On our Independence Day!
Lest we forget…
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was in British jails for 3259 days (almost 9 years) for fighting for India’s independence.
23 years ago *Bob Geldof* (Pop singer) was interviewed by BBC Newsnight, in 1999. At that time it was assumed he was high while giving this interview, but listen to the predictions he made at that time.
It’s time authorities in India come down heavily on those espousing rabid communal agenda poisoning India’s unique composite culture and creating enemies of friends in the Middle East, which is strategically critical for us.
Since Sushant's death on June 14th
- 53000 corona deaths
- 31 lakh corona cases
- GDP growth -ve
- 150 million jobs lost
- Fuel prices highest ever
- Floods in Assam, Karnataka
- 50 lakh students protesting JEE/NEET
But national media is gripped with SSR murder mystery!
Tipu Sultan (Tiger of Mysore) was a pioneer of rocket artillery. He introduced a new coinage system and calendar, and a new land revenue system resulting growth of the Mysore silk industry. He expanded iron-cased Mysorean rockets and wrote military manual Fathul Mujahidin.
This morning Suraj Prakash Gupta passed on to a better world.
A street child who ran away from his home in Bihar when he was orphaned at 4, he lived at the Delhi Rly Stn for several years doing odd jobs at this tea stalls and massaging feet of weary travellers. 1/-
Dr Manmohan Singh bids adieu to public life…
A thinking PM, Dr Manmohan Singh spoke few words but with profound wisdom. He never raised his voice and still steered the government through turbulent times with a steady hand. I feel privileged to have worked with him. 😊🙏💐
Interesting!
A big lie (German: große Lüge) is a propaganda technique and logical trick (fallacy). The expression was coined by Adolf Hitler about the use of a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously"
The question is -
Which central bank has burnt up the most forex reserves to defend it’s currency from depreciating against the dollar? RBI has burnt up $100 bn, more than any other central bank, reason for ₹ doing better.
A photo that will remain immortal…
Photographer Anil Prabhakar took this in Indonesian forests of endangered orangutang trying to help a geologist. He subtitled it -“At a time when mankind is dying inside humans, animals lead us to the principles of humanity!”
Dreaming of a modern, prosperous nation of equal citizens 🙏💐
Remembering Rajive Gandhi, the man who really ushered India into 21st century (with his grandfather and the man who laid the foundation of a modern, forward looking, confident and hopeful nation, Jawaharlal Nehru)
Caution on Agnipath - One of the causes for the armed insurrection in Punjab in the 80s was on account of the fact that a very large number of rel young militarily trained persons (jawans then retired at 35) with little else to do got attracted to use arms against the state 1/1
During his lifetime, Kabir was threatened by both Hindus and Muslims for his views. When he died, both Hindus and Muslims claimed him as theirs!
Shabnam Virmani and Vipul Rikhi Sing Kabir during Rajasthan Kabir Yatra festival...
Universal health insurance through private hospitals has not worked for the poor anywhere. Biggest beneficiaries are the private hospitals and insurance companies. There is no substitute for public health care. More money should have been pumped to strengthen it.
My mother, Smt Indira Mayaram, matriarch of family, with infinite capacity to love and give, a great achiever-a pilot and a minister-always there for us- left to conquer other worlds this evening. There’s a void, longing, deep sorrow-but also great pride that I am her son.🙏💐
Mahatma Gandhi 's grandson and historian Dr Rajmohan Gandhi on Saturday broke down while hitting out at "false stories" about the country's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and went on to call him a "brilliant, great and noble man".
Ambedkar: “Strange it may appear, Mr Savarkar and Mr Jinnah, instead of being opposed to each other on the one nation versus two nations issue, are in complete agreement about it. Both agree, not only agree but insist, that there are two nations in India — Muslim...Hindu nation.”
@ANI
Just a clarification : GST ( apart from other indirect taxes and cesses) is paid by all Indians, even the poorest. Total GST collection is around ₹11-12 lakh crores annually. Income Tax collection is around ₹6 lakh crores. It’s a fiction that only a small % of Indians pay taxes
#InternationalWomenDay
Amongst the first women pilots in Rajasthan, dedicated and honest Congressperson, matriarch of the family, benefactor for thousands, a fearless fighter, committed feminist, Gandhian...and above all my mother - Smt Indira Mayaram 😊🌹
Investors who invest in Rajasthan are most welcome. The Govt does not bend rules and creates a level playing field for everyone. It neither favours anyone nor opposes anyone. In my opinion RG opposes crony capitalism.
Patriotism is in my blood. My grandparents, my parents took part in the freedom movement. My grandfather and my father were jailed during that period. Jai Hind is the greeting I heard all the time growing up and pride in the national flag is in our DNA. New converts should know!
How I wish I had called my father Abba Jaan! It is such and endearing, loving expression of belonging to the one, the father’ who “spreads like a canopy of sky protecting you from adversity”.
Anirudh’s 39th birth anniversary
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The immense joy that you filled our lives with, still lingers on, “like the afterglow of sunset, at the margin of starry silence”…
Dad
20% poorest families to be given 72000 per yr says
@RahulGandhi
announcing a minimum income proposal.
Sceptics would recall how MGNREGA was reviled but became most powerful weapon against poverty. Implementation design and identification of beneficiaries has to be right.
“SBI levied min balance charges totaling $260 million bet April-Sept 2017, acc to FinMin data. This money ws taken from poorest, who don’t hv regular incomes...and most of the time they are compelled to withdraw their own money, kept in their bank account for survival.”
On 23 Feb ‘57, PM Nehru wrote to Railway Min -“I am entirely opposed to any normal traffic, whether in Railways or on the roads, being held up because of VIPs. I think the Rly Board should be informed.”
Pt Nehru set the standards in governance that leaders find diff to emulate.
@mkvenu1
@rohini_sgh
They should rise to the occasion and meet the CM and assure him that they would with renewed vigour work in coordination with political executive in public interest. This ugly chapter must be put behind by everyone
When the country breathes a sigh of relief on passing of the virus, the story of monumental misery of the
#COVID19migrant
who were beaten, made to walk hundreds of miles to reach home hungry-will be written to shame us all.
My father Shri Mayaram-A man for all seasons, student leader, freedom fighter, Garhwali Brahmin who abhorred what caste distinctions did to people, a civil servant who wore khadi all his life and greeted his friends with “Jai Hind”...
On his death anniversary today 🙏💐