CHANAKYA of BJP

From winning UP in 2014 to Article 370 abrogation: Why Amit Shah is called Chanakya of Indian politics?

He has become the second-most powerful man in Indian politics after PM Narendra Modi. Critics have often stated that if 2014-19 was a Modi show, 2019 onwards has been a Modi-Shah rule. Amit Shah has played a key role in BJP’s current domination of Indian politics, dubbed a modern-day ‘Chanakya’ for handing state after state to the BJP since 2014.In fact, Shah’s most iconic image has him sitting on a sofa with two portraits behind him – of Veer Sarvarkar and Chanakya.

Modi-Shah – BJP’s winning tag team formation

Amit Shah raised winning elections in a messy democracy like India into an artform. At the time of writing, BJP currently holds the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

Becoming BJP President

As Modi became the PM, BJP’s Central Parliamentary committee unanimously made him president in 2014, and he was re-elected in 2016. Under him BJP won the states of Maharashtra, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand and Assam, losing Delhi and Bihar

This all shows that he has grassroot knowledge of politics and knows what public wants and deliver the same. He does not believe in traditional politics of appeasement and finds his own way to success

BlackHoles- God’s Noodle Maker

Sphaghettification

In late 1970s, this word became common among scientists (to be specific,”Cosmologist”) when Stephen Hawking described an interesting effect of Blackholes which is popularly called as “sphaghettification. It was presented as a thought experiment where an astronaut flies into the event horizon and then get stretched like a noodle.

The reason this happens would be that the gravitational force exerted by the singularity would be much stronger at one end of the body than the other. If one were to fall into a black hole feet first, the gravity at their feet would be much stronger than at their head, causing the person to be vertically stretched. Along with that, the right side of the body will be pulled to the left, and the left side of the body will be pulled to the right, horizontally compressing the person.

And this is how you will end up being a noodle anywhere soon..

Spaghettification of a star was imaged for the first time in 2018 by researchers observing a pair of colliding galaxies approximately 150 million light years from Earth.

“Things can get out of a black hole both on the outside and possibly to another universe. So if you feel you are in a black hole, don’t give up — there’s a way out.”
– Stephen Hawking

International Literacy Day

September 8th was proclaimed as International Literacy Day (ILD) at the 14th session of UNESCO’s General Conference on 26 October 1966. Since 1967, International Literacy Day (ILD) celebrations have taken place annually around the world to remind the public of the importance of literacy as a matter of dignity and human rights, and to advance the literacy agenda towards a more literate and sustainable society. Despite progress made, literacy challenges persist, and at the same time the demands for skills required for work, evolve rapidly.

NORWEGIAN WOOD

Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious

young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the loneliness and isolation he faces there, but Naoko finds the pressures and responsibilities of life unbearable. As she retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself reaching out to others and drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman.

What to expect?

Norwegian Wood is a book which derives its name from a famous 1965 song by Beatles. It is one of the most popular books of Murakami and is set in the Japan of the 1960s during the period of student revolution. It’s a coming-of-age dark romance and drama which is melancholic and strangely peaceful at the same time. The setting tells us a lot about the Japan of the 1960s and what it was like to be a grown adult (amidst the weak-willed hypocritical student revolution) in those days.

The characters

The characters are what makes Norwegian Wood great. Toru, Naoko, Midori, Reiko and Nagasawa are all brilliant in their own ways. Caught between what they desire and what they think is ideal, they often end up making decisions that they themselves don’t understand.

Toru is increasingly torn between his duty to Naoko and his feelings for Midori. Naoko is distant and emotionally closed but Midori is available and in love with him. Still, it is Toru’s indecisiveness that makes him live a life full of casual sex, uneasy friendships, forced isolation, heartfelt regret and the accompanying melancholy.

Naoko is a different character altogether. She appears to be broken beyond repair but she desires Toru too. Weak-willed and depressed, she is unable to come out of her shell and be happy. Midori is peculiar too, she lies about her family, treats Toru weirdly, cannot get rid of her boyfriend and is still in love with Toru.

The depth of each of these characters and the way they are so caught up in their griefs is what makes this book such an enthralling read.

If you want a good twisted Love ❤story

NORWEGIAN WOOD is for you😊

The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
-Khaled Hosseini (The kite runner)

Running with the thread, they made in their backyard, the two boys – a hazara and a pashutan – jumped across the city of Kabul, chasing a kite. One was a handsome young man, who goes to school, a lovely writer and someone who became a better storyteller later in life. The other one was delicate, harelipped, a better friend, or say a better priest who would pray his master as a god.

Above is a story that would bring you from the thoughts of fascination and utopian ideology to something real. Something that each one of us have felt. A sense of guilt that is realised and repaid instead of suffering it till the end.

Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.

Amir and Hussain, the former is the master and the later a servant. Growing up like a brother, feeding from same mother, yet the thought of existing differently was imprinted…

An event that changed lives, maybe not one. A history of people in Kabul. A victory of Taliban over emotions, lifestyle and love. This showed how streets of free kabul was, how the one who fought were dead. A separation, that came together by the thought of repaying the debt of years, and most importantly it narrates the tale of love and sin going hand in hand.

As Rahim Khan says, “There is a way to be good again”.

I never knew I would end up falling in love with a book where the meaning of love has been interpreted and understood the way the readers want to. This indeed was something that will make me crave to read it again just as if it is the first time.

You are lucky if you are going to read it for the first time. And if you have already read it, you are lucky to praise the people of kabul at present and feel what is felt there, thousands of miles apart.