I do not agree with Ritesh Sharma’s view below ⬇️ I think what PM Modi really meant was that ordinary people who were able to make anonymously small contributions to political parties in India under the Electoral Bond Scheme EBS have now lost that means of exercising even a modicum of popular influence on politicalContinue reading “Was PM Narendra Modi right in invoking the Sudama and Krishna metaphor ?”
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“sab chaltha hai yaar!… kuch nahi kar saktha koi bhi … Supreme Court ya Khudha..!
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..! “
The Supreme Court of India and a “casteless society”
https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/a-seminal-issue-before-the-supreme-court-2895052 The Deccan Herald How many more “seminal issues of Constitution”, one wonders , will the Chief Justices of our Supreme Court have to deliberate and adjudicate upon before we see the last of this whole business of Reservations and Quotas ? This country has had 75 long years to progress to what it dreamedContinue reading “The Supreme Court of India and a “casteless society””
Their Holiness the Sankaracharyas’ stance on the Ayodhya Ram Temple
A very dear friend of mine living in the USA sent me a message this morning on WhatsApp: “Shree Ram temple will fully be completed only by 2026 and today all the 4 Sankaracharyas have politely declined to attend the consecration ceremony. Their decisions sound logical to me. Their stand seems to vindicate the OppositionContinue reading “Their Holiness the Sankaracharyas’ stance on the Ayodhya Ram Temple”
The Mouth Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)
The HINDU for long has espoused Communist Ideology in India … but has now graduated to being the CPI (M)’s MOUTH-ORGAN ————————————————————— This Hindu editorial this morning (12 Sep 2023) on the Supreme Court verdict upholding the Abrogation of Art.370 in Kashmir is nothing but mean-spirited nitpicking … Fundamentally, the Editors of the HINDU makeContinue reading “The Mouth Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)”
To hell with population-size based Delimitation of electoral constituencies in India!
The Infograph above is an eye-opener for me. What is so striking to me about it is that Maharashtra’s number exceeds the numbers of TN + Gujarat combined and, yes, TN+ Karnataka too combined ! Also , the number for Greater Andhra (pre-partitioning) exceeds the number for Uttar Pradesh. But what this info-graph does toContinue reading “To hell with population-size based Delimitation of electoral constituencies in India!”
WHY INDIA’s MIDDLE-EAST FOREIGN POLICY SEEMS TO BE BADLY PICKLED TODAY?
The answer to the question, in my humble layman view is … Because India’s relations with Palestine are emotional and towards Israel, they are transactional. Palestine reminds INDIA so much of the pain and the horrors of her own 1947 Partition when millions of people were displaced and rendered homeless and destitute. So India cannotContinue reading “WHY INDIA’s MIDDLE-EAST FOREIGN POLICY SEEMS TO BE BADLY PICKLED TODAY?”
The labyrinth called the Indian Criminal Justice system
A very useful Infograph below was forwarded to me on WhatsApp this morning by a friend of mine, a very distinguished and former Judge of the High Court. Thank you so much Sir for sharing it with me. The graphic lays out the whole legal labyrinth through which the Indian Legal system works from startContinue reading “The labyrinth called the Indian Criminal Justice system”
Dushyant Sridhar “ko gussa kyun aayaa…”— sir, cut our Hindu Acharyas some slack please!
The young and flamboyant Sri Vaishnava scholar-activist, Sri Dushyanth Sridhar has come out public with this blazing gun of a tweet against the Hindu and Sanatana Dharmic religious leaders in the country : Not one of the 5 Shankaracharya Mutts , not a single Vaishnava Mutt or Madhwa Mutt has condemned the crass and scurrilousContinue reading “Dushyant Sridhar “ko gussa kyun aayaa…”— sir, cut our Hindu Acharyas some slack please!”
If Patel, Nehru & Ambedkar were here today they’d probably be likened to Tom, Jerry and Butch
If you scroll down right to the bottom of this blogpost you will be able to read a very interesting absorbing piece from a slice of Indian History in the days leading to the completion of the drafting of the Indian Constitution! It is a historic narration of course but today it can now onlyContinue reading “If Patel, Nehru & Ambedkar were here today they’d probably be likened to Tom, Jerry and Butch”