Our World with Ourself

2008 was a dark year for Bharat and Hindus . It was the year when the # SaffronTerror conspiracy that is now unravelling was woven at the highest levels of the UPA Government, and the year of the worst ever Islamist terror attack in Mumbai on 26/11 that top Congress leaders again tried to pin on RSS. But another event, which has faded from most memories, actually marked the beginning of that dark period in 2008 – the brutal murder & mutilation of a revered 82-year-old Hindu monk, Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati, at a girl’s residential school in Kandhamal, Odisha on this day, 23rd August, which also happened to be the day of the Hindu festival of Janmashtami that year. Who was Swami Lakshmanananda Saraswati and why did his brutal murder trigger rioting across Kandhamal district? This Indian Express article  tells us the inspirational life story of the Swami- “Born in 1924 in Gurujang village of Talcher, a coal-mining town i...

As India comes to terms with the mayhem wrecked by the Tablighi Jamaat Wuhan Virus cluster, uncovered at the end of March in Nizamuddin, Delhi, fears have risen on multiple fronts. Some believe that the rising numbers, and a sharp, allied reduction in the rate at which the number of cases double, might be indicative of a fearsome spread of the epidemic. Others fear that the lockdown might get extended on account of this development, further affecting the already heavy burden which has been placed on their daily routines and livelihood. In this piece, we explain why such fears are baseless. Instead, it is demonstrated that far from being a reason for worry, the uncovering of the Jamaat cluster, followed by an efficient medical quarantine of nearly 22,000 individuals associated with the Jamaat, actually reinforces the government’s views that we are not into that dreaded stage three of the epidemic (community transmission). This conclusion is based on an important distin...