Bengalis are hurt over a statement by the Delhi police calling Bangla a ‘Bangladeshi language’ and the lines Azad sang have unwittingly become protest music in Kolkata now.
Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
An idea whose time has passed, as far back as 1967, when the all India hegemony of the Congress broke down. The party won handsomely, from time to time, but the inevitability of victory was lost. 2014 was a unipolar – with the benefit of hindsight, perhaps also a transient – moment. The South and the East now stand largely impregnable. The exceptional conversion of votes into seats in the core will encounter a higher index of opposition unity. The constructive takeaway for the future is to assign higher priority to governance and development, not to be always in election mode.
An idea whose time has passed, as far back as 1967, when the all India hegemony of the Congress broke down. The party won handsomely, from time to time, but the inevitability of victory was lost. 2014 was a unipolar – with the benefit of hindsight, perhaps also a transient – moment. The South and the East now stand largely impregnable. The exceptional conversion of votes into seats in the core will encounter a higher index of opposition unity. The constructive takeaway for the future is to assign higher priority to governance and development, not to be always in election mode.