Often when a newspaper carried positive reports on Ambedkar, the cartoonists deliberately targeted Ambedkar even if there was nothing really to make fun of.
On the first episode of Two Much With Kajol and Twinkle, Aamir Khan and Salman Khan were confronted with another hypocrisy: age gaps. And they didn't come out looking good.
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
While the IAF remains committed to the Tejas programme and has placed orders for 180 Tejas Mk1A, the force is eagerly waiting for the Tejas Mk 2 version.
What Munir has achieved with Trump is a return to normal, ironing out the post-Abbottabad crease. The White House picture gives us insight into how Pakistan survives, occasionally thrives and thinks.
The other side of the equation is what is being delivered to ordinary citizens. How many Uttar Pradeshis will be thrilled to vote Yogiji back to power in 2022 if their children are being served rotis with salt as their midday meal in school, or if the Dalit daughters of Unnao are not safe. Is CM Sarbanand Sonowal doing good work in helping Assam cope with the annual misery of floods. Why in hot and happening Haryana is the Manesar automobile belt looking so desolate.
Fine column by Shri Pratap Bhanu Mehta in IE. He writes with the elegance and eloquence of a poet what I manage to say with the simplicity of a peasant.
In IE Shri Pratap Bhanu Mehta discusses whether the people are in grip of some illusion, or not. While considering that the people are not in grip of any illusion, he raises an important question, ” …… are these hundred days revealing a darker truth about ourselves? Is, somehow, this exaltation of power, control and nationalism a completion of our own deepest desires? We are not in a grip of an illusion: This is who we want to be. On this view, Modi’s popularity is not because he is peddling an illusion to us; it is because he is peddling the truth about ourselves. How worried you are about the first hundred days in part depends on which side of this debate you are on.”
So what do you think? Are the people in the grip of an illusion, or this is what they want to be?
What goodies the communists were delivering to the ordinary citizens,in West Bengal so that the voters were keeping electing them every five years for 3 years until they were ousted by Mamata Banerjee? The voters do vote against their own interests. This is happening in many countrie right now. What goodies Modi was delivering to the people barely four months ago, that the voters elected him and BJP with even a far greater mandate? Weren’t the economic problems that confront the country today there then also? What has changed so drastically in last four months, that the voters would vote for the opposition?
The other side of the equation is what is being delivered to ordinary citizens. How many Uttar Pradeshis will be thrilled to vote Yogiji back to power in 2022 if their children are being served rotis with salt as their midday meal in school, or if the Dalit daughters of Unnao are not safe. Is CM Sarbanand Sonowal doing good work in helping Assam cope with the annual misery of floods. Why in hot and happening Haryana is the Manesar automobile belt looking so desolate.
Fine column by Shri Pratap Bhanu Mehta in IE. He writes with the elegance and eloquence of a poet what I manage to say with the simplicity of a peasant.
In IE Shri Pratap Bhanu Mehta discusses whether the people are in grip of some illusion, or not. While considering that the people are not in grip of any illusion, he raises an important question, ” …… are these hundred days revealing a darker truth about ourselves? Is, somehow, this exaltation of power, control and nationalism a completion of our own deepest desires? We are not in a grip of an illusion: This is who we want to be. On this view, Modi’s popularity is not because he is peddling an illusion to us; it is because he is peddling the truth about ourselves. How worried you are about the first hundred days in part depends on which side of this debate you are on.”
So what do you think? Are the people in the grip of an illusion, or this is what they want to be?
What goodies the communists were delivering to the ordinary citizens,in West Bengal so that the voters were keeping electing them every five years for 3 years until they were ousted by Mamata Banerjee? The voters do vote against their own interests. This is happening in many countrie right now. What goodies Modi was delivering to the people barely four months ago, that the voters elected him and BJP with even a far greater mandate? Weren’t the economic problems that confront the country today there then also? What has changed so drastically in last four months, that the voters would vote for the opposition?