Apr
27
What Kapil Sibal can and can’t do? Commercialisation and politicisation of higher education has taken alarming avatars! We know Kapil Sibal somewhat. We have met him once in his earlier avatar as science and technology minister. He is of course too smart a man, a clever lawyer with a reputation for making a lawyer’s case [...]
Apr
27
Right to Information ACT is kicking!
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Know the new dream heroes! The ones who expose the chicken-hearted secrets of the high and mighty! Subhas Chandra Agarwal, RTI activist, no, a zealot leads the way for the no lesser mortals! Wajahat Habibullah, the Chief Information Commissioner! Shailesh Gandhi, the Central Information Commissioner! They, among themselves, the trio have obtained from the Central [...]
Apr
24
Dantewada massacre and after
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Why the intelligence failed? No place for egocentric “I know-all” policies! Tribal India and the current Maoist upsurge calls for a more broad based policies and approaches. Digvijay Singh’s alternative view needs some examination Mr.Digvijay Singh, currently the General Secretary of the Congress and former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh have created some stir, a [...]