Independence day

Next year will be the 75th year of Indian's independence from British role. My wish is that we stop counting the years of Independence and stop celebrating independence day and republic day. So many decades have passed. We need to get out of the hangover and stop defining such moments as inseparable parts of our lives. 

Afghan abdication

I have always heard about the great warrior qualities of Afghans. So it has shaken me to the core to know that the trained and well equipped Afghan army abdicated in front of the Taliban. The common afghans should have taken up arms and fought for their life and freedom. They too failed themselves. The women are again left unprotected and with an uncertain future. They have behaved like an effeminate race today.  Shame on Afghans. 

The Great Shivaji Maharaj, Hindu religion and Cow Protection

Have been reading a book - The Life of Shivaji Maharaj by N S Takakhav and adapted from the original Marathi work by K A Keluskar. While his love for the resurrection of Hindu prominence, total disdain of the Muslim rule is well documented, there are interesting aspects related to hindu religion and his inclinations towards those beliefs.

It is unnecessary to proclaim how a devout hindu would hold a cow in high religious esteem and be winching to death at even the slightest mark of harm to cows.

Shivaji's bent towards this is captured well when he was forced to witness such scenes everyday while attending the court of the Bijapur sultan along with his father. He was around 15-16 years of age at the time of this incident. It is also notable to see how the sultan acquiesced to a strange request by Shahaji and took measures to correct the same, even though the rule of law was of the Muslims. Read the following abstracts:

There seems to be lesser division on religious lines and more tolerance in those times than it is today.

The British did a great deal of irreparable harm to India by driving a deep wedge between Hindus and Muslims through their divide and rule policy. 

Religious conversions

You can see a lot of this news floating around where Hindus are being converted to Islam through various carrots. Many states in India have done the right thing by enacting laws against religious conversions and love jihad.

My personal experience has been that Hindus are not really bound by any religious laws and have a lot of liberty. This leads to a lot of fickle mindedness in such decisions. Missionaries convert these fence sitters. In India almost the entire Muslim and Christian population are hindu converts over the last few centuries. Many countries have been fully converted to Islam. I find it incredulous at the extent to which people can go to and their infinite capacity of being stupid. 

2021 thoughts!

Thanks to China, the hangover of Pakistan is now over. That shouldn't however stop you from investing in Chinese stocks. That is the only way we can make them somewhat accountable to the world. 

The way Congress wants to give P V Narasimha Rao's legacy a silent burial makes me believe that they purposely tried to lay low Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Lal Bahadur Shastri and Subhas Chandra Bose's legacies too. Sorry INC, we don't agree to be your slaves or the Nehru Gandhi family's acolytes. 

Drone attacks on IAF base is the start of a new proxy war. Pakistan and Gulf sponsored of course. 

Farmer's agitation is a fake one. Their agenda is political. They are sponsored by those political parties with low credibility and international terrorist organizations. How do so many farmers have the time and resources to sit on an agitation for months. Simple..there was always underemployment in agriculture in India. The relatively free farmer family members participate. 

Are farmers our annadaatas? No. Right from input to output to prices, everything is being supported from tax player's money. We pay for the produce. We both are feeding each other. So don't go annadaatas on me. 

What are these corona variants? How come these variants keep coming up one after the other? It is simple. The Pharma companies are at various stages of their vaccine preparation. They won't allow corona to be controlled till the time they recover their investments and make profits. Remember, this is once in a century opportunity for them. What is their role in this? Well, these variants are man made. Outsourced now to hand in glove virus labs by these Pharma companies. They progressively release more severe ones to not allow the corona phenomenon to die. 

Covid explosion

Living in a Covid world and attempting to place it as the new normal is abnormally normal. Election rallies, Maha kumbh, farmer rallies..unquestionable realities of India. In a crowd of Lakhs, politicians stand and advise us to follow Covid appropriate behavior. They will congregate in millions at mahakumbh without masks and social distancing but fine a person on the streets of Mumbai for this grave offence. 

Hypocrisy is inbuilt in us and this has led to this grave situation

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Birth Anniversary

Netaji is the leader whom i have always admired the most.  Tall in stature, deeds, spirit, patriotism, nationalism, leadership and in achieving the unimaginable, he was the reason why the British bolted from India.

Due to the immense support extended to Subhash ji, I have the highest of respect for Japan, Singapore and those countries who believed in Netaji. Equal respect to Rash Behari Bose for organizing the Indian National Army and handing over to Subhash ji. 

The secrecy around what happened to Netaji post 1945 and the theories not being clarified, the issue still rakes in a lot of anguish to me. Such a stalwart has been denied even an identity for so many years.  I am sure people in the government know the exact truth and are giving out information in bits and pieces so that people can't weave the full story. 

Hats off to the researchers, who have spent so many years of their lives to dig out facts and keep Netaji alive in our memories. 

With the birthday being named as Parakram Diwas, Modi has done a huge favor to the country. Netaji will now live on forever.