Tagged: Haj subsidy

The “Business” and “Economics” of the Hajj Subsidy

Thanks to RealityCheck for prompting this post. Read on for an amazing story of discretionary powers, patronage, quotas and favours that revolves around the Hajj subsidy. The extracts are from a court order disposing...

On MahaKumbh & Subsidies..

Dear All: This post was triggered by RealityCheck’s response to Praveen Swami’s remarks on the MahaKumbh. In discussions of Haj subsidy, many of you must have heard arguments along the lines of “..but the...

On Makara Jyothi and matters of faith…

Dear All, some of you – particularly those from Kerala and/or familiar with Sabarimala Devasthanam – may have read about the recent controversy surrounding the Makara Jyothi (that surfaced in the aftermath of the...

I want a “subsidy” to visit Bali

Some of you may have already picked up this report: AP to give Christians subsidy to visit Israel “…the Andhra Pradesh government of chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy on Monday decided to dole...

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)...