AWAKENINGS

  On 15 th June 2020 at Galwan,  there were stand-off between the Chinese and Indian Soldiers and in that fight no fire arms or explosives  were used. Instead, they fought barehanded, and with sticks and rocks. The restraint to use fire arms was based on an agreement reached in 1996. Chinese soldiers had used nail-studded rods and it was stated that some Indian soldiers had fallen off the cliff during the fight. As PLA had chosen the night time and as our Soldiers were fast asleep, the casualties were high on our side. It was a treacherous and cowardly attack by the Chinese. In that scuffle, 20 Indian Soldiers were killed and 76 injured in the worst clash between India and China Soldiers in decades. There were casualties in China’s side, but, the details were not available. At an altitude of 4,300 metres (14,000 feet), the critically injured were exposed to low oxygen levels and sub-zero temperatures overnight, and transportation difficulties on the steep ridge over the ...

  Malmo – Swedish City – had suffered most during the violet riots engineered by the Muslim Refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan since 2013.  Riots were the result of a copy of the Quran being burned in Malmo on Friday the 28 th August 2020 by members of the far-right Danish Party Stram Kurs (Hard Line). The burning of the Quran was a part of an anti-Islam protest which took place in the city, following the arrest of one Rasmus Paludan . Rasmus Paludan – a Danish Politician and Lawyer was founder of Stam Kurs Party in 2017. He was denied permission to hold a meeting in Malmo about “ Islamization in the Nordic countries ” and Paludan was barred from entering Sweden and was given a two-year entry ban. In response, Paludan had put up a post on Facebook that   read , “ Sent back and banned from Sweden for two years. However, rapists and murderers are always welcome! ” Burning of Quran is being justified by Rasmus Paludan as a tribut...

  A brief history of Hong Kong is essential to know the full impact of the present agitations by the Hongkongers against the mainland Chinese move to curtail certain freedoms given under Basic Law of 1997.   Hong Kong became a British colony with the end of the First Opium War in 1842.   The British fought the war to preserve the right of the East India Company to sell opium into mainland China.   The establishment of the colony gave Britain control over a number of ports to which foreign merchants could deliver goods. In 1898, Britain negotiated a major land expansion of the Hong Kong colony and signed a 99-year lease with China. The lease ended in 1997, at which time Britain returned Hong Kong to China as a Special Administrative Region (SAR) called the   Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (HKSAR) – popularly called Hong Kong Basic Law. During these military and trade clashes, China was forced to cede no...