Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
The land of a million mutinies did not lose an inch of sovereign territory in living memory. These are the safety valves of democracy. Think of the JP movement. Although one would not commit sacrilege by uttering Anna’s name in the same breath, UPA II had created conditions which required people to be on the streets. Or individual acts like the desecration of Nirbhaya. For that matter, tens of thousands of brave Burmese, in Rangoon and other cities protesting the military coup, handing roses to the soldiers, who dare not fire, lest the world fall upon their brittle junta like a ton of bricks. Democracy is not Utopia, but it is the best we have. Let us make a success of it.
Fresh fruit would be better. Also help our farmers. Please eat apples from Kashmir, not Washington state.
The land of a million mutinies did not lose an inch of sovereign territory in living memory. These are the safety valves of democracy. Think of the JP movement. Although one would not commit sacrilege by uttering Anna’s name in the same breath, UPA II had created conditions which required people to be on the streets. Or individual acts like the desecration of Nirbhaya. For that matter, tens of thousands of brave Burmese, in Rangoon and other cities protesting the military coup, handing roses to the soldiers, who dare not fire, lest the world fall upon their brittle junta like a ton of bricks. Democracy is not Utopia, but it is the best we have. Let us make a success of it.