How Not to Help India’s Rural Poor - Amit Varma
Dear Rahul Gandhi - Amit Varma
Change or perish - Tarun Vijay
The Hindu leaders and industrialists are very rich, they enjoy worldwide presence and support. But such globally influential individuals were there too when Taxila was burnt and Dhaka besieged. The wisdom and the wealth of the Hindus was never a matter of fairy tales but a reality, yet the disconnect between their prowess and their public responsibility brought havoc on all.
The richest and the powerful Hindus keep on seeing how a painter of Durga’s nudes, Husain, is slated to be felicitated at Jamia Milia during Navratras by the state power with the Vice-President in attendance. A chief minister of a party swearing in the name of Gandhi gets fatwa for praising the father of the nation and a small village in the neighbouring Capital presents a nauseating picture of Taliban raj. Nothing shakes up anyone.
The hypocrisy’s march is quite wider and goes even further.
Hindus who worship stone images of Durga kill her when she arrives in the womb or brings less than the desired amount of dowry. They still need to be told not to practice untouchability and a particular Hindu caste is assigned the job of sweeping the city because it’s their ‘traditional’ duty! None thinks to hand over the city cleaning to private operators and free these great souls of a hereditary burden.
The strength of the battle and the signs of a surge lie not in terms of any electoral victory but is measured by the readiness to sacrifice and willingness to unshackle and innovate on the part of the youth.
It must be reflected in our changed language, idioms, behavioural patterns and agility to embrace risks. The more we distance from the safe and seasoned approach, the more we refresh our beings. Bharat, the king after whose name our nation is called Bharatvarsha , is famous for counting the teeth of lion when he was still a child, and none, yes none of our gods have ever pardoned a wrong doer.
Think this Vijayadashmi, if we deserve to be their heirs?
Where is the Indian dream? - Tarun Vijay
While being happy seeing Bobby Jindal working so completely to realize an American dream, see homeward and feel how ecstatic the Italians must have felt seeing their daughter reigning supreme in an ancient land of a great civilisation making decisions affecting a billion citizens with many of their leaders prostrating before her for material gains and political space. She is a Roman Catholic of an Italian origin, yet ruling over majority Hindus and gets support from her party and media with a big chunk of Hindu editors, workers, ministers and voters. To understand the importance of it fully, it’s like an Indian Hindu lady, sporting a big bindi, born in Bhopal who never had a graduation degree, becoming chief of the ruling Republicans in Washington through dynastic route in such a manner that NYT would write-she is the super President and not the one who has been nominated by her to occupy White House!!
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In the land of Statue de la Liberté Bobby can’t even dream to do that to any Indian caught in his state for violating US laws or sanction a plan to defile places related to Jesus or George Washington while aligning with Communists, the fountainhead of anti-American hate. He has to prove, at every step, that he is a better person to honour and protect American sensitivities and dreams than those who are ‘Americans of American origin’!That’s the difference between a powerful nation and her awakened, conscious people and a weak society living in self-denial so painfully visible from Kashmir to Kohima.
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