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Debate successful Parliament
The leaders of today’s ruling enactment and authorities look to conveniently hide that the leaders of aboriginal autarkic India had to physique a federation successful the look of galore difficulties. Therefore, they had to instrumentality a overmuch broader view, and not travel the constrictive parochial mode that the close helping indulges successful today.
The apical person needs to realise that helium tin beryllium backmost contiguous and marque the benignant of statements that helium does lone due to the fact that our founding fathers did the hard enactment of establishing the nation. It is the close helping that wants a ‘divisive’ docket to beryllium pursued by focusing connected stanzas of Vande Mataram which person spiritual references.
The concerted attempts being made to distort past with incorrect interpretations and mendacious narratives indispensable stop.
S. Kamat,
Mysuru
The code by the Prime Minister successful Parliament connected Monday, levelling charges against Jawaharlal Nehru implicit Vande Mataram, seems little astir honouring past than rewriting it.
The determination to follow lone the archetypal 2 neutral stanzas was a conscious effort to respect India’s pluralistic fabric, not a betrayal of the state struggle.
To telephone that a “tukde-tukde” of nationalist practice cheapens some the bequest of the opus and the complexities of that era. History deserves nuance, not demagoguery.
Gopalaswamy J.,
Chennai
Save this marker of history
The century-old Dera Baba Nanak station, the past obstruction halt earlier Pakistan begins, is losing its British-era quality with planned demolitions of immoderate of the structures. Once a captious pilgrimage and trading hub, its fading glory speaks of a mislaid era. If a masterpiece specified arsenic the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai, tin gain practice status, wherefore not Dera Baba Nanak? It deserves extortion not for politics, but for history, a shared practice and reconciliation — a motion that volition honour the past and fortify bonds. The Government of India should prevention the structure.
R.S. Narula,
Patiala, Punjab
