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Before I start this blog, I would like to pay my respect to Sri Narayana Guru , whose birthday happened to fall on the day I started writing this blog. Sri Narayana Guru was a spiritual leader and great social reformer, who led a major role in the revolt against the casteism and social inequalities in Kerala, a state which was once referred by Swami Vivekananda as a ‘Lunatic Asylum’ Swami Vivekananda’s remark about the God’s Own Country came after he toured the princely state as part of his expedition throughout India in search of a topic he could speak in the Parliament of the World's Religions in California. Horrified by the Caste System practiced in Kerala he said “ Was there ever a sillier thing before in the world than what I saw in Malabar? The poor ‘Paraiah’ is not allowed to pass through the same street as the high caste man, but if he changes his name to hodge-podge English name or to a Mohamedan name, it is alright. What inference would you draw except that these M...

Dedicate it to my dear friends who are quite annoyed with the numerous updates and videos posted in the Social Networking websites regarding the ongoing protest by the Anna team. Their comments questioning the selfish motive behind the protesters, supporters and the broadcasters motivated me to write this blog. Here I am, trying to compare two movements that took place in our country, one which happened 6 decades ago and the other, which is ongoing. I was taught in my school that ‘standard’ freedom fighters of our country like Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhash Chandra Bose fought for the freedom of our country. And I also happened to read that India got its current ‘shape’ (Not considering the POK and Chinese Invasion) because of the struggle of one man, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, who negotiated with the princely states to merge with India. So, the question is, what is the ‘India’ they referring to in the ‘War of Indian Independence’ if the country was born afte...