The problem with Cine stars is – ‘after acting in a few films’ they feel they are Scientists, technologists, and .. … and start building-up political aspirations.Not entirely their fault – the masses too hero-worship them and feel that they can do wonders in politics.In a recent political meeting,telling the audience why he joined the Congress after quitting the BJP, Shatrughan Sinha said, "This Congress Parivar (family) was the party of Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira, Rajiv Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.Was that simply an apparent gaffe, or knowledge of history of actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha ! We read in our history books – of the role of Indian National Congress in freedom struggle, the role of Jawaharlal Nehru after whom every scheme of Govt was named after ! – how Mohandas Gandhi won freedom through his non-violent means .. never read on how to wrest sovereignty over a subcontinent from a world power? The British-Indian empire was built on bluff and on the dividedness of the population against itself. This was not threatened by the initial Congress movement, which was just a talking shop of lawyers pleading for native interests within the British empire. By contrast, it had really been threatened by the Mutiny of 1857, when different communities rallied around the Sepoys and came together to revolt against the British. At a time when their existence was threatened in two World Wars, British were afraid of military revolt, particularly by the native mercenaries on whom they counted to uphold their imperial edifice, not of pious discourses and slogans.
This Day (3rd May) 80 Years Ago ! ~ Political Significance in India
Posted on the 03 May 2019 by Sampathkumar SampathThe problem with Cine stars is – ‘after acting in a few films’ they feel they are Scientists, technologists, and .. … and start building-up political aspirations.Not entirely their fault – the masses too hero-worship them and feel that they can do wonders in politics.In a recent political meeting,telling the audience why he joined the Congress after quitting the BJP, Shatrughan Sinha said, "This Congress Parivar (family) was the party of Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira, Rajiv Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.Was that simply an apparent gaffe, or knowledge of history of actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha ! We read in our history books – of the role of Indian National Congress in freedom struggle, the role of Jawaharlal Nehru after whom every scheme of Govt was named after ! – how Mohandas Gandhi won freedom through his non-violent means .. never read on how to wrest sovereignty over a subcontinent from a world power? The British-Indian empire was built on bluff and on the dividedness of the population against itself. This was not threatened by the initial Congress movement, which was just a talking shop of lawyers pleading for native interests within the British empire. By contrast, it had really been threatened by the Mutiny of 1857, when different communities rallied around the Sepoys and came together to revolt against the British. At a time when their existence was threatened in two World Wars, British were afraid of military revolt, particularly by the native mercenaries on whom they counted to uphold their imperial edifice, not of pious discourses and slogans.