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Think beyond the future—- By Dr. Shahir Asfahan.

2018 is on us. The roar of elections will soon be on us. However , there are a few things we can ponder over. Constitution has survived for 70 years and is likely to survive if God wills in the future too. Should our growth be hostage to a particular government ? Should our future be hostage to a particular ideology ? is it proper to think of our survival solely based on which party comes to power in the coming elections. India has seen many different governments, with many different shades of secularism , but has anything changed for us ? are we any better off ? It is high time we get over this election mania. Our growth should be independent of such extraneous influences. It is high time we dissociate our future from political circumstances. We need to build a politically immune growth. A growth that should entangle us irreversibly with the growth of our nation, the nation that our forefathers sacrificed themselves for, a nation which they build on their blood and sweat. We need...

The Charade of Congress-Mukt Bharat..!! - By Dr Shahir Asfahan

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Congress , BJP , AAP or any other legal political party represents a thought subscribed by millions on the ground. You cannot have a Congress mukt or AAP-mukt or BJP-mukt Bharat without having India mukt of many millions of those who follow different strains of thought. Nation is about celebrating differences in the constitutional framework , not belittling or crushing or impeding each other for owning a particular thought process within the ambit of the constitution. Wiping an idea is not the panacea for what ails the country. An idea has to be fought by another idea and foster a sense of competition among different ideas to gain traction without intending to wipe each other out in favor of an idea of homogenous state which is not possible in a country as diverse as India. This kind of negative politics has the potential of making a monster which will come back to haunt those who cheered it. Today its Congress-Mukt, then tomorrow what ? Minorities mukt , then what ? Non-V...