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RAMAKRISHNA MOVEMENT IN MANGALOORU-1947-2022 FOOT PRINTS ON THE SANDS OF TIME That the Ramakrishna movement was the brainchild of Swami Vivekananda is well known. To give concrete shape to the message of Sri Ramakrishna and himself, Swami Vivekananda launched the monastic order. The first Ramakrishna Math was thus formed followed by Ramakrishna Mission. The objectives of Ramakrishna Math are to spread the idea of the potential divinity of every being and to manifest it through every action and thought. “Aatmano Mokshartham Jagad Hitaaya Cha” is the motto of Ramakrishna Math, which translated into English means “For the salvation of our individual self and for the well being of all on earth”. This is a shloka or verse from Rig Veda. In simple terms, the above shloka quoted by Swami Vivekananda means “For one’s own liberation and for the good of the world”. Thus, Ramakrishna Math was formed to spread the idea of how to liberate oneself in thought and action that would lead to the good o...

NEW DELHI: The news report datelined New Delhi “Making marital rape criminal: Delhi HC delivers split verdict” is not a comfortable thought at all. In a democratic milieu that we are in, and the kind of cultural moorings we Indians inherit, to think that woman is unequal to man is spiritual blasphemy. India in particular has a long history of ladies being kept at an honored pedestal and there are umpteen examples. That is being the case, it is absolutely in order to think that, SHE is as autonomous as HE is. No debate. Of course, in living together some adjustments are needed, which is an universal norm. Hence for learned judges of the Delhi High Court to disagree on the issue sounds rather shocking. Delivering the judgment at Delhi High Court on the petition to criminalize the marital rape, two judges of Delhi High Court agreed to disagree. One said “its rape” and other said “it need not be”. Justice Rajiv Shakdher, who headed the Delhi HC bench on the petition in question, has favo...

KASHMIR FILES: THE WHOLE TRUTH! There is this video going round in the social media. PV Narasimha Rao, who was the Prime Minister of India during 1991-1996 sends a special emissary to the United Nations, the then opposition leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee, to represent India on the troubled Kashmir issue. Addressing the General Assembly of the UN, Vajpayee states, “Before beginning my talk I want to tell you something about Rishi Kashyap, after whom Kashmir is named. Rishi Kashyap was walking through a thick forest and saw a beautiful lake. On seeing the lake, he thought ‘what a good opportunity to have a bath’. He took off his clothes, put them aside on the bank of the pond and got into the lake for taking bath. When he got out and wanted to dress, he found that his clothes were not there. It had vanished. A Pakistani had stolen them.” Vajpayee paused for a while. The Pakistani representative, who was present in the UN General Assembly jumped on his feet furiously and shouted “what are ...

NEW DELHI: Sometime in May 2021, Waseem Rizwi had approached the Supreme Court with a PIL. In his PIL Rizwi had alleged that there are 26 verses or suras in Quran that promotes violence and therefore they should be removed from the Holy Book. But strangely learned judges of the highest court of the land dismissed it off hand, by terming the PIL as ‘an absolutely frivolous petition’ and fined him Rs. 50,000/- for refusing to withdraw it. The decision of the bench chaired by Justice Rohinton Nariman was patently wrong in dismissing the petition without hearing him and it was prima facie high-handed to penalize him by Rs. 50000/- for refusing to withdraw the petition. It was in his full senses that Waseem Rizwi had refused to withdraw his petition and hence paid the fine. It is another matter, eventually Waseem Rizwi decided to leave his faith of over 50 years and he did leave, as if to say “hell with your judgment”. He could probably have remained a Muslim if court had heard him and ther...

AAP as opposition Mascot! The ‘Grand Finale in 2024’ as some media men preferred to put it, the national Loksabha Election due in May 2024, has come into early focus, with the result of the five states that went into hustings during February/March 2022. The results have been largely on expected lines, with UP being firmly and solidly behind BJP and other 3 states too have toed the line to be in the BJP camp. However what is dramatic is the emergence of AAP, running away with almost 4/5th of the share of seats at 92 out of 117 in the election to Punjab assembly. That’s a huge stamp of approval. Suddenly, the so-called regional party of Delhi now has two states under its belt, the only non-BJP party, besides Congress to have government in more than one state. In Punjab AAP nearly demolished the previous government of Congress. DMK is only in Tamil Nadu, TRS or Telengana Rashtra Samithi is only in Telangana, TMC only in West Bengal, JD(U) only in Bihar, JD(S) only in Karnataka, NCP only i...

ELECTIONS 2022-2024- WHAT NEXT ? Elections come and elections go. In a democracy it’s nothing new. It’s been happening for all the past 75 years. In the past we used to have what was called as General Election that is one country one election. For varieties of political reasons and machinations, it’s no more so. Due to this development, happened mostly during the period Indira Gandhi reigned, we have one Loksabha election for the whole country and state assembly elections on different dates. Hence there is election atmosphere during most part of the 5 years period, with election in one state or the other. With 8 elections due to be held in 2022, five of them are already over and the results of them are already there for all to see. Of the five states that went to elect its Members of Legislative Assembly, four have gone to the kitty of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), rightly or otherwise. Whether one likes it or not, at the end of the day JO JEETAA VAHEE SIKANDAR! The 5th state of Pun...