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An American visited India and went back to America where he met his Indian friend who asked him, “How did u find my Country?” The American said it is a great country with solid ancient history and immensely rich with natural resources. The Indian friend then asked, “How u found Indians?” ”Indians? Who Indians? I didn't find or met a single Indian there in India.” What? Who else could u meet in India then? The American said, “In Kashmir I met a Kashmiri, In Punjab a Punjabi, In Bihar, Maharastra, Rajasthan, Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala I saw Bihari, Marathi, Marwadi, Bengali, Tamilian and Malayali…” ”… Then I met A Hindu, A Muslim, A Christian, A Jain, A Buddhist, but not a single Indian did I meet.” The day would not be far off when indeed we would become a collection of nation states if the present situation continues. It lays with us the people to stop this trend. Let us not encourage parties that put forth regional interest ahead of the nation’s interest. Discourage regional part...

Do you want to vote a man who is a habitual misleader In 1999 while contesting the South Delhi seat which he eventually lost, Manmohan Singh gave a clean chit to the Congress Party and claimed the invisible hand of the RSS in the 1984 Anti-Sikh riots. http://www.sikhtimes.com/news_090299a.html The latter had in fact saved hundreds of Sikh lives in Delhi which was even acknowledged by Khushwant Singh In 2005, he apologized to the Sikh community on behalf of the Congress. In 2009, he welcomed clean chit to Tytler and Sajjan Kumar. The so called master economist with a twin B.A degree had in these 18 years not provided a single theory of reform. In fact, the liberation of the economy came after pawning of India’s gold reserves, thanks to Nehruvian socialism. The NREGA is another of his bankruptcy proposals. Not a single skill enhancing educational-technical skill enhancing measure is included in this program. It simply expects villagers to work as glorified labourers by dig...

In a book,Religious Politics and Communal Violence(Oxford University Press, New Delhi) a place of pride was given to a person of dubious integrity. I am speaking of none other than Teesta Setelvad whose essay "Gujarat, Crime against humanity" has been included in taht book. In the Best Bakery case, the special court had previouslyt observed that the tutoring of Zahira Sheikh [the prime witness] was obvious. http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_print.asp?id=379118 Now, The fact of Setelvad's diabolical political agenda has been confirmed by the Special Investigation Team responsible for the arrests of those accused in Gujarat riots which has severely reprimanded NGOs and social activist Teesta Setalvad who campaigned for the riot victims. The team led by former CBI director R K Raghavan told the SC on Monday that the rights activist cooked up macabre tales of wanton killings.Besides, false charges were levelled against then police chief P C Pande and false witnesses were tu...

Are elections in India contested on the basis of the real issues faced by the common public? If someone is replying yes, then he must the most hypocritical person in this world. How do we define the real issue? Among the population of over 100 crores, can there be one single issue that is acceptable to one and all? This is discussed already in my earlier blog real&politikindia How many of us have genuinely gone through the manifesto released by the parties? Had we gone through, how many of us have raised queries that arose in our mind? Sops after sops were promised and no source of revenue was mentioned. Did we ever worry to question that? Whether one accepts it or not, elections are nothing but selling. The party that is contesting has to sell itself among the public. Obviously, when it boils down to convincing the prospect, marketing techniques are adapted. The political parties are catering to variety of customer segments. The elite class, the middle-class, the media and those ...

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Achievements are the measure of one's performance. If we have to ascertain the performance of the present Govt of india, one has to find out their performances. With nothing to boast, this govt had listed many achievements that had no relation of the Govt nor their contribution. A school of thought. Aam Aadmi: If it was garibi hatao decades ago, it was the turn of aam aadmi in the last elections. God only knows that what the govt did for the aam aadmi in these 5 years. The biggest achievement is that the population of the BPL is increased by 20% than what it was 5 years ago. The rich and the poor divide kept on increasing. Not very recently, ex-RBI Governor made a statement that the cumulative wealth of 20 richest Indians is more than the cumulative wealth of 30 crore poorest Indians! Another irony is those who figure in the top 10 richest Indians do not figure in the top 10 income-tax payers’ list. This is the biggest service they did to the Aam Aadmi – to increase their populati...