NavDharmyug

हर राष्ट्र का एक राष्ट्रीय भाव होता है। फ्राँस का राष्ट्रीय भाव कला है, ब्रिटेन का न्याय, अमरीका का स्वच्छन्दता, चीन का हर चीज़ का भाव लगाने का भाव, पाकिस्तान का गुंडई का, और भारत का क्षमा का। क्षमा हमारा राष्ट्रीय भाव एवम् राष्ट्रीय शग़ल हैं। क्षमा माँगना और क्षमा प्रदान करना हमें व्यस्त रखता है। जब हमारे पास करने को कुछ नही होता तब हम निंदा करते हैं, जब करने का अवसर आता है तब हम क्षमा कर देते हैं। क्षमा करने और माँगने से समाज में प्रवाह बना रहता है। अपशब्द बोलने वाले को बोलते समय परिणाम का भय नहीं होता, क्षमा माँगते समय उसमें लज्जा एवम् ग्लानि का भाव नहीं होता। क्षमा करने और माँगने से समाज में प्रवाह बना रहता है। अपशब्द बोलने वाले को बोलते समय परिणाम का भय नहीं होता, क्षमा माँगते समय उसमें लज्जा एवम् ग्लानि का भाव नहीं होता। क्षमा का गुण ही राजनीति मे मिथ्यावादिता एवम् अनर्गल आरोप प्रत्यारोप की परंपरा को जीवित रखता है। अनर्गल आरोप की परंपरा और क्षमा माँगने की महान कला का हमारे समय से लोप हुआ जा रहा था। राजनीति का परिपेक्ष्य क्रूर, कुटिल एवं आनंदरहित है। एक समय राजनीत...

Sometimes truth is so simple that it escapes the eyes of the clever. Clever people are naturally inclined to search the subtle, to investigate the infinite. Unfortunately they oftentimes end up being victim of their own ability. This we saw in wise people declaring 98 percent and no less possibility of Hillary Clinton becoming the US president. Closer home, we saw the wise predicting the same in UP, in Punjab and in Goa. The municipal elections of Delhi have concluded and the results are out. The results of the election are as under: Total seats contested: 279 The tally Party-wise is: BJP: 181 AAP: 48 Congress: 30 Others: 20 To be honest, past MCDs ruled by BJP have dismal record of performance with ghost employees, ghost schemes and absolutely disheartening corruption. The common sense and sense of the wise political analysts predicted rout for BJP and either a spectacular victory for Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party or a return of Congress. The results have amazed ...

There has been storm on the television studio, ever since the Waterloo of NDTV and team happened with JNU episode. In fact, everyone involved in the JNU episode, came out as a winner, except for journalists, deal-makers who have contributed to the nation-building in earlier regime by getting people of impeccable bearing like Mr. A Raja appointed to the cabinet. Media, post-JNU broke a clear divide of tolerant and intolerant. Since that day of great churn in media world, things were different. Lines were drawn and TRP sources were defined. So Ishrat Jahan is one day, Samjhauta Twist the other, NIT Srinagar yet another day. In the middle of all this, suddenly Agusta Westland Chopper scam comes back. A meeting was hurriedly called up at the residence of topmost Congress leader as Notice was given for debate on the bribery in the Rajya Sabha. Here are the excerpts from that meeting on this summer day at Janpath in Delhi: Supreme Leader : What is this nonsense? The day...

See I Fooled You Source: MSN In a time of universal deceit- telling the truth is a revolutionary act.- George Orwell.  A dream rose from desperation. Hassled by blatant corruption, Indians rose in protest against a thoroughly corrupt government which largely laughed off those protest. Those in power were not concerned, worried. They were amused, they laughed it off, they asked the people who questioned corruption in embarrassed, scared voices- “Are you nuts?” Then, suddenly it was Y2k or Java or Cloud to use a technology equivalent. Everyone was doing it and no one knew what it meant. Technology democratized the media and the Social media split into two. It did do something good. It churned the politics and challenged the status quo. It broke the collaboration of convenience among the top two national parties. Narendra Modi was brought in as change of guard for BJP. Many called it attempt to polarize. I do not look at it that way. It was an attempt to offer what peopl...

I have long cherished and celiberated my politically neutral position as a proclaimed mugwump. However, the way political world around me moved with a speed so unusual in Indian world of homeopathic revolutions, only way to maintain sanity in a rare fast-changing scenario which moved from Congress to AAP to BJP was to get on the bus whisking past. So I did and vote this time, not hiding behind missing entry of voting list or the NOTA, which is nothing but a self-satisfying absurdity, since with or without NOTA, the one with highest votes in rest of it will win the seat anyways. The world around me was seething with anger, and I perhaps, augmented that fury with mine, even more feral then that of the world around. A lot many Pundits term this election as a referendum on corruption. That reading isn't entirely correct. Many things happened in last few years. We Indians, to a great degree have, over the centuries reconciled ourselves with the idea of divine rule, however ...

I will here not evaluate the veracity of claims and counter-claims by AAP and its opponents, which are as on day listed as Congress and BJP, both colossal forces, one driven by history, another by a promise of future. The election surveys are a different game altogether and true or not, do not honestly analyses the impact of a political force. AAP rose out of the desperation of the middle class, driven to the edge by blatant corruption and a response to it by the government of the day which grew even more blatant with each new expose. Nothing was left sacred and nothing was left untouched. The shame grew to engulf the highest citadels of power, which sat in the assumed security. That power corrupts, we knew as a nation and to an extent, we had given a realistic acceptance to corruption in governance. In that sense, I believe, we Indians bore a great resemblance to Irishman, as written about by GK Chesterton, has two eyes. By which he implied that with one eye “ an Irishman saw ...