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Mar 28, 2022 - Week 13

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Yogi Adityanath sworn in as Chief Minister of UP,

a second time, at a grand ceremony

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Mar 25, addressing the

Lok Sabha, Union Law

Minister, Kiren Rijiju

said that the

government was

considering the linkage

of the Aadhaar card to

the electoral roll. He

said, ‘As of now linking

Aadhaar with electoral

rolls is voluntary. Our

aim is to ensure “one

nation, one electoral

roll” to check double

names in electoral rolls,

prevent fraudulent

voting and ensure a

clean voting process,”.

The government has

also asked the Election

Commission to examine

how overseas Indians

could cast a vote online,

Rijiju added. Asked if

the source code of the

Electronic Voting

Machines (EVM) is

restricted only to the

manufacturer or also

available with the

government, the

ministers replied that it

is akin to the

appointment of judges,

once the government

appoints the judge, they

become independent.

At: IndiaTVNews

World Water Day, Mar 22, image courtesy Fm104

Countdown begins

for Pakistan’s

Khan government

Mar 28, just a few hours

remain before Pakistan’s

Imran Khan led

government faces a no-

confidence motion.

Prime Minister (PM)

Khan’s party has 155

seats and relies on

collation partners to

cross the majority mark

of 172 seats.

Opposition parties

organized a big rally on

the Srinagar Highway,

Islamabad on Monday.

Maryam Nawaz,

daughter of the former

three-time premier

Nawaz Sharif, castigated

Khan for playing the

religion-card to save his

throne. Under attack for

spiraling commodity

prices, Khan was

accused of sacrificing his

most trusted Punjab

Chief Minister, Usman

Buzdar, to win the

support of the PML-Q

party. Nawaz said the

ruling party's defeat in

15 out of 16 by-elections

recently, showed the

people have rejected it.

At: IndiaTVNews

Mar 26, External Affairs

Minister, S Jaishankar

candidly addressed

visiting Chinese Foreign

Minister, Wang Yi’s

overture seeking

normalcy in the Indo-

Chinese ties, stressing

that where there is

friction at the borders,

bilateral ties cannot be

normal. Jaishankar said

ties, ‘cannot be normal if

the situation in the

border areas is

abnormal. And surely the

presence of a large

number of troops there

in contravention of

agreements is

abnormality.’

Yi had approached India,

after India’s repeated

abstinence from voting

against Russia in UN

sessions on Russia-

Ukraine war, to the

consternation of the US

and the West. Yi had said

China does not seek a

unipolar-Asia and would

like to normalize ties

with India. The world

would take note if the

two, work hand in hand,

Yi had said.

At: TelegraphIndia

India: China can’t

wangle out

of border dispute

Mar 24, Terming the legal

clash between former

Mumbai Police

Commissioner Param Bir

Singh and former

Maharashtra Home

Minister Anil Deshmukh

as a ‘battle royale’, the

Supreme Court (SC)

ordered a CBI probe into

all cases lodged against

Singh by the state Police.

The apex court

emphasized the need of a

thorough investigation. It

did not revoke the top

cop’s suspension but did

clarify that any future

FIR’s filed against him

would also be probed by

the CBI. It did not issue a

clean chit to the former

Commissioner but

asserted that to restore

the faith of the people in

the top echelons of the

Maharashtra Police a fair

and impartial probe was

required. The state’s

counsel had vehemently

argued against

transferring the cases to

CBI. The police will now

hand over 5 FIRs and two

PEs, to the CBI within a

week and render all

assistance to it. At: ZeeNews

Rijiju mulling

linking Aadhaar

with voter ID card

Prime Minister

Narendra Modi, Home

Minister Amit Shah,

Defence Minister

Rajnath Singh, and CMs

of all BJP-ruled states

including Nitish Kumar

of Bihar, were among

the galaxy of leaders

present at the mega

event. Industrialists

and celebrities were

generously represented

too.

The Yogi cabinet 2.0,

comprises of 18 cabinet

rank ministers, 14

ministers of state with

independent charge

and 20 state ministers.

32 new faces have been

given place in the new

cabinet. Of 32, nine

have got Cabinet rank,

seven Minister of State

with Independent

Charge and 16 Ministers

of State. Two BJP allies,

Apna Dal (S) and

NISHAD party, have also

secured a Cabinet

Minister berth each. 26

former ministers,

including some

prominent faces, have

failed to make it this

time. The only Muslim

minister in previous

cabinet has been

replaced by another,

Danish Azad Ansari from

Ballia. At: NewIndianExpress,

Image: Twitter and TOI

Mar 25, after winning a

decisive mandate in

2022 Assembly election,

Yogi Adityanath, on

Friday, took oath the

second time as Chief

Minister (CM) of Uttar

Pradesh. He become

the first chief minister to

return to power after

completing a successful

tenure of five years,

after a span of 37 years

in UP.

At a grand swearing-in

ceremony, at the Atal

Bihari Vajpayee Ekana

Stadium in Lucknow,

Yogi Adityanath and his

52-member cabinet took

their oaths of office.

‘The Kashmir Files’ grosses over ₹224

crore, AM Khan suggests probe needed

Mar 27, With ‘The Kashmir File’ film having grossed over ₹224 crores, the need

for a fresh investigation into the genocide of Kashmiri Hindus is being raised. In

an interview on TimesNow, when asked, if a fresh probe was needed, Kerala

Governor, Arif Mohammad Khan, replied, ‘I don't find anything wrong with

someone demanding a commission of inquiry be set up.’ At least if will present a

set of authentic, official facts, he added. TimesNow , SeeLatest Image:Twitter

Mar 26, the Jammu and

Kashmir (J&K) police has

announced that it will

attach properties of

people providing shelter

to militants or their

associates under the

Unlawful Activities

(Prevention) Act (UAPA).

Action will be taken only

if the house owner

‘wilfully harboured

terrorists’ and there was

no duress. However, the

onus of proving that the

house was turned over

for occupation under

duress will be on the

house owner.

SSP Balwal said ‘We also

request citizens not to

provide shelter or

harbour terrorists’.

There is and will always

be zero tolerance

towards terrorism.

Image:TheHimalayanPost At:UriMuri

Mar 26, in an explosive

revelation about Disha

Salian’s murder, BJP

MLA Nitesh Rane

addressed the

Maharashtra Legislative

Assembly and said he

had a pen drive and

transcript in his

possession of an

eyewitness account of

Disha Salian’s gang rape

and alleged murder,

reiterating that a state

minister was involved.

Saying he drew lessons

from the ‘pen drive

University’ of Devendra

Fadnavis, he posed, if

the former Maharashtra

CM can make two pen

drives, why can’t he

make at least one.

At: OpIndia

Mar 21, TMC MP

Abhishek Banerjee and his

wife reached for

questioning by the

Enforcement Directorate

(ED) in a money

laundering case linked to

the coal scam in West

Bengal.

After the Bengal

Assembly elections, in

September last year,

Banerjee was quizzed by

ED for more than eight

hours. The couple had

sought direction from the

Delhi High Court (HC) to

the ED that they should

not be summoned for

appearance in Delhi since

they are residents of

West Bengal. On March

11 the HC dismissed the

couple’s plea upholding

the summons.

The ED had claimed that

documents seized by it

show that substantial

funds derived from the

proceeds of crime, illegal

coal mining under political

patronage were

transferred to Banerjee's

close relatives, wife and

sister-in-law, at London

and Thailand.

At: IndiaTVNews, News18

J&K Police to attach property used to

plan militant attack or shelter them

Budanov, accused Russia

of trying to split the

country into two, like

North and South Korea.

On Friday, Polish Prime

Minister Mateusz

Morawiecki lamented the

disunity within the EU

faulting Germany, Austria

and Hungary for not

blocking trade ties with

Russia. Russia had asked

‘unfriendly countries’ to

pay for Russian gas

imports in rubles. The

decision comes in

response to the West

freezing more than $300

billion of Russian assets.

Moscow has also alleged

Hunter Biden was

involved in financing bio-

labs in Ukraine.

At: RT-1-2-3, SwissInfo

Image: Dubainine

Russia-Ukraine invasion: Russia

accused of trying to split Ukraine

Mar 27, a month into

the invasion of Ukraine,

Russian forces have laid

sieged to key Ukrainian

cities and occupied large

swathes of land to the

north, east and south of

the country. While the

Ukrainian military has

not launched a

noticeable counter

offensive either by air,

or using missiles or with

artillery, its disjointed

force appears to be

fighting a guerilla war to

resist Russian forces in

cities. Where guerilla

fighters mix with

civilians to evade

detection they end up

jeopardizing innocent

lives to Russian assault.

Ukraine’s military

intelligence head, Kyrylo

Supreme Court

assigns Param Bir

Singh cases to CBI

Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile approaches Russian MI-34 chopper

Rane: Have Disha

Salian death eye-

witness account

Mar 23, The Enforcement

Directorate (ED) has

provisionally attached

assets worth ₹ 6.45 crore,

including 11 residential

flats at Thane, belonging

to a company owned by

Shridhar Patankar,

brother-in-law of

Maharashtra Chief

Minister (CM) Uddhav

Thackeray. Patankar is the

CM’s wife and editor of

Samana, Rashmi

Thackeray’s, brother. The

action follows a money-

laundering case registered

against Pushpak Bullion

and other group

companies under the

PMLA, and so far the ED

has attached properties

worth ₹ 21.46 crore.

Separately, an IT probe

has found an entry in Shiv

Sena leader Yashwant

Jadhav’s diary, stating a

gift of ₹ 2 crore and watch

worth ₹ 50 lac was

presented to ‘Matoshree’.

Jadhav has claimed

‘Matoshree’ referred to

his mother and not the

CM’s residence.

At: OpIndia, ZeeNews, TimesofIndia

Mar 25, In a significant

development, the

Calcutta High Court (HC)

transferred the

investigation into the

Birbhum massacre, in

which 8 people were

burnt alive allegedly to

avenge a TMC leaders

death, to the Central

Bureau of Investigation

(CBI). The HC has

instructed the state SIT

to stop further

investigation. It directed

the CBI to submit a

progress report by Apr

7th.

Prime Minister Modi

condemned the Birbhum

violence and asked the

state government to

take strict action. Noting

that more than 200 BJP

workers have been killed

so far in the state, BJP's

National Vice President,

Dilip Ghosh, questioned

why the Mamata

Banerjee-led

government was taking

no action. 22 people

had been arrested in the

Birbhum case so far.

At: RepublicWorld

Thackeray besieged,

ED seizes relative’s

assets, IT alleges gift

Birbhum massacre:

Calcutta High Court

assigns case to CBI

ED quizzes Mamata

nephew, Abhishek

Banerjee in Delhi

war in Ukraine was

“regime change”?

Second, do you agree

that Ukraine is being

used as a staging ground

for the US to carry out a

proxy-war on Russia?

Larry C. Johnson– Doug is

great analyst but I

disagree with him—I

don’t think there is

anyone in the Biden

Administration that is

smart enough to think

and plan in those

strategic terms. In my

view the last 7 years

have been the inertia of

the NATO status quo.

What I mean by that is

that NATO and

Washington, believed

they could continue to

creep east on Russia’s

borders without

provoking a reaction.

NATO and EUCOM

regularly carried out

exercises—including

providing “offensive”

training—and supplied

equipment. I believe

reports in the United

States that the CIA was

providing paramilitary

training to Ukrainian

units operating in the

Donbass are credible.

But I have trouble

believing that after our

debacles in Iraq and

Afghanistan, we

suddenly have Sun Tzu

level strategists pulling

the strings in

Washington.

There is an air of

desperation in

Washington. Besides

trying ban all things

Russian, the Biden

Administration is trying

to bully China, India and

Saudi Arabia. I do not see

any of those countries

falling into line. I believe

the Biden crew made a

fatal mistake by trying to

demonize all things and

all people Russian. If

anything, this is uniting

the Russian people

behind Putin and they

are ready to dig in for a

long struggle.

I am shocked at the

miscalculation in thinking

economic sanctions on

Russia would bring them

to their knees. The

opposite is true. Russia is

self-sufficient and is not

dependent on imports.

Its exports are critical to

the economic well-being

of the West. If they

withhold wheat, potash,

gas, oil, palladium,

finished nickel and other

key minerals from the

West, the European and

U.S. economies will be

savaged. And this

attempt to coerce Russia

with sanctions has now

made it very likely that

the U.S. dollar’s role as

the international reserve

currency will show up in

the dustbin of history.

Question 4– Ever since

he delivered his famous

speech in Munich in

2007, Putin has been

complaining about the

“architecture of global

security”. In Ukraine we

can see how these

nagging security issues

can evolve into a full-

blown war. As you

know, in December

Putin made a number of

demands related to

Russian security, but the

Biden administration

shrugged them off and

never responded. Putin

wanted written

assurances that NATO

expansion would not

include Ukraine

(membership) and that

nuclear missile systems

would not be deployed

to Romania or Poland.

Do you think Putin’s

demands are

unreasonable?

Larry C. Johnson– I think

Putin’s demands are quite

reasonable. The problem

is that 99% of Americans

have no idea of the kind

of military provocation

that NATO and the U.S.

have carried out over the

last 7 years. The public

was always told the

military exercises were

“defensive.” That simply

is not true. Now we have

news that DTRA was

funding biolabs in

Ukraine. I guess Putin

could agree to allow U.S.

nuclear missile systems in

Poland and Romania if

Biden agrees to allow

comparable Russian

systems to be deployed

in Cuba, Venezuela and

Mexico. When we look at

it in those terms we can

begin to understand that

Putin’s demands are not

crazy nor unreasonable.

Question 5– Russian

media reports that

Russian “high precision,

air-launched” missiles

struck a facility in west

Ukraine “killing more

than 100 local troops and

foreign mercenaries.”

Apparently, the Special

Operations training

center was located near

the town of Ovruch

which is just 15 miles

from the Polish border.

What can you tell us

about this incident? Was

Russia trying to send a

message to NATO?

Larry C. Johnson– Short

answer—YES! Russian

military strikes in

Western Ukraine during

the past week have

shocked and alarmed

NATO officials. The first

blow came on Sunday,

March 13 at Yavoriv,

Ukraine. Russia hit the

base with several

missiles, some reportedly

hypersonic. Over 200

personnel were killed,

which included American

and British military and

intelligence personnel,

and hundreds more

wounded. Many suffered

catastrophic wounds,

such as amputations, and

are in hospital. Yet, NATO

and the western media

have shown little interest

in reporting on this

disaster.

Yavoriv was an important

forward base for NATO

(see here). Until

February (prior to

Russia’s invasion of

Ukraine), the U.S. 7th

Army Training Command

was operating from

Yavoriv as late as mid-

February. Russia has not

stopped there. ASB

Military news reports

Russia hit another site,

Delyatyn, which is 60

miles southeast of

Yavoriv (on Thursday I

believe). Yesterday,

Russia hit Zytomyr,

another site where NATO

previously had a

presence. Putin has sent

a very clear message—

NATO forces in Ukraine

will be viewed and

treated as combatants.

Period.

Question 6– Ukrainian

President Volodymyr

Zelensky has been

lionized in the western

media as a “wartime

leader” and a modern-

day “Winston Churchill”.

What the media fails to

tell its readers is that

Zelensky has taken a

number of steps to

strengthen his grip on

power while damaging

fragile democratic

institutions in Ukraine.

For example, Zelensky

has “banned eleven

opposition-owned news

organizations” and tried

to bar the head of

Ukraine’s largest

opposition party, Viktor

Medvedchuk, from

running for office on a

bogus “terrorist

financing” charge. This

is not the behavior of a

leader that is seriously

committed to

democracy.

What’s your take on

Zelensky? Is he really the

“patriotic leader” the

media makes him out to

be?

Larry C. Johnson–

Zelensky is a comedian

and an actor. Not a very

good one at that in my

view. The West is

cynically using the fact

he is Jewish as a

diversion from the size-

able contingent of Neo-

Nazis (and I mean

genuine Nazis who still

celebrate the Ukrainian

Waffen SS unit’s

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used to supply fighters

and weapons to

Ukraine. A large

number of the military

and civilian personnel

at that base became

casualties.

Not only is Russia

striking and destroying

bases used by NATO

regularly since 2015,

but there was no air

raid warning and there

was no shutdown of

the attacking missiles.

Question 2– Why is

the media trying to

convince the Ukrainian

people that they can

prevail in their war

against Russia? If what

you say is correct,

then all the civilians

that are being sent to

fight the Russian army,

are dying in a war they

can’t win. I don’t

understand why the

media would want to

mislead people on

something so serious.

What are your

thoughts on the

matter?

Larry C. Johnson– This

is a combination of

ignorance and laziness.

Rather than do real

reporting, the vast

majority of the media

(print and electronic)

as well as Big Tech are

supporting a massive

propaganda campaign.

I remember when

George W. Bush was

Hitler. I remember

when Donald Trump

was Hitler. And now we

have a new Hitler,

Vladimir Putin. This is a

tired, failed playbook.

Anyone who dares to

raise legitimate

questions about is

immediately tarred as

a Putin puppet or a

Russia stooge. When

you cannot argue facts

the only recourse is

name calling.

Question 3– Last

week, Colonel Douglas

MacGregor was a

guest on the Tucker

Carlson

Show. His views on

the war are strikingly

similar to your own.

Here’s what he said in

the interview:

Do you agree with

MacGregor that the

real purpose of

goading Russia into a

Swami Vivekananda Image courtesy Newsgram.com;

destroyed that column

from the air. That did not

happen. Or, if they had a

viable cruise missile

capability they should

have rained down hell on

the supposedly stalled

Russian column. That did

not happen. The

Ukrainians did not even

mount a significant

infantry ambush of the

column with their newly

supplied U.S. Javelins.

The scale and scope of

the Russian attack is

remarkable. They

captured territory in

three weeks that is

larger than the land mass

of the United Kingdom.

They then proceeded to

carry out targeted

attacks on key cities and

military installations. We

have not seen a single

instance of a Ukrainian

regiment or brigade size

unit attacking and

defeating a comparable

Russian unit. Instead, the

Russians have split the

Ukrainian Army into

fragments and cut their

lines of communication.

The Russians are

consolidating their

control of Mariupol and

have secured all

approaches on the Black

Sea. Ukraine is now cut

off in the South and the

North.

I would note that the

U.S. had a tougher time

capturing this much

territory in Iraq in 2003

while fighting against a

far inferior, less capable

military force. If

anything, this Russian

operation should scare

the hell out of U.S.

military and political

leaders.

The really big news came

this week with the

Russian missile strikes on

what are de facto NATO

bases in Yavoriv and

Zhytomyr. NATO

conducted cyber security

training at

Zhytomyr in September

2018 and described

Ukraine as a “NATO

partner.” Zhytomyr was

destroyed with

hypersonic missiles on

Saturday. Yavoriv

suffered a similar fate

last Sunday. It was the

primary training and

logistics center that

NATO and EUCOM

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'Larry C Johnson is a

veteran of the CIA and

the State Department’s

Office of Counter

Terrorism. He provided

training to the US

Military’s Special

Operations community

for 24 years.'

Question 1– Can you

explain to me why you

think Russia is winning

the war in Ukraine?

Larry C. Johnson– Within

the first 24 hours of the

Russian military

operation in Ukraine, all

Ukrainian Ground Radar

Intercept capabilities

were wiped out. Without

those radars, the

Ukrainian Air Force lost

its ability to do air to air

intercept. In the

intervening three weeks,

Russia has established a

de facto No Fly Zone over

Ukraine. While still

vulnerable to shoulder

fired Surface to Air

Missiles supplied by the

U.S. and NATO to the

Ukrainians, there is no

evidence that Russia has

had to curtail Combat Air

Operations.

Russia’s arrival in Kiev

within three days of the

invasion also caught my

attention. I recalled that

the Nazi’s in Operation

Barbarossa took seven

weeks to reach Kiev and

the required 7 more

weeks to subdue the city.

The Nazis had the

advantage of not pulling

punches to avoid civilian

casualties and were

eager to destroy critical

infrastructure. Yet many

so-called American

military experts claimed

that Russia was bogged

down. When a 24 mile

(or 40 mile, depends on

the news source) was

positioned north of Kiev

for more than a week, it

was clear that Ukraine’s

ability to launch

significant military

operations had been

eliminated. If their

artillery was intact, then

that column was easy

pickings for massive

destruction. That did not

happen. Alternatively, if

the Ukrainian’s had a

viable fixed wing or

rotary wing capability

they should have

accomplishments while

fighting with the Nazis in

WW II). The facts are

clear—he is banning

opposition political

parties and shutting

down opposition media. I

guess that is the new

definition of

“democracy.”

Question 7– How does

this end? There’s an

excellent post at the

Moon of Alabama site

titled “What Will Be The

Geographic End State Of

The War In Ukraine“.

The author of the post,

Bernard, seems to think

that Ukraine will

eventually be

partitioned along the

Dnieper River “and

south along the coast

that holds a majority

ethnic Russian

population.” He also

says this:

What do you think? Will

Putin impose his own

territorial settlement on

Ukraine in order to

reinforce Russian

security and bring the

hostilities to an end or is

a different

scenario more likely?

Larry C. Johnson– I agree

with Moon. Putin’s

primary objective is to

secure Russia from

foreign threats and

effect a divorce with the

West. Russia has the

physical resources to be

an independent

sovereign and is in the

process of making that

vision come true.

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“The war is really

over for the

Ukrainians. They

have been ground

into bits, there is no

question about that

despite what we

hear from our

mainstream media.

So, the real question

for us at this stage

is, Tucker, are we

going to live with

the Russian people

and their

government or we

going to continue to

pursue this sort of

regime change

dressed up as a

Ukrainian war? Are

we going to stop

using Ukraine as a

battering ram

against Moscow,

which is effectively

what we’ve done.”

(Tucker Carlson–

MacGregor

Interview)

“This would eliminate

Ukrainian access to the

Black Sea and create a

land bridge towards

the Moldavian

breakaway Transnistria

which is under Russian

protection. The rest of

the Ukraine would be

a land confined,

mostly agricultural

state, disarmed and

too poor to be build up

to a new threat to

Russia anytime soon.

Politically it would be

dominated by fascists

from Galicia which

would then become a

major problem for the

European Union.”

Allegations made by

Chaiti Narula

A few hours before

Tuhin’s tweet, Chaiti

Narula had also

pointed out that her

Wikipedia page was

heavily vandalised. She

said, “The same guy who

wiped out my review of

#KashmirFiles from

Wikipedia completely

vandalised my wiki

profile. If I knew who

made mine, I would have

taken it up. But I have no

clue. Heads up – the

profile is hacked,

vandalised by this chap.”

She further added in a

follow-up tweet that

someone in her circle

found that the person

who vandalised her

profile was the same

person who vandalised

The Kashmir Files page,

and both edits were

being done at the same

time.

Upon investigation, we

noticed that her

Wikipedia page had been

deleted.

When checked for

archived snapshots of

her Wiki page, we found

that it was captured once

on March 18, 2022.

When we checked the

archived page, it was

evident that

TrangaBellam, the same

person who was

continuously vandalising

The Kashmir Files page

on Wikipedia, was

behind the request to

delete the page. As no

one countered the

request, the page was

deleted on March 20,

2022. The date can be

noticed on the Deletion

Request Notice available

on the archived page.

We also found that the

page was created by a

user, Gocrazy69, in

October 2019.

When he found that the

page was deleted by

TrangaBellam, he had

requested him to restore

it, but by the time we

published the report,

TrangaBellam had not

replied. In the reason for

the proposed deletion,

TrangaBellam had

mentioned that the page

needed some edits as

proposed, and if no

action was taken, the

page could be deleted.

A few things that must

be known about

Wikipedia

First of all, Wikipedia is

an open-source

encyclopedia that

started with the aim to

provide the latest

updates about

everything, including

people, countries, things

and events etc.

However, as time passed

by, the left-leaning

elements took over the

powers, which was

confirmed by the

founder himself in an

interview with OpIndia.

Because Wikipedia can

be edited and on

multiple occasions, it has

been pointed out that

the editors are often

biased towards political

and religious sides of

their choice, the website

must not be considered

as a genuine source of

information. Now, let’s

come to the interesting

part of the discussion. Do

you know what

Wikipedia itself says

about being a source of

reliable Because

Wikipedia can be edited

and on multiple

occasions, it has been

pointed out that the

editors are often biased

towards political and

religious sides of their

choice, the website must

not be considered as a

genuine source of

information. Now, let’s

come to the interesting

part of the discussion. Do

you know what

Wikipedia itself says

about being a source of

reliable information?

Well, as per Wikipedia,

and we are not changing

the words, “Wikipedia is

not a reliable source for

academic writing or

research. Nevertheless,

Wikipedia is increasingly

used by people in the

academic community,

from first-year students

to distinguished

professors, as an easily

accessible tertiary source

for information about

anything and everything

and as a quick “ready

reference” to get a sense

of a concept or idea.”

It further reads,

“However, citation of

Wikipedia in research

papers may be

considered unacceptable

because Wikipedia is not

a reliable source. Many

colleges and

universities, as well as

public and private

secondary schools, have

policies that prohibit

students from using

Wikipedia as their source

for doing research

papers, essays, or

equivalent assignments.

This is because anyone

can edit Wikipedia at any

moment. When an error

is recognised, it is

usually fixed. However,

because Wikipedia

cannot monitor

thousands of edits

made every day, some

of those edits could

contain vandalism or

could be simply wrong

and left unnoticed for

days, weeks, months,

or even years.”

When we looked at the

links cited by Wikipedia

itself about it is

genuine or not as a

reliable source, we

noticed several links

dated back to decades

demanding its ban in

the academic circle. In

a 2006 article by

Andrew Orlowski at

The Register, it was

discussed how using

Wikipedia could harm

the grades of the

students. In 2007, in an

article in The Guardian,

it was mentioned that

the students had been

warned not to cite

Wikipedia.

It is noteworthy that

anyone, literally

anyone, can create,

edit, vandalise and

delete content on

Wikipedia. It is up to

senior editors of the

website to allow or

revert the change. In

many cases, the editors

or high-ranking

contributors

themselves make

decisions that could be

otherwise deemed

unethical in the field of

academia. With the

recent chain of events

revolving around The

Kashmir Files and the

deletion of profiles of

celebrated journalists

and authors, it is clear

that Wikipedia holds no

authentication when it

comes to unbiased and

genuine content.

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He added, “I

approached a couple of

people who had edited

Wikipedia pages in the

past. I was actually

informed that the page

had been deleted. Now

I am absolutely

appalled that there is

clearly

somebody from the left

ecosystem which is

keeping a watch on

everybody who is

speaking in favour of

The Kashmir Files and

who is calling out the

left-liberal ecosystem

on the issue. Because I

have been very

proactive in speaking in

favour of The Kashmir

Files as a panel

representative and

spokesperson of the

BJP and also I have

spoken a lot on the

Kashmir issue in the

last several years

including having

written a book on the

issue.”

Adding that he was

taking up the issue

with authorities, he

said, “So I am sure

somebody is keeping a

watch. Somebody does

not want the truth of

the Kashmir massacre

to be out. It is very

surprising that in India

today, the big tech

companies somewhere

employ sleeper cells

within the country to

curb the freedom of

speech of right-wing

nationals, and I am

taking up the issue.

Let’s see where it

goes.”

In a follow-up tweet,

Tuhin sought if

Wikipedia has an office

in India as other tech

companies have to

follow the laws of the

land, and Wikipedia

should be forced to

comply as

well.

She was the most

beautiful princess in

the world, and the

husband of the

princess would be

ruler of the kingdom

after her father's

death. The idea of this

princess was to marry

the handsomest man,

but she could not find

the right one to please

her. Several times

these meetings had

taken place, but the

princess could not

select a husband. This

meeting was the most

splendid of all; more

people than ever had

come to it. The

princess came in on a

throne, and the

bearers carried her

from place to place.

She did not seem to

care for any one, and

every one became

disappointed that this

meeting also was

going to be a failure.

Just then came a

young man, a

Sannyasin, handsome

as if the sun had come

down to the earth, and

stood in one corner of

the assembly,

watching what was

going on. The throne

with the princess came

near him, and as soon

as she saw the

beautiful Sannyasin,

she stopped and threw

the garland over him.

The young Sannyasin

seized the garland and

threw it off,

exclaiming, "What

nonsense is this? I am

a Sannyasin. What is

marriage to me?" The

king of that country

thought that perhaps

this man was poor and

so dared not marry

the princess, and said

to him, "With my

daughter goes half my

kingdom now, and the

whole kingdom after

my death!" and put

the garland again on

the Sannyasin. The

young man threw it off

once more, saying,

"Nonsense! I do not

want to marry," and

walked quickly away

from the assembly.

Swami Vivekananda

Karma Yoga

a series of extracts

Swami Vivekananda Image courtesy Newsgram.com;

investigation, we found

that a newly created

page existed on

Wikipedia under his

name, which was

scheduled for deletion

as per the Wikipedia

regulations that

suggested a deleted

page cannot be

recreated.

For this page, Shirt58

had applied for speedy

deletion. However, later

the tag was removed as

the page was edited.

However, it was again

nominated for deletion

by Star Mississippi. As

there were no captures

on Archive.org for the

talk section or history

available on Wikipedia

for the old page, it is

unclear who submitted

it for deletion in the

first place. The

discussion on its

deletion can be read

here.

The next step was to

check if there were any

achieved records for the

page. We found multiple

captures on Archive.org

for Sinha’s Wikipedia

page. The last capture

was from March 11,

2022. It showed a

detailed page on Sinha.

Unfortunately, the

history and talk sections

of the page were not

achieved.

Speaking to OpIndia,

Sinha said, “My

Wikipedia page existed

since 2006-2007 when I

wrote my first book. So I

was very shocked

yesterday night to find

that the page does not

exist after somebody

informed me he could

not go to the page.

Initially, I thought it

could be a technical

error. In the morning

today, I again

discovered that the

page was not

functional.”

Source – OpIndia.com

Image Link - Sanmarga

On March 22, multiple

complaints were raised

on Twitter by prominent

personalities that their

Wikipedia pages were

either vandalised or

deleted. They alleged the

reason behind the

deleted or vandalising of

Wikipedia pages was

they praised Vivek

Agnihotri’s recent film

‘The Kashmir Files’.

OpIndia investigated the

matter and found

reasons to believe that

the allegations were, in

fact, true.

Allegations and findings

against Wikipedia

First, let’s talk about the

allegations made by

Tuhin A Sinha, National

Media Panelist, BJP. On

March 22, Sinha tweeted

that Wikipedia had

deleted his page that had

existed since 2007. He

said, “The only thing that

may have irked them in

last few days is my

support four

#KashmirFiles n me

calling out Cong

supported Jihad

network.”

In a follow-up tweet,

Sinha mentioned that a

Wikipedia user Shirt58

was behind the page’s

removal. Upon

Wikipedia editors delete profiles of those who praised ‘The Kashmir Files’, had earlier

vandalised movie page: Here is what we know so far – an OpIndia Investigation

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