हमने गांधी के जीतेजी ही उनकी अवज्ञा शुरू कर दी थी। आज भारत में अगर लोग उनसे विमुख हैं, तो क्या आश्चर्य ? उनके अन्तिम दिनों का एक मार्मिक बयान है : "आज तो मेरी दीन हालत हो गई है। एक ज़माना था, जबकि मैंने कहा ऐसा होना चाहिए, तो हो जाता था। आज ऐसी बात नहीं रही।...वह ज़माना चला गया।"
The ruling dispensation is devising a system placing itself above questioning & accountability [ to wit RTIs on PM Relief Fund, Ram Mandir Trust, RSS registration, poll bonds] while rest of India must do KYCs, Struggle for Voting Rights, fight NRC deletions, & prove citizenship.
Fun Fact: Babur didn't invade "India" by fighting any Hindu king
He defeated Muslim Sultan Ibrahim Lodi at Panipat (1526), as multiple Muslim dynasties had already ruled large parts of India for centuries
🙇Many Rajput clans later allied with Mughals through marriage & service
@sardesairajdeep Happy birthday Sunny Gavaskar 🎂
In your book Democracy's XI you wrote about this terrific anecdote about how Gavaskar saved a Muslim couple from a mob during the 1992-93 post Ayodhya communal riots in Mumbai ...
एक नौकरशाह के लिए-
सत्ता के लिए
सबसे खौफनाक शब्द होता है
'तो'।
जब वो ताम झाम के साथ
सलाम लेने पहुंचे और
झुकने बोले
बता कर कि
वो सरकार है।
और कोई पलट के बोल दे
'तो'।।
(फोटो: पुलिस पहरे में बेफिक्री में बैठे बीएचयू के छात्र नेता राणा की तस्वीर)
#पुरानीKavita
Boss how can you claim vegetarianism as a default virtue in Hinduism when LITERALLY every single myth of ours involves folks hunting. Unless you think Ram or Shantanu were into taxidermy, what do you think they were hunting for? To eat!! That's the whole damn basis of Ramayana!
Imagine voting for a PM who doesn’t give two fvcks about your vehicles, education, or basic infrastructure, and is only focused on religion politics and foreign trips while failing at that too.
My Bhumihar friend is a urologist , and his sister is a dentist. They’re struggling to find a good groom within their caste. They finally found a guy with a bank job, but he’s demanding ₹50 lakh as dowry.
Just for the sake of caste, parents force their educated daughters to marry men who demand dowry men who likely won’t even respect them or their parents. Sadly, you’ll find many cases like this.