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Just after four days the country will celebrate the birth of the republic. But this year’s celebration will be different from the carnival of yesteryears. While this time the celebration will miss a foreign celebrity, it would also be held under the shadow of the nearly two month old Satyagrah by the farmers of the country demanding scrapping of the three farm laws. Obviously it implies that nothing is good for the health of the great nation and its precious republic. Further, January 26, in 2021 after the dislocation in economy and social life for the last ten months due to pandemic and the consequent lock down in the country.

Lest we get confused over non-sequiturs, we’ll not talk about Mahatma Gandhi and ‘gram swaraj’ and ‘panchayat’ and blah blahblah... Instead we’ll speak of panchayat elections, the latest example of which is sure-shot ray of hope for the combined opposition arrayed against the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA): Narendra Modi and his sidekick Amit Shah, who carries a hefty wallop, can be defeated, flattened, if all opposition political parties get into a tight embrace and shoot the feet from under the ‘BhaktonKa Alliance.’

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Public bragging notwithstanding, the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) in Kerala has not snapped out of its blue mood.

The people of India came to know from newspaper reports a few days ago that China has set up a village and built around 100 houses along the river Tsari Chu in the Upper Subansiri District of Arunachal Pradesh. The Indian Government did not disclose this fact. Indians came to know of it from media reports quoting the finding of a US-based organization, Planet Labs which, with the help of satellite images found this out. These houses did not exist in 2019. The BJP MP from Arunachal Tapir Gao, said the Chinese had intruded 60 to 70 kms into Indian territory.

January 30 was the day in 1948 we lost the father of our nation Mahatma Gandhi. It is to remind us again that truth is not absolute. It also has its own motion that keeps moving in stages. Bapu had told us decades back that he can guide us to knowing the truth, but he cannot take us to truth, as it always keeps changing.

When the pogrom against minorities in Gujarat was raging in 2002, the then President of India, K R Narayanan had remarked to a delegation which met him seeking intervention, that: “The Constitution is not working in Gujarat”. Narendra Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat at that time.

President Joe Biden has given a great start to his four year tenure as the head of the United States of America by announcing a massive programme which not only rolls back some of the racial and anti-people policies of the Trump regime, but also includes a few pro-people policies which are of immediate importance to the common American people.

New Delhi: Sanju Samson was on Wednesday named captain of the Rajasthan Royals as the franchise released skipper Steve Smith and seven others while retaining 17 players for the 14th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL). Wicket Keeper-batsman Sanju Samson will lead the Royals for the very first time. Steve Smith, the Royals’ skipper in the last edition will not be retained for the upcoming season of the IPL in 2021.

Fatorda, Goa: Mohun Bagan have dropped five points in their last two games but coach Antonio Habas insists that his team was under ‘no added pressure’ as they take on Chennaiyin in the Hero Indian Super League at the Fatorda Stadium on Thursday.

Chennai: The Bakshi sisters, Jahanvi and Hitaashee, took centre stage, as they occupied the top spots after the first round of the second leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour at the TNGF Cosmo Golf Course here on Wedensday.