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Dividing South Indian Cutlet: The Final Frontier
By Sushil Kutty On Wednesday, pictures of hundreds of youth protesting in a college campus in Cochin, Kerala filled television screens. The young protestors were angry at being served ‘beef cutlet’ at a college get-together. They were apparently “fooled” into eating beef by the college administration. Somewhere in...
Budgetary Rural Push Not Enough To Deal With Farm Distress
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi has played a gamble with his Government’s last full budget for 2018-19 by staking the BJP’s political future with the response from the country’s distressed farming community to his budget proposals for reviving the rural sector. The Finance Minister Arun Jaitley...
Moral Values In Politics Declining
By Arun Srivastava It was extremely shocking to read Minister of State for External Affairs VK Singh’s thought on Karni Sena and the Rajput members’ protests against ‘Padmavat’. Singh is not known to possess a high degree of intellect. But his opinion that ‘protests are inevitable if anything...
Congress’s Cup Of Humiliation Full To The Brim
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The efforts of the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) to woo the Kerala Congress(M) back to the UDF camp have come a cropper. The stinging KC(M) snub has come in an article published by the party’s mouthpiece, “Ptathichhaya” entitled “Why Kerala Congress Is...
Disgruntled Sinha & Sinha form a forum to score a home run
Aditya Aamir The disgruntled are a tribe not notified. Now, disgruntled BJP leaders Yashwant Sinha and Shatrugun Sinha have formed a forum, the Rashtra Manch (RM), to notify to the Modi government that it is under notice and that the RM will see to it that this government at...
Performance Anxiety Despite Portrayal Of Rosy Picture
By Gyan Pathak The performance anxiety stemming from the four years of dismal performance of the Indian economy will continue to haunt the government and the people of the country, irrespective of the rosy picture portrayed for 2018-19 by the Economic Survey, the Modi government’s fifth and final....
Karat Policy Helps Saffrons
By Amulya Ganguli When in 2008 the CPI(M)’s general secretary of the time, Prakash Karat, was opposing the nuclear deal with the US, it used to be said jocularly that if Manmohan Singh was batting for India, Karat was doing so for China. It was a jibe...
Mehbooba Is The ‘Black Sheep’, Not 10 Garhwal
By Sushil Kutty First the press should stop calling a stone-pelter ‘civilian’. Second, J&K chief minister Mehbooba Mufti should correct herself; the soldiers who were forced to fire on the lynching mob of stone-throwers are not ‘black sheep’. Third, the FIR against 10 Garhwal unit should be withdrawn...
Economic Survey Rings Warning Bells
By K R Sudhaman Economic Survey, presented to Parliament ahead of budget every year is seen as a report card of Government’s performance on the Indian economy. This year too it is no different but there is one change: its presentation and production have improved. As Economic Survey...
Being Clever By Half Will Not Help Rahul’s Congress
By Sushil Kutty Veteran author Nayantara Sahgal saying she’s half-Muslim and then claiming “I’m Hindu myself” is the height of confusion. At the Jaipur Literature Festival, Sahgal confirmed her half-Muslim identity and then confused with “We refused a religious identity when we attained Independence because we’re a deeply...
