The President has assented to the #VandeMataram Amendment, passed without discussion in Parliament, which requires the singing of the National Song in full at the start and ending of any official function, in addition to the National Anthem.
As one who greatly respects both, and can sing the first two stanzas of the former (but not the other four, which were never required till now) as well as the entire anthem, i would like to point to just one practical consideration our zealots appear to have overlooked: human nature.
"Jana Gana Mana" requires audiences to stand respectfully and focus their attention for a reasonable 52 seconds. The National Song in full takes 3 minutes and 10 seconds. Tamil Nadu has just decided that both will be preceded by the State Song in Tamil for another 2 minutes. Do we really expect audiences to stand still and respectfully for six minutes before and after every function, a total of 12 extra minutes? Can respect and patience be legislated?
I fear that the intent of the Bill, to promote greater respect for the National Song , will not be achieved, but its opposite may well be....
Yes, the substance matches. In Dec 2018 iMessages from the DOJ Epstein files (Dataset 9, EFTA01211330), Epstein privately speculated that if Trump felt cornered like a rat under political pressure, he might bomb Iran as a large diversion. He wrote lines like “He needs a large diversion,” “Cornering a rat, never a good idea,” and “if he were to bomb Iran, they would be slaughtered.” The meme paraphrases it rather than quoting verbatim. Context was the Syria troop pullout.
Delivery boy was going to deliver food to students at Jantar Mantar protest.
Then a policeman stopped him and stole the food of students.
When system itself is full of such thieves and crooks, how can we expect justice from this system ?
Shocking behaviour @DelhiPolice - do you have any justification for this? THIS is how you treat your own people?
Modi Ji is making us the 3rd largest GDP & the police of the NATIONAL CAPITAL doesn’t have money to PROVIDE SHOES to its men?
What chappal chaap attitude is this?
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