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No nation or society or any ruler has ever succeeded in climbing to a higher slot of success by dividing their ruled populations or people in various groups based of their denomination or economic and social differences. Nine decades ago the four known as Axis nations attempted to conquer the rest of the world by division of their own people. Names of four rulers that lost their empires and also their lives in that exercise are today freely used to terrorize not only children but also their teddy bears. But the dedicated believers in or the pretenders of their adoration for the Sangh philosophy of divide and rule are again attempting to walk the same path. The Prime Minister NaMo is the target only because he is attempting to take all with him to new India as a super economic power.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday asserted that "new India does not put pressure for medals on its athletes but expects them to give their best."

Since the horrific events of September 11, 2001, much has been said about the desperate situation of the Afghani people now crushed under the heel of the theocratic, dictatorial Taliban, and about the role of the Northern Alliance and other Taliban opponents who now figure in Washington’s plans for the region.

Industrial sickness is a common phenomenon world over but resolution of a sick industry is a very painful exercise in India despite periodical changes in legislations to expedite it. The main reason for it is lack of political will and the colonial mindset of bureaucracy which shies away from taking a decision.

It has been a shattering blow for the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Even in his dreams he would not have imagined that a person like Bihar Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar who he has been keeping under his thumbs would raise his voice and challenge his authority.

On the evening of August 14, 1947, the then Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten, and his wife Edwina settled down to watch a Bob Hope movie, "My Favourite Brunette." A few yards away, in the Central Hall of Parliament, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru rose to make his famous ‘Tryst with destiny speech announcing India's Independence. He declared, "At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will be awake to life and freedom." Thus on August 15, two independent nation-states: Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan were born. It is befitting to look back and look forward as India turned 75.

The ‘mood’ does not favour Modi. Support for Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ebbed. Only 24 percent want to see him PM for a third term. The percentage was 66 a year ago. That is a Niagara Falls magnitude stumble from the heights, a slam-dunk in world wrestling lingo. India Today's ‘Mood of the Nation’ survey says Narendra Modi is not India’s ‘Best Choice for PM’ anymore.

The photograph of China’s state councilor and foreign minister Wang Yi and Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, political bureau chief of Afghanistan's Taliban, in Tianjin, China on 28 July 2021 was an advance message that Beijing was destined to be the closest ally of the Taliban if the latter would oust the erstwhile President of Afghanistan, Dr Ashraf Ghani-led government. But very few could imagine that it would happen less than three weeks after the Tianjin dialogue. But the Chinese were optimistic after the one-to-one meeting.

What states in India could learn from the Tamil Nadu budget is the consistent high spending on school education and health. This is something that other states need to emulate if India were to eradicate poverty and create more jobs in the country. Of course one may argue that Tamil Nadu is among the richer, developed, progressive and well administered states in the country. But what is noteworthy is that the state has laid emphasis on education and health for quite some time and more particularly in school education since the 14th finance commission.

Recalling the horrors of partition on the 75th Independence Day is not intended by the BJP to present a holistic picture of that simultaneously joyful and distressing time, but a means of stoking communal hatred.