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Congratulations Karnataka for doing a very honest Performance Appraisal of the outgoing BJP Govt. I know your choices were limited and I am very happy that you have elected Cong. rather than any regional party (almost all regional parties are anti-national and corrupt). Though the fact remains that on the date of polling, BJP was the only party which was not corrupt (no corruption charges in the months after Yeddyurappa and his team exited), but trust deficit could be understood. Since you threw out a govt which was plagued by corruption charges (apart from Governor HR Bhardwaj's tactics), the new govt sure is to understand what you want - development and corruption free governance. Keep it up! For the BJP, it often said that we have to lose battles in order to win the war! The party purposefully sacrificed the state in order to remain taint-free. Let us now see if during General Elections, the party is able to make this point to all, and it is highly likely that during Gener...

Karnataka's new CM Mr Siddaramaiah has sworn in and announces what? (1) One-time loan waiver for SCs and STs: Rs. 349 Crore; for OBCs: Rs. 514.26 Crore and for religious Minorities: Rs. 362 Crore. (2) Decision not to allow ban on cow slaughter in the state and a bill passed by BJP govt preventing cow slaughter would be reversed. (3) Financial help to religious orgs which was done by BJP govt would be stopped. Now newspaper says Siddaramaiah is a self-declared atheist and he took oath in the name of 'truth' than any God. But report also says he began the day with prayers to goddess Chamundeswari and he said, “I prayed for blessings from the deity, for good showers, grains, prosperity and harmony in the state.” I do not understand how could even anyone kill cows and yet bring showers and grains; worship goddess Durga and discriminate people on the basis of caste and religion, and yet claim to be an atheist?

नारी जीवन और जिम्मेदारियों का दायरा बहुत विचित्र है और सिर्फ नारियां ही निभा सकती हैं सब को . जहाँ तक संपत्ति की बात है तो इसमें नारियों ने भी काफी राजनीति की है :) सामान्यतः ऐसा माना जाता है कि लड़कियों को पैत्रिक संपत्ति में हिस्सा शादी के समय मिलता है ( जिसे दहेज़ कह कर बदनाम कर दिया गया है ) और लड़कों को माता पिता के बाद . पर ऐसा होने लगा कि लड़कियां पैत्रिक संपत्ति में माता पिता के निधन पर या उस से पहले बटवारे के समय फिर से हिस्सा मांगने लगीं , जो कि समाज में स्वार्थ के तौर पर देखा गया और इसके कारण बहुत से परिवारों में भाई बहन का सुन्दर रिश्ता भी पैसे के कारण नष्ट हुआ जो कि खेदजनक है …

In case of Sarabjit Singh, our worst fears came true. It is difficult to say if he died some days back and still the treacherous nation Pakistan kept doing drama over his body, but it does not matter now. Today's newspaper quotes Sarabjit Singh saying from Pakistani Jail, "I will reach heaven the day I reach India - alive or dead". This was his patriotism! He longed not only to meet his wife and two daughters in India, but "to be in India"! We can't imagine the inhuman conditions in which he had to spend 22 years in Paki jail. Great Chandrashekhar Azad had shot himself rather than getting captured by the enemy. But innocent that he was, Sarabjit might not have considered Pakistan as an enemy and would have tolerated all with our good old belief "satyamev jayate - truth alone wins"... His end may not justify his faith in this world's goodness, yet, he has left a long list of inspirations for all of us. We complain and crib, but we are ...