As an all-out effort is made to keep Delhi afloat, we need a parallel strategy to find a more congenial capital that will better serve India's interests.
If the question, “If not Modi, who?” worked for the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, then “If not Didi, who?” may come to haunt it in West Bengal in 2021.
It was only after Western interpretations made it popular that nationalists like Gandhi, Aurobindo and Tilak took up the Gita and made it India’s seminal philosophical text.
Perhaps BJP thinks economic recovery will happen before the next general elections. But this assumption can come unstuck if current directions are not reversed.
Neither state govts nor companies earn large profits from lotteries. However, a look at the system shows there’s ample evidence of murky dealings and financial irregularities.
According to contract for 73 Tejas Mk-1A and 10 trainer aircraft, inked on 1 February 2021, the first Tejas was to be delivered within three years of signing the deal — February 2024.
The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.
A typical response to such a suggestion is it’ll take decades – which is without any rationale. Take for example Islamabad, now I’m well aware of failed state of Pakistan and its policies, but Islamabad is beautiful, most beautiful city in Indian subcontinent. It was envisaged in 1959 and in 1966 govt of Pakistan moved to new city of Islamabad from Karachi to Rawalpindi and finally to Islamabad. It was made from scratch, if Pakistan can do it sure we can as well. It requires political will as well as rationality in public. Sadly we as a country lack both of these things as you can gauge from the comments to this post.
Keeping Bombay “ afloat “ presents another set of challenges. Recent studies indicate sea levels are rising faster than envisaged earlier. By 2050, the sea might reclaim the land that once belonged to it. With a Bombay centric party heading the state government, urgent planning is required to ensure that most of the city does not become Atlantis.
That would take decades and over a hundred billion dollars of investment. It is not that the rest of the country is the Garden of Eden, offering a pristine environment. Urban centres all over the country dominate the list of most polluted cities in the world. 2. As an immediate reprieve, MEA could develop a facility in Goa to receive foreign dignitaries in winter.
A typical response to such a suggestion is it’ll take decades – which is without any rationale. Take for example Islamabad, now I’m well aware of failed state of Pakistan and its policies, but Islamabad is beautiful, most beautiful city in Indian subcontinent. It was envisaged in 1959 and in 1966 govt of Pakistan moved to new city of Islamabad from Karachi to Rawalpindi and finally to Islamabad. It was made from scratch, if Pakistan can do it sure we can as well. It requires political will as well as rationality in public. Sadly we as a country lack both of these things as you can gauge from the comments to this post.
How about fixing the problem? Or is the plan to have the next capital in another country?
Keeping Bombay “ afloat “ presents another set of challenges. Recent studies indicate sea levels are rising faster than envisaged earlier. By 2050, the sea might reclaim the land that once belonged to it. With a Bombay centric party heading the state government, urgent planning is required to ensure that most of the city does not become Atlantis.
That would take decades and over a hundred billion dollars of investment. It is not that the rest of the country is the Garden of Eden, offering a pristine environment. Urban centres all over the country dominate the list of most polluted cities in the world. 2. As an immediate reprieve, MEA could develop a facility in Goa to receive foreign dignitaries in winter.