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George Fernandes, the man who threw Coca  Cola out of India

Former Defence Minister and a long-time socialist, <keyword id="58260" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="George-Fernandes">George Fernandes</keyword>,<a href="https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/george-fernandes-dies-1441492-2019-01-29"> passed away</a> on Monday in New Delhi after a prolonged illness. Fernandes, who was 88, was suffering from Alzheimer's disease and swine flu. 
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George Fernandes, the man who fought against emergency and threw out Coca-Cola from India

Hello, everyone! Welcome to the new edition of <keyword id="9095853" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="insider-today">Insider Today</keyword>. Please <a href="https://www.insider.com/insider-today">sign up here</a>.<h2>QUOTE OF THE DAY</h2>"They want to enslave you to the weak, dependent, liberal victim ideology to the point that you will not recognize this country or yourself." — <a href="https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/kimberly-guilfoyle-2020-rnc-speech-transcript">Kimberly Guilfoyle</a>, Trump campaign fundraiser and <keyword id="6354484" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Donald-Trump">Donald Trump</keyword> Jr.'s girlfriend, speaking at the RNC last night about Democrats. <h2>WHAT'S HAPPENING</h2>Melania Trump and Mike Pompeo will speak tonight at the GOP convention. Last night's speeches featured the Donald Trump Jr., Tim Scott, the McCloskeys, and <keyword id="2558628" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Kimberly-Guilfoyle">Kimberly Guilfoyle</keyword>, and focused on the culture war.<a href="https://www.insider.com/jacob-blake-paralyzed-waist-down-father-says-shooting-2020-8">Jacob Blake is paralyzed from the waist down, according to his father. </a>The Sunday shooting of Blake by Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officers has sparked protests, which have been met with tear gas. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fda-commissioner-says-he-overstated-effects-of-virus-therapy-2020-8">FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn apologized for exaggerating the benefits of convalescent plasma. </a>Hahn and Trump both wildly misinterpreted the data about plasma, which the FDA gave emergency approval to this weekend despite scantly clinical evidence. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/08/24/jerry-falwell-jr-agrees-resign-liberty-university/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_falwell-515p%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans">Jerry Falwell Jr. has resigned as president of Liberty University. </a>He's involved in a bizarre sex and payoff scandal involving his wife and a much younger man. Falwell initially agreed to leave, reneged, and then announced his exit on Tuesday after negotiating with Liberty's board. <h2>VIEWS OF THE DAY</h2><div type="image" title="Mitt Romney" height="1931" width="3862" msid="77749270" hostid="261"></div>Who's not at the RNC? Just about every Republican who mattered for the last 25 years. In 2020, the <keyword id="107894" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Republican-Party">Republican Party</keyword> has no platform except Trumpism. The best way to appreciate just how completely Trump has remade the GOP is to make a list of recent Republican Party leaders — the people who defined the party for the last generation — and see what they're doing this week.<keyword id="156887" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Mitt-Romney">Mitt Romney</keyword>, the Republican presidential nominee before Trump, won't speak at the RNC and isn't welcome. In fact, he's loathed. John McCain, the nominee before that, is dead, but his widow Cindy spoke at the DNC, and it's clear John McCain would not have been welcome at Trump's convention. <keyword id="32754" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="George-W-Bush">George W. Bush</keyword>, the last Republican president, won't speak at the RNC, <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2020/08/24/very-different-party-george-w-bushs-absence-from-rnc-shows-again-how-gop-has-changed-under-trump/">doesn't want to be there</a>, and probably isn't welcome. Dick Cheney, the last GOP vice president, won't speak either. (Cheney's daughter Liz, the third-ranking House Republican, won't speak and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/house-conservatives-challenge-rep-liz-cheney-question-her-loyalty-to-trump/2020/07/21/4a4c115c-cb71-11ea-b0e3-d55bda07d66a_story.html">doesn't seem welcome</a>.)Paul Ryan, the last Republican Speaker of the House, won't speak and has vanished from politics. John Boehner, the Republican speaker before that, won't speak and is <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/31/john-boehner-republican-trump-party-615357">revolted by what's happened to his party</a>. Rex Tillerson, the Trump's first secretary of state, won't speak and isn't welcome. Condoleeza Rice, the last GOP secretary of state before that, won't speak and isn't welcome. Colin Powell, the GOP secretary of state before that, won't speak and isn't welcome, and just addressed the DNC. Michael Steele, the last RNC chair before Trump, won't speak and isn't welcome, and just joined the Lincoln Project to defeat Trump. Trump leads an ostensibly conservative party, yet it conserves so little. — DP<div type="image" title="Guilfoyle" height="1000" width="2000" msid="77749285" hostid="261"></div>RNC Night 1: Apocalypse GuilfoyleKimberly Guilfoyle, one of the Trump campaign's chief fundraisers, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kimberly-guilfoyle-republican-national-convention-speech-video-2020-8">gave an RNC speech</a> the boss could be proud of. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kimberly-guilfoyle-rnc-speech-vote-trump-or-die-republican-convention-2020-8">In my new column</a>, I argue that Guilfoyle's speech was bombastically unhinged and factually-bereft, and commanded the audience to view Democrats as an existential threat to their lives. Think I'm exaggerating? Here's an excerpt from half-way through the six-minute speech: "They want to destroy this country and everything that we have fought for and hold dear. They want to steal your liberty, your freedom. They want to control what you see and think and believe so that they can control how you live. They want to enslave you to the weak, dependent, liberal victim ideology to the point that you will not recognize this country or yourself."Steal. Control. Enslave. Totally healthy rhetoric coming from a primetime speaker at one of the US' two major political parties' conventions. Guilfoyle — formerly a Fox News host, prosecutor and <a href="https://charlierose.com/videos/14027">first lady of San Francisco</a>, and current girlfriend of Donald Trump, Jr. — wasn't quite through painting the upcoming election as a scorched-earth war of attrition:"Don't let [the Democrats] step on you. Don't let them destroy your families, your lives, and your future. Don't let them kill future generations because they told you and brainwashed you and fed you lies that you weren't good enough."Destroy. Kill. Brainwash.To be clear, Democrats spent last week painting Trump as an existential threat to the country's future, but they at least had some evidence to work with. The US remains crippled by the coronavirus pandemic, thanks in no small part to Trump's disastrous response, which included politicizing the use of masks, attacking states who locked-down at the beginning of the crisis, and putting his <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-devotion-cronyism-getting-people-killed-coronavirus-pandemic-covid-2020-5">crony son-in-law Jared Kushner and his rich-kid buddies</a> in charge of securing PPE. The results speak for themselves. Double-digit unemployment. The <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/coronavirus-american-failure/614191/">most devastating rate of coronavirus infections and deaths</a> of any rich country in the world. Trump's managed to make <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/american-passports-are-useless-now/615244/">a US passport essentially worthless</a>. (We <a href="https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/us-international-travel-covid-19/index.html">can't even go to Canada</a>.) So while the Democrats exaggerated (<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/21/us/politics/fact-check-democrats.html">sometimes called "lying"</a>) plenty during their four-day infomercial, none of the DNC speakers came close to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kimberly-guilfoyle-rnc-speech-vote-trump-or-die-republican-convention-2020-8">the apocalyptic rhetoric of Guilfoyle</a>. And that was only night one. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/author/anthony-l-fisher">— Anthony Fisher</a><div type="image" title="mark mccloskey" height="600" width="800" msid="77749289" hostid="261"></div>Won't you be my neighbor?The most racist portion of last night's RNC was a sit down with the McCloskeys, the St. Louis couple who brandished weapons to warn protesters away from their mansion during Black Lives Matter protests. Mark and Patricia were there to represent "quiet neighborhoods around the country" and the people who populate them — people concerned about violent protests and "Marxist liberal activists… walking the halls of Congress." The speech was one long racist dog whistle.The chat was one part Saturday Night Live skit, one part time machine. Trump often talks of his base wishing to return to a bygone era, and the McCloskeys took us to 1988, when <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/us/politics/bush-willie-horton.html">George HW Bush turned Willie Horton</a> — a Massachusetts prisoner who raped a woman and bound and stabbed her boyfriend while out on furlough from prison — into a campaign issue.None of this is surprising coming from the Trump campaign, even though <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/rnc-meets-charlotte-officially-nominate-trump-n1237835">Trump had promised a more positive</a>, upbeat RNC. Racism was always going to be the message: What's disturbing is who the GOP thinks is an adequate messenger. There is no way you would want the McCloskeys to be your neighbors — a profile of them from the <a href="https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/the-st-louis-couple-charged-with-waving-guns-at-protesters-have-a-long-history-of/article_281d9989-373e-53c3-abcb-ecd0225dd287.html">St. Louis Post-Dispatch illustrates why.</a> They have no decency.Here are some of the highlights:<ul><li>The McCloskeys have "quiet title" suits asserting squatter's rights on land they've "occupied openly and hostilely."</li><li>They are suing their neighborhood group, the Portland Place trustees, claiming they are entitled to a 1,000-plus-square foot triangle of land in front of their property set aside from public use.</li><li>In 2012 Mark McCloskey sued his father (who was sick in a nursing home), his sister, and his father's caretaker for defamation. He dropped the suit in 2013. His father died in 2014.</li><li>Mark McCloskey was written out of his father's will, but he sued for part of what his father left behind anyway. He got $400,000 from his siblings and they do not speak to him.</li><li>In 2013 Mark destroyed beehives built by the Jewish Central Reform Congregation next door. He left a note claiming responsibility and threatening to sue if the hives were replaced. The Synagogue had planned to harvest the honey and eat it during Rosh Hashana.</li><li>The McCloskeys have been accused by members of their neighborhood group of trying to enforce arcane rules to keep gay couples out of the neighborhood.</li></ul>I could go on, because it's a stunning (Trumpian, even) legal record. But it's upsetting and you need to get on with your day. If these are the kind of people you'd want in your neighborhood, good luck and God bless. In more normal times, it's hard to see these people getting a spot in a national convention. But these are not normal times. Before, Republicans at least wanted to seem like decent people representing decent people — but decent people the McCloskeys are not. That <a href="https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Have_you_no_sense_of_decency.htm">used to</a> matter. — <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/author/linette-lopez">Linette Lopez</a><div type="image" title="Trump coronavirus test swab" height="1250" width="2500" msid="77749291" hostid="261"></div>The president needs to stop overhyping COVID treatments.On Sunday, the FDA and the president touted wildly misleading data about convalescent plasma to justify their approval of the COVID treatment for emergency use. As the New York Times<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/24/health/fda-blood-plasma.html?action=click&amp;module=Top%20Stories&amp;pgtype=HomepageHomepage"> details in this story</a>, FDA leaders and the president claimed the plasma cut COVID deaths 35%, which is not even remotely true.Rather, in one small subset of patients, those who received plasma with higher levels of antibodies died at a lower rate than those who received plasma with lower levels of antibodies. What they said was so completely wrong, in fact, that FDA chief Stephen Hahn <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveFDA/status/1298071620414824452?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1298071620414824452%7Ctwgr%5E&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2020%2F08%2F24%2Fhealth%2Ffda-blood-plasma.htmlhtml">tweeted an apology on Monday </a>for misrepresenting the data. This episode should alarm anyone who hopes the Trump administration can administer a successful vaccination campaign. Once again (see: hydroxychloroquine), the Trump COVID team has approached public health as a form of marketing — acting as if their job is to sell plasma, not stop the pandemic. Trump's greatest skill is hype, but hype is the enemy of public health. The job of public health officials is to build trust, so that the citizens believe what their government is telling them, and then act responsibly. Tony Fauci's straightforward, realistic style grates on the president, who only likes to hear good news. But that kind of harsh honesty encourages listeners to actually believe what you're saying. Hype builds false expectations — deaths down 35%! — and when the treatment fails to meet them, the public is disillusioned, and less likely to trust the next claim you make. With a vaccine, this could be disastrous. As vaccine experts say: Vaccines don't work. Vaccination works. If you create a safe and effective vaccine but citizens refuse to take it, you've failed. Each time the Trump administration oversells a COVID treatment, it makes the public more and more skeptical, and less and less likely to trust a vaccine. —DP<h2>BUSINESS &amp; ECONOMY</h2><a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/stock-market-election-democratic-republican-presidents-better-performance-economy-gdp-2020-8-1029528932">The economy and stock market perform significantly better under Democratic presidents than Republican ones.</a> A British investment bank crunched data going back to 1946 and found the S&amp;P performed nearly twice as well under Democratic administrations. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ruby-tuesday-is-closing-restaurants-without-telling-staff-workers-say-2020-8">Ruby Tuesday is shutting down restaurants without warning staff.</a> The troubled chain has already closed about 150 of its 450 locations in 2020.<h2>LIFE</h2><div type="image" title="the batman" height="1072" width="2144" msid="77749293" hostid="261"></div><a href="https://www.insider.com/the-batman-teaser-trailer-details-you-may-have-missed-2020-8">Everything you missed in the first trailer for "The Batman." </a>Lots of the clever details. 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<ul><li>The 44-year-old was found hanging from the fan of the kitchen on Wednesday night, police officials said. He may have been dead for two days before he was found, they said.</li><li>Sharma, who also worked in serials such as "Kahaani Ghar Ghar Ki", "Yeh Rishtey Hain Pyar Ke" and "Wo Rehne Wali Mehlon Ki", lived in a rented flat in Chincholi Bunder locality in Malad (West). </li><li>Sharma's death comes at a time the entertainment industry is reeling from the shock of the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, who was found hanging at his apartment in suburban Bandra on June 14.</li></ul>Television actor Samir Sharma, best known for his roles in "Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi" and "Left Right Left", was found dead in his home in suburban Malad where he lived alone, police said on Thursday. The 44-year-old was found hanging from the fan of the kitchen on Wednesday night, police officials said. He may have been dead for two days before he was found, they said. "We have not found any suicide note at the spot. It seems to be suicide case. It is suspected that he hanged himself two days back. We have sent the body for an autopsy," Malad police station's senior inspector George Fernandes said. Sharma, who also worked in serials such as "Kahaani Ghar Ghar Ki", "Yeh Rishtey Hain Pyar Ke" and "Wo Rehne Wali Mehlon Ki", lived in a rented flat in Chincholi Bunder locality in Malad (West). His body was discovered by the building's watchman, who peeped through the kitchen window and saw him hanging. He then alerted members of the society who informed the police. Police rushed to the spot and took Sharma to a hospital where doctors declared him brought dead, another official said. Efforts were on to get in touch with the family of the actor, who had been living alone since February, he said. Based on primary information, an Accidental Death Report (ADR) has been registered, Fernandes said, adding that further investigations are underway. On July 27, Sharma posted his last words on Instagram with a poem on death and dreams. "I built my pyre and slept on it and with my fire it was lit. And all that was me I burned in it. I killed my dream to wake up from it. Now my dream is gone," he wrote on his page. After that, he posted some photographs but no written content. His bio on Instagram reads "Actor. Writer. Poet" and mostly has shots of beaches and videos of him driving to scenic places. Sharma's death comes at a time the entertainment industry is reeling from the shock of the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput, who was found hanging at his apartment in suburban Bandra on June 14. Rajput's death, which will now be investigated by the CBI, exposed many faultlines in the industry. "Depression is a lonely disease," Sharma had posted after Rajput's death. "Biopolar Disorder, Depression, and Schizophrenia etc. do you know or understand what that means or feels like? No you don't, unless you've been through it yourself. And anybody who hasn't, will never ever be able to understand what that feels like," he wrote on July 22. Bollywood star Sidharth Malhotra, who worked with Sharma in "Hasee toh Phasee", condoled the actor's death. Sharing a picture with Sharma from the film, Malhotra wrote, "Really sad and unfortunate #RIPSameerSharma." Actor Varun Dhawan also shared a picture on his Instagram stories and wrote "#RIPSameerSharma". On June 9, Rajput's former manager Disha Salian jumped from a high-rise building. The month earlier, on May 15, TV actor Manmeet Grewal had hanged himself at his Mumbai home. ZA

Indian TV actor Samir Sharma, who is popular for his roles Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi and Left Right Left, found dead in his Mumbai home

The dark terror that India went through 40 years ago is something that makes for a legend of sorts. Exactly four decades ago, India died in its spirit bit by bit only to regain its composure after a long gap of 21 months. Though India progressed well on the growth trajectory after that phase, the time is still remembered as one of the darkest hours in the country’s history. 
 
India did not struggle with slavery or racial discrimination then. In 1975, the biggest challenge for the country’s leadership was to silence all the dissent against her and make sure the capitalist forces got to have their say. 
 Legend has it that the order was issued by President <keyword id="513962" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Fakhruddin-Ali-Ahmed">Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed</keyword> under Article 352 (1) of the Indian Constitution for ‘internal disturbance’. Clichéd as it sounds, India, indeed, went through the phase of emergency while gasping for breaths in different phases, wondering if this would ever end. 
 
Movements took shape underground, the voiceless, who were silenced temporarily, surfaced in tunnels and dark corridors to find ways of opposing the imposition that the government had forced on them. 
 <keyword id="6354478" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Indira-Gandhi">Indira Gandhi</keyword>, the name that still gives shivers to the Indian psyche was seen as both, a strong and an insecure Prime Minister, for having used this provision that should have been the route to take during the worst times. Emergency was a joyride for some. People were picked off the street randomly, locked away in prison and subjected to torture. Some souls withered away, while some lived to tell the tale. 
 Indira Gandhi’s political opponents were successfully eliminated, or silenced. Her son, who was considered the heir to the throne -- though dynastic politics was not in the spirit of Indian Constitution – <keyword id="134281" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Sanjay-Gandhi">Sanjay Gandhi</keyword> organised and conducted mass sterilisation programmes. Pogrom would be a better word, to use, when referring to this in reality. 
 
For having forced the country to go through the worst phase ever, Indira Gandhi got a fitting answer from the citizens of the country. She lost the elections that came up much after Emergency was lifted. The icon of oppression, Sanjay Gandhi, subsequently died in an air crash. Indira Gandhi continued to rule till she was assassinated in early 80s. 
 
What was the confidence that Indira Gandhi gained to be able to impose a situation that was termed Emergency, while in true spirit and meaning it was much more than a mere time of haste. It was a grand display of dictatorial aura, the unfathomable truth that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. 
 
Indira Gandhi was much more than being a charismatic leader. She outrivalled her detractors and had created a path of her own. It was untested and untrodden. As a result, it was dangerous too. Time proved it again. 
 
For Emergency-like situation to be imposed on the country’s psyche, the resilience was at stake. It was a test the country’s mettle took and passed with flying colours. While Indian in Emergency wept at the fate it had arrived at, the situation also stoked the fire. Just as there were cronies and loyalists; heroes and martyrs were also born out of the same political situation. 
 
The same political unrest that had forced Indira Gandhi towards a knee-jerk reaction and design an Emergency, had also allowed the leaders across board to consolidate their forces against her. Student unrest also went a long way in planning the response to the whole situation. 
 
George Fernandes, a socialist labour leader, who raised his handcuffed hands to the cameras turned into the symbol of strength and the answer the situation had forced people to give. What if she had not imposed Emergency? India would have respected her as a leader and that’s it. 
 
She would have been mostly considered one of the weakest leaders for the reason that she had learnt politics on the job and had occupied the chair because of her father’s death; and not solely for the reason that she was capable of delivering the administration according to people’s expectations. 
 
Had the Emergency not been imposed, the sense of security and strength of press, students and Socialist and Leftist forces would have gone unchecked. A country that hasn’t been provoked is a country that does not know its strength. People realised their potential only because they were shown the dictatorial shades. They resisted, and how! 
 
Leaders were lost and leaders were born. The victory was sweeter because in the subsequent elections, Indira Gandhi learnt her most valuable lesson- you cannot silence voices by shutting the door. She left behind a very important lesson for the country to remember. Only, our memory needs to be long and strong. Else, we will be forced to learn the lesson all over again. 
 
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