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Fun Tantra: A political comedy show

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In India, politics and comedy has not mingled to the extent it is seen in the western hemisphere. I am a avid you tube watcher and always missed the clean political comedy on Indian politics, there was a show called Jai-hind but it did not get much traction mainly because of its r-rated content. Few stand up comedian do the political comedy but it is in bits and pieces and  sometime it is not that good also. Recently RJ Raunak aka bauaa has started a show called Fun Tantra which is very concise and clean comedy on Indian political issues. It has filled the gap for me, which I was feeling for sometime in youtubosphere. However it seems little bit tilted towards the Narendra Modi Government, the issues he picks are mostly the goof ups of opposition parties, but it is too early to comment on that because it has only three or four episodes out. His episodes usually ends with his poems, which he also used to do on his radio show performing as poet Sukumar Vishwas. Let's see h
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Harmful impacts of slums on society and people living in it

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The rapid urbanization in conjugation with  industrialization has resulted in the growth of slums . As we have discussed in previous post that how the shortage of land for housing, the high prices of land beyond the reach of urban poor and a large influx of rural migrants to the cities fuelling the development of slums. These slums give rise to many problems in the urban areas. The major problems of slums in India are as follows:- Shortage of space: About 77.6% of the urban dwellers in Mumbai reside in one room and lakhs of them sleeps on the footpath. About 62% of the households of the metropolis reside in these slums. This give rise to the problem of shortage of space. Prone to natural and man- made hazards : As in slums, houses are crammed in a little space, they are often prone to dangerous hazards like floods, water logging, fire etc. Extent of hazard is increased because of high population density. The slum areas of Delhi specially Yamuna-Pushta are affected by flood-wate
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10 challenges faced by agriculture in India

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Indian agriculture is developing day by day, despite of its decline in country's GDP share, the advancement and development in agriculture sector could not be ignored. But with this improvement, Indian agriculture is also facing varieties of problems, some of which are natural while others are man made. Some of these problems are discussed below:- Small and fragmented land holdings The abundance of net sown area in India is divided into economically non-viable small and scattered land holdings. Our traditional inheritance laws are wholly responsible for the division of agricultural area into small fragment. The land belongs to father is equally distributed among his sons, and this process goes on like this. The distribution of land is not a consolidate one, but its nature is fragmented. Different holdings will have different features like its fertility, composition, texture and many other factors which determine the production of crop in that particular area. If there are
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The Middle and the Great Himalayas

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In the previous post we discussed the physical features of Shiwalik Himalayas and found out that how Shiwaliks created the beautiful Dun valleys. This post will discuss about the geography of other two ranges of The Himalayas- The Middle or Lesser Himalaya and The Great Himalaya which are the other two division of The Himalayan Ranges.
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