At the top level of Ch_____ intrusion are large contracts for infrastructure and communications. We can outrage here, and hope that the governments take the right decisions.

We can still provide a momentum on the ground (and in the online world) to start reducing dependence. https://twitter.com/kansaratva/status/1243444760670433280

While it's difficult to find alternatives sometimes, such as for Ch_____ smartphones that cost half, even lower, than others with similar specs, we can still flood Amazon, Flipkart, and online shopping portals with a simple question: "Made in India?"

Force them to acknowledge.

When you visit your local supermarket/store, ask the same question to the manager/owner on products that do not have a "Made in India" sticker (that sticker may be "Made in Ch___", just like the product, so verify before you believe such nonsense.)

Force them to acknowledge.

If you are working in a company, talk to your HR and ask them to consider alternatives. I am sure that festivals could be celebrated without streamers and ribbons that are imported from thousands of miles just because they make the bottomline better.

Force them to acknowledge.

If you are home is under construction, ask your builder where the fixtures, switches, tiles, doors, and other things are sourced from. In most cases, he would hardly care and ask you to take a hike, and in some, send his goons to threaten you.

Force them to acknowledge. Anyway.

If you are a volunteer for a political party, ask your party to stop spending money on cut-outs, flags, banners, stickers, plastic garlands, and what not, that are ALL procured from Ch___.

Some parties may throw you out, but when will you stand up?

Force them to acknowledge.

If you are buying even simple medical stuff, especially from pharmacy chains, like thermometers, syringes, cotton swabs, and even that insulation tape for wounds, demand the pharmacy for a Made-in-India one. Tell them the doctor recommended it.

Force them to acknowledge.

When you go to a "fancy" for bangles, buckles, hairbands, rubber bands, clips, bracelets, and a million things they stock in their little shop, ask them to consider alternatives.

They earn their livelihood with Ch_____ products, and it will take time.

Force them to acknowledge.

We all know, by now, that Ch_____ products are everywhere, from nail-cutters and scissors to those plastic Ganapatis in your favorite place.

So, wherever you go, and whoever you meet, keep this at the back of your mind and initiate a conversation.

Force them to acknowledge. /

One more point: while you are doing this, do spread information about products that you have verified as genuinely "Made in India" (as against those that have stickers saying they are made here) in social media.

We can all benefit from this, and so would the manufacturers. //