PM Modi was not included for the 2nd year running and even through the course of the 3 times he did make it, the magazine had changed its assessment of him.
Years are quietly being stripped off my lifespan, and somehow that doesn’t ruin my day. But getting scolded for one careless word in an email? That can send me spiralling.
ThePrint had previously reported that India & Russia are talking about 5 more regiments of the S-400, but no contracts are to be signed during the Russian president's visit.
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.
Even if Modi was prompt in denouncing Akhlaq murder, a section of secular media would still have continued attacking Modi. What we see today is the result of relentless vilification of Modi by leftist media in India and abroad whose clear aim is to destroy Modi’s credibility, the only wealth Modi has accumulated through hard work and people’s service. However, Modi is expert in turning attacks against him into advantages to him. He may do the same with Time magazine’s attempt to malign him. Modi believes that ultimately Truth prevails while her adversaries believe that the truth can be manufactured and sold to people as such. Rahul Gandhi’s Chokidar Chor hai has been manufactured and being sold to people under the same assumptions.
I am reminded of a line from an Urdu sher: “… Khamoshi ne bahd-ke izhaare tamanna kar diya”. This line is supposed to express the coyness of a person in love, but in Mr Modi’s case it expresses his murderous hatred for the Muslims. Akhlaq’s case was just a beginning. Over the months his mask has completely slipped, and so has that of his Gujarati colleague Amit Shah. One was keeping a silence in the government over the shocking murders of Muslims, the other was keeping a similar silence in the BJP party.
Now a million dollar question is: how much of the 2002 violence in Gujarat was due to the Godhra episode and how much due to the innate hatred of these two gentlemen against the Muslims which stands completely bared now in the aftermath of Akhlaq’s lynching?
Law and order is a state subject. The PM has got nothing to do with it. The problem lies with people, their upbringing, morals, failure of the state machinery, politics, police inefficiency. The mother of all causes-Socialism. Poor, unemployed-violence. Capitalism-jobs, prosperity-no time to violence, busy playing play station.
Gujarat which has produced noble men like Gandhi and Sardar Patel has also produced people like Modi and Amit Shah. I started believing that we Indians decided to learn importance of Democracy and Freedom in a hard way by succumbing to emotional weaknesses.
The tragic murder of Mohamed Akhlaq – his son suffered severe skull injuries – took place within a day or two of the visit to the Menlo Park, California headquarters of Facebook. Two very different faces of India to show to the world. Even today, most lynching cases are unravelling in the courts. The police are often more harsh to the victims than to the perpetrators. Mahesh Sharma reverentially wrapping the corpse of one of the killers with the national flag. One can only hope that ordinary Indians have not lost their moral compass.
Even if Modi was prompt in denouncing Akhlaq murder, a section of secular media would still have continued attacking Modi. What we see today is the result of relentless vilification of Modi by leftist media in India and abroad whose clear aim is to destroy Modi’s credibility, the only wealth Modi has accumulated through hard work and people’s service. However, Modi is expert in turning attacks against him into advantages to him. He may do the same with Time magazine’s attempt to malign him. Modi believes that ultimately Truth prevails while her adversaries believe that the truth can be manufactured and sold to people as such. Rahul Gandhi’s Chokidar Chor hai has been manufactured and being sold to people under the same assumptions.
I am reminded of a line from an Urdu sher: “… Khamoshi ne bahd-ke izhaare tamanna kar diya”. This line is supposed to express the coyness of a person in love, but in Mr Modi’s case it expresses his murderous hatred for the Muslims. Akhlaq’s case was just a beginning. Over the months his mask has completely slipped, and so has that of his Gujarati colleague Amit Shah. One was keeping a silence in the government over the shocking murders of Muslims, the other was keeping a similar silence in the BJP party.
Now a million dollar question is: how much of the 2002 violence in Gujarat was due to the Godhra episode and how much due to the innate hatred of these two gentlemen against the Muslims which stands completely bared now in the aftermath of Akhlaq’s lynching?
Law and order is a state subject. The PM has got nothing to do with it. The problem lies with people, their upbringing, morals, failure of the state machinery, politics, police inefficiency. The mother of all causes-Socialism. Poor, unemployed-violence. Capitalism-jobs, prosperity-no time to violence, busy playing play station.
Gujarat which has produced noble men like Gandhi and Sardar Patel has also produced people like Modi and Amit Shah. I started believing that we Indians decided to learn importance of Democracy and Freedom in a hard way by succumbing to emotional weaknesses.
The tragic murder of Mohamed Akhlaq – his son suffered severe skull injuries – took place within a day or two of the visit to the Menlo Park, California headquarters of Facebook. Two very different faces of India to show to the world. Even today, most lynching cases are unravelling in the courts. The police are often more harsh to the victims than to the perpetrators. Mahesh Sharma reverentially wrapping the corpse of one of the killers with the national flag. One can only hope that ordinary Indians have not lost their moral compass.