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Pathetic Procession

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Lord Ganesh being the first worship God begins the festive season of 10 days of fervor celebrated with great pomp and show across the globe by Hindu communities. It was around 1893 , Bal Gangadhar Tilak , who nationalized this festival with the motive to restore cultural balances and indomitable spirit of Hinduism .The festival facilitated community participation and involvement in the form of learned discourses, dance dramas, poetry recital, musical concerts, debates, etc. It served as a meeting place for common people of all castes and communities, at a time when all social and political gatherings were forbidden by the British Empire for fear of conspiracies to be hatched against them. In 21 st century the grim reality is that its purpose is defeated, now a days different samiti’s are engaging this festivals by collecting donation forcefully from all the nearby colonies, merchants so as to devolve receipts in to a making pandals, procession , Idol, decoration , etc. Peopl

Incredible India

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My previous blog was Impoverished India, which highlighted the how British emptied India's wealth and economically deprived they left us but in just 69 years we have reached to Mars in just 2.3Rs/Km. On this 69th Independence day i throw a light only in the achievements and India-UK relations who ruled us for 200 years. India’s nominal GDP crossed $2tn in 2014 , according to the World Bank. After taking 60 years to reach $1tn, it added the next trillion in just seven years. The IMF World Economic Outlook Update retained India's growth projection at 7.5% this year , higher than China's 6.8%. I t forecasts India as the world’s fastest growing economy , for the second consecutive year in 2016 at 7.5 %. India's share in UK's total trade is 2.8% in 2015 where as UK' share in India's trade is merely  1.88%. ( Clearly signify who feeds who). 2012/13 Inward Investment Annual Report India has 89 FDI projects in the United Kingdom which created 7