The launch of former Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi's book, India and I, was more of a storytelling event. There was not a dry eye in the packed hall in IIC, Delhi.
Ex-CEC SY Quraishi tells ThePrint's Apoorva Mandhani that Mohan Bhagwat wants to liberalise RSS & that he once told him he faces internal backlash whenever he makes secular statements.
Revelations are part of SY Quraishi's experience during his 40-year journey in civil service which saw him coming in contact with who's who in power corridors.
Former CJI BR Gavai, Rajya Sabha MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi, and ex CEC SSY Quraishi debated the challenges faced by constitutional bodies at the 5th Lokmat National Conclave on Wednesday.
At the launch of his book, Democracy’s Heartland, former Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi said he attempts to highlight why the Indian subcontinent matters.
Both N Gopalaswami & SY Quraishi agree it's not possible for ECs in a 3-member panel to have full tenure of 6 yrs each. Latter welcomes suggestion of collegium system for selection.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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