Labour Migration
Read an article titled “India’s Internal Labour Migration” by Shehnaz Rafique vide issue of Radiance 5 August, 2023. Congrats to the writer for his informative and analytical article.
The learned writer has explained reasons for the labour migration within the country. The writer is perfectly right when he says that the main reason for migration is for their bread and butter as they are starving in their home town.
Internal migration does not harm or damage the economy of the country because manpower and money remain in the country whereas external migration (or brain drain) is harmful to the country. Educated and talented youth are going abroad for greener pastures or for monetary benefits. They forget that they have got costly education from the hard-earned money of Indian taxpayers. Their skill, knowledge is not utilised for their own country’s less fortunate brethren. The migrants’ own countrymen are not benefited from their talents, expertise, knowledge, etc.
Internal migration is preferable to external migration.
Farooq AbdulgafarBawani
Rajkot, Gujarat, India
Cows and Bulls Becoming Huge Nuisance
The shocking news says that a 9-year-old girl, Ayesha has been repeatedly attacked and injured by a stray cow while she was going to school in Arumbakkam, Chennai recently. Some people threw stones at the cow to chase it away. Finally, a man with a stick chased it away.
The Tamilnadu Health Minister, Mr. Ma Subramanian visited the girl in hospital. The girl’s parents had brought her to hospital at the right time, he added. The doctors were treating her bleeding in the eye. She suffered mild head injury and for that CT scan has been done. There is no fracture. Based on a complaint, Arumbakkam police registered a case against the cow’s owner, S. Vivek, 26, for negligence and endangering lives. The Government should ensure the safety and protection of citizens.
Chowdhry Nisar Ahmed
Noorullah pet, Ambur (Tamil Nadu)
Nuh Violence was Foretold on Social Media
The fact that the communal violence at Nuh was foretold on social media is a pointer to the appalling trend that such media is dividing people on ideology, no matter be it communal or political. The violence was triggered by videos and counter videos.
According to studies published in the journal Science and Nature, algorithms used by social media companies are tweaked to create filter bubbles and echo chambers to retain the users. Divided in silos of information that resonate with their entrenched views, the exposure cycle can entrench trust or distrust. The videos triggering violence spread disinformation which were on the feeds of the fringe elements. The fringe elements on either side of the communal divide see content that does not turn up on the feeds of the liberal users, and vice versa.
Had the videos not been on the feeds of the fringe elements, there would not have been any flare-up. Tweaks to the algorithms determine what people see on social media. These tweaks have a dangerous impact on how politically and communally polarised people feel vis-à-vis their entrenched beliefs. We know how the siloed exposure has had an outsized influence on electoral politics of the world’s prominent democracies, India and US. To counteract the harmful effects of disinformation, the screws must be tightened on social media companies. But who will bell the cat? Even the elected governments in democracies using the siloed exposure to social media corral millions of young supporters for electoral dividends.
S.A. Ghosh
Jangipur, West Bengal