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Congress goons in the stadium beat up a few Dalita Sangharsha Samiti (DSS) members

Sonia Gandhi was addressing a "Thanks giving" rally at Mandya, Karnataka. While she was speaking of "law and order", in front of the CM Siddaramaiah and a host of top Congress leaders, Congress goons in the stadium beat up a few Dalita Sangharsha Samiti (DSS) members who showed black flags condemning the Convict Ordinance attempt of Congress. Udaya News showed a bleeding man in bloodied shirt being escorted out. Reports also came of many organizations showing black flags outside the Sir MV Stadium. So this is the "law and order" Soniamma talks. Right in front of her, the CM, TV cameras and top police officials, a Dalit man can be beaten to bleeding level.  Courtesy - Kiranasis

The Self Loathing Leftists and Liberals of India

The Self Loathing Leftists and Liberals of India Modern India’s modern myths The first of these myths is that India itself is a myth. The Mahabharata and the Ramayana are myths that were written by men who lived in a place without geography or history. Sanskrit came from this same nebulous arena as did the Vedas and the mathematicians who invented the zero. The idea of India did not exist until the British created it is the contention of India’s self-loathing ‘liberals’. In the words of a historian of recent celebrity, India is an ‘unnatural nation as well as an unlikely democracy’. He does not bother to explain what he means by ‘unnatural nation’ since the nation state itself did not exist till not very long ago. Long, long before that there was a country called Bharat whose borders were clearly defined and whose certainty continues to be perfectly understood by ordinary Indians across India. When a pilgrim from Tamil Nadu or Karnataka sets off to attend the Kumbh Mela in Allaha...