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Award Wapsi – Episode 3
In an unprecedented move, top four judges of Supreme Court, Justice J. Chelameswar, Justice Ranjan Gogoi, Justice Madan Lokur AND Justice Kurien Joseph addressed the media making public their differences with the Chief Justice of India, Dipak Mishra, accusing the CJI of assigning cases to benches of his preference. A highly unusual and utterly sad…
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Justice may be delayed or denied but must diss everything that is even remotely Hindu.
In a frivolous PIL filed in the Supreme Court by some demented idiot, the petitioner argues that the morning prayer of Kendriya Vidyalaya is in violation of the constitution and “impedes nurturing of reasoning and scientific temper among impressionable young minds”. No, that’s not a joke. The joke is, that instead of trouncing the petitioner…
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21 Gun Salute for the Mahatma Gauri Lankesh – In pictures.
To start with, I must confess that I knew nothing about Gauri Lankesh till I heard the news of her brutal murder and the outrage that followed. I knew nothing about her ideology, her politics or her connections. I know that she is killed and hope and pray that the investigation is swift and her…
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Remembering Rajiv Gandhi – Was he the worst PM of India?
A couple of days back, Prime Minister Modi called late former PM Rajiv Gandhi “Corrupt No 1” at an election rally in Basti. Since then the Congress party and its entire ecosystem are activated to defend and glorify Rajiv Gandhi. Many Congress leaders including party president Rahul Gandhi lashed out at PM for his comment, questioning the…
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Ram Mandir at Ayodhya is inevitable! How? … time will tell.
An amicable, out-of-court settlement over the Ram Temple issue was a better course of action, said a bench of Chief Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar, Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul claiming it is a sensitive and sentimental issue and it’s best that it is settled amicably. This was in response to BJP leader Subramanian…
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Ex-PM Manmohan Singh is a detestable Man.
The most apt, yet, modest description of Ex-PM Manmohan Singh was made by his successor, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Rajya Sabha, when he said: “No one knows the art of bathing with a raincoat on, better than Doctor Saheb.” If anything else, most fittingly illustrates Dr. Manmohan Singh and his integrity, it is this…
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माँ सरस्वती – विद्या, संगीत, कला की अधिष्ठात्री देवी !!
Maa Saraswati (सरस्वती) is the Hindu Goddess of knowledge, music, arts, wisdom and learning. She is a part of the trinity (Tridevi) of Saraswati, Lakshmi and Parvati. All the three forms help the trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva to create, maintain and regenerate-recycle the Universe respectively. The earliest known mention of Saraswati is in…
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Bharat Ratna – Mahamana Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya
“When I returned to my Country, I first went to Lokamanya Tilak. He appeared tall like the Himalayas. I thought it was not possible for me to scale the heights and returned. Then I went to Deshbandhu Gokhale. He appeared deep, like the ocean. I saw that it was not possible for me to gauge…
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India fails its heroes, every time.
When you sit and think about what all is wrong with India and our mindset, the question has a potential to leave you mad, without offering any solution.One of them is the one in which I am indulging right now, i.e., posing too many questions. But this time, it’s more confessional in nature than a…
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Humanitarian Aid International (HAI)
We are living in a time, when the moment we hear the term ‘NGO’ (Non Government Organization), it alerts us. Recently, the Delhi high court has advocated for toughening of licensing norms for NGOs truly observing: “most private run so called philanthropic organizations do not understand their social responsibilities. 99% of the existing NGOs are…
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