What use of “beef” controversy, when people sleep in streets sans food-Anand

        Eminent thinker and Novelist Anand said that,I cannot comprehend the meaning of “beef” ban, when lakhs of people sleep on streets of Indian cities sans shelter and food.He was speaking after accepting Vallathol prize in Trivandrum.Many riots have occurred in the country, after Babri Masjid was destroyed. Who attained bliss in the event of destroying Masjid? The country is passing through a terrifying situation. A Central Minister said to the writers, who protested this, that all are games of intellectuals. Ministers always used to say like this. For intellectuals, freedom is not worth a headache. As they are intelligent, they will escape somehow. Only poor people have to undergo misery. They will not even entail tongue to protest.

      If one has to know what religious riots really mean, one has to witness them. After 1947, riots made lakhs of people, refugees. Actually, we have attained freedom only from British Raj. The social slavery that has been existing for centuries, continues even now. “Anand also said that “it has to be identified that the face of Indian cities, where people, who lost their roots, roam like refugees, is disfigured”,

         I am hanging my head in shame: Ex- Naval Chief

       Ex-Navel Chief Ramdas says that ‘the government is striving to simplify the series of attacks by using words like ‘unfortunate’ and ‘grievous’. The ruling party, Chief Ministers, MPs and MLAs are challenging rule of law and democracy by providing leadership in making references, rife with communal hatred. I, who joined military in the fifteenth year, have crossed eighty. Now my situation is so shameful that I cannot walk holding my head high before the world.

       Military had provided enduring contributions to keep aloft India’s secular values. There is no place for divisiveness or discriminations on the basis of caste and religion, in ships, planes and arenas of war. I was habituated to live, eat, fight and die jointly. The stance of Prime Minister of not condemning the atrocities occurring on Dalits and Muslims, in strong language, raises grave questions. It should not be forgotten that Prime Minister and other Ministers hold the constitutional obligation to take stern action against regressive forces. National security will be endangered, if common man’s faith in democracy is not protected by reining in communal forces – Admiral Ramdoss, who was at the helm of Navy for three years from 1990.