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NEW DELHI: BHARAT RATNAS GALORE ,P>At five, this is the maximum number of the highest civilian award of Bharat Ratnas declared in one year. Beginning with former Bihar Chief Minister Karpoori Thakur and then followed by former Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani. After a lull of a few days comes the announcement of Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan or more well known as M.S. Swaminathan, the acclaimed father of Indian Green Revolution, followed by Chaudhary Charan Singh, a former Prime Minister and 2 times Chief Minister of U.P. and P.V. Narasimha Rao, a former Prime Minister. Truth of the matter is except Lal Krishna Advani, who is past 96 years of age, all others have passed away. This government at the centre is there since last almost 10 years, and attempting to remain continued for another term. This government could have conferred the honor all these years, but it didn’t happen for varieties of reasons. However it’s better late than never. It could even be termed a politi...

ELECTION - 2024 IS IT A CAKE WALK TO NDA! OR IS IT A MISLEADING CAMPAIGN! There is this social media post circulating with loaded wisdom, what happened in 2004 could happen in 2024, 20 years later, with 2 different governments having ruled the country for 10 years each, but presenting contrasting picture. In a democratic political system, like we have in India, government comes and government goes, sometimes every five years, sometimes before that. Sometimes same governments repeat. From 2004 to 2014 – UPA had ruled India with Congress in the driver’s seat. From 2014 to 2024, it was NDA, but without the baggage of coalition HEADACHE. For the first time in about 30 years BJP managed to remain in absolute majority, hence coalition partners couldn’t arm-twist the main party unlike UPA, where all and sundry called shots, although for record Sonia Gandhi was the UPA chairperson and was the remote control on the then Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, the reluctant politician. In 2004, ...

Tamil Nadu: A sick man called Dayanidhi Maran When thoughts of Bihar comes two very contrasting personalities come to my mind invariably. This is my personal opinion. There will, for sure, different views on the combination of different personalities, according to each one’s knowledge of people they have read or have come across. One of these two persons is a joker of a politician called Lalu Prasad Yadav, a former Chief Minister of Bihar, the notorious Chaara Ghotala criminal and the one who sold Indian Railway jobs for land from the beneficiaries of job with Indian Railways when he was the Railway Minister. Besides the above, he is credited with other misdeeds too. The other person is a gentleman of rare qualities, Prof (Dr) Pashupathi Nath Singh, a former Principal of Karnataka Regional Engineering College (KREC) Surathkal, Karnataka, so also the first director of National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal. He recently passed away with impeccably clean record of service...

TEMPLE IN AYODHYA- An Overdue STATEMENT 22nd January 2024, shall mark as a very significant day in the contemporary history of India that is Bharath. It was the day the long awaited temple for Lord Rama, the Maryaada Purushottam in the Indian pantheon of God heads, was formally consecrated at Ayodhya. The ‘500 years old’ wait is over, so informs public space. It has ended the alien influence that had disturbed the national conscience from times immemorial. However belated, the temple at Ayodhya has been an unprecedented development. It’s a statement all Indians, Hindus in particular, can be comfortable to align it. Yes, this temple at Ayodhya did wipe out a historical humiliation, where an existing temple was destroyed some 500 years ago to build an alien place of worship. It was a statement then, for the alien force, only to humiliate us. Yes, at long last we could reverse it, at our own terms, within the precincts of law and order. Indeed, the temple at Ayodhya has proved that rev...