There is no discussion on the breach of security to Mr. Hamid Ansari. Everyone is busy discussing the role of Jinnah in the British period of the Indian history. One feels like screaming, my dear fellow, Jinnah is not the issue.
To be born a Dalit in this country is in itself a curse even in the days when the ruling classes flaunt an unspeaking, smiling, sweet, cute Dalit as their prized possession for the topmost post of this country.
It betrays a faulty understanding within these parties that Hindus cannot be talked to about what is happening in the country.
Even the Congress would rather not remember him for his memory poses difficult questions to them, about their reluctance to stand and fight for the rights of the minorities...
Neither PM Narendra Modi nor chief ministers uttered a word on cow vigilantes running riot and killing people but Pakistan’s PM and leaders condemned student killing
Ashoka, father of Sanghamitra and Mahendra, is not remembered in Bihar or elsewhere as a conqueror but as who went to Buddhism in his quest for a rightful, non-violent way of life
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He was not the first or last revolutionary to be killed by the British but none could capture the imagination of the people of India the way he did.
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