Three ex-Trinamool Rajya Sabha MPs joining the BJP and getting fielded in the RS bypolls follows a familiar pattern. Journey from the Opposition to the Treasury Benches is getting shorter and smoother than ever before. It’s time to scrap the outdated anti-defection law. Let the voters decide on political morality.
Iran’s Hormuz leverage is finite. Its claims of ownership are both inaccurate and dangerous
Iran’s increasingly strident rhetoric on Hormuz is about timing. It knows its leverage is finite. As Gulf states diversify away, the leverage of weaponising the strait diminishes. That makes claims of ownership of the strait shared with Oman not merely inaccurate, but dangerous in the precedents they seek to establish.
Satluj’s public screenings, pirated videos defeated the very purpose of pulling it down from Zee
Public screenings of Satluj by Sikh groups and circulation of pirated videos have defeated the very purpose of pulling down the film from Zee. It should’ve just been allowed to have its OTT run. The film now takes on a new avatar and fires conspiracy theories that nobody can check.
The Sikhs are just crybabies. They keep crying all the time for all kinds of real and imagined horrors. Point is which state did not have a horrific past?
How many were killed and butchered in Assam from 1960 to late 1990s? How many young men and boys were murdered in cold blood in West Bengal during the Naxalite uprising – stretching over two decades?
Suffering and sacrifice and bloodshed is not Punjab’s legacy alone. It’s a tragic fate suffered by so many others across India.
But you would not find an Assamese or a Bengali crying or cribbing about it today. They carry the hurt and the past stoically.
But Sikhs seem to be of a different kind altogether. What makes things worse is that people like Shekhar Gupta cash in on this ‘discontent’ and keep making videos and writing articles – just to rake in the moolah as they know it will touch a cord with the ‘discontented’ ones.
Ek baar aap ne vote kar diya, paraya ho gaya. The MLA or MP is free to go where the breakfast buffet is most filling.
Fear not the truth. Think of it as part of a healing process.