If you can't prevent it, take a selfie.

In a humiliating capitulation to China, "The Indian army has been forced to dismantle a memorial to one of its greatest war heroes of the 1962 war because the area where it was built has become part of the newly established buffer zone between India and China." Is this because we lost a battle with the Chinese? Absolutely not. In June 2020, at least 20 Indian soldiers were killed at Galwan Valley in Ladakh in hand-to-hand fighting after a savage unprovoked attack by Chinese soldiers. BBC. In a clear victory for India, "China has not revealed its casualties in the Galwan Valley clash but the Russian news agency, TASS has reported that 45 Chinese soldiers died in the free-style fight." India Today. "At the famous Battle of Rezang La, a pass in the Kailash Ranges, Major Shaitan Singh and 113 men fought to 'the last bullet, last man' against an overwhelming force of thousands of Chinese troops." "The buffer zone was created as part of the disengagement process with China along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) following the deadly Galwan Valley clash in June 2020." So, we dishonor the 20 soldiers who defended Galwan by dishonoring Major Shaitan Singh and his 113 men at Rezang La. Makes us so proud. This government has also helped China to assert control in the Maldives. In 2018, China's friend President Abdulla Yameen lost the election and Ibrahim Mohamed Solih became president. In June 2022, "the Indian High Commission in Male, on the basis of routine instructions from the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, decided to celebrate International Yoga Day in a massive way." "On June 21, 2022, Reuters reported that 'a crowd stormed the stadium' where the event was on" with placards saying yoga was against Islam. Frontline. Meanwhile, Apple warned opposition leaders through an SMS and email that "State-sponsored attackers may be targeting your iPhone." ET. Apple did not identify the state. "Apple's warnings in October to Indian opposition politicians that government hackers may have hacked their phones prompted Narendra Modi's administration to quickly demand the US firm soften its message, the Washington Post reported." Reuters. An admission? "The Indian government has been allegedly using Pegasus spyware to target prominent journalists, as per a joint investigation released...by Amnesty International and The Washington Post." ET. "The Narendra Modi-led government is refusing to cooperate with French judges who have requested India's assistance in their investigation into alleged corruption in the sale of 36 Dassault-built Rafale fighter jets to India in 2016 for 7.8 billion euros." The Wire. But we are lucky. We can take selfies with the great man. Indian Railways has installed selfie booths at Rs 625 thousand each to take selfies with life-size 3D models of Mr Modi with smartphones. The cheaper booths have two-dimension life-size cutouts. The Wire. The phones are most likely Chinese anyway. After all, if you can't prevent it...