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Kanan Jaswal's Thoughts for the Days of February 2021

  01 Feb:      We can not produce quality if we are worried all the time about beating the deadline. 02 Feb:      You have made the summit, great! Now, find yourself new peaks and climb them. 03 Feb:      So long as my values and principles do not clash with yours, I will be with you. 04 Feb:     People may have aged but they only start living only when they have a goal to live for. 05 Feb:     An old dog can not learn a new trick, but that is true of an old dog! 06 Feb:      How can anyone ever have nothing to do when there is so much to learn? 07 Feb:     Life is that drama in which the actors also double for spectators. 08 Feb:     Ultra-liberals are in the dangerous business of preparing an ideological base for anarchy. 09 Feb:    Life is not a relaxed walk in the park but a relaxed walk in the park does make us more alive. 10 Feb:    ...

The Reality of Farmers' Protest Around India's Capital

In the four years of Donald Trump’s presidency, the US had alienated most of its Western European allies on trade issues and on contribution to NATO. Joe Biden’s presidency will repeat that in alienating India, one of the US’s three most important strategic partners in the Indo-Pacific region, if he listens to ultra-liberals and Khalistani hotheads like Simran Jeet Singh. In his 12 th February 2021 Time.com article ‘The Farmers’ Protests Are a Turning Point for India’s Democracy – and the World Can No Longer Ignore That’, Jeet Singh has tried to paint India – its prime minister, government, and society – in the blackest of black, but in his extreme hatred and antipathy for India, this “scholar and historian of South Asia” forgot to rely on facts. He, instead, built his case entirely on blatant lies and some half-truths. Let us see below what the facts are and how he has distorted them to mislead his readers. The farmers blocking highways near India’s capital New Delhi for the past mo...