Agriculture’s political priority now the focus! See the budgets of the government! The Centre has taken the bold step to come out with a budget that makes bold promises. Agriculture spending will top the sectoral allocations. What was once considered to be an urban party of traders and small businessmen and shop-keepers, the BJP now…
Month: March 2016
Bank defaulters! That is wilful defaulters!
May the tribe grow? Or, when you will act and do justice? Mr.Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister, might not have imagined in the wildest of his dreams that a set of intractable problems, corruption, black money and also unpaid huge bank loans by the high and mighty, besides his unfulfilled promises of getting the black…
Farmers gather at Jantar Mantar!
They would start roaring more in the coming days! To protest on their grievances. All budgets focused on farmers! The Central and the states’ budgets! Why? Is it because the government care for farmers? How many farmers committed suicides, you know? No budget, Central or the states, in particular, the Maharashtra and the Karnataka budgets talk…
Nationalism debate
There is a past history! The current controversy on what is nationalism and patriotism is taking communal overtones. There is a history to the rise of nationalism in the modern world. The First World War (1914-1919) sharpened nationalism with the fall of Ottoman Empire and the birth of new nations. The second war, again, led…
Ethics Committees of the Indian Parliament
Both in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha to meet They would probe the ethics and the conduct of MPs The power of the press and public opinion can help the Parliamentary committees to do a great job. You see ethics is heavy word. Its meaning and significance can’t be explained in simple journalistic style….
Tippoo Sultan’s Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine
A successful debut Indian poet would be deported. Is he one among the 40,000 skilled Indian workers? New UK immigrations rules to deport 40,000 Indians Skilled Indian workers to be sent home! See the irony of the Indo-British Empire and its twists and turns. Indian skilled workers range over a wider field of human skills….
Freedom of Speech controversy
Lots of talks that are empty of any substance! After the JNU (Jawaharlal Nehru University) campus row there are too much talk about Freedom of Speech and Nationalism and anti-nationalism. It is alleged (we have to say so for there are no exact records or any other evidence) hat freedom of speech is denied or…
Jat agitation in Haryana
Signs of rural distress for a dominant community? Why suddenly the flare-up in Haryana? Demand for reservation in jobs and education for the dominant caste of the Jats is not new or sudden either. Why now, after the BJP government seemed settled to attend to development in the context of new opportunities? The widespread agitation…