INDIA SUMMARIZED

India, that is, Bharat is a land of contradictions which always provide space for building and framing controversies and blame games. But having had such a rich and vivid historical past, it is fortunate that the alleged controversy makers are exposed when they are offered the litmus test of historical facts. The recent one being  Kalyan Singh , presently Hon Governor of Rajasthan and the veteran BJP politician who was the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh also. Mr Singh sparked a fresh set of controversy when he claimed that the word ‘adhinayak’ in our National Anthem written by Rabindranath Tagore is praise for the  British monarch .  According to Indian Express, Kalyan Singh was quoted as saying,  “Jana gana mana adhinayak jai ho, kiske liye hai?   It is to praise the ‘angrezi shashak’… the British.”  He also added that, “words like  ‘mahamahim ’ or his or her Excellency should not be used any longer because no one is ‘mahan’. These were used during ...