Don’t freak out, face the truth

August 30, 2022

Ghulam Nabi Azad’s strongly-worded letter has led to a barrage of furious reactions within the Congress. People who ‘control’ the high command are slandering Azad. Some are saying that Azad left the party because he was not given the Rajya Sabha seat, while others are saying that he was trying...

CITIZENS OF 83 COUNTRIES ARE STILL SLAVES

August 17, 2022

I hope we haven’t forgotten China’s business mogul Jack Ma, who until a year and a half back was a big name in the world. At the time, his fortune was estimated at around USD 2,370 crore. Jack Ma is missing today. He was last seen in public in November...

Modiji’s peerless manoeuvre stumps Opposition

July 28, 2022

Droupadi Murmu, belonging to the Santhal tribe from a backward district in Odisha, is going to occupy the post of President of India today. Murmu’s elevation to the presidency shows the strength of our Indian democracy. Here, the son of a poor tea seller can become the Prime Minister, and...

Word is Brahma… How can it be unparliamentary?

July 20, 2022

The list of unparliamentary words comes out every year but the list declared this year has led to a furore. The opposition parties have reacted strongly to the list alleging that the government was trying to suppress their voice. An embargo of this kind is not good in a democracy....

Starvation causes fall of the sultanate

July 13, 2022

When an administrator or a democratically elected people’s representative becomes an autocrat, is neck-deep in corruption, deceives the youth, betrays the people and leaves them to starve, the people revolt. This is what is happening in Sri Lanka at the moment. There is no such thing as a political coup...

Will Shiv Sena be able to stop Shinde’s arrow?

July 5, 2022

Last week, I aired my anguish over the turn of events in the politics of Maharashtra through this column. My distress was not about any particular political party at all. My approach has always been that the common people should get relief by way of development. It has been the...

I’m feeling suffocated by this turn of events

June 28, 2022

The political upheaval in Maharashtra has caught the attention of the entire nation. My colleagues from the other states are asking me “since when have you people started behaving like us?” How will this crisis end and what will be its consequences? Will Uddhav Thackeray be able to retain the...

Take everyone into confidence before taking any decision

June 22, 2022

There is a storm-like situation in several parts of the country following violent protests against the proposed Agnipath scheme which promises to recruit youths between 17.5 years and 21 years of age in the Indian Army for a period of four years. The angry protestors have set several trains afire...

A parade of sycophants, bear it if you can!

June 14, 2022

Well, the Rajya Sabha elections are over. Most of the candidates had already been elected unopposed. Thanks to political manoeuvring, voting was held to elect 16 members to Rajya Sabha in four states. Political manoeuvring is nothing new in Indian politics. Each party tries new formula to queer the pitch...

Why should Jumman’s house burn for Babur’s transgressions?

June 8, 2022

Even as the country found itself in the maelstrom of controversy surrounding Gyanvapi, the people feared the likely escalation of some more mosque-temple disputes along with it. Some people started flipping the disputed pages of history. The intelligentsia got worried about the path our country is taking and where it...