It is appropriate that the system of governance in India is a collection of one and many.
Given the land’s geographical expanse, large population, bio-/geo-diversity of various regions, differences in the nature of the air, socio-cultural specialties of people, and differences in traditions and administrative organizations, it is inevitable that the Central government is one and inside that, the Regional or State governments are many.
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APPENDIX 2
Distinction between karma and akarma
karmaṇo hy-api boddhavyam boddhavyam ca vikarmaṇaḥ
akarmaṇaś-ca boddhavyaṃ gahanā karmaṇo gatiḥ (BG 4.17)
ನನ್ನ ಜಾತಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಯಾವ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯಲ್ಲಿಯೂ ಐದು ವರ್ಷಕ್ಕಿಂತ ಹೆಚ್ಚಾಗಿ ದುಡಿಯುವ ಯೋಗವಿಲ್ಲ ಎನಿಸುತ್ತದೆ. ಇದ್ದುದರಲ್ಲಿ ಭಾರತೀಯ ವಿದ್ಯಾಭವನದ ನೆರಳಿನಲ್ಲಿ ನಾನು ಐದು ವಸಂತಗಳ ಸಂತಸವನ್ನು ಕಂಡದ್ದೇ ಅತಿಶಯ. ಕಡೆಯ ವರ್ಷದಲ್ಲಿ ಆಡಳಿತದ ಮಾರ್ಪಾಟಿನ ಕಾರಣ ಅಲ್ಪ-ಸ್ವಲ್ಪದ ಇರುಸುಮುರುಸಾದರೂ ಅದನ್ನೆಲ್ಲ ಮರೆಸುವಂಥದ್ದು ಭವನದ ಬಾಳು.
In this survey of history, l have touched all the frontiers I had intended to. It is a wheel of time spanning sixty years between 1880 and 1940.* The historical events after 1940 is not relevant to my present purpose.
Story 12
19. Trivikramasena took the corpse on his shoulder for the twelfth time and started to walk. The vetāla began to narrate another story:-
Yakṣa-navodaya is an attempt at aesthetically stitching together the compositions of a few Navodaya poets of Kannada. The compositions chosen are ene śuka-bhāṣiṇi of D V Gundappa, nānu baḍavi āta baḍava of Bendre, bṛṃdāvanakè hālanu māralu of Kuvempu, nīḍu pātheyavanu of Ti. Nam. Sri, ahalyè of Pu. Ti. Na, nīvallave of K S Narasimhaswamy. The production is merely an attempt to indicate one such possibility.
DVG never lost an opportunity to express his views on public affairs. To this end, he contributed to the leading periodicals of the country for many decades. In a popular article titled Thoughts on Republic Day, he mused on several important issues that plagued post-Independence India. He made a distinction between an ‘excited hour’ and an ‘average day’ and urged the leaders to promote moral integrity:
Story 9
19. Vikramasena carried the vetāla for the ninth time on his back. The vetāla started narrating yet another story –