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Post that's gone viral as people go to vote in India

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It's not necessary to be ruined only by alcohol or gambling! You could also ruin yourself by voting for Congress in 2024! Crazy is not the one who sees ghosts and demons! Crazy is the one who sees the future of the country in Rahul Gandhi! Your one wrong vote can bring terrorists to your doorstep! And one right vote can handle them at the border! Your life, your decision! The father of Babar was from Uzbekistan, and his mother from Mongolia, yet he died in Afghanistan, and his tomb is in Kabul, but they want a Babri Mosque in Ayodhya? The interesting thing is that even Congress supports it! There was a time when the people protested, and the leaders enjoyed at home! But today Modi has created such a situation that corrupt leaders are protesting, and the people are sitting quietly at home enjoying! This is called good times! Foreign leaders are crazy about Modi, and Indian leaders are crazy because of Modi! Any doubts? Not only Fevicol sticks, but also Modi's fear! Giving the wa...

18 April- World Heritage Day

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The forests of Vindhyachal and Satpura in Central India are full of rock shelters and prehistoric paintings dating back about 10,000 years. The forests of Sehore and Raisen districts in the central Indian State of Madhya Pradesh, are rich in such rock shelters and prehistoric rock paintings.  These are prehistoric rock paintings located in Khodra, a village of Gond tribe, 1 km away from Bhopal in Goharganj tehsil of Raisen district.  Neither any forest official nor any archaeologist has ever visited this site. The villagers have tried to worship here by applying vermillion and tilak.  After developing language in its primitive form, the prehistoric man must have learned the art of painting on these rocks. If you zoom in on the pictures of the tiger in the above photo, a rock painting - that of a tiger- will also be visible in the background. Text and photo credit - Facebook post of Sudesh Waghmare

What LK Advani said on the issue of arms smuggling during the run-up for 1999 General Elections

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  Lalit Shastri   Before the General Elections to the Lok Sabha were announced in 1999, the Gujarat police had recovered a huge cache of arms, including AK-47 and AK-56 riffles, bullets, and hand grenades from a well near the residence of Sohrabuddin Sheikh in village Jhiranya near Mahidpur on the Ujjain-Nagda Road in Ujjain district of Madhya Pradesh. Launching the 1999 election campaign in Madhya Pradesh, where the Congress party was in power and Digvijay Singh was the Chief Minister, the then national President of the BJP, Kushabhau Thakre, had said at a press conference at the State BJP headquarters in Bhopal that Madhya Pradesh had become a haven for arms smuggling. He had even stated categorically that arms were being supplied to the terrorists in Kashmir from this State. A couple of days after the BJP President had addressed media-persons in the State capital, the then Home Minister L K Advani had addressed another press conference at the VIP Rest House at Lalghati in B...

Why not call Shashi Tharoor's bluff

Lalit Shastri Contrary to what Shashi Tharoor has said in this video, Nehru did not create ISRO....it was Vikram Sarabhai who should get the credit for giving us the concept or the notional framework of ISRO or the Indian Space Research Organisation. Actually, the mother organisation and front runner of India's space programme is Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, which was set up by the Sarabhai Trust. Much of the original recruitment was done under it. There is strangely no government of India order to create ISRO. Also till date, there is neither any government order for the appointment of anyone as Chairman ISRO nor any rule or notification stating that the Secretary Department of Space will be ex-officio Chairman of ISRO. There is only a Space Comission and a Department of Space. In fact, till now there is no organisation created by the Central Government called ISRO. After watching this video, I strongly felt the need to call the bluff as such leaders are adept in adopt...

India's Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 and Section 45 of PMLA: A Critical Analysis

  Lalit Shastri   The Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA) stands as a law against financial malfeasance, yet its provisions, notably the definitions under Section 2 (u), Section 2 (y), Section 3 relating to Scheduled Offence like misuse of funds attracting Section 447 of the Companies Act, 2013 and Section 45 of PMLA , have stirred a maelstrom of debate regarding the delicate balance between justice and security.  Section 447, which even provides for a seven year jail term, can be imposed and prosecution proceedings initiated against someone who may not even be guilty merely on the subjective, biased or vindictive Inspection Report prepared by the Inspecting Officer of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.  The matter could be worst confounded if the proceedings under the Companies Act, 2013 are vitiated at the behest of vested interests to distort the findings and conclusion in the Inspection Report. Once a court takes cognizance of prosecution co...

Where the buck stops

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  👆This video shows joint action by Madhya Pradesh Government authorities to close illegal stone mines in Raisen district adjoining the State capital. Big action was initiated a day after a dy/asst Ranger was attacked by the mining mafia. Question arises was the illegal mining an overnight or recent phenomenon. If not...what (the hell) the district collector was doing all along...was he waiting for the attack on the forest officer to jump into action...I need answer for my query. When will we fix responsibility at right levels...when will the buck stop at the top - I mean the head of the district administration. Hypothetically, if the present district Collector's predecessor is to be held accountable, the head of the district administration should have the powers to haul him up after due inquiry, irrespective of seniority. I am wondering what has happened to the system of checks and balances, inspections and confidential reports, whether or not this system still exists and if it d...

Ramchandra Guha at it again:

Why does anybody, even if someone has the false notion of being an intellectual, have to dig out and flash a useless quote from a former High Commissioner of Australia, who obviously knew nothing about India even when he was posted in New Delhi in mid-60s of the last Century A tweet by Swathi Bellam, rightly exposes the shallowness of Ramchandra Guha and it says it all. One couldn’t agree more and hence it is being reproduced here. It’s a mystry, who had recommended and approved the appointment of Guha to a science chair at the IISc, Bangalore a few years ago.  Check also