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The recruitment actually begins real early. In early-late childhood. An age where nothing is under your control, not even your natural bodily functions like urinating and the rest. Other people, mostly your parents, do your work for you.

In the past few days, the following things have happened:

China is drawing fierce pushback from Nepali citizens over its attempts to extend its sphere of influence over the Himalayan nation. For years now, Beijing has been trying to push its hegemonic designs in Nepal through the use of political, economic, and cultural means, employing the use of both coercion as well as persuasion to bring about its objective.

In a matter that can instigate debates among the defence enthusiasts, India’s western neighbour Pakistan is all set to launch its first-ever National Security Policy on Friday ie the 14th of January. According to the reports, the 100-page policy is said to be people-centric and a milestone that will help Pakistan in achieving economic goals. The policy will be unveiled by Prime Minister Imran Khan.

On Thursday, Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust released a 3D animation video describing in detail the process of the construction of the Ram Mandir at Ayodhya. The five-minute video captured the specifics and technicalities of the Ram Mandir Construction.

In an absolutely harrowing incident, unidentified people raped a deaf and mute minor girl in Alwar's Shivaji Park police station area yesterday and escaped by throwing her over the Tijara Phatak. As soon as the information was relayed to the police, all officers, including the Superintendent of Police, arrived on the scene and inquired about the incident.

We saw how much power can be achieved in just five words when Swami Vivekananda stood up to respond to the warm reception he received at the first World’s Parliament of Religions held in Chicago on the 11th of September 1893. He started his speech with these words – “Sisters and Brothers of America” addressing about seven thousand people who had assembled from around the globe under one roof. His speech was followed by applause which lasted for more than three minutes.

An online petition addressed to United Nations (UN) asking it to “free Goa from illegal occupation by India” has been deleted or taken down after vociferous protests. The petition titled ‘Free Goa from Indian invasion & its continued illegal occupation against UN resolution’ had been started by one Atanasia Lobo who calls himself ‘indigenous people of Goa living in exile in foreign countries'. The petition addressed the UN Secretary-General and 42 other world leaders and was signed by 4179 people.

On Saturday, January 8, a case of rape of a minor Madarsa student has come to the fore from the Sitamarhi district in the Mithila region of Bihar. A report by TV9 Hindi suggests that the cleric Maulvi Tabrez raped and impregnated the minor girl, who came to study at his Madarsa. He also recorded the act and started blackmailing her with the video. The cleric reportedly used the video to further rape her on several occasions until she became pregnant.

You must come across a lot of banal statements about how a crisis can be an opportunity. The Chinese character for crisis is popularly assumed to consist of two letters that represent danger + opportunity. Although the second part, the opportunity, is not exactly that. Do-gooders that write nice books on self-improvement want us to turn our crisis or danger into opportunity.