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The Bhartiya Janta Party, was founded by quite many intelligent men, many of whom were upper class Hindus. The three biggest promises that the BJP ever made to the masses were 1) A Ram Temple at Ram Janambhoomi Sthan, Ayodhya 2) Repeal of Article 370 3) Uniform Civil Code Narendra Modi, in 2014, brushed aside these issues made development and governance as his chief agenda and secured a handsome victory for his party and self. But with a simple majority comes a complex challenge of paradox. You can sweep aside old timers, you cannot sweep out deep rooted ideologies so easily. He himself has claimed himself as a Hindu nationalist, a disciplined party worker etc. Now he will be hounded with these issues although not highlighted by his campaign but neverthless which are the corner stones of his party's ideology. Atal Bihari Vajpayee faced the similar problem when he ruled India for 6 years. Even he could not find a solution for these issues. For he did not have a clear majorit...

Everyone likes to save little money. The rich, the poor, the average earner and even the lavish spender likes have a little nest of savings. Banks are the biggest mediums today to enable investment and savings transactions.   It is no wonder then; we need banks for a good economic system and an ideal way of life. Where we can save some cash and also go for any needs of loans. They make good business too. You save your money at 4 or 6 percent and your friend gets a loan from the bank at 10 percent plus. When the British left India, they left behind a fairly good banking system with a nice number of banks in select corners of the country. All we needed to do was use that system polish it well and spread it thick and deep. What instead Indians did was use it as a milking cow, ruining these institutions instead of using them for positive gains. In the 1970’s Indira Gandhi led the nationalization of the banks. The secret was out in the open. Politicians controlled the banks ...

Writers for years have written extensively on sharp divide between India and Bharat. One, mostly urban the other mostly rural. It is Bharat that feeds the country, takes case of its productions and supplies most labor. It is India which issues orders, makes policies and do the management. Not surpisingly, it is India that complains the most. But it is a fact that it India of the big cities, which is responsible for the worst scams ever happened to the nation. It is also a fact that the big city people have always exploited the Bharat people. And one of the vivid example can be seen in voting patterns. While Delhi had a turn out of around 64% voters, Saharanpur in western Uttar Pradesh, recorded a massive 74% voter turn out. It is a well documented fact that voting turn out amongst the big cities, is always low, at least lower than other places. Look at Mumbai, which has a voter turn out of 55% this time. If you look at the results of last assembly elections in Delhi, the city state ...

Course Code:DHIS 102 Time Allowed: 3 Hours                                                                                     Max. Marks:80 1. This paper contains 10 questions divided in two parts on 1 page. 2. Part A is compulsory. 3. In Part B (Questions 2 to 10), attempt any 6 questions out of 9. Attempt all parts of the selected question. 4. The Marks assigned to each question are shown at the end of each question in square brackets. 5. Answer all questions in serial order. 6. The student is required to attempt the question paper in English, Hindi or Punjabi medium. Par...

Course Code:DHIS 101 Time Allowed: 3 Hours                                                                                     Max. Marks:80 1. This paper contains 10 questions divided in two parts on 1 page. 2. Part A is compulsory. 3. In Part B (Questions 2 to 10), attempt any 6 questions out of 9. Attempt all parts of the selected question. 4. The Marks assigned to each question are shown at the end of each question in square brackets. 5. Answer all questions in serial order. 6. The student is required to attempt the question paper in English, Hindi or Punjabi m...

Course Code:DHIS 104 Time Allowed: 3 Hours                                                                                     Max. Marks:80 1. This paper contains 10 questions divided in two parts on 1 page. 2. Part A is compulsory. 3. In Part B (Questions 2 to 10), attempt any 6 questions out of 9. Attempt all parts of the selected question. 4. The Marks assigned to each question are shown at the end of each question in square brackets. 5. Answer all questions in serial order. 6. The student is required to attempt the question paper in English, Hindi or Punjabi medium. Par...

Course Code:DPOL101 Time Allowed: 3 Hours                                                                                     Max. Marks:80 1. This paper contains 10 questions divided in two parts on 1 page. 2. Part A is compulsory. 3. In Part B (Questions 2 to 10), attempt any 6 questions out of 9. Attempt all parts of the selected question. 4. The Marks assigned to each question are shown at the end of each question in square brackets. 5. Answer all questions in serial order. 6. The student is required to attempt the question paper in English, Hindi or Punjabi medium. ...

This is the story of Harpreet Kaur. A girl from a small town in Punjab who probably had a lot of dreams like all young people have. 7th of December, 2013 was supposed to be a big day for the 22 year old. She was getting married. But at around 9 in the morning when she was being readied for the big moment at an upmarket beauty salon in Ludhiana, a boy masked with a handkerchief barged into the salon and spilled acid on her. Before running away he dropped a note which spoke about a love affair that never materialized. Everyone naturally thought that it was a jilted lover who did it. People have known to commit worse things for love. But not the mother of the victim. She suspected a woman relative from the groom's side. Indeed it happened to be true. The woman was the groom's brother's divorced wife who out of spite wanted to ruin the wedding. So what does she do? She cooks up this conspiracy along with her paramour and some hired goons to throw acid on the young girl so a...

In the year 2011, a movement was launched for a jan lokpal by activist Anna Hazare. We all know about it. Many of us especially born in the late 80s or early 90s were quite fascinated by the sheer energy of the movement. Our parents might have had seen another high voltage movement by Jai Prakash Narayan in the 70s but for us, this was our very first large social movement. Add the high density exposure of social as well as television and it was all very good. We have read about the JP movement and it was already clear that even though the two movements could not be compared but they both were similar in the sense, they both caught the anger of the people against the governments of their times and channelized it into their movements. Hence, it was clear that like in JP era, here also, politicians would be produced. A large part of the present leadership in India from Nitish Kumar to Arun Jaitley is a product of the JP movement. From the Anna movement came Arvind Kejriwal a former I...

First, they feminized rivers. Then they said, "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" Then they forgot to connect the obvious dots. Recently, rains, followed by a cloudburst or two, caused a major havoc at Uttarakhand, a Northern state in India. UK, as I fondly call it, is a beautiful place. It is also a Devbhoomi, a land of many Gods, temples, pilgrimages and also the place where Holy Rivers are at their very best. The rivers mainly being Ganga and Yamuna. It is here in UK, where the Britishers built the hill station of Mussoorie. Again, in Rishikesh, another district of UK, many foreigners like Steve Jobs and Rock Bands like Beatles come to seek nirvana or learn Yoga or just to do what tourists do. Technically speaking, each Hindu has to land here for upon cremation, the ashes have to immersed here in Haridwar, another place in UK popular amongst visitors. The list goes on and on. Basically, you can stay there for months and discover yet a new place that ...

I say, languages are like water. You travel a few miles and the water is different. Same is with languages. But, like civilizations and culture, languages too evolve. Many die a slow death. Some are merged into another dialects and languages. So, why are we discussing it here? Darwin’s theory should apply to languages too. That which will be the fittest shall survive. Right? I am a very practical person. So yes, my practical thought says, languages have to evolve, have to change and even die. How would a truly globalized world happen, if we all keep sticking to our regional or local dialects? How will knowledge flow smoothly? Look at how English is helping connect so many people with each other. Most of the governments in the World recognize English as their first or second or even third language. Most of the companies recognize English as their official language. It makes life and career so easy. So it is a good phenomenon. Let the languages compete and the winner shall be accept...