Waqf Act Amendment Bill 2024 is pending in Parliament and expectedly is arousing a lot of heat, sound, fury and much of it is more political posturing and theatrics rather than any significant debate. However, after following the debates on TV and the Press media in the last few days, I could not help reachingContinue reading “The Parliament debate on Waqf Amendment Bill-2024: The sound and the fury!”
Tag Archives: Indira Gandhi
A fitting tribute to a patriot and freedom fighter, Jayaprakash Narayan (JP): the man who drove Gandhism as a “Special Purpose Vehicle” (SPV)
The author of this article has waxed eloquent in paying effusive tribute to the memory of the great freedom fighter, Jayaprakash Narayan, being commemorated on his 121st Birth Anniversary which fell on October 11th 2023. https://thewire.in/rights/bjp-rss-erase-jayaparakash-narayan-significance The author’s main grouse is that the present BJP Government has not celebrated JP in the way he deservesContinue reading “A fitting tribute to a patriot and freedom fighter, Jayaprakash Narayan (JP): the man who drove Gandhism as a “Special Purpose Vehicle” (SPV)”
Reservations : chicken soup for the soul of this country, Mr Rahul Gandhi?
His grandmother Mrs. Indira Gandhi about 50 years ago famously coined the slogan “GARIBI HATAO!”— “Banish Poverty!”. Now her grandson, Mr. Rahul Gandhi has coined another slogan which may well become equally famous : “”JITNI ABAADI UTNA HAQ” … i.e. “The greater the population, the greater the rights”. Both slogans must be described as “soundContinue reading “Reservations : chicken soup for the soul of this country, Mr Rahul Gandhi?”
POLL: Which 4 Indian leaders would deserve to be memorialised on an India version of Mt. Rushmore?
On Mount Rushmore , Vermont, in the USA , to memorialise them, on a huge tall mountain cliff are sculpted the faces of 4 of the tallest leaders in American History : George Washington, Thomas Jefferson , Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln . If a similar memorial were to be also carved somewhere, say, onContinue reading “POLL: Which 4 Indian leaders would deserve to be memorialised on an India version of Mt. Rushmore?”
Rubber-stamp President of India
I find it is cruelly ironic that the united Opposition Parliamentary Parties of India candidate Yashwant Sinha should go on ungraciously calling the ruling Party and allied political parties candidate, Smt. Droupadi Murmu, for the Presidential elections as “rubber-stamp President”. The preeminent Party in the Opposition ranks is the Indian National Congress and it wouldContinue reading “Rubber-stamp President of India”
TWO FRIENDS TALK ABOUT THE “HIJAB CONTROVERSY” and the STATE OF THE UNION OF INDIA
Below is a transcript of a WhatsApp conversation this morning that a very dear friend of mine and I had on the ongoing raging national debate on Hijab which has grabbed the headlines of every newspaper we read and every TV news channel we watch. THE FRIEND: Good morning! Any views on the nonsensical butContinue reading “TWO FRIENDS TALK ABOUT THE “HIJAB CONTROVERSY” and the STATE OF THE UNION OF INDIA”