India has a rich and colourful history. The history of India is one of the grand epics of world history. The history of India dates back to almost 75,000 years ago. The first major civilization in India, "The Indus Valley Civilization" thrived in the Northwestern part of India from 3300-1300 BCE. From that period to till now India had witnessed innumerable historical events. We know that past events cast its shadows on the present as well as the future. Even today many Indians feel that some of the historical events that had happened in India, changed the present and will change the future of India for the worst. We feel that if some of these historical events had not happened in the first place, then the current position of India would have been far more better than now. If I have the power to alter some Indian historical events, then I would choose the following events:

1. Partition Of India

The partition of India is the most unfortunate event that had ever happened in Indian history. This event trembled the whole foundation of India. More than 66 years had passed since the partition of India but even today there is an atmosphere of mutual hostility and suspicion between India and Pakistan. This partition was carried out to feed the ego of one single man named Muhammad Ali Jinnah who wanted a separate country for Muslims. He was suffering from Tuberculosis and he knew that he had only months to live but he secretly guarded this most valuable information from Mahatma Gandhi, Nehru, and Mountbatten. If Gandhi had known about the physical condition of Jinnah then he would have definitely avoided this partition. In the end, the ego of Jinnah won but he died within 9 months from the day of partition. If Maulana Azad had been picked by Gandhi as Prime Minister instead of Jawaharlal Nehru, then also the partition of India would not had occurred. If these events had not happened then there would have been no rivalry between India and Pakistan and we would have lived in a peaceful united country without the fear of any terrorist attacks.

2. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

As Prime Minister One of the greatest 'if's' of Indian political history has been, if Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel had been chosen as the first Prime Minister of India instead of Jawaharlal Nehru, then what would have been the present condition of India? The entire rank and file of congress looked at Sardar Patel as the most deserving candidate for prime ministership because of his proven track record for being an able administrator and a no-nonsense politician but then why did Gandhi choose Jawaharlal Nehru over Sardar Patel? Gandhi wanted Nehru to become the president of Congress but the Congress committee members nominated Sardar Patel for this post. This result prompted Gandhi to coax Sardar Patel to withdraw his nomination for the presidential post. As Sardar Patel had immense respect for Gandhi, he withdrew his candidature and this event paved the way for Jawaharlal Nehru to become the first Prime Minister of India. If Gandhi had chosen the deserving candidate instead of his personal choice, then today we would have been living in an entirely different and prosperous India.

3. The Murder Of Lal Bahadur Shastri

Lal Bahadur Shastri was the second Prime Minister of India. He died in Tashkent, Russia due to a so called "heart attack" after signing the Tashkent declaration, which was a peace agreement between India and Pakistan after the 1965 Indo-Pak war. The evidences and circumstances clearly point out that Lal Bahadur Shastri was murdered by poisoning. Shastri was regarded as the true hero of the 1965 war and before his trip to Tashkent, he showed no symptoms of being unhealthy. It was officially accepted that no postmortem was done on Shastri's body either in Russia or in India but Shastri's wife Lalitha was troubled by the facts that his body was blue and their were certain cut marks on his body. Shastri's daughter was the last person who talked with him over the phone and his last words were, "I'm going to have a glass of milk and sleep." When she again called after 15 minutes, she received the tragic news that her father had died from heart attack. Shastri's servant, Ram Nath, who was with him on the day of his death was asked to speak the truth about this death before a parliamentary body in 1977. While Ram Nath was on his way to the Parliament, he was hit by a moving vehicle and his legs were crushed and he lost his memory. If we still can't see the truth, then we are too dumb. Why was he murdered?

There are evidences to prove that Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was jailed in a prison in Russia and he died in 1976. At that time Nehru was the prime minister of India and Russia wanted to do business with India, so they threatened Nehru by using Netaji. Nehru feared that if Netaji was released, then he will have no place in India. At that time the relation between India and USSR flourished but when Nehru died and Lal Bahadur Shastri became the prime minister, the USSR received a shock because they knew that they can't threaten Shastri by using Netaji. If Shastri knew that Netaji was jailed in Russia then he would have asked the USSR to release him and would have welcomed him to India. USSR wanted somebody in power who can be threatened and utilised so in Tashkent they killed Shastri by poisoning his milk. As a result of this event, Indira Gandhi came into power and thereafter the USSR had good business with India. If Lal Bahadur Shastri had not met with an untimely death, then Indira Gandhi had no chance of becoming the prime minister of India and the innumerable brutal events associated with her would have never happened.

4. Indira Gandhi And The Emergency

The strength of India has always been its democracy but the imposition of Emergency in 1975 by Indira Gandhi shook the whole foundation of democracy in India. The situation of emergency in India lasted for 19 months and this period can be termed as the darkest period in the history of independent India. The foundation to this emergency was laid when the Allahabad High court found Indira Gandhi guilty of electoral malpractices. Jayprakash Narayan, who is also known as the "Gandhi of independent India" demanded the resignation of Indira Gandhi and called for a total revolution in India. During the year 1975, public protests against Indira Gandhi and her government achieved a nationwide status. On 25th June 1975, instead of resigning for the sake of her country, the power hungry Indira Gandhi imposed the emergency on India to safeguard her own political and personal interests. During emergency more than 100,000 people were arrested and detained indefinitely without trial. Each and every section of human life was affected during this state of emergency. The only person who benefited from this unfortunate event was Indira Gandhi's son, Sanjay Gandhi. If Indira Gandhi was never allowed to step into the Indian politics then selfish and brutal events like Emergency and Operation Blue Star would have never happened.

5. Demolition Of Babri Masjid

The demolition of Babri Masjid in 1992 is the most unfortunate event which marked the beginning of religion based politics in India. On December 6, 1992, the Sangh Parivar, comprising of BJP, RSS, and VHP destroyed the Babri Majid in Ayodhya. This destruction resulted in the most violent communal riots India had ever seen after the partition in 1947. More than 2000 people were killed. The mastermind behind this destruction was L K Advani, who clearly knew the power of religion in India. This incident shows that religion in India can turn people crazy and fanatic. After this brutal event, the BJP succeeded in creating a Hindu majority party but this event will definitely create more communal riots in the coming years. Events like this proves that, we Indians are mere pawns at the hands of power crazy politicians.

These are the five major events which I would like to erase from the history book of India. Just imagine an India without these unfortunate events and the picture that emerges in your mind will take you to a fairy land.

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After independence, former prime minister of India, announced, our country could wait for everything, but not for agriculture. He believes the development of agriculture should be done from day one. The paradigm shift after 60 years of independence is that, most of progress achieved in all sphere of industry except for agriculture. The agriculture field is forever ignored. There is no autonomous or exclusive law for agriculture and farmers. The law of land favours big companies, banks and big farmers related to agricultural field and neglected completely the grassroots level farmers. There is no stubborn law to protect interests of small farmers. Agriculture in India is in dire straights due to these sets of laws and regulations. In our country, there are many favourable farming laws that enable for the distribution of free seed, loan subsidy, introduction of the machine into farming industry but sadly all these benefits to businessmen, brokers and lenders. They continually exploit the system to minimise the benefits to real farmers and for this, slowly they entangled into loan cage and later commit suicide. Then, lenders took away their farm yards and the son of farmers leave the village and also the paternal work and reach the big cities for some other form of work. In this manner, the basic fabric of work culture is slowly missing and if this is not stopped at the proper time, then, there will be a time, when no one will be available to form the cultivated fields. There is no explicit support from government, agricultural department and agricultural university to grass root farmers. Owing to their peculiar mental strength, the farmers of India, have reached such an advance stage. There is no definite scheme to empower their strength and furthermore there are many detractors for them, be it real estate mafia, the big business houses, lenders, but still they are cultivating the land and producing the goods. Indian farmers weaken owing to various reverse agricultural laws and for this they had to fight internal and external forces.

All these giant industries are conspiring to kill Indian farming section and try to sell it to foreign companies and they are doing it constantly by breaking the rib bone of farmers. Sometimes, farmers could not understand their offerings properly and at other times they try to brute force the farmers and in this way slowly the basic farming section of India, which has been there since the ages of Indus valley civilisation, is beginning to be disturbed and destroyed. Since, independence, governments as well as agricultural departments have shredded the crocodile tears at the state of affairs of farmers to garner votes to back into power. In reality, there are no proper steps to improve the financial conditions of scores of poor farmers. Land is the foremost necessity for farming. The image of land comes into mind, when someone thinks of cultivation. Till this date, there is no identifiable land sealing action for farmers from government. This has not been considered in numerous provincial states either. Government is acquiring lands for broad industries and evading and killing innocent farmers who are protecting against this. This is the sad state of affairs in the field of agriculture. Irrigation is the principal element of agriculture. In limited budget allocation, the part of money for the development of irrigation is rapidly decreasing. One third of agriculture land of our country is still not irrigated. The high pitched loans and subsidies, given to farmers are not reaching them, in turn, it is hijack by moderate men and most of them are from political party petty workers. Only 28 percentages of farmers are able to receive subsidized loans. Out of them, mostly are small businessmen in the villages. They are tractors and power tiller business man and they accept extraordinary charge from honest farmers for rent and for this honorable farmers had to revert to manual cultivation due to cost factor. So, if statistics are to be believed there is less than ten percentages of actual farmers, who are benefiting from these schemes. There are no noteworthy schemes for real farmers, who are not so rich and for this most of beneficial schemes benefit the big farmers and industrial houses. More than 70 percentages of small farmers go to local lenders for money and thus have to repay crippling there after and for this the financial health of small farmers continues to be grim. There are no strict boundary rules from government to the animals used directly or indirectly for manual cultivation. There is no ample scale settlement to sell the agricultural production at a fair price.

There is no hard and fast rule about cold storage facility for small farmers. It is evident that they cannot store cultivated products on their own, they want the government to help them out, but the state of cold storage is now a distant dream. There is no increase of water reservoirs exclusively for pastoral purposes. The tube wells carefully set up by governments become meaningless at the onset of summer owing to height of pipes inside the soil. The underwater level inside earth crust is reducing rapidly. It has been reducing one foot each year, owing to excessive use of chemical fertiliser inside corn fields. The fertile character of soils is steadily decreasing due to excessive use of chemical fertilisers. Helpful micro creatures living inside soils are killed due to chemical fertilisers. India is number one among nations, decreasing the ground water levels. In the coming years, the number of fertile lands will be decreased further and owing to scarcity of underground water resources, there will be a time, when, cultivation will be absolutely not possible. Owing to highly intense use of chemical fertilisers and poisons in the corn fields, there is increase of diabetes, jaundice, cancers and other malaise's in villages.

Still, government is not thinking of organic farming. They are promoting farmers to use chemical farming which is dangerous and fatal. According to estimation, if agricultural production rises to ten percentages, then store keeping will be a huge problem for the government. The government should look beyond and promotion for cash crops among small farmers to improve financial health of theirs. There is no perfect food storage policy and there is no sufficient cold storage facility. Farmers are going to self to cultivate cash crops, but the foremost problem for them is storage. In our county, there is very less amount of special storage facility that can store the cash crops. Government is ingoing this angle of cold store keeping. If Indian farmers indulged themselves with cash crop farming, then foreign farming giants cannot enter into India's agricultural business and probably, this is the perfect situation when the government does not want to increase the number of specialised remote storage facility for cash crops. Agriculture is a regional phenomenon. In our country, more than 60 percentage of agriculture land deals with monsoon waters. Owing to cosmic scale by changing of climate, there is irregular monsoon and that affects the related agricultural production. It is affecting farm lands and total agricultural production capacity of farming. In this situation; mixed farming, internal farming and less water farming can be a handy solution for small farmers. Government should train them for free to employ advance agriculture in farm lands. One should not consider paddy, wheat as cash crops. Owing to change in environmental situations, the government should think beyond and introduce new forms of cash crops so that, small farmers, who are mostly illiterate could possibly gain from government training. What is more worrying is that, government seems to be not generating interest in these forms of agronomic practices. In the current situation, more than 40 percentages of farmer communities are ready to leave their traditional farming work, in favour of additional jobs. They are running out of patience due to continuous draught, floods and anti farmer policies by successive governments. In order to have food security, there should be pro farmer policies to scores of poor farmers so that they should stay in their generation extensive cultivation practices. Whatever law for food security, that cannot guarantee food for all,  if conditions of underprivileged and downtrodden farmers are continuously overlooked by successive governments.

The ruling Congress party till 1947 had as its mission the independence of India. After 1947 the mission changed to developing India into a strong country. However the mission has been lost and these days the mission seems to be simply earn commission and still more commission.The latest 'railgate' scam is an icing on the cake of scams which is becoming bigger and bigger day by day.The Congress is working very hard to become distanced from the electorate. They are now living in a cocoon of their own make believe world where wrong doing is no longer a moral but a techno-legal  issue.

In the fifties, Lal Bahadur Shastri was not driving the train which met with an accident killing many passengers. However on moral grounds he took the responsibility and resigned from his Minister ship. However that was perhaps the first and last time any Congress office bearer did so.These days especially even if the involvement is direct in a scam it is a herculean task to get the Minister's resignation. At the rate scams are getting exposed perhaps the few Ministers left will have to shoulder multiple responsibilities.

The growing disconnect between the'rulers' and the 'ruled' is a matter of deep concern. The disdain of politicians in the young of the country is remarkable. No longer are politicians seen as 'serving' the people but are increasingly seen as serving their own interests and those of their close relatives and friends. Till a few years back when media was not so active,scams would be few and far in between. Now with an alert and competitive media, scams are getting exposed at regular intervals and are seen by larger audiences unlike before. It is becoming clear to the masses that politicians are now in it for business and amassing as much wealth as they can before they are exposed or are replaced. 

One pf the main reason for this sad state of affairs is the fact that nearly a third of our MP's are from political dynasties. They are there not because of their work amongst the masses but because they are born into the family of the politician. Thus they do not owe anything to their electorate. They are not there to serve the people but like in a 'durbar' distribute favours at a consideration or on a quid pro quid basis. The people have no choice as candidates of almost all parties are similar. The democratically perpetuated political dynasties are a remarkable contribution of India in politics. The pro genies and the relatives are free to loot the country's resources under the protection of the politician, who manages the officials whilst in power.

Another problem encouraging more scams is the dual power Centre model that we are seeing at the Center these days. We have a politician who is the party President but lacks administrative capabilities. We have a Prime Minister who is an administrator but lacks political responsibility. The smart politicians in the Cabinet are able to successfully manipulate and allegedly make make huge profits for themselves and their relatives and friends. By the time it gets exposed the PM is reduced to batting for them. He is in fact by doing so is perhaps saving his own position. The efforts are to save one's face in the government and the party.

The brazenness with which scams are being sought to brushed aside is sickening. Parliament is not allowed to function. Legislation work is under hold.Minister is allegedly interfering in reports of CBI and the Minister goes into a silent mode. He does not resign. The railway Minister's nephew allegedly openly sells railway board appointments/ The Minister also goes into silent mode. The PM is famous for his silence. The Congress President rarely lalks to reporters. Congress spokespersons keep parroting that the matters will be decided by Courts. We are expected to hold ourselves till then, which can be light years from now.

One railway minister resigned because of a train accident and another is saying why should he resign even if his nephew is involved in arranging posts under the minister's jurisdiction. What a fall from high moral standards of yest-er years. If they were politicians they would have resigned but as they are businessmen they see losses if they resign. It is time the country was ruled by good politicians ad not opportunistic businessmen in the garb of politicians. But is there anyone at the top who can spot the difference.

Pakistan’s action worries India.China hates India.Psychologically and administratively government of India feels congenial to China.This surprise many political analysts.Should we support any country blindly even if what it did be evil?The government of the day so far is not prepared to accept China as an enemy.It is a tactfully an evil of choice.In the budget speech of the previous eight years,every finance minister showcased in their speech to the historical advancement of gross domestic product of China.Why there is vacuous unacceptable hand clapping of this enemy neighbor?India is a democratic country,which is the single most effective means for a rule of law.Rules of law to ensure equality and similar rights to each citizen without fear.It is the seventh largest and second most populous country in the world.China is a communist country run by dictators.

In that country,there is no rule of law,no free media and the world knows them what they preach towards them.In that country,the poverty rate is higher.Their small rich class people aided powerfully by the communist government are yielding profits and their rich become richer and the poor become poorer.The government of the day here overlooking most modest dwelling in China,and they are talking about the phenomenal development of the productive class.There are thousands of hard hearted atrocities bust up by an irresistible military force of China that can only be described as wholesome harebrained.People’s Liberation Army of China invades into India’s territory of Ladakh.This is not an isolated incident.In 1962 and 1986 China invaded India.India remained calm.Chinese soldiers enter India’s territory in April .When they are asked they told that they are doing this for health.Then within a few minutes they destroyed bunkers set up by India.They entered 19 kilometers in India.The country in question is of mine. Can India deals with that?

With this,they are starting to build roads and railway lines.This area is an important tactical point due to its proximity with Karakorum Pass.It is a progress point in war times.What is sad is that Government of India dispatched the paramilitary forces like that of Ladakh Scouts and Indo-Tibetan Border Police to handle this aggression!They are facing China’s army.Even a lay person can advise about sending the best equipped Indian army division to tackle and null this aggression from China.India should remember that after road and rail works are completed in those areas,it could be almost impossible for them to get back on those lands.How does it sit with you that the Indians are regarded as innocuous by the rest of the world?

There is fear and apprehension when two mighty armies come face to face in an aggressive.There may be war-like situation.India has to fight it out and save its borders at any cost.In terms of military capacity China is way ahead,but India also not far behind.India should remove the ghosts of the 1962 war as that was an image of the past.Let that past bury its dead.And how do you act on it?How do you respond seating on a comfy upholstered armchair on Sunday watching Indian Premier League?It is a do or die situation.From now,on we will not be afraid of China.World will know about the hardline China after the war and that will be financially ruinous for China as it is trying hard to emerge as a self-made capitalistic country in the world.In the war like situation,America may or may not support openly,but also it will not support China either.This is a tough case where the Indian army should be fighting out with their counterparts and regaining control over lost lands.If war begins then other enemies of China on the other side of border,like Japan,Vietnam and Thailand, can declare war at the same time.For a prolonged war like situation,it will be difficult for China to sustain at all fronts simultaneously.India should consider changing its international business affairs immediately and should consider removing China-made products from its own business cities and should make collaboration with countries like Japan,Thailand and Vietnam and make business and financial arrangements with them so that,whenever there is such an aggression on the part of China,they should be united and join the front to battle it out financially as well as militarily at all fronts with China.

China is playing war of lies,utterly evil,entirely not needed,except to exert conflict between two neighboring countries.India should think beyond Pakistan and realize the real enemy,the dragon country China.India should widen its foreign policies beyond Pakistan centric and should see the future and try to curtail Chinese aggression with stick policies.It is a political gimmick to stay silent on the recent trends of corruption in the country.Nevertheless,it is not a clever trick to stay still as tree, overlooking aggression from China in the north.India should remove the current external affair officials who are preaching coolness on this aggression from north.It is high time India should act and should go for stick policies.After cold blooded murder of Sarbjit Singh,an innocent Indian in a Pakistani jail,India has acted proactively and the stick policies.This is high time India should change their carrot policies towards China.Ordinary man should also be active in involving this decision making that relates with integrity of this age old country.Some times government of the day is saying that this is a regional problem and that creates misery among conscious citizens.It is high time that government should take this event seriously and begin some exercise to remove Chinese soldiers from our territory.Aggression on the part of the enemy cannot be named as a regional problem.Could it be any clearer?

It can be a historic blunder if the government of the day considered this incident lightly.Pakistan captured vast land of Jammu and Kashmir in the fifties.China caught a gigantic land of Arunnachal Pradesh from sixties.Special Forces of the Indian army should be sent there immediately.It is high time to cut all government and private business,exporting of minerals and other cultural exchanges with China.It is better to improve business ties with Taiwan.How the dragon country has unleashed their blasted hatred against us who had never done anything to pain and anguish for them.It is the right time to act.Presence is the most precious part and it is high time that India’s think-tank in external policies should get a complete make over and formulate foreign policy in India centric approach.India should be honest about it.This is not a new scam in the unending series of scams that have been unleashed recently.In such cases,government accuses the principal opposition party that they are shouting at each instance of resignation demands.With this aggression from our northern neighbor, government of the day cannot accuse the oppositions of this;they have to act promptly,to save the border encroachments.Should your individual on the spur of the moment click on after its prolonged period of quiescence,it would bechance you,you know.We should not have an undeserved reputation as a coward and cerebral fabricators.