The bells toll for the ignominious UPA-II. Having thrown down the gauntlet by asking the government to resign following exposure of its lack of majority in both Houses of Parliament, as also loss of support from key coalition partners, the BJP must ensure the downfall of the regime during next … Read More
In an address to the Congress parliamentary party on Dec. 8, Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee lamented that the UPA coalition was forced to suspend the cabinet decision to allow 51% foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail (like Wal-Mart, Tesco, Carrefour and others) in order to avert a mid-term poll. … Read More
As America leads a resurgence of imperial muscle in Britain and France, India finds herself in a precarious position as battleground of a fresh Evangelical assault on her civilisational ethos and as a launch pad Washington hopes to use in its containment of Russia and China, having effectively crushed much … Read More
The morally-challenged UPA regime, accused of policy paralysis by big business seeking ever more concessions with each passing quarter, has moved quietly but speedily on a mission to decimate the middle class. Whether or not these measures enjoy covert political consensus, the fact remains that not a single political party … Read More
A profit-sucking corporate food chain; contract farming and mono-cultivations displacing crop diversity; farmers reduced to bonded labour of 21st century clones of the East India Company – such will be the face of Indian agriculture if we let the UPA impose the disastrous policy of FDI in retail. It is … Read More
Amidst heightened sectarian strife in Pakistan, both inter-community as well as intra-Islam, a small jatha of Hindu landless labourers has reached the capital in quest of asylum, and eventual citizenship. Growing incidents of abduction and forced conversion, especially of minor girls who disappear behind the veil, have instilled deep insecurity … Read More
Even as chief minister Omar Abdullah accepts the failure of his mission to persuade Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to support his quest for the withdrawal, albeit partial, of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act from Jammu and Kashmir, questions are being raised about the timing of selective leaks of the … Read More
In recent times, some clemency petitions concerning death row convicts have given rise to apprehensions that we may be subtly edging towards a de facto separate criminal law for minority communities, or persons covertly supported by minorities with a vested agenda. This bodes ill for a Republic already suffering from … Read More
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has trained his guns on the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) as a device to deflect public anger against the inertia and maladministration of his regime, his personal unpopularity having scaled unprecedented heights. Failed dynasty This much is clear: the bells are tolling for … Read More
It would be churlish to deny the merit of some scathing observations made about the print and electronic media by the new chairman of the Press Council of India, in a recent television interview. Justice Markandey Katju speaks for a large segment of readers and viewers when he expresses disappointment … Read More
