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शहीद उसे कहा जाता है जो शत्रु देश के विरूध्द लड़ते हुए युध्द क्षेत्र में अपने जीवन का बलिदान देता है। डा0 मुकर्जी अपने स्वयं के देश में एक सरकार के विरूध्द लड़ते हुए शहीद हुए। उनकी लड़ाई जम्मू एवं कश्मीर राज्य के भारतीय संघ में पूर्ण विलय के लिये थी। वह एक ऐसे दूरद्रष्टा थे, जिन्होंने जम्मू कश्मीर, जोकि सामरिक महत्व का राज्य है, Click to Read More

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विशुध्द ऐतिहासिक रुप से जून का महीना अत्यन्त महत्वपूर्ण है। भाजपा में हमारे लिए इसकी अनेक तिथियां कभी न भूलने वाली हैं।

मैं यह ब्लॉग 25 जून को लिख रहा हूं। सन् 1975 में इसी दिन प्रधानमंत्री Click to Read More

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A martyr is one who sacrifices his or her life on the battlefield fighting against an enemy nation. But Dr. Mookerjee became a martyr while fighting a government in our own country. His fight was for the full integration of Jammu & Kashmir with the Indian Union. He was a visionary who had foreseen the consequences of placing Jammu & Kashmir, a strategically located state, in a separate and tenuous Constitutional relationship with the rest of India. 

Sadly, neither the government of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in New Delhi nor the government of Shaikh Abdullah in Srinagar believed that Jammu & Kashmir needed to be fully integrated into the Indian Union.

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From a purely historical point of view the month of June is very important. For us in the BJP there are several dates which are unforgettable.

I am writing this blog on June 25. It was on this date in 1975 that Prime Minister Smt. Indira Gandhi made President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed sign a Proclamation under Art. 352 of the Constitution declaring an internal Emergency. The Prime Minister had not consulted the Cabinet. The Home Minister and the Law Minister also were unaware of this move.

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एक अकेले कलाकार द्वारा दर्शर्कों को मंत्रमुग्ध कर देने वाले एक घंटे के एकल नाटक को सर्वप्रथम देखने का अवसर मुझे सत्तर वर्ष पूर्व तब मिला जब मैं कराची के सैंट पैट्रिक हाई स्कूल का विद्यार्थी था। जहां तक मुझे स्मरण आता है तो वह कलाकार आयरलैण्ड के प्रसिध्द अभिनेता थे जिन्होंने शेक्सपीयर के मर्चेंट ऑफ वेनिस के शाइलॉक की मुख्य भूमिका प्रभावशाली ढंग से निभाई। उस प्रस्तुति में अन्य छोटी भूमिकाएं भी इसी अभिनेता द्वारा निभाई गई थीं।

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The first time that I saw a single actor perform an hour long scene from a play all by himself in a manner as to keep the entire audience spell-bound was seventy years back when I was a student at the St. Patrick’s High School, Karachi. To the best of my recollection the performer was an able thespian from Ireland who played the role principally of Shylock in a powerful scene from Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. The other minor roles in the presentation were also enacted by the same artist.

After that, in the past few years I have witnessed Shekhar Sen, an outstanding artiste from Mumbai, perform gripping musical dramas on the lives of Kabir and Tulsi and an enactment on Vivekananda, again all alone. Each one of these performances Click to Read More

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भारतीय संविधान का पहला अध्याय भारत को ‘राज्यों के संघ‘ के रुप में निरुपित करता है। संविधान सभा ने भारत को ‘राज्यों का परिसंघ‘ कहने वाले प्रारुप को अस्वीकार कर दिया था। संविधान के प्रारुप को प्रस्तुत करते समय, प्रारुप समिति के चेयरमैन डा0 अम्बेडकर ने इस पहलू की इस तरह से व्याख्या की:  

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Article 1 of the Indian Constitution describes India as a ‘Union of States’. The Constituent Assembly rejected the proposal to designate India as a ‘Federation of States’. While introducing the Draft Constitution, Dr. Ambedkar, Chairman of the Drafting Committee, explained this aspect thus:

“Though India was to be a federation, the federation was not the result of an agreement by the States to join in a federation, and that the federation not being the result of an agreement, no State has the right to secede from it. The federation is a Union because it is indestructible.

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हस्तरेखा विशेषज्ञ, ज्योतिषियों इत्यादि के प्रति मेरा सदैव अविश्वास रहा है। राजनीति में ऐसे अनेक हैं जो अपने विश्वस्त ज्योतिषी की सलाह के बिना किसी नए प्रोजेक्ट को शुरु करने से हिचकते हैं।

मैं अक्सर एक ऐसे अवसर का स्मरण करता हूं जब मेरा यह अविश्वास बुरी तरह से हिल गया।

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I have always been cynical about palmists, astrologers, etc. In politics quite a few hesitate to embark on a new project without having a clearance from the soothsayer they trust.

I have often recounted how on one occasion my own skepticism was rudely shaken.

Way back in the 1970’s we had in our party (then Jana Sangh) National Executive a reputed professional astrologer, by name Dr. Vasant Kumar Pandit. He was based in Mumbai (then Bombay). He was a committed activist of the party who had courted arrest fourteen times including during the movement Click to Read More

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