Friends, with festive season on I thought of writing something light. Few weeks back I had written about 1st tied cricket test match between West I dies and Australia, today I am going to write about the only other tied test match. This match took place at Madras (now Chennai) 32 years back in Sept…
Author: Anil Malik
Pokhran 1
Friends, people of this generation have heard about the Pokhran 2 nuclear test, and recently a Hindi movie was also released , which was based on how the 2nd nuclear test at Pokhran took place. Surprisingly people hardly know about the 1st Nuclear test at Pokhran which took place in May 1975, how it happened…
Monday Thoughts
On the first Monday of Nov 2018, which also happens to be the day when festivities of Diwali starts. So Friends I wish you and your family members, a Very Happy Diwali. Some stray thoughts which came to my mind today, which I want to share with you all We achieved independence in 1947 from…
Human Behaviour
Today I am writing on all together different topic and that is Human Behaviour. Our behaviour changes according to with whom we are dealing and under what circumstances and time. I would like to elaborate the same with few points, as described below. Some people are in the habit of policing others- like a mother…
Simla Agreement
Today I am going back into history of modern India and covering one very important topic which has very much affected all the Indians, and its repercussions are felt even today. Indians who are born in 40s or 50s will always remember Indo Pak war of 1971 and liberation of East Pakistan, which became Bangladesh….
Tuesday Thoughts
Some thoughts on last Tuesday of Oct 2018. Yesterday Supreme Court (SC) took a decision that Ayodhya case will be heard only in Jan after constituting new bench, as the earlier Chief Justice Dipak Misra was part of the bench which was hearing this case. Now as per new Chief Justice Gogoi, new appropriate bench…
Weekend
On the last weekend of Oct 2018, I am writing about one of the greatest and most admired Bollywood film of all time and the film is Mughal e Azam Directed by K Asif This film was based on the imaginary story of love affair between Prince Salim( son of Emperor Akbar ) and court…
Green Crackers
Yesterday Supreme Court gave a ruling that during this Diwali and afterwards only Green Crackers can be bursted, which are with reduced noise and emission levels. SC also directed that their bursting will be permitted for only 2 hours during Diwali day, and that too between 8.00 to 10.00 pm. Other salient features of this…
Distorted History 2
In continuation of my yesterday’s blog, few more facts on distorted Indian history. The Mughals, The British and Congress party are the main culprits in distorting Indian History. Few of the classic examples, which hardly get mentioned in few pages of history although their empire lasted many centuries The Vijaynagar Empire- this lasted between 1336…
Distorted History
Yesterday,speaking at an event to mark the 75th anniversary of the formation of the Azad Hind Govt by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, PM Narendra Modi remarked that the idea of India and Indianness had emerged from nationalist leaders like Netaji. The PM also said that leaders like Netaji, Sardar Patel and BR Ambedkar had not…