Bunch of Thoughts

It took all but a week in Mewar, Rajasthan for me to realise that the history that I had learned in school, from books and from the liberals differs so much from the what the locals believe. My journey began from the birthplace of Maharana Pratap and ended at the place where he was laid to rest.  The first place I visited was Kumbhalgarh fort, a place where Maharana Pratap was born. The fort is so well placed that it is not visible till you reach the gates (called Pol) of the fort. When you reach the first gate of the fort, you do not see the palace. Kumbhalgarh was founded by the grandson of Emperor Ashok but was built by Rana Kumbha. The fort has a 36 km wall which comes second after the Great Wall of China and has 360 temples some of which are thousands of years old.  History taught me that the fort was captured once by the Moguls who could retain it for 2 days. The locals believe otherwise that the fort was never captured. Looking at the condition of...

In the last 6 months no other event has caught the attention of the liberals in India than the Dadri incident. The incident as reported by the media claims that an innocent man was murdered for slaughtering a calf and eating its beef. Despiste a ton of outrage and yelling, it now appears that 1) There is no mention of beef at all in the FIR filed in the case by UP police. You can read the report here . 2) The report sent by the UP government to the Central govt ( which is supposedly secular) also does not mention 'beef' at all. You can read the report from here . So after a week of hue and cry, all we have is that the man was killed on rumours of eating beef. One would expect senior journalists to verify the story before making it a headline. None the less,  that story shaken the political world. One would have expected that the the liberal secular opposition would seize the opportunity to put the BJP on the back foot. But its the secular parties such as SP and RJD th...