Assembly Election 2012 : Decline & Fall of Nehru – Gandhi Dynasty

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           MARCH 12, 2012           01.10 A.M. Last month Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and other Civic Elections were held in Maharashtra and they threw surprising results . BJP and Shiv Sena , along with their new ally RPI [ Republican Party of India ] have won Mumbai , Thane , Ulhasnagar , Nagpur [...]

Mahatma Gandhi’s Assassination & R. S. S. : Facts & Fiction

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           JANUARY 31 , 2012           01.25 A.M. January 30 , 2012 just ended .  On this very day , 64 years ago , Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated by Nathuram Godse  . It was January 30 , 1948 . No murder can be justified . violence has no place in today’s civil [...]

Manipur : Election 2012 & Indian Communists

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           JANUARY 18 , 2012           02.15 A.M. Elections have been declared in 5 states of India . Uttar Pradesh , Uttarakhand , Punjab , Goa and Manipur will go to polls on various dates this year . Manipur assembly election will take place on January 28 , 2012 . Punjab and [...]

Svetlana Alliluyeva : From Russia With Love

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           JANUARY 14 , 2012           02.55 A.M. Svetlana Alliluyeva , daughter of Soviet Communist dictator Josef Stalin , died on November 22 , 2011 at the age of 85 . She died in Wisconsin , U. S. A. I missed the news then . When I was going through the bunch [...]

A Belligerent , Bellicose China & Qing Dynasty

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           JANUARY 05 , 2012           01.35 A.M. Yiwu is a southern city of China in Zhejiang province . It is one of the world’s biggest commodities markets . China claims to have a legal system in place . Should we salute China for the brilliant and flawless legal system ( ? [...]

100 Years of Our National Anthem : Jana Gana Mana ….

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           DECEMBER 29 , 2011           02.25 A.M. On December 27 , 2011 , our National Anthem completed 100 years . Written by Rabindra Nath Tagore in Bengali , it was first sung on December 27 . 1911 in the Calcutta [ [...]

150 Years of Mahamana Malviya : A Forgotten Hero

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA           DECEMBER 26 , 2011           01.50 A.M. Mahamana Madan Mohan Malviya was born on December 25 , 1861 in Allahabad . This year India celebrates his 150th Birth Anniversary. It is sad that this visionary is almost forgotten by the younger generation . People of my generation will know him by [...]

Vidur’s Travel Diary – 6 : Kanchipuram

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA          DECEMBER 05 , 2011           01.00 P.M. On the 30th morning , my last day in Chennai , I started for my journey to Kanchipuram . It is 71 km. from Chennai . I had read in the Holy scriptures that 7 [...]

India : Politics In The Name of Names

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA             AUGUST 24 , 2011             11  . 15  A. M. Last week there was news that all the parties of West Bengal unanimously decided to change the name of the state to Paschim Banga .Very soon West Bengal will be known as Paschim Banga. Mamta Banerjee promised to go for a [...]

New Startling Facts About Maharashtra !!

MUMBAI – MAHARASHTRA – INDIA             AUGUST 05 , 2011          05 . 00 P. M. Did we know.. Once the country’s premier state ~ Maharashtra is fast slipping into a vicious debt trap, according to latest report of Comptroller and Auditor General for the year ended 31 March 2010. Financially the state is in utter mess [...]