The pandemic and the lockdown have altered all sense of time. With routine punctuations either on hold or virus-adapted, the days bleed into each other like an amateur’s watercolours. It is difficult to tell if something happened a week ago or several months. At one’s accurate best, one can say what was Before Corona and […]
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Karnataka – old playbook & new allies of NDA
By B S Murthy By-elections in Sira & R R Nagar in Karnataka has been declared & the election heat is getting hotter each day. A lot rides on the outcomes of these 2 seats neither of which BJP had won earlier. The change of guard in state congress leadership to D K Shiva Kumar […]
Encounter cremation @ Hathras – Sagarika Ghose
It’s Hathras, not Bollywood that needs our focusOctober 4, 2020, 6:15 AM IST Sagarika Ghose in Bloody Mary | India | TOI The ramshackle UP town of Hathras is miles away from Bollywood. While the glittering lights of tinseltown captivate us, we wish grimy Hathras didn’t exist to spoil our fantasies of ‘New India’. Yet […]
Calling the economic crisis as an “act of God”, Prof. Rajeev Gowda slams Govt !
India’s economy could yet avert an L-shaped curve from here onWe need deficit-financed and well-aimed initiatives that generate multiplier effects and initiate a virtuous cycle of growth M. V. Rajeev Gowda & Akash Satyawali are, respectively, a former member of Parliament and chairman of the All India Congress Committee’s research department, and outreach coordinator at […]
The Minister who read too much.. An obituary to Pranab Mukherjee by Paran Balakrishnan.
Home / India / The Minister who read too much Pranab Babu spoke English with a Bengali accent yet made it to the top. Here’s why Paran Balakrishnan New Delhi Published 31.08.20, 06:22 PM Pranab Mukherjee was an unusual politician and his success was unusual given that the odds were stacked against him. He was […]
The Constitutional framework that ushered in GST does not provide an escape clause for ‘Acts of God’. Prof.Rajeev Gowda
It is beyond anyone’s imagination that the Government of India would invoke the “Force Majeure” clause against its own people. Unfortunately, this has become reality at a time when every Indian state is massively burdened by the COVID-19 crisis and governance has been severely affected. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s statement that the financial crisis facing […]
The Idea of India – Dr Shashi Tharoor.
Greetings, This week, on the occasion of the 73rd anniversary of Indian independence, I have four articles to share with you. In Whose India?, for Project Syndicate’s 88 newspapers around the world, I write on attempts to reshape the soul of our republic. During its reign, the present government has done a great deal to […]
The toxicity in public discourse, especially on TV channels must end – Jaiveer Shergill
A Spokesperson Died After A TV Debate. Will We Do Nothing? Jaiveer Shergill Published : August 14, 2020 12:54 pm IST On Wednesday night, while seated in a heated television debate, I got the message that my friend and comrade Rajiv Tyagi had passed away just moments after he completed another heated debate from 5 […]
Lord Ram is not the property of BJP. Dr.Shashi Tharoor
Lord Ram not the ‘property’ of BJP: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday rejected allegations that the grand old party was being “BJP-Lite” and asserted that Lord Ram is not the “property” of the saffron party. Press Trust of India New Delhi August 6, 2020UPDATED: August 6, 2020 00:25 IST With […]
End of Emotional Narratives
B S Murthy twitter @murthybs The biggest media spectacle of 2020 has been unraveled today @ Ayodhya, at the foundation laying ceremony seen as a huge victory of Hindutva by BJP & RSS in establishing their long-cherished goal of building the temple in ayodhya. The key leaders of the Ram Janam bhumi movement L K […]