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Breakdown 01:- Understanding Sharad Pawar, The Controversial Modern Day Chanakya

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Breakdown 01: The most adequate description of Sharad Pawar is that he is a human personification of maze , puzzle and controversies . In  “ Breakdown 01”  let us make an impossible attempt to understand Modern-day Chanakya, Sharad Pawar. Let me start in a lighter note. When we peel an onion, we see various layers of an onion. Similarly, when we try to understand Sharad Pawar we see various layers of him. Introduction :- Sharad Pawar is one of 11 children is to Govindrao Pawar a nd Sharadbai  Pawar . Sharadbai herself was active in political activities and was elected thrice in-district local bodies between 1937 and 1952. Sharad Pawar married Pratibha Tai. They have a daughter named Supriya Sule. Supriya Sule is also a member of parliament and an active political leader. He is one of the few political leaders who are active in politics but at the same time spend a lot of family time. Supriya Sule once said in an interview that her dad never ever said no to her about anything. He al

Oppositionalism: " If you are in opposition, oppose everthing".

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Oppositionalism  Let  me start by telling a short story. One day Mr Deshmukh was going back home in his car. Everyone was walking in the left lane of the road only one person, Mr Pandit was walking on the opposite side of the road. Next day when Mr Deshmukh was again going back home, again everyone was walking on the left side of the road except Mr Pandit. Mr Deshmukh asks Mr Pandit "Why are you always walking in the opposite direction". Mr Pandit replied,  "Sorry sir, but I am a leader of the opposition, I am used to opposing everything". There is a famous line "People who live in glass house should never throw stones at other", but in politics "People who live in a glasshouse must throw stones at other". Recently the former  President of the Indian National Congress, Rahul Gandhi made few inappropriate  tweets against the government in such time of crisis.   This is not the first time when opposition government has attacked the government bel

Indio- China war (1962) {Part 2}

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Sino-Indian war (1962) The simplest way to explain India China war or 1962 can be explain by a story of a 15 year old girl who is writing is writing a tough exam without any preparation on the other hand her classmate has prepared for this examination since months moreover her classmate has already given similar examinations in the past and has passed with distinction.The only reason that girl is writing that exam is because someone forced her to. The most funny part is that  for some reason the girl refused to even see the questions printed on the back side of the paper because she was afraid that other classmate will know that question paper is of two pages. In this story the the 15 year old girl is India, her classmate is China and the exam is Indo-China war (1962). China has already fought and won the civil war in 1950 on the other hand Indian army was unexperienced. The only war India fought before this was Indo-pak war that too under the leadership of a British general. This was

Indo- China war 1962 {part1}

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Let’s look back in the history: India got independence from British on 15th August 1947. During that time (1927-1950) China was going through a civil war. The civil was was fought between  Nationalist  and  commun ist . Communist won and took over the control over China. The  nationalist  formed their own country named  “Republic of China “ commonly known as “ Taiwan ”. Western world opposed the China as USA,UK were not interested in a new communist power.  Jawaharlal Nehru under his ambition of  becoming a world leader  supported China on international stage. Initially India never shared any border with China  . Till 1951 Tibet was an autonomous state which used to act as a  buffer  between India and China. British India  never made any permanent border with India and Tibet.  The border was mutually assumed to be till the area of local dominance and geographical borders (local dominance in Aaksai Chin and geographical border in Arunachal Pradesh by recognising Mccmohan line) . India u