Dr. Atul R Thakare

In the wake of the Mumbai attack by terrorists, the common man in India is all set to think about where our country and we are moving. Though our security guards and police force defeated the terrorists within sixty hours, there is a series of paradox attached to this unfortunate event. We call our self as tech-savvy and term the world as a global village, we launch a self-controlled satellite in space, trace a person in any part of the globe, but still, we cannot gauge the exact strength of the terrorists attacking the commercial capital of our country. We still ask our police to use the 1947 manufactured guns and 1857 manufactured bulletproof jackets to fight with the terrorists equipped with AK 47 rifles and latest weapons. But we won’t ask the same to be done with our politicians’ security. The (mostly corrupt?) politicians are equipped with all the XYZ plus security though they may or may not be in power, as if they are the nation’s most important property. Till date terrorists u

“I don’t know who Raj Thackeray is?” This was the statement given the yesteryear’s actress and the current Rajyasabha MP Ms. Jaya Bachchan, when the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena aka MNS Chief Mr. Raj Thackeray attacked the Legendry actor Mr. Amitabh Bachchan for starting girls’ High school in the town of Allahabad instead of a town in Maharashtra. But now nobody can say that he or she doesn’t know Raj Thackeray, as Mr. Raj Thackeray has become a national figure after his arrest drama. Of course, the media has played a vital role in making him a person of national importance. But this Thackeray Junior has stirred the atmosphere not only in the state of Maharashtra but also the states like UP, Bihar and Haryana. Nobody will advocate the way MNS activists have beaten the Bihari students, but the issue of ignoring sons of soils in the railway recruitment process has awakened the people of Maharashtra against the government’s faulty administration. This made Raj Thackeray and MNS gain Marathi