Anand Matth Blog - Nationalist Indian celebrating 75 yesrs of Indian independence

The Dhangar and Scindia clans, who belonged to the Holkar (Indore) caste, which ruled over a large part of India for 300 years, are today backward. The descendants of Maharaja Vikramaditya Hemraj Teli, who ruled undivided India, are also backward today. The Mauryan Empire, whose descendants ruled undivided India for generations, from the Bay of Bengal to the borders of Persia, is today backward/Dalit. The barber community, descendants of Mahapadmananda and Dhanananda, who were India's most powerful kings, is today backward. How did or could the descendants of Maharishi Valmiki, the author of the Ramayana, the most sacred Hindu text, become untouchable today? The descendants of Queen Satyavati, mother of Maharishi Ved Vyas and belonging to the Nishad community, are also backward today. Her children, the Kauravas and Pandavas, who ruled Hastinapur, were the greatest warriors and emperors of undivided India. The community of Shakuntala, the tribal girl whose son, Bharata, gave name to...

Many people are saying Indian rupee dollar rate is equal to Rs 91 now and approaching Rs 92, earlier it was only Rs 68. As I saw these many posts on social media, I remembered that while I was in college in late 1980s, the rupee-dollar parity was at Rs 18! Many people often judge the entire Indian economy using USD-INR exchange rate. Whenever the Rupee value falls against US Dollars, they shout, ‘Indian economy is dead’. In 1947, 1 USD was equal to only ₹3.30. Does that indicate Indian economy was the best then? No. In 1947, India's economy was severely underdeveloped (low GDP, high poverty and widespread unemployment) thanks to centuries of exploitation and colonial rule. Post-independence, Nehru era economic policy was socialist and pro-communist. So, Nehru and subsequent congress governments maintained strict government controlled exchange rate mechanism as done in most communist countries like China and Soviet Union. By keeping exchange rate steady, the government claimed stabl...

Gujarat CM Narendra Modi had little access to USA visits to promote FDI investments because he was put on Visa restriction list due to Gujarat 2002 riot incident. CM Modi’s Gujarat model economic growth plan was primarily to give incentives to businesses to set up big factories. He tried wooing MNCs with FDI investment in his state. In this regard he went China multiple times. His USA Visa restriction was restored only after he became PM in 2014. When Indian PM Modi visited USA in last week of September 2015, he visited Tesla mega factory and met Elon Musk. Since then both sides wanted to introduce Tesla’s cutting edge electric cars in India. Indian government wanted Tesla in India as this will led to development ancillary companies in EV (electric vehicle) segment. Meanwhile Tesla’s already made huge investment in China and they built ‘giga’ factory in Shanghai, China. Tesla Giga factory, China Tesla wanted a zero risk EV car India launch where they will manufacture the EV’s in China ...

Jitendra Awhad is an MLA in current Maharashtra state assembly from Mumbra, Thane. When NCP party was formed in 1999 as breakup group of congress party, Jitendra Awhad was selected the first National President of Youth NCP in 1999. NCP (Nationalist Congress Party) was formed by top congress leaders like Sharad Pawar, PA Sangma along with Tariq Anwar and Praful Patel. They maintained secular principle of congress but refused to accept foreign born Sonia Gandhi as their leader. They left congress mainly on account of foreign origin of Sonia Gandhi. Jitendra Awhad promoted secularism for more than 25 years when he served as MLA multiple times, even become state minister. He mentored a young Muslim lady Sahar Shaikh of AIMIM from Mumbra. The lady was modern, urban and mostly seen in normal modern dress (secular dress), Zara top, Rolex watch and photographed with Jitendra Awhad wearing Hindu religious symbol Kalava (red-yellow cotton thread). But the fundamentalist and Islamist ideology of ...

The mass flight cancelation in mid-December 2015 was well planned by major aviation player Indigo of India. This mass flight cancellation of flights was timed during the peak marriage and holiday time by cancelling about 1000 or more flights to cause maximum disruptions. It also coincided with visit of Russian President Putin’s visit to New Delhi. Clearly, all international media started bad mouthing about India’s civil aviation mess. The root cause of the problem was shortage of pilots in that airline company. The airline failed to follow the guidelines of fine balance between planes, flights and pilot strength. The pilot shortage was allowed to continue with excess pilot duties until pilots went on strike. The Indigo brand image, share value and reputation plunged. The management begged in front of Indian government to provide them adequate time to recruit additional pilots. The whole incident indicate lack of inventory planning, regulatory guideline non-compliance and casual attitud...