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Month-in-Perspective September 2020

New Delhi: So, Prashant Bhushan shall not apologise, not seeking mercy and wants to go down as another Mahatma Gandhi! But Mr. Bhushan, there was only one Mahatma Gandhi, there cannot be another by merely quoting Mahatma from the court records in Champaran. Your personal integrity is not called to question. The fact is you have made serious and frivolous charges on Supreme Court judges. You had also stated as far back as 2009 that half of the 16 former Supreme Court judges are corrupt, in an interview with the alleged sex maniac Tarun Tejpal, an embodiment of corruption himself. Tarun Tejpal is still under trial for the alleged molestation, in an elevator in Goa, of one of his young intern working for his paper TEHELKA. Then recently you lampooned Chief Justice Bobde, for his ‘ride’ on an expensive motorcycle, without helmet. In truth, Justice Bobde was only posing for a photograph and enjoying the sitting on such a bike with a powerful engine. To make it an issue especially because he

September 2020 focus

NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY 2020 Every nation stresses the attainment of better educational levels for its people. India is a country with a history of 73 years as a politically free nation. Britishers came in 1600 AD as East India Company and remained in the country for close to 350 years, in different garbs. From a mere trading company, it grew in power of every kind by exploiting the weakness among Indians and ended up controlling the destiny of the nation. Although they started the company in the then Calcutta its presence grew all over India, controlling vast business empire of import and export by its exploitative regimes. Their activities needed men with knowledge of English to administer the day to day affairs of the empire. This is what Lord Macaulay, a member of the Privy Council, told the British Parliament in his address on 2nd February 1835. “I have travelled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I