LK Advani’s Blog

इण्डिया टूडे (3 जनवरी, 2010) के नवीनतम अंक में रविशंकर का एक दिलचस्प कार्टून प्रकाशित हुआ है जिसमें शीर्ष पर प्रमुखता से लिखा गया है : 176 रुपए और उसके पीछे ग्यारह शून्य। मुख्य कार्टून में दिखाया गया है कि डा. मनमोहन सिंह और सोनिया गांधी घोषणा कर रहे हैं कि ”हम भ्रष्टाचार को शून्य बराबर भी बर्दाश्त नहीं करेंगे (We have zero tolerance for corruption)Click to Read More

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

The latest issue of India Today (January 3, 2010) carries an interesting cartoon by Ravi Shankar with an amount boldly inscribed at the top : Rs.176, followed by eleven zeroes. The main cartoon shows Dr. Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi declaring “We have ZERO tolerance for corruption!” and some minions of theirs declaring “We can tolerate many more zeros….”

If for several months now the only word Click to Read More

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

आज मुझे चेन्नई में एक अद्वितीय प्रकाशन के लोकार्पण हेतु निमंत्रित किया गया है। मैं इसे अद्वितीय इसलिए वर्णित करता हूं क्योंकि मूलत: इसका प्रकाशन तीन दशक पूर्व भारत सरकार ने शाह कमीशन रिपोर्ट शीर्षक से किया था। लेकिन मुख्य शीर्षक के साथ उप-शीर्षक ‘लॉस्ट एण्ड रिगेन्ड‘ जुड़ने और कुछ कल्पनाशील पुर्नसम्पादन ने इसे नया और महत्वपूर्ण अर्थ दे Click to Read More

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

Today, I have been invited to Chennai to release a unique publication. I describe it as unique because this book was originally published more than three decades back as a Government of India publication titled SHAH COMMISSION REPORT. But the addition of a sub-title “Lost and Regained” to the main title, and some imaginative re-editing gives it a new and significant meaning.

This new book has been compiled and edited by an old friend and Parliamentary colleague of mine, Era Sezhiyan.  Born in 1923, Sezhiyan became an ardent follower and highly trusted assistant of C.N. Annadurai, founder of the DMK. He was in Parliament from 1962 to 1984.Click to Read More

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

अंग्रेजी पत्रिका आऊटलुक (13 दिसम्बर, 2010) के नवीनतम अंक की आवरण कथा कांग्रेस क्राइसिस शीर्षक से प्रकाशित हुई है। शीर्षक के नीचे दो चित्र-एक सोनियाजी और दूसरा राहुल गांधी का है। मुखपृष्ठ के ऊपरी कोने पर बहुचर्चित लॉबिस्ट नीरा राडिया का फोटोग्राफ प्रकाशित किया गया है।

मुख्य Click to Read More

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

The cover story of the latest Outlook (Dec. 13, 2010) carries the bold caption CONGRESS CRISIS. Below the caption are two pictures- of Sonia ji and Rahul Gandhi. A top corner of the cover bears a photograph of the much talked about lobbyist, Nira Radia.

A sub-caption to the main heading reads:

A Parliament impasse. An election defeat. Rebellion in the ranks. The stench of corruption. Can the Congress dig itself out of the hole before the 2014 polls ?

***

The year 2009 was for the Congress party a year of triumph. The Click to Read More

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

काफी लम्बे अर्से के बाद 3 दिसम्बर, 2010 को मुझे टाइम्स ऑफ इंडिया के मुखपृष्ठ पर हर्षित कर देने वाला समाचार पढ़ने को मिला। समाचार का शीर्षक है ”एस.आई.टी. क्लीयरस मोदी ऑफ विलफुल्ली एलाऊइंग पोस्ट-गोधरा रायॅट्स-फाईन्ड्स नो सबसेंटशियल इवीडेंस” (एस.आई.टी. ने मोदी को, जानबूझकर कराए गए गोधरा पश्चात् के दंगों में क्लीन चीट दी-कोई ठोस सबूत नहीं मिले)।

Click to Read More

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!

The most heartening news I have read in a long, long time is the front page report in the Times of India on December 3, 2010 bearing caption “S.I.T. CLEARS MODI OF WILFULLY ALLOWING POST-GODHRA RIOTS - Finds No Substantial Evidence”

In my sixty years of political life I have not known any colleague of mine so consistently, so sustainedly and so viciously maligned by opponents as Narendra Modi. Ironically, during the same period as this calumny campaign against Modi has been at its peak, the Gujarat C.M. has been a recipient of fulsome compliments and kudos from within the country as well as abroad for making Gujarat’s a leading government in so far as the state’s all-round development is concerned, and a kind of a role model for the country in so far as good and honest governance is concerned.

Click to Read More

If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!