Ruling and Opposition parties! To disagree, discuss and debate controversies is the very nature of democratic practices! Ethical politics is the very core of a democratic society! The 2019 elections must be based on transparent issues. Issues like large scale corruption in public life. Political parties election funding must be transparent. Based on some of…
Category: Politics
Socially conscious veteran journalist elected Deputy Chair of the Rajya Sabha!
Let us hope socially conscious media values get due recognition! Today, standards in public life are declining. We can see even the once-much rated Parliament proceedings are falling in substance and gravitas. Many major bills, why, even the budget is passed without debates and serious deliberations. There are many other things like foreign funds to…
A healthy political environment must be created!
Why Press and media freedom is misunderstood? Many things on the loose when it comes to public awareness? Why then the Supreme Court asks the government whether the Election Commission can deny tickets to criminals? Parliament is doing its work? SC in a dilemma? EC so weak? Press must report, explain and educate the public!…
Corporate Social Responsibility?
Or, carrying favour with the high and mighty? We once asked a Corporate heavy-weight, and a lady at that, who sat at the high table of Sonia Gandhi for an ad for this media publication! The lady was not only negative, she seemed to have dismissed our request in a nonchalant manner! This has been…
Will Mamata Banerjee emerge as the PM candidate for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections?
A distinct possibility is the very same distinct character of the Bengali renaissance political and cultural history. West Bengal is no more the strong hold of any party other than Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress. And Mamata, remember, is a stormy petral of the Indian National Congress itself. The 35 year old dogmatic ideology of the…
After the No confidence vote
After the Amartya Sen-Rajiv Kumar TV Debate on the economy Now, the great game of the 2019 election! Yes, there are some dramatic moments in the political and economic debates in recent times. One was of course the much-talked about No-confidence debate in the Lok Sabha. In a significant sense, this debate gave Mr.Rahul Gandhi…
An agenda for 2019!
Indian democracy faces multiple challenges! We can’t take for granted the current realities alone! There can be unanticipated developments! Politics is now all the passion and superficial concern of the dominant sections of society. Every one, I mean the citizen, who has made some progress in life, earned wealth and an ambition to further his…
The Karnataka Assembly election verdict!
Lessons learnt and unlearnt! A new political horizon seems opening in India at the moment. It is the outcome of the election verdict and the immediate developments.! The Karnataka Assembly election results surprised everyone concerned. There are many stake-holders, so to say. Of course it is another matter that stake -holders also had their own…