Delhi’s Pragati Maidan will now be defined by the new International Exhibition-cum-Convention Centre and Integrated Transit Corridor, both set to be finished by end of May.
Pre-Modi India had a passive acceptance of growth, poverty, natural disasters, etc. We played catch-up. Now, the paradigm has changed to proactivity and anticipation.
Under the Modi government, dissent is seditious, protests are ‘anti-national’, activists are harassed, and free speech is censored through pressure on media owners.
The conclave, on 7 September, aims to provide interactive platform for state policy makers & industry leaders to address structural reforms in economy.
The talk show, ‘Jan Seva Samvad’, is set to feature ministers and legislators. I&B minister Smriti Irani was the first guest, and showered praise on the PM.
Since the bulk of citizens did not regard drinking as a crime, they had no respect for the prohibition laws and did not cooperate with the police, wrote MV Venkata Rao in 1962.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
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