Kodagu is always in news for two main reasons. One, for its demand of wanting to be a separate state.  The other reasons is its flood situation. Assumedly, there is a strong enough reason for demanding the region to go separate as a state, owing to the fact that our politicians and governments have ignored the region. There is a lot of truth to this. But some vested interests have been stumbling blocks in the road to Kodagu’s development. There is a close link to Kodagu’s development and its flood situation. The flood waters that fill Kodagu to the brim, have been pushing the district into distress time and again.

As if to indicate the path of extremism the current Hindutva politics is taking, from that of liberal nationalism, veteran politician and statesman, RSS ideologue former PM Atal Bihari Vajapayee breathed his last on Thursday. It had been more than a decade since Vajpayee moved away from active politics and public life. As a mark of liberal politics he stood for, Vajpayee spent almost his last few years in the ICU. But the most troubling fact is, all the contemporaries that had joined hands with him during his heydays, weren’t facing any better time in the party either.  

In the struggle for water that lasted for nearly 20 years affecting North Karnataka region such as Dharwad, Vijayapura and others there has been a respite to the problem, finally. The Mahadayi Tribual has given its interlocutory order in case of Mahadayi water sharing issue between Karnataka and Goa.  The tribunal has admitted that Karnataka has a right on the water of this river that originates in the border area of Karnataka and flows into Goa.

Courts has been issuing directions time and again to bring in reforms into police department. But common people have been losing trust in the system with every passing day. Custody deaths would turn into questions of efficiency of the police, and the media would report police brutality as and when they happened. 

Usually words such as loss, tragic or unfortunate are used to express feelings when accidents or mishaps or natural disasters occur. May be even to describe when hundreds of people die in a train or bus accidents or something. 

Communal forces have been conspiring to destroy the pluralist India that nourishes so many cultures and languages. The same forces have burnt the copy of Indian constitution. This constitution that provides for the foundation of secular India was prepared under the leadership of Dr B R Ambedkar. This is being widely appreciated by the whole world. This constitution has brought rays of hope to millions of people across the economic spectrum in this country. But then, for those forces which want to turn this country into a living model of regressive ideology propounded by Manu, this constitution has turned into a stumbling block. Hence, they have been conspiring to destroy it bit by bit, one step at a time.      

Maharashtra Anti-terrorism Squad members have unearthed a massive plan by Sanatan Sanstha, bolstering the claims that the organsation is bent upon creating instability and anarchy in the country. The department has seized literature on spreading saffron terror, and a hoard of raw materials used to prepare bombs and other explosives. Not just that, police are also arresting people associated with this conspiracy. With this, the police have successfully avoided an impending disaster waiting to blow in everyone’s face around the upcoming Independence Day.  Else, the country would be reeling under another Malegaon-like blast this year. This incident proves network widening of the saffron terrorists, across the country. They have identified themselves with Malegaon, Mecca, Masjid, Ajmer and Samjhota train blasts.

There are two things that BJP uses as a defence to escape its responsibilities. One is that Indira Gandhi imposed emergency during her tenure as PM of this country. Another one is Bofors, a political and defence scandal involving former PM Rajiv Gandhi’s name. Congress is paying heavily for these mistakes since a long time. The first person to speak against Bofors was former PM V P Singh, who was in Rajiv Gandhi’s cabinet. He quit Congress and waged a war against it.