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# 1 Indian American Weekly: Since 2006 VOL 13 ISSUE 27 ● NEW YORK / DALLAS ● JULY 05 - 11, 2019 ● ENQUIRIES: 646-247-9458 www.theindianpanorama.news America Celebrates Independence Day with a Bang Biggest July 4 Display of Military Pageantry since 1850 COMMENT BIDISHA ROY Prof I.S.Saluja WASHINGTON (TIP): Each year Washington, DC celebrates the Fourth of July with a bang. The 2019 extravaganza Time to Recommit to became very special, as President American Values Donald Trump wanted to add a military flavor to this year's Independence Day hile 4th of July reminds me of celebrations with Troops, tanks and a the glorious history of flypast. The Presidenthas re-branded the W American nation, of the day as a "Salute to America" and the heroic struggle for Independence, of nation watched the biggest July 4 display the great sacrifices made by many for of military pageantry since 1850. upholding the values for which contd on page 32 America stands, which allmake every American proud of the great American heritage, it also tells me in President Donald Trump speaks during an 2019 that the great American nation is Independence Day celebration in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Thursday, faced today, 243 years after July 4, 2019. The Washington Monument and Independence in 1776, with a host of the reflecting pool are in the background. issues which seem to be tearing apart Photo credit : Pool photo by Susan Walsh the fine fabric of the great nation. Greatness comes to a nation when its leaders are loving and caring and Trump Pursues with Census Structural reforms needed for treat all as equals, respecting their dignity. Sadly, this great nation's USD 5 trillion economy, says leaders today are dividing people, Citizenship Question instead of uniting them. Let them WASHINGTON (TIP): keep in mind History will judge them President Donald Trump India's Finance Minister by their deeds. Those dreaming of said on Wednesday, July NEW DELHI(TIP): making history by resorting to hate 3, that he was moving India's finance minister and disrespect for people will find ahead with adding a Nirmala Sitharaman them severely punished in the history contentious citizenship presented the first of the nation and the world. question to the 2020 US budget of the second Let us all , proud citizens of the census in a dramatic term of the Narendra greatest nation on the earth, pledge reversal after his own Modi government on this 4th of July our total commitment administration July 5. to values which our forefathers so including Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced a day This is also the assiduously and lovingly nourished earlier that the plan had been dropped.Following Trump's maiden budget for and protected , making the greatest announcement, made in a defiant Twitter post, a senior US Sitharaman, who sacrifices, the parallel of which are Justice Department lawyer told a Maryland-based federal becomes the second Union minister for finance and corporate difficult to find in the annals of the judge overseeing litigation in the matter that the woman finance affairs Nirmala Sitharaman arrives at world history, and which this great administration was seeking a "path forward" to add a minister after Indira Parliament House to present the Union American nation has always held citizenship question after the Supreme Court last Thursday Gandhi to do so in the Budget 2019-20, in New Delhi on July 05, 2019. Photo / Courtesy PIB sacred and dear. blocked it, at least temporarily. history of independent The Supreme Court found that administration officials had India. "We need to make structural reforms to achieve USD 5 Heartiest Congratulations on given a "contrived" rationale for including the query in the trillion economy in next few years. Indian economy was at USD America's Independence Day! decennial population survey, but the court left open the 1.85 trillion five years back, reached USD 2.7 trillion now and God bless America! possibility the administration could offer a plausible within capacity to reach USD 5 trillion in next few years," said rationale. contd on Page 32 the FM. contd on Page 32 THE INDIAN PANORAMA 2 NEW YORK FRIDAY, JULY 5, 2019 Tirlok Malik's Educational Platform ‘Happy Life Yoga’ launched NEW YORK CITY (TIP): Manhattan Malik said, "Our mission is to help Borough President Gale Brewer and people live in balance and better manage Deputy Consul General of India modern day challenges using a unique Shatrughna Sinha lighted the lamp to combination of tools from Ayurveda, launch Tirlok Malik's 'Happy Life Yoga'- Indian philosophy and Yoga". an educational platform for total health Tirlok Malik said India has always of mind, body and soul, in the presence been a spiritual teacher of the world and of a select gathering of over a hundred , that Indian Philosophy provides the at Goddard Riverside's Bernie Wohl blueprint of how to live a happy life. Center, June 29, 2019. Indian Philosophy teaches that we must Speaking on the occasion, Deputy practice balance in all four aims of Consul General of India Shatrughna human life: Artha, Dharma, Kama and Sinha praised and congratulated Tirlok Moksha. These philosophical concepts Malik for the initiative in can be applied to all cultures. commemoration of International Day of An asana yoga practice and healthy Yoga. Mr. Sinha said the Consulate will eating alone will not make us healthy,Mr. include Happy Life Yoga as a partner in Malik said. Kama, the world of all our the International Day of Yoga desires, can be a double-edged sword and celebrations in 2020. we must understand and manage this Mr. Sinha read out the message of part of the four aims of human life to be Consul General Sandeep Chakravorty 1Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and Deputy Consul General of India Shatrughna healthier and happier. According to who conveyed his best wishes to Mr. Sinha lighted the lamp to launch the initiative Indian Philosophy we can have it all, but Dr. Bhupendra Patel, M.D., Dr. Bhaswati Bhattacharya, Ayurveda physician, and Long Island yoga Deputy Consul General of India Shatrughna Sinha praised and congratulated Tirlok Malik for the teacher Ranju Narang candidly answered questions relating to allopathy, ayurvda and yoga initiative in commemoration of International Day of Yoga Malik, The Indian American Forum and Chief Guest Gale Brewer, Manhattan to live a healthy and happy life. She "Fix your Kama, and be happier", he The Indian Panorama for a "successful Borough President who happens to know wished Mr. Malik all success in his added. launch event of Happy Life Yoga". He Mr. Malik for decades, expressed her joy endeavor. Mr Malik said, "HAPPY LIFE YOGA said he hoped "this initiative will help that Mr. Malik was taking up a great Mr. Tirlok Malik spoke about his will provide workshops, excursions, people to lead a happy life with less responsibility through Happy Life Yoga unique initiative which offers a holistic events and more. strain". to serve the community in guiding them approach to health and happiness. Mr. contd on page 20 Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer who was the chief guest expressed her joy that Mr. Malik was taking on the responsibility of guiding people to lead a healthy and happy life through Mr. Tirlok Malik explained his concept to the gathering: practice balance in all four aims of human Happy Life Yoga life: Artha, Dharma, Kama and Moksha to live a healthier and happier life. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, JULY 5, 2019 OPED 3 America Perfected the March from Magna Carta to Declaration of Independence to the Gettysburg Address By Ravi Batra Happy Birthday America! Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in April 1865, gave America o truly celebrate America, one Declaration Of Independence, written by prior Saxon, Thomas Becket, as the famous Gettysburg Address proclaiming liberty and equality. He led has to know who we are, where my hero Thomas Jefferson, created the Archbishop of Canterbury, succeeded in the nation through the American Civil we came from, where we are "right" to do so. The Constitution has it's imposing, with his death, "Separation of War, its bloodiest war and its greatest now, where we are going, and embedded Separated Powers regime - Church & State." This is embodied in our moral, constitutional, and political crisis. that well-intentioned structural separation, to force an ad hoc Bill of Rights. TCommunism and its light-weight sibling, joinder - thereby squeezing more public Four score and seven years ago American Exceptionalism our fathers brought forth on this Socialism, are wholly inconsistent with good from power by discord. America is continent, a new nation, American Exceptionalism. And then at her best when we are divided on policy, Fast forward several centuries to 1776 - “ there is the many "I"s coming together to but united as a nation. America First, 3 years after the American Revolution conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to be "We": E Pluribus Unum. then, is a predicate to legitimate started in Boston with the Indian Tea the proposition that all men are Time has come for all of us to better argument. "bopping" in its harbor during the created equal. comprehend who and what we are, after One-half of us love Donald J. Trump "Boston Tea Party." Well, "We the People" Now we are engaged in a great civil all "the voice" of the "Silent Majority, and one-half of us can't get rid of him were all landed gentry, and excluded albeit, pretty loud on its own, has its fast enough. That's our America since ordinary everyday people, such as war, testing whether that nation, or any loudspeaker in our POTUS - President 2016 - even without foreign meddling - indentured servants.