Category: Politics and Governance in India

Of Subsidies and Politics of “Secularism”

I stumbled on this completely by chance over the weekend. Does anyone know what happened to the PIL�referred to in the report below? *** SC stays HC restraint on Haj subsidy (Excerpts; emphasis mine)...

What exactly is a “one-track” investigation?

Reacting to the serial blasts in UP today, Comrades A B Bardhan and Shamim Faizi said: “it was obviously the handiwork of the forces who were hell bent upon creating communal tension in the country” …but...

Arunachal: Sleepwalking into a disaster

No doubt most of you must have read this bit of “news” already (emphasis mine): “….the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday expressed grave concern over reports that the Chinese troops had last month damaged a...

Of Godhra and Gujarat – Part II

A few days ago I came across this piece by Kishore Asthana which makes a number of important points that form the backdrop to Godhra. I am reproducing some excerpts below but I would...

The tragic farce that is Nandigram…

…which our “independent” and “alert” media seems to have forgotten. From: Conspiracy of Silence on Nandigram’s Muslim Victims – by Yossarin Excerpts: In the perverse value system eschewed by Sitaram Yechury the Tehelka that was...