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अग्निवीर का सच आया बाहर | Agniveer's cat is out of the bag Ravish Kumar Official https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6FG7ZElAF8
क्या भारत सरकार भारत के पूर्व सेनाध्यक्ष एम एम नरवणे की किताब को छपने की अनुमति देगी? ऐसा कैसे हो सकता है कि पूर्व सेनाध्यक्ष बिना पूर्व अनुमति के ही किताब छपने के लिए दे दें? इस किताब के बारे में दो तीन दिनों से खबरें छप रही हैं, चर्चा भी हो रही थी इसलिए ये खबर कि किताब को छपने की अनुमति नहीं मिली है, कोई साधारण घटना नहीं है। क्या ये मान लिया जाए कि अग्निवीर के बारे में नरवणे ने जो कहा है वो इस मामले में सरकार की पोल खोल रहा है? अग्निवीर जैसे बड़े फ़ैसले के बारे में कहा गया है कि सैन्य बलों को यह झटके की तरह लगा। इसके अलावा चीन से जुड़ी एक जानकारी भी उनकी किताब से बाहर आई है। क्या भारत और चीन के बीच युद्ध का फ़ैसला नरवणे के ऊपर डाल दिया गया था? क्या ये फ़ैसला सरकार का नहीं होना चाहिए था?

सेना प्रमुखों का बड़ा खुलासा, मोदी ने सेना को दिया धोखा?| General Naravane | Modi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5bV3hq296Q 

About the Book:  . From his fi­rst encounter with the Chinese as a young officer in Sikkim to dealing with them in Galwan when he was Chief, from daily incidents of fi­ring across the LC to implementing a ceasefi­re with Pakistan, General Naravane takes us through his distinguished career spanning over four decades that saw him serve in all corners of the country. This is a specialist’s take on the things that make our forces unique, particularly those that deal with the planning and conduct of operations―the raison d’être of the Army.

In Four Stars of Destiny, General Naravane shares lessons on leadership and management with universal applicability, and gives us an insider’s perspective on what else needs to be done to make the Armed Forces a more potent instrument of national power, ready to meet the challenges of the twenty-fi­rst century. General Naravane’s life and career illustrate the strength and resilience required to overcome adversity, and the importance of family and maintaining a work-life balance―something that has been lost sight of in today’s 24x7 work culture.

'150 of our MPs have been thrown out (of the House) but there is no discussion on that in the media' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8abkUSDiLc ThePrint 
Dec 20, 2023
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi Wednesday said, "...MPs were sitting there, I shot their video. My video is on my phone. Media is showing it...Nobody has said anything...150 of our MPs have been thrown out (of the House) but there is no discussion on that in the media. There is no discussion on Adani, no discussion on Rafale, no discussion on unemployment. Our MPs are disheartened and sitting outside. But you are discussing that (mimicry)

'The Indians: Histories of a Civilization' book review: Point of origin https://www.newindianexpress.com/lifestyle/books/2023/sep/03/the-indians-histories-ofa-civilization-book-review-point-of-origin-2610432.html  03rd September 2023
The detailed book, albeit a bit jargonised, counters the ongoing trend of rewriting India’s history..  through the centuries and across the country, looking at ancient languages and philosophies; the histories of the Deccan, Bengal, Odisha, Sikkim, Punjab, the Western Himalayas, and more. Colonialism, political and social movements, and India’s journey since Independence are also covered The Indians amply reflects the “cultural, linguistic, social and religious heterogeneity that has been the hallmark of the Indic world” that Vinay Lal writes of in the afterword. Its subject matter is varied, and insights, more often than not, refreshingly different. It brings, again and again, the subaltern into the limelight (or at least makes sure that it is mentioned). It shows that the homogenous India of the self-appointed WhatsApp ‘historians’ is a falsity. 

extract from page 536  .  the colonial ethnographers, such as
those responsible for drawing up the huge series of district and State
gazetteers, ‘went looking for difference’, intent on drawing up sharp
lines of demarcation and differentiating unequivocally between adherents
of different faiths, but everywhere — nowhere more so than in Gujarat,
though scarcely anyone could believe that today given the intense and even
brutal communalization of the state in our times — they stumbled upon
communities which described themselves as equally Hindu and Muslim
and whose religious practices filled the ethnographers with bewilderment
and sometimes abhorrence.” One such community that they encountered
in Gujarat, which must have seemed to the ethnographers as akin to such
Hindu deities as Shiva in his form of Ardhnarisvara (half female, half
male) or Vishnu in his form of Narasimha (man-lion), were the ‘Husaini
Brahmans’ who called themselves ‘followers of the Atharva Veda’ but took
their ‘title from Husain, the grandson of the Prophet’: “The men dress
like Musalmans the women like Hindus. The ethnographer continues:
‘Except that they wear the Hindu browmark tila [tilak], that they often
give their children Hindu names, that they do not circumcise, that a priest
of their own class marries them, and that their dead are buried sitting
their customs, even to observing the Ramazan fast, are Muhammadan.
I suspect that few orthodox Muslims would have construed the various ways
in which the Husaini Brahmins marked their distance from Islam perhaps
most prominently, their failure to practice circumsision — as marginal to
the faith, though the ethnographer’s almost nonchalant attitude, indicated
by the ease with which the divergences are merely signified through we
casual use of the word ‘except’, seems to suggest otherwise, It is perhaps
the ethnographer’s own unease with the phenomenon to which he
witness which makes him inclined to undermine the vitally importance