The Narendra Modi government has invested too much time and capital to further its political conquest. Today's crisis shows it may be left with too little time in this term to refocus on governance.
Criticism of the bullet train project shows our fear of scale is like mass hypochondria, where we fear real medicine and drift on with dainty, sweet, ineffectual pills.
The issue of the Muslim quota has the potential to polarise SCs, STs, and OBCs along religious lines in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. It benefits the BJP.
Speaking at launch of economist Surjit Bhalla’s book, S Jaishankar also highlights Gen Z’s engagement with ‘reel culture’, which has 'promoted awareness, created interest in many subjects'.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
By calling it “Modi’s”, you are doing great injustice to the cause of progress of this country. Firstly this is simply not true. 6 High Speed Rail corridors were proposed in 2009 and 2010 budgets and it has been a long track. See Wikipedia article on the subject. It is certainly going to boost the economy of the region by opening up number of opportunities. But due to lot of misinformation, there are already enough problems. A reliable source like ThePrint, making casual statements will certainly sad to the problem. Firstly, the credit isn’t given where it is due. Secondly, it is adding to the resistance at Maharashtra, with the political equations on the ground
By calling it “Modi’s”, you are doing great injustice to the cause of progress of this country. Firstly this is simply not true. 6 High Speed Rail corridors were proposed in 2009 and 2010 budgets and it has been a long track. See Wikipedia article on the subject. It is certainly going to boost the economy of the region by opening up number of opportunities. But due to lot of misinformation, there are already enough problems. A reliable source like ThePrint, making casual statements will certainly sad to the problem. Firstly, the credit isn’t given where it is due. Secondly, it is adding to the resistance at Maharashtra, with the political equations on the ground