AWAKENINGS

Gopalakrishna Gandhi’s Sweeping and Weeping Analysis of UP Election Results http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/the-yogi-and-the-magic-of-numbers/article17532562.ece The Hindu Editorial: Wag the dog http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/on-yogi-adityanath-taking-over-as-cm-of-uttar-pradesh/article17532552.ece   (Above Two links are - First Link  - Article by Gopalakrishna Gandhi and second Link - The Hindu Editorial. Both narrates and analyses about Yogi’s elevation to CM of UP. The fallacies and prejudices in those analyses are brought out here in this article to the best of my ability. Yogi may not be perfect, but, to judge him - only by his previous utterances, actions etc. - without giving him sufficient time, is quite unfair and prejudicial. - The Editor, E Touch.) ‘Electing Yogi Adityanath as CM is undemocratic, anti-democratic which process can be called counter-democracy. India holds a doctorate in democracy; it is doing a post-doc...

Supreme Court is Supreme in judicial prudence and pronouncement of judgement and it is the last resort of any Indian Citizen to get justice for any wrong doings of both Central and State Governments. In the process, Apex Court is supposed to maintain utmost balance in dealing and commenting when hearing any important cases particularly Public Litigation Cases - involving rival Political Parties. In short, there should not be an iota or a semblance of Judicial Activisms. For any public servant, however high he may be, there is always a Lakshman Rehka which should not be crossed and only such a scrupulous restraint will be applauded by the Lady of Justice holding her scale blind folded.   Case 1: Let us now take the case of Goa.  The Congress was aggrieved by the action of Mridula Sinha, Goa Governor who had not invited them to form the Government having secured the largest number of seats in the recently held assembly election - well above the BJP -...

Not only Sonia, equally Manmohan Singh who was the Prime Minister at that time and disciple of Rao, has to share the blame – more on his shoulder than Sonia, as the power to take any decision rested with him constitutionally. P.V.Narasimha Rao breathed his last on 23 rd December 2004 after suffering a cardiac arrest. His eight sons had gathered around him and Prabhakar , the youngest son of Rao, had planned the cremation to be held in Delhi, a place where he lived more than 3 decades serving as union minister in various ministries and as the Prime Minister of India. But, Shivraj Patil , the Home Minister told Prabhakar that the cremation cannot be held in Delhi and suggested him to take the body to Hyderabad. This was also suggested by Ghulam Nabi Azad. Then around 6.30 pm, Sonia Gandhi arrived with PM Manmohan Singh. The PM asked Prabhakar regarding cremation and the latter expressed his desire of cremating Narasimha Rao in New Delhi.  Sonia who was standi...

Have you gone through the message by  Gurmehar  Kaur  displayed through various cards?  The entire message is published above  – Link for her original video is  THIS https://youtu.be/97yJsfddi4w The video was posted by her in April 2016. Actually I had seen it around April 2016 itself and was very much impressed by the video. This video launch is  a  # ProfileForPeace  campaign  advocating peace between India and Pakistan and her mother had supported  her in her campaign stating that her daughter’s message in the video should be seen in a larger perspective and her message is simply – war always brings destruction and situations only make people kill each other during a war and hence peace is the answer.  Her father, Mandeep Singh, was one of the seven personnel killed after a Rashtriya Rifle camp was attacked by militants in Jammu and Kashmir in 1999 . But, in her display, she had w...

Assembly Elections for 5 States – Goa, Punjab, Uttarakhand , Manipal and Uttar Pradesh – were announced and as on date, elections for 2 phases of Utter Pradesh and Manipal are still remaining – the election dates being 4 th and 8 th March 2017 and thereafter the results will be announced on the 11 th March 2017. Of these States, UP accounts for the highest number of assembly seats – 403 and the election battle in UP is being fought ferociously using all epithets to malign one  another giving juicy stuffs to the Medias which were hotly debated and discussed in the select audiences of a few important assembly constituencies. Pappus’s Coconut Juice and Potato Factory are recent pointers! Modi’s ‘Rain Coat’ comment on Manmohan Singh, New Political Definitions for SCAM by Modi – Akhilesh - Rahul, Akhilesh Yadav’s Gujarat Donkeys quip etc.  had given colour to the election campaigns especially UP State thereby polarizing the political platforms pushing the real...

Philosophy of Modi’s Government, as per Arun Jaitley , our Finance Minister, while presenting the budget, is ‘to Transform, Energise and Clean India’ i.e. TEC India and according to many analysts and media spokespersons, it had succeeded largely in achieving the purpose set.  Even the heading to this editorial - Small Wonder Budget’ is borrowed from the Hindu Newspaper - the phrase used by it while publishing the details of the budget on the first page.  The Hindu had remarked thus: ‘In a workmanlike Budget, Arun Jaitley maintains fiscal discipline while handing out more to those at the bottom of the pyramid.’ It is really a wonder that the same Hindu in its editorial had words of praise under the opt caption ‘A Fine Balance’: ‘The big bang in this Budget is the shift from unfettered populism. The budget has tried to ease the pain of those most impacted by the adverse effects of demonetisation.’ The Budget is said to be reflecting truthfully ‘His Master’s Vo...