Pranam
some thing to think about (4) K R IRS 271220
1 What people think of our greatest warrior Shivaji :
"From Kabul to Kandahar my Taimur family created the Mogul Sultanate. Iraq,
Iran, Turkistan and in many more countries my army defeated ferocious
warriors. But in India Shivaji put brakes on us. I spent my maximum energy
on Shivaji but could not bring him to his knees.
Ya Allah, you gave me an enemy, fearless and upright, please keep your
doors to heaven open for him because the world's best and large hearted
warrior is coming to you."
-Aurangzeb (After Shivaji's death, while reading Namaz)
"That day Shivaji just didn't chop of my fingers but also chopped off my
pride. I fear to meet him even in my dreams."
--Shahista Khan.
"Is there no man left to defeat Shivaji in my kingdom??"
- Frustrated Begum Ali Adilshah.
"Netaji, your country does not require any Hitler to throw out British. All
you need to teach is Shivaji's history."
-Adolf Hitler
"Had Shivaji been born in England, we would not only have ruled earth but
the whole Universe."
-Lord Mountbatten
"Had Shivaji lived for another ten years, the British would not have seen
the face of India."
-- A British Governer
_If India needs to be made independent then there is only one way out,
'Fight like Shivaji'."
--Netaji
"Shivaji is just not a name, it is an energy source for Indian youth, which
can be used to make India free."
- Swami Vivekananda.
"Had Shivaji been born in America, we would nomenclared him as SUN."
- Barrack Obama
The famous war of Umberkhind is mentioned in the Guinness Book of World
Records:
"The 30,000 strong army of Kartalab Khan from Uzbekistan was defeated by
mere 1000 mawalas of Shivaji. Not a single Uzbeki was left alive to return
back home."
Shivaji was a King of International fame. In the span of 30 yrs of his
career he fought with only two Indian warriors. All the others were
outsiders.
Shahista Khan, who feared Shivaji even in his dreams was King of Abu
Taliban and Turkistan.
Behlol Khan Pathan, Sikandar Pathan, Chidar Khan Pathan were all warrior
sardars of Afghanistan.
Diler Khan Pathan was the great warrior of Mangolia. All of them bit dust
in front of Shivaji.
Sidhhi Jowhar and Salaba Khan were Iranian warriors, who got defeated by
Shivaji.
Sidhhi Jowhar later planned a sea attack. In response Shivaji raised a
navy, the first Indian Navy. But before accomplishing the task Shivaji left
this world. (He was poisoned.)
Google "Shivaji, the Management Guru." It's a full subject in Boston
University.
Yet, we Indians know so little about him....
2 This is hillarious..🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ordering a Pizza in 2021
CALLER:
Is this Pizza Delight?
GOOGLE:
No sir, it's Google Pizza.
CALLER:
I must have dialed a wrong number. Sorry.
GOOGLE:
No sir, Google bought Pizza Delight last month.
CALLER:
OK. I would like to order a pizza.
GOOGLE:
Do you want your usual, sir?
CALLER:
My usual? You know me?
GOOGLE:
According to our caller ID data sheet, the last 12 times you called you
ordered an extra-large pizza with three cheeses, sausage, pepperoni,
mushrooms and meatballs on a thick crust.
CALLER:
OK! That’s what I want ...
GOOGLE:
May I suggest that this time you order a pizza with ricotta, arugula,
sun-dried tomatoes and olives on a whole wheat gluten-free thin crust?
CALLER:
What? I detest vegetable!
GOOGLE:
Your cholesterol is not good, sir.
CALLER:
How the hell do you know!
GOOGLE:
Well, we cross-referenced your home phone number with your medical
records. We have the result of your blood tests for the last 7 years.
CALLER:
Okay, but I do not want your rotten vegetable pizza! I already take
medication for my cholesterol.
GOOGLE:
Excuse me sir, but you have not taken your medication regularly. According
to our database, you purchased only a box of 30 cholesterol tablets
once, at Drug RX Network, 4 months ago.
CALLER:
I bought more from another drugstore.
GOOGLE:
That doesn’t show on your credit card statement.
CALLER:
I paid in cash.
GOOGLE:
But you did not withdraw enough cash according to your bank statement.
CALLER:
I have other sources of cash.
GOOGLE:
That doesn’t show on your last tax return unless you bought them using an
undeclared income source, which is against the law.
CALLER:
WHAT THE HELL!
GOOGLE:
I'm sorry, sir, we use such information only with the sole intention of
helping you.
CALLER:
Enough already! I'm sick to death of Google, Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp
and all the others. I'm going to an island without internet, cable TV,
where there is no cell phone service and no one to watch me or spy on me.
GOOGLE:
I understand sir, but you need to renew your passport first. It expired 6
weeks ago...
Too good 😂😂😂
3 Farmer agitation: Use iron fist in a velvet glove
(Swaminathan Aiyar, Times of India, Dec 13, 2020
Veteran Indian Economist, Journalist and Columnist, Swaminathan, who is
considered fair and unbiased in his views, urges India's PM Modi to stand
firm on his farm reforms.
The agitating Punjab farmers can be painted as saints or sinners. On the
one hand, they spearheaded the Green Revolution in the 1960s when India was
starving, helping India become not just self-sufficient but a grain
exporter. For this they were rightly called heroes.
But by growing water-guzzling crops like rice in a low-rainfall state,
Punjab farmers lowered the water table dramatically. First, all drinking
water wells ran dry. Then the shallow tubewells of smaller farmers ran dry.
The richest farmers with the deepest wells benefited while hurting others
and destroying aquifers. Besides, they now burn their crop stubble in
October-November for early wheat planting, injuring and killing thousands
in Delhi and surrounding areas with smoke pollution. For a few extra
rupees, the farmers feel justified deliberate pollution that is morally
criminal.
Punjab farmers have huge political clout and extract massive subsidies
invisible to the public. Economist Ashok Gulati reveals that Punjab farmers
get annual power subsidies of Rs 8,275 crore and fertiliser subsidies of Rs
5,000 crore, averaging Rs 1.22 lakh per farm household. In addition, they
get subsidised credit and PM Kisan grants. Their high farm income
translates to high land prices of Rs 50-100 lakh/acre. Industries do not
invest in Punjab because land is exorbitantly expensive.
India’s average farm holding is only one hectare, which is why prosperity
requires farmers to move out of farming into industry and services. But in
Punjab one hectare is worth Rs 1.25-2.5 crore! They may not look it, but
the farm agitators surrounding Delhi are lakhpatis in annual subsidies and
crorepatis in assets.
Autocracies like China would smash such agitations. But democracies do not
shoot agitators. If the agitators are numerous and influential enough in
elections, the state will strike a deal with them. That is why farmers get
enormous subsidies in Europe, the US, Japan, and Korea. India is not alone.
The Punjab agitators want Prime Minister Narendra Modi to repeal his three
farm reform laws. But these laws are highly sensible. One allows farmers to
sell produce anywhere in India, not just in government mandis where they
pay levies and commissions. The second lays out a framework for contract
farming, which is voluntary and mutually beneficial. The third amends the
Essential Commodities Act that historically has been used to stop produce
moving across states and impose stock limits on traders. The latter has
made it impossible for traders to build large global-sized warehouses — any
stock limit announced by a state government will make the warehouse owners
instant criminals. Freedom to sell anywhere in India should be seen as a
fundamental farm right, and stock limits should be seen as socialist
dinosaurs thwarting a modern warehousing system. Modi must stick to all
three laws.
Punjab farmers have benefited from government procurement of wheat and rice
at a Minimum Support Price, something not done for other crops. Only 6% of
Indian farmers benefit from MSPs, but they are concentrated in Punjab and
have huge clout. Modi has guaranteed that MSPs will continue regardless of
the new reforms, but the farmers worry that the reforms are the first steps
to ending MSPs, and so want the laws rescinded. Government stocks of rice
and wheat are already thrice what are needed for buffer stocking. The
heroic farmers that once fed Indians are now feeding rats in government
godowns. Shockingly, physical audits have consistently shown the
disappearance of millions of tonnes in government godowns because of theft
or rodents.
As long as the MSPs are below the world price, surpluses can be exported.
But when politics forces MSPs above the world price, the grain lies idle in
godowns, feeding neither Indians nor the world. It is folly to subsidise
farmers to produce what neither Indians nor the world wants. Keep MSPs by
all means but link them to world prices. Experts all agree that farmers
must be moved massively out of agriculture to increase farm sizes and
income. Second, Punjab farmers should be encouraged to diversify into
high-value fruit, vegetables and dairy which will need much less scarce
water than the rice-wheat rotation, and reduce stubble burning too.
But these are long-term aims. Right now, Modi should wait out the
agitators. He should smile warmly at them, swear his heart is with them,
guarantee MSPs, and insist they have been misled by opposition politicians.
Indeed, he should announce a big wheat procurement bonus in the coming rabi
season. He should overflow with sweet words and inducements but stand firm
on his eminently sensible reforms..
4 With Due respect, please remember these basic things:
All farmers are not poor, all poor are not farmers.
All farmers are not Sikhs, all Sikhs are not farmers.
All those who have assembled in agitation are not farmers and many of those
farmers in agitation have almost no idea of the new Farmers Bill.
All farmers are not innocent and law abiding. Many are involved in stubble
burning, injected vegetables, adulterated milk and causing cancer through
farming resulting in special cancer trains etc.
So how come the agitation has turned into being Sikhs versus Government?
Poor farmers versus Government?
What if this blocking of national highway and state borders blackmail is
allowed? Could CAA, Jaat Andolan, Gujjar agitation etc be next? If yes, at
whose expense?
No. Such things cannot be allowed to carry on. Please Stop Your Support to
such stupid dramas. Let the country work and progress. Especially when the
matter is now before the Supreme Court.
If they still want to protest, let them go to a suitable place where
constitutional rights of other citizens are not harmed by such protests.
A request from every common and progressive citizen of India.
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