John🛎🎾🖋🇮🇳
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@binoojohn
journalist, author of Top Game: Winning, Losing and a new understanding of sport Entry From Backside only; Under A Cloud
The Economist magazine is disappointed that India did not celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Mughal conquest of India. Oh, those ungrateful natives who do not celebrate the gift of civilisation. Who knows, they may even refuse to celebrate the Battle of Plassey. Dangerous trend.....
Rahul Gandhi spotted in Muscat, Oman. Rahul Gandhi made a video on Nicobar, then quietly left India for Holidays abroad. Tomorrow is Election Result of 4 states & 1 UT, but again Rahul Gandhi has left Congress workers alone on counting day.
केंद्रीय मंत्री श्री @JPNadda जी ने आज सूरत स्थित निवास स्थान पर सौजन्य भेंट की। इस अवसर पर गुजरात भाजपा प्रदेश अध्यक्ष श्री @iJagdishBJP जी की गरिमामयी उपस्थिति रही।
Swati Maliwal received a grand welcome from the BJParty’s highly respected leaders. 😃
I travelled through Great Nicobar today. These are the most extraordinary forests I have ever seen in my life. Trees older than memory. Forests that took generations to grow. The people on this island are equally beautiful - both the adivasi communities and the settlers - but they are being robbed of what is rightfully theirs. The government calls what it is doing here a “Project.” What I have seen is not a project. It is millions of trees marked for the axe. It is 160 square kilometres of rainforest condemned to die. It is communities that have been ignored while their homes have been snatched away. This is not development. This is destruction dressed in development’s language. So I will say it plainly, and I will keep saying it: what is being done in Great Nicobar is one of the biggest scams and gravest crimes against this country’s natural and tribal heritage in our lifetime. It must be stopped. And it can be stopped - if Indians choose to see what I have seen.
I travelled through Great Nicobar today. These are the most extraordinary forests I have ever seen in my life. Trees older than memory. Forests that took generations to grow. The people on this island are equally beautiful - both the adivasi communities and the settlers - but they are being robbed of what is rightfully theirs. The government calls what it is doing here a “Project.” What I have seen is not a project. It is millions of trees marked for the axe. It is 160 square kilometres of rainforest condemned to die. It is communities that have been ignored while their homes have been snatched away. This is not development. This is destruction dressed in development’s language. So I will say it plainly, and I will keep saying it: what is being done in Great Nicobar is one of the biggest scams and gravest crimes against this country’s natural and tribal heritage in our lifetime. It must be stopped. And it can be stopped - if Indians choose to see what I have seen.
People wonder why older folks hate Congress. This is why. He says Nicobar project must be stopped. Nicobar sits at the mouth of a strait that is choke point of all the ships coming and going to China. Iran has been able to hold the world hostage by choking a strait. India can literally choke China with minimal effort if Nicobar is developed. Hence Nicobar must not be developed Second - Singapore has built an economy around transshipment port. Nicobar could be a potential transshipment port for all the ships that cross the strait. Hence it must be stopped.
The decision of Kejriwal not to participate in the CBI appeal challenging his discharge,before Justice Swarna Kanta Sharma is a correct & justified decision. Undoubtedly,in the facts of this case, he has a reasonable apprehension of bias. I would say his apprehension is justified
