They have given ammo to anti-India forces operating across Europe spreading hate against Hindus & India.

What's the issue?

On 5th Sept a BAPS delegation of about 100 people made a private visit to the Eiffel Tower during temple-inauguration.

SETE, the tower operator, says the delegation asked that the visit of its spiritual representative be organized so as to limit interactions with women.

Female staff and contractors were told to leave posts, stay out of certain zones, and in some cases be replaced by men. Staff called this being "made invisible."

Now the staff have done a strike. The tower is closed. SETE later said those conditions should never have been accepted and were contrary to equality principles.

Paris city has opened an investigation. Politicians from left and right are condemning it. And it is big news in France but given it is the Eiffel tower, it will be big news across the world.

They have hurt their own reputation and now they are being linked to India, and Hindus to destroy their reputations as being anti-women & patriarchal.

There are many Christian institutions in Europe that are exclusively male. But they do not go to a public place and ask women not be present to create a controversy. Even though if they did that there would be little controversy like this.

When you know you are being targeted by some forces, you need to be a lot more careful and sensitive. How difficult is this?

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk found himself on the receiving end of a playful social-media roast after commenting on the future of chess.

Musk posted on X that chess is difficult for humans but suggested that computers will eventually "fully solve" the game, similar to checkers.

Chess.com responded with a reality check, pointing out that the number of possible chess games is estimated to be around 40 orders of magnitude greater than the number of atoms in the observable universe, making the idea of simply mapping every possible game extraordinarily difficult.

Musk pushed back, arguing that the number of legal chess positions is actually far smaller than the estimated number of atoms in the universe.

He added that artificial superintelligence (ASI) could eventually discover ways to solve and compress chess beyond what humans can currently comprehend.

The exchange then took a hilarious turn. After Musk continued arguing his point, Chess.com replied, "I'm a full-time employee." Musk responded with a weary-face emoji, prompting Chess.com to deliver the final jab: "even my friends don't text me back that fast."

The back-and-forth quickly went viral, with social-media users enjoying the unexpected chess-themed "roast battle" between Musk and Chess.com.