बसप के सांसद शफ़िक़ुर रहमान बर्क़, द्वारा राष्ट्रगीत का संसद मे अपमान एक बहुत हीं निंदनीय घटना है । इसमें दोष भारत  को इस्लामी साम्राज्यवाद की   नज़रों से देखने का है, भारत तब   भी था, जब इस्लाम नहीं था। भारत मैं कई राजनितिक व्यवस्थाएं आई और चली गयी। भारत आगे बढ़ता गया शक आये हूण आये, सब भारत में विलीन हो गए । भारत कभी रुका  नहीं, कई दर्शनशाश्त्रों का यहाँ जन्म हुआ, द्वत, अद्वेत, सांख्य, विषिष्ट अद्वैत, यहाँ तक की नास्तिक (महर्षि चरक ) आदि को भी भारत न स्वीकारा । 

THE Yamuna river passing through the national capital of India reflects the state of the nation today. It stinks. People of the cities settled along its banks have poured dirt and sewage into it in billions of litres, unmindful that the river is a living body that needs to be nurtured. The governments in states along its course have spent thousands of crore, adding more sleaze than goodness into the cause. With the result that today, people have decided to take the lead in cleaning Yamuna, with a Yamuna Bachao movement.

VSK Chennai :  Queerly, the 135 year old English Newspaper of Chennai, ‘The Hindu’, chose to celebrate the 150th of Jayanthi of Swami Vivekananda in a highly objectionable manner, for which it finds itself at the receiving end of massive public protest. ‘The Hindu’ daily published an article ‘Taking the aggression out of masculinity’ written by Sanjay Srivastava denigrating Swami Vivekananda on 3.1.2013. The atrocious part of the forbid affair was the photograph of Swami Vivekananda with caption ‘Swami Vivekananda’s masculine photographic-pose was only one aspect of the cult of masculinity encouraged and tolerated by nationalism’.  

Dear Rajdeep, I watched your program on Bharat versus India (Jan.4.2013) and was deeply shocked by your treatment of Shri Sheshadri Chari of the BJP and by your own approach to the question. You seemed to literally spit on the words bharat, bharatiya and bharatiya culture. I recall your saying once that you were a proud Hindu and also a proud citizen of the world. Fair enough. But I saw little of that in your words and body language and instead witnessed what seemed to be virulent, contemptuous references to the above words( whether you were aware of it or not, that is how it came across). It is as bad as the ignorance of the Madhya Pradesh minister who obviously has not read the Ramayana and spoke about Sita crossing the lakshman rekha and therefore being punished by Ravana's abduction.