Before the dust could settle on the Taj controversy, the BJP, recently through one of its ministers chose to persist with its ignominious and vain habit of exhuming history and autopsying it, supposedly for short-term gains
Sometimes, it takes a lot to nurture and nourish good neighborliness, in the face of extreme provocations to thwart it, often in the form of animals!
Sooner the BJP-led NDA realizes the futility of defying and denying history, the better. History is etched to time and a nation’s identity until eternity anyway, like it or not!
This describes one of my days as a citizen in the ‘new India’, which is recognized as one of the two fast ‘developing nations’ of the 21st century, along with China!
Remembering two wonderful people, as the world observed the ‘International Day of the Elderly’ on October 1st
If there is one ministry that India under NDA governance can be proud of, it is the External Affairs Ministry. Recently, women, including External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj took Indian foreign policy to new, respectable and proud heights.
It verily looks like fuel is the robin hood of the central government. An instrument to rob the ‘rich’ to help the poor, as admitted to by one of its Union Ministers
With the dust over Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, the ‘leader’ of the cult Dera Sacha Suda yet to die down, one wonders how significantly the numerous God-men, God-women, religion, atheism or political ideology influence ordinary mortals
India, as a nation needs to move away from self-defeating tunnel-visioned functioning to a wider, more progressive one, where important and relevant issues are addressed.