INDIA SUMMARIZED

Maria Wirth is a German and came to India for a holiday after finishing her psychology studies at Hamburg University. She visited the Ardha Kumbha Mela in Haridwar in April 1980 where she met Sri Anandamayi Ma and Devaraha Baba, two renowned saints. With their blessing she continued to live in India and dived into India’s spiritual tradition, sharing her insights with German readers through articles and books. For long, she was convinced that every Indian knows and treasures his great heritage. However, when in recent years, she noticed that there seemed to be a concerted effort to prevent Indians (and the world) from knowing how valuable this ancient Indian heritage is, she started to point out the unique value of Indian tradition. Observations by someone who grew up in the stifling atmosphere of dogmatic Christianity and appreciates the freshness and freedom of undogmatic Hinduism– and wonders why a section of Hindus are so apologetic about their religion when it actually is ...

Recently,  reports have emerged  that several Hindu families in Kairana, a small town in the Shamli district in Western Uttar Pradesh, have been forced to flee after targeted attacks over the last two years. According to Kairana MP Hukum Singh (BJP), at least 346 Hindu families have migrated from Kairana due to goondaism and extortion threats. Kairana MP Hukum Singh ibnlive The MP said the number he mentioned includes only the families of Kairana, and if those who migrated from other parts of the district are included, the number would be more than a thousand. The MP has also alleged that there have been at least 10 communal killings in the town, that has become a “new Kashmir”, in the past three years. The police said it is investigating the matter. HT Kairana is both an Assembly as well as Lok Sabha constituency, but the migration has been witnessed mainly in area that falls under the Assembly constituency. Terming the allegations as “serious in nature”...

February 29, 2016 20:16 DIGVIJAYA SINGH TopYaps Editor Morarji Desai was a great man because he made it to the post of Prime Minister, and that’s what we’ve been taught in our textbooks.  But whenever we churn our brain in history’s lane, he shows up as a dude who used to drink his own piss.  This is the only riveting fact by which we recognize him. Start following in his footsteps and very soon India will be free of public urinals. Indeed, a great man! But there is something else about him. Something about his escapade with India’s external intelligence agency R&AW which we can’t find in our historiography majorly dominated by the Left-leaning writers. Right after he barged into the highest political office in March 1977, one of his priorities was to cut down the budget of R&AW by 50 percent and compelling RN Kao, the legendary spymaster, to quit his job. Whatever he did, was meant to demoralize the agency and its outstanding office...