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Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.
Indeed there have been many marked changes in the so called ‘democratic’ functioning of our honourable courts post UPA era of Indian governance. As witnessed during so many ‘firsts’ claimed judgements as well as national and state events, each of those judgements startled the conventional wisdom of our own people.
Needless to mention what this is alluring to, but to the uninitiated an overview – keeping in mind that while all these happened, the so claiming custodians of our supreme code of social contract, chose to turn their heads away and look in different side, which gives them an alibi of not subjectable to guilt of action, the common and the poor endured and continue to suffer for years in silence,
As we know, this unprecedented posture of mute observer looking away other direction by the justice system started not long after a new leadership took seat in our capittal, soon it started with redefining the notions around ‘who we are’ and thus recreating a craving need for IDENTITY and overnight marginalise those who couldnt comply or buy into its Aadhaar verdict. then it pushed through repainting the colour around MONEY ‘what we have got’ and thus reprinting the currency while throwing innocent people on road to seek out for. Having thus fixed people into Interrogative Custody Individually & Economically, the next target close to people it chose as RELIGION in that it invoked family fights in people homes with issues of Divorce, poly- gender biases, prayer manners, geo-names, what not. Next hit was into peoples LIVES how one goes by their aging days and thus developed a new illusion world of MEDICINE that promise to cure and immortalise it under the business acronym of Ayush. This list goes on what with blackmailing overSECURITY and possible wars with our neighbours, showing the people how to tide over the pain with its sponsored Drug addictions, letting the beople into imaginining the non existent PHINX to persuade them into desire for Rafales,
While ssuch live experiments n dramas were being played on with the lives of its hapless people struggling to come to terms with one every month, the law of the land is not conspicious by absence all along, rather what its guilty of is looking the other way, read the E-LITE way that is what the billionaire people aspirations were and how to meet them, whereas we the people kept hoping after hope that it will look their way, read the LAB-OUR way that is what the scapegoat people were enduring and how to save them from cannibals roaming in public places
Respects to sri prashant bhushan for his courage and integrity to stand up for freedom of speech in India . Before he is punished,let us investigate every issue he has raised before the courts and disprove them. Intimidating and Putting people in Jail for raising issues of national importance ,only go to show that all is not well st the top.
Clearly, in Modistan, it is wrong to patriotic to the country as patriotism is now defined as loyalty to the violent, fascist ideology called Hindutva. Not to the nation.
what a pathetic comparison. the writer has done the biggest disservice to the memory of Gandhi and Mandela, and Print is equally responsible to give such illiterate writers by giving them space to write such shit. PB is an selfish idiot who has done nothing for the benefit of the society that we should look upto him with any pride. even if he doesnt deserve this contempt punishment and is trying to hold a high moral ground , he remains a egoistic person who is good for nothing. and it appears the writer is also in the same league…..
Just quoting the Mahatma makes him on par? MG did it for our country. PB could be called crusader if he continues to fight against contempt law. Seriously, what othdr choicd did PB have? His high profile would be in thr drain had he apologized. Media comparing him to Mandela and MG is highly illogical and even comical. What has he done to the nation to be placed alongside such illustrious people? The article is an insult to them.
Hidden deep in this article, the author admits “it may seem ridiculous to some to compare Prashant Bhushan to Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela, but his principled submission to punishment is of similar nature.”.
Yes, this comparison is beyond ridiculous.
Hope Mr Bhushan enjoys his stay in jail.
ThePrint has redeemed itself by publishing this article. The original headline that it had published on this issue yesterday was awful. Good that they have done course correction.
Mandela! The person who spent his entire youth in jail…31 long years….you are prashant bhushan with him!!! If the Print ever went down…it will be because of an absolute dimwit like you
Shivam is (always) right. Prashant should refuse to apologize and go to prison for a good 6 months. In fact, he should demand imprisonment of 12 months and voluntarily pay a fine of rupees 1 crore to the SC, even if law does not provide it for it. This will set a good precedent for future and the law can be amended suitably as well by the Parliament.
SC needs to be strict in awarding punishment to him and he should not be treated with any undeserving kindness.
People like Mr Bhushan are like small diyas in a sea of darkness enveloping us and hopefully, more of us will be inspired by him and have the moral courage to stand up for truth, democracy and secular values. Though the comparison with great men from history may seem over the top, men achieve greatness on the basis of their courageous actions in the face of moral adversity, and so it looks entirely appropriate in this context.
Thanks,Mr Vij for an excellent article.
On the evening of 7 April 1775, Samuel Johnson made the famous statement, “Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.” And he was refusing to the kind of the patriotism that is on display these days. And looking at your statement and the opinion (which you are inferring based on what young Indian ‘thinks’ of him) one cannot doubt that someone said you the statement “Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel”. And you have shamelessly substituted words. Now claim that you never heard this statement as scoundrels can be expected to do the unexpected foolishness.
It seems you call yourself patriot, that is on display these days. A patriot whose patriotism becomes visible with the name of the countries like Pakistan and India. A patriot to whom even the RIGHT THINKING members seems to anti-national, may be because they think right-wing means they are right.
Samuel Jhonson remarked that “Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrels”. He was actually referring to the patriotism like yours. It seems someone has informed you about the quote because of your views or May be you saw it somewhere and saw yourself in those lines. Whatever is the case, don’t behave like the same and don’t reason by saying ‘ask young Indian about what they THINK’. If our young Indian were really smart, employment would have been an issue for them while voting in 2019.
Unfortunately our ‘youth Indian’ have boarded the ‘development bandwagon’ in 2014 and refuses to alight themselves even when they know that the station of development is in the opposite direction. When they can see that they are travelling backwards in time by going back in the era of ‘religious darkness’. Someday they will understand the relevance of everything but by then they would have already harmed the interest of several Indians. And one who is against Indians and their interest are Anti-Indian.
Editor don’t insult our father of nation for p.b he is an anti indian
@shivam, please correct me if I’m wrong but unlike Prashant Bhushan, the Mahatma had not tried to defend himself and had infact pleaded guilty during his trial for sedition and demanded that the most stringent punishment be awarded to him. However, Prashant unsuccessfully tried to defend himself from being convicted but got convicted nevertheless. As far as contempt law is concerned, i expect a senior lawyer like Prashant Bhushan to first exhaust remedies in law regarding his greviences against the court and resort to such antics only after all those options have failed…just like how the Mahatma had done. Coming back to contempt, i do feel it’s an outdated law and we must learn from the British position in the Templeton case which Shekhar had beautiful illustrated during his cut the clutter episode.
The main problem with so called honest person is that he becomes entitled to call rest of the world corrupt. He does not stop here. He becomes an institution in himself to vouch for someone’s honesty and integrity. Look at the audacity of the person he has started comparing in the league of Gandhi and Mandela. Let he cleanse himself first by observing fast for months together and when he feels that he has become a blessed person try out to emulate Gandhi and Mandela. So far he has been living for himself only and nursing his ego,
Maybe you guys need to take another look he may be GOD also, I don’t know why media specially ThePrint are comparing him with freedom fighter he has faught for various Public issues and I admire him for this but comparing him to Savarkar ,Gandhi and Nelson Mandela is like a joke .
And from which psychiatric ward did you escape Mr Prasad Lele? When you make sweeping statements with no underlying basis, you will be paid in kind Mr Lele.
Didn’t Prashant Bhushan make sweeping statements against supreme court
Prashant Bhushan, at least to me, has redeemed himself from being just a RTI activist to being a crusader of democracy. Our judiciary, of late, seems to be riddled with pro-government bias while ignoring the paints of common citizens who, on the face of it, have been horribly wronged by a ruling dispensation bent upon having it’s way by treading on rights enshrined in our constitution. Well done Prashant Bhushan.
So cool. Please share your views of the time when Prashant had argued for prison for fellow lawyer in 2017 for contempt of court. The likes of you(including Rajeed, Barkha etc etc) are conviniently refusing to even discuss 2017 incident. That person who has been to prison in 2017 then applying same yard sticks should be more equal to “Mahatma & Mandela” and Mr. Bhushan accordingly should be exposed as strong critic of such “Mahatma or Mandela”
I agree with Vij here , on one hand you have people like Gogoi who accept post retirement sinecures and on the other you have Bhushan who is willing to go to jail . This is poor thinking on the part of those who want to punish bhushan they are making a martyr of him . This works in the way of unintended consequences . The majesty of law , whatever that means in a country like India , diminishes and the majesty of the ‘rebel’ increases .
Not just a self-goal, the SC has even landed the Modi govt in a serious pickle and hence AG Venugopal opened his mouth yesterday. If PB is sent to jail, it makes him look like a martyr in the cause of justice and truth (hence Shivam Vij’s fancy comparison to Gandhi and Mandela) and in the bargain if some international organisation (like Amnesty or Nobel Committee) then confers some award on PB for his defiance, then the govt and SC will become a laughing stock. If on the other hand, they let him go and PB keeps repeating all that he has been saying about corrupt judges in SC and current justices not doing enough to uphold the law, it will encourage defiance from others as well. An example has to be made but if PB refuses to apologize, it will be tough for both SC and Modi sarkar. Let us wait till 24th. I think Shivam Vij also needs to go easy with the Gandhi and Mandela comparisons till PB actually goes to jail.
And what’s the National Mood dear Seer?
yes prashan bhushan is the next gandhi inthe making. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One of the most useless self satisfying article by a useless writer. Your publication is meant for these type of people who write and read. General public neither reads nor has any connection with these type of self serving journalists. Please be reasonable and don’t criticize anything and everything. You may have your following but my type of people will never subscribe to your view since they are not true to truth and not good for the future of the country. You people write a lot and get them published at a lot of places but people are now more aware and don’t like & subscribe to these nonsensical articles. They are all paid journalists and paid advocates and have nothing to do with anything which is good for India. For 65 years, the Congress looted but these (and you people also) never had any problem. Now when somebody is trying to set right the things, this whole ecosystem is rising in one voice. In these endeavors you people have forgot the difference between right for the nation and good for China.
I agree with your comments except one on Congress party. Let them prove legally.
What an unbelievable and astonishing tirade against a good article.
The article never spoke about individual but the value of courage and passive resistance that reminds of Gandhian struggle. Unfortunately any independent articles contrarian to what Bhakts(they like to call themselves majority these days)want to hear are slammed mercilessly.
Urge readers to go through Supreme Court handling of right to free speech cases that appeared in an Indian Express editorial today.
This Bhushan guy wasted more than a year of precious time of several unemployed youth of SSC CGLE/CHSLE-2017, bringing them to the brink of doom, paranoia, desperation and in some cases, even suicide. I don’t approve of any malpractices in any exam, but all the while he kept on submitting to the court that the exam was completely tainted and that there was no other alternative other than scrapping the exam altogether. He wasn’t willing to listen at all and all the while kept on thinking that his was the right line of thought. The saying goes, “One who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount”. These so-called activists in the name of sheer activism indulge in all sorts of misadventures and foolhardy activities. Their actions always reek of a holier-than-thou attitude with every disdain for the vast populace. We’re indebted to the committee who didn’t subscribe to Bhushan’s quixotic idea of scrapping of the exams.
So, Mr. esteemed columnist, Prashant Bhushan doesn’t belong in any way in the same league as Gandhi or Mandela because he lacks an essential quality: humility. Bhushan doesn’t have to be placed on a pedestal and the populace doesn’t have to genuflect before him.
Yeah! Gandhi and Mandela indeed! Another bunch of sold out journalist, whose corrupt morals & cosy ecosystem that has been suddenly shaken by some assertive stand taken by the majority who have not sold out their souls or ethics! Just FYI…i did not intend to read this article. Was only curious, which paper this was. Was for sure not surprised when across this site..by Shekher….well, he knows his second name better than anybody else.
I just read the headline and had a hearty laugh. Shri Vij has to be one of the great comedians in this country to compare a common pimp with the likes of Mandela and Gandhi
Indeed. Right or wrong, it takes a lot of gut and conviction to withstand adversities – and yes – a jail is the last place that one would choose rather than bend.
Indeed there have been many marked changes in the so called ‘democratic’ functioning of our honourable courts post UPA era of Indian governance. As witnessed during so many ‘firsts’ claimed judgements as well as national and state events, each of those judgements startled the conventional wisdom of our own people.
Needless to mention what this is alluring to, but to the uninitiated an overview – keeping in mind that while all these happened, the so claiming custodians of our supreme code of social contract, chose to turn their heads away and look in different side, which gives them an alibi of not subjectable to guilt of action, the common and the poor endured and continue to suffer for years in silence,
As we know, this unprecedented posture of mute observer looking away other direction by the justice system started not long after a new leadership took seat in our capittal, soon it started with redefining the notions around ‘who we are’ and thus recreating a craving need for IDENTITY and overnight marginalise those who couldnt comply or buy into its Aadhaar verdict. then it pushed through repainting the colour around MONEY ‘what we have got’ and thus reprinting the currency while throwing innocent people on road to seek out for. Having thus fixed people into Interrogative Custody Individually & Economically, the next target close to people it chose as RELIGION in that it invoked family fights in people homes with issues of Divorce, poly- gender biases, prayer manners, geo-names, what not. Next hit was into peoples LIVES how one goes by their aging days and thus developed a new illusion world of MEDICINE that promise to cure and immortalise it under the business acronym of Ayush. This list goes on what with blackmailing overSECURITY and possible wars with our neighbours, showing the people how to tide over the pain with its sponsored Drug addictions, letting the beople into imaginining the non existent PHINX to persuade them into desire for Rafales,
While ssuch live experiments n dramas were being played on with the lives of its hapless people struggling to come to terms with one every month, the law of the land is not conspicious by absence all along, rather what its guilty of is looking the other way, read the E-LITE way that is what the billionaire people aspirations were and how to meet them, whereas we the people kept hoping after hope that it will look their way, read the LAB-OUR way that is what the scapegoat people were enduring and how to save them from cannibals roaming in public places
Same league in Laude ke baal .?
Respects to sri prashant bhushan for his courage and integrity to stand up for freedom of speech in India . Before he is punished,let us investigate every issue he has raised before the courts and disprove them. Intimidating and Putting people in Jail for raising issues of national importance ,only go to show that all is not well st the top.
Very well said Mr/Ms UMA.
Clearly, in Modistan, it is wrong to patriotic to the country as patriotism is now defined as loyalty to the violent, fascist ideology called Hindutva. Not to the nation.
what a pathetic comparison. the writer has done the biggest disservice to the memory of Gandhi and Mandela, and Print is equally responsible to give such illiterate writers by giving them space to write such shit. PB is an selfish idiot who has done nothing for the benefit of the society that we should look upto him with any pride. even if he doesnt deserve this contempt punishment and is trying to hold a high moral ground , he remains a egoistic person who is good for nothing. and it appears the writer is also in the same league…..
Just quoting the Mahatma makes him on par? MG did it for our country. PB could be called crusader if he continues to fight against contempt law. Seriously, what othdr choicd did PB have? His high profile would be in thr drain had he apologized. Media comparing him to Mandela and MG is highly illogical and even comical. What has he done to the nation to be placed alongside such illustrious people? The article is an insult to them.
Hidden deep in this article, the author admits “it may seem ridiculous to some to compare Prashant Bhushan to Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela, but his principled submission to punishment is of similar nature.”.
Yes, this comparison is beyond ridiculous.
Hope Mr Bhushan enjoys his stay in jail.
ThePrint has redeemed itself by publishing this article. The original headline that it had published on this issue yesterday was awful. Good that they have done course correction.
Another delirious article from Shivam Vij.
They listen to their own echo chamber. Never thought it will create the reaction it has.
Mandela! The person who spent his entire youth in jail…31 long years….you are prashant bhushan with him!!! If the Print ever went down…it will be because of an absolute dimwit like you
Shivam is (always) right. Prashant should refuse to apologize and go to prison for a good 6 months. In fact, he should demand imprisonment of 12 months and voluntarily pay a fine of rupees 1 crore to the SC, even if law does not provide it for it. This will set a good precedent for future and the law can be amended suitably as well by the Parliament.
SC needs to be strict in awarding punishment to him and he should not be treated with any undeserving kindness.
People like Mr Bhushan are like small diyas in a sea of darkness enveloping us and hopefully, more of us will be inspired by him and have the moral courage to stand up for truth, democracy and secular values. Though the comparison with great men from history may seem over the top, men achieve greatness on the basis of their courageous actions in the face of moral adversity, and so it looks entirely appropriate in this context.
Thanks,Mr Vij for an excellent article.
Mahatma gandhi is last refugee of the scoundrels. Ask any young Indian what they think of him and you will stare at truth that will make you squirm.
On the evening of 7 April 1775, Samuel Johnson made the famous statement, “Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.” And he was refusing to the kind of the patriotism that is on display these days. And looking at your statement and the opinion (which you are inferring based on what young Indian ‘thinks’ of him) one cannot doubt that someone said you the statement “Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel”. And you have shamelessly substituted words. Now claim that you never heard this statement as scoundrels can be expected to do the unexpected foolishness.
It seems you call yourself patriot, that is on display these days. A patriot whose patriotism becomes visible with the name of the countries like Pakistan and India. A patriot to whom even the RIGHT THINKING members seems to anti-national, may be because they think right-wing means they are right.
Samuel Jhonson remarked that “Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrels”. He was actually referring to the patriotism like yours. It seems someone has informed you about the quote because of your views or May be you saw it somewhere and saw yourself in those lines. Whatever is the case, don’t behave like the same and don’t reason by saying ‘ask young Indian about what they THINK’. If our young Indian were really smart, employment would have been an issue for them while voting in 2019.
Unfortunately our ‘youth Indian’ have boarded the ‘development bandwagon’ in 2014 and refuses to alight themselves even when they know that the station of development is in the opposite direction. When they can see that they are travelling backwards in time by going back in the era of ‘religious darkness’. Someday they will understand the relevance of everything but by then they would have already harmed the interest of several Indians. And one who is against Indians and their interest are Anti-Indian.
Editor don’t insult our father of nation for p.b he is an anti indian
@shivam, please correct me if I’m wrong but unlike Prashant Bhushan, the Mahatma had not tried to defend himself and had infact pleaded guilty during his trial for sedition and demanded that the most stringent punishment be awarded to him. However, Prashant unsuccessfully tried to defend himself from being convicted but got convicted nevertheless. As far as contempt law is concerned, i expect a senior lawyer like Prashant Bhushan to first exhaust remedies in law regarding his greviences against the court and resort to such antics only after all those options have failed…just like how the Mahatma had done. Coming back to contempt, i do feel it’s an outdated law and we must learn from the British position in the Templeton case which Shekhar had beautiful illustrated during his cut the clutter episode.
You fulfilled Prashant’s vision of self aggrandisement by degrading Gandhi and Mandela . Apni akal ka maatam karo !
Raat bharka mehman hai andhera kiske roke Roka hai savera.
Shivam terribly need a vacation.
Putting Prashant Bhushan in the same league ok Mahatma Gandhi! What an absurd thinking! The author needs to go back to school.
Wonder how print is allowing deranged people to publich stupid articles.
Lets get this correct. In 399 BC it was Socrates who refused to apologize and thus was poisoned to death by the court.
Shivam is out of his mind to compare with Gandhi and Mandela
What an insult to Gandhi and Mandela?
Prashant Bhushan Is just another lawyer who made a career of tilting at windmills through all his PIL cases.
The main problem with so called honest person is that he becomes entitled to call rest of the world corrupt. He does not stop here. He becomes an institution in himself to vouch for someone’s honesty and integrity. Look at the audacity of the person he has started comparing in the league of Gandhi and Mandela. Let he cleanse himself first by observing fast for months together and when he feels that he has become a blessed person try out to emulate Gandhi and Mandela. So far he has been living for himself only and nursing his ego,
Going to jail once doesn’t put you in Mandela and Gandhi’s league. The author of this article is naive and extremely left leaning idiot.
Maybe you guys need to take another look he may be GOD also, I don’t know why media specially ThePrint are comparing him with freedom fighter he has faught for various Public issues and I admire him for this but comparing him to Savarkar ,Gandhi and Nelson Mandela is like a joke .
I m happy Shivam Vij didn’t say he’s an avatar of vishnu
He can’t. Because Modi has already been anointed as Avatar of Vishnu by the army of Hindutvadi trolls.
Your article has hurt a few manuvadis as evident from the Rss it cell hires’ comments
I think the appropriate comparison would be
RIOTERS in DELHI AND BANGALORE being VICTIMS
Lol ,good joke ,belongs to ur ideology appreciation is must ,Worst article then u must be some revolutionary journalist I guess??????
Why you compare a left fascist advocate to Mahatma Gandhi and Mandela. He is a cheap publicity seeker
Aise article likh te ho
Aur paise ki bheek bhi mangte ho..
Aise kaise chalega COUPtaji?
?
Print is always honest. You are not anti India like Quint, wire or scroll. Thats why I’like you.
!! Asatyam Shivam Sadaa Sandesham !!
By that standard, Shivam We…zzzzzz is no lesser than Albert Einstein !!
??
Rahul Gandhi and Winnie Mandela
Did you just compare Prashant Bhushan with Mandela!!!! and Gandhi! Goodness! So it’s official now – this journalist is downright crazy.
Shivam Vij needs to see a psychiatrist. Needs serious counselling.
Not he You need one.
And from which psychiatric ward did you escape Mr Prasad Lele? When you make sweeping statements with no underlying basis, you will be paid in kind Mr Lele.
Didn’t Prashant Bhushan make sweeping statements against supreme court
I agree.
Joke of the day indeed.
so it will seem to nazis.
Everyone knows what is happening. Its just score settling. No amount of fake trends & bending over backwards by media houses can make it right.
Those honourable judges are ruining the institution. Soon, politicians will overpower them all.
I really appreciate and salute Prashant Bhushan
You are as Crazy as him,STUPID’.
Prashant Bhushan, at least to me, has redeemed himself from being just a RTI activist to being a crusader of democracy. Our judiciary, of late, seems to be riddled with pro-government bias while ignoring the paints of common citizens who, on the face of it, have been horribly wronged by a ruling dispensation bent upon having it’s way by treading on rights enshrined in our constitution. Well done Prashant Bhushan.
So cool. Please share your views of the time when Prashant had argued for prison for fellow lawyer in 2017 for contempt of court. The likes of you(including Rajeed, Barkha etc etc) are conviniently refusing to even discuss 2017 incident. That person who has been to prison in 2017 then applying same yard sticks should be more equal to “Mahatma & Mandela” and Mr. Bhushan accordingly should be exposed as strong critic of such “Mahatma or Mandela”
I agree with Vij here , on one hand you have people like Gogoi who accept post retirement sinecures and on the other you have Bhushan who is willing to go to jail . This is poor thinking on the part of those who want to punish bhushan they are making a martyr of him . This works in the way of unintended consequences . The majesty of law , whatever that means in a country like India , diminishes and the majesty of the ‘rebel’ increases .
Honest ppl don’t apologise.
You commies will put him in the same league as Jesus in some time. Thanks
Gandhi requested the judge to offer him maximum sentence. Bhushan is demanding right of contempt to judiciary with no punishment.
Many are calling it a self goal by the honourable apex court. It does not seem to be reading the national mood correctly.
Not just a self-goal, the SC has even landed the Modi govt in a serious pickle and hence AG Venugopal opened his mouth yesterday. If PB is sent to jail, it makes him look like a martyr in the cause of justice and truth (hence Shivam Vij’s fancy comparison to Gandhi and Mandela) and in the bargain if some international organisation (like Amnesty or Nobel Committee) then confers some award on PB for his defiance, then the govt and SC will become a laughing stock. If on the other hand, they let him go and PB keeps repeating all that he has been saying about corrupt judges in SC and current justices not doing enough to uphold the law, it will encourage defiance from others as well. An example has to be made but if PB refuses to apologize, it will be tough for both SC and Modi sarkar. Let us wait till 24th. I think Shivam Vij also needs to go easy with the Gandhi and Mandela comparisons till PB actually goes to jail.
And what’s the National Mood dear Seer?
yes prashan bhushan is the next gandhi inthe making. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One of the most useless self satisfying article by a useless writer. Your publication is meant for these type of people who write and read. General public neither reads nor has any connection with these type of self serving journalists. Please be reasonable and don’t criticize anything and everything. You may have your following but my type of people will never subscribe to your view since they are not true to truth and not good for the future of the country. You people write a lot and get them published at a lot of places but people are now more aware and don’t like & subscribe to these nonsensical articles. They are all paid journalists and paid advocates and have nothing to do with anything which is good for India. For 65 years, the Congress looted but these (and you people also) never had any problem. Now when somebody is trying to set right the things, this whole ecosystem is rising in one voice. In these endeavors you people have forgot the difference between right for the nation and good for China.
I agree with your comments except one on Congress party. Let them prove legally.
What an unbelievable and astonishing tirade against a good article.
The article never spoke about individual but the value of courage and passive resistance that reminds of Gandhian struggle. Unfortunately any independent articles contrarian to what Bhakts(they like to call themselves majority these days)want to hear are slammed mercilessly.
Urge readers to go through Supreme Court handling of right to free speech cases that appeared in an Indian Express editorial today.
The same league as Charles Shobharaj, I think
This Bhushan guy wasted more than a year of precious time of several unemployed youth of SSC CGLE/CHSLE-2017, bringing them to the brink of doom, paranoia, desperation and in some cases, even suicide. I don’t approve of any malpractices in any exam, but all the while he kept on submitting to the court that the exam was completely tainted and that there was no other alternative other than scrapping the exam altogether. He wasn’t willing to listen at all and all the while kept on thinking that his was the right line of thought. The saying goes, “One who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount”. These so-called activists in the name of sheer activism indulge in all sorts of misadventures and foolhardy activities. Their actions always reek of a holier-than-thou attitude with every disdain for the vast populace. We’re indebted to the committee who didn’t subscribe to Bhushan’s quixotic idea of scrapping of the exams.
So, Mr. esteemed columnist, Prashant Bhushan doesn’t belong in any way in the same league as Gandhi or Mandela because he lacks an essential quality: humility. Bhushan doesn’t have to be placed on a pedestal and the populace doesn’t have to genuflect before him.
Prashanth bhushan once supported the SCs judgement on Justice Karnan contempt case.
Gandhi (I suppose this is MK Gandhi) and Mandela!!!!
Wow!!! What imagination!!!!!!
This is shameful an egoist behaviour has been compared to Gandhisim …editor should probably had refrained from such comparisons
Yeah! Gandhi and Mandela indeed! Another bunch of sold out journalist, whose corrupt morals & cosy ecosystem that has been suddenly shaken by some assertive stand taken by the majority who have not sold out their souls or ethics! Just FYI…i did not intend to read this article. Was only curious, which paper this was. Was for sure not surprised when across this site..by Shekher….well, he knows his second name better than anybody else.
I just read the headline and had a hearty laugh. Shri Vij has to be one of the great comedians in this country to compare a common pimp with the likes of Mandela and Gandhi
If Gandhi were alive today, and protesting against this govt. i have not doubt you would have called him a useless activist and a P**P too i am sure.
It will be ridiculous to compare a spy who was responsible for innocent people with Gandhi or Pandit Nehru.
Indeed. Right or wrong, it takes a lot of gut and conviction to withstand adversities – and yes – a jail is the last place that one would choose rather than bend.