AWAKENINGS

Historical Facts  about the anointment of Nehru as the First Prime Minister of India: Recent utterances of Modi that Sardar Patel would be a better choice as the First Prime Minister  can be at best considered as his personal perception – rather wild imagination. But the following historical facts are enough to show that Mr.Nehru was  preferred by Gandhi and was anointed as the First Prime Minister somewhat flouting the laid down procedures of the  then Congress Party. By 1946, it had become quite clear that India’s independence was only a matter of time now. The Second World War had come to an end and the British rulers had started thinking in terms of transferring power to Indians. An interim government was to be formed which was to be headed by the Congress president as Congress had won the maximum number of seats in the 1946 elections. All of a sudden, the post of Congress president became very crucial as it was this very person  who was...

For full report: Link Wide spread allegations about Nrendra Modi are: Modi had given a free hand to extremists to go on a killing spree which lasted for several days/weeks and the army was called only after 3 full days. Guru Prasad cites the news reports of The Hindu - 4 in numbers - to refute the above allegations and draws the following conclusions: -Train was burnt on Feb 27th, 2002. -Riots started on Feb 28th. -Army was called on Feb 28th itself within hours. -Army began flag marches on the next day i.e March 1st (Feb in 2002 had 28 days) -By March 3rd, riots were under control . Special Investigation Team appointed by Supreme Court had given Modi a clean chit stating that apart from calling the army immediately, Modi had deployed special police forces - Rapid Action Task Force. From this, it is quite evident that the riot was in control within 72 hours.

We are here to deal and analyze the arguments and counter arguments of the essays published in the recent Hindu  newspaper – q Article titled “The forgotten promise of 1949” by Vidhya Subramanian and her reply article titled – “Written constitution was indeed a pre-condition” – Link for original article & Link for her reply article q Article titled “ The RSS ban, and how it was reversed – Lifting of proscription was unconditional” by S. Gurumurthy   repudiating Vidhya Subramanian’s contentions - Link Apart from these 3 links, Vidhya Subramanian had quoted two links – 1. Link - Government of India July 11, 1949 Notification Lifting the ban & 2. Link – News report from the Hindu during those periods.  As it would be too much strain  for the readers to browse the 4 links to know the issues, I like to jot down the points that were discussed and disputed by these two personalities. Vidhya Subramanian in her first article t...

UN Resolution on War Crimes: The recently passed UN Human Rights Council Resolution on human rights violations in Sri Lanka was backed by 25 votes and 13 votes against and 8 countries absenting themselves from voting. This is the second time that the UNHRC had passed such a resolution against Sri Lanka. It is a fact that UN Panel in 2011 found that 40,000 Tamil civilians died in the final stages of fighting which is the indicator of Sri Lankan’s violation of human rights. It is a tragic truth that the resolution passed now has requested Colombo to conduct an independent and credible investigation of crimes allegedly committed by government forces against the minority Tamil community in the final 5 months of its quarter century old war against LTTE which ended in 2009. This is something like asking criminals to investigate their own actions and also to sit in judgment. Because of this strange situation created by one of the greatest apex international body, Amnesty In...

UPA 2 Mummed and Maimed by MM –meaning Mulayam and Mayavathi with the third M – meaning Mamata waiting to bat according to her whims and fancies and her political expediency which she likes to call it as acumen.  And 4 th M – viz. M. Karunanidhi pulling out from the UPA 2 government – but prudent enough to declare that ‘outside support to the government cannot be ruled out’ is struggling hard ‘how to handle the Sri Lankan issue in view of the students taking up the issues to the streets and Amma extending support by her positive steps by passing resolutions in the assembly even to the extent of advising central government to severe our diplomatic connections and to order polls for the Eelam Tamil State. Common Man is perplexed, puzzled and pondering over his fate – perhaps waiting to teach a lesson or two to these unprincipled parties whose aim is to be in power and to serve themselves – their kith and kin. Common Man should use his common sense at the t...

1.  Dr. Ambedkar had written a book titled ‘Pakistan or The Partition of India’ apart from his writings in a Marathi newspaper owned by him called ‘ Bahishkruti Bharat’. The views and opinions were extracted from these two sources, mostly the first one. 2.  The muslims invaders were not interested merely in looting, but also in conversion of the ‘ kafirs ’. The hindu peasants had to part with half of their produce as Jiziya to the muslim rulers as well as pay a large tax on their cattle. 3.    It is a notorious fact that many prominent Hindus who had offended the Muslim susceptibilities of the Muslims either by their writings or by their part in the Shuddhi movement have been murdered by some fanatic musalmans . But Mr.Gandhi has never protested against such murders. Not only have the musalmans not condemned these outrages but even Mr.Gandhi has never called upon the leading muslims to condemn them. 4. The muslim woman is the most helpl...