Political Turmoil – 08 / 2020 30, August, 2020 Friends & Critics – Friends & Critics – Choti – Choti Beaaten A- Cooling Period – Their was a time till the 90’ties. Anybody retiring from Govt. Service had to wait for 2 years before taking-up any other appointment or joining politics. But the things have changed now that very senior people even while in service start making political statement or favoritism towards ruling dispensation to earn political space. Very recent example GEN. V. K. Singh, Mr. R. K. Singh, IAS, and more recent Chief Justice of India, Mr. Ranjan Gogoi. B- Covid-19 – General Life is most affected. Education is taking its toll. Online education is farce. Only 3% of people can take advantage. Travel & Tourism is most severely affected. Even in this category is small time are worst. C- Economy – As it is the economy has been showing downward trends, from 8% down to 3.1%. Added to this the Covid-19 has further shown is effect. The FM in her last Press Conference stated “It is all GOD’S Doing”. Because in BJP parlance “Modi Makes No Mistakes”. Economist state 1st stage Demonetization, 2nd stage ill conceived GST and poorly implemented. 3rd stage poorly managed Macro level economic activities. D- National Security LAC – Chinese have comfortably occupied positions between fingers 4 and 8 since first weak of May – 2020. These positions have given them strategic advantage in the GALWAN VALLY. Which they (Chinese) will never vacate. Are we ready for a skirmish like Kargil ?. Snippets A- Overcome Fear – Lockdowns don’t work But many chief ministers fail to see the larger picture. - Editorial TOI, 28 July, 2020 B- Colourism and Racism. The Indian variant of colourism doesn’t automatically gatecrash into “Black Lives Matter” – Says Dipankar Gupta, TOI 29th July, 2020 C- 73 Years of Freedom – India has come quite far. But its tryst which destiny is still unrealized. In New Delhi to open a restaurant rquires 26 licences, and 45 documents to obtain clearance from the police alone; in China you need just four licenses. – Says Pawan K. Verma, TOI, 15th Aug., 2020 JAI HIND – JAI BHARAT