A Bollywood thriller has put Pakistan’s restive province in the spotlight—and provoked an unexpected backlash from the very people it claims to champion WHEN Ranveer Singh strides across a dusty Balochistan hillside in a black shalwar kameez, sunglasses glinting and Bahraini rap blaring, Indian audiences erupt in applause. In Dhurandhar , a big-budget espionage thriller released on December 5th, Mr Singh plays Hamza Ali Mazari, an Indian RAW agent posing as a Baloch gangster to thwart terror plots against India. The film, which has already grossed over ₹58 crore ($6.9m) in its opening weekend, is unapologetically patriotic. Yet in the real Balochistan—the impoverished, rebellion-scarred province that provides the movie’s most dramatic backdrop—the reaction has been far more complicated. Dhurandhar is loosely stitched together from several real events: the 1999 hijacking of Indian Airlines flight IC-814, the 2001 Parliament attack, the 2008 Mumbai massacre and the 2012 Pakistani ...
In an age overflowing with information, humanity paradoxically finds itself increasingly misinformed, distracted, and intellectually fragile. This raises a critical question: how did we, with all our technological advancements, foster a generation that struggles with independent thought? According to the video " How We Created a Stupid Generation Incapable of Thinking ," this decline isn't a mere accident or a sign of diminishing intelligence. Instead, it's the unsettling outcome of systems deliberately designed to suppress critical thinking, shaping our minds, perceptions, and even our very understanding of reality. The Architecture of Unthinking: Education, Media, and Culture The video delves into several core pillars that have contributed to this "silent collapse of human reasoning": The Modern Education System: A Factory of Conformity For centuries, education was envisioned as a means to cultivate critical thinking, as philosophers like Socrates a...