News, Opinions & Updates

March 3, 2017

Today I saw a video that someone posted on Twitter. It was a program on NDTV in which a guest was quoting Gurmehar Kaur. On Twitter or somewhere, Gurmehar Kaur had said that she supported the assassination of the Russian ambassador by the Turkish security guard.

The anchor, Nidhi Razdan, nodded her head in an all- knowing manner and said, “So? She has a political point of view.”

When it comes to having a “political opinion” where do we draw the line? Does it mean, just because we have a “political opinion” we can support assassinations, suicide bomber attacks and carnages?

Being a Sikh I highly resented the fact that the Indian government under the misgovernment of Indira Gandhi badly damaged the Golden Temple to rid the place of terrorists who had taken refuge there?

The worst part was that the terrorists could have been flushed out without damaging the centuries-old structure and without martyring so many of our soldiers. But doesn't it make me anti-social, a criminal, or even a terrorist in disguise, if I publicly declare that Beant Singh and Satwant Singh did the right thing?

If I find such assassinations acceptable as a political opinion, why shouldn't someone be able to call my murder some day a political expression? Then why can't all the calls for violence be termed as political opinion? If you find violence acceptable, why do you expect a civilian government to be civil with you? Then why shouldn't persecuting you be a political stand?

Here is the tweet containing the controversial statement by Nidhi Razdan.

While our Harvard and Oxford “educated” economists have been relentlessly broadcasting Cassandran prophecies about the devastating effect of the recent demonetization drive, the World Bank CEO has said that demonetization is going to have a positive result on Indian economy, and in fact, other countries should also consider demonetization.

I don't know how much of this is true, but they say Mamata Bannerjee was one of the biggest losers in the aftermath of demonization. She's known to have lost lots of Saradha scam money that had been stashed as 500 and 1000 rupee notes. Again, I'm talking on the basis of the information available in the public domain (just Google saradha scam).

So it isn't surprising that Malda, a district in West Bengal, is becoming India's fake currency capital. This would be a good revenge.

This is more than the entire population of the U.S. 30 million people have gotten connected to the Internet just in the past six months.

The way you and I connect to the Internet might be totally different from millions of others connecting to the Internet. I read somewhere that for many, Internet connection just means using Facebook. For some, it's email. For many, the Internet just means using an app that provides timely help the farmers.

The best thing that I find about the Internet is that people no longer have to depend on conventional media to get latest news updates. These news and propaganda agencies no longer have a free run. People across thousands of kilometres can exchange bits of information in just a few seconds.