Promise of Reason

The marriage ceremony of Feroze Khan and Indira Nehru

Indira Gandhi’s (Originally, Indira Nehru) husband’s name was Feroz Khan.Feroz Khan’s mother was Ratimai Gandhi and his father was Jehangir Faredoon Khan (Indira Gandhi’s Father-in-law.Feroz Khan changed his surname from Khan to Gandhi,that is, to his mother’s father’s surname.

Reason? Had Rajiv “Gandhi” retained  his father’s surname, there was least probability that Hindu majority would accept him in that scenario.

So,tracing descent, basically the whole “Gandhi Family” is a “Khan Family”.

Did YOU know that?

Regions of North-western South Asia

Proposed National Boundaries

I am starting this new series on “how to reorganize the South Asia politically” so as to have maximum possibility of peace and prosperiety. Division on lines of religion has been proven wrong. Base of my analysis is ethnic character of the India-Pakistan-Afghanistan-Nepal-Sri Lanka-Bangladesh-Bhutan. This analysis is based on data collected over the time and my understanding of south asia, everybody is welcome to put in their views as comments. Later I plan to bring it out as free ebook. Read the rest of this entry »

This is a list of issues, which are going to play important role in General election 2009. They spanned over terrorism, recession, personality cult, development and traditional Hindu-Muslim fight. List is in no particular order, so here we go:

1. Terrorism: The biggest issue that every election all over the world is plagued with is terrorism. India is one of the worst hit country by terrorism. Over the last 5 years more than 2000 people has lost their lives to this devil and the worse part is that government does not seem to do anything solid for internal security. NDA is pitching high on this issue, with Narendra Modi as their mouthpiece, Congress is surely on back-foot here. Regional parties are not too much concerned with this issue. But it is a big issue in urban India only. Though Delhi constituency election 2009 is quoted as example of BJP not gaining from this issue. Read the rest of this entry »

First of all, a tribute to the best Indian soldier ever Field Marshal Manekshaw. He died today. He was one of the founding father of Indian modern state. As Nehru was prime inspiration and lighthouse in politics in initial years of India, Field Marshal was for army personnel. He was famous for his inspiring words and guiding a policy of involvement of army in political matters. It was fortunate for India to have him in those scary times of late 60s and 70s, when everywhere else in the world democracies were falling apart and military was taking over.
This brings us to the famous Indian victory of 1971. It was a great victory from military point of view, but more important implications were political and theoretical. Read the rest of this entry »

Compilation of quotes about india from some of the greatest people of different fields.

1. If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India. ~ Romain Rolland (French Nobel Laureate)
2. India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. ~ Hu Shih (Chinese ambassador to the US)
3. India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only. ~ Mark Twain
4. So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked. ~ Mark Twain Read the rest of this entry »

In less than two years, Beijing will host the 29th Olympic Games.

Pierre de Coubertin, the French founder of the modern Games, had coined a motto for this important world event: ‘It is less important to win than to take part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.’

It seems that the Chinese leadership has not yet grasped the full meaning of Courbertin’s words: They believe that the only important thing is to win and smash others. Their public relation exercise has already begun.Take, for example, the train to Lhasa: a publicity blitz projects the railway line from Golmud in Qinghai province to the capital of the Roof of the World as one of the greatest technological feats ever achieved. Journalists from all over the world were invited to cover the inauguration of the Chinese engineers’ prowess.Beijing also engaged the services of their self-nominated Panchen Lama (who is recognised only by the Chinese Communist Party) for this. In a rare appearance, the young monk, the symbol of Chinese power over Tibet, visited the railway station in Lhasa and repeated what he had been asked to say: ‘It’s apparent that the railway will promote the economic and social development of Tibet.’ Going around the station which has seen an average of 2,300 passengers each day since July 1, the Lama was supposedly ecstatic: ‘It’s very, very beautiful.’ The railway was a link for national unity; and ‘will help promote exchanges between Tibetans and other ethnic groups in China,’ the official news agency Xinhua quoted him as saying. But the reality is quite different. Read the rest of this entry »