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CITIZENSHIP AMENDMENT ACT
Democratic principles have been knocked down and dragged out of the political arena in a free for all between presumptuous self-proclaimed “democrats” utterly unversed in the canon they purport to subscribe and a demonised “majoritarians” shut out from the debate and condemned as unlettered obscurantists for attempting to support Citizenship Amendment Act by applying the very principles the…
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Jai Shree Ram meets Jai Hind...an imaginary conversation with Mamta Banerjee!
Jai Shree Ram meets Jai Hind…an imaginary conversation with Mamta Banerjee!
A person: Jai Shree Ram
Mamta Banerjee: No! Jai Hind
The person: But Ram belongs as much to Hind
Mamta: Hind is more than Ram
The person: Ram is yet part of Hind
Mamta: Not the Hind I imagine
The person: So the mover is your imagination not Hind
Mamta: I have the right to imagine it
The person: Is there a right to deny Ram in it?
Mamta: I am against reducing Ram to a slogan
The person: Can Hind…
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Godse Hasan and Hindus
Godse Hasan and Hindus
“Free India’s first terrorist was a Hindu. His name was Nathuram Godse.” Thus spoke the Oracle Kamal Hasan.
Hasan refers to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in January, 1948.
Utter novices these Hindus! Despite being the first to adopt terrorism they shockingly allowed themselves to be surpassed by those more adept at slaughter and mayhem! And what have they to show? Only a Nathuram Godse.
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A letter to Naseeruddin Shah
A letter to Naseeruddin Shah
Dear Mr Naseeruddin Shah
There is more to India than deviance and social problems. The expression of fear that its morals, ideals, ethics and scruples are either debilitated or attenuated is clearly irrational. India’s conscience is and will always be intact.
There are deviants in every society. Villainy, wickedness or malefaction can only exist in an imagined society of perfect quality. There…
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DUSSEHRA and the BATTLE OF MINDSETS
DUSSEHRA and the BATTLE OF MINDSETS
Accusing Lord Ram of not doing justice in banishing Sita, Pratap Bhanu Gupta, describes (The Indian Express, October 19, 2018) vanquishing of Ravana, rescue of Sita, end of exile and eventual enthronement as “pyrrhic” and portrays Vijaydashmi as “permanent triumph of injustice”! Mehta, in the same breath mentions Valmiki’s “greatness” in leaving questions relating to Lord Ram’s conduct…
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PRIYANKA and KIPLING'S ANIMALS!
PRIYANKA and KIPLING’S ANIMALS!
Indophobia is often a default position.
Cringing Indians apologetic about their roots re-enforce these phobic attitudes.
Why talk about Mill, Macaulay, the Evangelists and others when we have people like Priyanka Chopra to defame, disparage and denigrate India.
Apologists for Priyanka may say that the episode is a work of fiction but the choice of the storyline reveals a normative bias and…
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Right to Privacy - Now Public!
Right to Privacy – Now Public!
Alan Westin who defined privacy as “the claim of individuals, groups, or institutions to determine for themselves when, how, and to what extent information about them is communicated to others” explained that “just as a social balance favoring disclosure and surveillance over privacy is a functional necessity for totalitarian systems, so a balance that ensures strong citadels of individual and…
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Amarnath, Terror & Memorial to an Ordinary Indian
Amarnath, Terror & Memorial to an Ordinary Indian
One fearless bus driver of Amarnath victims, Saleem Mirza, who saved several lives by continuing to drive till he reached a point of safety despite being under attack was enough to foil the plans terrorists who wanted still larger casualties much as Brigadier Usman, the highest ranking officer of the Indian Army martyred in the Indo-Pak was of 1947 after resisting all pressure to opt for the…
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Media,Law & the case of Roys
Media,Law & the case of Roys
The editorial “The Morning Knock” in The Indian Express (June 7, 2017) on the CBI raid NDTV founders Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy was disappointing. The newspaper failed to make a fair assessment. The editorial raises the issue of media-transparency – the “why” behind the editorial – and the need for accountability on the part of the media itself.
The editorial, correctly stated that the “media…
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The "SPECIAL" Coal Case - Ministers and Scamsters!
The “SPECIAL” Coal Case – Ministers and Scamsters!
The judgment rendered by the Special Court betrays complete ignorance of the constitutional fundamentals of a Parliamentary form of Government.
A minister is responsible to Parliament for whatever goes on in his department, whatever the extent of delegation and whether he is personally involved or not. It is this accountability, which provides legitimacy to governance and justifies retention of…
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Supreme Court & Justice Karnan - Judging the Judges!
Supreme Court & Justice Karnan – Judging the Judges!
A bench of five or more judges is constituted, under Article 145 of the Constitution of India, for the purpose of deciding a case involving substantial question of law as to the interpretation of the Constitution. In Justice Karnan’s case it is digressing into areas it need not move to.
It is indeed odd that seven judges should, sitting as such a bench, be ordering medical examination of the…
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India's not so dismal Justice Shah!
India’s not so dismal Justice Shah!
Justice A.P. Shah shares his initials with the first two letters of the adjective “apocalyptic” which aptly describes his M.N.Roy Memorial Lecture.
His prophesies of doom notwithstanding, India is not in so grim a condition as he suggests.
Yes there is a tumultuous clamour within the political landscape today. But is that not the norm of a free society? As long as a polity retains the legal…
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Raas Leela comment & Bhushan Buffoonery!
Raas Leela comment & Bhushan Buffoonery!
A fool’s brain, said George Bernard Shaw, digests philosophy into folly! Prashant Bhushan’s buffoonery in calling Lord Krishna an “eve teaser” proves Bernard Shaw right. Forget knowledge of religion or philosophy (which he demonstrably lacks) this man seems to be unfamiliar with elementary English and the utter shamelessness with which he yet comments (on topics he does not know and in a language…
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Cow Slaughter & the REAL Gaurakshak!
Cow Slaughter & the REAL Gaurakshak!
The insensitivity with which we treat our bovines shows a callousness which makes the brouhaha against cow-slaughter sound hollow. We need to care for the living before we can justifiably grieve about their death.
Actions, after all, are the real icons of sanctity and mere lip-service as veneration is nothing but an insult of the revered. Even symbolism should never be empty nor faith just a…
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Ramjas, Umar Khalid & "Free Speech"
Ramjas, Umar Khalid & “Free Speech”
Ramjas College proposed a seminar “Culture of Protest.”
It invited Umar Khalid who had, in 2016, intended to hold a programme on Afzal Guru in JNU. Guru was Kashmiri separatist who was convicted for the 2001 attack on the Parliament of India. Umar Khalid later the same year praised Burhan Wani, the Hizbul Mujahideen commander who was killed by Indian security forces saying, “Burhan wasn’t scared…
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The Padma Awards Controversy
The Padma Awards Controversy
Where cronyism becomes the creed only the craven can be celebrated. The annual brouhaha over the Padma awards therefore never ceases to startle me. Such honours are always conferred even where they are not actually deserved. The truly deserving seldom seek awards and, in the distorted scheme of things in which we live, thus become disentitled to receive them. After all it is not honour which is…
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J&K Assembly Ruckus - A DISGRACE!
J&K Assembly Ruckus – A DISGRACE!
Asked about the disrespect shown to the anthem by National Conference, Congress and Communist party of India-Marxist, the NC MLA and Provincial President Devender Singh Rana said, “Please ask BJP people who became champions of nationalism. They created an environment of anarchy in the state. Ask PDP who created such an environment. They created such a situation”.
Disrespect of the National…
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