Pairokar

     Rahul Gandhi and his younger sister Priyanka Gandhi are trying to prove that they are better Hindus than thousands of others. Let them live in their own make-believe world. In Hinduism, there is no place for a demonstration, and this is one of the reasons that a person who exhibits by his/her outward behaviour of claiming to a Hindu is considered to be an impostor. Simplicity, good conduct and abhorrence from dishonesty are some of the qualities, which are the sine qua non fo r Hinduism. It is an altogether different matter that not many people adhere to it in real life. It can be seen from the lives of hypocrite Babas, who believe more in ostentation than in the real religion.        However, what is most significant is that only a few years ago the Government of the Congress of which Sonia Gandhi was the President had filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court that Rama was a mythical person. It resonated the words of Karunanidhi, one of ...

One often wonders whether the multi-billion fraudsters like Vijay Mallya and Nirav Modi could ever have thought of fleeing the country if Modi Government had not been in power. These cheats had been freely roaming about in the country without any fear of the law and plundering the people.  Obviously, they were enjoying the patronage and support of the erstwhile governments. There are dozens of such industrialists who are under the scanner because they have looted the banks.  Many of the responsible bank officials have been on record that some big businesspersons, who used to approach the bigwigs in the government to put pressure on them. Some influential persons were giving instructions to them through the Finance Minister to grant them to enormous amounts of loans throwing all the norms to the winds. The top-notch officials of the banks had no choice but to obey the orders, which were coming to them from above. However, those who have fled the country had started feelin...

      If somebody wants to go to any temple, why should any objection be raised by anybody? If Priyanka Vadra Gandhi has decided to take a dip in the holy Sangam, pooja at the temple of Baba Vishwanath in Varanasi and darshan of Maa Vindhyavasini at Vindhyachal, it should not be the cause of stomach-ache for anyone. But it is a half-truth. The eyebrows are bound to be raised if anybody goes to the temple only for showing and attracting the attention of others. The motive is not th e consolidation of faith but to garner votes of the gullible masses, then these visits to the temples are not only farcical but deserve to be detested and condemned in no uncertain terms.      This is what we find in the case of Priyanka Gandhi and her brother Rahul Gandhi. Their ideas appear to be frozen in the time warp of their grandmother, Indira Gandhi. People did not have any doubt about the faith of Indira ji. Election or no election she used to go to temples and had a...

Meaning of Priyanka's Visits to Temples If somebody wants to go to any temple, why should any objection be raised by anybody? If Priyanka Vadra Gandhi has decided to take a dip in the holy Sangam, pooja at the temple of Baba Vishwanath in Varanasi and darshan of Maa Vindhyavasini at Vindhyachal, it should not be the cause of stomach-ache for anyone. But it is a half-truth. The eyebrows are bound to be raised if anybody goes to the temple only for showing and attracting the attention of others. The motive is not th e consolidation of faith but to garner votes of the gullible masses, then these visits to the temples are not only farcical but deserve to be detested and condemned in no uncertain terms. This is what we find in the case of Priyanka Gandhi and her brother Rahul Gandhi. Their ideas appear to be frozen in the time warp of their grandmother, Indira Gandhi. People did not have any doubt about the faith of Indira ji. Election or no election she used to go to temples a...

If somebody wants to go to any temple, why should any objection be raised by anybody? If Priyanka Vadra Gandhi has decided to take a dip in the holy Sangam, pooja at the temple of Baba Vishwanath in Varanasi and darshan of Maa Vindhyavasini at Vindhyachal, it should not be the cause of stomach-ache for anyone. But it is a half-truth. The eyebrows are bound to be raised if anybody goes to the temple only for showing and attracting the attention of others. The motive is not th e consolidation of faith but to garner votes of the gullible masses, then these visits to the temples are not only farcical but deserve to be detested and condemned in no uncertain terms. This is what we find in the case of Priyanka Gandhi and her brother Rahul Gandhi. Their ideas appear to be frozen in the time warp of their grandmother, Indira Gandhi. People did not have any doubt about the faith of Indira ji. Election or no election she used to go to temples and had all the respects for the religion that sh...

Yuval Noah Harari, who is still in his early forties has taken the world by storm by his three wonderful books- ‘Sapiens-A Brief History of Mankind’, ‘Homo Dues- A Brief History of Tomorrow’ and ‘21 Lessons for the 21st Century’. He is an insightful historian. The way he has analysed and thrown lights on the facts from the beginning of the homo sapiens till today and the things to shape in the future is amazing, to say the least. But there is a section which denigrates him as a writer of ‘liberal elites' because he has established with his unique logic that religion, socialism and many other forms of social structures and governments will be the things of the past. The Communist Manifesto proclaims that: The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebian, lord and serf, guild master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another. Society as a whole is more and ...

Death penalty or capital punishment is the highest degree of punishment to be awarded to an individual under the penal law of any country. It has been in existence since the inception of the State. There has been an intense debate in India whether capital punishment should be abolished or retained. Article 21 of the constitution guarantees every citizen the fundamental right to life and it expressly states that ‘no person shall be deprived of his life or personal liberty except according to procedure established by law’. This means that the life of an individual can be taken only through the given process of law and not otherwise.  The purpose of Indian Penal system is two folds: one is deterrent and the other is reformative. The inherent principle of ‘innocent until proven guilty is followed in the justice delivery system.’ Till now after independence, nearly 1400 people have been hanged to death for committing heinous crimes.   The Law Commission and various other co...

The Supreme Court has stayed its own order of 13 th   own order of evicting lakhs of dwellers living on encroached forest land. It has come as a huge relief for the people living in the forests for many generations. Around the world, as communities expand, and natural places are reduced, people and wildlife are increasingly coming into conflict over living space and food. If humans make proper use of space and food, it is possible to have enough for animals also. While key areas should be protected for wildlife, buffer zones need to be created and investing in alternative land uses are some of the solutions to tide over the problem of humans and animals’ conflict. Keeping the goal to avoid such conflicts the Forest Rights Act was passed in 2006, which says that those who are living in jungles would have to stake claims of their rights. Thereafter, it will be verified by the authorities but if they fail to fulfil the criteria as laid down in the Act, they will be ev...