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IT officials make opposition leaders as special targets

Lok Sabha elections will go down in history for the widespread income tax raids carried out on political leaders and their associates. The quirky part is that all these raids have been conducted on political opponents of the ruling BJP. A pertinent question then aris...

Why I voted; but voted NOTA

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"Mainstream" politicians of Kashmir are indignant with New Delhi because they consider the latter responsible for shunting them out of power. Being in a hurry to enter the corridors of power and knowing that for achieving this objective they needed votes, they have...

Aspirations galore in sugar belt of Uttar Pradesh

Craze for quality schools, cane growers prospering
If you happen to go around rural Uttar Pradesh, you will not fail to notice the numerous beautiful buildings on the wayside every now and then. These are grand structures almost like some five-star hotel properties. But if you are more curious and read what is written ...

Hindus and Muslims: Saga of similar DNA

With election game on with full swing around, I see a sad tale of decay. I don't see a winner or a loser but a failing nation. A nation which stood tall with its democratic credentials looked at with envy by one and all looks like a pale shadow of a promising future. W...

Sudan's Revolution

It's moving fast now. For three months the protesters in Khartoum got nowhere with their demand that "the people want the fall of the regime," but last week they moved their protest to the real centre of power in Sudan, army headquarters. Last Thursday the army respond...

Election Commission dogged by arithmetic on poll expenses

The Election Commission, virtually an autonomous institution, has often not known what its powers are, which actually are sweeping indeed. Not until the Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi pulled it up for not checking inflammatory (hate) speeches ...

Of whistleblowers and gag orders

State's inaction, absence of effective justice mechanism enriches Kishtwar's hate politics
When the state machinery works only to preserve a particular regime or group, no advancement to a higher form of society is possible without alterations the state machinery, no matter what representative institutions exist. Kishtwar has always been at the lowest bert...

Prime Minister is ignoring serious job crisis in poll campaign speeches

All interview comments gloss over adverse impact of demonetisation
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been giving regular long interviews to the television channels and the national newspapers in the recent days and in all, he is skillfully trying to avoid the issue of demonetization impact and instead making the point that this" histor...

How many more like Owais?

On the fateful day of 11th April 2019, when a farce, as usual, was being exercised in Kashmir in the name of a democratic exercise of the 'world's largest democracy', a 12-year-old child was discussing with his friends the ordeal of helping the helpless. The child, Owa...

Glamour quotient in elections not really a boon!

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Don't know your reactions when you saw Dharmendra going about in Uttar Pradesh, campaigning for his wife, Hema Malini. A rather hopeless sight, to see this ageing actor fly down from Mumbai for a day or two, just to tell the potential voters that they ought to vote for...

Can grand alliance in Bihar halt Modi’sp return to power

The grand alliance of major opposition parties in Bihar is likely to halt Prime Minister Narendra Modi's return to power at the centre in the ensuing elections to the Lok Sabha as its social base is wider and strong among the voters then the ruling National Democratic ...
 

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