because if such are adults and senior citizens, what to expect of/from the Gen Next!!?!!
Yet another dis-ease we must discuss is online betting, a silent cancer, already in the fifth stage, apparently beyond cure. This scam consists of betting online on the Indian obsession, cricket (a certain amount per sixer, per four, per wicket), though other games such as football and tennis are not beyond its pale.
Certain apps use card games, cassino games, slot machines to lure fools in to destroying themselves. In India, mobile data being cheap, consumerist lifestyle being rampant, many are in to this menace that promises easy money. Actually it is a trap that lures with initial free points. A few wins allowed in the beginning make the "gamer" (as there is hardly any fair play) addicted, and then there is literally no looking back!
The punters are heartless crooks. The loss soon is a huge mountain of debt 'due' (in all the senses of this small little word) to them. The failure to pay it up can lead to targetting, threats, even to murder. The stupid addict getting lonelier due to constant failure, lack of money, huge debt may get depressed, even suicidal.
In other words, like the PUBG, online betting poses psychological problems, compounded in this case with financial troubles! Truly, a socio-economic menace, apparently twenty-two crore creeps are in to online betting, there is some hope at the end of the tunnel as the Central Government might soon declare online betting as a culpable crime!
Hope it happens soon as given the tough job market, the thoughtless lust for easy money without any taxes or accountability, the now discredited 'Mahadev ' (!!!) app, 'Fairplay(!!!) betting app', 'Probo app', 'Reddy Anna betting app' have already fleeced fools. Hope the Central Government Bill, despite the difficulties of the online mode, given the 'boundary' less jurisdiction, soon sees the light of the day!
Pratima@ Today begins the Pitru-Paksha, too. Time to show some gratitude to our ancestors who 'made' us every which way!
Oh, yes, the blood moon during the second lunar eclipse of this year (the first one was on March 21, a Saturday and an 'amavasya'/no-moon day) that began on pournima, the full moon day, and visible today!
The Pitru-Paksha thus begins with a lunar eclipse and ends with a solar eclipse, it seems, showing how memories are as eternal as the sun and the moon!
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