Kanan Jaswal's Thoughts of the Days of October 2022

Oct 01:     Whereas the Supreme Court is supreme among all Indian courts,  many erroneously believe that it is the country's supreme authority.

Oct 02:     With 116,000 sq. kms. of its Jammu & Kashmir and Laddakh illegally and criminally occupied for decades by Pakistan and China, India should have voted for the UN resolution which condemned Russia for annexing four regions of Ukraine after holding pseudo-referendums.

Oct 03:     Beware of the well-wishers because they will give you hundred and one reasons for not doing anything out of the ordinary. 

Oct 04:     When their religion does not even permit them to say 'Bharat Mata ki jai' or 'Victory to Mother India', how can their young men participate in the Garaba dance which Hindu devotees perform in celebration of the Mother Goddess Durga's visit to Her parental home?

Oct 05:     What a monumental shame that even today workers should die in India having inhaled poisonous gases while manually cleaning sewers! And this, when we have indigenous robots specially designed for  this job.

Oct 06:     Not having sufficient concern for fellow humans demeans us as an individual, also as a society.

Oct 07:     India will be self-dependent only when its best brains will be working for wholly Indian entities, and not for foreign governments, universities and firms.

Oct 08:     How many of us Indians know that HF-24 Marut, a twin-engined jet fighter-bomber, which was developed by the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited in the early 1960s, was the first Asian jet fighter to go into active service later that decade? Sadly, the nation had to wait until 2016 to make operational the second indigenously developed jet fighter, the Tejas.

Oct 09:     Police have arrested a terrorist who had killed two persons and had attacked a police intelligence headquarter with a rocket-propelled grenade, but his name cannot be revealed because he is a juvenile. If this is not taking liberalism too far, what is? 

Oct 10:     Our best may not be good in absolute terms but we must remember that it is much, much better than doing nothing.

Oct 11:     Hindus' homes and shops have been ransacked and burnt in Kolkata by those supposedly living in fear in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's India and at whose "plight" the liberals in India and in the West routinely shed copious tears.

Oct 12:     Can the Central government say that the West Bengal government is able to function according to the Constitution's provisions? If it cannot, what stops it from invoking the Article 356 to take over the state administration?

Oct 13:     Unless there are absolutely no alternatives, how can any Indian even think of importing or using anything made in China? But to serve in a Chinese company helping expand its business in India is the ultimate.

Oct 14:     You are your own master if you can get your mind to think what you want it to think.

Oct 15:     Not one person out of more than 210 million "living in fear in Modi's India" has sought refuge in neighbouring Pakistan, but completely disregarding this inconvenient truth, the anti-India liberals keep on writing their set pieces.

Oct 16:     When there is darkness all around you, remember, you have a light deep inside you which no one or nothing can extinguish.

Oct 17:      At least, be likeable enough to like yourself.

Oct 18:     What is the problem in leaving at home your domestic worries? Do you think someone will run away with them in your absence? 

Oct 19:     According to 2021 population, Bihar should have 51 Lok Sabha MPs not the present 40, and Kerala 14 not 20. It means Bihar has 45% less per capita representation in Lok Sabha than Kerala. With Bihar's TFR 3 and Kerala's 1.8, the situation will worsen. Yet, Nitish Kumar opposes the 2-child law.

Oct 20:     In India, you can call yourself a liberal intellectual if you are rabidly anti-Hindu and you can hold a pen in your hand. 

Oct 21:      If you do not protest at least once over a wrong being committed in your knowledge, you are complicit in that. 

Oct 22:      Was making a foot-in-mouth statement about the divine song Gita the only way the Congress party's Shivraj Patil could have announced to the world that he was still alive?

Oct 23:     Always listening to our conscience and performing our duties, we can live a life worth living.

Oct 24:     Look at life through rose-tinted glasses if you want to see roses everywhere.

Oct 25:     Some people find it difficult to live in gratitude and that is the reason they turn hostile to their former benefactors.

Oct 26:    What is so great about a Hindu, who is a UK citizen by birth, becoming the prime minister of that nation? In the predominantly Hindu India, we have had at the helms for ten years a naturalised citizen who is Roman Catholic. 

Oct 27:     You can be considered a true professional only when excellence seeps even into your doing the routine.

Oct 28:      Indian democracy has to be saved from a fraudster who covets the top position claiming to be a magician capable of waving his wand to solve all problems.

Oct 29:      Sing the song that you have in you not bothering if your performance would be applauded.

Oct 30:     If we find it easier to remember what we have done for others than what others have done for us, it is the time to turn our memories upside down.

Oct 31:     No lessons can be learnt from a disaster if some official agency very much in the range of suspicion inveigles its way into the investigation team.