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I had a personal connect with three SarSanghachalaks --Prof. Rajendra Singh (Rajju Bhaiya), KC Sudershan, and Dr Mohan Bhagwat. It’s precisely for this reason that I say, I Rhave seen RSS from very close quarters. Sangh was banned three times since independence, during 44 the Emergency thousands of its Swayamsewaks’s were stuffed in jail. Despite such challenges, RSS has kept growing. The numbers of Swayamsewaks in its Shakha have increased steadily and it has now FOREIGN AFFAIRS NANDAN JHA expanded to every part of the globe, wherever Hindus exist. After 93 years since its inception, the sixth facebook.com/jhnandan SarSanghachalak Dr Mohan Bhagwat has endeavoured to define the ideologies of RSS. Last month, MALDIVES in a three- day seminar at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi he imparted his vision to visitors from across India is back in the game the world and on the third day he answered questions about RSS. This was an exceptional attempt to @Nandan_jha4 at this strategically located clear myths associated with RSS and has drawn a lot of appreciation and criticism. In this issue, we are island nation, yet China bringing out an analysis of what Dr Mohan Bhagwat had said and reaction of intellectuals. I hope, like remains a concern the previous issue, this issue will also be received with same admiration and warmth l 42 Editor’s Note EDUCATION 30 REFORM Prosecute all who plotted false case BIG STORY BLOCKS n this era of mediocrity, excellence and passion are rare to find. If it does exist in an individual MALICIOUS Marxists raise the bogey of then s/he must be handled with care. Unfortunately, this was not the case with Nambi Narayanan, saffronisation to stall all the former ISRO scientist. Narayanan was at the peak of his career during nineties, when he was INTENT attempts of education reform maliciously implicated in a false espionage case, tortured in custody and his reputation ruined Ace ISRO scientist Nambi by planting fabricated stories of his sexual escapades with foreign women. Narayanan’s only fault Narayanan was falsely Iwas that he was passionate about his research at ISRO and was striving to make India a super power implicated in an espionage in Space Science. It’s not the fabricated false allegations against Narayanan that is surprising, what’s surprising is that it took twenty four years for him to get a clean chit from India’s Supreme Court. It case to stall India’s space VIVEK SINHA research programme is common knowledge that all those who are working on vital areas such as space sciences will be on the radar of foreign spy networks and could be targeted to derail India’s research activities. What's facebook.com/viveksinha28 baffling is how could a bunch of police officials in Kerala Police and sleuths of Intelligence Bureau run riot for over two decades and we as a nation remained mute spectators. Did the Kerala police officers @viveksinha28 have the jurisdiction to investigate Nambi Narayanan’s case? Why did none of our haloed institutions seek an answer to this simple question? Kerala police’s investigations into this case was akin to a traffic constable investigating a murder. 49 Can we boast of ourselves as the world’s largest democracy if our famed institutions have been DISCUSSION rendered hollow by termites? Narayanan was no common man. He was spearheading India’s cryogenic space programme and was on the board of at least half-dozen other elite space related researches. For- SOCIETY Compromised mer Indian President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, Narayanan’s former colleague at ISRO put in his weight LGBT community is euphoric 34 police officers behind him. Other famous scientists such as former UGC Chairman Prof Yashpal and others wrote an after decriminalisation of sex SPORTS open letter in his favour, but despite this the state government of Kerala in cahoots with compromised with same gender. They plan and IB sleuths police officers continued to harass Narayanan. Their intent was clear. In fact, Narayanan was not the to press for more rights CRICKET implicated target. On their radar was India’s growing space prowess. So when they were not able to sabotage ISRO 46 directly, they chalked out a plan to discredit a genius scientist and with that the space research went MARKETS GAMES Narayanan in down the drain or at least was substantially delayed. Of course, Narayanan has now salvaged some of his reputation back, albeit after twenty four long years, but then the main casualty has been country’s Gentleman’s game in BOURSES a false case. space programme. Our prestigious space research programme has been delayed by several years which Rajasthan touches a new low. Their target was was the real intent of making Narayanan as the target. How much loss has the nation borne due to STUMBLE Infighting in Rajasthan Narayanan’s exit will remain a matter of conjecture and academic discussions, but it will be good if we Cricket Association gets ugly Markets will remain in trouble India’s growing identify, shame and prosecute the officers who fabricated Narayanan with malicious intent. We cannot l for the next 9 months. Every turn back the clock to 1994 but then let’s fix the loopholes in our institutions Cover: Umashankar Shukla space prowess rally is an exit opportunity POWER CORRIDORS 8 OCTOBER, 2018 OCTOBER, 2018 9 POWER CORRIDORS QUOTES NEWS IN BRIEF #METOO SABRIMALA The Me Too movement started by local and international TEMPLE NOW individuals, celebrities included, it is a movement against sexual harassment and sexual assault. This hashtag, #Me- A movement that OPEN FOR ALL Too spread virally in October 2017 but it has come into the began in the West SC strikes down Sabrimala temple’s forefront of the news in India at this time. Stars not only from in October last year Bollywood are coming out with their horror stories, South rule of no women between the age has been brought of 10 and 50 to be allowed inside for Indian cinema stars are also coming out.