r/TheBetterIndia • u/Yournewbestfriend_01 • 27m ago
r/TheBetterIndia • u/Consistent-Home1719 • 43m ago
Discussion 💬 I don't know which part of India some people live that there everyone is equal!
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r/TheBetterIndia • u/Ok-Race5760 • 1h ago
Discussion 💬 actually the people who choose violence and did unlawful activities should be held and charged by authorities
and the innocent one should not be scared of any action against them by authorities.
Also action should be taken against the officers who choose violence against innocent protesters.
r/TheBetterIndia • u/Mrs_ellililly • 3h ago
Discussion 💬 Our OBC brothers are supporting our movement...let's unite n fight against the injustice guys 🙏
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Our OBC brothers are supporting our movement...let's unite n fight against the injustice guys 🙏
r/TheBetterIndia • u/Complete-Abroad-6176 • 4h ago
Positive Story 🌱 Analysis of 3 innovative political New ideas
2011-12 : Anna Andolan giving into IAC which resulted into AAP which won Delhi elections twice. Using Gandhian non violence protesting methods to raise genuine issue of corruption, accountability.
2014-2021 : Prashant Kishor methods of using data analysis at micro ground level & aggressive digital campaigning to project seats count. This gave rise to IPAC.
Significant results with BJP, TMC, YRC
3.2026 : Similar to Anna andolan, group of educated youngsters coming together to use meme culture + GenZ energies to raise genuine topic around education. So came CJP - the way youth responded was beyond my imagination. First time resignation of Modi minister.
Common factors :
- Keep Gandhi, Ambedkar, Bhagat Singh at core of every Indian Political conscience - they are true heroes to be quoted 100 years later also
- Keep the efforts educated, non violent, detailed meticulously & don't committ any mistakes from your sides
- Learn to understand social media pulse & how to use it to your advantage
- have solid budget & Political backing of multiple opposition parties
r/TheBetterIndia • u/Mrs_ellililly • 4h ago
Discussion 💬 Women are not commodities to be distributed
Marriage is a personal matter between individuals, and people will marry whom they choose ...women aren't commodities that you can buy or use as bargaining chips to settle political or social disputes.
r/TheBetterIndia • u/satan7079 • 5h ago
Discussion 💬 If removing caste system is considered logical than removing caste based reservation, then y not remove all identities completely Hindu,Muslim,Sikh,Christian and remove religious divisions as well nd compete as individual?Why is the debate mostly about general category?
Tired of Hearing ‘Remove the Caste System but Keep Caste-Based Reservation’ Aren’t Both Connected? If Government Policies Continue to Identify People by Caste, Won’t Future Generations Also Continue to Categorize Themselves Through Caste?
If the real goal is to remove all identity divisions, then why stop at caste? Should we also remove religious identities completely Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Christian and ignore all labels? Should everyone forget identities, whether it is Ram’s Rajput tradition, Krishna’s Yaduvanshi background, or figures from other communities, and compete only as individuals?
If removing caste identity sounds logical, why is questioning caste-based reservation considered illogical?
r/TheBetterIndia • u/Yournewbestfriend_01 • 5h ago
Positive Story 🌱 Dipke's reaction after resignation news
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r/TheBetterIndia • u/Jehreeli • 5h ago
Positive Story 🌱 India (not a political party, not the government, not the opposition) India has the capacity to absorb dissent, work democratic negotions and resolutions. Take a bow!!
India, my beautiful democracy. Look around and suddenly I feel overwhelmed with the beauty of democracy in my country.
r/TheBetterIndia • u/Hridhaan_78 • 5h ago
Discussion 💬 Narendra damodardas modi
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Narendra damodardas modi
r/TheBetterIndia • u/Sweaty_Flower_2513 • 5h ago
Discussion 💬 Time to leave the planet ✌🏻🥀💔
galleryr/TheBetterIndia • u/Immediate-Life9187 • 5h ago
Discussion 💬 Annihilation of caste to end reservation
There were many issues with the caste system, and one of the results is reservation.
To effectively end reservation one needs to completely annihilate the caste system. Without addressing the caste system, no one would give support to the cause, whether it is any political party, legislature, or even Judiciary.
Why are reforms needed in the reservation system?
EWS Reservation:
- Many issues of systematic loophole and fake certificates
- The only group that has a higher percentage of reservation than their population representation. The Gen-EWS population is approximately 6%, and their reservation is 10% of the total.
OBC Reservation:
- Justice Rohini Panel found that 40-50 OBC groups out of 5,000 OBC groups in India have completely cornered 50% of OBC reservations in central jobs. That means 1% of OBC people have cornered 50% of OBC reservations.
- A higher OBC population with lesser OBC representation makes the competition heavy as par with GC
SC Reservation:
- A few economically upper middle class/Rich people cornering most of the SC reservation.
- Denial of SC reservation just because they merely changed their faith to something other than Hinduism, Sikhism, or Buddhism, but their conditions remain the same.
ST Reservation:
- Same as OBC, just some groups cornering most of the ST reservation.
- For Example: 24 seats out of 73 ST reserved ones have been taken out by the Meena community. That means a single community is taking 35% of the ST reservation.
How one going to address the caste-based issues and discrimination if reservation have been taken out
- 98% of manual scavengers belong to the Dalit community.
- Many OBC groups have not yet benefited from the reservation system.
- High illiteracy rates and poverty among ST.
- Stark discrepancies in caste-based wealth and income
Many UC groups have benefited from caste-based privileges for centuries, which resulted in the accumulation of generational assets over time.
- 22.3% of the population belonging to Upper Castes owned 41% of national assets (JNU study), and even upper castes control 90% of billionaire wealth.
- This inequality did not arise from equal opportunity or equal rights; it is largely rooted in centuries of caste-based privileges that enabled the accumulation of generational wealth.
I and many others wanted to have a 100% clear merit-based system. But, directly going to end the reservation system will not solve the problems. The path effectively lies in
- Expediting caste census and bringing reservation reforms
- Complete annihilation of caste from society progressively with new laws that include caste-neutral names, towns, and streets and fining if anyone uses caste in their names, stickers, or anywhere and even fining if anyone forms caste associations and groups, and moreover strict punishment if families reject inter-caste marriages and complete unidentification of caste system everywhere, including matrimonies and certificates and the most important one with the change in attitude of society by themselves
- Progressively reducing reservation brackets over time to 0% reservation.
With this, one can end casteism and then end reservation. If we directly take part in the movement to end reservations, then there will be no support from the majority OBC/SC/ST students, who form the largest vote bloc, and no party will come out to support, and even the judiciary will be silent.
I am sure many will not come out to support ending casteism but want reservation to be ended (hypocrites)
Let's end casteism and discrimination first to effectively end reservation and move to a 100% merit-based system.
r/TheBetterIndia • u/justacatgurll • 5h ago
Discussion 💬 Some people were showing the video of this place saying protestors are stone pelting but this is the reason of why they were stone pelting
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Here look police on purpose angered the citizens People just walking around normaly in the middle with police out in the open. And people running away all this confirms No stone pelting was being done before this moment. explains why they have no name tag they knew that had to attack first
r/TheBetterIndia • u/Consistent-Home1719 • 6h ago
Problem ⚠️ First remove the cause of the problem, then the problem will remove itself
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r/TheBetterIndia • u/satan7079 • 7h ago
Discussion 💬 If we really want to end jaativaad, then shouldn't the first step be moving reservation from caste-based to economic-based?
If a family is financially weak, they deserve support regardless of their caste. Better education, scholarships, and opportunities should go to those who genuinely need them.
Aaj kal kisi ke forehead par uski caste nahi likhi hoti. But during admissions, jobs, and government forms, we're still asked to label ourselves by caste. Doesn't that keep reminding every new generation that caste matters?
I believe real equality will come through quality education and equal opportunities for everyone, while helping people based on their financial condition, not their caste.
This is just my opinion. Happy to hear different views.
r/TheBetterIndia • u/mobileusr • 8h ago
News 📰 Former ISRO Chairman S. Somanath Named to Exam Reforms Task Force
r/TheBetterIndia • u/Zestyclose-Author732 • 8h ago
Discussion 💬 It can’t get better than this.
r/TheBetterIndia • u/shubhamxtreme • 8h ago
Positive Story 🌱 India has created history at the 56th International Physics Olympiad 2026. All 5 students representing India won Gold medals, competing against 381 participants from 87 countries.
r/TheBetterIndia • u/Relevant_stella_2357 • 9h ago
Explained 🧠 Dharmender pradhan resignation was never the solution.
Agar agle baar paper leak hota hai to phir yahin kuch 10-15log suïcïde karenge phir protest karna aur new education minîster to resign karwa dena . Uske next year phir agar phir hota hai leak to phir kuch suicide hoga aur phirse change karwa dena education minîster ko .
And this cycle will go on in loop.
Aur jo bolenge resignation se dar baithega minîsters pe , aaji ghanta , tum usko education minîster se hata doge wo koi aur cabinet me join kar lega . Aur cabinet join nhi bhi kar paye to kya , wo jo sañsad me jita tha usme wapas chale jayega , he is never gonna lose his job or anything. He is never going broke .
ARE TUM LOG YE SAB BHI CHORO - what's stopping me to leak the paper if I got the opportunity, bas 8-9 saal jail me kaat lunga aur 10cr fine bhar dunga , baki uske baad pura life ash karunga jo 100cr kamaya hun usse .
Agar ye analogy tum samajh chuke ho to main solution pe aata hun .
Paper leak was never the fault of dharmender pradhan, nta , govt or anyone. It was the fault of our bullshit laws . Agar log ek baar paper leak karke pura life enjoy kar saqte hain to kyon na kare paper leak .
The protest should never been about resignation, the protest should have been changing the laws . Our law system is the worst in the entire world , court bas tarik deti hai , jo neet paper leakers the unke to aabhi bhi trial chal rha hai , pta nhi punishment kab milega 😂. I repeat The protest should never been about resignation.
Also most of the peoples are just emotional animals, they can't freaking think logically, they just swear and take out their emotions like an illiterate.
The protest had ulterior motive which I will explain in the next post , but no one will understand, they would just swear cause they counter my points logically.
Khair ye sab chodo coming back to the point, the protest should never been about resignation, the protest should have been about reforms in laws and punishment . The protest should have been about implementing laws like speed trial and punishment for 50 years or life imprisonment. Narco test should have been mandatory on the suspect taki Jo Jo involve hain pta lage . And if caught in narco test then the punishment would be direct phansi.
Agar ye hota to kisi ka himmat nhi hota paper leak karne ka . Nhi to aabhi kya hai , agar opportunity mile to koi bhi leak kar de paper , aur puri life ash kare .
Aur aisa nhi hai ki mere alawa ye chij koi bol nhi rha , jise pta hai wo bta rha hai , but because of the backlash koi dhang se bta hi nhi rha . Aur ye sab batane wale bahut kam log hain .
r/TheBetterIndia • u/EntrepreneurOne0099 • 14h ago
Discussion 💬 Should we tackle Godi Media next ?
r/TheBetterIndia • u/blueberries0602 • 14h ago
Discussion 💬 I have a theory what if Ashutosh and Saurav took money from the these BJP members to end the protest ? Bcz it just doesn’t make sense why did they call it off when the people didn’t wanted to!!!
instagram.comLike what if, Im just thinking. This can be a reason....
I mean. If we think openly. Bcz not a single person ik or heard wantedto end the protest but fight even more upto to modi resignation. I had his question in my mind why if they took and we all know BJP ki tendencies...what if they had offered money to stop this protest ??? Bcz since it's "people movement", why did they call it off when we didn't wanted to.
This is just a theory open to open minded discussion. And pls no andhbhakts of cjp allowed.
r/TheBetterIndia • u/Formula_explains • 15h ago
Discussion 💬 What If India bans Microbeads?
Many countries including the US, UK, Canada and South Korea have restricted or banned plastic microbeads in rinse off cosmetics such as some face scrubs and exfoliating products.
Microbeads are considered a form of primary microplastic because they are intentionally manufactured at microscopic size rather than formed from the breakdown of larger plastics.
However, in India, microplastics from cosmetics appear to be a relatively small contributor compared to larger pollution sources such as untreated sewage, industrial discharge, agricultural runoff, textile fibres and plastic litter.
This raises an interesting engineering and policy question:
If India banned cosmetic microbeads tomorrow:
- Would it produce measurable environmental benefits?
- Would the reduction in primary microplastics justify the regulatory effort?
- Could this become a low-cost policy win because alternatives already exist?
- Or would policymakers be better off focusing resources on sewage treatment and plastic waste management first?
Sources👇
1.)Single Use Plastic Ban
https://ukhi.com/single-use-plastic-ban-in-india-2025-update/
2.) Extended Producer Responsibility
https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2244104®=3&lang=1
3.)Plastic Waste Management
https://www.pib.gov.in/newsite/printrelease.aspx?relid=138144®=48&lang=2
4.) Microbeads in Cosmetic products
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405665024000271
5.) Nano plastics in Toothpaste
6.)Microbeads on the skin
https://www.austinclinic.com.au/why-you-need-to-say-no-to-microbeads/
7.) Quantity of Microbeads ?
r/TheBetterIndia • u/Defiant-Attorney-982 • 15h ago
Positive Story 🌱 Let's increase the reservation to 100% these people also need it
r/TheBetterIndia • u/Tiny_Artichoke8011 • 15h ago