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Narendra Modi and BJP must take something fresh from his oven for 2019

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Narendra Modi and BJP must take something fresh from his oven for 2019

The very heart-warming and precious festival will come on the upcoming year. Yes, it’s 2019 General Election. And this time, BJP must have to apply some filter on its agendas. Last time, they had clear funda of removing UPA from the Central power and at that time, our common men also wanted new face, who hear their voices. But, this time, the whole scenario is different.

After the revolution of Social Media, people are now much clear about their needs and they are very much strict about their judgement. As we can see in Gujarat Assembly Election-2017, BJP lost many of important seats in Saurashtra and other parts. Also, we know that people of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh are much aware about their current CM and their works. But, on the other hand, the opposition also not clear about their agendas. Rahul Gandhi is on the way of political learning and still, he has a lot to learn.

Let’s focus on other political parties which can play an important role in upcoming elections. There are Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samajwadi Party, Aam Admi Party, Shiv Sena, TDP, TRS, AIDMK and much other on the regional parts. Since, Amma has left the world, AIDMK is now swinging between much consequences. And for all the southern part of India, it will be tough to make a mark for any alliance. Also, we can’t say about such happenings, because after all it is politics.

Aam Admi Party has also a long way to prove its capability of handling power. But, after evaluating these many situations, PM Modi should have to come with some propitious agendas, so BJP can survive with handy or more seats. Or else, they will lose many of important seats.

On the other side, Congress has a chance this time to overcome BJP but as we can see that Unity in Party is invisible. But, they must make sure their path about future in Indian politics.  Otherwise, future students will get new history about Indian Politics.

What about Common-Man?

This is the very crucial time for the common man, we can say. Because, at one point he can’t love Modi but on the other hand, he has not any perfect hand that he can give the power. So, let’s see, what he can do at this auspicious festival!

Underlying message of Twitter CEO-Placard on Brahminical order

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Underlying message of Twitter CEO-Placard on Brahminical order

The recent Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s anti-Brahminical placard has caused a huge flutter. The limited few journalists with whom he has held a closed-door meeting are known for their unbound acrimony against the Hindu Society. Their very intention is to malign the Hindu religion somehow. Otherwise why do they endorse the placard “Brahminical Patriarchy?” Do they not find patriarchy among Muslims and Christians?

Their ire against Brahmins is two-fold. One, Brahmins are the upholders of ancient tradition and culture of the Hindu Society. Two, because of Brahmins, the Hindu-religion/Dharma is surviving. Even during colonial rule, the Christian missionaries of the West, targeted Brahmins. They knew pretty well that this very (Brahmin) backbone of India was fractured beyond repair or eliminated from the scene, they could well make India their evangelical homeland. The missionaries converted completely Philippines and S.Korea into Christian nations. They want the same kind of leverage in India.

In developed countries like the USA and the UK, the evangelical groups have no work since the people along with the development moved away from the Christianity. Now the evangelical groups are targeting poorer countries in Africa and India. A part of the ploy seems to be these multi-national company bosses bringing in this schism in the Society. Of course, a major amount of blame goes to Indian in-put giving journalists, thinking that those who come from the West are their saviours. If castes is the problem in India, so does the race in the West. Let them deal with it first, eradicate that malice in their homeland and come to us if at all to preach anything.

The bunch of journalists whose sympathies are elsewhere from the Hindu religion and who are always on their toes to denigrate Hindu practices have least compunction in supporting the placard. They think they are acolytes of free speech. They cannot tolerate when others answer them. They call them “bigots” as if it is their sole propriety to name-call others. They seem to be hate-mongers masquerading as journalists. Otherwise, why then they portray their own other countrymen in poor light?

Anna Vetticad has no business to support the placard held by Jack Dorsey. On behalf of Twitter @Vijay the representative of the Twitter in India has apologized. Anna said in her tweet that was unbecoming of him. For, it appeared to her that they were trampled under bus tyres when he himself saved his skin. She should know that’s how the world works. To him, his business and the prestige of his company are more important than any of those silly gooses clichéd formulaic posters/slogans.

These leftist journalists take the left parties to an abyss. That’s reason there is no Left, left in India. The Dalit who provided the placard to the CEO of Twitter may not be a real Dalit. He may be a pseudo-one like Kancha Ilaiah. The neo-converts to Christianity hate Brahmins, Sanskrit and Cows. Kancha Ilaiah organised a beef-festival in Osmania university recently. The excerpts from his book, ‘Why I am not a Hindu’ are removed from the textbooks of Delhi university, of late, by the Central BJP government, a really bold act. He spews venom on Hindu religion and Hindutva. He has all the support of the Congress party at the Central level. He has his proximity to Rahul Gandhi also.

There should be immediate counters from the Hindu Society to this so-called intellectual terrorism by these partisan journalists. It’s better for them to look in-wards to find the deeper malice, they have, within them than from the outside Hindu social order. If they are incapable of understanding India, let them admit. For most of the Indians, they are incomprehensible.

Impact of democracy in political system of India

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Impact of democracy in political system of India

Prime Minister Sri Narendra Modi, at his annual Diwali interaction with media persons in 2017, talked about the need to make people aware of the internal democracies of political parties. This statement made me to reflect back into history of democratic Practice by administration in our country from ancient times and their effect on our society. The Democracy of our country has conceded through three periods:

Ancient democracy in Rig Veda

History and ancient literature suggest that democracy and republic ideas were implemented ever since the ‘Age of Vedas‘ and even before. The present style of democracy in India was inherited from the British but the core value of democracy is existing still in our system as per Vedas in Ancient India. The basic principles of democracy were embedded in Indian Civilizations since ages. Real democracy requires secularism in practice and India is the only major nation who can claim this. The credit for this goes to Hindu culture which accepted everyone. Even at beginning of the republican assembly some specific Slokas from Rig Veda were to be sung in unison!

Tulsidas’s Ramayan (written in 16th century AD) describes a scene when king Rama gathers an assembly of citizens and tells them that they are free to express their opinions and disagree with his decisions.  In the Mahabharata, there is a reference to Ganas (republics) being governed by their councils of leaders called Gana-Mukhyas. All these Ganas (republics) had an extremely democratic constitution. Each had its own assembly (parishad)!

The terms Sabha ( gathering), Samiti (smaller Gathering or Committee), Rajan or Raja, (Householder, Leader), are found in Vedic literature. The term Rajan denoted Householder, Head of the Household. One who was eligible to take part in the assembly or gathering or the Sabha. It did not mean a King, but simply meant a ‘Leader’, a leader who was elected. The term Raja came to mean later, a feudal king, a monarch. As with the passing times, the elected leader or elected king, as is usual with human nature, started tradition of  his offspring to follow in his footsteps, and take the leadership or Kingship position after him.

Rig Veda also says that the position of the King (leader) was not absolute, and he could be removed by the Sabha or the Assembly. The term Sabha is still used today, as the Indian Elected Parliament is called the ‘Lok Sabha– Assembly of the People’, Nominated Parliament is called ‘Rajya Sabha‘ and state assemblies are called as ‘Vidhana Sabha’.

Buddhist history of democracy

As per Buddhist texts in Pali, politics was vigorous during the Buddhist period, 600 BC – 200 AD. During this period, India witnessed widespread urbanization, which was almost synonymous with a republican form of government. These ancient classics offer a complex scenario to describe the different groups that managed their own affairs. Some of these groups were probably warrior formations; others were groups with avowed economic aims; some were religious fraternities. These organizations, of whatever type, were usually designated as a GaNa or a Sangha; while less important political structures were known by such terms as Sreni (guilds).

The terms Gana and Sangha initially meant multitude, but gradually with the passage of time, these words come to mean a self-governing multitude by 6th century BC. In this system, all decisions were taken by the Sangha members themselves, and the governing style was stabilized by convention for such groups. The strongest of these groups functioned as sovereign governments, who were generally known as Republics. Various sources indicate an almost universal presence of sovereign republics in India during that time. The word GaNa is still used in India and Republic nation is known as ‘GaNatantra‘ and Republic day is celebrated as ‘GaNatantra Divas‘. Some Greek writers refer to a people who practiced a democratic form of government but were not monarchial, though their sway encompassed a large area. This indicates that Indian republics of late 4th century BC were much larger than the Greek city states of that time. It seems that republicanism was at that time the standard practice in the north-western part of India.

After the sixth century, democratic organisations started declining. Kings and monarchs often remained engaged in wars. Since there was no strong monarch to uphold the solidarity and unity of the country, conse­quently a large number of principalities sprang up throughout the country. From the eighth century onwards, the Mohammedans launched their invasions till they established their rule in the twelfth century. The Muslim rulers were autocratic. In the medieval era, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Islam arrived, and Sikhism emerged, all adding to the region’s diverse culture. Much of the north fell to the Delhi sultanate; the south was united under the Vijayanagara Empire.

The economy somehow expanded in the 17th century in the Mughal Empire. In the mid-18th century, the subcontinent came under British East India Company rule, and in the mid-19th under British crown rule. So Medieval India was under autocratic rule, which caused maximum damage to the social and political fabric of Vedic India. India was then no longer exporting manufactured goods as it long had, but was instead supplying the British Empire with raw materials, and many historians consider this to be the onset of India’s colonial period. By this time, with its economic power severely curtailed by the British parliament and effectively having been made an arm of British administration, the company began to more consciously enter non-economic arenas such as education, social reform, and culture.

Modern democracy:

The British rule also was against democracy. Although the rebellion of “Sepoy Mutiny” was suppressed by 1858, it led to the dissolution of the East India Company and to the direct administration of India by the British government. Proclaiming a unitary state and a gradual but limited British-style parliamentary system, the new rulers also protected princes and landed gentry as a feudal safeguard against future unrest.  The rush of technology and the commercialization of agriculture in the second half of the 19th century was marked by economic setbacks—many small farmers became dependent on the whims of far-away markets. There was an increase in the number of large-scale famines. It was continued for decades all over India, leading eventually to the founding of the Indian National Congress in 1885. It was the Government of India Act, 1935 that laid the foundation stone of democratic rule in In­dia. The Congress remained in power only for two years—from 1935 to 1937. From 1940 to 1945, the British government was preoccupied with the World War 11. The efforts for giving political freedom to India started from 1946 till it became free in August 1947. The Constitution of free In­dia accepted democracy as the basis of ruling the country.

Democracy in Independent India:

After independence, India decided to have democratic political sys­tem. This system is characterised by three elements: 1) there is a high degree of autonomy; 2) economic agents and religious organisations are free from political interference; and 3) competition between various orders does not endanger integration but helps it. Democracy today functions at 3 basic level in India. The village level-The Panchayat (Council of five) Province or State level – Assembly
National – Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha in Parliament.

Democracy in modern India is based on certain principles:(1) That every individual has his potentialities, worth, and dignity;(2) That everyone has the capacity to learn and manage his life with others;(3) That an individual must abide by the decisions of the majority;(4) That every individual should have a part in making decisions;(5) That the control and direction of democratic action lies in the situation and not outside it;(6) That the process of living is interactive and that all individuals work towards commonly recognized ends; and (7) That democracy rests on individual opportunity as well as individual responsibility.

So just what is it that accounts for the resilience and endurance of Indian democracy? Why has it flourished in India when it has failed in other neighbor states? And how it remained intact despite India’s mass poverty, widespread illiteracy, slow economic growth, a large bureaucracy clearly indifferent to norms of efficiency, a culture of permissive corruption, and unrivaled heterogeneity for years! Perhaps the core value of our ancient Vedic democracy still persisting in soul of our society n culture to maintain our Plurality.

The recent time political scenario shed light on Smt Indira Gandhi’s regime of 16 years-between January 1966 and Oc­tober 1984- (minus three years of Morarji Desai and Charan Singh regimes) was not democratic but an ‘authoritarian’ regime. With each successive spell out of power, the party’s ability to retain its supporters has dwindled. By the late 1980s, the famous Congress system had all but vanished. Over the past few decades, the overriding presence of the Nehru-Gandhi dynastic leadership has hindered fresh political talent from outside the trusted circle taking leadership positions thus immobilizing the party’s organizational base. This has encouraged a debilitating trend of sycophancy and preference for loyalists, which cuts off the leadership from the grassroots, in the process making them inaccessible to both leaders and workers. The question mark on inner party democracy of Left too is unavoidable, since the murder of Gauri Lankesh, which revealed the journo’s discontent against the party politics. The other regional parties like SP, BSP and RJD too rolling under dynastic norm, which is unsolicited for a healthy democracy.

As our PM urged all political parties to maintain democracy as it is essential for the future with a true democratic spirit where all voices are heard, he certainly forethought about the autocratic norm that is engulfing our political party’s internal democracy. This is indeed the need of the hour for all our political parties to forge ahead in 21st Century with true democratic value. They should reflect, reform and reengage to add dynamism to democratic legacy of our country.

References:

Ancient Democracy in Vedas, Buddhist & Greek History

https://www.jagranjosh.com/general-knowledge/concept-of-democracy-by-rig-veda-1512382216-1

Democracy in India: Democracy in Ancient and Modern India

http://iks.iitgn.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Democracy-in-Ancient-India-S-Muhlberger.pdf

Indian Democracy, A Historical Perspective – Then And Now

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261086870_Problems_and_Prospects_of_Indian_Democracy_An_Analysis_of_working_for_designing_processes_of_change

https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/The-crisis-of-Indian-democracy/article14509784.ece

https://asiasociety.org/education/understanding-modern-india

People should know the wicked ploy of Iago in 2019

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People should know the wicked ploy of Iago in 2019

The play of Shakespeare’s Othello is happening in Indian politics. If we carefully analyse the players in Indian politics, we can easily correlate each one of them with the character of Iago in the play Othello and the character Iago would perfectly match with the character of the one who claimed to have born to become Prime Minister of India. The Iago in Indian politics is as jealous as the one in Othello but only difference is that the Iago in the play Othello was obsessed with Desdemona whereas the Iago in Indian politics claim his birth right over Prime Minister ship of India and that is why he hates and abuses Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Desdimona can be metaphorically equated to the position of Prime Minister of India. To reduce democracy to dynasty, the Iago in Indian politics is using Emilia (some bureaucrats and lobbies and urban Naxals) to play some dirty tricks like how Emilia was persuaded to steal the hand-kerchief of Desdimona by Iago to be kept in the room of Michael Cassia to misguide Othello to kill Desdimona. The role of Othello in the Indian context is played by people and therefore people must recognize the ploy of Iago in advance so that they can save India.

Iago in Indian politics is trying his best to destroy both Othello (people of India) and Desdimona due his jealous for Prime Minister Post which he lost to Narendra Modi. The Iago is manufacturing one lie after another like Rafale, in-fight in CBI, right of the government to question the policies of RBI etc., to misguide people of India.

People of India should clearly identify the Iago and his ploy in Indian politics to save India from corruption, nepotism and culture of dynasty.

No literary work has ever created a villain like Iago and similarly no politician in the world can ever match the Iago in Indian politics in manufacturing negativity, spreading lie and willingness to do anything to fulfill his obsession for the post of Prime Minister of India. Like Iago who was constantly plotting various methods and strategies to misguide Othello, the Iago in Indian politics is also doing everything to misguide people of India to grab power.

In the play Othello, the hero character Othello initially believed Iago and the result was tragedy and destruction. Had Othello not trusted and believed Iago so blindly, the play Othello would have ended as a very great happy drama than as tragedy.

Unfortunately no one was there to tell Othello about the evil mind of Iago but India has Narendra Modi to guide India to success and also to prove us how negative is the Iago in Indian politics.

The Iago became a villain of no comparison purely due to his obsession for Desdimona marrying Othello and the Iago in Indian politics also has the same obsession that he is alone entitled to rule India and it is his family’s right but Modi has become the Prime Minister of India by merit and peoples support. So the Iago in Indian politics wants to play one trick after another to destabilize the agenda of development and unification of India as one India with the glorious identity – Hindu Rashtra.

People of India must see how the state has developed since 2014 and how was India before. Modi has brought great reform in several frontiers of governance, brought poor and marginal people to the mainstream, provided cocking gas connection to the millions of families and which outnumbers the record of 60 years of governance of the dynasty. Narendra Modi has integrated millions of poor people into banking system, knocked out the middle men eating the government schemes of poor people, provided sanitation and drinking water facility, ensured electrification in several villages, covered completely cashless, instantaneous health insurance scheme etc. Many more reforms have been initiated by PM Modi and it may take some more time to make the difference.

PM Narendra Modi has focused on all round development where people are inspired to dream New India, made responsible politically, culturally, emotionally, ethically and socially. Narendra Modi has brought value based politics not politics of sycophancy, corruption and nepotism. Better people recognize the negative ploy of Iago in Indian politics and lend their support for development and Sab ka vikas.

Jack Dorsey an ill-informed Gullible about Racism behind ‘Smash Brahminical Patriarchy’ Placard

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Jack Dorsey an ill-informed Gullible about Racism behind ‘Smash Brahminical Patriarchy’ Placard

The visit of CEO of micro-blogging giant and the controversy he creates.

I would not wonder things, and create a web of words: but jump straight to the point. Must admire the propensity of the left eco-system that has made a visit look so casual and in the end, propagate its agenda, that it is has been so desperately clinging on for so long – hatred for Hindus, especially Brahmins, or rather the whole religion?

Jack Dorsey lands in India and keenly, or rather desperately goes and land on the laps of strange looking contradictions – the ring masters of fakery and distorted narratives, the creators of false cases; and then meets several other leftist heavy-weights: and the world watches on.

As, Jack goes on doing round tables with several bigoted lobbyists – who call themselves liberals – and talks about free voice and knowing the value of free speech – provided the way Twitter has consistently maintained a history of oppressing and suppressing voice of dissent and support voice of  disoriented humanity somewhere from the middle east: gullible Indians, or rather Hindus follow him blindly liking; retweeting and replying all his emanated words.

In the end, he lands a bad surprise for those naïve followers a placard ‘Smash Brahminical Patriarchy’ that openly endorses and proposes hate, hate and hate. Ooops! People rise up and wake up, as if woken by a nightmare, they stand there shell shocked: could Jack do this? How could he?

But he did it, and did it intentionally, a plan that had been formulated well in advance – as it seems; the way this gentleman is unapologetic and has chosen to ignore voice of dissent. He has chosen to ignore the outcry and chosen to act deaf and dumb to audience.

He is a suspect of what? A part of a bigger part of plan: a component that is fueling agenda of a big conglomerate and a nexus, commonly associated with Leftist and Secular brand of politicians, scribes and intellectuals?

It will be too foolish to judge what he is, it is own assumption, but ones who are feeling aggrieved must re-examine their own beliefs and their actions. They must brush aside their petty squabbles and respond, or face derision, the way they have been doing.

Let us not reason out this instance as a squabble, but think introspectively. The way, Jack Dorsey  highlighted his meeting with several left oriented people; and the way he kept a low profile about his conversation with the Prime Minister of India is a clear indication of things to come. With the kind of staffers he has to serve twitter in India, he means clearly, the things will go on as planned without a change.

Hindus have been persecuted  for over a millennium now, and it is all because of their own failings. They may lose this too if they do not realize the facts and thrust them back into the face of communists who have engineered this distortion of history – biggest forgery in history.

These are some great developments taking place in the country but no media have revealed them yet

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These are some great developments taking place in the country but no media have revealed them yet

Few good point that happened in last few weeks no media listed them

1) US going soft on Iran oil sanctions, chabahar port work also given exemption.
The United States has deep ties to the nation of India and I am grateful for my friendship with Prime Minister Modi, We’re trying very hard to make better trade deals with India. But, they’re very good traders. They’re very good negotiators Trump said before lighting the ceremonial Diya in the historic Roosevelt Room of the White House.

2) India going to trade with Iran in Indian currency (INR); this will save lot of FX reserve for India.

3) Biggest train bridge that will reduce travel time between Assam to Arunachal from 600 km to 40 km.

4) In land water transport started forge first time in Indian history. Please note this will reduce transport cost drastically, Varanasi will have port a river port.

5) Petrol price when goes up all of us shout but when come down no one cares to note it s now ₹77.10 today in Delhi.

6) India adds border stealth force this is strategically very important for mountain war fare.

7) India jumps from electricity accessibility position from 99 to 26, huge movement for 73 position.

8) Coming to TN Hyundai to set up new plant in Chennai for electric car manufacturing.

9) GST AVG collection raised from 85000 crores per month to 95000 crores and last month it crossed 100000 crores, 95% of input credit is cleared within next month and compensation to state for short fall has reduced n last three months. No state is now against GST since it has released lot of admin pressure from state govt.

10) opening of Sikkim airport is considered as one of the best and the recent times by the international aviation teams.

11) Statue of unity in first week collected 2.1 crores as ticket collection.

12) Mumbai local train going to be completely revamped in the next 5 to 6 yrs.

13) Foreign enemy property going to be auctioned will fetch India 1 lakh crores.

14) Union Cabinet approved Rs. 834 Crores for setting up Tribal University in Vizianagaram district of Andhra Pradesh. No state ever has received as many national institutes in 4 years as AP did under PM Shri Narendra Modi. AP Reorg act mandates setting up of 11 institutes *BEFORE* 2022. 10 out of the 11 are already established/approved. In addition to these, 5 more have been established/approved. And we are still in 2018.

15) India’s move to energize every village in the country with electricity is one of the greatest success stories in the world this year; providing clean cooking fuel to people is another laudable achievement that will reduce premature deaths from pollution, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said.

16) NDA’s road construction drive leaves UPA behind by huge margin.
After the completion of four and a half year, PM Modi led government has achieved enormous success in the field of Infrastructure development. The construction of 33,361 km of national highways is being achieved under the leadership of PM Modi. The UPA government had been able to construct a meagre 33.308 km in the time frame of 2008-2014. The NDA government has clearly outdone the UPA when it comes to expanding the road network in India.

17) I know there are some controversies and I know that it is a kind of domestic political fight, with elections it is true in many countries. What is important for me is the truth and the truth is that it is a clean deal and the IAF is happy with this deal. I don’t lie. The truth I declared before and the statements I made are true. I don’t have a reputation of lying. In my position as CEO, you don’t lie: Dassault CEO Eric Trappier responds to Rahul Gandhi’s allegations, in an exclusive interview to ANI.

18) On Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Kundli-Manesar–Palwal (KMP) Expressway or the Western Peripheral Expressway. Along with the Eastern Peripheral Expressway that was opened in May this year, this expressway will form the largest Ring Road around Delhi. It is estimated that after this route is opened, this will divert around 50,000 heavy vehicles from Delhi, which will help in reducing air pollution and traffic congestion in the city.

19) RBI’s independent director S Gurumurthy, who was delivering a lecture on ‘State of the Economy: said that demonetisation was a corrective measure and the GST was a reformative one, said that 18 months prior to demonetisation, 500 rupees, 1,000 rupees (notes) rose to 4.8 lakh crore that is what funded the real estate and gold prices and we would have gone the same way, (as what happened in) 2008 recession in the US due to sub-prime lending. The economy would have collapsed.

20) “We must be grateful that there is at least a national leader who is interested in improving India who is focussed on discipline, cleanliness and economic progress. Continuity of this govt is a good thing”: R Narayan Murthy on PM

Lot more but media will speak about crime, dirty politics only, not about above.

Intelligent and patriotic people will be very proud and will definitely circulate this information!
Jai Hind! Bharat Mata ki jai.

Current ramifications of activism in India

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Current ramifications of activism in India

Activism is the doctrine or practice of vigorous action or involvement as a means of achieving political or other goals, sometimes by demonstrations, protests, etc.

Judicial activism is not backed by the Constitution; it is a product devised solely by the judiciaries in some countries. When the judiciary oversteps the line of the powers given to it, in the name of judicial activism, it becomes judicial overreach. One can say that the judiciary then begins to nullify the concept of separation of powers specified in the Constitution. Black’s Law Dictionary defines judicial activism as a “philosophy of judicial decision-making whereby judges allow their personal views about public policy, among other factors, to guide their decisions.”

This issue has come to limelight in the context of Sabarimala agitation where devotees, the head priest family, the Pandalam royals, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), along with other Hindu outfits, have opposed the entry of women of menstruating age into the temple on the grounds of violating the essential character of the temple amounting to interfering in purely ‘religious’ matter.

Social activism is an intentional action with the aim to bring about changes in social or political issues. These actions could be in support of, or opposition to, one side of a contentious dispute. The word ‘activism’ is often used synonymously with protest or dissent, but activism can stem from any number of political orientations and take a wide range of forms, from writing letters to newspapers or politicians, simply shopping ethically, rallies and street marches, direct action, or even guerrilla tactics

Sabarimala issue is one case of social activism. Those who oppose Supreme Court (SC) judgement say: A temple is the Aasthanam (abode) of the Hindu deity housed there. There are specific and particular rites and rituals for each temple and these have been coming down for generations and sanctioned by Shastra. Each temple and the deity have its own particular conception, beliefs and legends along with the rites and rituals, observed for generations. For Hindus to honour those in letter and spirit is not just a right but indeed also an obligation.

Activists now want to precipitate the issue. Right to Pray’s Trupti Desai says that she will be visiting the temple on November 17 as there is no stay on the SC’s earlier verdict which allowed all women entry. Over 500 women in the 10-50 years age group have registered themselves to visit the shrine.

The Bhopal tragedy gave environmental activists and factory enforcement agencies a major cause for concern and this led to a boost in NGO activity. In cases where cities developed primarily around industries (mostly textile and dyeing units, chemical plants, or factories), the question of their safety became critical. Extensive media coverage and people’s movements pressurized governments to regularly inspect industries and factories in cities and towns.

Sterlite Copper unit has been in operation in Tuticorin since its inception in 1997 and has been dogged by controversies throughout. But at the heart of the fresh protest at the unit, is a brownfield expansion of the plant, entailing a doubling of the capacity of the smelter to 8,00,000 tonnes per year. Protesters are against the pollution from the copper plant, including issues relating to disposal of copper waste and effluents from the operational unit, demanding its permanent closure.

The Tamil Nadu government’s decision to shut down the plant, which accounts for a 40 per cent share in India’s annual copper production of 10 lakh tonnes, could have a downstream impact on around 800 small and medium units in the electrical sector. Further, the shutdown of the Tuticorin plant could lead to direct and indirect job losses of up to 50,000. The shutdown is also likely to impact India’s copper exports as around 1.6 lakh tonnes of Tuticorin plant’s production is sold internationally.

The animal rights movement, sometimes called the animal liberation movement, animal personhood, or animal advocacy movement, is a social movement which seeks an end to the rigid moral and legal distinction drawn between human and non-human animals, an end to the status of animals as property, and an end to their use in the research, food, clothing, and entertainment industries.

Tigress Avni, believed to have killed 13 people in the last two years, was recently shot dead by sharpshooter Asgar Ali in the Borati forest in Maharashtra’s Yavatmal district as part of an operation. The analysis by Wildlife Conservation Trust (WCT) said the tranquilizer dart was inserted into the tigress’ body after it died. It also concluded the animal was not shot in self-defence as she was not facing the hunter. Both aspects constitute a violation of SC orders.

In another incident, a FIR was lodged at the Sehramau police station in Pilibhit district of Uttar Pradesh against six persons and some unidentified villagers after a tiger was allegedly mowed down by a tractor.

Activism has come to India following practices of activists in developed world. There are powerful NGOs acting as activists like Green Peace and Amnesty International. They have their Indian operations or connections with most Indian activists. In any case, foreign funding is available aplenty. The activists sometimes appear to be rather adamant n prone to confronts and often seem to be distanced from the local culture and traditions and politicized.

Amnesty India’s office in Bengaluru was raided on 24 October, two years after the ED launched investigations into the alleged violations of foreign funding rules. The outfit, which claims to be a defender of human rights, was recently accused of sedition after it gave a platform to Kashmir secessionists at an event, reports said. Anti-India slogans were raised at the event, it was alleged.

The writer is a commentator and an author.

Indians should know even Gods were fooled by demons, beware of 2019

S Ranganathan
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Indians should know even Gods were fooled by demons, beware of 2019

Most of the demons, evil forces and Rakshas were true devotees of God once in their life time. Only through their deep devotion, they could fool God and attain invincible power to destroy the world.

Ravana, Narakasura, Hiranyakashipu are some of the best examples for the above description. In democracy, people are the real God and their vote alone defines the fortune and destiny of the nation. The Hindu mythology and our epics have clearly shown that even God got fooled by all those Rakshasas and demons and that is how they were given boon to become invincible and devilish. Finally the God himself had to destroy all the evil forces through different ploy.

Today many proven corrupt political forces are rallying up together to cause instability and destroy the mission of development and sab ka vikas initiated by the current Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Like in Hindu mythology, all those corrupt forces wants to grab power and wants to steal the rule of virtue, truth, honesty, integrity, sab ka vikas to establish the rule of lawlessness, corruption and scams, nepotism, poverty and no development. Like how even God once got misguided by the devotion of all those evil forces, people of India should not fall victim to all those pseudo forces and elect those forces to destroy our nation which is being built brick by brick by the BJP.

The destruction of 6 decades cannot be corrected so easily in just 5 years but PM Modi has taken up such daunting task, worked tirelessly, brought transparency and accountability in the system, made sure that poor people are integrated into the banking system, power and cooking gas connections were reached to millions of poor houses, drinking water and sanitation facility were created for them, health guarantee and medical insurance were given and in true sense, made the mission of the Modi government is meant to achieve sab ka vikas. Millions of houses were constructed for poor people.

In 2019 election, every vote is extremely important and the voting right people should not see through a narrow prism of party politics but such right must be executed for the development of our nation to fulfill the vision of New India as envisaged by the PM Narendra Modi. Every citizen is important and has a big responsibility to build New India as envisaged by Modi.

Every Indian must read, understand and interpret righteously the mythology and epic of great Hinduism to understand how even the God was sabotaged by the devotion of many evil forces.  The message to be understood is that the appeal of all evil forces can be sometime very luminous, colourful, attractive and tempting. All evil forces will be humble in the beginning to grab power and once power is achieved then they will exhibit their true nature.

India has seen in the past how the regional forces have destroyed India by forming a broken alliance. At this stage, India cannot afford to have an unstable government or coalition government by different regional forces that may cause instability and destruction. Such government cannot perform in a decisive manner nor will have national vision.

India is inch away from becoming economic super power and this small gap can be filled only if Modi government continues in 2019 and beyond. If a ‘Khichadi’ government is allowed to rule India, it would take India back to the days of congress where the growth rate of India was just 3% or below.

The dynastic forces are working hard to grab power so that they can establish the relevance of their dynasty. If power is given to dynasty, naturally the dynastic forces will ensure all investigations and court cases initiated against them are derailed, nullified and again the same saga of corruption, scam and nepotism returns back.

India must grow as one nation and we must regain our identity as proud Hindus, focus on development, sab ka vikas and corruption & scam free New India.

After knowing well how Ravana, Padmasura (Sura Padma), Hiranyakashipu etc., spread tyranny after attaining invincible power by praying to God, we the Indians should not commit the same mistake of electing all those divisive, fringe forces just to repent and confess later. India needs Modi led BJP and not dynasty. Let us not make the mistake of the God instead let us learn from it.

Why there is a lack of creativity in India

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Why there is a lack of creativity in India

It would be tempting and egotistical to ignore Wozniak’s remark about people from India being not creative. You could call it whimsical, but if hurts there is probably some truth to it.

If he had said all Indians are bandits, we wouldn’t have read it a second time, we would have called it whimsical, even wild, it would not have hurt. This one does, and so it merits examination. Sometimes it helps to look beyond initial feelings of outrage.

It is my hypothesis that in over-populated and therefore insecure countries the self preservation will always dominate. Feelings of creativity, imagination, comradeship, of surrendering self to the wider cause can only arise in either a highly spiritual phase or where the person has ascended to a level of personal calm about his achievements.

Where you are in a mob, and we are in a mob, self preservation will always prevail; whether it is about catching a bus, getting out of a movie hall, or getting to a professional college.

So too with Indian students, where unless you are a method person you can’t make a mark. We have more than 200 colleges and universities and it is impossible for anyone to monitor individual students. At one level lower, it is even worse. Young students learn very quickly that it is their score, and not the manner in which the marks were scored, that counts more than anything else.

An eighteen-year-old is bound to feel tempted to stay with 90% than try to score a good 85 with a fluency in second language or any other skill which he wants to develop which won’t look as impressive when the selectors compare marks. If there were fewer people to look at, a selector could make his own assessment but with the numbers in India, that is often impossible. That is why I would go so far as to say that unless you are a method person you have no chance of making it in the top Indian universities. And that’s where the creativity lacks.

And it is not easy to change. Actors from folk theater will remain loud in serious cinema, batsmen growing up on a bouncy track will instinctively play the horizontal bat shots, people from gloomy lands will look unhapply even in bright sunshine. Students from our part of the world can’t suddenly become creative when they have survived by protecting their percentage fiercely.

When a nation is performing and therefore settled, and where the individual are secure, they can rise above and do things differently. In the other countries they learn that early because there are fewer people; the difference between being in a top college and being not in it is not nearly pronounced as it is in India.

The way out is to widen the area of courses offered by the colleges. Include the application based topics in school courses. The quality of research and development should be improved and government must monitor the level of universities and colleges regularly and the colleges performing below par should be sacked.

We can’t suddenly expect young, insecure students to become a creative or unconventional when most of us aren’t. Though there are many who are willing to go beyond. Now it needs to become addictive, it needs to be spread among the students and youth.

This might be a right time to prove to Steve Wozniak that it can happen.

God and Tamil culture are inseparable, let us save the state from Draidian, Aryan myth

S Ranganathan
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God and Tamil culture are inseparable, let us save the state from Draidian, Aryan myth

The politico-cultural landscape of Tamil Nadu is changing from God hatred society to God worshiping society with clear importance for Hindu rituals and religious practices. It looks like people of the state are going back to the great Bhakti era of Tamil culture and civilization. Tamil as a language has grown and become popular only through Bhakti Tamil literature. Several spiritual leaders, divine poets and writers like Nayanmar, Alwars, Siddhars etc., have developed and enriched Tamil language and literature through Bhakti and devotion to God. Tiruppavai, Periya Puranam, Thevaram, Tiruvachakam, Thiruppugazh, Kamba Ramayan etc., are some of the best examples for Bhakti Tamil literary work that remains immortal even today. The Sanga Tamil has its premise and foundation in divine worship and spiritual spirit.

But unfortunately Tamil Nadu has lost the fragrance and flavour of such great Bhakti tradition and culture with the advent of Dravidian movement that appeared with the agenda to isolate and eliminate Brahmin community, the spirit of God and worship, Hindu cultural identity of the state with clear intent to grab power and perpetuate own agenda.

The theory of Aryan and Dravidian is a real myth but such myth the champions of Dravidian-ism could sell well by infusing anger and hatred in people towards a particular community. They could successfully cut the umbilical cord of the state from the Hindu culture by defining the Tamil society to be originated from Dravidians and the Hindi and Sanskrit speaking people to be Aryan.  They further mocked God, divine practices, promoted breaking of idols and sacred thread of Brahmins in public as rational Dravidian movement besides demolishing the Bhakti culture of the state and Tamil language. In fact the Dravidian champions wants people to be non-believers and missionaries of non-believers. Besides that, they also tried to inculcate the culture of God abusers.

The state must ask how the Dravidian icons separated Tamil language from its yolk and egg shell called divinity and Bhakti and how they suppressed the rich spiritual contributions of several spiritual leaders of ancient Tamil Nadu.

May be to divert people’s attention from the Bhakti and Hindu cultural linkage of Tamil language and Sanskrit, the myth or illusion called Drawidian origin and Aryan invasion was coined, promoted and milked politically. But the end result was disaster where several generations were spoiled with reduction-istic thoughts and ideas of hatred towards Hindi and Sanskrit to nurture ethnic isolation from mainland culture called Hinduism.

But today the state is coming back to its ancient days. Irrespective of caste and creed, economic and educational status, age and gender majority of people of Tamil Nadu are coming back to God with great Bhakti, giving utmost importance to prayers and rituals, shows great patience to stand in long queue before temples, building temples at every 10 meter distance etc. This Bhakti returns seems to be the first sign of disappearance of Dravidian myth where the Dravidian champions are likely to lose their political identity and relevance.

People of the state appears to have understood the importance of peace of mind, serenity, sacredness, purity of prayers and offerings to God are considered to be the only way to attain eternal happiness and that is why people are coming back to God. People appears to have understood the truth that Dravidian champions have done nothing to the state except ruining the state, dividing people on caste basis for own development and development of the family and dynasty.

The undercurrent in Tamil Nadu is quite obvious. The state is yawning for change. The politics of Dravidian-ism must disappear and New Tamil Nadu must be built where merit, quality education, equality where the society is not divided by caste system or hatred towards any community.

The culture of dynastic politics must end and people of the state hope that the new generation leaders like H. Raja of BJP may able to bring change. For the future of the state, the Dravidian politics must go, large proportion of people of the state are gravitating towards the umbilical cord of Tamil culture and language – Bhakti period to unify Tamil Nadu with India’s identity – Hinduism.

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