The charge against Manmohan Singh, always, was that he was weak. Unwilling to shoo away encroachers on his authority and shy of defending his own policies.
The PM’s oath of office has an implicit responsibility to protect the preeminent decision-making authority of that office. So it is difficult to watch how Manmohan Singh is going down in history as somebody who so damaged it.
Narendra Modi, a divisive and polarising figure, is as much a candidate of the Congress as the BJP: it is just that one is trying to make him win, and the other to make him lose.
Narendra Modi's intervention is needed in land boundary agreement India and Bangladesh signed since the matter rests with BJP and is caught within its messy but utterly transparent, internal power tussle.
Charbatia (Secret Base):
The funny and fascinating thing with spy stories is, that just when you think you've cracked one, another one emerges from behind...
Financial year 2022-23 saw private investments & hiring surge, but since then firms are using cash to reduce debt. General elections didn’t help matters, either.
Ambassador Amit Narang wore combat uniform at closing ceremony of India-Oman joint military exercise. Only serving personnel can wear service uniforms, say veterans.
How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?
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