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

 Amartya Sen was born in Shantiniketan, Bengal, at Bishwa Bharti University campus where his grandpa Kshitimohan Sen was a teacher of Sanskrit and medieval Indian culture. Rabindranath Tagore named him Amartya. Tagore also named Indira Gandhi as Priyadarshini who studied in this campus briefly. Amartya Sen spent his childhood in Dhaka where his father Asutosh Sen was Chemistry professor at Dhaka University. As a child he saw infamous 1942 Bengal famine closely, where millions perished as British government stocked food grains for the commonwealth army in WW-II and it had a deep impact on him. His education started from St. Gregry school in Dhaka and high school from Pathabhaban in Shantiniketan. He did Economics graduation from Calcutta University Presidency College and moved to Cambridge where he did Ph.D. and finally, he became famous as Harvard professor. He lived in western countries for 5 decades and the best part is that he retained Indian citizenship. Throughout his life, hi...

Just few days after Delhi-Mumbai Expressway first phase was inaugurated by PM Modi on 12 February 2023, I had a chance to visit Jaipur from Gurugram. Obviously, it is a fantastic expressway and first of its kind in India. User reviews are available on media and social media and if I praise too much about this expressway, librandµs will call me ‘andh bhakt’. Distance marking is available after every 100 meters from staring point (as seen in pic below) so that one can pin-point his location in case of emergency, most of the rest and recreation facilities are not yet started, solar panel and drip irrigation pipes can be seen on expressway median area, median area trees are just newly planted, most vehicles operating at 100 plus KMPH speed, a rest and recreation facility at 99 KM from Gurugram or Sohna end is serving basic snacks like potato chips and the only operational food joint currently. Only few mini kids play ground and petrol pumps can be seen in rest area and CNG or EV charging f...

Since 2014, PM Modi targeted and nearly destroyed four biggest enemy of India - Congress, Pakistan, Librandµs and China. It is true that China is much bigger superpower and it will take some time and powerful allies to handle China but Modi government is the first since independence who is showing some ‘spine’ to China. Let’s look at Pakistan in detail. India revoked most favoured nation status granted to Pakistan in 1990s but Pakistan failed to reciprocate under WTO norms. Hikes import duty to 200% on all Pakistan-origin imports. Pakistan was hit by $38 Billion loss due to 4 year-long FATF grey listing during the Imran Khan era. Indian demonetisation of November 2016 led to the steady decline of Pakistani currency value over the years against US Dollar, reduction of fake currency supply, narco-terrorism etc. Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is almost bankrupt and blaming India for not playing with them. Similarly, visa for Pakistani actors, comedians, singers etc were curtailed and many s...