THE
GOOD WORD
Oct 25, 2021 - Week 45
Volume 7S-24|
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PM Modi announces 100 crore
made-in-India
Covid vaccines administered in nine months
Bharat First
Oct 23, Only Hindus can
be appointed for
teaching and non-
teaching posts in
educational institutions
fully funded from the
revenue of temples,
Tamil Nadu government
told the Madras High
Court on Friday. There is
a clear bar against
recruiting non-Hindus
to
institutions run by the
HR&CE department,
Tamil Nadu advocate-
general told the court.
The submission was
made in response to a
public interest writ
petition challenging a
Hindu-only rule for
recruitment of staff to
Arulmigu Kapaleeswarar
Arts and Science College,
Chennai. Earlier, there
was outrage over an
advertisement calling for
only Hindu’s to apply.
The plea was made by
Suhail, who denied
recruitment as an office
assistant. His plea argues
that as the SC had said
the word Hindu does not
denote a religion even
Mulims could apply.
At: OpIndia,
HinduJagruti
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India, France, Germany
and Japan, are also
pursuing such a
weapons programme.
India has collaborated
with Russia for the
development of
BrahMos II, a Mach 7
hypersonic cruise
missile. It is likely to be
operational between
2025 and 2028. India is
also developing an
indigenous, dual-
capable hypersonic
cruise missile and has
successfully tested a
Mach 6 scramjet in June
2019 and September
2020. India operates
approximately 12
hypersonic wind tunnels
and is capable of testing
speeds of up to Mach
13 the report said.
Image ModernDiplomacy,
Firstpost
Oct 25, Union home
minister Amit Shah visited
Jammu and Kashmir (J&K)
in the wake of targeted
Hindu and Sikh civilians
killing in the last three
weeks by terrorists. The
National Investigation
Agency (NIA) has been
pressed into a probe of
four. 13 terrorists have
also been eliminated.
Shah said that those trying
to disrupt the era of
development in J&K, which
started after the
abrogation of Articles 370
and 35A, will be dealt with
severely. Civilians killed
has reduced from an
average of 208 per year
between 2004 and 2014,
to less than 35 per year
between 2014 and 2021.
The goal is to eliminate
such incidents entirely.
At Jammu, he said that the
era of discrimination
against Jammu in favour of
Kashmir is over. Both
Jammu and Kashmir would
see equal growth,
henceforth.
At: NewsOnAir,
DeccanChronicle
Oct 22, India is among a
select few countries that
are developing
hypersonic weapons,
missiles that fly at
speeds in excess of
Mach 5, or five times
the speed of sound, a US
Congressional report
said. China recently
tested a nuclear-capable
hypersonic missile which
circled the globe before
speeding towards and
missing its target by
about 25 miles,
demonstrating an
advanced space
capability that caught US
intelligence by surprise.
The report said that the
US, Russia and China
possess the most
advanced hypersonic
weapons some other
countries, Australia,
Sardar Patel Jayanti, Oct 31, 2021 –
image courtesy TheCivilIndia
Afghanistan play
T-20 World Cup,
use national flag
Cruise drug bust-Sameer Wankhede
refutes Malik’s floundering
charges
Amit Shah visits
Kashmir, addresses
targeted killings
Oct 20, the Indian
government has
delayed its supply for
the COVAX program as
global health body
World Health
Organisation (WHO)
continues to delay the
process of granting
emergency use
authorization (EUA) to
Covaxin, developed by
India’s homegrown
Oct 16, the ICC requires
every participating
country to submit its
flag before the start of a
cricket world event. The
Afghan team chose to
play under its erstwhile
national flag. The team
thrashed Scotland by
130 runs in their first
match.
The flag evoked much
support on social
media. Former vice
president Amrullah
Saleh tweeted a salute
the cricket heroes for
upholding national
values, lauding them for
singing the national
anthem and hoisting
the national flag in clear
defiance to the Pakistan
backed Taliban tyranny.
He continues to urge his
countrymen to resist
the Taliban
Image and content –
SportsKeeda,
Twitter, NewonAir
Oct 21, in a major blow
to Turkey the Financial
Action Task Force (FATF)
placed it on its grey list
for failing to check
terror financing. It
retained Pakistan in the
same category as well.
An assessment in
2019
had highlighted serious
issues regarding
Trukey’s effort to
combat money
laundering and terrorist
financing. The grey
listing is a worry for its
president Recep Tayyip
Erdogan as the nation's
economy is already
fragile and it will curtail
its power to raise
international
investment.
Besides denting a
country's image, the
grey-listing impacts a
nation's economy as it
makes it harder for
foreign investors to do
business in a country
that is blamed for
funding terror activities.
Grey listing of a nation
lessens the investor's
confidence in the
country.
At: JagranJosh
Turkey descends
to FATF grey
list,
joins ally Pakistan
Hyderabad based
Bharat Biotech.
By delaying the vaccine
supply, India has sent a
message to WHO that it
will respond to WHO’s
inordinate deferral in
vaccine clearance, with
a reciprocal
postponement in
discharging the
country’s obligations.
More at: TifPost
Oct 25, After the Indian
cricket team lost a T20
World Cup match to
Pakistan’s celebratory
fireworks started from a
number of Muslims
majority pockets in
India.
An FIR was lodged
against students of two
of Srinagar, Kashmir’s
colleges, who celebrated
Pakistan’s victory. They
were booked under the
Unlawful Activities
Prevention Act and
Indian Penal Code and
may be barred from
selection in government
jobs. In Sangrur, Punjab
Kashmiri students were
beaten up by students
from UP and Bihar for
cheering for Pakistan
and raising azadi
slogans. Cricketer
Gautam Gambhir
tweeted, ‘Those
bursting crackers on Pak
winning can’t be Indian!
We stand by our boys!’.
Compatriot, Virendra
Sehewag, echoed similar
sentiments on Twitter
At: Republic,
HinduPost,
OpIndia
Oct 25, the High Court
refused to grant a stay
on an order passed by a
Karnataka legislature
committee for
backward classes and
minority welfare, for a
survey of churches in
the state to weed out
the unauthorized ones
and check forced
religious conversions.
After the state
government passed the
order on Jul 7, a civil
liberties group had filed
a PIL in the High Court
demanding an interim
stay on the order. A
bench chaired by chief
justice Ritu Raj Awasthi
and justice Sachin
Shankar Mugdam issued
notices to the state
government giving
them three weeks to
file a response before
adjourning the hearing.
The state has asked
details of properties,
head of church and land
owners. Church and
prayer halls asked to
furnish these details are
reluctant to provide
them.
At: UdayaVani, TOI, NewsClick
Oct 24, India's first
indigenous aircraft
carrier (IAC) Vikrant
set sail for its second
sea trials ahead of its
planned induction into
the Indian Navy by
August next year.
The 40,000-tonne, 262
meter long, aircraft
carrier, the largest and
most complex warship
to be built in India, had
successfully completed
a five-day maiden sea
voyage in August.
Following the first sea
trials, the Navy had
said that the
performance of key
systems of the warship
was satisfactory. IAC
Vikrant will be the
second aircraft carrier
of the Indian Navy, the
existing one being INS
Vikramaditya, and
significantly up naval
capabilities in the
Indian Ocean.
LiveMint, Image - Fluegzeugforum
Aircraft Carrier
Vikrant starts 2
nd
phase of sea trial
the drive.
A day after India
achieved the milestone,
the PM addressed the
nation and recounted
how from a sense of
anxiety in the early
days of the pandemic,
with the collective will
and action of its
citizens, the country
had overcome the fear
and is now battling the
crises with a sense of
confidence. He recalled
how some concerns
were raised about the
stringent COVID-19
restrictions and vaccine
hesitancy. These were
handled in a manner
that considered the
needs of all. He also
stressed on the
concept of ‘Vocal for
Local'. ‘I urge all the
citizens to make ‘Make
in India' and ‘Vocal
for
Local' as much of a
movement as 'Swachch
Bharat Abhiyaan‘’, he
said.
The nationwide COVID-
19 vaccination drive
began in January this
year using the
indigenously made
Covaxin and Covishield
jabs. At: Image-AntiNews,
FirstPost, IndiaTVNews, DNAIndia
Oct 21, the total number
of COVID-19 vaccines
administered in India
crossed the 100-crore
milestone; a remarkable
feat using vaccines
manufactured in India.
It was also attained in a
short period of nine
months.
Prime minister (PM)
Modi tweeted, ‘India
scripts history. We are
witnessing the triumph
of Indian science,
enterprise and collective
spirit of 130 crore
Indians.’. He lauded
health care workers for
spearheading the
India amongst eight nations
testing
hypersonic missiles
– US report
Karnataka HC
refuses to stay a
survey of churches
In the Narcotics Control
Bureau (NCB) drug bust
on board a cruise ship,
Cordelia, that was on
its way to Goa at mid-
sea on October 2,
about 20 people,
including Aryan Khan,
son of actor Shahrukh
Khan have been
arrested. NCB Mumbai
zonal director Sameer
Wankhede has led the
probe.
Oct 25, Wankhede
rubbished a number of
allegations Nawab
Malik, Nationalist
Congress Party (NCP)
leader made against
him and his family.
Malik, whose son-in-
law was arrested and
imprisoned for eight
months by NCB in
another drug case, had
accused Wankhede of
trying to extort money
from Shahrukh Khan
along with other
charges. Sameer
refuted these pointing
out Malik was incorrect
that Wankhede was a
Muslim. Wankhede’s
father is a Hindu and
mother was a Muslim.
Malik was also wrong
that Wankhede’s
father’s name was
Dawood. It is
Dnyandev. Wankhede
did not extort money
from Shahrukh Khan. It
is implausible he would
have done so after
arresting Khan’s son.
Neither did he visit
Dubai as Malik alleged.
The Bombay High Court
is hearing a plea for
Aryan Khan’s bail,
where Khan has also
distanced himself from
Malik’s charges.
Image and content –
Republic,
ZeeNews, TheQuint,
FPJ
WHO denies Covaxin approval;
India
suspends vaccine donation to
WHO
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Shantanu Gupta
- Founder
Only Hindus in
schools funded by
Hindu temples
Consequences for
celebrating Pakistan
cricket win in India
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THE GOOD WORD
Republic Day. After
multiple assurances of
a peaceful tractor rally
by farmer leaders, the
mayhem that the
protesters created in
the national capital on
26th January
completely exposed
them. They used
tractors to mow down
policemen, they used
swords to attack cops
on duty, and they
denigrated the sanctity
of the Red Fort by
hoisting a religious flag
there. They did
everything possible to
provoke the police to
fire on them and to
later showcase the
Modi dispensation as
an anti-farmer
government. But Delhi
Police’s commendable
restraint did not fulfill
their objective. By that
time the Modi
government had
completed a dozen
rounds of talks with the
farmer
representatives—which
resulted in an impasse
as these leaders
adopted a ‘my way or
high way’ negotiation
strategy through the
discussions.
The agitation kept
touching new lows
since then. Protesters
started joining hands
with international anti-
India lobbies. This was
revealed when climate
environmentalist Greta
Thunberg inadvertently
revealed the sinister
global campaign
against India after she
accidentally shared a
‘Toolkit’ for those who
wanted to run a
massive online anti-
India campaign in the
garb of ‘farmer
protests’ in the
country. One of the
stated objectives of
this toolkit was to
disrupt the ‘Yoga and
Chai’ image of India.
After a point it became
difficult to keep track
of the illegal activities
happening either at
the protest sites or by
these protestors
elsewhere. A 25-year-
old woman activist,
who had travelled all
the way from West
Bengal to join the
farmers’ protest at the
Tikri border, was
allegedly raped on the
way to Delhi and then
at the Tikri border.
There was a complete
silence from ‘farmer
leaders’ like Yogendra
Yadav on such heinous
acts against women.
Another protestor, 42-
year-old Mukesh from
Kasar village, camping
at the Tikri border,
succumbed to burn
injuries after fellow
protestors allegedly set
him ablaze over a
dispute. A shocking
video of him being set
on fire has gone viral
on social media where
one can also hear the
casteist abuses being
thrown at him before
he was set ablaze
What happened at
Lakhimpur Kheri in
Uttar Pradesh over the
weekend was a natural
extension of this
dishonest agitation in
the name of farmers.
Nine people lost their
life—three BJP
volunteers, one driver,
four protesters and one
mediaperson. As per
the field reports, driver
Hari Om Mishra was
driving the vehicle
which allegedly got
pelted with stones by
the protestors. To
escape the mob fury,
he reportedly speeded
up and lost balance and
crushed a few
protestors. Then the
protestors, as per
reports, pulled the
driver and BJP workers
and lynched them to
death, beating them
with sticks and swords.
A local reporter
covering the incident
too was lynched by these
farmers. A few days back
Rakesh Tikait had openly
warned the media to fall
in line and his followers
seemed to have executed
his wishes at Lakhimpur.
In the last one year of
these protests, three lies
have been fed to us and
they all stand exposed
today. First, we were told
that it’s a protest of 20
crore farmers of India,
which has turned out to
be a protest of 2.25
states—Punjab, Haryana
and a few districts of
western Uttar Pradesh.
Second, we were told
that this is an apolitical
movement; today,
it has become a platform
to revive the fortunes of
a few failed and aspiring
political leaders and their
parties. Third, we were
told that it was a peaceful
movement but its true
nature got exposed
during the Republic Day
and at several events
thereafter.
Now it’s amply clear that
it was never meant to be
a farmer protest!
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Image above - A vehicle
set ablaze after violence
broke out following
protesting farmers were
allegedly run over by a
vehicle in the convoy of a
Union minister in
Lakhimpur Kheri. PTI
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defended these farm
reforms, took a U-turn
in the pressure of
ceding ground to the
Congress in Punjab.
The Aam Aadmi Party,
which supported similar
reforms in their
manifesto for Punjab,
also changed their
stand. All these parties
kept farmer’s larger
interests at stake to
gain political dividends.
No wonder, this
intellectually dishonest
farmers’ protest took
different garbs: In
Punjab, it became a
protest of Arhatiya; in
Haryana, it was pushed
as a matter of Jat pride;
and in western Uttar
Pradesh, farmer protest
became a way to
advance the political
interest of Rakesh Tikait
and his family.
Because the intentions
were dishonest, the
outcomes of the protest
were also vicious. The
agitation which started
as a protest against the
three farm laws soon
became the stage for
multiple things—some
protestors wanted the
release of the likes of
Umar Khalid and
Sharjeel Imam, while
others wanted Elgar
Parishad activists
booked for the Bhima
Koregaon case freed.
The so-called farmer
protest showed its true
colours on the 2021
Let the man, who knows
no better, work for
selfish ends, for name
and fame; but everyone
should always try to get
towards higher and
higher motives and to
understand them. "To
work we have the right,
but not to the fruits
thereof:" Leave the
fruits alone. Why care
for results? If you wish
to help a man, never
think what that man's
attitude should be
towards you. If you
want to do a great or a
good work, do not
trouble to think what
the result will be.
There arises a difficult
question in this ideal of
work. Intense activity is
necessary; we must
always work. We cannot
live a minute without
work. What then
becomes of rest? Here
is one side of the life-
struggle — work, in
which we are whirled
rapidly round. And here
is the other — that of
calm, retiring
renunciation:
everything is peaceful
around, there is very
little of noise and show,
only nature with her
animals and flowers and
mountains. Neither of
them is a perfect
picture. A man used to
solitude, if brought in
contact with the surging
whirlpool of the world,
will be crushed by it;
just as the fish that lives
in the deep sea water,
as soon as it is brought
to the surface, breaks
into pieces, deprived of
the weight of water on
it that had kept it
together. Can a man
who has been used to
the turmoil and the rush
of life live at ease if he
comes to a quiet place?
He suffers and
perchance may lose his
mind. The ideal man is
he who, in the midst of
the greatest silence and
solitude, finds the
intensest activity, and in
the midst of the
intensest activity finds
the silence and solitude
of the desert.
Swami Vivekananda
Karma Yoga
a series of extracts
Swami Vivekananda Image courtesy Newsgram.com;
By opposing the
farm reform bills,
in Punjab every
political party
started a contest
to appear as a
bigger messiah of
the middlemen
lobby and rich
farmers
Minister Narendra
Modi introduced three
farm laws to provide
farmers a wider choice
to sell their produce,
everyone took a royal
U-turn in the pressure
of the resourceful
middlemen lobby and
unions represented by
the large farmers.
In fact, Rakesh Tikait,
the face of farmers’
movement today, had
initially supported the
farm laws and
congratulated the
prime minister after
the laws were passed,
saying it would bring
peace to Mahendra
Tikait’s soul, his father
who vouched for
similar laws three
decades ago. Owing to
these opportunistic
about-turns, Modi
called the opposition
for farm reforms
intellectual dishonesty
(rajneetik
dhokhadhadi).
By opposing the farm
reform bills, in Punjab
every political party
started a contest to
appear as a bigger
messiah of the
middlemen lobby and
rich farmers. Punjab
Congress burnt the
symbol of agriculture—
‘a tractor’—in front of
India Gate to get
traction. Shiromani
Akali Dal, whose leader
Harsimrat Kaur Badal
once vociferously
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Author-Shantanu Gupta
We all must have
written essays in our
school days on ‘How to
improve conditions of
farmers in India’. And all
our essays even two
decades back invariably
included freeing
farmers from the
middleman (Arhatiyas),
to improve the
condition of farmers in
India. Many economists
said the same thing
through their respective
economic models—that
farmers should have a
choice to sell their
produce on their terms
to the buyers he wants
to sell, and he should
not be restricted to
local mandis alone.
Political parties like the
Indian National
Congress, the Aam
Aadmi Party, the
Nationalist Congress
Party, the Shiromani
Akali Dal and others
talked in favour of
removing the
Agricultural Produce
Market Committee
(APMC) Act at different
points of time. But in
2020, when Prime
Farm protests have
never been about farmers, Lakhimpur
Kheri vindicates that again
