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https://gettherapybirmingham.com/the-existential-psychology-of-viktor-frankl/ freedom of will, will to meaning, and meaning in life.

Viktor Frankl: Youngsters need challenges https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImonPWt7VOA . we are living in a society which seeks to virtually to satisfy and gratify each and every human need except for one need the most basic and fundamental need -- the need for meaning.
if there is a meaning , if it becomes cognizant of such a meaning then we are ready to suffer, offer sacrifices, undergo tension stress and so forth .. What young people need our ideals and challenges personal tasks..to begin with in the first place examples personal examples of challenges faced. Today teacchers, parents, leaders don't venture to confront them with anything because they might become angry . Neither parents nor school teachers are courageous enough to challenge them the hold or arouse tensions.

In the death camp, they gave him a number: 119104.
But the thing they tried hardest to kill became the very thing that saved millions.
1942. Vienna.
Viktor Frankl was 37 years old, a respected psychiatrist with a growing practice, a manuscript nearly complete, and a wife named Tilly whose laugh could fill a room.
He had a chance to escape to America. A visa. A way out.
But his elderly parents couldn't come with him. So he stayed.
Within months, the Nazis came for them all.
Theresienstadt. Then Auschwitz. Then Dachau.
The manuscript he'd spent years writing—sewn carefully into the lining of his coat—was torn away within hours of arrival.
His life's work. His purpose. Reduced to ash.
His clothes were taken. His hair shaved. His name erased.
On the intake form, there was only a number: 119104.
But here's what the guards didn't understand:
You can take a man's manuscript. You can take his name. You can take everything he owns.
But you cannot take what he knows.
And Viktor Frankl knew something about the human mind that would keep him alive—and give birth to a revolution in psychology.
He noticed a pattern.
In the camps, men didn't just die from starvation or disease.
They died from giving up.
The moment a prisoner lost his reason to survive—his why—his body would collapse within days. The doctors had a term for it: "give-up-itis."
But the men who held onto something—a wife to find, a child to see again, a book to write, a debt to repay, a promise to keep—they endured unthinkable suffering.
The difference wasn't physical strength.
It was meaning.
So Frankl began an experiment.
Not in a laboratory. In the barracks.
He would approach men on the edge of despair and whisper:
"Who is waiting for you?"
"What work is left unfinished?"
"What would you tell your son about surviving this?"
He couldn't offer food. He couldn't promise freedom. He had nothing material to give.
But he offered something the guards could never confiscate: a reason to see tomorrow.
One man remembered his daughter. He survived to find her.
Another remembered a scientific problem he'd been working on. He survived to solve it.
Frankl himself survived by mentally reconstructing his lost manuscript—page by page, paragraph by paragraph, in the darkness of the barracks.
April 1945. Liberation.
Viktor Frankl weighed 85 pounds. His ribs showed through his skin.
Tilly was gone. His mother—gone. His brother—gone.
Everything he'd loved had been murdered.
He had every reason to despair. Every reason to give up.
Instead, he sat down and began writing.
Nine days.
That's how long it took him to recreate his manuscript from memory—the one the Nazis had destroyed three years earlier.
But now it contained something the original didn't:
Proof.
Living, breathing, undeniable proof that his theory was true.
He called it Logotherapy—therapy through meaning.
The foundation was simple but revolutionary:
Humans can survive almost anything if they have a reason why.
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." (He borrowed the words from Nietzsche, but he had proven them in hell.)
1946. The book is published.
In German, the title was "...trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen"—"...Nevertheless Say Yes to Life."
In English, it became "Man's Search for Meaning."
The world wasn't ready for it. Publishers initially rejected it. "Too morbid," they said. "Who wants to read about concentration camps?"
But slowly, quietly, it began to spread.
Therapists read it and wept.
Prisoners read it and found hope.
People facing divorce, disease, bankruptcy, depression—they read it and discovered that their suffering could have purpose.
The impact was seismic.
The book has now been translated into over 50 languages.
It's sold more than 16 million copies.
The Library of Congress named it one of the ten most influential books in America.
But here's what matters more than sales numbers:
Countless people—people whose names we'll never know—have picked up this book in their darkest moment and found a reason to keep going.
Because Viktor Frankl proved something the Nazis tried to disprove:
You can strip away everything from a human being—freedom, family, food, future, hope—and there will still be one final freedom remaining:
The freedom to choose what it all means.
You cannot control what happens to you.
But you can always control what you make of what happens to you.

Today, Viktor Frankl is gone.
But in hospital rooms, in therapy offices, in prisons, in quiet moments when someone is deciding whether to give up or keep going—his words are still there:
"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."
"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances."
The Nazis gave him a number.
History gave him immortality.
Because the man who lost everything taught the world that meaning is the one thing no one can ever take away.
Prisoner 119104 didn't just survive.
He turned suffering itself into a source of healing.
And somewhere tonight, someone who's barely holding on will read his words and decide to hold on one more day.
That's not just survival.
That's victory over death itself.

India’s demographic story is no longer one of uniform population growth but of sharp regional variations. While the southern states are ageing rapidly and outward migration from them is slowing, the northern states are experiencing a youth bulge that is reshaping labour outflows. This emerging north-south divide could redefine India’s migration dynamics and it holds economic implications, particularly for remittances and labour supply to West Asia.

Overall, as India’s internal demographic divide deepens, the key challenge will be to ensure that the migration potential of the north’s youth is matched by the skill and policy support once enjoyed by the south. Unless this is addressed, India’s next migration story may be one of quantity without quality, where we will still see a flow of workers but without the same economic multiplier that once made Kerala’s Gulf connection a global success story. https://thewire.in/labour/youthful-north-ageing-south-the-demography-reshaping-indias-gulf-story

by Akshat Sogani

30/10/2025

A political drama for the ages, opening soon in New York City: Zohran Mamdani v Donald Trump. What could go wrong? https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/10/28/a-political-drama-for-the-ages-opening-soon-in-new-york-city

“It’s not your job to change their mind,” “It’s your job to leave them thinking that Zohran’s people are classy.” Meeting sceptics with smiles... He has made his affordability platform—rent freezes, housing investment, free child care, free buses—the main story of the election, while avoiding culture-war traps and shouting matches with Donald Trump, who calls him a communist.

At a minimum, if Mr Mamdani is elected, the White House will probably make a midterms-focused spectacle of the mayor’s unabashed socialism, to undermine suburban New York Democrats running for closely contested seats in the House of Representatives next year, races that may help decide whether Democrats regain control of the lower house of Congress. Yet if Mr Trump freezes more federal funds .. or if he sends soldiers and border-control agents to his former hometown, he would be taking on his own political risks.

“In the Indic worldview, work is not merely a means of livelihood but a contribution to the broader order of dharma (righteous duty). This perspective recognises every worker — whether an artisan, farmer, teacher, or industrial labourer – as an essential participant in the cycle of social creation,” says the policy, reported The Telegraph.

https://thewire.in/labour/draft-national-labour-and-employment-policy-inspired-by-manusmriti-draws-criticism

“Ancient texts such as the Manusmriti, Yajnavalkyasmriti, Naradasmriti, Sukraniti and Arthashastra articulated this ethos through the concept of rajdharma, emphasising the sovereign’s duty to ensure justice, fair wages, and the protection of workers from exploitation.”

Experts have questioned the reasoning behind the policy drawing from ancient Hindu texts, citing the fact that in ancient times, workers had no rights and there was no wage system.

29/10/2025

“To glorify the concept of srama (labour) as promoted by the Hindu texts is nothing but an attempt to reinforce the same caste-based hierarchical division of labour in which the Brahmins would enjoy the highest status for their ritualistic practices in religious ceremonies,” Pradeep Shinde, a faculty member at the Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU told the newspaper.

Rhea Chakraborty को Sushant Singh Rajput मामले में क्लीन चिट! अर्नब माफ़ी मांगो! बीजेपी माफ़ी मांगो! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X3_IAMNdqQ

'No proof of foul play': CBI files closure report on Sushant Singh suicide https://www.thenewsminute.com/news/no-proof-of-foul-play-cbi-files-closure-report-on-sushant-singh-suicide The CBI In its closure reports has said that it did not find any evidence that anyone had abetted Sushant's suicide, clearing actor Rhea Chakraborty 's and her family's names.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/10/24/india-adani-group-modi-lic/
October 24, 2025India has initiated a $3.9 billion plan to support Gautam Adani's businesses following charges from the U.S. against him, with internal documents revealing that Indian officials facilitated investments from the state life insurance agency. This move is seen as a strategic effort to bolster Adani's financial standing amid legal challenges.

https://www.doccentre.in/wiki/doku.php?id=adani-bail-out ( contribute to DIK on this )

Modi पूरे देश का पैसा Adani को देने की तैयारी में! America के अखबार ने छाप दिया। Ashok Wankhede https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT-930v-Cr0

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/global-banks-weigh-halting-fresh-credit-indias-adani-after-us-indictment-say-2024-11-22/

https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/gautam-s-adani/
India’s second richest man, whose net worth around $90 billion,
had been charged with bribery and fraud last year
by U.S. authorities, and several major American
and European banks he had looked to for loans were

Samyukt Kisan Morcha
Press Release 21st October, 2025, New Delhi

SKM welcomes Judicial Enquiry on Ladakh Police Firing

Reiterates demands to repeal NSA; Release Sonam Wangchuk and other protesters

Accept Statehood & Status under 6th Schedule

Ensure employment, livelihood, No corporatisation of natural resources

SKM welcomes the decision of the Union Government to have a judicial enquiry by former Supreme Court judge Justice B S Chouhan into the “circumstances leading to the serious law and order situation, the police action and the resultant unfortunate death of four individuals” on 24th September 2025 in Leh. A Kargil war veteran also died in the police firing and the judicial enquiry was a crucial demand of the democratic movement of Ladakh people.

SKM congratulates the Apex Body, Leh (ABL) and Kargil Democratic Alliance (KDA) that spearheading the people’s protest for taking the principled stand of no discussion with the Union government without announcing a probe into the police excesses on the people’s protest and also welcomes the decision to resume talks with the Union Government on 22nd October 2025. As per the reports, the dead bodies had multiple bullet wounds on torso and head. According to rules, police must use minimum force and if necessary then shots must be fired below the knee to disperse the unruly mob only if it threatens the life of common people and public properties and all measures to control it fail while handling democratic protests of the citizens. SKM had demanded a judicial enquiry on the violence and the police firing and strict legal actions against all those responsible for excesses.

SKM reiterates the demand for repeal of NSA and immediate release of Sonam Wangchuk, withdrawal of all cases against all the agitators, and grant status of Schedule 6 to people of Ladakh. Modi Govt. is serving the interests of the corporate forces above the interests of the people by misleadingly labelling the democratic movements and their patriotic leaders as anti-nationals and putting them in prison.

Ruling RSS-BJP has displayed utmost insensitivity in dealing with the issues of the sensitive border region, after dismantling the statehood of Jammu Kashmir and declaring Ladakh as a Union Territory. The long deprival has led to massive unemployment causing anger in the youth. Instead of generating employment and livelihood for the local people, the Union Government was on a corporate mission to hand over natural resources of Ladakh to the corporate houses.

SKM extends solidarity to the democratic movement of the people of Ladakh fighting for their rights for statehood, livelihood and democratic rights and to end bureaucratic authoritarianism in the administration of the Union Territory. The heroic struggle of the people of Ladakh is an integral part of larger struggles to protect democracy across India.

Issued by
Media Cell | Samyukt Kisan Morcha
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India Faces Specialty Fertiliser Price Jump As China Suspends Exports Affecting Not Just India But Global Markets https://www.rozanaspokesman.com/farming/farmers-issues/211025/india-faces-specialty-fertiliser-price-jump-as-china-suspends-exports.html The suspension covers specialty fertilisers like TMAP (Technical Monoammonium Phosphate) and Urea-solution products like AdBlue, as well as conventional fertilisers such as DAP and urea... Chakraborty said specialty fertiliser prices, already at abnormally high levels, could rise 10-15 per cent due to the Chinese export curbs... India consumes around 250,000 tonnes of specialty fertilisers annually, with 60-65 per cent used during the rabi season, which runs from October to March.

How Nicobar’s corals disappeared on government maps https://scroll.in/article/1087919/how-nicobars-corals-disappeared-on-government-maps Between 2020 and 2021, corals vanished from the maps of Great Nicobar island’s coastline while vital green zones were dramatically reduced in size..

Apart from Galathea Bay, the 2020 map prepared by the National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Management in Chennai, which functions under the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, also showed coral reefs hugging several other shores of the Great Nicobar, particularly in the south and the west.

But an updated map prepared by the same institute in 2021 contains a dramatic change. In this map, corals are completely missing along the coast of the Great Nicobar, including in Galathea Bay. Instead, they are marked in the middle of the sea, away from the shores.

Dreams of a Maoist India https://aeon.co/essays/the-rise-and-now-fall-of-the-maoist-movement-in-india rAHU pANDITA
India’s Maoist guerillas have just surrendered, after decades of waging war on the government from their forest bases In her research in central Bihar in 1995-96, the Indian sociologist Bela Bhatia concluded that the Maoist leaders ‘have taken little interest in enhancing the quality of life in the villages.’ In fact, these leaders regarded development ‘as antagonistic to revolutionary consciousness,’ she wrote in 2005.

In the meantime, the Indian state was growing impatient with the Maoists. In 2010, a London-based securities house report predicted that making the Maoists go away could unlock $80 billion of investment in eastern and central India. New Delhi began preparations for a large-scale operation to get rid of them. But, before that, the extraordinary arrest in 2009 of the Maoist ideologue Kobad Ghandy in Delhi heightened political interest in the insurgents.
India’s Maoist guerillas have just surrendered, after decades of waging war on the government from their forest bases

(2014? )Hindu nationalism was on the rise in India and, in the coming years, this term would become a ruse for the government to suppress all activism, resulting in the incarceration of civil rights activists like the human rights lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj. What also did not help is the number of body bags – of forces killed in Maoist ambushes – going to different parts of the country.

As anti-Maoist operations go on with even more rigour, a handful of those still inside the forest will ultimately surrender or be killed. How history remembers them is too early to say; but it is a fact that, had it not been for them, the much-needed focus on the hinterland of DK would not have been there.

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