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TEXTS OF POPUPS (LIGHTBOXES) -- I

Hearty congratulations on making the right choice. You did the right thing (by choosing to visit this transformative website). So: well done, Sir/Madam. DOING THE RIGHT THING is everything in life. Like, deciding to consume and digest this website's content in order to become conscious and no longer be ignorant or/and wakeful-but-unconscious.

There are quite a few aspects to "doing the right thing". You need to become aware of, and manage, your expectations first. You chose to visit this website because you probably were impressed by our invitation online and decided to check us out. Our online promotions raised some expectations of us in you.

Now that you are here, become consciously aware of your expectations. Also be aware you probably came here with a fragmented mind where your attention, your focus, have gotten used to being fuzzy, dissipated, prone to dispersion. Your mind has been fed with silly nonsense online -- "content" -- for ages. By force of habit and instinct, it wants to flit, like a butterfly, from one website/app to another in quick succession. Butterflies might gather nectar, but a rolling stone gathers no moss. Know the difference.

You might have expected everything to be offered to you in a jiffy, on a platter, here. But our goal is to offer you a free and effective cure for the vice of "short attention span" and nudge you toward the virtue of "long attention span" or sustained focus, so you could learn to discern the context and nuance of every situation, sharpen your intellect and broaden your intellectual bandwidth.

The ecosystem is invested in making you a zombie. We are invested in upgrading you to a fully capable human being. Your propensity may be to skim the surface, have a glance, capture a glimpse and move on, as if you will miss out on other things if you stay longer here. That's a trick of your mind conditioned by the dark forces in the ecosystem. Break that cycle.

Know why you may feel an urge to move away from this website quickly. Resist and dispel that urge. Instead, spend more time digesting our content, which is deliberately presented in a way that is designed to activate the subtle faculties of your intellect.

You are expected and encouraged to connect the dots, read between the lines, discern what is said, not said and implied, and figure out the pattern that may seem invisible but is right in front of your eyes. So, don't be in a rush/hurry. Slow down. Your mind deserves the balm to heal and become sharp again. You have come to the right site. Just be patient. Maintain the conviction. Persist. Nothing less will do, if you are really keen on transforming your life. We assure you that if you persist, and resist the temptation to go away instead of bookmarking this site, and read and digest our content, your life would be transformed. No question about that.

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We, the ordinary people, eat, work, consume (not just F&B but content, products, services, tech), sleep, dream / suffer nightmares; wake up, eat, work, consume, sleep, dream / suffer nightmares; wake up ... that's how the ecosystem conditions or programs us ordinary people to go through seemingly endless, interminable cycles throughout our lifetimes, reducing our lives to ultimately inconsequential existence. We wake up from sleep alright, but that does not mean we are conscious. To break the cycle, we need to become conscious, really conscious. Just being wakeful won't suffice.

What's the difference between being wakeful and being conscious? If you are born into or have unwittingly become part of a preexisting 'system' or order, but, because of the same system and its mechanisms and processes, you are not aware of both the system and the fact that you are part of it, then it can be said you are not conscious but merely wakeful.

Without 'consciousness', you won't become, well, conscious. And the ecosystem is designed in such a way that only the minority elites are aware or conscious of the system, how it works, how it can be manipulated and perpetuated while the majority ordinary people remain ignorant and unconscious even if wakeful.

Being merely aware of the superficial details in a vague way does not amount to being conscious. For, beyond the superficial lies the dimension of the subtle and the imperceptible, a realm that can be 'seen', 'grasped' or instinctively 'understood' only by a 'conscious' person.

The moment you realize or understand the crucial difference between being wakeful and being conscious, you will have truly 'woken up' from ignorance -- that is, ignorance of the reality of our world, our civilization, our culture, our society, and our ecosystem of institutions, systems, processes, methods, customs, norms. All of them are designed to perpetuate the basic status quo, the underlying template or the substratum of socioeconomic dynamic.

That subtle dynamic, which has been and is our reality, is layered over at the gross level by the latest (imported) sci-tech advances punctuated by occasional changes in systems of governance (like monarchy, democracy, colonization, socialism, communism, dictatorship, theocracy, militia, junta, etc). This phenomenon lulls ordinary people into wrongly believing that we as a society, as a human race, are progressive and progressing indeed.

But, irrespective of the system of governance and sci-tech advances, the rich become super-rich and the powerful get super-powerful at the expense of all others all the time, even more so now than ever before. Perversely, the powerful are also getting super-rich and the rich are getting super-powerful. Two questions arise. 1) Why? 2) How?

Let's tackle the why part first. The rich get infinitely richer and the powerful get authoritarian, autocratic. oligarchic or plutocratic because of the subtle dynamic underlying the gross-level developments. But it is very difficult to perceive this drama in real time while being enveloped by it, just as it is impossible to perceive a huge bubble, canopy or dome while being inside / under it (like in the Hunger Games movie series).

That is why, like in India, billions of people the world over, the majority non-elites (some 95-99.5 percent of the population), are outwitted and outsmarted by the minuscule minority of the evil-minded (but brainy) elites. Just one look at the wealth disparity data would suffice to discern this fact. Just 56,000 people control enormous wealth.

Now for the how part. Once upon a time, kings, feudals and the landed gentry had a vice-like grip on power in India. When the system of governance changed to democracy, these powerful people simply didn't disappear into thin air. Nor did power really transfer to ordinary people. Through a clever, systematic and sustained strategy, the erstwhile powerful and rich people found a backdoor to power, a clever and cunning way to subvert the new democratic system and still retain power for all practical purposes, while appearing to uphold democracy.

Elections are a sham, a sophisticated form of rigging, limiting options for citizens. It doesn't matter if people elect Party A this time, Party B next time, Party C the following time, and so forth. A, B, C, D ~ Z are all members of the same political class, the elites who have neatly ganged up against the non-elites. Stated differently, genuinely ordinary people never wielded power directly, decisively and meaningfully in "the world's largest democracy".

An overwhelming majority of the lawmakers from village or city head level to the state and central legislators (MLAs and MPs) ever elected to office since 1947 have been ex-royals, feudals, industrialists (or capitalist-backed netas), criminals or musclemen, aided and abetted by corrupt bureaucrats and insincere intellectuals (policymakers, regulators, planners, academics, administrators, judges, etc). The two key strategies the elites employ are 1) divide and rule and 2) 'zombification' (or making ordinary people puppets of fear, pain, pleasure, greed and conformism, as both Aldous Huxley and George Orwell had foreseen and forewarned).

Entire ecosystems are designed, created and implemented to make these twin strategies highly potent and effective. While males among ordinary people become victims of hectic, tiring, mind-numbing or back-breaking work life that leaves little time for thinking and intellectual development, non-work addictions like films, TV, cricket, leisure travel, rajasic and tamasic food, beverage and substance indulgences are offered as lifestyle patterns. As for females, it's consumerism, physical form (beauty, fitness, wellness, etc) and fake feminism (in the name of empowerment).

These days, even females are embracing the traps set essentially for men and vice-versa. Now we also have digital-age addiction-demons -- social media, AI, apps, websites, video games, betting, gaming, gambling, and brain-frying or privacy-violating tech like algorithms, data-mining, click-baits, digital marketing, popup ads -- to deepen the 'zombification' process.

If not for anything else, nrinatter.com is designed to help the non-elites, the "masses" -- it is a term that includes even the educated middle-class individuals now -- to overcome ignorance, become conscious and recognize this drama in real time.

It is a drama or phenomenon described wonderfully by Morpheus for Neo in their very first in-'person' (red pill, blue pill) meeting in the movie Matrix. (In the same movie, Agent Smith's sharp summary of the nature of human beings as described to Morpheus is not irrelevant or inaccurate. In fact, the lines of other Matrix characters such as Neo, Cipher, Architect, Oracle, Trinity, to name just a few, are no less insightful, just like Teddy Gatz and Michelle Fuller's are in 2025 movie Bugonia.)

Whether or not you are aware of our reality's real-life drama in real time, in a fully conscious, detail- and nuance-aware manner (and not in some vague, half-baked, nebulous, fuzzy or theoretical way), will determine if you are a conscious person or a wakeful zombie.

The ecosystem is invested in keeping you a wakeful zombie for the rest of your life. nrinatter.com is invested in awakening you here and now so you could empower yourself first and others like you next, so that we, the ordinary people, together can take control of the ecosystem, of our lives and of our future sooner than later. We can't have a better life without a better ecosystem. The elites will never allow the ecosystem to become better for us in the real sense of the word.

If we don't take control of the ecosystem now, there won't be any future for us. In our current digital and AI age, learn about the adverse impacts of technology on people by clicking the following links spanning a 15-year period (2011-25). | AI prompts damage thinking skills | Facebook, texting affect mind's focus | Internet affects brains | Distracted generation can't learn | Smartphones create brain imbalances |

Not just AI, many other factors -- biotech (manufactured, designer viruses that can cause pandemics more virulent and deadlier than COVID), dystopian-authoritarian regimes, super-intelligence, quantum computing, ever-widening wealth, power and knowledge disparities, environmental meltdown, climate change, what have you -- are conspiring simultaneously on a war footing to bring about an apocalyptic extinction of the ordinary people.

Despite such odds, how to become conscious quickly, empower yourself, survive and thrive? A million-mile journey starts with the first step in the right direction, especially when you find yourself at a crossroads. nrinatter.com is that first step.

Just spend some time reading and digesting this website's content patiently, diligently and attentively, and you will see what we mean. Better still, join us. Register for our Sunday online live group discussions and network with game-changers and change-makers.

Our vision is simple and profound at the same time: We must urgently co-create an ecosystem that has eluded humankind since the origin of our species, which we have forgotten in our mad pursuit of Mammon and fancy sci-tech. We need and deserve an ecosystem that is characterized by the following four factors:

All-round support for holistic development of all individuals in terms of physical, mental, intellectual, emotional, psychological and spiritual evolution.
Built-in fool-proof mechanisms for equal per-capita income distribution based on GDP and population (where a typical household comprises a married couple, two kids, two dependents); and equality of access to opportunity and capital.
Absence of evils like exploitation, oppression, slavery, domination, suppression, deprivation, discrimination, etc.
Absence of all kinds of abuse, manipulation, trickery, deception, cheating, con-games, frauds, be they physical, mental, intellectual, sexual, emotional, psychological, socioeconomic, political, cultural, societal, etc.

This is the kind of ecosystem that humankind had always desired and craved but never attained, due to the machinations of the evil elites. Creation of such an ecosystem should be our one and only goal and priority now. All other things and pursuits are secondary.

Until and unless we recognize this elementary truth, we are all doomed. For, Nature (or God), it seems, created an unequal world full of inequalities, right from the get go, starting from genetic quality to innate abilities, 'giftedness', intrinsic merit, intellectual prowess (or lack thereof) ... Instead of seeing this fundamental problem as a challenge to overcome and a gap to fill, the elites have converted it into an opportunity, an unfair advantage, a 'God'-given gift, to widen the gap continuously.

Now, take a moment to think. Ponder. You will realize the four aforementioned factors correspond to the FOUR BIGGEST PROBLEMS that have been plaguing humankind since time immemorial. Our human history is that of the FOUR BIGGEST PROBLEMS. Let's call them the REAL problems. Solve them and you will have created utopia on this planet. They are solvable now more than ever before, by the way.

Although much lip service continues to be paid to them, the REAL problems are never dealt with in a manner that is genuinely solution-oriented, just like cures are never found by Big Pharma for diseases and disorders because permanent cures are not good for business while symptom reliefs are -- they are the milch cows.

Also, look at all the government schemes, policies, yojanas, plans, etc. They are all designed to perpetuate the status quo, the substratum template of Elites versus Non-elites, while appearing to champion the cause of the downtrodden.

Look at where corporate money goes -- the kind of products manufactured, and services, tech and content offered. Next, look at investments. Where is money ploughed into? What kind of R&D activities and startups -- they are the new fad -- get funding? Everyone professes that the ultimate aim is to deal with the aforementioned REAL problems. That's been the story of our times as well as of all of human history. But the REAL problems continue to plague humankind. Why?

Advertising industry, the field of marketing, the modern industry of psychology, psychotherapy and psychiatry, Big Tech, Big Science, Big Pharma, Big Insurance, Big Healthcare, Big Legal, Big Lobbyists, Big Accounting, Big Tobacco, Big Alcohol, Big Oil, Big Data and now AI, IoT, robotics, super computing, quantum computing ... all are mere modern-day manifestations (and sophisticated practitioners) of the age-old evil perpetrated by the rulers, their cronies and sycophants, religious mafia, middlemen, commission agents and their ilk.

All of them have attained expertise in exploiting the FOUR BIGGEST PROBLEMS; they will perish in an ecosystem devoid of those FOUR BIGGEST PROBLEMS. Hence, all of them are geared to ensure the ecosystem continues as it always was or has been -- utterly flawed and beset with the FOUR BIGGEST PROBLEMS (or the REAL problems), while attention, funding, capital, time and effort all go toward solving other problems whose solutions benefit not the majority non-elites or ordinary people but the minority of elites (although populist narratives invert this truth very effectively) .

The consequences of this inversion or topsy-turvy world have been lethal for ordinary people. Be they products, services, technologies or content, each and every offering from the elites -- the supply side of the equation -- disempowers, diminishes, tricks, cheats, defrauds, impoverishes, misleads, disenfranchises or zombifies ordinary people (the demand side).

This is the cycle that has to be broken now, once for all. So, come, let's break the cycle; let's change our world for the better for good. For, if we don't do it now, we can never, we can't ever. Let's wrest back total control of our ecosystem. Here is what you need to do.

The video below, selected from a collection on the theme of "the danger of seeing what others don't", offers profound insights. Although the focus is on interpersonal relations and family ties, the knowledge is probably applicable to even communities, organizations and societies. After watching the video, ask yourself: "Am I on the side of reformers or do my sympathies lie with the collectively unconscious people who resist even positive change by force of reflex/habit and due to perceived threat to status quo, their comfort zone?"

Sharpen intellect, broaden ken, go global, become empowered

If you are serious about awakening yourself and becoming well-informed, aware, knowledgeable and enlightened; if you are truly committed to empowering and enriching yourself; if you are steadfast about transforming your life . . . then you need to wean your mind off local, state and national "news" (especially politics, cricket and entertainment) and expose it global reality. For, India is enmeshed in the globalized world.

Hyper economic globalization of the past few decades has done two things in India: 1) It has enriched the Indian elites at the expense of India's ordinary people. 2) It has exposed the Indian economy and society to the vagaries of the globalized world.

This is true to such a large extent that disruption of international trade due to crimping of key maritime routes (like Hormuz, Suez and Panama), sanctions, etc, can, almost instantly, affect supplies/movement of energy, fuel, food, medicine, manpower, material, tech and resources, and throw everyday life out of gear, in the process stoking inflation, reducing incomes, eroding savings and making you go hungry for want of affordable food and snacks at your favorite street food cart.

To make sense of the goings-on, it is simply not enough anymore to just rely on traditional or mainstream news media, or even the new-age social media, as they are biased, prejudiced, manipulated, ill-balanced, hollowed out, unreliable or slanted. Their 24x7 saturation coverage is designed to make you breathless and addicted. Saturating the mind with inane content, however, won't empower you. So, our website -- NriNatter.com -- is the right place for you.

Our focus is on two very important aspects of our lives that have become big problems: 1) Short attention span; 2) Blunting or dulling of intellect or discerning intelligence (a mental faculty that's higher than the mind).

Through our deliberately long-form of discourse on this website, we present an opportunity for ordinary people to read, understand and digest complex issues that impact their lives in this digital/AI era of our globalized world. Our content is an antidote to inane, short-form content (like tweets, shorts, short videos, snippets, snapshots, etc) that pervades our ecosystem.

The ecosystem in which we live proactively conspires to disable our intellect and collective consciousness. We strive proactively to foil that attempt by the elites.

Our relentless efforts are geared toward re-activating and sharpening your intellect so you could gain not only a dispassionate, objective overview of our world and its systems, institutions, processes that control and manipulate our lives but also the ability to penetrate issues with X-ray-like vision to get to their bottom and grasp subtle, unsaid or implied aspects, and read between the lines. You could say we help sharpen intellects, awaken conscience and stoke collective consciousness.

NriNatter.com is all you need to sharpen your intellect that may have got dulled, corrupted, twisted, conditioned or disabled by the dark forces in the ecosystem. So, take our 30-day challenge.

Consume, understand and digest inside-out our content -- web pages, popups (lightboxes), downloadable documents and videos -- as well as related external content to which links are embedded in our texts. These two levels of information, data, knowledge and insights -- NriNatter.com and external content -- will help you to rewire your brain.

During the 30-day challenge, consume our content and the recommended external content exclusively. Steer clear of all other mainstream news media and social media. Eschew breaking news, headlines, commentary, analyses, op-ed stuff, shorts, tweets, trivia, inane BS, etc.

Rest assured, you wouldn't miss much when you skip all of that. In fact, it would prove a well-timed detox opportunity. Post-detox (our 30-day challenge), you will find yourself armed with a new vision, a new perspective of the world, a better understanding of our ecosystem -- something that had eluded you all your life, precious content that's now available free of cost, with no ads. So, make the most of this invaluable opportunity to enlighten, empower and 'enrich' yourself in an unprecedented way.

Bandwidth Bhadhaao

If you cooperate with the evil elites and allow their ecosystem to shrink your brain, your intellectual power, can we really blame them?

Is it really so difficult to understand that 'inventions' like tweets, shorts, inane videos, mind-numbing and addictive "content" across multi media formats, proliferation of "creators", powerful ads, subliminal messages ... all these are highly sophisticated and well-thought-out elite psychological strategies to induce addictions and attention deficit disorder (ADD or "short attention span") in the masses? Even the mainstream news media industry has been co-opted into this elite-driven conspiracy.

Even more shocking is that the entire middle class has now become part of "the masses". Instead of rising, they are backsliding, due to this systematic effort at the systemic level to create a narrative that "short is sweet", "brevity is virtue". Not always. Ask authors of award-winning, bestselling books and epics. Ask readers of such works.

Wake up! Don't fall into that trap. Give a good workout to your brain muscle. The more you use it the right way, the sharper it'll become, helping you to survive and thrive in this citizen-disempowering digital age of AI. The less you use it (or if you use it the wrong way), however, the higher your zombie quotient (ZQ), which will make you redundant, irrelevant, unemployable, powerless, dumbo and dispensable in the age of AI, which is invested in making you a zombie, a sub-human being worse than a robot.

Real-life instances abound. We are well past the era of life-size synthetic silicon sex dolls and electronic sex toys. From the tangible to the intangible now. A Japanese woman has "married" an AI (chatbot). The invention of "influencers" in the digital age is another manifestation of the evil elites-generated manipulative ecosystem. Ordinary people, zombified by the digital age defined by brain-shrinking social media, are posting selfies online with dead bodies of murdered spouses, boyfriends or girlfriends. Oxford Dictionary has listed "rage bait" as its 2025 'Word of the Year'. Cambridge Dictionary has crowned the word "parasocial" as its Word of the Year 2025.

Not so long ago, it was "post-truth". Simone Schnall, professor of experimental social psychology at the University of Cambridge, UK, says, "We've entered an age where many people form unhealthy and intense parasocial relationships with influencers. Parasocial trends take on a new dimension as many people treat AI tools like ChatGPT as 'friends', offering positive affirmations, or as a proxy for therapy."

Has it ever occurred to you that there is an inverse/negative correlation BETWEEN ever-increasing computing power of hard-drive processors, memory storage devices, algorithms and large language models AND ever-shrinking brainpower of ordinary people? The less brainpower you have, the more manufactured "content" (which is the mental equivalent of human excrement) you will likely consume. Link: Data + bureaucracy + words = AIs = Extinction?

And in our current digital and AI age, learn about the adverse impacts of technology on people by clicking the following links spanning a 15-year period (2011-25). | AI prompts damage thinking skills | Facebook, texting affect mind's focus | Internet affects brains | Distracted generation can't learn | Smartphones create brain imbalances | Digital life causes brain fog | Social media triggers dementia |AI = Hacker = Death-knell of democracy | "Anti-Christ" decamps to Argentina | ‘Broligarchy' = Techno-Fascist Future | Here's more: Disclosure Day (June 2026) movie secrets | Secret UFO files released | Secret Epstein files released | Secret JFK files released | "Conspiracy theorist" David Icke banned / barred | Super Sad True Love Story |

The global campaign to shrink ordinary people's brains, thereby their intellects and attention spans, thus making them virtual zombies, is now reaching fever pitch. After targeting people with the disease of selfies and inane content on social media, the elites tricked audiences into believing that 140-character tiny tweets are fashionable, virtuous ("brevity"), time-saving. Then came tiny morsels of "byte-sized content", particularly in news media. No need for details, context and nuance. Just don't focus on anything but cast a glance on everything. Fool yourself you are up to speed, fully updated or informed on everything. Don't become truly knowledgeable. Just pretend to be knowledgeable.

YouTube short videos were considered "too long". So, TikTok madness dawned. Now, it's micro-dramas -- "serials" split up into two-minute episodes. In other words, the digital age has shrunk people's brains so much that their bandwidth is now considered incapable of understanding, grasping or digesting any content that is longer than two minutes.

At the other extreme of the spectrum, we have overlong podcasts running into three or four hours, where self-serving interviewers and interviewees cash in on their popularity and credibility, and wax eloquent and meander or drawl on this, that or the other topic, in a stream-of-consciousness manner, with no focus or purpose, pretending to embrace long-form storytelling in opposition to short-form content, but doing colossal disservice, a throwback to vacuous, overlong serials of the past that sought to ride their popularity with hollow, stretched storylines. Both formats -- ultra-short and ultra-long -- are designed to shrink people's intellects.

So, say "No" to the massive, ecosystem-wide conspiracy to shrink your brain so that you will use less than 1% of its power. Realize that it's your birthright to be free to use 100% of your brainpower. Broaden your intellectual bandwidth. Yes, BANDWIDTH BADHAAO. Read and digest nrinatter.com. FREE. Ad-free.

Why you must bookmark this website

Please do so immediately. For, it is highly likely you may just skim the surface now and move on. You may habitually continue to consume all kinds of content from multiple sources in the days, weeks and months to come, as is your wont. And then suddenly, something strikes your mind, you remember something, and you wish to return to this website and plumb deeper. You desperately want to get back to a point you had touched upon earlier. Unless you bookmark the site (or add it to your favorites list in your browser), you may or may not remember the website's name and its URL.

That apart, you might get the urge to move on/away from this website after consuming just a little of the unconventional, contrarian content. But deep down, you know you need to muster courage and return to the site sooner or later. Such is the power of the (bitter, cure-like) truth and fire-like knowledge. First, you may finish reading one essay. Your mind will ponder in the background. Once it digests the purport, it will be ready for more. It wants more. So, a bookmark will help greatly.

Disclaimer

It is conceivable that you may experience some discomfort or a sense of shame or guilt upon consuming the content on nrinatter.com. Our content comes with supporting embedded internal and external links that offer hard evidence, solid proof, context, background, global perspective or a 360-degree overview for our arguments. This is designed to expand your mind, sharpen your intellect and reactivate your conscience. This, however, might also end up sensitizing you to your own ignorance, drawbacks, attitude and the approach adopted until now.

The light of knowledge, when shone on darkness, not only dispels darkness but transmutes it into light itself! The memory of darkness, however, lingers, making you realize that over the decades, your uncontrolled and sustained exposure to inane, mind-numbing byte-sized chunks of "content" on this, that and the other topic in our rigged and flawed ecosystem may have shrunk your brain already, deactivating or eroding some of its regions.

This could mean, your brain, fed so far on a diet of tweets, shorts, paragraphs and other meaningless / useless gibberish, will likely struggle to comprehend nrinatter.com's in-depth, profound and potentially life-changing content, which is deliberately presented in long-form format, as an antidote to the ubiquitous ultra-short junk that induces the disease of short attention span (ADD -- attention deficit disorder). Repetitions, if any, are again intentional -- they are designed to reinforce a crucial point so that your mind will 'get it' or grasp it.

If you somehow courageously manage to persist and plod on, rich rewards await you in the form of an expanded mind, a sharpened intellect and a reactivated conscience, all of which will produce inner clarity and open up your mind's eye (third eye), so that you can clearly recognize which road you have to take going forward, now that you have reached a crossroads.

You hereby undertake that: i) you are consuming nrinatter.com's content at your own responsibility, out of your own free will and volition, and ii) you won't hold anyone but yourself responsible for becoming enlightened. Slowly but surely, you will realize that nrinatter.com has helped you to cultivate the virtues of 3Ps (patience, persistence and perseverance), which are critical for i) understanding, ii) internalizing knowledge and iii) success in life.

If you, however, wish to continue to wallow in your own ignorance and insignificance, and furthermore would like to continue consuming the mental equivalent of human excrement, the same old shi*, you are, of course, free to exit this website from the following 'Thank you, bye, bye" page.

Wake up! Act now!!

If you are a middle-class ordinary (non-elite) citizen of India (or any other country, for that matter), read this very, very carefully, with full attention.

Here's THE secret. This time round, no God, no Avatar-purush or Messiah, no personage, no saint, saviour or Mahatma is going to appear suddenly to rescue you and save your ass.

Your "God", if you will, can be found ONLY in true inner humility (not in external fake politeness, ego, arrogance, or insincere interpersonal 'techniques') and in unity, cooperation with peers, and coordinated and collaborative action.

Selfishness, self-centric lifestyle, narrowmindedness, appalling apathy for community and the world, ignorance, greed, timidity, fear, anti-intellectualism, intolerance, hypocrisy, double-standards, hyper-individualism, and lustful/mindless pursuit of material comforts, conveniences, pleasures, positions and assets, will weaken/disempower you (and your children/future generations), and further empower the elites (our enemies).

You will never be allowed to become part of the real elites. If you continue to do what you had done all your life so far, you'll end up running the endless, futile rat race of the pseudo-elites, pretenders, upstarts and imposters on the treadmill.

A.I., big data, machine learning, biotech, digitalization, quantum computing, Big Pharma and Big Finance have already begun the countdown for your extinction. They will ensure you'll remain mediocre and a corrupted enabler of evil, which will make you and your children redundant and expendable very soon, in your own lifetime. You'll likely get eliminated.

So, wake up. Get a reality check. EITHER unite with peers and pursue excellence OR risk becoming eliminated toward extinction.

To reiterate one last time: Wake up! The elimination round of big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, biotech, pandemics, unilateralism, protectionism, trade pacts that favor only the elites ... or the dystopian world is already upon us. You are being made redundant, irrelevant, inconsequential, insignificant and powerless.

"DYSTOPIA", or the global digital-tech dictatorship, has sneaked in quietly while we were all conned and tricked into becoming addictive consumers of apps, cricket/sports, movies, TV, gaming, all kinds of useless/inessential products, services and technologies, including a variety of inane, stupefying content online.

Your and your kids' future/fate will be determined by whether or not you :

add value to yourself/yourselves quickly
become knowledgeable -- evolve intellectually, philosophically, spiritually
develop a solid worldview, community spirit and global outlook (beyond obsession with your little domain or field of activity/profession/vocation)
outgrow obsession with ego, personality, likes, comfort zone, and unexamined, irrational preferences, presumptions and prejudices (such things operate at a subconscious level and form a blind spot in the brain/mind)
learn urgently to cooperate and collaborate with peers (fellow ordinary citizens)

Realize that ignorance, inaction, passivity, indifference, apathy, selfishness and preference for status quo / comfort zone / the known are NOT an option anymore --- they are all tantamount to both signing your own death warrant and preparing for extinction / elimination.

Okay, you have been sufficiently and explicitly warned! You can no longer proffer or cite any more excuses or alibis. So, wake up, act now.

Give us just a few hours, utilize that time to read and digest the content on this website, and we promise you that you will never again be ignorant, passive, indifferent, appallingly apathetic, non-committal or self-destructively selfish. Instead, you will regain your lost power, vitality, significance and positive energy. That's not all. You will also discover the true meaning and purpose of your life, and endeavour to realize it.

Why NRIs?

Well, non-resident they may be, but, at the end of the day, NRIs are still Indians, just like their compatriots. They are out of India; but you can't take India out of NRIs. What's more, distance affords a better perspective, a capacity to digest the overview and be objective, unemotional, detached. Exposure to other countries, cultures, systems informs their worldview. Besides, NRIs can bring additional value in the form of overseas work/life experience, connections, networks and various other useful resources. All these do NOT make NRIs superior to resident Indians. NRI-Natter is not an exclusive, for-NRI-only initiative. It's just an NRI-founded collaborative online community open to all middle-class, public-spirited and conscientious Indian citizens worldwide as well as the Indian diaspora. The only requirement is a burning urge to actualize one's full potential and contribute to the challenging, life-transforming, and potentially soul-elevating twin tasks: TAKE BACK CONTROL and MAKE INDIA GREAT AGAIN. (Factoid: Mahatma Gandhi was an NRI until his return to India from South Africa in 1914.)

Time to act

Every single middle-class Indian citizen such as yourself needs to understand the time has come to act – differently, decisively, and daringly!

Mission of NRInatter.com

Start by joining NRInatter.com, an online platform that has been launched to encourage hundreds of millions of middle-class Indians (not only in India but worldwide) to chat, network, brainstorm, cooperate and collaborate – all with a view to upgrade and enrich ourselves individually first, and then collectively make India, even the world, a better place.

Embrace 'Citizenship 2.0'

The term 'Citizenship 2.0' should not be confused with the 2019-20 rows over census and the CAA. ‘Citizenship 2.0’ refers to a new form of active, proactive citizenry fit for the 21st century, where the majority middle-class Indians:

1) Stop assuming that a responsible citizen is one who just pays taxes, casts vote, obeys rules, complies with the law and performs occasional acts of charity;

2) Stop outsourcing or delegating 'Big Picture' (community, society, national, environment, planet-related) responsibilities like governance to a select few completely;

3) Stop focusing on only personal/family interests in a selfish way and, casting ego and perceived differences aside, start cooperating and collaborating with fellow middle-class, non-elitist, public-spirited compatriots, to solve long-standing problems using available resources like technologies innovatively, creatively.

Stop doing this

We, the hundreds of millions of middle-class Indians (not only in India but worldwide) need to learn to rely less and less on the political parties, governments, the bureaucracy and big businesses.

Start doing this

For quick, simple, effective and lasting solutions to the persistent problems that have been bedevilling our lives and our country for the last several decades, we need to learn to cooperate and collaborate, using the already available technologies imaginatively, so as to rely more and more on ourselves, the strength in our massive numbers, the power in our collective skills, expertise and other resources.

Crisis as opportunity

Like several societies across the world, and even the planet itself, India is in turmoil, at a crossroads. We need to convert the current crisis into a golden opportunity to actualize our full potential. We need to reimagine India. We need to visualize the kind of society we want to be, and then co-create it ourselves, in the process becoming wealthy, and then use all that wealth to help and uplift those still struggling to rise in life. This is not some Utopian concept but very doable – all it requires is sustained, consistent and determined effort with laser-like focus on converting vision into reality.

Don't outsource responsibility

We should not continue to rely on flawed, failed systems to deliver results. We should not unthinkingly continue to outsource or delegate the responsibility of driving the society in a certain direction to governments, religions and big businesses alone.

Overcome self-limiting factors

We, the majority middle-class, non-elitist Indians, need to overcome all ecosystem-induced self-limiting factors like unreasonable ego, low self-esteem, low self-confidence, greed, laziness, fear, selfishness, risk-aversion, shirking of community responsibilities, small-mindedness, cowardice, ignorance, low inner-energy levels, indifference, apathy, anger, frustration, despair, hopelessness, cynicism, pessimism, ‘zombie-ness’, and mechanical lifestyle routines.

Activate intellect and evolve

We, the majority middle-class, non-elitist Indians, need to activate the higher regions of our brains, to start thinking, use intellect beyond emotions. We need to become open-minded, broadminded, optimistic, confident, energetic, creative, cooperative, collaborative, public-spirited, community-conscious, enterprising and action-oriented.

Initiate long journey

A thousand-mile journey starts with the first step. That first step is NRI-Natter. You can surely e-connect, chat, express yourself, listen to non-elitist, friendly, public-spirited, community-conscious middle-class compatriots, and debate in a freewheeling but focused manner? See for yourself where that first step will lead to. Surprise yourself.

Cost of indifference

If we don't change, don't embrace 'Citizenship 2.0', we (middle-class Indians) will be further disempowered, marginalized, sidelined, zombified, even perhaps exterminated sooner than later, given the coming era of automation, urbanization, extreme sci-tech, authoritarian regimes, climate crisis, rising social frictions, deepening religious divides and widening socioeconomic inequalities... All these threats to our existence will likely tear apart the fabric of our society and the democratic spirit of our once-great nation.

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New vision

Our approach to life, community, society and nation-building needs an urgent overhaul, a complete makeover, to be in tune with the needs of our times, the 21st-century globalized world.

NRI-Natter's vision is to ensure hundreds of millions of middle-class Indians in India and elsewhere commit to transform themselves into confident, energetic, responsible, public-spirited, community-conscious, action-oriented, cooperative, patient, enterprising and, yes, wealthy individuals.

Using technologies and other resources innovatively, they must endeavor to coalesce into a united, well-coordinated, powerful and goal-focused force that can not only rebuild a nation but set a glorious example for the rest of the world, without relying excessively on the political class, governments, bureaucracy, big businessness, religions.

Clarion call

To be sure, NRI-Natter is not some "news website" or a running commentary on the state of national affairs in India, or a think tank, or a powerhouse of deep analyses. No, no, no. NRI-Natter is the starting point of a transition toward a radically different involvement of the majority middle-class Indians in the long-neglected dharma of nation-building. This positive, proactive approach to New India envisages an exhilaratingly inventive and potentially game-changing role for ordinary, non-elitist, talented citizens. Out with indifferent, hands-off, selfish, fear-ridden existence. 'Citizenship 2.0' is in. Read all about it here. Heed our 'Clarion Call'. And, here's our 'call to action'. Not to forget our enlightening short-videos, opening shot, and slideshow.

What is expected of you? What you need to do

1) Read and digest the content on nrinatter.com, preferably including the profound, thought-provoking content on related (internal and external) web pages (and popups / lightboxes) to which links are embedded in our text.

2) Read the introductory essay on EventBrite.com that hosts our invitation for you to join our Sunday Zoom sessions (live group discussions). The essay has embedded links to related profound content on (internal and external) web pages.

3. Join us. Bookmark this website. Know our 'secrets'.

4. Spread the word about nrinatter.com among like-minded people. Share the link to our website with as many people as possible.

5. Participate regularly in our Sunday Zoom sessions, making sure you add value and useful insights to the live group discussions.

6. Understand inside out the magic of nrinatter.com

7. Understand how our live group discussions are merely the stepping stone to transformative BIG CHANGE in society that could potentially make you very powerful, very influential, very wealthy and a 'transformer'.

You must avoid these

OVERCOME: Indifference; ignorance; pessimism; cynicism; short attention span; lackadaisical approach; EGO; self-centric mind; uncooperative streak;"I, me, myself" attitude; selfishness; laziness disorganized style of operating; arrogance; prejudice; identification with received (induced) smallness; 'attachment' to mediocrity.

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