Kaala Prayanam

  Buddhism was developed before Christ. Angkor Thom, near Siem Reap in Cambodia, was built in 1181 Current Era. It is being referred to as a Vishnu temple. In the statue of this temple, the pinnae of the ears are elongated up to the shoulders. The fists are closed. One of the palms is open-fingered. It is laughing. The crown is like the cap of a Buddha Bhikshu. These postures are of Buddha. Like the idols of Venkateswara in Tirumala (Vishnu temple now), Amaravati (now Shiva temple depicting Buddha Stupa as Shiva Linga) of Andhra Pradesh, and Sabarimala (temple of Ayyappa, son of Vishnu and Shiva, both males surprisingly) of Kerala, the stone idol of Angkor Thom is also of Buddha. This is a Buddha temple.

  The Statue of Varaha Murthy in human form up to the neck from the legs and with the head of a pig lifting a globe on his canines (conical pointed teeth) as an incarnation of Vishnu is normally installed in Hindu temples. It is propagated that in the Ramtek temple, the stone statue of a Pig is installed in the open ceiling mandap as a deterrent to Muslims wanting to vandalise the temple. Is the statue so hated that it drove the people away, discarding their committed task?

  Our "Prime Servant" Shri Narendra Modi, on his 75th birthday, with the highly ornate bow and arrow, in Dhar, the city of sword blades, in Madhya Pradesh, India.  Our PM inaugurated the "Healthy Woman Empowered Family" Scheme. The relevance of the Bow and Arrow, with this scheme, is unknown. These weapons are taken up to highlight the knowledge of the valery through Sri Ram, the King God, conveniently neglecting the Backward Caste God Sri Krishna. The Bow and Arrow in modern times are mostly used by, and hence the symbols of the Aadivashis, the Mulavashis. These tribals are being killed under the guise of the danger of Naxals. Their living areas, with rich natural resources, are being made over to their blessed Multinationals. Let us beware that all these Avatars are only election gimmicks.

  Number of audios, videos and and films are arranged in the halls, on the open area of the Sala Silver Mine, near Stockholm, Sweden. They explain about the Sala Silver Mine in particular and about mining processes in general.

  Speaking in the Rotary Club of Guntur, on the "Causes and Effects of Indo-Pak Conflicts - Role of America on the Ceasefire" on 11th May 2025.

  Speaking on Earth Day on 22nd April 2025 in Bharatpeta Municipal High School, Guntur.

  Speaking in the Charvaka Ashram Nidamarru, Guntur District, on 18th February on the topic "Application of Dialectic Materialism in the present rule". 

  Karnataka Chief Minister Sri Siddaramaiah on 16th March 2015 announced Kaveri Arati on 21st March. Karnataka followed Modi's Arati at Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. Yogi Adityanath increased this madness.  But the Law prohibits religious and commercial activities in water fronts like ponds, lakes, rivers, seas, and oceans. The Law Makers became the Law breakers!?  

  My life with the Chinese dancers of the cruise in Yichang, China, on 2nd February 2025.

  In the Terracotta Warriors Museum near Chengdu, China on 27th February 2025

  Adolf Hitler on the 10th February 1933 spoke first time as Chancellor. Addressed people as the German National Comrades. But argued against Marxism.  Hitler used words like Volk (nation), Erde (earth) to win and unify Germans. Mentioned about building industry, battling Marxism, and returning Germany to the Germans (Trump spoke that America is for Americans). Indicated to break the Versailles Treaty and invade other European nations. Blamed former rulers and opponents (Modi always blames Nehru and the "others"). Promised one realisation, one conviction, a new community, Germany's triumph, eternal laws, values, and will power of flesh, blood, and soil, decency in rule and public life, glorious Reich (parliament). Explained the goal of struggles, and scolded the class theories. Insisted education should implant belief in God and Volk in children and youth. Said peasants and workers are the national pillars, democracy is rotten. Said his decisions were most precious. This ...

  Speaking on the topic "Religion - Secular State - Godmen" in the National Nastik Mela, Nidamarru near Managalagiri, Guntur District on 8th February 2925 

  With the students of the Bharatpet Municipal High School, Guntur. Remembered Netaji on his birth anniversary on 23rd January 2025. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's father, Janakinath, was a successful lawyer, govt pleader loyal to the British. Netaji was against the British. Fought for independence. He was inspired by Bhagawadgita. Tried to achieve freedom through armed struggle. Established and led the Indian National Army. Joined Germany and Japan against the British during World War II. Netaji preferred the nation to civil service. Left ICS. As Congress' President formed the Planning Commission headed by Nehru. Differed with Gandhi in the goal and method to achieve freedom. Wanted a synthesis between national socialism and communism. So was disliked by Gandhi. Netaji died on 18.8.1945 in an airplane crash.

  The head of the Union Government criticised the freebies to the citizens. BJP won the elections in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, etc., by advertising freebies to the voters, especially to women. PM Modi auctioned freebies for the votes in 2016 Bihar state election. Later, he and his cabinet heckled freebies. Neglecting SC's advice Prime Minister opportunistically announced many freebies in later states' elections. The election promises are not fulfilled. In the Delhi State election, the BJP competed with AAP in announcing freebies. Kept their number and quantity open till the election. Polution, bad roads, traffic snarls, street lights, slums in Delhi, and poverty, unemployment, suicides by students and farmers, people's health, women's safety, Minimum Support Prices to farmers, high cost of living, inflation, religious lynching, rupee devaluation in the country are neglected because they don't yield votes.  

  Addressing the Palestine Solidarity Meeting by Progressive Democratic Students' Organisation and Nava Yuva Federation in Guntur.  

  Best Wishes to All Ranks of the Army, civil staff, veterans, and their families on the occasion of Army Day, 15 January. On 15.1.1949, Lieutenant General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa became the Chief of the Indian Army. He succeeded British Gen Sir Francis Robert Roy Butcher. The Indian Army is known for its valour, selfless service, and dedication. It safeguards the nation's security and sovereignty. The Army resolved to confront the security challenges at the borders and inland, assist civil authorities with humanity in disaster management, in nation building, guard national progress, and contribute to global peace. Present RSS rulers, selfishly using the Army for their electoral and political gains. Casualised the army with Agnipath. Golwalkar wished India to be Hinduised, Hindus to be armed. RSS rulers now saffronised the Indian Army.

  "A Politician thinks of the next election. Statesman thinks about the next generation... Boys copy the voices of men rather than their virtues." James Freeman Clarke.  James Freeman Clarke was an author, theologian, social reformer, and activist. Bridged Christianity, Transcendentalism, and progressive causes. Born on 4.4.1810 in Hanover, New Hampshire to Samuel Clarke and Rebecca Parker Hull. Graduated from Harvard College. Became minister at the First Unitarian Church in Louisville, Kentucky, a slave state. Co-founded the Church of Disciples in Boston, a progressive congregation. Opposed slavery. Encouraged Civil War. Fought for Women's Rights. Advocated civil reforms. Emphasised spiritual friendship. Penned 1,000 articles, sermons, and 32 books. Clarke died on 8.6.1888 in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

  Edward Robb Ellis American journalist, author, and famous diarist on 26th September 1938 in his diary wrote that the "Mad dog of Europe (Hitler), with oratory, demanded extremely and caused World War II. Edward Robb Ellis US journalist, author, and diarist and many opposed the US' involvement in war, only 20 years after World War I, "the war to end all wars". His diary for 26.9.1938 is: "Today I heard Hitler. The Mad Dog demanded that Czechoslovakia to give Germany Sudenten area of that country, which is inhabited by the German minority. His oratory chilled one's blood. People feared of war. Young men questioned the compulsory army service. Women tremble lest their men be thrust into battle. In December 1941, Japan attacked the American Naval Base, Pearl Harbor. 8 battleships were damaged, 4 sunk, and 2,400 Americans killed. Prez Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war on Japan. Hitler and Mussolini did the same on the US.

  Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman American Supreme Court Judge. She was worn in on 25th September 1981. In 1981, Sandra Day O'Connor was the first woman to be nominated as a judge and confirmed to the US Supreme Court by the Republican President Ronald Reagan, who campaigned to elect a woman to the court. O'Connor was a Republican. Served as a judge in Arizona. But she was opposed by conservatives of the party. They believed she was not strong on anti-abortion and wouldn't overturn Roe Vs Wade (abortion right). O'Connor served from 1981 to 2006 under chief justices Warren E. Burger, William Rehnquist, and John Roberts before retiring. She voted on conservative lines. This put her to the center of the court. Born on 26.3.1930 in El Paso, Texas, she died at 93 on 1.12.2023.

  John Jay, the Statesman and founding father of America, was nominated for the First Chief Justice of America by President George Washington on 24th September 1789.  John Jay was born on 12.12.1745 in a wealthy family in New York City. He was well educated. Jay involved in the Patriot movement. In the American Revolutionary War, he worked as a diplomat and helped in the Treaty of Paris, which ended the war. After the war, with Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, he wrote the Federalist Papers, which supported a strong federal government. In 1789, President George Washington appointed Jay as the first Chief Justice of the US. As the US CJ, he made important decisions that made the court powerful. He also served as the Governor of New York from 1795 to 1801. During this time, he made a law ending slavery. Jay owned slaves. This caused debate and criticism. He died on 17.5.1829 at 83. 

  Women wearing dresses with pockets in 1926. "We Want Pockets" movement was heckled as "The Rockets in the Pockets".  "We Want Pockets" campaign is grassroot, and social media movement advocating for practical, functional pockets in women's apparel. It highlights the pocket inequality. Women's clothing features shallow, tiny, or fake pockets. This disparity forces women to rely on handbags. In the 17th and 18th centuries, women used detachable pocket bags. By 20 th century, suffragist Alice Duer Miller satirized anti-suffrage. The #WeWantPockets hashtag exploded in the late 2010s. In 2025, 10-year-old Evie Bladey from England in her letter, "Girls need to carry things too!" sparked action. As of September 2025, the BBC highlighted pocketed garments.

  Maria Corazon Sumulong Cojuangco Aquino, the 11th and the first woman president of the Philippines. Corazon Aquino, called 'Cory,' named the 'Mother of the Philippines Democracy', was the first female president of the Philippines, from 1986 to 1992. She became prominent after the assassination of her husband, Senator Benigno 'Ninoy' Aquino Jr., in 1983, which sparked opposition to Ferdinand Marcos. A key figure in the People Power Revolution, she united opposition forces and led a nonviolent movement that toppled Marcos in 1986, ending his 20-year dictatorship. The Army supported her. As President, Aquino restored democratic institutions, released political prisoners, and introduced a new constitution in 1987. She faced challenges, including economic struggles, coup attempts, Communist insurgency, Islamist secession movements, and criticism for political inexperience. Despite this, she prioritised peace, peace talks with Communists and Islamists, agrarian refo...

  The Tenth President and dictator of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos, declared Martial Law on 21st September 1972 in the Philippines. Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos, 10th President of the Philippines, and the Dictator ran a corrupt, and undemocratic government (1965-1986). He came to power in 1965. Was reelected in 1969. In public unrest, he imposed martial law (1972 -1981). In 1983, his longtime political opponent, Ninoy Aquino, was assassinated and Marcos' govt implicated. The country ignited in protests. This led to snap elections in 1986. Marcos ran against Corazon Aquino, the wife of Ninoy Aquino. The election was marred by widespread violence and tampering of the results. The People's Power Revolution gained strength, forced Marcos and his government to capitulate. Marcos fled to Hawaii, where he died on 28.9.1989, at 72, of heart, lung, and kidney disease. In the 2004 Global Transparency Report, Marcos was in the list of the World's Most Corrupt Leaders. He ama...

  The Allied Control Council of America, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and France enacted Law No. 1 on 20th September 1945, repealing Nazi Laws to denazify all walks of German Society. Law 1, made by the Allied Control Council (ACC) on 20.9.1945, was to denazify law, society, and institutions, to restore laws for democracy, and to prosecute war criminals. ACC, of the US, the UK, the Soviet Union, and France, was the supreme governing body for Germany after its surrender. It repealed 25 Nazi laws, decrees, and ordinances that led to racial discrimination, tyranny, and suppression of civil liberties. They are: The Enabling Act, allowing Hitler to enact laws without the Reichstag. Law banning political parties (except the Nazi Party), and the formation of new parties. The Nuremberg Laws, stripping Jews of citizenship, and prohibiting interracial marriages. The Law criminalizing criticism of the State and the Nazi party. Police Ordinance to identify and persecute Jews. Reich Fl...

  Sir William Gerald Golding, a British novelist, playwright, poet, and teacher in English, Greek, philosophy, music, and drama, was born on 19th September 1911.  William Golding, Fellow of the Royal Society of literature, was born in Cornwall, England, on 19.9.1911. He studied at Oxford. Served in the Royal Navy in World War II. War experiences shaped his pessimistic view of humanity and society. Golding wrote 12 novels. Rites of Passage (1980) won the Booker Prize. His works delve into themes of human evil, survival, and moral decay. In 2008, The Times ranked him third among the 50 greatest British writers from 1945. Was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1983. Was knighted in 1988. He married Ann Brookfield in 1939. They had 2 children. He was relying on alcohol and died of a heart attack on 19.6.1993.

  Dag Hammarskjold, the Secretary General United Nations Organisations was killed on 18th September 1961 in the mysterious crash near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) of the Sweden aircraft, chartered for ceasefire negotiations during the Congo Crisis.  Dag Hammarskjöld was a Swedish economist, diplomat. He was the 2nd Secretary General of the United Nations from 1953 until his death, in 1961. He is known for his commitment to peacekeeping operations and shaping the role of the Secretary General as an active force in global politics. His tenure at the UN was marked by a series of complex international crises viz, the Suez Canal dispute, the Congo Crisis, and conflicts in the Middle East. Despite challenges, he was committed to the principles of diplomacy and international cooperation. His establishment of the UN Emergency Force in the Suez Crisis set a precedent for UN peace missions. He intervened directly in conflicts, mediated disputes, and drew attention to global issues....

  The Camp David Accords were signed on 17th September 1978 by Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Menachem Begin of Israel. American President Jimmy Carter mediated.  The Camp David Accords were two agreements signed on 17.9.1978 by the Israel Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egypt President Anwar Sadat, after 12 days' secret negotiations by the US President Jimmy Carter at Camp David, the president's retreat in Maryland. The Accords solved the Arab-Israeli conflict, proposing Palestinian self-governance in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Led to the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty on 26.3.1979. Egypt became the first Arab nation to recognize Israel. Israel agreed to withdraw from the Sinai Peninsula, occupied in 1967 Six-Day War. Established diplomatic and economic relations between Egypt and Israel. America promised military and economic aid to both. Palestinian issues are not resolved. Sadat and Begin got the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978. Accords were opposed in the Arab world. Egypt was suspen...

  66 months' jail without trial. Judiciary upheld the State's Narration, played wait game. Pretrial punishment became normal under the guise of national security.  Political activists, journalists, and students by questioning, protesting and activities protect democracy, constitutional provisions, and lead to good governance. Laws shouldn't be misapplied to silence voices of dissent. UAPA broke constitutional provisions of justice, liberty, and dignity. The right to question authority leads to indefinite imprisonment. The constitutional principle of innocent until proven guilty, is inverted. Dramatically, the accused must prove the accusation is not prima facie true. Refusal of bail, punishment without conviction violate the right to live, and lead to loss of faith in the judicial system.

  Benedict XV, the 258th Pope, published an Encyclical (letter to the Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church) Alcohol Paraclitus (holy spirit) on 15th September 1921.  Alcohol Paraclitus is a papal order by Pope Benedict XV on 15.9.1921, addressing the social and moral issues of alcohol consumption, guiding the society against the harms of alcohol. Amid alcoholism's impact on families, economies, and health, it urged Catholics to promote sobriety and warned against the 'scourge' of drinking. Benedict XV emphasized alcohol's role in poverty and moral decay. He called for moderation and aid to those affected, as the Church's response to social upheavals and ethics. It advocated for education and legislation to curb alcohol abuse.

  Deborah Tannen, an American author and a liguistic professor. She focussed on genderlect theory of miscommunication between men and women.  'The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue' by Deborah Frances Tannen explores how modern society adopted an adversarial approach to communicate, favoring debate and confrontation over constructive dialogue. She argues this 'argument culture' permeates media, politics, law, and personal interactions, framing issues as polarized battles. She critiques how this mindset stifles mutual understanding and problem-solving. She proposes dialogue that emphasizes listening, collaboration, and finding common ground. Tannen highlights the ventriloquising phenomenon- a person (woman) speaking for and as another (man).

  Deutsche Arbeiter Partei (German Workers' Party) in which Adolf Hitler joined on 12th September 1919. In this party, workers' rights are negated. German Nationalism and anti-Semitism are its goals. Adolf Hitler's Deutsche Arbeiter Partei (German Workers' Party) card with membership Number 7. Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (DAP, German Workers' Party) was a short-lived, far-right political party in Weimar Germany, founded on 5.1.1919, in Munich and dissolved on 24.2.1920, when it was renamed as the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), known as the Nazi Party. DAP's goals were German nationalism, unification of ethnic Germans, Anti-Semitism: Strong prejudice against Jews, Anti-Marxism: Opposition to communism and socialism. It is a racial and cultural nationalist movement emphasizing "pure" German identity. The DAP was inspired by the Thule Society, a secretive, right-wing, anti-Semitic organization, and the Pan-Germanist Union.

  The students, especially the girls, with dreams of a golden future and resilience of crises.   Rulers corporatised education and health. They take care of their political security at the cost of the people. Gen Z in India is made to lose the capacity to recover from difficulties, setbacks, and stress. Youth, without the knowledge of marital life, is marrying, and without parental knowledge, begetting children. Alternative educative forces neglected their responsibility. Citizens became passive towards the unlawful ruling. Adults without helping hands and students, being deprived of questioning and proactive thinking, are swept by the mad propaganda of the rulers. Shouldn't we learn lessons from the incidents of Srilanka, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Nepal?

  Pied Piper of Hamelin driving the children out, a revenge of the unfulfilled promise. Shouldn't we take a lesson from this?  The Pied Piper is a German folktale of Hamelin town. A historical event of 1284. Hamelin was plagued by rats. A piper, dressed in pied (colorful) clothes, offers to rid the town of rats for a fee. He plays a magical tune on his pipe, luring the rats into the Weser River, where they drown. Townspeople refuse to pay him. The piper retaliates by playing another tune, leading 130 of the town’s children into a cave, never seen again. The tale is a paradoxical caution to the rulers and a reminder of revenge by people about fake political promises.

  Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese Revolutionary, declaring Vietnamese Independence on 2nd September 1945. Ho was the founder and the first president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Second September is Vietnam's National Day and Ho's 56th Death Anniversary.  On 2.9.1945, Ho Chi Minh declared the Independence of Vietnam in Hanoi’s Ba Dinh Square. Established the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. The Declaration Document, inspired by the US Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man, asserted Vietnam’s sovereignty and right to self-determination. It highlighted French colonialism, exploitation, oppression, and economic hardship, and Japanese aggression in World War II. Quoted principles of liberty and equality. It denounced French claims to Vietnam and affirmed that the Vietnamese people seized independence through their own efforts. It positioned Ho Chi Minh and Viet Minh (Communist led league for the independence of Vietnam) as leaders of the natio...

  Image, of NASA Space Flight Center, of Carrington Event, the largest geomagnetic and intensely bright Solar Flare Storm in history on the First September 1859. The Carrington Event occurred on Sept 1-2, 1859, was the most intense geomagnetic storm caused by a massive solar flare and coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun. Named after British astronomer Richard Carrington, who observed the flare. It had profound effects on Earth's technological infrastructure. This CME travelled to Earth in 17.6 hours and was visible to the naked eye, and struck the Earth’s magnetosphere. The Global telegraph network and power transformers were severely damaged. The storm caused significant fluctuations in Earth’s magnetic field. It was a once-in-500-year event with a disturbance storm time index exceeding -850 nano Teslas. No equivalent event has occurred since.

  John Cage, an American music composer, artist, inventor of the Prepared Piano, and philosopher. He quoted "Good music can act as a guide to good living". John Cage, 1912–1992, was an American composer, music theorist, artist, and philosopher. He created 20th-century avant-garde music. Born in Los Angeles, USA, Cage pioneered experimental music. Known for chance operations in music composition, using methods like I Ching (ancient Chinese divination) to remove ego in musicians. His famous work 4'33" (1952) makes performers silent for 4 min, 33secs. Music comprises sounds in the environment. Cage invented Prepared Piano, with screws, bolts, and rubber on strings to create unconventional sounds. He blended music, dance, and visual art. Influenced Fluxus, ideology, and art movements. Believed 'everything we do is music' and blurred boundaries between art and life. His ideas revolutionized music, teachings at colleges influenced experimental artists. Cage was gay...

  Antonio De Oliveira Salazar, economist, politician, and the Prime Ministerial dictator of Portugal, who refused to die. António de Oliveira Salazar was a Portuguese economist, politician, Prime Minister from 1932 to 1968, as dictator. Born in 1889 in Vimieiro, Portugal, he studied law and economics. Became a professor. He ruled by conservative, nationalist, Catholic values, with the motto of 'God, Fatherland, and Family'. Salazar came to power after the 1926 military coup. As finance minister in 1928, he stabilized the economy, achieved budget surpluses, and built gold reserves. In 1932, as Prime Minister, he established a corporatist, authoritarian New State. Imprisoned, assassinated opponents, and abolished other parties. Limited industrialization, controlled social and political life. The country was Western Europe’s poorest. Salazar was neutral in World War II. Aided the Allies. In the Spanish Civil War supported Franco. He was anti-communist. Opposing Paganism in fascism...

  Chaim Weigmann, Israeli Statesman and Scientist, informed England before the beginning of World War II,  on 28th August 1939, that Palestinian (Israel was not formed by then) Jews would fight in World War II. Chaim Weizmann was an Israeli Zionist leader, statesman, and biochemist. He was the first President of Israel from 16.2.1949 till his death on 9.11.1952. Born in 1874 in Motol, Belarus (then part of the Russian Empire) in a Jewish family. Despite poverty, his parents educated him. Weizmann excelled in chemistry, earned a doctorate from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, in 1899. He taught at the University of Manchester, where he became a British citizen in 1910 and lived for 30 years. Weizmann is the 'father' of industrial fermentation. He produced acetone used in explosives for the British during World War I. This brought him close to British leaders. He got 100 patents. Played a key role in the Zionist Movement. He was the president of the World Zionist Organis...

  Howard Zinn American social activist, historian, and playwright. A leftist Jewish, and World War II veteran fighter. Howard Zinn (1922– 2010) was an American historian, playwright, and social activist. Best known for his book A People's History of the United States. It focused on education, culture, critical thinking, marginalized groups, indigenous people, workers, women, and African Americans. Zinn emphasized class struggle, revolt to oppression, grass root movements. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in a working class, Jewish immigrant family, Zinn’s experiences shaped him leftist. In World War II, he was a bombardier. This fueled his anti-war activism. Earning Ph.D. in history from Columbia University, he taught at Spelman College, where he supported civil rights activism, and later at Boston University, where he became a critic of US policies, the Vietnam War etc. Zinn was involved in social movements, civil rights to anti-war protests. He wrote Disobedience and Democracy, and Th...

  Bill Clinton, the then President of America, signed, on 26th August 1996, the Welfare Reform Act, restricting welfare benefits, food stamps to the low-income groups, and migrants.  On 26.8.1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, referred to as the Welfare Reform Act. This reduced the government aid to the welfare system. Replaced Aid to Families with Dependent Children, the open-ended entitlement program, with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). TANF fixed federal funds to states. Recipients had to find work within 2 years. Imposed five-year lifetime limit on federal welfare benefits. The law forced to reduce the out-of-wedlock births, promoted two-parent families. Reduced funds to food stamps and restricted its eligibility to immigrants. Tightened eligibility to Supplemental Security Income to disabled children. The reform was to end welfare, a promise Clinton made. It was a compromise between Clin...

  Parisians parade on 26th August 1944. Paris was liberated by the French Second Armored Division and the Allied Forces, defeating the German Army on 25th August 1944.  The Liberation of Paris on 25.8.1944 was pivotal in World War II, ending German occupation in Paris. It was under German control since June 1940. By mid-1944, Allied forces advanced in France. French Resistance and French Forces of the Interior disrupted German operations. On August 19, General Eisenhower bypassed Paris to avoid urban combat and focus on the German army. Resistance uprising and the Free French leader General Charles de Gaulle led to a shift. On Aug 24, Genl Philippe Leclerc’s army and American units approached. German commander Dietrich von Choltitz, ordered by Hitler to smash Paris, defied the directive. On 25.8.1944, French and Allied troops, Leclerc’s Army entered Paris. Von Choltitz surrendered to French forces. General De Gaulle delivered the victory speech at Hôtel de Ville and declared P...

  Dwight Eisenhower, the World War II General and American Republican President, signed the Communist Control Act on 24th August 1954, outlawing the Communist Party of the USA, at the height of McCarthyism. Modern Indian McCarthyism is practising the same tactics.  Communist Control Act, USA, was signed by President Dwight Eisenhower on 24.8.1954, outlawing the Communist Party of the US (CPUSA) and criminalized membership in or support for the party or Communist organizations. It was enacted due to fears of communist subversion. It declared the Communist Party was conspiring to overthrow the U.S. government. The Act cut the legal rights, privileges, and immunities of the CPUSA. Made its membership illegal with a penalty upto $10,000, five years imprisonment, or both. It was due to peak McCarthyism (throwing mud with lies) and anti-communist hysteria. Critics, the American Civil Liberties Union, argued it violated rights by denying legal protections to the CPUSA. The Opposition...

  Nazi Prime Minister Ribbentrop and Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov (Stalin at the back in uniform) signing the German - Soviet Pact on 23rd August 1939. Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Soviet Union, was signed on 23.8.1939 in Moscow by Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. The pact was bound for 10 years both nations to the neutrality. Neither would attack the other or support a third party. Poland was split between Germany and the Soviet Union. Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), Finland, and parts of Romania were given to the Soviet Union. Germany invaded Poland on 1.9.1939, without fear of the Soviet triggering World War II. The Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland on 17.9.1939. The pact collapsed on 22.6.1941, when Nazi Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, invading the Soviet Union. Both powers got time and strategic advantages. The world, especially the left, was s...

  Michael Collins revolutionary and pivotal figure in the Irish Struggle for Independence, was killed on 22nd August 1922.  Michael Collins was pivotal in Ireland’s independence struggle. Born in 1890 in Woodfield, he moved to London at 15. Joined as a clerk in the secret armed rebellion, and in the Irish Republican Brotherhood in 1909. Became noted in the failed 1916 Easter Rising. As director of Intelligence of the Irish Republican Army in the Independence War (1919–21), Collin's guerrilla tactics, 'The Squad' crippled the British, earned him £10K bounty and a nickname 'The Big Fellow'. By the Anglo-Irish Treaty in Dec 1921, Collins secured the Irish Free State’s dominion status, a step to full independence. As the Chairman of the Provisional Govt and Commander-in-Chief of the National Army, Collins led the civil war. On 22.8.1922, he was killed at 31.

  Former Prime Minister of Japan General Hideki Tojo (spectacled and baldheaded at the center) being trialled in the Tokyo Trials.  Tokyo Trials, International Military Tribunal for the Far East, were held from 3.5.1946 to 12.11.1948, to prosecute Japanese leaders for war crimes in World War II. The Tribunal was established by Allied powers, led by the US, to trial atrocities in the 2nd Sino-Japanese War, Pearl Harbor, and treatment of war prisoners. 28 high-ranked army officers and politicians, like ex-P.M. Hideki Tojo, were tried. Emperor Hirohito was not indicted. The accused faced war crimes against peace and humanity. 7, including Tojo, were executed on 23.12.1948. 16 received life. Critics and dissenting Indian judge Radhabinod Pal argued the trials were biased (victors ignored Allied war crimes), the Retroactive application of crimes against peace, and exemption of the Emperor. The trials fixed accountability for war crimes, set precedents for international law.

  'The gathering for Justice', a nonprofit organisation fighting against racism, injustice for blacks, and anti-constitutional treatment of the migrants in America.  The Gathering for Justice is an American nonprofit far-left organization founded in 2005 by Harry Belafonte famous artist and activist, in response to the arrest and handcuffing of a 5 years old Black girl, Jaiesha Scott, in a Florida classroom. The organization aimed to combat systemic racial inequities and child incarceration, build intercultural and intergenerational coalitions to foster collective power for Black and Brown liberation. It practises the nonviolence of Martin Luther King Jr. for social change. Belafonte was a vocal critic of American foreign policy and a supporter of Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez. He said Bush is like Hitler. 'Gathering now' fights against an unlawful treatment of immigrants.

  August 19 is World Photography Day. This is the World's First Photograph of a man. The French Government published the Photographic process in Paris, free to the world as a gift, on 19 August 1839.  In 1838, Louis Daguerre used daguerreotype photography to snap a photo of the Boulevard du Temple in Paris. The streets in the photo appear deserted. The exposure time for the photo was so long that the cars and trams could not be captured. Only a man having his shoes shined and the shoeshiner were motionless enough to be caught. This is the first photograph of a person. The Daguerreotype was the first process of photography, announced in 1839. For the following 20 years, it was the most common process. Louis Daguerre demonstrated his 'daguerreotype' photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences on 19.8.1839.  

  Australia's first labor ministry, first in the world on 27 April 1904. Chris Watson resigned as the Prime Minister of Australia on 18 August 1904. Chris Watson of the Australian Labor Party, on 27.4.1904, became Australia's first Labor Prime Minister. It was the first labor government in the world at the national level. Chris' government survived only for 4 months. He resigned on 18.8.1904. George Houston Reid, a Scottish Australian politician, succeeded. The Australian Labor Party, a democratic socialist party, has its origins in a strike by religious workers in the 1890s in the state of Queensland. In the 13.4.1910 General Election, the Commonwealth Liberal Party was defeated by the Australian Labor Party, headed by Andrew Fisher, who formed a majority government. 

  78 years' "Independent" India has since been safronised. Confirmed its grammatical negativity. More deteriorated since 11 years.  Indian independence is for the rulers and their rich to loot. Present rulers don't know the meaning of the Republic. They are afraid of the intellectuals, writers, social workers and words like socialism, secularism and communism. They are heavily loaded with hate and intolerance towards the "others". Murdered humanity. Safronised the constitutional institutions. They misused them for their benefit. Democracy, made plutocracy earlier, is converted as the Financial Corporation of rulers' favourites. It became an autocracy. An undeclared adverse emergency is imposed. Followers of the rulers in the centre and their supporters in the states are practising strong courtesy bias for political power. People's parties are split and trying unsuccessfully to wage "united" lip services and nominal reactive protests. In the...