The secularists are the most sadistic people on this earth. In a poll on Bharat Ratna, they have included a Hindu hater M F Hussain, along with other money-minting self-obsessed rich people. Money decides definitely. In Sanskrit, an old proverb says: "All the virtues depend on the gold you have."
None of the politicians would have a friend from the middle class or low income groups and their benefactors all come from the black marketing section. Arrogant to the hilt and scheming like D-company, they don’t see anything beyond counting notes and votes and keep preparing for the next fraud in elections. They live on public money, from the day they enter this ‘nation-building corporate business of politics’ which needs no investment except words and gives high returns in form of bungalows (even when they actually don’t need more than a SFS apartment) and money
bags. Their birthday bashes are a scandal and their ‘national outlook’ never crosses the brick walls of their party offices.
Even Ratan Tata and Sachin Tendulkar have earned their pound of glory and public applause. They are there every day on the front page and for a good reason. Their money is unfathomable and often one hears of their battle with chartered accountants on how to manage their colossal sums of money. Now all that they need is a peaceful happy life in their dreamlands – but not the
ones that has been snatched from poor farmers of Nandigram and Singur. Why should they encroach on the territory meant for the servers of the nation and not for those who have extracted their share?
Hence my Bharat Ratna goes to the valiant Indian soldier.
He lives and dies for the nation, for all of us. Like the Ganga, his life is a saga that defines welfare and security for the rich and poor, for the high and the low, for a scholar extraordinary to the illiterate fellow countrymen without boundaries and discrimination. He is not rebellious to take the reins of the nation in his hands to eliminate the rogues from parliamentary democracy, but he defends and obeys the Constitution in the most impressive and exemplary manner.
He is the real saviour of Bharat, a Ratna indeed.
Having conducted the Indus festival for eight years I have seen Indian jawans in the bone chilling temperature of minus 40 to minus 60 standing straight on the defence post. It was only during Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s rule that George Fernandes as defence minister provided proper hospital services including CAT scans in Siachen. Earlier, IAS babus were deciding how and what facilities jawans on those dangerous snow-bound heights should get without ever visiting the
region themselves. Vajpayee and George have both risen above petty politics and endeared themselves to the common Indian as statesmen. During Pokhran -2 and the Kargil victory, their leadership shone with the Jai Jawan spirit. But they remain exceptions.
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