Thanks for checking out this unboxing video. This is for the November BAMBOX horror box Still looking very very plain not branded as BAMBOX yet They've been talking about over for over a year how they're gonna change this but in But I'm not gonna be around long enough to find out to be honest. This is my last box I'm gonna be doing from BAMBOX. I'm still gonna keep on going with my fright crates because I'm really really enjoying those They're very unique. I love the t-shirts from it and the the resin cast from cereal resin Really awesome A few things a few reasons why I'm stepping out on the BAMBOX. It's not a bad box for the right person It's a very good box and it has good value. It's just that the autographs in it I've kind of gotten to a point where I've been going to enough horror conventions that I Want to switch over and have it where only the autographs I'm displaying are ones that I've gotten myself So I have an actual personal story tied to each one of those And also I was in it still for the the pins and the art prints And I feel like the art prints have actually gone downhill Considerably because they're not getting so much actual like hand-done art anymore Which is what I was looking for and they were doing for a while. It's more computer graphics Stuff that I'm not really into so the pins are still good though I still like the pins so for that reason I still kind of really heavily considered it And I was like I can still stick with it But for the price tag to just be in it for the pins is not really worth it to me plus You know, I'm not getting nearly as many views out of these Unboxings for BAMBOX as I used to so that's just the thing in general like YouTube's kind of dying out on the unboxing so Hopefully these companies don't have problems staying Keeping going because if YouTube's any indicator people are losing interest. So I don't know we'll see so anyway Not to be like a complete downer on this But hopefully this is a really good box because actually I've been going through kind of a it's been a really rough day today Really rough day. So I like to turn to things like this to kind of like pet me up and be like Oh cool a box of fun stuff. So hopefully this is a really good box. I like to go out on a good one So let's see. I do know there's supposed to be a signed Funko pop in this one, which I am all about that I think those are really cool Tissue paper for my cat obviously More so like three sheets. She's gonna be pretty happy. Alright, so I want to do the pop last. So let's get Okay, let's just do the pin first because that's kind of what I grabbed Okay, I was just reading the back of it and I didn't get it Design is by wizard of barge and it's called ack ack ack. It is Mars attacks obviously Yeah, it looks good. I love those colors on it the green and the pink go together extremely well That looks really really cool. And you know what? I don't even know if I've seen Mars attacks in its entirety. I know I've at least seen pieces of it But it was such a wacky movie when it came out. I feel like It probably aged pretty well in the sense of like a crappy fun movie. So I think I should check that out I really think I should check that out. But anyway, this looks good. I like the design on that pin That's well executed. Oh cats already getting on the tissue paper if you can hear it. I'm sure you can All right, so let's go with the art print next. Oh, I got a one-up Don't know what that's gonna end up being. Oh very nice.  All right, so here we go We have art print is from Zombie z o m b e e zombie and this one is called dawn and it's dawn of the dead. I mean That's fine Not particularly into it. It I mean, it's it's very very plain in my opinion And it's kind of weird because where's the reference to what dawn of the dead actually is it kind of looks Like it's like You see that it's just like it's like desert like desert land with a zombie head dawn of the dead is in an in a mall So I don't really get I don't get it I don't really get it and this is another one of those things where it's not like hand-done art It's just it's not what I'm looking for some people might like it not me Feels like it's some sort of Fory electric sales advisor Shawn I Guess it's Shawn of the dead reference.  So that's just a actual imperfection in it These things are cheap. I don't really care for them They did do one some time ago that was Bruce Campbell's a smart badge Which that was cool because that's a very like known thing from from Army of Darkness So I think it's just the pop then really Okay Does this seem like this seems like a light box? Okay, so it's in a pocket protector awesome Scary stories to tell in the dark. I didn't even know they were doing Yeah, I didn't even know they were doing pops for this and I haven't even seen it yet I've heard a mix of things and I think part of the problem is it's like PG-13 So you're gonna have some people who see it and they're like oh score scary stories to tell in the dark in Geron Germa del Toro's involved so should be great But they just don't like PG-13 horror movies and then I think also Yeah, people on the other side who go into it and they're just like I'm fine with PG-13. So, you know But anyway, I will see it eventually and it is jangly man jangly man Sorry, let me Let me pull this off because you can probably see better So they still have this like film on it Actually, I'm gonna have to open the top of it of the protector anyway because it wasn't closed properly But whoever put it put it there, but it's signed by Do-do-do Troy James who played jangly man in scary stories to tell in the dark Which cool like obviously I don't really have like a tie to this guy I can't be like oh sweet Troy James because I haven't seen it yet. So I Mean, maybe I'll see it and be like, okay, cool Troy James like that guy But I do think it's cool that they keep doing this while not keep doing this This is only the second signed Funko Pop. They've done for horror They've done it a bunch more. I know for the pop culture box Okay, there we go, so here you can see it better now there you go jangly man So sorry, there's a lot of you can see the order his autograph looks good. Got to be honest It looks pretty nice the pop itself is kind of It's just very very drab, but I guess I'll have to see the movie to like, you know know how Truthful it is to the actual material and then once again like they have their thing on the top Where it's their certificate of authenticity and they have the number and everything so you can authenticate that so that's cool All right, I like that. They're doing that and that's that's literally it Okay All right, so I guess did I get the variant I Guess my upgrade. Yeah, my upgrade was the art print will be Which they did the thing I totally hate with their art print variants Which is it's just a slight color differentiation. You see this it literally is like the the most the Least difference I've seen in their variants for art prints. They've ever done like literally that makes no difference Whatever like and that's that that's one of the reasons I'm out on Bambox because their art prints They've just gotten so lazy on these art prints man. It's so lazy So that's that that's the art print from dawn of the dead, which like I said like it doesn't even really tie in It's just the zombie aspect of it Excuse me The scary stories to tell in the dark pop. We got that the fan art print or the fan art pin I'm sorry. Oh, there's some cool variants with the pin You see like the blasters. I think the blasters are really cool Especially the one that's color Yeah, those are cool blasters and then there's a movie prop Yeah from Sean of the dead I was right that that that name tag is from Sean of the dead Whatever And then the giveaway that they had was for a signed Jennifer Tilly photo of Her with her doll from Chuckie. Let's see it down here Right there. That's a pretty cool picture. So whoever won that cool She's got some voice, huh? It's a thing. Okay, so oh and this is their box 11 if you needed to know that I was still going with the whole monthly thing I know they changed that partially because then they can kind of ship it whenever Because this one obviously is pretty late. I just got it literally today on the 21st of December and it's a November one So I think that's a big reason they changed it to like volume 3 box 11 Because then they can be like oh, well, it's not for a specific month.  I mean like I said, I like the pop don't really care about the art print. I think that's pretty, you know Disappointing but the pin the pin is really cool, too So the pin might be my favorite thing just because I haven't seen scary stories to tell in the dark But this these are always a cool item to have especially signs. So good stuff. Anyway, put your comments down there I have a feeling there are gonna be some people who are just like on this box It always goes both ways.  That's the end of it But I'm still doing my freight crates and I might pick something else up in the in the future A lot of people have lobbied for me to do Zoby There's Zoby horror So I might consider that that's like a bi-monthly. I know so I don't know we'll see but anyway Thanks everyone for checking this out. Please do me a quick favor hit that subscribe I'm not gonna be doing any more of these bambox unboxings But I'm still doing freight crate, but I'm also doing a lot of horror movie reviews And I put a lot of time and effort into those Doing research and watching the movie and putting you know writing things down about theme and backstory and everything on that So I really break it down. It's really not just reviewing the movie. 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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Good evening. Welcome here tonight at the International Summer Festival at Kampnagel in Hamburg, Germany. This is the third and final week of the International Summer Festival. And this festival is all about providing a platform for new artistic approaches in the performing arts. This year, for example, we had a wonderful production by an artist from Singapore, Ho Tsung Nien, on Southeast Asia. From Cuba came the Malpaso Dance Company, also with the world premiere on religious and pop-cultural dances. And if there's one thing in common that all our artists share, it's that they all take their subject from the present. And as a festival that is highly alert to the present and to the world around us, we always have a theoretical platform basis each year. This year, the theme was about the new discourse on homeland and nations. Subjects that I believe are also quite discussed in the country of our guest tonight, Raul Gandhi. We are very happy that we have this opportunity of presenting him. And this is thanks to Sascha Socke, who is standing next to me. Sascha is the director of the Buzzerius Summer School on Global Governance as part of the Sight Foundation. And this is actually a collaboration that has been going on for some years now. And I'm very happy that we have such a high-profile speaker tonight. Thank you, Sascha, for making this possible. And you will say something now about our guest of honor tonight. But I'm very happy to have you here, Mr. Gandhi. It's an honor for us. Thank you. Thank you, Andreas. Meine Damen und Herren, dear ladies and gentlemen, Excellencies, hello everyone, also on our video stream anywhere. So, as Andreas mentioned, this is part also not only of the International Summer Festival here at Camp Nagel, which is a great festival, but also part of this year's Buzzerius Summer School on Global Governance. And our speaker for tonight, he needs no introduction. You know him all. His name is Raul Gandhi. He is the president of the Indian National Congress. But if I might say so, he is also an alumnus of the Buzzerius Summer School on Global Governance. So you might ask yourself, what is this Buzzerius Summer School on Global Governance? It's a two-week seminar for young leaders. And Raul Gandhi participated in 2005. And among our participants from all over the world, we have several high-ranking politicians, CEOs, and other people. And we are now very glad, and I would like to welcome him now. Raul Gandhi. Raul Gandhi will first give a short speech, and then we will get into a conversation. And then we would like to bring in you, the audience, to ask some questions to him. Thank you very much for inviting me here this evening. It's an honor for me to come. As you mentioned, I was an alumnus of the Buzzerius School. I spent a very nice time here in Hamburg. We learned quite a lot and had a lot of fun. So those were good days, and I'm happy to come back. I'm here to tell you a little bit about what is going on in my country and how that is relevant to the rest of the world. So I'd like to start around 70 years ago when India was locked up in hundreds of thousands of villages. India was a rural country. People lived in a caste society, rigid rules. They aspired, but it was very difficult to move outside the village. For some of you who haven't been to an Indian village, I can give you a little bit of a description. Most Indian villages are divided along caste lines. If you're a lower caste person, or if you were a lower caste person, for example, 70 years ago, you couldn't drink water from the village well. In certain spaces, certain villages, if your shadow fell on an upper caste person, the upper caste person would go and have a bath. And for all practical purposes, from a lower caste or a backward caste, you pretty much had no mobility in the village. Forget about the country. 70 years ago, something beautiful happened in my country. We got independence, and we started a journey, a transition from a rural India to an urban India, a transition of imagination, a transition in the way India viewed itself, a transition in vision. An India which had not been moving for a long time, had been static, had been isolated, started to wake up. And a transition began, began slowly, and then it picked up speed. And the transition was essentially Indian people breaking the ideas of caste, breaking the ideas of a lack of mobility and starting to move. And it was enabled by the idea of one man, one vote enshrined in our constitution. Similar transformation was taking place nearby. Hundreds of millions of people in India, hundreds of millions of people in China, changing their way of being, changing their existence. The idea was the same, urbanization, modernity, but the method and the way they did it was completely different. China did it in a centralized way, reasonable amount of violence, managed by the Communist Party, managed by the People Liberation Army. And India did it organically in a decentralized way. Anybody could do anything they want, anybody could move wherever they wanted. China, the Communist Party decided where you would go. But the end result was a massive transformation of hundreds of millions of people. Never seen before. Never ever in human history have so many people changed their way of living, changed their view of the world, changed their vision. And there were a couple things that were the foundation of this transformation in India. One idea was that if India was going to go through this risky transition, difficult transition, dangerous transition, everybody should be included in it. India should not transform itself for few people. India should not transform itself for just one community or one group of people. India should transform itself for every single Indian. Every single Indian should be able to aspire. Many languages spoken in my country, many, many different states, different cultures, different ideas. We wanted all of them to be included in this sort of awakening, in this transformation. The second idea was that this transformation would mean different levels of risk for different people. So poor people would face a higher risk in this transformation. They would have to make a much bigger change. They would have to move from a village to a city. The risks were much bigger. Certain communities, certain groups of people would struggle. Certain groups of people would require a cushion, maybe some help. Dalit communities, lower caste communities, tribal communities, minorities. So the idea was that as we transformed, the government should support its people, should help its people smoothen this traumatic transition, this traumatic change. So the government, pretty much all governments, until the last one, this one, 2014, Narendra Modi government, followed these two ideas very, very strongly. So for example, poor country like India guarantees 100 days of work to all its poor people. It's called the guaranteed employment scheme. You can be anybody, any religion, you can speak any language. If you live in India, you're a poor person, you get 100 days of guaranteed employment. Right to food. Every single Indian person has the right to food. The state helps give them food, doesn't allow them to go hungry. The right to information doesn't depend on your religion. Any Indian person can ask their government about what is going on. And I can take you back a few years, bank nationalization, designed to give credit to many more people. So these were two of the fundamental ideas that pretty much every single Indian government held true, which has now been attacked and to a great extent damaged by the government in power today. They do not feel that every single person in India should have access to the fruits of this transformation. They feel that tribal communities, poor farmers, Dalit communities, lower caste people, minorities should not get the same benefits that the elite of the country get. And our point is that the risk was everybody's. Everybody took the risk, and we feel everybody should get the reward. The other thing they've done is they've started attacking the support structures that were designed to help certain groups of people. Very recently, a law that protected the Dalit community from violence was scratched down. The right to food is weakened. The right to guaranteed employment weakened. And all the money that used to go into these schemes is now going into the hands of very few people, the largest corporates in the country. But that's not the only damage they've done. There's something much more significant and dangerous that the government has done. This transition that took place, took place on an informal economy, took place on the back of millions of small and medium businesses that allowed people from the villages to come to the cities, to do a job for a couple of months, and then go back to the village. They acted like a shock absorber. A couple of years back, the prime minister demonetized the Indian economy. He basically said that 1,000 and 500 rupee notes would be worthless. And he destroyed the cash flows of all these small and medium businesses. Millions and millions and millions of people who worked in the informal sector were left unemployed. I want to give you a sense of the scale of this. China produces 50,000 new jobs every 24 hours in the same amount of time, in the same 24 hours. India, a country that is approximately the same size as China, produces only 450. And they didn't stop at demonetization. They imposed a badly conceptualized, badly thought through, badly implemented goods and services tax, which complicated the lives of these small and medium businesses. And basically resulted in the closure of hundreds of thousands of them. And large numbers of people who worked in these businesses were forced back to the villages. And these three things that the government has done is made India angry. And that's what you get to read in the newspapers. When you hear about lynchings in India, when you hear about attacks on Dalits in India, when you hear about attacks on minorities in India, that's the reason for it. That a huge, powerful transformation, which is frankly shaping the entire world, requires certain protections for its people. And that protection is being taken away. And India is reacting to that. It's very dangerous in the 21st century to exclude people. I want to give you a small example. A strong example, but a small, strong example. The United States attacked Iraq in 2003. And one of the first things they did was Executive Order 1 and Executive Order 2, which is in common parlance called debatification. But in fact it was a law that stopped a particular tribe in Iraq from getting government jobs. A law that stopped them from getting jobs in the army. And there was a history to it. So it seemed like a very innocuous decision at the time. It took the United States a couple months to defeat Saddam Hussein's army. Hardly any Americans died. A very limited number of soldiers died. A few months after the invasion, the network that was excluded from jobs in Iraq, the Tikriti tribal network, linked up with the cell phone network in Iraq and with the network of artillery shells that were left in the villages. And you got an insurgency that fought the United States and caused massive casualties to the Americans. And in and there, that insurgency slowly entered empty spaces. It entered the empty space in Iraq. It entered the empty space in Syria. And then it connected with the global internet to form the horrific idea called ISIS. And I'm explaining this because if you don't give people a vision in the 21st century, somebody else will give them one. That is the real risk of excluding large numbers of people from our development processes. Every country faces this risk. If you don't embrace people, if you don't give people a vision, somebody else is going to do it. And that vision might not be a vision that is good for you or good for the world. I want to end by telling you about a conversation I had many years ago with the ex-Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, which has stayed in my mind. He had come to India and I asked him, what was your experience in the Vietnam War? What was your takeaway from the Vietnam War? And he said to me, you know Rahul, during the war we used to talk to the Vietnamese. I used to talk to the Vietnamese generals. And we spent a lot of time talking to them. But we never listened to each other. It was only after the war when I met those same generals that I realized that what they were telling us was not what we were hearing. And what we were telling them was not what they were hearing. And he said that I wish that we had listened to them during the war. We would have saved many, many lives. And I think that's what is important in the 21st century. You can disagree with somebody. But in a connected world, you have to listen to what they're saying, where they're coming from. As I said recently, hate is a choice. I can fight you. I can take you on. I can compete with you. But hating you is something that I actively have to choose to do. And I think hate is a dangerous thing in a connected world. So what we do in India and the Congress Party, we work with our people. We bring them together. We try and carry as many of them as possible in this transition. And we find that when you actually go and listen to people, and they might be very different than you, they might have a different cultural background than you, they might speak a different language. But when you actually start listening to people and try to understand where they're coming from, you can get a hell of a lot done. So I'd like to end my talk by telling you that I think there is a lot of hatred in the world today, but there is not enough listening. And I think listening is something that is very, very powerful. So thank you for coming here. Thank you so much. I think there will be lots of questions from the audience. But let me go first. Because your last example was very interesting talking about hate, because in these times we are talking a lot about hate speech and politics, especially when I follow you on Twitter. I see a lot of hate speech. I see it with every politician.  No, not you doing, not you. The comments, the comments. Sorry, no. Just making sure. No, I think to listen to each other is very important, but there were times where there was no need to mention it. And also, I remember some weeks ago, there was a discussion in the Indian Parliament where were you making slightly the same point in the debate about that not only fighting against hate is important, but also love, and at the end of the debate, you went over to Prime Minister Modi and you hugged him. Yeah, because... And maybe you would like to comment on that. You see, non-violence in India is a foundational philosophy. It's a foundational philosophy of our nationhood. It's a foundational philosophy of our entire history. That's the essence of being Indian is to be non-violent. And the basic idea is this, that if someone hates you, that is something that they're doing.   It's not going to solve any problem. And you can, you're in full control of how you respond to things. The only thing really you control is how you respond to things. So when the Prime Minister was making sort of hateful remarks at me, I was feeling that I needed to go in, give him a hug, and tell him the world is not such a bad place, and it is not all evil out there, and that there are many people who actually have a lot of affection, and I give him a hug. Thank you. Now. He didn't like that. He didn't like that because, no, Gandhi Ji actually wrote it.   And when I actually went and showed affection to the Prime Minister, he was taken aback, he was upset by it. But it works. It really does. Also, it was quite unusual and a real surprise, and I also think a real surprise also to the members of your own party, wasn't it? Yeah, there were, but some of them didn't like it. Some of them told me later that, you know, you shouldn't have hugged them. But I disagreed. I said, no. I think the conversation, not only in India, the conversation in the whole world, but now people think that by hating other people, you'll get a solution. And I've seen in my own life that you simply won't get a solution. The only solution is through conversation. The only solution eventually is by talking to people and showing them that you understand where they're coming from. So then let's see how much love we will get from the questions of the audience. So as I mentioned, we have participants of this year's Butserio Summer School with us from 33 different countries from all over the world. But I would like to bring in not only participants, but also members of the audience as well. I would like to start with a member of our participants over there, Nura, please. Thank you so much for this. Am I allowed to walk up and down? Okay, but now I have to stand in honor of you. No, you can't see me. Thank you so much for this most inspiring talk. I think in the world we live in today, we need more people like you to spread the love and remind us of what is truly important. My question is very simple and a complicated one. You cannot fight hate with hate, but how do you fight violence? Because today we see many parts of the world where there is violence. How would you suggest that we fight that? The only way you can fight violence is with non-violence. There's no other way. It's the same. There's no other way. You might be under the illusion that you can fight violence with violence, but it'll come back. You might think that you're very powerful and that you can subdue somebody else, but believe me, they'll find a way of coming back because violence is being caused because of a certain anger inside. Until you remove the anger, until you understand and remove the anger, it's going to remain there. So you can't fight violence with more violence.  But I think that's the only way forward. That's the philosophy I believe in. Look, I've lost two members of my family. My grandmother and my father were both killed. So I've suffered violence. I'm talking actually from experience. I'm not talking without experience. And I can tell you that when you look at it properly, when you look at violence properly, there is only one way out of it. The only way you can move forward after violence is through forgiveness. There is no other way. And to forgive, you have to understand. You have to understand what exactly happened, why it happened. See, the common narrative is there is always someone at fault and someone who's not at fault. But if you go into the nuances, there are people at fault on both sides. And there are people trying to solve the problem on both sides. So it's working that. Look, you will see in the 21st century, you will see a certain amount of violence. It's a result of the connectivity. It's a result of limited resources. You will see it, and you will have to deal with it. But the way to deal with it is to actually listen, is to actually, at least from your side, act non-violently. And people think that this is weakness. A lot of people think that if I react non-violently to your violence, this is weakness. But in fact, this is strength. So the next one would be Melanie. And I can... It's okay. Thank you very much for your inspiring talk. I mean, you said you would also talk a little bit about India and the world, and you spoke about, like, the more domestic political issues. Can I interrupt you? Yes. I just want to put a last answer to that. Because it didn't... I needed to close that. See, my father was killed by a terrorist. Okay? He was killed in 1991. In 2009, I saw the person who killed my father lying in a field in Sri Lanka. Okay? And I called up my sister and I said to my sister, Priyanka, this is very strange. But I'm not happy. I should be celebrating that the person who's dead is the person who killed my father. But somehow I'm not happy. And she says, you know what? You're right. I'm not happy either. And the reason I wasn't happy was because I saw myself in his children. So I realized that him lying there actually means that there are kids like me who are crying. And he might have been a bad person.  Whatever you want to call it. But the violence that was done against him was impacting others like it had impacted me. So if you want to truly get into it, you have to understand the person who's being violent's perspective. You have to understand where that person is coming from. And if you go deep into it, you'll find that there is something that has triggered that violence. It's not just a random event. Some action, some violence done against him or her has triggered it. Sorry. Sorry about that. No, I have to apologize because I will change the subject now completely. Yeah, coming from a very personal experience. Even though it's not so personal, I would say. To a more global question. I mean in the past two weeks we spoke a lot about the future of the liberal world order and who are the allies on a global level. And I mean you've also attended Buzzerius Summer School, so I mean I think you're very well aware of what we could have debated about. I have the notebook. I still have it on. So where do you see India's role in the future when it comes to international relations? I mean it's part of the BRICS countries and at the same time part of the IBSA countries like the more democratic emerging markets. And I'm not so sure about which role India is going to play in the future and I mean from your party perspective what role would you want India to play in the future? I think there are a couple of potential visions out there. There is a American vision. There is a European vision. There is a Chinese vision. There is an Indian vision. There is a Islamic State vision.  India has a relationship, strategic relationship with the United States and India has a very deep, deep set of ideas that we share with them. Democracy, freedom, etc. But India cannot ignore the fact that China is growing extremely fast and is going to shape the planet. So to me India's role is actually to balance these two forces, much like Europe's. I think what would be the worst thing that could happen is that the Chinese and the United States get into a conflict. And I think that would be the absolute worst for the entire planet. And I think the Europeans and the Indians because of our design are very well positioned to make sure that that conflict doesn't happen. From an Indian perspective there are certain values like non-violence, like compassion, like listening that are going to become increasingly more important in the 21st century. You could get away in the 20th century by not listening to people by using massive amounts of force against people. You can't do it in the 21st century because they will find a way to get back to you. So I think there are certain values that India brings to the table that are unique and I think a lot of them were espoused by Mahatma Gandhi. They spread to South Africa. Mr. Mandela with Mr. King, Martin Luther King. So there is a very strong set of ideas that India brings to the table. But I think India's role and Europe's role would be one of balancing the narrative. You mentioned the U.S. So I would like to bring in a voice from the U.S. David. Thank you. I just want to follow up on that question and maybe press you a little bit on your answer to the last question because in America there's been a big shift in talking about the Asia Pacific to now the Indo-Asia Pacific. And clearly the wager that the Trump administration is making and that people in security circles in America are making is that India is willing, able, and prepared to play a larger role in working with the U.S. in Asia. But it sounds to me based on your last answer that India views itself as more of an honest broker or a balancer between the United States and China. So is India going to go between the two or is it willing to play a more active role with the United States, Australia, Japan, and others to uphold the liberal order in Asia? I mean, frankly, India's going to do what's in its self-interest, okay? But India has a relationship with the United States and India shares a certain set of values with the United States. So yes, we are closer to the United States than we are to the Chinese. But the Chinese and the United States are both major players on the planet. And India, frankly, sees itself as similar.  And she responded, no, we stand straight. So I think that's really the answer. What is in India's interest is what India will do. But we have a very good friendship with the United States. I think we have time for three or four more questions. I would like to take somebody from the back. First from the back and then there, yeah? So please, I think the very last row, you. Yes. And if you could shortly introduce yourself, who you are. My name is Deepak Kapoor. I'm from India. I'm a Punjabi living in Hamburg for the last six years, managing European operations of an Indian multinational here. There is so much talk about hugs. And I would like to experience one to feel it. Sorry, would you like to experience? One to feel it. I would like to experience one to feel it. Oh, okay. There's no problem. Now or later? The opposition guys in parliament, they are very careful of me now. So that was... Sure, you come ahead. Perfect. Thank you. I have no issue. If it makes you happy, it makes me happy. I promise to bring in you. So, over here. And if you could also introduce yourself. Okay, German, English. My name is Luba and I'm from Aldova, but here I am right my PhD. My math thesis was about advertising in India. Now it's about advertising in India. And I have also advertising here. And it's a big pleasure to see you live because I wrote also about you and your family. Okay, I have also to apologize because I would like also to switch the topic. And, you know, as you know, nowadays we have a big discussion about refugees from Syria, Iraq, in Germany, and also in Europe. And maybe you have some kind of piece of advice for German politicians, for opinion politicians, what have they do to make the situation much better, to help people and also not, because Germans, some groups of Germans are very, I would say, not happy because of this politics.  And maybe you can say what would you do if you were, for example, the Chancellor of Germany? Well, that's, I mean, I'm nobody to advise, frankly, the Chancellor of Germany or the German people on how to deal with their problems. But I can make one or two observations. If you look at Western Europe, you look at the United States, and you look at India, and you analyze why a certain style of leadership is coming. Mr. Modi in my country, others, I won't name them, but others on the planet, the reason is that whether it is India or Europe or the United States, we are unable to give jobs to our blue collar, the sort of non-white collar person in our countries. And so there is a, frankly, a failure in job creation. Put bluntly, we're being outcompeted by the Chinese. And that is creating a lot of anger in society. If you want, you create, when you get a situation of scarcity, you start to get conflict in society. And to me, a lot of the conflict that is taking place in India and a lot of the conflict that is taking place in Europe and the United States is because people here are concerned that the vision that brought them to this point is not going to take them over the next 10, 15, 20 years. And we have a lot of talk about services in India. We talk about 9% growth, 8% growth, but when you actually look at the numbers, they're no jobs. And that's a huge part of why this type of sentiment starts to develop. The other thing, frankly, is the West needs to think about the results of policies like Iraq and Syria. It needs to be careful when it goes in without understanding the consequences, without understanding the dynamics, the tribal dynamics, without understanding the societal dynamics in these societies. They might seem like weak countries, but every single country has a tremendous amount of power in it. And you disorganize that power, you upturn it. It is going to have consequences. So I think providing a vision to Europe, which is not an easy thing to do, and frankly I can't do it, providing a vision to India going forward, and India is developing that vision. We are beginning to understand how we move through this dangerous time. But the stuff that worked five years ago, I mean I've experienced it, the stuff that worked in 2004 didn't work in 2014, it just stopped. And frankly a lot of the conversation that takes place is about outmoded ideas. Ideas that are not actually going to work in the 21st century. I ask when I meet leaders of European countries, I ask them a simple question. I say to them, look, you are saying to me that you're pro-globalization. I can see that globalization benefits India. I can see it quite clearly. You just please answer me this question. How are you going to, with your cost structure, how are you going to compete at the blue collar level with the Chinese and the Indians? I've never got an answer. And so there is tremendous energy in Europe. There is tremendous ability in Europe. But it requires a vision that utilizes that energy. It requires a vision that brings people together and says, okay, we've got a problem. And this is my main complaint with the Prime Minister in India. India has a job problem. But the Prime Minister refuses to say it. And if you don't accept it and you don't say it, you aren't fixing it. First of all, I apologize in advance. I think half of the audience wants to ask you a question. If we would do that, you need to stay for another two weeks. Before I take somebody from that side, I would like to go to this side and give the word to not only a long-time editor-in-chief of the site, Tio Sommar, but also the founding dean of the Bensirio Summer School. Nice to see you. And before you ask, I ask you, when was the first time when you traveled to India? In which year? 1961. Wow. Sorry, 1967. It was a conference of the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London.   Sorry. Well, I have a question. Thank you. Here in Germany, all we talk about is about the Chinese century. And people have a feeling that India is limping far behind. So my first question is, are you catching up? And when will you have caught up? And my second question, what do you see for the future? There are problems between India and China. You have bordered skirmishes all the time. What is the line? Is it communication, cooperation, coexistence? Or is it going to be confrontation and conflict? Thank you. I don't think, well, I hope it isn't conflict. Because a conflict between India and China or a conflict between China and the United States is something that not only India, but I don't think the world can afford that. So I don't think it's going to be conflict. I think it's going to be a mix of the other things that you said. I think it's going to be a strategy. It's going to be cooperation sometimes. It's going to be pushing back other times. So I think you're going to get a mix of that. The other idea that you said, you know, who's winning the race? Now, this makes it sound that there is something, there's one thing that we're racing towards. But that's not how it really is. Because frankly, we have a completely different vision of ourselves than the Chinese do. And what we value is different than what the Chinese value. So it's a completely different set of things that we are actually fighting for. We like the idea, for example, that anybody can say anything in India. Now, you might say to me, well, China is growing at 11%, and India is growing at 9%, and I'll say to you, well, how many percent do you give the fact that anybody in India can say anything they want? I'll give that a couple percent. I'll give that maybe 3%. So where I run into a problem, where I run into a problem is a uniform sort of rule for what success is. I respect the German people enough to say, listen, how you define your future is up to you. That's why I didn't really tell you, you know, I didn't give advice to the German people. I can't give really advice to you. Because it's your vision of the world. It's what you have to do, and people will make certain compromises that maybe I won't make, and I'll make certain compromises that you won't make. So it's not a, this reductive sort of, you know, are you winning or are you losing? This is frankly 20th century stuff. 21st century is we're both winning. We're trying to win here, and I think you can win there. We will take a question from this side. Yes, and if you could introduce yourself briefly. Hi, I'm Sanika, and I'm studying a master's program here. I'm doing journalism. I understand that this is about local governance, and I'm supposed to probably ask something related to that. But my question is a little more towards introspecting about India from your thoughts. I'm doing my master's thesis on the Me Too movement, and I'm sure you must have heard about it or know about it. So I'm wondering what your thoughts are about women's safety in India, because recently there was a quite critically challenged piece on Reuters about how India is probably one of the most unsafe countries for women in India, in the world, and I was wondering what your thoughts about this topic was. I would disagree with the idea that India is the most unsafe place for women, but I would agree with the idea that the treatment of women in India leaves a lot to be desired. I think there is a huge amount of violence against women in India. A lot of it is visible, a lot of it is on the street. A huge amount of it is invisible, you never see it, it happens in houses. Women never talk about it. I think it is a cultural issue, it is an issue of how Indian men view Indian women, and I think it requires a huge amount of work to fix that problem. That's one component of it. The other component of it is that the level of violence in India, for the reasons I explained earlier, is increasing. And whenever the levels of violence increase, the people who are weakest bear the biggest front. So the fact that violence is increasing dramatically in India, women are actually getting a huge share of it. I think it is a tragedy. I think that is the single most important thing that India needs to do, is change the way its men view its women. And I think that is something that frankly is going to take a huge effort, but it is the duty of every single Indian to do it. Sorry, go ahead. But probably from a policy oriented or as a... A policy perspective, a couple of things. When I look at political parties, I don't see women representatives. When I look at the House of Parliament, when I look at legislators, I don't see the amount of women that I should, because if you don't put women in positions of power, you won't shape the laws. You won't get their voice into the system. So I do a lot of work to try and get women into the system, to try and get women into the Congress Party, and try and get women into the Lok Sabha, Rajasabha, Vidan Sabha. We are championing right now a bill of reservations for women in parliament. So that should be a big step going forward. But... And there's a lot that can be done on the policy side. There's a lot that frankly has been done. Even at the lower levels in the elections, places are reserved for women. But at the end of it, it is a cultural issue as well. It is literally the way the Indian male views the woman. He has to start viewing her as an equal. He has to start viewing her with respect. He has to start treating her with respect. And I'm sorry to say that he doesn't. There, right, you? Sorry, one, can I? Yes. See, one thing is for sure. You simply cannot build a successful country if you do not involve its women in building it.  That's a race I'd really like to win. I'd give that, I'd give that a couple, I'd give that a lot of weight. So now the mic is over there. Good evening, Mr. Gandhi. Good evening. My name is Richard Mantosh. I'm a lawyer from Kolkata, originally. I'm studying my master degree in law in Hamburg at present. So I had a very simple question. I've been trying to come up with intelligent questions, but the fact that you did already mention about China filling 50,000 jobs a day versus India filling 450 jobs a day, if next year, inevitably the elections will have results next year and your party is the largest party and will form the government, would you as the president of your party or the leader in Lok Sabha, would you speak about population control in India? Because India's population is going up. It's not being controlled. There is no population control. There's no family control measures. People are speaking about Swachh Bharat. There's a lot of talk going on, but nobody's walking the talk. So would you do that next year, sir? Well, a couple of things when you break down the issue of population. What you notice is that in the states that are doing well, population growth is stabilizing on its own. It is the states which are not doing well economically, which are Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, where population is an issue. Second thing is I don't view it so much as population. I view it much more as productive people. I don't have a problem with 1.3 billion people if they're educated and if they're in the workforce. I do have a problem if they're not educated and they're not in the workforce. They're not connected to the global economy. So I don't view the... I don't subscribe to the idea of the sort of harsh population measures that the Chinese did. I'm much more laissez-faire when it comes to these things. On the jobs, I'll give you two minutes. Jobs are only going to be created in India through small and medium businesses. And if you look at the amount of money that our small and medium businesses get, you look at the amount of support our small and medium businesses get from the banking system, from the political system, it is minuscule compared to the amount of support the top 15, 20 businesses get. So if you want to start competing with China and India, if you want to start competing and start creating jobs in India, you have to look towards small and medium businesses. And frankly, that's something that we can learn from the Germans who have such a system and have shown the world that it can be extremely successful. Thank you. Thank you so much, Raul Gandhi. We are already much over time. And so thank you so much for this wonderful talk and discussion with the audience. And I am so sorry for the huge amount of people here that couldn't raise their questions. I'm really sorry, but as you see, our time is limited and there were so many others who wanted to speak. Sorry. Thank you. Thank you very much for giving me your time. It's been an honor. Good night.


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The floor may not be in your robot.  First of all, thanks. You've always been a really awesome friend. Now, I'm not really sure how to start this, but I don't think we are going to get to talk too much after this. Some important stuff is about to happen, and I don't know if I'll get another chance to talk before that. I just wanted to let you know what's happening from me, before you started hearing about it from everybody else. You know how Steve and Chris like to twist things around. I guess the best way to start this is right from the beginning. After you left your games with me, I started trying to rip them right away. Demon tools and alcohol had trouble with the copy protection on a few though. I tried looking on forums for workarounds for an hour or two, but no dice. I couldn't get them to work. Finally got fed up, and went to look and see if there were any programs that worked better. Most of what I turned up was stuff you and me tried and didn't work, or that you had to shell out $300 and let them put a keylogger on your machine to ensure you didn't misuse it. You search the same sites as me, you know the ones. Anyway, I finally turned up something on this obscure torrent site. I've gotten a couple things from them before, but it's pretty much ye olde site of desperation. Heh, remember that site? Yeah, the guy who posted it looked like he'd put the description through Google Translate. What it was, was some Japanese program, shammy-noting again. The guy said the name meant for gods in heaven. Probably not though. I think his Japanese was probably as good as his English. What he claimed though, was that it could get around any copy protection, and rip the discs as smaller files than any other program.  Thing is, I looked at the reviews, and it seemed totally legit. A bunch of people gave it high marks, and were praising this guy for uploading the program. It had a good amount of seeds even.  They all got the usual read the damn instructions noob replies, so I figured it was good to go, and started downloading. In no time at all, I was ready to install it. The directions with the file were pretty straightforward. Switch the computer to Japanese Unicode, run the installer, switch back to English, and apply crack to make it work. It didn't take long. The installer was supposed to show pictures and play music while it ran, I think, but the images were broken and just did a slideshow of solid color screens. The music just came out as static, and I turned off my speakers until it was done. I was a little worried it wasn't going to work, but it had all those positive ratings, so I gave it a chance. Sure enough, once I went through all the steps, it ran fine. Simple interface, pretty easy to use. The only thing was a warning that came in the readme file. Files will be in a known format. Rename ISO and mount external. Do not try to run. That's literally a copy and paste of the warning. Made sense to me though. The program was Japanese, patched to work in English. I figured that probably messed up the file extensions.  Heck, it really was as good as they said. Really did even make the files smaller. The only thing was the file extension. It came out as main.for for both games. When I switched them to ISO files and mounted them through demon tools though, they worked. Absolutely flawless. No errors or copy fail that I could see. So I did the rest of them. It took a while, and I got tired, but you know that I had them back to you the next day. I've had a lot of good times with those games.  Reaffirmed that I'll never be a pro at Starcraft 2. Completely forgot that Skyrim had a main quest. All the kinds of stuff we used to do on gaming nights when you were here. I totally platonic miss you bro. So eventually I worked my way through the files and found a couple I'd forgot to rename. I must have been tired. Just for the hell of it, I decided to see what would happen if I tried to run Portal 2 as a for and see what would happen. I figured I'd just get the usual Windows error for when you use an unrecognized extension, but no. It came up with an error message in Japanese that I couldn't read. Well, that got me thinking. If it popped that up, it must be able to read the file. Maybe I could switch the computer into Japanese again, and it would work. I decided to try, and surprisingly it worked. Not only did it work, but the file ran just like it had been mounted to the virtual drive. It wasn't like normal though. On the loading screen, it showed the inside of a dingy run down test chamber, with Chell sprawled out on the ground. He had the portal gun in one hand, but her head and limbs were at odd angles, and the things on her legs, her long fall boots. They looked cracked, with the struts things on the back bent out of shape. It looked like it was showing what would happen if the boots ever broke, and she just hit the ground too hard. It freaked me out, but it wasn't on screen long. At the title screen, Gladys's eye seemed redder, and there were flickers of flames just out of sight in the background. Instead of leaves, these little embers would drift by from time to time. To be honest, I wasn't sure what to think, but I remembered that time way back when we played FireRed on an emulator, and the fairy boat guy said, if you like this game, buy it or die. I figured it was probably something like that, just a trick to scare people into not playing a pirated copy. None of the other games I'd run through the scammy program had a problem, but maybe it only properly bycast the protection when you ran it as an ISO, right? It wasn't stopping the game from being played, and once I got over the initial shock, it actually seemed kind of cool. So, I kept playing. Everything was darker, and there was a kind of thug along the ground, even in the part of the game where everything was clean and new. The picture you were supposed to stare at was just a red space, and the music was nothing but static, but oh well. The data wasn't supposed to be read this way, so it was understandable there would be errors. When it got too weekly, though he was a lot meaner than usual. He asked me to say Apple, then just started laughing and said, You can't.    I can't be sure, but the way he talked made it sound like he knew that Chell had killed Gladys too, and he wanted to bring her back. When I got to the second of the old test chambers, and there were mangled bodies on the floor, not gory mind you, just broken bodies looking as old as the rest of it. It's not like I don't play some gory games sometimes, but the shift in tone was just really inerving the hell out of me. So, I stopped playing Portal. If it was a way to deter pirates, it had worked on me. I wasn't even sure I'd be willing to try it as an ISO leader to see if it worked normal that way. Still, I had a few other four files, actually they'd changed to whatever the Japanese version of four was, but that's not the point. I had other games I could try, and I didn't feel like switching my computer back just yet. I figured I'd just play something more relaxing to take my mind off it. Your speed seemed like a good pick. The opening sequence showed a 15 car pile up during a thunderstorm, while news reporters talked about the death toll in the background. Nope. So I tried Serious Sam HD. No idea how I forgot to set that one up. The gameplay, some things are better left and said, but I know that game never had human sacrifice in it before. At that point, I was pretty damn freaked out, I was starting to have a suspicion about what was going on. I put the computer back into English, and tried a couple games for a few minutes each. Nothing wrong with any of them. Even Portal 2, when I switched it to an ISO extension, was perfectly normal. On a whim, I changed a couple games back to force, and switched it over again. I only got around to trying civilization. My save file worked with it, but, just, what the hell? The new research I've never seen before, things that there's no way were coded into the game. Some of them seemed harmless, like Manifest Destiny, while others were along the lines of Tyranny and Xenophobia. They got you upgrades like Slave Markets and Concentration Camps. There was a new religion too. Ever heard of Visity before? I hadn't. There were also events like Plagues, Accidents and Natural Disasters, where it would show a clip of your city's population suffering. Just like with the other games, playing it as a form made the game darker in tone. I don't know how the hell that's possible, but it did. I thought that, maybe, it was some kind of novelty software, and when you ran the game through it, it streamed a mod for whatever you were playing.  Like, remember that time when we wanted to get back at your sister for giving away those concert tickets she won, even though she knew that you and I loved Radiohead, and we got all our friends and some of their buddies in on it? So yeah, I tried disconnecting my router and restarting the game. On my first turn it announced that England was working on a wonder, the final solution. There was one more thing I had to try at that point. On a whim, I'd ripped my DVD again card one day. Put into the right format, it had run just as flawlessly as anything else. Now I tried it as a for-file. The film played out how it should. All the actors said their lines and did what they normally would. At least until the market scene. It looked the same, but what was going on in the background shouldn't have been there. I watched, transfixed, as a beggar that was never there before was kicked savagely from a well-dressed man, and collapsed in a heap.  A fat ran up and stabbed an elderly woman in the stomach, taking her purse and running as the rest of the crowd just stepped around her bleeding body.   Not ever. I deleted the files I'd ripped on the spot. Then I told the computer to uninstall scammynotinged. To uninstall, it brought up the same business it did when I'd installed it. The graphics and audio words broken this time. The speakers played sounds of people speaking in Japanese. I couldn't tell what they were saying, but they sounded terrified. They screamed a lot. I could have turned it off, but I didn't. I have no idea why. They screamed, and the monitor showed me photo after photo crime scenes, accidents, disasters, anything where people had died horribly. There were shots that looked like a single frame of people being vaporized by an atomic bomb, just before the camera was destroyed, with the flash of the bomb somehow filtered out. There was a cave where a man sat frozen to death, surrounded by the remains of companions he'd killed and eaten trying to stay alive.  They were all horrible, the worst things I've ever seen, and I just sat there, numb, and watched and watched while the screams of the dying echoed in my ears. As I was watching though, I realized something. People always look away. They don't want to face the horror and tragedy in this world. They don't want to see.  It's not right. So, you see, that's why I'll be going away for a long time. Somebody has to do something about what's wrong in this world. Someone has to make them see. So, I'll be the one to open people's eyes to the horror. I'll make this right. Always your friend, redacted. That's the last thing my best friend ever sent to me. Three weeks later, the police found him living in the bond shelter of an abandoned house in our old neighborhood. He was wanted for a string of violent crimes in the area, including what they called ritualistic murder, arson, and tampering with traffic direction in an attempt to cause a major accident. They said that they found various poisons and bond making supplies in his hideout. It was a huge shock to any of us who knew him. His family was pretty poor, but he'd been our class president on the debate club, even a track star. He got along with everybody. Thinking that he could have snapped like he did is just unbelievable. I guess that's why I followed up on his crazy story. I wanted to believe that there was something like that that had caused him to turn into what he did. Searching the internet didn't turn out much, though. There was no trace of a program called SHTAMI Noting Get Anywhere. Though I did learn that SHTAMI was a type of Japanese demon. I'd be prepared to leave it there, but I was a little confused about how the person that had supposedly translated it had come up with four gods in heaven. So I did a little more digging and found that SHTAMI is Japanese for God, and she, spelled SHI, is four. Four also has a special connotation in Japan though. It's considered an unlucky number, because it's pronounced the same way as their word for death. Thanks for watching!