Vivekananda, Bose and New Centre

Half a century after the Chicago lecture, Rajaji said in simple words, “Swami Vivekananda saved Hinduism and saved India. But for him we would have lost our religion and would not have gained our freedom. We therefore owe everything to Swami Vivekananda. May his faith, his courage and his wisdom ever inspire us so that we may keep safe the treasure we have received from him!” More here.

The biggest cover-up about Subhas Chandra Bose

Really good news about the News pokers.

Very interesting new initiative and I am very much looking forward its way of functioning on its affairs. 

M K Gandhi for centuries to come

Sunil Khilnani writes:

• Above all, there is a psychological sharpness to his argument that modern civilization implants in all of us a restless dependency. It corrodes individual self-restraint and self-rule, and inundates the individual with distractions. Did he sense the Facebook and Internet addictions of the future when he wrote:

• “(M)ind is a restless bird: the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge our passions, the more unbridled they become. Our ancestors, therefore, set a limit to our indulgences....(They) dissuaded us from luxuries and pleasures.”

• Gandhi was himself fascinated by modern inventions—pens, watches, the wireless radio, gardening tools—and perhaps felt his own susceptibility to gadget addiction. He saw how difficult it was, once new technologies and tools were invented, to turn away from what they seem to offer. “It is no easy task to do away with a thing that is established,” Gandhi wrote inHind Swaraj, “We, therefore, say that the non-beginning of a thing is supreme wisdom.”

Socialist Ramraja and Liberal Express

There is an interesting development is taking place in Indian newspaper business companies. What is more interesting is the reporting of one news and suing of that news because of that reported news has no ground to believe.

Almost everyday there are thousands of such news being printed. How many are really sued for lack of authentic sources?

Infact it is laughable that a 132 year old Newspaper company did not have any “stipulated a retirement age for board members and also, the editor-in-chief”

For long the Hindu newspaper has been said as Socialist/Statist newspaper in India. The present case is an example for such polices adopted in pre 90s in India!

Read the full stories from below links:

1. Will sue The Indian Express, The Financial Express: Ram
2. N. Ram to sue Indian Express
3. Battle for control breaks out in 132-yr-old The Hindu
4. The Hindu editor to sue Indian Express