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Saturday, October 11, 2014

Why Pakistan is Provoking India?

A small scale war has no meaning in current political world. Either you fight like USA to change the geography of a nation are you sit and negotiate.This is an advice to Pakistan which I wish to give to Pakistani administration. Pakistan knows that it does not have  capability by any means to fight a full scale war with India.What it can do at its best is to engage Indian Army and actually it does not want to engage Indian Army but the political establishment of India in order to distract its attention from concentrating on domestics issues ,which Modi government has taken up very seriously and is performing pretty well. Modi has applied so called 'Gujrat Model of Integral Growth' picking up the threads from villages which are primary unit of structure in Indian Administration. This the first time after Britishers thought about analyzing the internal structure and then to apply a model of growth in to viallges.Modi knows that its very easy for him to grow at international level and its also easy for him to make the world realize that he is ready to open the door for foreign investors like he did in Gujarat,but its difficult to address domestics problems.So,after returning from USA and UN where he very firmly showcased India's strength ,he has switched his gear to domestic issues which India really need to address at this stage. Swach Bharat Abhiyaan and Gramin Vikas are tow mega projects which signifies Modi's concern towards basic growth model which however is a key to integral growth of India. Remember Indian villages are still the most powerful unit to decide the political fate of country and even then they have many issues to be addressed. Modi's two tier model which he have applied is to flow the maximum possible money to villages and attract maximum possible investment from international agencies and I guess he will succeed in this.

Pakistan know that it has miserably failed at international front in his foreign policy to engage India by raising Kashmir issue at international platform . UN has clearly told that Pakistan must come to a bilateral dialogue table if it wish to address its what ever concern it has towards Kashmir. By failing in its primary objective,it has now concentrated to engage Indian political establishment(Not Army) in infiltration and small scale war . It badly wanted to Modi Administartion to comment on this 'Cross Border Firing'(remember Pakistan at no point can afford a full sacle war with India ,except engaging Indian Army at few post and infiltrating army of terrorists in Indian border) issue,which Modi reacted pretty well and in very short. The objective is divert  Modi Establishment from further focusing on integral growth and restrict Modi to increase his already growing clout at international stage. 

I strongly feel that Pakistan will fail in both of its objective. My advice to Pakistan is that it should now fear about its bad equations with USA and should focus on its domestic issues like India is doing.

Analysis written by Ratnesh Dwivedi
11/10/14,12:30 PM

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

The Cosmic Mask by Ratnesh Dwivedi


Book- The Cosmic Mask
Category-Science Fantasy
Publisher- Lulu Press,Inc
Year- 2014
ISBN- 9 781500 464806

When I was a small kid growing up in a small village in rural eastern U.P,every night my mother would tell me stories of a demon from ocean in deep south flying towards mighty kingdom of Ayodhya in search of  Ashrams of holy saints to destroy it and abolish the Kingdom of Ayodhya. She would also tell me many stories of flying demons and how various gods of Hindu mythology lives in outer space in their respective kingdom of Swarga and Narka. Many stories told by her made me think how life can exist on other than earth, when my teacher told me that no where else other than Earth life exists. Sleeping on a mat on roof top of my old house alongside my mother I always looked in to sky and thought about bright stars and moon which were integral part of her stories.
When I grew up and was jobless for almost ten years I peeped in to NASA website and came across that magnificent thesaurus known as Space Science. In a crowded market of Thipsandara in Bangalore I sat for many hours in a cyber cafĂ© searching and studying NASA website  .The very same year Colombia Space Shuttle collapsed while on its returning path to Earth killing all six astronauts on board including India born Kalpana Chawla.I saw on television that entire India was worshiping for safe return of Colombia , a magic which did not occur. Two years later when I realized that I had enough information on various space missions and many other activities of NASA,I started a series of workshops in my ancestral town of Ayodhya on various activities and space missions of NASA. Soon I realized that there was a lot of potential among rural students to learn the adventure of space science, but there was a need to enlighten them with the knowledge through stories.
I knew that there has very less work been  done in this area of story writing on space adventure as for as Indian authors are concerned, so I started searching western authors and after couple of years research I joined some of remarkable NASA workshops and conferences conducted by Education outreach department of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. I was also given responsibility to conduct a prestigious essay contest of NASA in Indian schools which I am doing till date. In this exercise of attending NASA conferences and workshops and organizing its essay contest in India I came across a number of science fiction authors who have done commendable job and out of almost 1000 stories selected ten stories which caught my eyesight and to which I felt could be best for Indian readers.
In this whole exercise I am thankful to Gina Brisssenden of American Astronomical Society who conducts may workshops and tutorials for K-12 students in U.S. Schools .She is head of observatory division at University of Arizona. I am thankful to her for kind of insight I got by the workshop material she supplied to me. I am also thankful  to David M. Sidel, Manager, Education Cell of JPL to whom I know since I first peeped in to NASA website. I am also thankful to Shari Asplaud of McREL ,who allowed me to attend some of NASA workshops in Discovery series.
I am equally thankful to all my NASA Scientist friends who are on my Linked in friend account.
I bow my head to my parents who have been my source of motivation through all my life and equally I am thankful to my elder brother who nourished in me how to think scientifically. This book would not have been possible without constant support and love from my wife and five year old son who like me also intends to know about Sun, Moon and Earth.
And last but not least a word of thank to my publisher who made this compiled work possible and helped me in my goal to create awareness about Space  and Astronomy Science among Indian readers.

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Want to be a Data Journalist

Data journalism is huge. I don't mean 'huge' as in fashionable - although it has become that in recent months - but 'huge' as in 'incomprehensibly enormous'. It represents the convergence of a number of fields which are significant in their own right - from investigative research and statistics to design and prog...ramming. The idea of combining those skills to tell important stories is powerful - but also intimidating. Who can do all that?




The reality is that almost no one is doing all of that, but there are enough different parts of the puzzle for people to easily get involved in, and go from there. To me, those parts come down to four things:



1. Finding data

'Finding data' can involve anything from having expert knowledge and contacts to being able to use computer assisted reporting skills or, for some, specific technical skills such as MySQL or Python to gather the data for you.



2. Interrogating data

Interrogating data well means you need to have a good understanding of jargon and the wider context within which data sits, plus statistics - a familiarity with spreadsheets can help save a lot of time.



3. Visualising data

Visualising and mashing data has historically been the responsibility of designers and coders, but an increasing number of people with editorial backgrounds are trying their hand at both - partly because of a widening awareness of what is possible, and partly because of a lowering of the barriers to experimenting with them.



4. Mashing data

Tools such as ManyEyes for visualisation, and Yahoo! Pipes for mashups, have made it possible for me to get journalism students stuck in quickly with the possibilities - and many catch the data journalism bug soon after.



How to begin?

So where does a budding data journalist start? An obvious answer would be "with the data" - but there's a second answer too: "With a question".



Journalists have to balance their role in responding to events with their role as an active seeker of stories - and data is no different. The New York Times' Aron Pilhofer recommends that you "Start small, and start with something you already know and already do. And always, always, always remember that the goal here is journalism." The Guardian's Charles Arthur suggests "Find a story that will be best told through numbers", while The Times' Jonathan Richards and The Telegraph's Conrad Quilty-Harper both recommend finding your feet and coming up with ideas by following blogs in the field and attending meetups such as Hacks/Hackers.



There is no shortage of data being released that you can get your journalistic teeth into. The open data movement in the UK and internationally is seeing a continual release of newsworthy data, and it's relatively easy to find datasets being released by regulators, consumer groups, charities, scientific institutions and businesses. You can also monitor the responses to Freedom of Information requests on What Do They Know, and on organisations' own disclosure logs. And of course, there's the Guardian's own datablog.



A second approach, however, is to start with a question - "Do speed cameras cost or save money?" for example, was one topical question that was recently asked on Help Me Investigate, the crowdsourcing investigative journalism site that I run - and then to search for the data that might answer it (so far that has come from a government review and a DfT report). Submitting a Freedom of Information request is a useful avenue too (make sure you ask for the data in CSV or similar format).



Whichever approach you take, it's likely that the real work will lie in finding the further bits of information and data to fill out the picture you're trying to clarify. Government data, for example, will often come littered with jargon and codes you'll need to understand. A call to the relevant organisation can shed some light. If that's taking too long, an advanced search for one of the more obscure codes can help too - limiting your search, for example, by including site:gov.uk filetype:pdf (or equivalent limitations for your particular search) at the end.



You'll also need to contextualise the initial data with further data. Say you have some information about a government department's changing wage bill, for example: has the department workforce expanded? How does it compare to other government departments? What about wider wages within the industry? What about inflation and changes in the cost of living? This context can make a difference between missing and spotting a story.



Quite often your data will need cleaning up: look out for different names for the same thing, spelling and punctuation errors, poorly formatted fields (e.g. dates that are formatted as text), incorrectly entered data and information that is missing entirely. Tools like Freebase Gridworks can help here.



At other times the dataset you need will come in an inconvenient format, such as a PDF, Powerpoint, or a rather ugly webpage. If you're lucky, you may be able to copy and paste the data into a spreadsheet. But you won't always be lucky.



At these moments some programming knowledge comes in handy. There's a sliding scale here: at one end are those who can write scripts from scratch that scrape a webpage and store the information in a spreadsheet. Alternatively, you can use a website like Scraperwiki which already has example scripts that you can customise to your ends - and a community to help. Then there are online tools like Yahoo! Pipes and the Firefox plugin OutWit Hub. If the data is in a HTML table you can even write a one-line formula in Google Spreadsheets to pull it in. Failing all the above, you might just have to record it by hand - but whatever you do, make sure you publish your spreadsheet online and blog about it so others don't have to repeat your hard work.



Once you have the data you need to tell the story, you need to get it ready to visualise. Trim off everything peripheral to what you need in order to visualise your story. There are dozens of free online tools you can use to do this. ManyEyes and Tableau Public are good places to start for charts. This poster by A. Abela (PDF) is a good guide to what charts work best for different types of data.



Play around. If you're good with a graphics package, try making the visualisation clearer through colour and labelling. And always include a piece of text giving a link to the data and its source - because infographics tend to become separated from their original context as they make their way around the web.



For maps, the wonderful OpenHeatMap is very easy to use - as long as your data is categorised by country, local authority, constituency, region or county. Or you can use Yahoo! Pipes to map the points of interest. Both of these are actually examples of mashups, which is useful if you like the word "mashups" and want to use it at parties. There are other tools too, but if you want to get serious about mashing up, you will need to explore the world of programming and APIs. At that point you may sit back and think: "Data journalism is huge."



And you know what? I said that once.



Paul Bradshaw is founder, Help Me Investigate and Reader in Online Journalism, Birmingham City University and teaches at City University in London. He publishes the Online journalism blog

Why we need more Data Journalism

Why we need more data journalism


Chris Walker * January 20, 2014



I read a lot of news. You might call me a news junkie, and I suspect many of you are news junkies, too. Every morning I dedicate a couple hours to reading news articles from four or five news sites. I enjoy investing time in reading the news, because I like to be informed about important developments in the world and about the theor...ies that attempt to explain them. Being informed, I believe, makes me a more enlightened citizen and a more interesting person. Armed with my daily news studies, I like to think that I can go out into the world and make better decisions as a voter and consumer.



I’ve been at it for several years now. And the early verdict on whether I’ve attained enlightened citizen status is, well, disappointing. Given the quantity of news I consume every day, I should understand the world far more deeply than I do. I feel informed about current events—after all I can spout off the major headlines of the day and even tell you the name of the Chinese president (with correct pronunciation). But there’s this gnawing sense that most of the news articles and blog posts I’m consuming are empty calories, and that I’m not getting any closer to the crux of things.



A promising development for journalism, and for those of us who hope to become better informed, is the rise of open data. According to the Open Knowledge Foundation:



Open data is data that can be freely used, reused and redistributed by anyone – subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and sharealike.

There are ever-expanding oceans of open data on the internet, free and accessible to the public. For example data.gov, the U.S. government’s open data portal, now contains about 85,000 searchable datasets. That’s a lot of data. The wealth of information available on data.gov and similar websites can inform the broader public on many issues that matter to us, such as crime rates, healthcare outcomes, affordable housing construction, government budgets, the health of the economy, disease prevalence, quality of education, attitudes toward gay marriage, equality of opportunity, you get the idea.



It might be tempting then to conclude that all this data is ushering us into a golden age of public discourse, in which citizens can easily become well-informed on any topic. But while the effort by governments and research institutions to publish open datasets is commendable, the availability of the data doesn’t necessarily make it accessible to most people. The main problem is that pretty much every open dataset looks like this:

This is an excerpt of interstate migration data from the 2012 American Community Survey (ACS), published by the U.S. Census Bureau. There are needles of truth buried in that haystack that are relevant to interesting questions on migration trends. But how is the average person supposed to figure out what the data has to say? The 2012 ACS migration dataset isn’t huge—it’s only about 70 KB—but it still contains over 6,200 individual data points. The irony is that the data is publicly available and free to use—it’s by definition open—but it’s presented in a format that’s essentially useless to the vast majority of people. This should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the term big data. If I’ve learned anything from years spent doing data analysis and customizing data analytics software, it’s that even with small data it takes the right tools and a lot of work to separate the signal from the noise, to interpret what the data is really saying and how it relates to things people care about. It takes effort to distil 6,200 data points into a few useful insights.



More fundamentally, how would the average person even know to pull up that particular ACS dataset in the first place? One does not simply get up in the morning and casually peruse data.gov over a cup of coffee, looking for trends in interstate migration (okay, I do). You would already have to be interested in migration to find a dataset that sheds light on it. Put another way, discovery doesn’t happen without motivation, which means the bulk of those 85,000 datasets on data.gov are essentially invisible to the average person.



Data alone doesn’t lead to a better informed public; the other half of the equation, of course, is a journalism sector that’s able to use the data to enhance storytelling and communication of big complex issues. We already outsource much information-processing to bloggers and reporters, relying on them to curate the daily deluge of information involving everything from politics to pop culture. Asking the right questions and separating the signal from the noise, in the interest of the public, is exactly what good journalism is all about.



But there isn’t enough data-driven storytelling making its way into the news cycle. By data-driven storytelling, I don’t mean burying a handful of statistics into a long-form article. I mean using the wealth of data available today to put a story into its proper context, for example to convey the historical trends, the categorical patterns and outliers, and the geographic distributions relevant to the story. I may be biased because my background is in data analytics, and I’ll fully concede that not every issue can be presented with quantified information, but we can be getting much more value from open datasets.



Consider the variety of news stories that can be enriched by incorporating data on a topic as seemingly academic as U.S. migration trends. To list just a few issues, migration data helps us to better understand regional differences in economic hardship, the effectiveness of economic policy reforms, which cities face urban planning challenges, the ability of people to become entrepreneurs, the American psyche of reinventing oneself, and the evolution of party affiliation and political beliefs in battleground congressional districts.



The lack of depth in data reporting is related to a more general trend in journalism today, which is that news stories increasingly prioritize immediacy at the expense of context. We now learn about more developments from more parts of the world faster than we ever have before, but each story comes with shallower context. A recent example that sticks out in my mind is the U.S. government shutdown episode and the subsequent budget deal at the end of 2013. Covering the shutdown was an occasion for the news media to help the public better grasp the composition of the federal budget, how various proposals impacted components of the budget, and the relative impacts of budget proposals on the deficit and national debt. Instead, news coverage was more of a play-by-play of the mudslinging and partisan theatrics within Congress.



It’s important to point out that journalists aren’t solely responsible for the shift towards immediacy. It’s our fault too. Reading habits have changed, as we now have access to more news sources and are almost always plugged in to them, either on our mobile devices or desktops. As a result our attention spans are much shorter. When we open a news story, we want to get to the main point quickly, then swipe to the next item in our never-ending feeds.



There’s got to be a better way to tell the whole story without losing the reader’s attention. I believe one viable option is through data visualization. Journalists can address the tension between immediacy and context by integrating more interactive graphics into storytelling. A great data visualization can capture and hold a reader’s attention while also conveying broader context about the subject, literally painting the bigger picture for the reader. As an example of what I mean, here is the 2012 ACS migration dataset, presented as a visualization that anyone can explore.

I’m launching datawovn.com to help address the issues in journalism discussed above. First, that a great wealth of knowledge is locked up in open datasets, and unlocking that knowledge requires more exploration and analysis of data by investigative journalists and independent bloggers. Second, too many stories prioritize immediacy over context, but an engaging interactive visualization can hold on to a reader’s attention while simultaneously conveying more substance than text could alone. We don’t have to resort to sensational sound bites. Data visualization is a powerful tool for communicating ideas and one that is especially suited to mobile and desktop browsing, which is how most of us consume news today.



Catching journalism up to the data-driven era can’t be accomplished by a single news outlet or blog. I firmly believe we need many more reporters and bloggers to integrate open data into their work. We need more data journalists. Part of the reason we don't have more data journalists is a lack of familiarity with the tools for data journalism. If you’re interested in getting involved in data journalism yourself, there are many great resources for getting started. Sign up for Alberto Cairo’s next MOOC on infographics and data visualization. Read Scott Murray’s book on developing interactive visualizations for the web. Check out ProPublica’s Nerd Blog and all the incredible data analysis and visualization software tools compiled by visualizing data.



I hope you enjoy interacting with the visualizations on this site, and more importantly that they help you to better understand a complex issue affecting our world, make you a slightly more enlightened citizen, and maybe even inspire you to investigate and report on some data yourself.



My goal is to keep this site free of ads or a paywall, and I’m working full-time on maintaining the site and producing data visualizations. Last summer I quit my job in New York City, moved to India, and have thrown myself completely into this project. It’s a lot of work, it’s been thrilling and terrifying, and I’ve only just started. Please consider supporting me with a recurring monthly subscription by visiting the About page.



If you’d like to comment on what I’ve written here, or have ideas for stories, drop me a note. I’d love to hear from you.



-Chris

Mumbai, India

Thursday, May 8, 2014

Interview with Ariana Huffington-Owner of Huffington Media Group



On the morning of April 6, 2007, Arianna Huffington found herself lying on the floor of her home office in a pool of blood.On her way down, her head had hit the corner of her desk, cutting her eye and breaking her cheekbone. She had collapsed from exhaustion and lack of sleep. In the wake of her collapse, she found herself going from doctor to doctor, from brain MRI to CAT scan to echocardiogram, to find out if there was any underlying medical problem beyond exhaustion. There wasn’t, but doctors’ waiting rooms, it turns out, proved to be good places for ask a lot of questions about the kind of life she was living. Earlier this year, I caught up with Arianna Huffington at a conference in Switzerland.

Greg: What was the genesis for the book Thrive?

Arianna: We founded The Huffington Post in 2005, and two years in we were growing at an incredible pace. I was on the cover of magazines and had been chosen by Time as one of the world’s 100 Most Influential People. But after my fall, I had to ask myself, "Was this what success looked like? Was this the life I wanted?" I was working eighteen hours a day, seven days a week, trying to build a business, expand our coverage, and bring in investors. But my life, I realized, was out of control. In terms of the traditional measures of success, which focus on money and power, I was very successful. But I was not living a successful life by any sane definition of success. I knew something had to radically change. I could not go on that way. And that is how Thrive came to be.

Greg: How did we get here? As a society I mean: what are the greater forces at play?

Arianna: Over time our society’s notion of success has been reduced to money and power. In fact, at this point, success, money, and power have practically become synonymous in the minds of many. This idea of success can work— or at least appear to work— in the short term. But over the long term, money and power by themselves are like a two-legged stool— you can balance on them for a while, but eventually you’re going to topple over. And more and more people— very successful people— are toppling over.

In the world of business, one of the primary obstacles keeping many companies from adopting more sane and sustainable metrics of success is the stubborn — and dangerously wrongheaded— myth that there is a trade- off between high performance at work and taking care of ourselves. This couldn’t be less true. And soon, the companies that still believe this will be in the minority. Right now, about 35 percent of large and midsize U.S. employers offer some sort of stress-reduction program, including Target, Apple, Nike, and Procter & Gamble. And those that do are starting to be recognized for their efforts, especially by employees. Glassdoor.com, the social jobs and careers community, releases an annual list of the top twenty- five companies for work- life balance: “Companies that make sincere efforts to recognize employees’ lives outside of the office,” said Glassdoor’s Rusty Rueff, “will often see the payoff when it comes to recruiting and retaining top talent.”

Greg: What is the most interesting research you came across in writing this book? Something which made you say, "Wow!"

Arianna: One point that really struck me had to do with gazelles. They run and flee when there is a danger— a leopard or a lion approaching— but as soon as the danger passes, they stop and go back to grazing peacefully without a care in the world. But human beings cannot distinguish between real dangers and imagined ones. As Mark Williams, a psychology professor at Oxford, explains, “The brain’s alarm signals start to be triggered not only by the current scare, but by past threats and future worries…So when we humans bring to mind other threats and losses, as well as the current scenario, our bodies’ fight-or-flight systems do not switch off when the danger is past. Unlike the gazelles, we don’t stop running.” Now my screensaver is a picture of gazelles – they are my role models! But Thrive explores many of the ways modern science is validating ancient wisdom, so there were a lot of “wow” moments!

Greg: What are 3 things people can do (or deliberately not do) to make the shift to thriving?

Arianna: Thrive is designed as a bridge,to help us move from knowing what to do to actually doing it. Here are three simple steps each of us can take that can have dramatic effects on our well-being:

1. Unless you are one of the wise few who already gets all the rest you need, you have an opportunity to immediately improve your health, creativity, productivity, and sense of well- being. Start by getting just thirty minutes more sleep than you are getting now. The easiest way is to go to bed earlier, but you could also take a short nap during the day— or a combination of both.

2. Introduce five minutes of meditation into your day. Eventually, you can build up to fifteen or twenty minutes a day (or more), but even just a few minutes will open the door to creating a new habit— and all the many proven benefits it brings.

3. At the end of each day, let go of something that you no longer need— something that is draining your energy without benefiting you or anyone you love. It could be resentments, negative self-talk, or a project you know you are not really going to complete.

Greg: Big question here and a bit of a shift, what do you want your eulogy to say?

Arianna: What I know for sure is that our eulogies have nothing to do with our resumes. Even for those who die with amazing Wikipedia entries, whose lives were synonymous with accomplishment and achievement, their eulogies focus mostly on what they did when they weren’t achieving and succeeding. They aren’t bound by our current, broken definition of success. Have you ever heard anyone eulogized by saying, "George was amazing. He increased market share by one-third!"?



Arianna Huffington is the chair, president, and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group, a nationally syndicated columnist, and author of fourteen books. In May 2005, she launched The Huffington Post, a news and blog site that quickly became one of the most widely-read, linked to, and frequently-cited media brands on the Internet. In 2012, the site won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. In 2013, she was named to the Forbes Most Powerful Women list. In 2006 and 2011 she was named to the Time 100, Time Magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people. Originally from Greece, she moved to England when she was 16 and graduated from Cambridge University with an M.A. in economics. At 21, she became president of the famed debating society, the Cambridge Union. Thrive is her 14th book.

Saturday, March 22, 2014

The Sucker Punch --Straight From Epicenter of Political Volcano in India

                                                    The Truth of Modidom
I was watching a newly launched TV show on IBN 7,where anchor was stating that there were three clear cut waves during general elections in India. First was in 1971 with Indira Gandhi's `Garibi Hatao',the second was in 1984 during elections immediately after Indira Gandhi's assassination and third is now in 2014,which is referred as Modi Mania. I have just returned from the epicenter of India's political volcano —Eastern Uttar Pradesh. Though I was on a very personal visit to my home town in Ayodhya-Faizabad,where some 500 people turned to my home on a very sad occasion, but as its is in the blood of politically smart people of my native place they reacted instantly to me about the emerging equation in BJP as they feel that entire emergence of BJP is due to this religiously town. I am bound to say that not a single person was happy with the man who is really playing the shots in BJP,and we all know who he is. Their first anger was about the shifting of seats of winning candidates of BJP and their second biggest anger was about the poor candidate BJP has selected Ayodhya and Faizabad. Lallu Singh,who is known as drunk political leader in the area has been loosing election for past two elections and he manged to win previously only during so called Ram Aandolan. Sitting MP Nirmal Khatri won by defeating him in previous general elections and pople are quite uncomfortable about BJP's choice. A BJP supporter just behind the `Karsevak Puram' told me that the people who have sidelined BJP stalwart does not know BJP culture and the man who is playing the ball does not know caste politics in U.P. People are also angry that SP defunct and once a BJP candidate has been acknowledged again by that 'Man'. Braj Bhushan Saran Singh , a Bahubali from near by 'Gonda' district and his son KirtiVardhan Singh,both have been give ticket by that 'Man'. The Vaishya community in Lucknow is quite unhappy with the man who shifted UP BJP stalwart Lal Ji Tandon in order to accommodate himself/ People are also unhappy about sending BJP candidate to the places where they do not have any root,that also indicates about BJP's PM candidate,who has been given a seat by throwing out Murli Manohar Joshi.
The Sadhus in Ayodhya and Faizabad believe that BJP can not sidelines Ram Temple issue which has played a significant role in BJPs current status. However few of them feel that Modi's nomination from Vaarnasi is an indication to Hindu Hardliners.Hwever NaMo have never raised `Gyanvapi'issue in his blind dreams even.
A journalist with a three page weekly newspaper feels that if the 'Man's' shot will work and BJP emerged to power all will go well,but if otherwise there are fairly good chance of BJP becoming a fractioned party of many individuals.
Ratnesh Dwivedi after returning from Eastern Uttar Pradesh