“..I want that numbers of our young men should pay a visit to Japan and China every year.
Especially to the Japanese, India is still the dreamland of everything high and good. And you, what are you? … talking twaddle all your lives, vain talkers, what are you? Come, see these people, and then go and hide your faces in shame. A race of dotards, you lose your caste if you come out! Sitting down these hundreds of years with an ever-increasing load of crystallized superstition on your heads, for hundreds …

In the concluding lines of “India needs reforms not a super babu“, Kanchan Gupta writes:
Anna Hazare is right…
India does need a second freedom movement, but not to recreate the Inspector Raj of our socialist past.
We need a second freedom movement to secure economic freedom and freedom from a system that intrudes into every aspect of our lives.
That’s how democracies have dealt with the menace of corruption elsewhere in the world.
Tavleen Singh made a similar point a few weeks back:
Corruption has eaten into India’s soul and its future. It must be …

Nanopost of the day…in which I wrap up an intense 9-day visit.
3 States, 4 Cities, 9 Talks, 20+Mtgs, 20hr days..and late, late nights spent in dreams of a Resurgent India…
“Reclaiming India – One Step at a Time” – The journey continues…

The pic was taken at CET Bhubaneswar…on a rain-drenched afternoon, while speaking to 25+ fired up young engineering undergrads..
Stay tuned for more photos, videos and slides….and pl have a look at the facebook page to read and see more of what I have been upto, in particular here, here, here …

In Part I, we read how the history taught to young minds has been deliberately twisted and distorted -presumably in the interest of maintaining peace and harmony. Continuing in the same vein, today a look at the Mughals – “descendants of two great lineages of rulers” and a “chieftain“ who established an empire that effectively de-throned the Mughals and rivaled the Mughals at its peak.
The “chieftain” is a reference to Chhatrapati Shivaji MahaRaj. My simple dictionary tells me that a “chieftain” is usually a leader of a group, clan or tribe. …