PeeKay's Hard Talk

              Are We Really Pseudo Socialists? I won’t talk about other nationalities when ‘hypocrisy’ is discussed because I really don’t have any idea about them; but I find Indians carrying dollops of hypocrisy in their conscience. We shamelessly show this in every facet of our lifetime. I would take up this issue out of various subjects to prove my point.   Firstly I have taken so called “Socialism” to the fore, which I put at top of the list. We tend to become SOCIALISTS depending upon need of the hour. We have not come out of this, even after the economic reforms of 90s. Actually after independence in 1947, our leadership chose to become ‘socialists’ after taking cue from USSR. We accepted it with open arms that government would take care of our lives. Government started taking care of our employment by creating public sector units manufacturing and serving nearly everything which a common man need; even it ran hotels as well. Private...

Punjab would remain in a permanent dilemma  It all started after partition of India which actually we should put it as partition of Bengal and Punjab side by side,in a real sense. The brunt of partition was actually faced by people of these two states. Punjab was partitioned in nearly two equal parts . To understand the agriculture sector, we have to go to pre-partitioned Punjab. In 1907,  Punjab Land Alienation Act  ,a piece of legislation was introduced by the British Raj with the aim of limiting the transfer of  land  ownership in  Punjab  Province. It created an "agricultural tribes" category ,which included Muslims, Jatt Sikh and Jaat Hindus. Most of us don't know this fact. Before partition in both part of Punjab, Muslims were dominating the demography except in hilly tract which is known today as Himachal Pradesh . After independence large population of Punjabi Hindus and Sikhs migrated to this part of Punjab .Those who were agriculturists ...