# 1 Indian American Weekly: Since 2006 VOL 13 ISSUE 49 ● NEW YORK / DALLAS ● DEC 13 - 19, 2019 ● ENQUIRIES: 646-247-9458 www.theindianpanorama.news PM Boris Gets Solid Mandate in UK Invites advertisements and articles for a profusely illustrated New Year special edition by December 16, 2019. Polls; Vows Brexit by January E-mail advertisements and articles for publication by LONDON (TIP): British Prime December 16, 2019 to Minister's Conservative Party won a [email protected]. solid mandate with 365 seats in the For any question, please call House of Commons Friday, December 646-247-9458 13. It is a commanding majority in For further information, please visit www.theindianpanorama.news Parliament to allow Boris to finalize UK's divorce deal with the European Union next month. Johnson (55), who vigorously campaigned on a simple slogan "Get Brexit done", vowed that he would "work night and day" to repay the trust of the voters after the Conservatives' most emphatic majority since the 1980s under Margaret Thatcher. A 365-seat haul gave the party a solid majority in the 650- strong House of Commons. Johnson hailed a "new dawn" which "unarguably" broke the Brexit deadlock Boris Johnson told the public it and vowed not to let down the was time to 'let the healing begin' contd on Page 30 Photo / Courtesy sky news A record 15 Indian- 2019 'Diwali - Power of One Award' Citizenship Law : origin candidates win in Protests Unabated U.K. general election Presented to Four Eminent Diplomats Japan PM cancels visit amid protests Home Minister Shah not to visit Meghalaya, Arunachal Protests against Citizenship Amendment Bill Indian origin politicians from both the which started in the North East have spread to many parts of India Conservative and the Labour parties have Four Awardees H.E. Volodymyr Yelchenko, H.E. Nicholas Emiliou by H.E. Mavroyiannis, H.E. registered a strong presence in the UK Frantisek Ruzicka, Diwali Foundation Chair Ranju Batra, H.E. Kairat Abdrakhmanov, Ravi Batra, NEW DELHI (TIP): The Narendra Parliament all speakers; 32 co-sponsors present, from Turkey on left , Kuwait on Right Modi government's plan to showcase LONDON (TIP): A record 15 Indian- UNITED NATIONS (TIP): Four included former foreign minister and India's North-East to the wider world origin candidates entered the House of prominent diplomats were honored with Permanent Representative of had to be postponed for another day Commons on Friday, registering seven 'The Diwali - Power of One' award in Kazakhstan to the UN Kairat after Japanese PM Shinzo Abe decided wins each for the ruling Conservative recognition and celebration of their Abdrakhmanov, former Permanent not to visit Guwahati and Bangladesh and Opposition Labour parties in the work, especially at the United Nations, Representative of Cyprus to the United Home Minster AK Abdul Momin put off U.K. General Election. for a secure and peaceful world, at a Nations Nicholas Emiliou, former Chef his visit to Shillong. Abe's visit had The new Parliament is the most ceremony de Cabinet to the President of the 72nd hung in balance till Thursday morning diverse ever, with one in 10 MPs now The diplomats who were honored with Session of the UN General Assembly and as the government was confident of from an ethnic minority background. the 2019 Diwali Power of One Award at Permanent Representative of Slovakia bringing the situation under control. contd on Page 30 the United Nations, December 6, contd on Page 3 contd on Page 30 THE INDIAN PANORAMA 2 ADVERTISEMENT FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2019 THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2019 NY/NJ/CT 3 Ravi Batra Writes to Chairman Engel Voicing Disagreement over Pramila Jayapal's Resolution Urging India to End Restrictions on Communications in Kashmir phone - in the immigration area so as to and has never had the duty to provide Revolution, I urge bipartisan restraint on a enhance public safety and thwart Terror. public safety is visible in her utopia-based bilateral relationship important on a Since communication is a necessary resolution. Terror is real; utopia, a book bipartisan level. If needed, I am happy to "trigger" for Terror, it's interruption in written by Sir Thomas More in 1516, is still come testify and add knowledge and By Ravi Batra necessary to enhance public safety. While a dream. I attach a copy of an article, citing nuances that wisdom requires. all good people want normalcy returned to Thomas Jefferson, that reports my urgent Unlike a jury,creating policy - especially Kashmir ASAP, and I'm a strong concerns to avoid a bilateral mishap. foreign policy - requires expertise and Dear Chairman Engel, proponent of same, I don't second guess I urge in lieu of such misguided action, nuance - and hence, being non-sequestered the decisions made on the ground in real that we, the United States, as an honest helps. Two weeks ago I was in Delhi, and homas Jefferson's June 28, 1776 draft time that affect life and death, to prevent friend of the Sub-Continent use our good had a conversation with our Amb. Ken Declaration of Independence - had the avoidable and unfortunate swap offices, and you, Mr. Chairman, have Juster at a dear friend's event; I've spoken Tsequentiality built into what's more between them. While I welcome a CoDel to global reach and impact as a result of your to good folks, with a Pakistan-centric or important as in - "life, liberty and the Kashmir since my testimony, and hope principled and deliberative action, India-centric view. I applaud State SCA's pursuit of happiness" - in that order. That India will accept my urging, it ill-serves to enriched with infinite calibration, help A/S Alice Wells' efforts to keep things is what I testified to on October 22, 2019 in willy nilly beat up one of the most change the cross-border ground reality to "normal," even as prompting an early the Sub-Committee, and thereafter, timely important and vibrant bilateral aid in fastest return to normalcy. The return to a new normal, that is Terror- supplemented. Sequential rights is the key relationships that will not only define the internal matters of foreign sovereigns are Free. A CoDel will do more good than an to good and proper governance, as defined 21st Century, but extend more American always helped by genuine well-wishers, intrusive and ill-advised resolution. by Lincoln's Gettysburg recipe, which I Freedoms to more of humanity. rather than opportunistic interlopers. https://indicanews.com/2019/12/11/ paraphrase with affection: "of, by and for" As such, Rep. Jayapal's Resolution is ill- As a patriotic American, proud of my disagreement-over-pramila-jaypals- the people. After 9/11, there is a 24/7/365 advised at best, and misguided at best. ancestry, India's several-millennia history resolution-urging-india-to-end-the- days-a-year blackout - a freeze of That she is unfamiliar with Terror, as all of religious freedoms - not just to pray,but restrictions-on-communications/ communication, cell and internet, New Yorkers and Indians are after serial for new faiths to be born, and secular, and Respectfully, including, the instruction not to use the Terror attacks, or she is unfamiliar with, India's vital role in the American Ravi Batra 2019 ‘Diwali - Power of One Award’ Presented to Four Eminent Diplomats CONTD FROM PAGE 1 to the UN Frantisek Ruzicka and Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations Volodymyr Yelchenko . The awards, which have come to be known as the 'Oscars of Diplomacy', were established by the Diwali Foundation USA, Inc in 2017.Diwali Foundation USA, Inc was established in 2017 to promote a "peaceful and consensus-based process to achieve societal good," as befitting the "high hopes and ideals of humanity enshrined in the United Nations Charter. They are awarded to former Permanent Representatives or high-level UN diplomats or those diplomats who will soon finish their tenure at the world organization for working selflessly "to help form a more perfect, peaceful and secure world for all.' Diwali Foundation USA Chair Ranju Batra said this year's awardees, all 'exceptional world class diplomats', have well-earned the award 'by their lifetime of principled efforts to help enhance peace 2019 Diwali Stamp Power of One Awardee Amb. Volodymyr and security by their many victories of 'good' over Ambs. Imnadze, Akbaruddin, Diwali Foundation USA Chair Yelchenko, Iryna Yelchenko, Ranju Batra, Neal Batra, Ravi Batra, 'evil' and 'light' over 'darkness'.' 'Whatever the UN Ranju Batra, Amb. Rybakov and Ravi Batra 2018 Power of One Awardee Amb. Agshin Mehdiyev Charter dreams of, the Diwali Foundation USA's Sandeep Chakravorty applauded the efforts of Ranju commemorative 'Forever Diwali' stamp issued by the Power of One awardees have helped to make it a Batra and eminent Indian-American attorney Ravi US Postal Service in 2016, reaching out to the Indian reality,' she said during the ceremony at the UN's the Batra 'for taking the unifying message of Diwali far American community members and influential Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) chamber. and wide and for making it truly international. lawmakers, garnering support for petitions for the India's Permanent Representative to the UN The 'Power of One' awardinstitutionalizes the stamp. Ambassador Syed Akbaruddin, in his remarks at the Diwali Stamp effort of Ranju Batra and her partners Previous honorees of the award include former event, said that as a tribute to the power of one to who worked tirelessly and made it the most popular Deputy-Executive Director of UN Women Lakshmi bring about change, as exemplified by the 'passionate stamp issued by the US Postal Services, Akbaruddin Puri, former Permanent Representative of Greece to pursuit" by Batra of the Diwali Forever Stamp in 2016, said.