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भारत को स्वतंत्र हुए अब छ: दशक से ज्यादा हो गए। पहले तीन दशकों में कांग्रेस पार्टी का प्रभुत्व राजनीतिक परिदृश्य पर विशालकाय की भांति छाया रहा। अनेक राज्यों में यह सत्ता में थी। लोकसभा में, गैर -कांग्रेस दल इतनी संख्या नही जुटा पाए थे कि उन्हें मान्यता प्राप्त विपक्ष का पद मिलता और इसके नेता, नेता विपक्ष बन पाते।

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India has been independent for over six decades now. For the first three decades the Congress Party dominated the political scene like a colossus. It was in power in most of the States. In the Lok Sabha, none of the non-Congress parties could muster strength even to secure the status of the Official Opposition, with its leader named Leader of the Opposition.

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विगत् तीन दशकों में मैंने असंख्य पुस्तक विमोचन कार्यक्रमों में भाग लिया है। पुस्तक विमोचन से पूर्व अपनी शुरुआती टिप्पणियों में अक्सर मैं यह कहता हूं कि आपातकाल के उन्नीस महीने जो मैंने बंगलूर सेंट्रल जेल और कुछ रोहतक जेल में बिताए, उस समय सलाखों के पीछे बंद सभी राजनीतिक बंदियों के लिए ‘रिलीज‘ (छूटना) शब्द आनन्ददायक होता था। 18 जनवरी, 1977 में मेरी रिहाई जोकि 26 Click to Read More

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In the past three decades I have attended numerous book release functions. In my preamble to the comments I have been making on the book to be launched I have often remarked that during the nineteen months of the infamous Emergency (1975-77) which I spent mainly in the Bangalore Central Jail, and briefly in the Rohtak Jail, the one word that used to bring great cheer to all the political prisoners behind bars was the word ‘release’. So, since my own release on 18^th January, 1977 – arrest was on 26^th June 1975 – whenever I have been approached by an author with the request to ‘release’ his book, I have rarely disappointed him.

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पिछले सप्ताह रामकृष्ण मिशन, बेलगांव ने मुझे वहां पर निर्मित एक विशाल सभागार का औपचारिक उद्धाटन करने के लिए निमंत्रित किया, जहां पर स्वामी विवेकानन्द दक्षिण भारत की अपनी पहली यात्रा के दौरान रूके थे।

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Last week I was invited by the Ramakrishna Mission, Belgaum, to come to Belgaum and formally inaugurate a large auditorium they had put up quite close to the place where Swami Vivekananda had stayed during his first tour of South India.

For this function, all trustees of the Ramakrishna Mission Trust from all over the country, including the Mission Head Quarters at Vellur Math, Calcutta, had come.

My visit to Belgaum was literally an interaction with history. Just visiting the place where Swami Vivekananda had stayed for nine Click to Read More

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