For big corporates and big business political donations are part of their business strategy… Donations to this or that party constitutes an investment with an expected return within a given time frame. But we all know for a fact that there are millions of other small business men, traders, shopkeepers and vendors of goods andContinue reading ““sab chaltha hai yaar!… kuch nahi kar saktha koi bhi … Supreme Court ya Khudha..! “
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Electoral Bond Scheme verdict: Conspiracy of the Powerful to pull wool over our eyes?
Matching buyers of electoral bonds with recipients could be tricky, say activists – https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/matching-buyers-of-electoral-bonds-with-recipients-could-be-tricky-say-activists/article67850160.ece The news today say that it’s going to be technically tricky to reveal exactly “who gave how much to which party” under the Electoral Bond Scheme which yesterday the Supreme Court of India declared as illegal and unconstitutional. In other words,Continue reading “Electoral Bond Scheme verdict: Conspiracy of the Powerful to pull wool over our eyes?”
A “National Referendum of the People” is needed to side-step the Constitution of India whose provisions are thwarting the implementation of the “one-nation, one-election” principle !
The impossibility of implementing a change — from the current electoral system in India of holding multiple elections at multiple times in multiple constituencies in our vast country to a system of “one-nation , one-election” every 5 years — has been lucidly explained by a well-respected luminary ( name withheld for privacy reasons) below. AfterContinue reading “A “National Referendum of the People” is needed to side-step the Constitution of India whose provisions are thwarting the implementation of the “one-nation, one-election” principle !”
The BBC, the Electoral Bond Scheme and Legalised Prostitution
Usually , I read BBC news analysis with more than a truckload of incredulity given the fact of its anti-India prejudice. But this one exception of an article on the Electoral Bond Scheme of India, I confess I really can’t find fault with. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-62991256.amp Arun Jaitley’s devious legal brain it was that conceived, introduced andContinue reading “The BBC, the Electoral Bond Scheme and Legalised Prostitution”
An example of how White Anglo-Saxon Christian (WASC) media insults Indian Democracy using Western academicians of Indian origin
Subir Sinha is Reader in the Theory and Politics of Development, SOAS, University of London. He writes an article on March 14, 2022 in THE CONVERSATION offering an analytical commentary on the recent Assembly Elections in Uttar Pradesh which the BJP won. https://theconversation.com/why-the-uttar-pradesh-election-result-is-important-for-narendra-modis-plans-177192 Subir Sinha writes a typically obnoxious anti-India piece that reflects Western neo-liberal,Continue reading “An example of how White Anglo-Saxon Christian (WASC) media insults Indian Democracy using Western academicians of Indian origin”
Indian Election reforms and a “Million Mutinies”
Watching Arif Mohammed Khan’s interview to the INDIA TODAY TV channel yesterday — :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZX1kjSwD1I&list=TLPQMTUwMjIwMjK9NbfHh3ocDA&index=2 — I felt his seems to be the only sane voice on the currently raging issue of Hijab in schools, colleges and secular Public institutions in India … But then his voice and those of other moderates like him are gettingContinue reading “Indian Election reforms and a “Million Mutinies””