In today’s world we are facing some very serious challenges and they need strong rebuttal. In absence of which we have been losing our battle for quite some times. This gains importance given the fact that there is a huge information overdose with fake news. Before going into detail we will need to understand the challenges at hand which are primarily in two parts.
First part is related to what we have been fed over the years. These sequences does not show complete picture and help build a halo around some of the people while discarding the contribution of others. Added with state secrets we are left with misinformation more than actual sequence of event. Lets take an example of 1962 humiliating defeat of Indian army. The Henderson Brooks report still finds its way as well kept secret in defense ministry files. On similar lines many other events like Gandhi’s murder investigation, Subhash and Shashtri’s death etc are all a well kept secret. Now as we understand this is part of history and history is what help us understand mistakes of the past paving way for future course correction. Moreover with these not completely correct information we have been into the conspiracy theories. Factually incorrect or better say in complete information has only help build political narratives. And it stands true for any point of time in history of a nation.
Second part is equally dangerous as the selective quotation of facts from history has helped create division and moral down gradation of the societal progress. Defeat in 1962 is shown through out the history but Nathu la and Cho La pass war is often ignored. This selective-ism has its root in communist allegiance towards china. Unfortunately after the independence the history writing went into hands of communists who wrote it keeping in mind the perspective of communist lords. Fiction created and facts ignored.People of alternative views of history like Sitaram Goel, RC Majumdar, Sandhya Jain and many more were neglected who seemed to presenting the facts against these fiction. The modus operandi in this has been discrediting dissenting views and through the use of power dissuading all those trying to present more logical and proof based history writing.
Now coming back to the point of this article. History has been compromised and there is no doubt about it. Facts need to come out and when out in the open they are bound to shut some very well meaning shops who have been acting against Indian interests by presenting selective facts. Any dissent or discussion from existing point of view is discredited as Bhakts views. So the challenge is two way. One being asking tough question on part of painting of history and other being preventing oneself getting into fake news arena. The dangers of challenging the existing system is that a single misstep can discredit your all effort in right direction and communist payroll people have been manipulating this for ages.
Now why Nupur and Ajeet and likes of them become more important in this realm is that they have stuck their neck and are fighting a direct battle. A battle which is against established thuggery in history, economics, politics and all realms of life. They fight everyday a battle where there are dangers of slipping and being discredited. Problem today is with young,students, masses and all who are not ready to accept the fight in letter and spirit. The branding is such that no industrious effort is made in directions of finding the truth. We have started working in binary mode where everything is either pro government or against government. This way confusions are rising and fight in the direction towards truth exposing the follies of established order or guiding government on its missteps is becoming very difficult.
Its time we fought this hard. We have the role models who are fighting it day and night and inspire young to be brave enough to research on the truth without getting affected by thuggery or fakery. There is no other way out in order to fight this renaissance than sticking your neck out. I will conclude this article by one tweets of Nupur
‘We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We’re going to live on! We’re going to survive!’
Chinese corporations are all over Africa. In June 2017 a McKinsey & Company report estimated that there are more than 10,000 Chinese-owned firms operating in Africa. What are Chinese corporations doing in Africa?
The Chinese corporations are trying to turn Africa into another Chinese continent. They are squeezing Africa for everything it is worth.
Political alliances manifest themselves on the voting floor of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, New York. In this room, countries impose legislation that carries weight worldwide and so what happens in this room is the physical materialization of the world’s politics. 47 years ago, exactly that happened when one of the General Assembly’s most consequential votes occurred. China essentially had two governments. There’s the Republic of China which used to control the mainland and Taiwan but today only administers Taiwan and there’s the People’s Republic of China which controls the mainland. Both claim to be the rightful governments of all of the Chinese territory—both Taiwan and the mainland—and so back in 1971 the United Nations had to decide which government would represent China. Essentially, the question was which government was the rightful leader of the territory as there could only be one in the United Nations.
The US was the main superpower opposing the People’s Republic representing China as it had a strong political and military alliance with the Republic of China government and so the vote was essentially the US’ sphere of influence versus the world. Among the 35 countries that voted against the People’s Republic were much of Africa—the Central African Republic, Chad, Gabon, Liberia, Niger, South Africa, and plenty of others that sided with the US. Despite the US’s efforts, the resolution ended up passing and the representative government for China in the UN was switched to the People’s Republic of China but what’s interesting about this is not the result, it’s who voted against the People’s Republic.
Since that 1971 vote, something has changed. In 2007, the UN general assembly met once again to vote on whether to adopt a resolution condemning the human rights situation in North Korea. As one of North Korea’s strongest allies, this vote was China and its sphere of influence versus the world. In this vote, though, only Burundi, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania, and Tanzania voted against China. All the 43 other African countries either abstained or voted no along with China because, in the forty years between those votes, political ties changed. Africa no longer bows to the US. Much of the continent is now economically and politically aligned with the world’s fastest emerging superpower—China. The simple answer to why this is is because China has pumped huge amounts of money into the continent of Africa. They’re buying allies. For example, China built a $3.2 billion railway in Kenya trekking the 300 miles from Nairobi, the capitol, to Mombassa, the second-largest city and primary port, in 4 hours and 30 minutes. That’s faster than what the fastest train in the US, the Acela Express, takes to travel the equivalent distance from Philadelphia to Boston. China also built a $526 million dam in Guinea which helped push the country from having constant power shortages to making more energy than it needs and selling the extra capacity to its neighbours. China also built a $475 million light rail system in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the first of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa, designed as a way to combat the capital’s crippling traffic. These are only a sampling. There are literally hundreds of others of Chinese infrastructure projects in Africa each year. All across the continent, China is playing a part in projects both big and small that are transforming African economies. It’s important to note that these projects are not, though, free.
Africa was at the top of the Beijing economic agenda. It was an easy and convenient target. Chinese leaders sent business delegations to every capital in Africa year after year. These delegates secured infrastructure projects and proposed trade deals, converting Africa into a “second continent” for China. Metaphorically, that is. Each of the above-mentioned projects was financed by loans granted by China’s state-owned and controlled Export-Import bank and these loans do, of course, need to be paid back by the countries granted them. Large African infrastructure projects, though, would be viewed as risky by any traditional bank and would, therefore, struggle to get financed but China’s export-import bank doesn’t care.
Assuming cooperation between the Chinese and African countries’ governments, this bank will give low-interest or no-interest loans to African countries so they can build these trains or dams or other projects. These loans are therefore considered a form of foreign aid since China doesn’t expect to get all their money back, at least adjusted for inflation, since they’re not charging much interest and there’s a high risk of default. Of course, China isn’t just financing these projects out of kindness. For each of them, there’s a political goal behind it. You see, the country of China is running out of growth potential. Its era of the double-digit year over year GDP growth is over as it makes the shift from industrializing to industrialized. Africa, meanwhile, is one of the least developed areas of the world and a lack of development actually makes fast growth easy. The first step of economic development for many countries is natural resource exploitation. Nearly every country has some level of natural resources that they can use to kickstart growth but first, they need to have enough money to build the infrastructure and take the steps needed to gather these natural resources.
As everyone knows, it takes money to make money and China has money. By investing in African mining and farming, China can profit off of Africa’s growth and fuel the business back in China that require minerals and food, but in addition to it serving as a source of natural resources, Africa has another resource—labour. It might seem strange that China, the country that the world uses for low-cost manufacturing, is looking for a labour source elsewhere but that is exactly what it’s doing. China is a victim of its own success. The economic development that its manufacturing industry brought pushed a large segment of its population into the middle class which raised labour costs country-wide. It’s not bad news, China as a country has shifted from having a low-skilled to a medium-skilled workforce as their education level has improved, but for the lowest cost, lowest skilled manufacturing work, the country of China is no longer competitive. Therefore, Chinese manufacturing firms are setting up their own operations in Africa—one of the cheapest and lowest skilled labour markets in the world.
Today, China is now the largest trading partner with Africa as a whole. Despite China being a vastly larger country than the US in population, the US and China both trade a similar value of goods worldwide each year. In this case, though, whereas $48 billion worth off goods were exchanged between the US and Africa in 2016, China traded $128 billion worth of goods—nearly three times as much. Now, the whole idea of setting up a structure of power over other less developed states in order to gather resources and use their labour force might sound familiar because that’s largely what colonialism was. The motives behind European powers expanding their territory to less-developed nations in the 15th through 20th centuries were remarkably similar to the motivations behind China’s growing economic influence in the developing world today. Despite what some may say, there is empirical evidence that China has been using these infrastructure investments to affect worldwide politics. It’s been found that if an African country recognizes Taiwan as a country they receive, on average, 2.7 fewer Chinese infrastructure projects within their borders each year.
Conversely, if an African country votes overwhelmingly along with China in the United Nations General Assembly, they receive 1.8 more infrastructure projects per year. Considering that the General Assembly is an equal representative body where each country gets one vote no matter if they have a million residents or a billion, China’s getting a lot of influence for, in the grand scheme of things, not a lot of money. China touts the fact that their foreign investment and aid is “no strings attached.” Unlike other institutions that give low or no-interest loans to developing countries like the International Monetary Fund or World Bank, China give loans with no requirements on factors like respect of human rights or democratic elections. Of course, this data linking infrastructure investment with political leanings shows that there are indeed hidden strings that require benefit for China rather than benefit for the receiving country.
Western powers are understandably concerned about this shift in power dynamics towards a country with vastly different ideals. In 2017, China entered a select club as it opened a military base in Djibouti. While four other countries have bases in Djibouti—France, Italy, Japan, and the US—this base was unique as it was China’s first base abroad and those by themselves, military bases abroad, are unique. Only 15 of the world’s most developed and militarily powerful countries worldwide have them and now China is one of them. Although, western powers might be worried for the wrong reasons. The government of China is clearly putting a lot of focus and money into Africa but not as much as you’d think based off the result they’re getting—vast amounts of influence over a whole continent.
There are two key numbers to look at. In 2015, China loaned just $12 billion to African countries. In the same year, the country invested a mere $3 billion in the continent. That’s just not much but the reason China is gaining this enormous influence over the continent is that the Chinese government no longer has to force this phenomenon. Private Chinese industry is taking hold of Africa. Of the estimated 10,000 Chinese businesses in Africa, 90% of them are privately owned rather than one of the numerous Chinese state-run companies. The Chinese companies in Africa are actually making money—some substantially so.
The Chinese government certainly has provided a considerable push to the industrialization of Africa but now that that’s done, economic forces are moving the initiative further forward. Chinese small business is gripping the continent. Much of the western world is ignoring the prospects of the continent—ignoring that business in Africa can now be as profitable as a business in China was when its period of tremendous growth began. Right now, Africa is establishing itself as the source of labour and resources for China and so, until the west pays attention, Africa will continue to fall in the debt trap of China.
As the world contemplates a ‘new’ normal as nations around the world ease their lockdowns and allow people outdoors more than before, much of the world is pinning its hopes on the laborious ‘contact tracing’ process that could make identifying potential exposure more efficient. Enter the smartphone: New kinds of apps have emerged that could automate this contact tracing process by tracing people’s movements to find people who they might infect and possibly inform those people as early as possible.
As many as 60 countries have already followed suit after the first contact tracing app was developed in Singapore in March 2020. No two ways about the fact that these apps, can theoretically, make the administration’s containment process much efficient. Apple and Google recently even came together to develop an API that will allow the apps to use their OS for this purpose. But these apps are essentially based on data collation from GPS and Bluetooth on smartphones. The GPS allows collecting information about the geographic movement of people and the Bluetooth helps to keep a record of all the people who come in proximity to each other.
If any of the users has developed symptoms and notifies the app about it, other people to whom the person has come into close proximity to in the past will be informed so that they can self-isolate. The theory is that such immediate identification and isolation of individuals could help control the spread and flatten the curve of the epidemic.
But such a suave system comes with its own set of challenges and limitations.
The success of these apps fundamentally depends on the quality and quantity of the data they use. But many a times, especially in poor countries, not all people are aware about it, or have a smartphone. And, so essentially data about all these people is not being collected which creates distortions and errors in the contact tracing process. These people are the missing threads who will not be recognised even though others around them are active users of these apps.
The concerns about potential privacy infringement by such apps have already arisen. These apps essentially give governments access to seamless information about its location, and movements of millions of people. And the possibility of such data falling into the hands of malicious hackers could expose people to cybercrime.
In light of the problems, researchers and developers have been racing to design protocols that can gain widespread adoption and public trust. Some of these measures include the TraceTogether team in Singapore, the PACT group by MIT and DP-3T who are trying to address the privacy-minded protocols.
The future and success keeps unfolding for the numerous contact tracing applications being developed around the world and though there may be more glitches and weaknesses in the apps presently, the scientific community and governments alike hope that greater sophistication in this technology will bring out its benefits that can outweigh its costs.
Once Shah Rukh Khan said in an interview, “You can take away all the fame and all the money, you can take away all the love and you can fill your hearts with hatred for me, but you can never take away the fact that I became Shah Rukh Khan. That journey, no can take away from me.“
The journey is an important aspect of your personality. Those born with silver spoons often fail to recognise that.
Yogi Adityanath was born as Ajay Mohan Bisht on 5 June 1972 in the village of Panchur, in Pauri Garhwal, Uttar Pradesh (now in Uttarakhand). He left his home around the 1990s to join the Ayodhya Ram temple movement. Around that time, he also came under the influence of Mahant Avaidyanath, the chief priest of the Gorakhnath Math and became his disciple. Subsequently, he was given the name ‘Yogi Adityanath’ and designated as the successor of the Mahant Avaidyanath.
Young Yogiji
Unlike some politicians, Yogi didn’t have parents who passed on the political bastion to him. He has worked his way up the ladder to become the Chief Minister of the largest state in the country. Yogi’s political journey began in 1996 when he was appointed by his mentor Mahant Avaidyanath, the president of Hindu Mahasabha, as the in-charge of managing the election campaign. Both of them kept Hindutva at the forefront of their election campaign. He is also the founder of Hindu Yuva Vahini, a social, cultural and nationalist group of young people with the agenda of making India a Hindu Rashtra.
Proud devotee
Yogi was first elected to the parliament in 1998 becoming the youngest MP in the 12th Loksabha. Since then, there has been no turning back and the people of Gorakhpur voted him back to the parliament in every election(1998,99,04,09,14). He became a 5-time parliamentarian, a very proficient one to say the least, at the age of just 42 (considering people nearing 50 are still considered to be youth icons). He achieved all the success despite having a pretty ordinary surname and he deserves all the credit for that.
He has not had it easy with his own party. There have been recurrent tensions between Yogi and the BJP leadership over the allocation of election tickets. However, the BJP has not let the tensions mount because Yogi has served as a star campaigner for the party. He often derided and undermined the BJP, criticising its dilution of the Hindutva ideology. Having established his own independent power base in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, with the support of the Hindu Yuva Vahini and the Gorakhnath Math, he felt confident to be able to dictate terms to the BJP. When his voice was not heard, he revolted by fielding candidates against the official BJP candidates. The most prominent example was the fielding of Radha Mohan Das Agarwal from Gorakhpur on a Hindu Mahasabha ticket in 2002, who then defeated BJP Cabinet minister, Shiv Pratap Shukla by a wide margin. In 2007, Yogi threatened to field 70 candidates for the state assembly against the BJP candidates. But he reached a compromise in the end. In 2009 Parliamentary elections, Yogi was rumoured to have campaigned against the BJP candidates who were then defeated. In March 2010, Yogi was one of the several BJP MPs who defied the party whip on the Women’s Reservation Bill in the Parliament. Despite his periodic revolt, when the time came for the party to select the CM for Uttar Pradesh, the party decided to go with merit and give Yogi what he deserved. This says quite a lot about the party too.
On 19 March 2017, he was sworn in as the CM, after the BJP won the assembly elections. The illegal slaughterhouses in Uttar Pradesh faced shutdowns from the administration after his becoming the Chief Minister. Yogi ordered the forming of anti-romeo squads. He imposed a blanket ban on cow-smuggling and stay on UPPSC results, exams and interviews until further order. He imposed a ban on tobacco, pan and gutka in government offices across the state and made the officials pledge to devote 100 hours every year for the Swachh Bharat Mission. More than 100 policemen were suspended by the Uttar Pradesh police.
Yogi Adityanath as CM of UP
After becoming the CM of UP, he kept around 36 ministries to himself including Home, Housing, Town and country planning department, Revenue, Food and Civil Supplies, Food Security and drug administration, Economics and statistics, Mines and Minerals, Flood control, stamp and registry, prison, general administration, secretarial administration, vigilance, personnel and appointment, information, institutional finance, planning, estate department, urban land, UP state reorganisation committee, administration reforms, programme implementation, national integration, infrastructure, coordination, language, external aided project, Relief and Rehabilitation, Public Service Management, Rent Control, Consumer protection, weights and measures.
In his first cabinet meeting held on 4 April 2017, a decision was taken to waive off loans of nearly 87 lakh small and marginal farmers of Uttar Pradesh, amounting to ₹363.59 billion (US$5.1 billion).[50][51] For India’s Independence Day celebrations in 2017, his government singled-out Muslim religious schools to provide video evidence that their students had sung the Indian national anthem.
The New York Times relayed analysts’ estimations of Adityanath as a candidate for Prime Minister of India in 2024, provided he “delivers on some fronts”. On a personal level, I would like to see him as the CM for one more term and that would automatically make him the prime candidate for the office of Prime Minister. He is someone who will definitely take forward the ideologies of the Indian right in the correct direction.
Comparison of Yogi as a politician with India’s prime opposition leader
Rahul Gandhi is going to be 50 in a fortnight. Born to the Gandhi family, he was India’s PM in waiting since birth. Being his 4th term as MP, he was first elected to the parliament from Amethi, a constituency which has been represented by his mother, father and uncle previously. He has been the General Secretary, President and Incharge of the youth wing of Indian National Congress. He couldn’t even save his family bastion in the 2019 election and had to get himself elected from a seat which didn’t have the presence of any credible opposition. Since 2014, his attendance has been a mere 52%, participated in 14 debates, asked 0 questions and introduced 0 private member bill.
Yogi Adityanath turned 48 today. He was born to a forest ranger and he left his home at the age of 21 to become a disciple of Mahant Avaidyanath. In 1996, he started working as a campaign manager for Mahant. In 1998, at the age of 26, he became the youngest MP to be elected to the 12th Loksabha. Since then, he has been elected to the parliament every single time(1998, 1999, 2004, 2009, 2014). In the 16th Lok Sabha, for the three years he spent in the parliament before becoming the CM, he had an attendance of 72%, asked 284 questions, participated in 56 debates and introduced 3 private member bills.
As Yogi continues to redefine development politics in this country, his opposition will rise but if he continues to be in the path he is, the opposition will fail tremendously. At the end of his career, when he will look back, he will find a chapter on himself in the book of Indian Politics.
उच्च स्तर हौव्वे के पीछे भागना हमारा चाल ढाल बन चूका है। हम हर उस प्रचार प्रसार का पीछा कर रहे है, जो ऊपर से परोसा जा रहा है। फिल्मी दुनिया और अन्य बड़े लोग, मिडिया, और कॉरपोरेट के भव्य प्रदर्शन और दिग्गभ्रमित करते भय को हम दोनों हाथों से अपना रहे है।
चहुओर से एक साधारण सा चलने वाला जीवन नये युग के ज्ञानियों की भेंट चढ़ रहा है। कुछ वर्ग इन हरकतों से हमारी मानसिकता को जकड़ कर व्यापार कर रहा है। और हम उन पर विश्वास कर अन्धकार की ओर धकेले जा रहे है।
99% बिमारीयाँ है ही नहीं बल्कि वो केवल वंशानुगत हमारे जीवन के बढ़ते क्रम की कमियां है, जो अनन्त काल से ये शरीर उन कमियों से लड़ता हुआ आगे बढ़ रहा है। हम उन शारीरिक कमियों को बिमारी मान कर इन अस्पताल रुपी दुकानों के भेंट चढ़ रहे है।
जबकि होना ये चाहिए की हमारे शरीर का शोधन शारीरिक कर्म, योग और मानसिक ध्यान की सजगता और परिश्रम से करना चाहिए। हमारी बात आप को अपाच्य और सुगम इसलिए नहीं लगेगी क्यों की हमें सब कुछ जल्दी और सरलता पूर्वक चाहिए। माफ़ कीजियेगा पर ये सच्चाई है।
एक विज्ञापन हमें एयरकंडीशन की ओर लालायत करता है और दूसरा डाइबिटीज का डर दिखाता है। एक हमें मैकडॉनल्ड्स के फास्टफ़ूड की और ललचाता है और दूसरा सफोला डबल फिल्टर्ड ऑइल की सिफारिश करता है। सिगरेट, खैनी, गुटका से कैंसर होता है और वो धड़ल्ले से बिक रहा है। यानी सत प्रतिसत ये बाजारू प्रोडक्ट वो है जिनका हमारे जीवन में कोई विशेष फर्क पड़ने वाला नहीं, फिर भी हम उनके गुलाम है।
आधुनिक शिक्षा,जीवनशैली, हाइजेनिक फ़ूड और वो अनगिनत बीमारियां जिनके नाम तक हमें पता नहीं, हर कोई उनसे झुंझ रहा है। ऊपर से अनगिनत बीमा योजनाए जो जीवन के साथ से मरने के बाद परिवार का क्या होगा तब तक? क्या है हम, और क्यों बन रहे है इस तरह के गुलाम। चलो फिर भी मान लिया की हम सब बुद्धिमान है मर खप के पार हो भी जाएंगे।
लेकिन कभी सोचा आपने हमारी आने वाली पीढ़ी का क्या होगा? हमारे ये नन्हे बच्चे जो नाश्ते के नाम पर मैगी, पोये, मैदे की रोटी, पिज्जा, बर्गर, एसी, मोबाइल और उससे ही ऑन लाईन स्टडी और मनोरंजन और इस सब बकवास का ऑनलाइन पेमेंट भी.. धरातल कहाँ है?
आम की तरह चूस लेंगे हम इनको, 100 में से अगर कोई एक इस पैरामीटर पर सक्सेस भी हो गया तो उन 99 का क्या होगा? ये सब लिख कर हम किसी को डरा नहीं रहा रहे बल्कि आने वाले समय के प्रति आगाह कर रहा रहे है। पेड़ तभी तक हरा भरा होता है जब तक उसकी जड़े जमीन के भीतर तक धसी हुई हो और आज के बच्चो की जड़े हम है। हम अपने बच्चो से प्यार करते हो तो उन्हें तपा कर कुंदन बनाये।
कठोर कर्म की प्राथमिकता, खान पान की शुद्धता, परिवार और संस्कृति का कवच पहना कर उन्हें चट्टान बनाये। ताकि परिश्रम की तपती धूप और मेहनत की लू के थपेड़ों को सहन कर सके, उन्हें इतना आत्मनिर्भर बनाये, ये आज निर्भर होना सीखेंगे तभी कल का भारत आत्मनिर्भर होगा। आत्मनिर्भर भारत का हर कदम आत्मनिर्भर शरीर और स्व की मानसिकता से जुड़ा है। हमे बस अपने आप को ठीक करते चलना है और सनातन का सत्य मक्खन की तरह ऊपर आता जाएगा। जहाँ हम अपने जीवन की सजगता समझ पाएंगे। स्व की आत्मनिर्भरता ही देश और वसुधैव कुटुंब के मार्ग है।
Sonam Wangchuk, the Ladakhi engineer, innovator and education reformist, has called for #BoycottMadeInChina #SoftwareInAWeekHardwareInAYear via Twitter and YouTube and urged all Indians including his millions of followers to use their wallet power to hit the Chinese economy. This comes in a response to increased Chinese hostility on the Indo-China border and increasing Chinese incursions on the Indian territory in Ladakh.
#BoycottMadeInChina#SoftwareInAWeekHardwareInAYear For decades India's tolerance with Chinese intrusions in Ladakh was like… Woh bedardi se sar kaate mera or mai kahun unse Huzoor aahista aahista, janaab ahista ahista… But now Sena degi bullet se jawaab, Hum dengey wallet se
Wangchuk advocates cooperation of the general public for economic boycott of Chinese products and services to complement the bullet power of the Indian army. Soon after his videos surfaced, various trends went viral encouraging Indians to uninstall Chinese apps from their mobile phones. Apps like ‘Remove China Apps’ that helped identify and uninstall Chinese origin mobile applications were downloaded in millions. There is rising debate over Wangchuk’s call with a large section of Indians relating with the emotion while another section of usual suspects mocking and abusing Wangchuk for his appeal.
The nationalistic idea is inspiring and natural given how China has always used its economic might to push their diplomatic assertion on sovereign foreign territories. However, India foremost needs to strengthen its manufacturing sector, which has been long ignored for the past 12-15 years, if we want to become self reliant and lead some economic leverage over enemy states. An economic movement like such, how-so-ever well motivated, cannot achieve its desired goals unless supported by a local industry which can produce quality products at competitive prices. Government initiatives such as Make In India and Atma Nirbhar Bharat have aimed at this issue precisely. While Make In India could not pick up the pace it aspired for, Atma Nirbhar Bharat will have its own challenges in the COVID and post-COVID era.
One might uninstall a few apps like Zoom and ShareIt and probably purchase a Samsung to avoid buying China-made Redmi or Oppo. How long could this work? Are we in a state to minimize our imports drastically? In an open market like India, Chinese hegemony can only be countered with multitude of made-in-India alternatives. Ultimately, prices guide the market share for a lot many products. The government will do its job of bringing out appropriate reforms and schemes giving ignition and opportunities to the industry. Few states like Uttar Pradesh have already taken major steps. Long term benefits are certain. The pressing question, however, still remains – how can we help, meanwhile?
Public sentiment is more powerful than ever in today’s politics. We have seen government policy-making influenced and decisions swayed based on popular public opinion. We have also witnessed governments bowing down to unjust opposition demands channeled via riots and protests. The mood of the public that is dominantly visible in the larger social space through social media trends, public debates, and news platforms can encourage or discourage any government action. Nobody wants to dampen their voter base.
Left ecosystem has often employed protests and incredible violence to achieve their ends (Image source: https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/K7BtzvPYmyO0KlDn21iixH/How-to-break-the-back-of-Indias-Leftwing-ecosystem.html)
In the coming days, when we can move beyond Coronavirus and the next wave of anti-government rioting, the anti-development poverty-loving lobbies would in high probability start pushing their agenda against industrial development in India. Narratives around the environment, labor laws, and the futility of important government projects are already being built for dissuading the government from pursuing its objective. Congress-ruled Chhattisgarh took the lead and barred its population from contributing towards J&K civil infrastructural projects. Remember, government expenditure on infrastructure is one of the biggest allures for the industry.
Do not fall for any such trap which undermines the importance of manufacturing boost in India. Do not pay any heed to any anti-development agenda. After all, there are many who benefit simply because their votebank remains poor. Look out for and beware of propaganda of all those who are still rooting for riots, strikes and bandhs in the country. On an individual’s part, one can simply try to prioritize local over foreign wherever feasible and affordable.
जब भी भारत और चीन के बीच सीमा पर टकराव होता है कुछ पुरानी बातें और तक अपने आप अपने आप ही याद आ जाते हैं। भारत के लोगों को मन में हमेशा से यह पीड़ा रही है कि अगर चीन मामले में भारत ने इतिहास में इतनी बड़ी-बड़ी गलतियां ना की होती तो आज चीन भारत को धमकी देने की स्थिति में नहीं होता। हम सबको बचपन में स्कूल से लेकर कॉलेज तक यही बताया गया है कि चीन शक्तिशाली देश है और चीन से हम कभी जीत नहीं सकते। 1962 के युद्ध में हम उस चीन से हार कर शर्मिंदा हुए जिस चीन की उस समय दुनिया में कोई खास हैसियत तक नहीं थी। 1962 में करीब 1 महीने के युद्ध में चीन से हम हार गए थे। हमारे करीब साढे 3000 सैनिक शहीद हुए हुए थे और भारत में करीब 43000 वर्ग किलोमीटर जमीन पर कब्जा कर लिया था। हमें रणनीतिक रूप से महत्वपूर्ण अक्साई चिन को भी गंवाना पड़ा था। आज भी चीन अरुणाचल प्रदेश के बड़े हिस्से पर अपना दावा करता है और उसे तिब्बत का हिस्सा मानता है।
लेकिन यह सब कैसे हुआ और क्यों भारत को चीन के सामने इस तरह शर्मिंदा होना पड़ा था?
1962 की हार सेना की हार नहीं थी बल्कि राजनैतिक नेतृत्व की हार थी। राजनैतिक नेतृत्व में गलतियां की थी इसकी वजह से हुआ था। 1962 में चीन के साथ युद्ध से ठीक पहले यही हो रहा था। प्रधानमंत्री जवाहरलाल नेहरू और जनरल थिमैया से जुड़ी हुई कहानी है।
जनरल थिमैया 8 मई 1957 को भारत के सेना प्रमुख बने थे. उनका युद्ध का बहुत पुराना अनुभव था, और इसमें खास तौर पर 1948 में उन्होंने लेह, लद्दाख, द्रास, कारगिल को पाकिस्तानी हमलावर से मुक्त करवाया था। जब जनरल प्रमुख सेना बने तो उनके लिए सबसे बड़ी चुनौती उन समय की राजनैतिक नेतृत्व से लड़ने के लिए बन गई। क्योंकि तत्कालीन प्रधानमंत्री जवाहरलाल नेहरू और तत्कालीन रक्षा मंत्री वीके मेनन ने जनरल थिमैया को परेशान करने में कोई कसर नहीं छोड़ी। उस वक्त के रक्षा मंत्री मेनन को नेहरू का बहुत खास माना जाता था। लेकिन मेनन के काम करने के तरीके से सेना में नाराजगी थी। सेना के अधिकारियों के साथ उनका बर्ताव अच्छा नहीं था। यह सब तब हो रहा था जब चीन भारत की सीमा पर सड़क बना रहा था और सैनिक धीरे-धीरे वहां पर जमा कर रहा था, लेकिन मेनन सेना की सलाह को अनदेखा करते गए। 1969 तक यह बात इतनी हद तक बढ़ गई कि उस वर्ष मई में सेना प्रमुख थिमैया की सलाह की अनदेखी करते हुए लेफ्टिनेंट जनरल बी एम कोल को रक्षा मंत्री सेना मुख्यालय में अहम भूमिका लेकर आ गए।
कोल भी नेहरू के बहुत करीब थे और यहीं से जनरल थिमैया के बीच तनाव और बढ़ गया। रक्षा मंत्री मेनन के व्यवहार से नाराज तीनों सेना अध्यक्षों ने प्रधानमंत्री नेहरू से मिलने का फैसला किया। लेकिन आखिरकार मुलाकात हो नहीं पाई। 31 अगस्त 1959 को जनरल थिमैया ने नेहरू को अपना इस्तीफा भेज दिया लेकिन उस वक्त नेहरू चीन को लेकर विपक्ष के निशाने पर थे। जवाहरलाल नेहरू ने जनरल थिमैया को अपने घर चुपचाप बुलाया और उसने इस्तीफा वापस लेने के लिए राजी किया। और कहा रक्षा मंत्री के खिलाफ हर शिकायत को देखेंगे। यह बात मीडिया में लीक हो गई और नेहरू को इस पर संसद में बयान देना पड़ा। संसद के इस बयान में नेहरू ने थिमैया पर ही सवाल उठा दिए। इसके बाद जनरल थिमैया पूरी तरह से हताश हो गए 1969 में चीन ने अक्साई चीन पर अपना कब्जा मजबूत कर लिया था वह तिब्बत को अभिन्न अंग घोषित कर दिया।
चीनी प्रधानमंत्री चाऊ एन लाई को गले लगाने और ‘हिंदी चीनी भाई-भाई’ के नेहरु के उदारवादी नारों को धूर्त चीन ने भारत की कमजोरी समझा. उस युद्ध के 58 सालों के बाद आज भी, चीन ने हमारे महत्वपूर्ण अक्साई चिन पर अपना कब्ज़ा जमा रखा है.
Trafficking in human beings is estimated as one of the largest organized crimes violating basic human rights in India and around the world. In this article, we will analyze the scary situation in India and counters to it.
Starting Point: As per NCRB Report on missing persons in Crime in India, a total of 2,90,439 people in year 2016, 3,05,267 people in 2017, and 3,47,524 people in 2018 have been reported as “missing“, of which women 2,23,621 women in 2018 have been registered as ‘missing’. According to same report, around 60000 children go missing. However since these figures are official, experts say actual numbers are on a higher extent as these cases are only recorded cases.
Resulting of trafficking in human beings result in different forms of trafficking, (or torture):
Sexual exploitation, for example, forcing someone into prostitution or exploitation in the sex industry.
Forced marriage and forced adoption
Labour exploitation and forced labour
Forced begging and forced criminal activity and
Trade in human organs and tissues
We can see result of forced begging in our daily life. Sex trafficking racket has been working quietly in all cities. Forced adoption rarely come into limelight as most of these children are trafficked abroad. Speaking of Forced labour and Bonded Labour, these crime syndicate mafias are also very strong having involvement both nationally and internationally. Some cases of forced labour have aslo been highlighted recently, where 52 persons were made to work 3 years for 19 hours a day in Karnataka.
Each and every form results in physical, emotional, sexual torture of its own magnitude. And in case of Trading of organs, sometimes one has to be killed also.
Govt Response and Loop Holes
Its not that Indian state don’t have legislation to prevent such heinous crimes. In fact India have a bunch of legislation namely,
Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1986
Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976
Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000
Transplantation of Human Organ Act (THO), 1994
But these laws are not able to stop human trafficking crimes as most of these acts are outdated, and punishment for committing these crimes are less severe (if at all anyone is Convicted- thanks to corruption in Executive, and an inefficient Judiciary as 3 cr cases are already pending in Courts.)
The Road Ahead
Accordingly, a stricter bill on the matter was passed by the Lok Sabha on 26th July 2018. However, it could not be considered by the Rajya Sabha and lapsed on the dissolution of the 16th Lok Sabha. As of now, The Bill is being revisited to make it more effective and the same will be introduced in the Parliament after following due procedure. A Group of Ministers (GoM) has been constituted to examine the draft Trafficking in Person (Prevention, Protection, Rehabilitation) Bill before its consideration by the Cabinet.
On our bit, we can least sign a petition to expedite the passage of the new anti-human trafficking bill into an Act.
The whole world is now under the blessings of Covid-19! Yes, it is a blessing for all of us, because this pandemic has given us the leisure to rediscover how racist we are! The ‘Coronavirus’ has spread around the world from the city of Wuhan in China. US President Donald Trump has repeatedly called the Coronavirus as ‘Chinese virus.’ The ‘Anti-Asian Racism’ grows rapidly, and the Coronavirus gradually becomes a ‘Racist virus.’ Asians and people of Asian descent are facing racial attacks in many countries around the world. America is currently burning in the poison of ‘Anti-Black Racism.’ On May 25, George Floyd, an African-American man, died of police brutality. Immediately after this incident, protests and riots broke out in various parts of the USA. Not only Americans but also people from different parts of the world have strongly protested against such anti-black racism and raised the slogan ‘Black Lives Matter.’ Indians have also strongly condemned the incident. But surprisingly, Indians are utterly silent about ‘Indian Racism.’ In this case, why the response of Indians is so one-sided?
What is ‘Indian-Racism’?
Covid-19 has once again shown the ‘Racist Face of India.’ Both ‘Skin Colour-based racism’ and ‘ethnicity-based racism’ exist in Indian society. But no one has the time or desire to discuss the issue in detail or protest against it. Even the Indian Media is not so worried about this. At present, India has 28 states and 8 Union Territories. The victims of ‘ethnicity-based racism’ are people from the North-East states of India. The main reason behind such racism is that they do not look like ‘Indians’! Even after 73 years of independence, India does not know the history of its North-East. As always, the North-East could not become a part of the so-called ‘Real India.’ This ‘Real India’ is made up of ‘Gandhi-India,’ ‘Hindi-India,’ and ‘Bollywood-India.’ Then who are the North-East Indians? According to the representatives of ‘Real India,’ they are ‘Chinese or Nepalese Indians’! This is the foundation stone of ‘ethnicity-based racism’ in India.
‘Ethnicity-based racism’ in India during Covid-19
During this pandemic North-East people were renamed as ‘Corona’! In different parts of the country, they have been beaten, harassed, and abused. Their crime was that they were spreading the Coronavirus! A nation-wide lockdown has been going on in India as a way to fight with the Covid-19. In such a situation, North Easterners are facing both intolerance and non-cooperation. The door to everything from workplace and accommodation to grocery stores has been closed for them due to the panic. In many cases, they have been forced to stay in quarantine even though they have no symptoms of Covid-19. Many separatist movements had occurred in North-East Indian states like Tripura, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur, Assam, and Nagaland. India has managed to suppress these insurgencies rigorously and ensure its geographical integrity. But India has failed to stop racist activities against North-Easterners or to make them understand that they are an integral part of India. Therefore, the ‘Real India’ can be asked, how long these kinds of racism will continue.
Racial memes on Corona in India
‘Skin Colour-based racism’ in India
Now we can turn the focus of our discussion from ‘ethnicity-based racism’ to ‘Skin Colour-based racism.’ Indians have sharply criticized discrimination against Black people in America. The slogan ‘Black Lives Matter’ has been widely shouted in every corner of Indian mass media and social media. But when will we Indians protest against racism in India based on skin colour? Even in the 21st century, an Indian has to face social stigma for his black complexion. From an early age, they are taught how to brighten and whiten their skin. Most of the Indian girls with dark skin have to be humiliated at every step of her life. Both Indian boys and girls with dark skin get various racist nicknames. Their skin colour became one of their identities. That is the reason why the commercial markets of fairness creams, soaps, and other related products have increased so much in India. In many cases, skin colour determines a person’s education, choice of livelihood, marriage, and many other spheres of life. But the person has no opportunity to complain about such discrimination. The matter is accepted as a part of daily life. This has also led many people to choose the path of mental depression and even suicide. From this, it can be understood how deeply ‘Skin Colour-based racism’ is rooted in Indian society.
Another racist meme
What could be the assessment?
The so-called modern society needs reform and greater awareness to prevent the growing spread of racism. This assessment applies not only to India but to all countries of the world. Sometimes racist ideas are being promoted around the world to sell a commercial product or to make a cheap joke. The internet and mass media have proved to be very helpful in this regard. Racist content is gaining popularity through the commercial advertisements of broadcast media and social media ‘memes’. The matter is worrying enough. There is also a lack of social, academic, and administrative initiatives around the world, including India, to fight against racism. The poison of racism needs to be eradicated from the whole world because even if we win the war with Covid-19, human civilization will be destroyed by the blows of racism. In this way, India, in a real sense, will become ‘Incredible India,’ and the world will become ‘Incredible World.’
The word ‘minority’ has nowhere been defined in our constitution thus leaving it up to the whims of our union govt to decide who constitutes minority in India. The minority could mean any of the sections like religious, linguistic, sexual, ethnic minorities or religious minority in states etc but the focus of our entire govt has always been mostly on religious minority of complete nation. Hindus who are religious minority in various states and union territories are not beneficiary of various schemes run by our secular govt despite their low representation in administration or their socio-economic backwardness in their respective states where they are religious minority.
The infamous Sachhar committee report upholds this ex-parte treatment meted out to communities other than religious minority community in general and Hindus in particular and underpins this blatant violation of their right to equality envisaged by founding fathers of our constitution. Though there have been fundamental flaws in the report of Justice Sachhar committee yet our govt launched various schemes for religious minority of India riding on the flawed and imaginary notions derived from this undercooked report. The report is based on conjectures of author as explained by Dr Rinku wadhera in this extensively researched report in following monologue- https://youtu.be/JM5W0JVVf1o. There is a separate ministry of minority affairs in govt of India and separate departments for minority affairs in state govts as state govt has departments in place of minorities. The ministry of minority affairs and corresponding departments in state govts are both allotted a fat amount from public coffers in their annual budgets for running various schemes exclusively for religious minorities for their supposed upliftment where as they are already either at par or performing better in various living standard parameters of livelihood.
Let us assume that I am a minority in the state of Uttar Pradesh that is often portrayed as the worst place for a minority to live in by our woke-liberals. This detailed report will clear the picture as to how I become more than equal in nation state of India if I happen to be from minority community. I will be taking financial year 2019-20 for reference as we have all the required data for the said financial year at our disposal, sourced from various govt portals. The annual revised budget of ministry of minority affairs of union govt alone was ₹4,700 crores for year 2019-20 which has been raised to 5029 crores in estimate budget of 2020-21 (https://www.indiabudget.gov.in/expenditure_budget.php). The annual budget of department of minority welfare in Uttar Pradesh for the same year was ₹3158 crores after revision (http://budget.up.nic.in/GrantWisepdf.html). Therefore a person of minority community can avail benefits from schemes run at the cost of whopping ₹8187 crores exclusively for them.
It must be noted that there is no scheme that bars minority community from availing benefits which are open for general populace. They avail benefits of all the general schemes in addition to schemes run by GOI exclusively for religious minority. These exclusive schemes are compiled in compendium of Schemes/programmes run by ministry of minority affairs and its subordinate organzations for the welfare of minority communities in India (http://www.minorityaffairs.gov.in/publications/compendium-schemes-programmes-run-ministry). The various schemes run by union govt includes waqf board modernisation & development programme, pre-matric sholarship for minorities, post-matric scholarship for minorities, Merit cum means scholarship for professional and technical courses(graduate and under graduate), Maulana Azad national fellowship for minority students, Naya Sawera, Padho Pradesh, Nayi Udaan etc. These schemes facilitate financial assistance in admission, tuition fees, hostel fees, monthly maintennace allowance etc to the beneficiaries who are obviously and essentially from minority community. Other schemes include Skill development initiative, Nayi Manzil – Integrated educational and livelihood initiative, USTTAD, scheme for leadership development of minority women, Hamari Dharohar for conservation and protection of culture and heritage of minorities, Maulana Azad sehat scheme and Maulana Azad scholarship for minority girl students sponsored by Maulana Azad education foundation which in turn is funded by ministry of minority affairs and most ironic ‘scheme for containing population decline of small minority community’.
Various other promotional schemes like vocational training scheme with 90% grants and marketing assistance scheme to market support at national and state level exhibitions with 90% grants are run for promoting enterpreneurs from minority community. The ministry also funds the grants in aid to state channeling agencies for implementation of NMDFC (National minorities development and finance corporation) programmes, equity contribution to NMDFC, grant to National commissiom for minorities. Comparatively, a paltry sum of ₹2.30 crores was allotted for special officer for linguistic minorities in 2019-20. A student of minority community can also avail a loan from NMDFC up to ₹3 lakhs for short term high skill course, ₹10 lakhs for professional and job oriented degree, ₹20 lakhs for courses abroad for 5 years with a mere 3% interest rate as against 9.55% interest rate on student loan offered by SBI to common citizens of India (https://www.sbi.co.in/web/interest-rates/interest-rates/loan-schemes-interest-rates/education-loan-scheme). An individual belonging to minority community can also avail loan from NMDFC up to ₹10 lakhs for self employment at the interest rate of 5% and 6%.
As if this unjust treatment was not enough, GOI rolled out 15 point programmes encompassing various other ministries thus effectively concentrating the execution of other schemes like ICDS run by ministry of child & women development, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan & Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya scheme run by Human resource development ministry, Ajeevika scheme (formerly known as Swarn jayanti gram swarojgar yojna) run by ministry of rural development, Swarna Jayanti shahari rojgar yojna run by ministry of housing and urban poverty alleviation etc in localities with minotity communities. HRD ministry also run schemes for providing quality educatiom in madarasa, scheme for infrastructure development in minority institutions, generating greater resources for teaching of Urdu etc. Also, there are various schems/programmes like Integrated housing and slum development programme, Basic services for urban poor etc where flow of funds is monitored in monority concentrated areas and by all other means they are equally beneficial to all the citizens of India.
It is also pertinent to note that GOI has incurred an estimated expenditure of ₹5775 crore (estimated at the beginning of 12th five year plan) for excuting multi-sectoral development programme where govt was to focus on minority concentrated blocks(MCB) and minority concentrated towns (MCT). The programme was to target 710 MCBs and 66 MCTs in various states and union territories. Therefore, it is apparent that the actual amount spent on minority community exclusively other than the expenses on development of general population including minorities surpasses the total sum of annual budgets of ministry of minority affairs and department of minority welfare of U. P. i.e., ₹8187 crores as mentioned above.
This institutionalised discrimination meted out to Hindu majority by nation state of India is appalling. This minority appeasement has further been mainstreamed as secularism by prejudiced and Hinduphobic media of India. All these facts have always been in public domain but no-one ever cared to report this partis pris. We can only hope to see an equal and just India where religious identity does not affect the prospects of opportunities for her citizen. Jai Hind….
