Judges are squabbling, popular confidence is frayed, and the executive is poised to bury the hatchet: in its back. Can an exhausted judiciary fight back?
Corporate India’s euphoria over Modi’s rise has ended. It’s been replaced by suspicion & fear as he’s let businessmen know they can’t see him as their own.
Kanshi Ram was a Dalit Kautilya from Punjab who built the heartland’s Mayawati as his Chandragupta. It’s a good playbook for Jignesh Mevani, if he has the skill and ambition.
From Sam Pitroda talking about inheritance tax to Goan candidate saying the Indian Constitution was 'forced' on Goa, Congress has been having its own foot-in-the-mouth moments.
Another addition to military cooperation has been the Strategic Space Dialogue, inaugurated in Paris in 2023. Last month, India participated as an observer to France’s AsterX.
1. This article is a good reminder to all those who tend to overlook importance of rational attitude. When you are not allowed to question something in so-called ‘national interest’, there is enormous danger of suppression of facts, again in ‘national interest’. 2. Hence it is necessary to understand that without freedom of speech and without the State guaranteeing that freedom, the tribe of those who may provide blind support to extreme right and left elements in our society is bound to grow. 3. There are fundamentalists in all communities and those in the Muslim community are the most vocal ones. But as I see it, there is increasing support to tribe of fundamentalists in Europe and America as well. This is quite scary scenario. 4. As we all know fundamentalists always wish to exploit, and often succeed, in exploiting ordinary citizens’ faith in religion for political benefit and truth is the first casualty if the fundamentalists succeed. General election is a huge opportunity to the tribe of fundamentalists to mesmerize the gullible voters. 5. I find that a fairly large section of the educated middle class today believes that ‘in national interest’ it is perfectly right to impose restrictions on freedom in our country. Hence, I feel that it is necessary to enlighten all educated groups of individuals with regard to dangers of restrictions on expression of free thoughts. If as a society we fail to do that, the rightist elements will be emboldened. 6. Incidentally, I wish to say that no good purpose is served by saying that RSS ideology is based on fascist ways, without making efforts to offer a viable alternative to that ideology. Here I am reminded of fact that in past good many youth from the educated middle class were attracted to the leftists’ ideology but today we find that most of them have moved away from the Left. We must find out why this happened.
As a general proposition, there is very little – barring sensitive issues of defence and diplomacy, terrorism / extremism – that governments should keep back from the public. The RTI Act represents the true spirit of a democracy. In recent years, Information about public affairs has become scarce. No juicy gossip. It took more than four years for Indians to learn that a prominent minister would yell at senior mandarins in open meetings. Inevitably, standards of accountability / scope for correction get reduced when the public does not know what is going on. 2. As far as Balakot is concerned, satellite imagery is widely available. No one would have made an issue of the Kitney aadmi thhey aspect of the mission if it had not been claimed that “ a large number of Jaish operatives “ had been killed, first a statement by the FS, then source based information. When the mother / widow of Pulwama martyrs demand proof in the form of photographs of casualties, it is clear that things are not being taken at face value. 3. Sensitive military operations are never publicised. If an effort is made to carry the entire election on Pulwama / Balakot, the opposition can hardly be blamed for raising questions.
It will shock all Indians that there is NO secret about India elsewhere in the world. Yes everything of significance is well known.
1. This article is a good reminder to all those who tend to overlook importance of rational attitude. When you are not allowed to question something in so-called ‘national interest’, there is enormous danger of suppression of facts, again in ‘national interest’. 2. Hence it is necessary to understand that without freedom of speech and without the State guaranteeing that freedom, the tribe of those who may provide blind support to extreme right and left elements in our society is bound to grow. 3. There are fundamentalists in all communities and those in the Muslim community are the most vocal ones. But as I see it, there is increasing support to tribe of fundamentalists in Europe and America as well. This is quite scary scenario. 4. As we all know fundamentalists always wish to exploit, and often succeed, in exploiting ordinary citizens’ faith in religion for political benefit and truth is the first casualty if the fundamentalists succeed. General election is a huge opportunity to the tribe of fundamentalists to mesmerize the gullible voters. 5. I find that a fairly large section of the educated middle class today believes that ‘in national interest’ it is perfectly right to impose restrictions on freedom in our country. Hence, I feel that it is necessary to enlighten all educated groups of individuals with regard to dangers of restrictions on expression of free thoughts. If as a society we fail to do that, the rightist elements will be emboldened. 6. Incidentally, I wish to say that no good purpose is served by saying that RSS ideology is based on fascist ways, without making efforts to offer a viable alternative to that ideology. Here I am reminded of fact that in past good many youth from the educated middle class were attracted to the leftists’ ideology but today we find that most of them have moved away from the Left. We must find out why this happened.
As a general proposition, there is very little – barring sensitive issues of defence and diplomacy, terrorism / extremism – that governments should keep back from the public. The RTI Act represents the true spirit of a democracy. In recent years, Information about public affairs has become scarce. No juicy gossip. It took more than four years for Indians to learn that a prominent minister would yell at senior mandarins in open meetings. Inevitably, standards of accountability / scope for correction get reduced when the public does not know what is going on. 2. As far as Balakot is concerned, satellite imagery is widely available. No one would have made an issue of the Kitney aadmi thhey aspect of the mission if it had not been claimed that “ a large number of Jaish operatives “ had been killed, first a statement by the FS, then source based information. When the mother / widow of Pulwama martyrs demand proof in the form of photographs of casualties, it is clear that things are not being taken at face value. 3. Sensitive military operations are never publicised. If an effort is made to carry the entire election on Pulwama / Balakot, the opposition can hardly be blamed for raising questions.