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

 Kejriwal brings Yamuna to Red Fort as it was during Mughal era. Kejriwal is a magician who can do wonders. July 2023 Delhi flood beats 50 year record Kejriwal ask people not take selfies with flood waters Kejriwal’s mentor Mamata Banerjee is not impacted by gram panchayat election bloodbath in Bengal Earlier, Kejriwal also brought Kashmir style stone palters and rioters in February 2020 to north-east Delhi riot which led to Rs 25000 Crore loss in 7 days of rioting. Delhi 2023 flood will cost Delhi 5000 Crore. So, Kejriwal is indeed changing Delhi. Picture source: Google ‘Don't take selfies or…,’ CM Kejriwal warns amid Delhi floods Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal warns against taking selfies or swimming in flooded areas as the threat of floods in the city is not over yet. https://www.livemint.com/news/india/dont-take-selfies-or-cm-kejriwal-warns-amid-delhi-floods-11689403131386.html

In February 2023, I boarded a small airliner plane from Jabalpur airport in Madhya Pradesh. The Jabalpur airport is fairly small and hence a new terminal building is being built for AAI (Airport Authority of India) by a contractor NKG. After the Rs 400 Crore upgrade the airport will be able to handle bigger commercial jets like 737. A 100 kW solar plant has come up on the new terminal building. This is not a unique case. Almost all Indian airports under government AAI and private operators have plans to go solar to reduce their utility bill cost. This is part of Modi government’s  SUGAM  (Sustainable Green Airports Mission) and AAI is meeting about two thirds of its energy requirements through renewable energy. Solar plants with a combined commissioned capacity of 55 MWp have been installed & commissioned at AAI airports with 44 airports running on 100% Renewable Energy. When Modi government came in 2014, only one airport ie., Cochin airport had substantial solar power gen...

Rahul Gandhi visited the USA in June 2023. His director had planned a truck yatra like Rahul Gandhi had done recently in India during Karnataka state election. He was also seen riding a scooty. These are all publicity stunt to show he is trying to understand common man’s problems. His team did the same in USA and claimed that he has travelled with a normal truck driver. But the dark side of this yatra is that he was not a normal truck driver. The driver's name was Taljinder Singh Vicky Gill. He is the President of the Indian overseas youth congress America. But he is not a common truck driver by profession and acted as a truck drive . It was a pre-planned PR event and scripted publicity show.for the occation just like Rahul Gandhi before every election starts temple run and critics call him ‘chunavi Hindu’. Then he visited a bike repair shop and tried his hand to fix a bike. It is not clear if he could fix the bike or if he learned any new skill but it is clear that he got publicit...

 Lots of people in India are hyping PM Modi’s recent USA trip in June 2023. Modi was the Indian PM to address US Congress twice, second Indian PM to have the honour of US state visit and he is third Global leader to receive a state visit invitation from US President Biden. PM Modi was seen inspecting guard of honour at airport without umbrella under heavy rain, US lawmakers seen taking selfies / autograph with him when he gave a speech in US Congress. His speech evoked multiple applause and standing ovations etc. But these are pure optics. What matters most is the business, collaboration deals and strategic tie-ups signed with USA. Indian PM Nehru also had best of optics during his first USA visit in 1949. Newly independent India had massive food shortage in 1950s and hence government had to beg for wheat from USA and the same situation continued in 1960s when USA supplied PL480 wheat. In 1949 not just food but the foreign exchange position was even worse. In November 1949 PM Nehru...

Pakistani ex-President Gen. Parvez Musharraf was born in an old Delhi havelli and migrated to Pakistan with family during the partition. These vacated old Delhi houses were not given to Hindu and Sikh Pakistani refugees from west Punjab and kept vacant for some time with the hope original occupants who migrated to Pakistan will one day claim these properties. Similarly, MA Jinnah’s palatial house in Mumbai was not taken over by Indian government. Hindu and Sikh Pakistani refugees from west Punjab were settled in completely newly built refugee colonies called Lajpat Nagar, Malviya Nagr, Punjabi Bagh and Tilak Nagar etc. on the outskirts of Delhi city. These places were far away from city centre and in early 1950s and they completely lacked basic civic amenities. Hence these refugees had to struggle a lot for more than a decade to rebuild their lives. Those refugee’s hard struggle made these residential colonies in south/south west Delhi prosperous residential colonies today after 7 deca...