A herd of ghosts.

"The world's largest neutrino detector - Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) in China - delivered its first results last week, sharpening our understanding of the ghost particles that are neutrinos and setting the stage for solving larger cosmic puzzles." "But, for physicists in India - a reminder of a missed opportunity." "We had proposed this [JUNO-like]project in 2006." "We had a big advantage back then," said Naba Mondal, former project director of the Indian Neutrino Observatory (INO). The Print. Indian politicians have more important things to do. "No constitutional provision deserves repeal more than one imposing Hindi, wrote P Kodanda Rao in 1988." The Print. The dissent is increasingly bitter.  Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, MK Stalin called the central government's three-language formula in the National Education Policy (NEP), 2020 a "Hindi colonialism". "Tamil Nadu will not tolerate Hindi colonialism replacing British colonialism," he wrote. TOI. In February, "Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) cadres,..blackened Hindi lettering on government signboards at multiple locations, including railway stations and post offices." India Today. On 31 October, a seminar at Delhi University, titled "Land, Property and Democratic Rights", was canceled. It was part of a series of lectures running for six decades. The same day "a directive from the Dean of Colleges, Balaram Pani, to principals encouraging students and faculty members to attend the "National Godhan (herd of cows) Summit," according to a copy of an email seen by the CNN." Not surprising, in October,  "At a global summit Elon Musk, Mark Cuban and Eric Schmidt debated the future of AI, energy and defence, India wasn't mentioned even once," said industrialist Harsh Goenka. "We need the urgency, ambition and reform zeal to unleash innovation, scale and efficiency." FE. Unfortunately the so-called smartphones have resulted in addiction to social media among young people in India. "The country's users spend an average of 2 hours, 28 minutes per day on social media, notably higher than the US average of 2 hours, 9 minutes, and far higher than Europe's 1hr, 48 minutes." "In other words, Westerners are turning up their noses and nos, while Indians are plunging headlong into brain rot, sucking in social media slop just as they are with junk food and sugary drinks, while social media giants are picking their pockets," wrote Chiadnand Rajghatta. So the government of India is to export "about 30,000 skilled and aspirational Indian professionals annually," to Romania (pib.gov.in), a country with just over 19 million people and a GDP of $422.5 billion (wikipedia). Neutrinos are subatomic particles. Can't be seen. Ditto democracy. That's why they are known as ghost particles. Who believes in ghosts? A herd, on the other hand...