65 years back when Pandit Nehru addressed the nation at the historical Red Fort and became the first prime minister, not a single person, who witnessed that golden moment, would have thought that the nation would be going to be ruled by him and his relatives for the next 4 decades. Unfortunately, it happened. My gradfather saw Pandit Nehru becoming the first prime minister, my father saw the emergency under the leadership of Mrs. Indira Gandhi and anti-sikh riots and Bofors scam when Rajiv Gandhi was prime minister. Almost 40 years, the entire nation was under the control of one family, the great Gandhi family.
The entire nation is criticizing the Government for trying to control the flow of information in world’s biggest democracy. For a nation that has close to 120 million users, of which 43 million users are on Facebook, 3.6 million on Google plus and 3.5 million on Twitter, the move to screen user content is complete nonsense. Failing in performance and good governance, the Indian government is trying to gag the voices of discontent and dissent. This is the third time in the history of post-Independence India, the Indian National Congress has attempted to seize the freedom of speech.
Once again, our honorable Telecom and IT minister Kapil Sibal has proved his loyalty to the Gandhi dynasty. He has urged social network companies including Facebook, Twitter and Google to remove offensive materials from their websites. However, according to the sources, Kapil Sibal is upset with a Facebook page that maligned ruling Congress Party chief Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi. Not only Kapil Sibal, but the whole UPA government is very sensitive to the criticism of the Gandhi family.
Almost one year back, it was a black day for Indian journalism when Open magazine broke the story of the Radia tapes. The content of the tape was very shocking, it revealed the telephone conversations of Nira Radia with senior journalists, politicians, and corporate houses. The Indian Income Tax department, after getting approval from Home Ministry tapped Radia’s phone lines for 300 days in 2008-2009 as part of their investigations into possible money laundering, restricted financial practices, and tax evasion.
Dev Anand, one of the greatest Hindi Cinema actors has died because of heart attack in London. He had traveled to London for a medical check up, was not keeping well for the last few days. He was 88 years old. He started his career as an actor in 1946 in Hum Ek Hain. Ziddi which was released in 1947, was his first superhit movie. He established his film production company Navketan International Films in 1949 and produced more than 35 movies. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Bhushan in 2001 and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2002 for his contributions towards Indian cinema. Some of his big hits were Paying Guest, Baazi, Jewel Thief, CID, Johny Mera Naam, Amir Garib, Warrant, Hare Rama Hare Krishna and Des Pardes.
Mullaperiyar Dam has lately been hitting headlines for all the wrong reasons. The safety of the dam has become a great matter of concern and a point of dispute between Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Today we will see what exactly is Mullaperiyar Dam controversy. First of all, let’s know more about this dam. It is a masonry gravity dam on the Periyar. It is made with lime stone and surkhi (a mixture of sugar and calcium oxide), an archaiced construction technology of 19th century. It is located 2,890 ft above mean sea level on the Cardamom Hills of Western Ghats in Thekkadi, Idukki District of Kerala, India.
Veena Malik, a Pakistani actress and World Health Organization representative, has shocked the Islamic state of Pakistan by posing nude on the latest issue of FHM magazine, with a tattoo on her arm reading ISI 🙂 Fundamentalist organisations in Pakistan claimed she had destroyed Pakistani culture and had no right to be the citizen of the country. Now only the time will tell how the Pakistani people and government is going to react to Veena’s bold stance. This is not the first time Veena has created such controversy. She was also criticized in Pakistan for her appearance on the Indian reality show Bigg Boss.
Today is birth anniversary of Silk Smitha. She was an Indian film actress. She started her career as a junior actor but due to her talent and passion for cinema she became one of the most wanted heroines of the early 80s. The sobriquet “Silk” came in 1979, with her first Tamil film Vandi Chakkaram, in which she played a bar girl named Silk. In a career spanning 17 years, she did over 450 films in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi languages. This birth anniversary of Silk Smitha has also become very special because of release of “The Dirty Picture”. The film is an account of the life of the doomed sex symbol Silk Smitha and Indian sexploitation films of the 1980s era, especially in Tamil film industry.
Both the brothers are busy in the election campaign for UP assembly elections. The result of this election will definitely has some impact on the future of these two brothers. But UP election is not point of my discussion. Today, I just want to compare Rahul and Varun on the basis of their style of delivering speeches.
First let me tell you what is Inflation? Then I will discuss, how food inflation is calculated. You might have heard old persons talking about how different things were when they were of your age. For example, it used to cost 50 paise to buy a cup of tea 20 years back, which costs 4 rupees now a days. When I started driving, the petrol price in India was 35 Rupees per litre. Now a days, one litre petrol may cost you around 70 Rupees. That’s called inflation. You can also call it price rise. Inflation is when a certain form of currency starts to have less value over time. The lesser value of currency causes increase in the average level of prices for goods and services. In other words, it is an index which represents how prices of goods and services as a whole are growing.