The Price of a Protest 1. The Video That Went Viral It was a rainy Tuesday in New Delhi when the clip first appeared on Arjun Mehta’s feed. Thirty‑second grainy footage showed a lanky teenager, soaked to the skin, standing under a makeshift tarpaulin near Connaught Place. He clutched a crumpled flyer that read “Free Elections, Free Future – ₹3,000 for Your Voice.” Behind him, a convoy of white vans idled, their doors opening and closing like mechanical lungs. Arjun, a senior reporter for The Independent Chronicle, felt the familiar tug of curiosity. He messaged the uploader: “Who are you? Can we talk?” The reply came within minutes: a DM from an account called @StreetVoice_23. The profile picture was a blurred selfie of a girl with bright eyes and a nose ring. “I’m Riya. I’m one of the protesters. Meet me at 7 p.m. near the India Gate fountain. Bring your recorder.” 2. The Interview Arjun arrived just as the streetlights flickered on. Riya was perched on the low wall of the founta...
I wish we had such technologies when I was a medical student. It would have been a vastly different experience going through the challenging subjects such as anatomy or pathology. Maybe students find it so hard to digest details of anatomy because we have not given them the right tools to learn them properly. The technology to teach like this has been ready, but the cost remains the main issue. Only big medical schools can afford a few mixed reality devices, and that's simply not fair to the rest of the students around the world. What you see in the video is the new version of the Insight Heart app that ANIMA RES - 3d medical animation / AR / MR / VR has developed. Check them out! "Cardiac Arrhythmia Ablation Simulator"