Is China in Indian territory? Did India miss Covid cases? What about doubling farmers’ incomes? Modi's ministers won’t lie on these, but neither will you hear the truth.
Modi-Shah’s BJP now has its eyes on Mamata’s Bengal, Patnaik’s Odisha, KCR’s Telangana and Jagan’s Andhra. While Congress continues to focus on the PM.
World over, beards are sending messages about politicians like Trudeau and Beto O’Rourke. And Modi’s white beard and Rahul Gandhi’s clean-shaven look are no different.
Considering the astute politician Modi is, he knows well his popularity and electoral victories are not just about his image as a protector of Hindu interests.
Jyotiraditya Scindia is only doing BJP’s bidding. But it could well be the intention of Vasundhara Raje’s detractors to cut off her nose to spite the face.
The latest additions to ThePrint’s properties will improve your understanding of the India we live in, whether it's through the prism of AI or civil services.
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
Since 1815, Nepali Gorkhas have served in Indian & British Armies, as well as in Bihar, Bengal & Assam Police. Since Agnipath scheme came in, no Nepal-domiciled Gorkha has enlisted.
What Munir has achieved with Trump is a return to normal, ironing out the post-Abbottabad crease. The White House picture gives us insight into how Pakistan survives, occasionally thrives and thinks.
The article is wrong in saying ‘Being Vajpayee is the answer’.
Vajpayee was a Hindu fascist, like anyone schooled in the Sangh. He betrayed freedom fighters, and Modi was protected by Vajpayee in 2002. During the Gujarat riots, Vajpayee coolly went off on holiday, and came back 10 days later and made some mealy mouthed observation about Raj dharma. He did not have Modi prosecuted and dismissed.
The Hindu media portrayed Vajpayee as a moderate – because there was the Hindu extremist Advani before him. Vajpayee was moderate only because he did not have a majority.
Now that Yogi is seen as extreme even by Hindu sensibilities, the Hindu media talk as if Modi is a moderate.
The Hindu media have enabled one Hindu fascist after another : Advani, Vajpayee, Modi, Yogi…..
India’s free fall cannot be arrested till Hindus demand a ban on the RSS, an investigation of its accounts and indoctrination, and prosecution for riots. They have tasted the blood of Muslims, they will want the blood of Hindus next. That stage is coming.
Your mischievous and deliberate use of the word “Hindu” when it should be “Hindutva” is highly objectionable. You should be prevented from commenting for this.
From the state of UP hails a saffron monk
Who they say is very power-drunk
“I will use UP’ s funds to make goshalas
UP’s children don’t need paathshalas”
People still vote for me, even though I sell junk !!!!
Dear print why i am not will to donate u is because u are acting like mouth piece of Congress party. U see the the language used by this third class author. shame on yoyu Mr.Shekar Gupta.
To compare Kerala with rajasthan and up is like comparing apples and oranges. In Kerala the police is willing to register fir. Hence high numbers. Just on basis of Fir if crime rate is calculated, wrong information is presented. What we need is a standard process of registering fir. Let’s have a common number like 911. As soon as user calls on the number an fir should be created. A centralised call center team then should assign it to corresponding police station. The concerned police station needs to go to the caller location and update the fir with caller statement and give copy of the statement in English or regional language. Under no circumstances caller should visit police station for the initial statement. Implement this at national level. Only after this can we compare crime statistics among different states.
Kerala is streets ahead of the BIMARU states on all fronts and statistics from Kerala cannot be directly compared with “statistics” from the BIMARU black holes.
Yogi is too good for the world. I believe he is the the next Swami Vivekananda, putting the Hindus on the world map.
History may well repeat itself. The abstemious monk becoming PM in future, totally eclipsing all party colleagues of his generation. UP $ 1 trillion, India $ 5 trillion.
He said that he is making UP the world’s industrial hub and he is attracting firms leaving China. He has made UP a centre for religious tourism.
Firstly, to preach raj dharma, you have to practise it yourself. That’s exactly why Modi-Shah are unable to even mention it to YogiNahi.
Second, it’s this blind approach to stats that motivate the Modi government to fudge them as part of official policy. That’s also why police refuse to register FIRs, besides the other reasons. If you’re suggesting that Kerala is a worse place for Dalits and women compared to UP, you obviously have your head and your backside in the exact opposite places to where they are supposed to be.
Crimes against Dalits and Dalit women are high in Kerala only because FIRs are registered and such crimes are reported without fear. In the Sengar rape case, an FIR was registered for rape against him only after almost a year, and two public suicide attempts by the victim. Sengar even visited the CM’s home after killing the victim’s father. Such things don’t happen in Kerala. Failure to register an FIR even in a minor land dispute is enough to cause the suspension of the Inspector involved. (I’m speaking from personal experience here.) In Kerala, we don’t ask your caste!!
Even in Rajasthan, government support to upper caste criminals is way more prevalent during BJP rule. It’s an open fact that the cops did not take action against the dalit crimes you’ve mentioned in Gujarat either. So, the BJP being anti-dalit is not a perception, but the reality. Modi tried
to change the perception, and so won dalit votes. Unfortunately, like in multiple areas, he didn’t try to change the reality, and so he’s losing those votes!!
Kerala has made a lot more progress in the area of caste based discrimination and violence. Both in terms of combatting the social discrimination that caste creates as well as the enforcement of laws. Of course, discrimination and other caste based crimes have not gone down to zero. But the trends are positive.
As you rightly point out, the statistics across states do not allow an apples to apples comparison simply due to differences in the efficacy of governance structures in the various states. This is a universal phenomenon – the immense difficulty of comparing raw figures without factoring in underlying variables. For instance, in the early 2000s, Sweden changed the legal definition of what constitutes “rape” and also the way legal definition of “counts” of an illegal act were computed. That led to a surge in the statistics leading many jingoistic Indians, particularly during the Nirbhaya tragedy to angrily counter that India is safer than Sweden !
You have a similar situation in Kerala – better reporting and governance lead to more cases being registered in Kerala and fewer hidden cases. In the chappathi belt though, this is reversed. Reported cases are but the visible tip of the iceberg with the bulk of the cases going unreported.
Kerala has undoubtedly a long way to go. But acknowledgement of the problem as opposed to obfuscating it goes a long way in resolving it.
Please do write more Mr Subin. As my old grandmother would say “virthi”, “vivaram” and “vidhyabaasam” is what sets us from God’s Own Country apart!
I guess you can cite a couple of statistics : women in Kerala outlive men (as in the west), and female to male ratio is higher, the only place in India.
I remember reading Modi visited Kerala and he remarked people there are in worse condition than in Somalia.
Their angry reaction stems from injured self esteem. Instead of raising themselves, which they obviously cannot, they say everyone elsewhere is living in a sewer – like them.
It is true that Yogi Adityanath has signally failed in handling the Hathras episode.If this is a reflection of his Thakurvad,then it will be disaster for BJP and Modi..It is high time he is pulled up and if necessary,replaced by a unifying popular leader.If the BJP plays its card wisely and with generosity,the Muslim community will be largely receptive.But the BJP needs a less controversial and polarising leader as compared to the Yogi.Yogi can never shed his Anti-Muslim image.The BJP does not need Yogi to mobilise the Hindutva votes.A change at the present time will also raise the prospects of retaining UP for the BJP at the 2022 elections.Will Modi-Shah bite the Bullet?
It’s sad to see you keep writing articles blatantly supporting BJP and outrightly reject the opposition. But still not getting noticed by Modi & Co. I understand that it’s highly frustrating for you to make loyalty to BJP isn’t properly recognized by the party.
Let me suggest a few options get noticed & get recognized by BJP folks in a jiffy and make a shit load of money.
Option 1) Please resign from The Print and join Republic TV. If Republic TV isn’t your cup of tea then you can try India TV and others as well.
Option 2) Please resign from The Print and join the BJP Independent Journalist forum like Swapan Dasgupta thereby your MP seat may get ensured
Option 3) Please resign from The Print. Please translate all your BJP supporting articles in Hindi and put up a stall in front of the BJP office. Hindi translation of your (BJP supporting) articles may fetch you a good position, I am sure.
But please note, all aforesaid options have one thing in common. Please resign from ‘The Print’.
Because people like me still believe ‘The Print’ magazine is a neutral one and doesn’t support right-wing propaganda.
Whatever you say, supporting Right Wing does not make you BJP bhakt. If it were then Owaisi an AIMIM should also be allies of BJP. Maybe your misconception of RW is responsible for such comment. RW meings coservatism and supremacist views be it religious or cultural. Don’t forget Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury’s remark on Rhe’s identity as a “Brahmin girl”.
In my view, Yogi mishandled the Hathras episode and virtually handed over the issue on a platter to the opposition parties, more particularly to the Rahul-Priyanka duo. As Mr Shekhar Gupta has rightly observed, the mid-night cremation was the biggest blunder of Yogi and will stick to him for the rest of his political tenure. While PM Modi sitting in distant Delhi could discern the political significance of this blunder, Yogi smugly overlooked the obvious and woke up when it was too late. By no stretch of imagination, Yogi can be considered as a successor to Modi. His body-language is too placid and emotionless and appears to be completely devoid of any intellectualism. Modi, in contrast, appears very human and though he is did not receive any formal education, is well read. Come 2022 and we shall know the difference.
Still in a maturing democracy that mean far away from matured democracy the party elected in power are policy maker and they should be focus on implementing policies they been elected for. And opposition party in a maturing democracy is a voice of people who raise loud and clear message to govt about their work and conduct but in last six year unfortunately opposition/ or people voice was missing it is good that congress at least now bringing to the table.
COUNTRY IS WORRIED OF YOU, MR.MODI…NOT BJP !! YOU ARE A GREAT LIABILITIES NOW !! YOUR BJP MEN OPPOSE YOU IN !! DO YOU KNOW ?? YOU ARE AOVARVARA RAO AND OTHERS… NOT CONGRESS AND OPPOSITION !1 YOU ARE AFRAID OF THE STUDENTS IN INDIA …NOT TMC OR OTHER PARTY…DO YOU REALISE \???
The article is wrong in saying ‘Being Vajpayee is the answer’.
Vajpayee was a Hindu fascist, like anyone schooled in the Sangh. He betrayed freedom fighters, and Modi was protected by Vajpayee in 2002. During the Gujarat riots, Vajpayee coolly went off on holiday, and came back 10 days later and made some mealy mouthed observation about Raj dharma. He did not have Modi prosecuted and dismissed.
The Hindu media portrayed Vajpayee as a moderate – because there was the Hindu extremist Advani before him. Vajpayee was moderate only because he did not have a majority.
Now that Yogi is seen as extreme even by Hindu sensibilities, the Hindu media talk as if Modi is a moderate.
The Hindu media have enabled one Hindu fascist after another : Advani, Vajpayee, Modi, Yogi…..
India’s free fall cannot be arrested till Hindus demand a ban on the RSS, an investigation of its accounts and indoctrination, and prosecution for riots. They have tasted the blood of Muslims, they will want the blood of Hindus next. That stage is coming.
Your mischievous and deliberate use of the word “Hindu” when it should be “Hindutva” is highly objectionable. You should be prevented from commenting for this.
From the state of UP hails a saffron monk
Who they say is very power-drunk
“I will use UP’ s funds to make goshalas
UP’s children don’t need paathshalas”
People still vote for me, even though I sell junk !!!!
Most Hindus think he is the next Swami Vivekananda.
Any evidence to back your preposterous claims Mr Smartass?
MODERATORS: Please do your job.
Given all the stink that this power-drunk monk creates, it is better to call him a skunk !
Dear print why i am not will to donate u is because u are acting like mouth piece of Congress party. U see the the language used by this third class author. shame on yoyu Mr.Shekar Gupta.
To compare Kerala with rajasthan and up is like comparing apples and oranges. In Kerala the police is willing to register fir. Hence high numbers. Just on basis of Fir if crime rate is calculated, wrong information is presented. What we need is a standard process of registering fir. Let’s have a common number like 911. As soon as user calls on the number an fir should be created. A centralised call center team then should assign it to corresponding police station. The concerned police station needs to go to the caller location and update the fir with caller statement and give copy of the statement in English or regional language. Under no circumstances caller should visit police station for the initial statement. Implement this at national level. Only after this can we compare crime statistics among different states.
An outstanding comment Mr/Ms Ida.
Kerala is streets ahead of the BIMARU states on all fronts and statistics from Kerala cannot be directly compared with “statistics” from the BIMARU black holes.
Yogi is too good for the current opposition
Yogi is too good for the world. I believe he is the the next Swami Vivekananda, putting the Hindus on the world map.
History may well repeat itself. The abstemious monk becoming PM in future, totally eclipsing all party colleagues of his generation. UP $ 1 trillion, India $ 5 trillion.
He said that he is making UP the world’s industrial hub and he is attracting firms leaving China. He has made UP a centre for religious tourism.
Firstly, to preach raj dharma, you have to practise it yourself. That’s exactly why Modi-Shah are unable to even mention it to YogiNahi.
Second, it’s this blind approach to stats that motivate the Modi government to fudge them as part of official policy. That’s also why police refuse to register FIRs, besides the other reasons. If you’re suggesting that Kerala is a worse place for Dalits and women compared to UP, you obviously have your head and your backside in the exact opposite places to where they are supposed to be.
Crimes against Dalits and Dalit women are high in Kerala only because FIRs are registered and such crimes are reported without fear. In the Sengar rape case, an FIR was registered for rape against him only after almost a year, and two public suicide attempts by the victim. Sengar even visited the CM’s home after killing the victim’s father. Such things don’t happen in Kerala. Failure to register an FIR even in a minor land dispute is enough to cause the suspension of the Inspector involved. (I’m speaking from personal experience here.) In Kerala, we don’t ask your caste!!
Even in Rajasthan, government support to upper caste criminals is way more prevalent during BJP rule. It’s an open fact that the cops did not take action against the dalit crimes you’ve mentioned in Gujarat either. So, the BJP being anti-dalit is not a perception, but the reality. Modi tried
to change the perception, and so won dalit votes. Unfortunately, like in multiple areas, he didn’t try to change the reality, and so he’s losing those votes!!
A hard-hitting, outstanding comment Mr Subin.
Kerala has made a lot more progress in the area of caste based discrimination and violence. Both in terms of combatting the social discrimination that caste creates as well as the enforcement of laws. Of course, discrimination and other caste based crimes have not gone down to zero. But the trends are positive.
As you rightly point out, the statistics across states do not allow an apples to apples comparison simply due to differences in the efficacy of governance structures in the various states. This is a universal phenomenon – the immense difficulty of comparing raw figures without factoring in underlying variables. For instance, in the early 2000s, Sweden changed the legal definition of what constitutes “rape” and also the way legal definition of “counts” of an illegal act were computed. That led to a surge in the statistics leading many jingoistic Indians, particularly during the Nirbhaya tragedy to angrily counter that India is safer than Sweden !
You have a similar situation in Kerala – better reporting and governance lead to more cases being registered in Kerala and fewer hidden cases. In the chappathi belt though, this is reversed. Reported cases are but the visible tip of the iceberg with the bulk of the cases going unreported.
Kerala has undoubtedly a long way to go. But acknowledgement of the problem as opposed to obfuscating it goes a long way in resolving it.
Please do write more Mr Subin. As my old grandmother would say “virthi”, “vivaram” and “vidhyabaasam” is what sets us from God’s Own Country apart!
I guess you can cite a couple of statistics : women in Kerala outlive men (as in the west), and female to male ratio is higher, the only place in India.
I remember reading Modi visited Kerala and he remarked people there are in worse condition than in Somalia.
Their angry reaction stems from injured self esteem. Instead of raising themselves, which they obviously cannot, they say everyone elsewhere is living in a sewer – like them.
It is true that Yogi Adityanath has signally failed in handling the Hathras episode.If this is a reflection of his Thakurvad,then it will be disaster for BJP and Modi..It is high time he is pulled up and if necessary,replaced by a unifying popular leader.If the BJP plays its card wisely and with generosity,the Muslim community will be largely receptive.But the BJP needs a less controversial and polarising leader as compared to the Yogi.Yogi can never shed his Anti-Muslim image.The BJP does not need Yogi to mobilise the Hindutva votes.A change at the present time will also raise the prospects of retaining UP for the BJP at the 2022 elections.Will Modi-Shah bite the Bullet?
Dear DK Singh(author of this article),
It’s sad to see you keep writing articles blatantly supporting BJP and outrightly reject the opposition. But still not getting noticed by Modi & Co. I understand that it’s highly frustrating for you to make loyalty to BJP isn’t properly recognized by the party.
Let me suggest a few options get noticed & get recognized by BJP folks in a jiffy and make a shit load of money.
Option 1) Please resign from The Print and join Republic TV. If Republic TV isn’t your cup of tea then you can try India TV and others as well.
Option 2) Please resign from The Print and join the BJP Independent Journalist forum like Swapan Dasgupta thereby your MP seat may get ensured
Option 3) Please resign from The Print. Please translate all your BJP supporting articles in Hindi and put up a stall in front of the BJP office. Hindi translation of your (BJP supporting) articles may fetch you a good position, I am sure.
But please note, all aforesaid options have one thing in common. Please resign from ‘The Print’.
Because people like me still believe ‘The Print’ magazine is a neutral one and doesn’t support right-wing propaganda.
Whatever you say, supporting Right Wing does not make you BJP bhakt. If it were then Owaisi an AIMIM should also be allies of BJP. Maybe your misconception of RW is responsible for such comment. RW meings coservatism and supremacist views be it religious or cultural. Don’t forget Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury’s remark on Rhe’s identity as a “Brahmin girl”.
In my view, Yogi mishandled the Hathras episode and virtually handed over the issue on a platter to the opposition parties, more particularly to the Rahul-Priyanka duo. As Mr Shekhar Gupta has rightly observed, the mid-night cremation was the biggest blunder of Yogi and will stick to him for the rest of his political tenure. While PM Modi sitting in distant Delhi could discern the political significance of this blunder, Yogi smugly overlooked the obvious and woke up when it was too late. By no stretch of imagination, Yogi can be considered as a successor to Modi. His body-language is too placid and emotionless and appears to be completely devoid of any intellectualism. Modi, in contrast, appears very human and though he is did not receive any formal education, is well read. Come 2022 and we shall know the difference.
Still in a maturing democracy that mean far away from matured democracy the party elected in power are policy maker and they should be focus on implementing policies they been elected for. And opposition party in a maturing democracy is a voice of people who raise loud and clear message to govt about their work and conduct but in last six year unfortunately opposition/ or people voice was missing it is good that congress at least now bringing to the table.
Kuch bhi kaho, aayega to Modi hi!!!!?
Nahi, ab kabhi nahi aayega, Modi.
COUNTRY IS WORRIED OF YOU, MR.MODI…NOT BJP !! YOU ARE A GREAT LIABILITIES NOW !! YOUR BJP MEN OPPOSE YOU IN !! DO YOU KNOW ?? YOU ARE AOVARVARA RAO AND OTHERS… NOT CONGRESS AND OPPOSITION !1 YOU ARE AFRAID OF THE STUDENTS IN INDIA …NOT TMC OR OTHER PARTY…DO YOU REALISE \???