Sri Lankan transition was smoothly managed. Check Bangladesh for contrast. They forced their incumbent into exile, installed a mostly unelectable govt of non-political people.
Manipur represents BJP’s unique ideological approach to governing Northeast by playing identity politics jiu-jitsu. It hasn’t gone well yet, is getting worse, but the party insists on continuing.
The IC-814 and Emergency controversies show we are still too thin-skinned to accept anything but deification of our leaders, biopics or biographies. This runs across the subcontinent.
Bangladesh has dumped Sheikh Hasina. Are we dumping Bangladesh in turn? We can’t choose our neighbours. But you know what, we can choose to be the kind of neighbour we want to be.
Modi govt preparing for Census leads us to examine new reality, marked by 3 ‘C’s: caste, coalition & Constitution. BJP machine could take all 3 in its stride. This election has changed that.
Bangladesh is just latest example of disquiet in India's neighbourhood. We need to junk domestic politics & excessive religiosity, acquire humility in our approach to neighbours.
Third Modi govt has quickly moved away from dismissing all Congress ideas as unimaginative and is now implementing several of them. Think poll-bound Haryana and Maharashtra.
How broken does our governance have to be, and how incredible our hypocrisy, that we cannot make profits from educating young Indians, but earn thousands of crores by giving them tuitions?
What Modi govt got wrong with this budget and in its signalling is in moving away from its generally upbeat, ‘India is on the rise, growth will get steeper, markets are red hot’ messaging.
Congress party's score of 99 in the Lok Sabha elections has vaporised three painful questions dogging Rahul Gandhi for two decades. His record so far deserves a closer look.
The attack on Chhayanaut, newspaper offices, and the public lynching of a Hindu man show that Bangladesh is heading toward Islamist rule, far removed from electoral democracy.
It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.
If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.
Ridicules comparison of different countries with different issues. Sri Lanka had a smooth transition than Bangladesh because unlike the SriLankan government the Bangladeshi dictator ordered the army and police to shoot at sight which resulted in over 1000 dead and thousands more injured either losing sight or limbs. in Sri Lanka only Gotabaya Rajapaksa had ran away is Bangladesh Hasina and her entire team went into hiding as they know the crimes they committed against their people. Shekhar Gupta is just salty because an Indian agent Hasina has finally been kicked out of Bangladesh.
Sri Lanka will eventually be a successful country with a proper democratic polity.
Pakistan and Bangladesh are Muslim majority nations. Hence, it’s unrealistic to expect a democratic setup in these nations. Islam and democracy are like oil and water.
Shekhar Gupta’s obsession with Pakistan is very unhealthy though.
Sri Lanka – Ceylon then – was South Asia’s original success story. Had it not taken a hard majoritarian turn in terms of language, religion, ethnicity, leading to the debilitating three decade civil war, the rise and fall of the LTTE, it would have been on par with ASEAN states in terms of development and prosperity. 2. They have come through a terrible economic crisis, sovereign default, May they choose a better path forward. With or without the Thirteenth Amendment, treat the Tamil minority with fairness and respect. That may be better than reopening old wounds. 3. Sri Lanka should also find a sustainable balance between India and China.
comparison is ridiculous, look at the religion and you will know why democracy failed there. Rest is just propaganda from the Print.
Ridicules comparison of different countries with different issues. Sri Lanka had a smooth transition than Bangladesh because unlike the SriLankan government the Bangladeshi dictator ordered the army and police to shoot at sight which resulted in over 1000 dead and thousands more injured either losing sight or limbs. in Sri Lanka only Gotabaya Rajapaksa had ran away is Bangladesh Hasina and her entire team went into hiding as they know the crimes they committed against their people. Shekhar Gupta is just salty because an Indian agent Hasina has finally been kicked out of Bangladesh.
Sri Lanka will eventually be a successful country with a proper democratic polity.
Pakistan and Bangladesh are Muslim majority nations. Hence, it’s unrealistic to expect a democratic setup in these nations. Islam and democracy are like oil and water.
Shekhar Gupta’s obsession with Pakistan is very unhealthy though.
Sri Lanka – Ceylon then – was South Asia’s original success story. Had it not taken a hard majoritarian turn in terms of language, religion, ethnicity, leading to the debilitating three decade civil war, the rise and fall of the LTTE, it would have been on par with ASEAN states in terms of development and prosperity. 2. They have come through a terrible economic crisis, sovereign default, May they choose a better path forward. With or without the Thirteenth Amendment, treat the Tamil minority with fairness and respect. That may be better than reopening old wounds. 3. Sri Lanka should also find a sustainable balance between India and China.
I think pissfuls cannot handle democracy lol.
No need to make such a huge article man