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  Asali Kisan cannot be Free to Participate in Dharna December and January is the terribly busy and hectic season for the farmers. A Kisan cannot afford to be away from his/her farms for weeks together to participate in any Morcha for a long period of time. This is the time to irrigate their crops and look after them. This is also the season of the sugarcane crushing. All genuine farmers are busy in supplying the sugar canes to sugar mills for it is the main cash crop, which helps to make purchases of necessary items for round the year. Therefore, one is amazed as to how a few thousand farmers can keep themselves away from their farms to join in a dharna and demonstration on the Delhi- Haryana border. Obviously, most of them are fake farmers and nothing to do with farming and have been brought on payment by the wealthy agents, who have been desperate to get the new Farm laws repealed. Is it not surprising that farmers are not worried about their crops for the sake of abrogation of thr

  Farcical agitation is bound to fizzle out on its own  The so-called farmers’ movement that is going at Singhu border of Delhi is a total farce. It has neither farmers nor any element of agitation. It looks like a picnic organised by some wealthy and rich forces, which are out to make a hay while the sun shines. The other day while watching a TV channel, whose anchor is a rabid anti- Modi, one is amazed to find that the agitation is nothing but a big hoax. The anchor was trying to show that farmers would not move from the site till all three farm laws were abrogated, although he was unwittingly exposing the puppet farmers and their handlers. He interviewed some of them, who claimed to be farmers. Some of them were old, some were young but most of them were labourers, who were brought from various districts of Punjab.       During his reporting, he asked some of them to show how much preparation has been done by them to sustain the protest. Then the anchor asked his cameraman to pan th

On 25th December falls the date of births of many celebrities and bigwigs like those of Jesus Christ, Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya and Atal Bihari Vajpayee etc. Let me share a fact that 25th December is the actual birthday of my wife also although her birthday in the school certificate falls in July. It may sound strange, but it is an almost undeniable fact that in India people, mostly who are above forty years, have got two birthdays. One is real or actual and the other one is given in the school or other records. The birthday of Jesus Christ on 25th December itself is highly doubtful and there are enough materials available in the public domain which cast doubts on his birthday. As far as the birthday of Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya and Atal Bihari Vajpayee is concerned, nobody can say it for certain they were born on 25th December. However, there cannot be any doubts about the birthdays of Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhash Chandra Bose, Indira Gandhi, and others because their birthdays were lik

  Government's  Ambivalent Population Policy is Disappointing By Parmanand Pandey      The affidavit filed by the Union Government in the Supreme- Court in response to a petition filed by an Advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay that it cannot adopt the policy of coercion in family planning by implementing two-child norm has been disappointing, to say the least. The logic of the government is that the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) is declining, and any coercion will be counterproductive is fallacious logic. It is difficult to understand how the two-child norm policy will amount to coercion?     The burgeoning population of the country has created innumerable problems for the country. The land-area is fast shrinking because houses, factories, offices, hospitals, schools, colleges, institutes, roads, and other infrastructures need to be built to meet the requirements. The population, on the other hand, is not stabilising. It is increasing with every passing year.  There are many people,

  Not Farmers but  Dalals  are Fidgety with Farm laws  Parmanand Pandey There is no limit of perversion among Dalals and intermediaries, who have been misleading a section of farmers from Punjab to continue their siege of the Singhu border at Delhi-Haryana border in this biting cold despite the assurances from the government to discuss all issues of the farmers.  The problem is not with farmers as they have not joined the so-called agitation, it is being orchestrated by the forces, which have nothing to do with farmers but they want to keep the issue simmering for their own interests.  They have no sympathy for the farmers either otherwise; they would have educated them about the deleterious effects of paddy stubble burning, overuse of chemical fertilisers and pesticides and for changing patterns of crops to save the depleting water table.   These three farm laws are revolutionary by any stretch of consideration. Only brokers and self-styled Kisan leaders are opposed to it because they

       My good friend Hemant Tiwari, a senior journalist, a well-versed communicator and a convincing debater on TV channels, has written a brief but a very touching post on his Facebook about his recent a whirlwind visit to his Nanihal (maternal home), near Singramau in Jaunpur district. His Nanihal is situated on the banks of river Gomti, so is my own Nanihal, which incidentally is also situated on the banks of river  Gomti in Pratapgarh district.  Most of us have been inculcated with faith that all perennial rivers are pious and they are like the Ganges and that is the reason that they are revered and worshipped. A famous pilgrimage ‘Dhopap’ is also situated on the banks of Gomti and when I visited this place in my childhood on my way to Nanihal, I was told that 'whosoever has bathed even once in Dhopap his/her all sins are washed away'. As they say that ‘faith can move mountains’, people throng to wash their sins in the sacred river of Gomati at Dhopap. It is an altogether

  Any government worth name will be failing in its duty if it concedes to highly irrational and unjustified demands of some motivated persons masquerading as farmers for repealing of the farm laws. A so-called Kisan leader is seen to be speaking on some TV news channels that ‘why the government has gifted us something which we never demanded?’ Will anybody tell him that any government is mandated to take make such laws are in the interests of the people? Does a government which have been elected by the overwhelming majority by the people can afford to ignore them and listen only to those who are out to create anarchy by sheer dint of the resources that they have? The government is expected to work for the vast peasantry of the country while enacting the farm laws, which has been left ignored by the successive governments after independence. As a result of it, the condition of small farmers has not improved. Even farmers with good land holdings have got reduced to penury and have been c

  Not many years ago, it was almost an uphill task to take even as little as 30 to 40 kilogrammes of grains from one district to other. If somebody having agricultural land at two places was straddling between two districts, the only choice for him/her was to dispose of the produce of one place and purchase the same, as per one's needs, at another place. The laws against carrying the grains from one place to other were so stringent that one had to grease the palms of police and other officials. Now under the new farm laws, one cannot only carry the agricultural produce but is totally free to sell or purchase at the place of one’s choice depending upon the prices he/ she gets. Farmers all over the country are happy with new farm laws because it provides them freedom, ensures good prices and necessary insurance cover to their crops. Mobility is the sine qua non for competitiveness and better pricing of any products. Mandis are beyond the reach of ordinary farmers because the Mandis

The ongoing agitation of some farmers of Punjab from November 26 in Delhi is being presented by a section of media and the fissiparous forces as if there are two fighting camps arrayed against each other. The fact is that no government can afford to work against the interests of the farmers and that is what has been taken care of in these farm laws. These farm laws have been long overdue, and they should have been enacted some fifty years ago. Think of neem coating of Urea bags, this simple step to stop the black marketing was not taken due to the pressure of the vested interests, who wanted to perpetuate it. The subsidy and loan-waiver based farmers' policies may make some leaders popular but ultimately, they do not help the farmers to stand on their own feet. The so-called Kisan-movement of some kulaks, aarhatiyas and selfish politicians must be exposed as it is against the interests of more than 99 per cent farmers of the country, most of them happen to be small and marginal far

The day before yesterday i.e. on 22nd of November Mulayam Singh Yadav, the Samajwadi Party leader completed 81 years of his life. We wish him a happy and long life. Some journalists, who had been benefitted by the largesse’s and the neck-deep corruption prevailing at the time of Mr Yadav, hailed him as one of the towering leaders and the messiah of the poor, which is quite understandable but laughable. Most of the journalists in Lucknow and other places in Uttar Pradesh were regularly and extensively given crumbs by Shri Yadav in cash and kind to sing his paeans. Posterity will remember him if at all he is remembered, for his rank opportunism, stinking corruption, brazen nepotism, shameless casteism and naked hooliganism with no vision for the future or understanding of the statecraft. It has been the misfortune of the State that practically an illiterate muscleman ruled the state for many terms as the Chief Minister of the largest state of the country. It was largely because of him th

This is for the first time that constitutional authority,  no less than the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Jagan Mohan Reddy has levelled direct allegations against another very high constitutional authority  NV Ramana, who is the second senior-most judge of the Supreme Court of India. Mr Reddy has not minced words and said that Justice Ramana has been acting against him and his government. Some judges of the Andhra Pradesh High Court are not only in cahoots with Justice Ramana, but they are working at his instance to often put the government in a spot. As a result of it, the developmental works of his government are getting hampered. This is no longer an issue between two individuals but it is now a matter between the two rather all three pillars of democracy.    Mr Jagan Reddy’s letter to the Chief Justice of India Justice AS Bobde against Justice Ramana, who is in the line to become the next Chief Justice of India, should not be consigned to the dustbin by dismissing as frivolous

  Fudging and fraud in showing the inflated figures of circulation of newspapers and Television Rating Points (TRP) is not a new phenomenon. It has been going on for decades. However, a new trend in journalism of naming and shaming of one media house by the other or by one journalist by other has been emerging extremely fast and I personally welcome it. Keeping the malpractices under carpets promotes corruption and the media industry badly inflicted with it. Some media houses have been building empires, some journalists have been making money, getting coveted posts and many more facilities by sheer dint of their connections with the powers that be. The principle of ‘dog does not bite dog’ has been saving corrupt journalists and blackmailers.     The credit for it certainly goes to some trend setting journalists, who have exposed the nexus and complicity of the journalists, media houses with those of the political parties, foreign-funded establishments, and ruling dispensations. It

 Politics in the name of farmers is a flourishing and beneficial trade for the politicians and dalalas. Otherwise, there is no reason why no drastic changes have been brought in the agricultural policy of India for decades. The number of small and marginal farmers is rising with every passing year and the load on the agriculture sector is increasing day by day. The need, therefore, is not only to modernise agriculture but also to offload it as much as possible. There should not be any doubt left in anybody's mind that the opposition to three new Farm Bills recently passed by both houses of Parliament is specious and it is being orchestrated and motivated, not by genuine farmers, but by those intermediaries whose interests are getting hurt.   These politicians and middlemen have been reaping earning huge profits by fleecing the farmers and consumers. That was why there have been no takers for their protest marches and demonstrations organised on 25th September.     The three Bil

  For the last few days, the Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha Shri Harivansh is under flak from some people. I can only say that they are less than fair to him. Harivansh Narayan Singh, which he possibly shortened at the advice of his political mentor Chandrasekhar ji, is a man of high principles. Harivansh and I have been together in the Banaras Hindu University for five years. Hardly a day had passed during our stay in the hostel, when we had not gossiped, discussed, debated, and argued, sometimes even hotly on almost every subject we could think of under the sun. He has been the admirer of Jai Prakash Narayan from his university days and had told us many unknown stories about him. JP‘s education in America by doing even menial works and his absconding from Hazaribagh jail by jumping the walls of a prison is known to the whole world. However, the stories of JP’s visits and meetings with the villagers in Doab of the holy rivers Ganga and Ghaghara, inspiring them for pursuing educat

   Ms Jaya Bachchan’s speech yesterday i.e on 14th of September 2020 on the floor of the Rajya Sabha was laughable, highly disappointing, thoroughly illogical, and supportive of the corruption that is prevailing in the film industry. It has been an open secret that Bollywood, which outwardly gleams, is rotten inside and stinks to the high heaven. It is controlled by Mafia dons, is a den of smugglers, tax evaders, drug addicts and criminals of different types. It does not mean that all those who are in the industry can be tarred with the same brush but the influential section of it certainly suffers from the vices of nepotism, drug addiction and casting couches. Ms Bachchan did not name anybody in her speech but her innuendo was unmistakably towards Kangna Ranaut, who has shown the extraordinary courage to speak about the gutter that has been flowing in the filmdom. This rot has, of late, overpowered most of the activities of the industry. The influence of ‘ Dongri to Dubai’ is visibl