Page 3 Your World Connected ‘Caged’ Bureau of Vol. 2 Issue 19 10.00 24 Pages Investigation RNI Reg. No.: PUNMUL/2012/45041 Postal Reg. No. PB/JL-047/2013-15 SUNDAY 12 MAY 2013 Weekly Newspaper www.facebook.com/uconnectt National 4 International 6 Campus 11 Celebrity 14 Leisure 16 Business 20 Sports 22 UPA ADMITS FAULT THROWS OUT ASHWANI & BANSAL INC Managing to Hang by Slender Thread An exclusive poll of Chandigarh voters by U Connectt in collaboration with SMI Page 13 CHANDIGARH 2 OPINION SUNDAY 12 May 2013 EDITORIAL DESK Manu Sharma BJP Lacks Realpolitik Bharatiya Janata Party was tradition- For any political party in any other incompetence and lack of realpolitik LOUD & CLEAR ally known as a political party with country of the world such issues in governance. Politics by its nature S.K. Sinha its base firmly entrenched in the would have been treated as part of demands that no principal or ideology Northern States of India. The party the play and sorted with sagacity of be ultimate when juxtaposed with ex- was finally able to change that image a surgeon’s scalpel. Instead the party igencies of governance. When BJP is ‘Mother’ is a verb , by storming to power in the Southern let these issues become crude ma- looking to make corruption and gov- state of Karnataka in 2008. Led by chetes with which it managed to hack ernance as issues for next elections, it not a noun maverick Lingayat leader BS Yed- its own limbs off in the run up to the must remember that all of its prom- dyurappa, BJP rose fast and grew state elections. ises and their worth in the eyes of the They say ,today is her day but practically every day is her day. If you have deep in its Southern bastion. Sticking The virtual decimation of the BJP is electorate will be evaluated in terms one you are the richest and if you don’t , her memories make you rich. She true to the adage of ‘power corrupts’ a rude reminder to those who have of its perceived ability to rule. As the BJP’s state government soon fell prey hopes of a regime change in the next experience of Karnataka shows party is the truest friend behind all the stories in your lives, the first step, the first to accusations of corruption by local Lok Sabha elections. Voters of India apparatchiks are interested in nit- fall . She glorifies benevolence . The first teacher , who kissed you and leaders and the impact of local min- may forgive acts of omission and picking and not governing. Advan- ing-builder nexus on governance. commission but they will not forgive tage Congress! scolded you and showered you with unbridled love. No action is enough Caged Parrot, Invasive Dragon to show her how much she means to you. The tragedy is that we often hurt her as we grow up and learn the worldly ways . We make new friends, new The Supreme Court of India ob- be starker than this. While Indian up their conventional forces while served that CBI had become a establishment has concentrated its strengthening their border infrastruc- habits but whenever the world hurts you, she is the one who forgives you ‘caged parrot’ during its hearing security interests within the confines ture. India and its electorate may be and hides you in her embrace with the same tenderness. No place is safer regarding the CBI affidavit on the of our borders, other nations do not busy watching the antics of the par- Coalgate scam status report. While share the interest of our establish- rot and its muses but it can no longer than her arms and no pillow softer than her knees whenever you are worn the court room drama raged on an- ment. Weak nations need massive manage to be oblivious to the fiery other tense drama on the frontiers internal policing and intelligence dragon next door. It bears remem- out. She prepares you so well that one day you don’t need her anymore and of the nation was coming to a close. gathering while stronger nations brance that 1962 skirmish also wit- can stay away from her . In our actions and in our thoughts we must not The Chinese aggressive ingression concentrate their assets on external nessed an aggressive China under- into Indian territory was met with a threats. We may try and hide our taking a calibrated run up since late forget that she is our source , she is the one chosen by God . She is the one lethargy on the security front under 1950s to deliver a wallop. Border lukewarm response of our establish- who took the pain and always smiled at us . ment. The two sides disengaged on the garb of economic and social pri- incidents do not call for alarms in rather slanted terms and with Indian orities but we must not forget that we normal course of time however when You are the dearest -- MOTHER ! public not being informed of the de- inhabit a dangerous part of the world. incidents occur in particular contexts Jai Hind tails of the exchange. China and Pakistan have been re- of domestic instability then due dili- The contrast and the irony could not lentlessly cooperating and building gence must be exercised. Tagore’s legacy: Seeking out the man behind the mask By Radha Chakravarty To reconsider the legacy of Rabi- he was sent to East Bengal (then the West, yet affirmed his faith in Gora, denounces forms of so- different generations. Certainly, ndranath Tagore (1861-1941) on East Pakistan, now Bangladesh) in the future resurgence of Asia. cial discrimination based on caste, his prescience seems extraordi- his 152nd birth anniversary is to mind the family estates there. Though he and Gandhi shared a creed and nationality. His letters nary. His prime concerns - gender, to confront a maze of contradic- Here he fell in love with the river- mutual admiration, they differed are a treasure-trove of ideas, ex- class, caste, nation, community, tions. What, for instance, inspired ine landscape of Bengal, and also on many counts, for Tagore did periences and emotions, and plays language, violence, environment, a school dropout without a college developed a strong social con- not endorse the Non-Cooperation such as Raktakarabi remain land- education, rural reconstruction, degree to establish an international science, as well as an understand- Movement, and placed humanism marks in symbolic drama. He also literature, art, relationships - con- university? Why did a member of ing of psychology, through his di- above nationalism. translated some of his own works tinue to haunt us today. His hu- the land-owning ‘zamindar’ class rect contact with ordinary people. When he died in 1941, Tagore into English. manism and advocacy of tolerance feel compelled to write about the At 20, he married Mrinalini Devi, left behind a staggering body or Yet Tagore’s reputation, always have not lost their significance for lives of oppressed peasants, and aged ten. They had several chil- work. A prolific writer and art- fragile, stands today at a precari- our divided world. “We may be- to experiment with schemes for dren, and their marriage was a ist, he composed not only poetry ous crossroads between the blind come powerful by knowledge, but rural development? How could a happy one. but also plays, stories, novels, es- adulation of his diehard admirers we attain fullness by sympathy”, man write so insightfully about In the early 1900s, Tagore suffered says, songs, satires, travelogues, and the near-oblivion to which the he insisted. Rabindranath raised the lives of women? What made a series of personal losses, with memoirs and letters. He wrote, rest of the world seems to have his voice against the dominance of him express religious devotion in the deaths of his father, his wife, for instance, almost 100 short sto- consigned him. To his devotees at some nations over others, but also erotic language, and love in the and his favourite child. During ries, over 40 plays, and more than home, Tagore remains “Gurudev”, recognized the power of language, language of religion? Why did he this period, he first espoused, and 2,000 songs. His collected works a revered figure beyond criticism. literature, art and music to create yearn for fame, yet live in constant then moved away from, the fiery and letters run into more than 30 To readers abroad, he still retains bridges of understanding across fear of it? nationalism of the ‘swadeshi’ (na- volumes. About 3,000 paintings something of his earlier image, as geopolitical borders. Difficult questions, but some clues tionalist) movement. In 1913 came are attributed to him. His doodles a sage from the East with a mes- A pity, then, that young people to- may be found in the chequered the Nobel Prize, and international blur the line between writing and sage that might save the decadent day know so little about Tagore, narrative of Rabindranath’s own acclaim. In 1919, he renounced visual art. Rabindrasangeet, the West from disintegration. Tagore, for he has so much to offer them. A life. He was born, he tells us, at his knighthood in protest against form of music and songs invented sensitive about his public image, strong opponent of rote learning, the confluence of three important the Jallianwallah Bagh massacre by Tagore, is an eclectic mix of had himself fostered these stereo- he celebrates the imaginative free- movements: the wave of social by the British soldiers. All his classical, folk and foreign influ- types, to some extent. But now it dom of the “child mind”, its close- and religious reform, the literary life, Tagore travelled restlessly, in ences, set to exquisite lyrics that is time to seek out the man behind ness to the miracle of nature and renaissance in Bengal, and the search of diverse cultural experi- have come to be regarded as a the mask.