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By Shameem Faizee Perhaps never have the common people waited for the advent of the New Year as this year as they expected it to be a year of change. It is the change that they expect from the general elections due in 2019. Actually, people took time to...
CM’s Blunder Revives BJP-RSS Agitation
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A ‘Left-Right combination’ has left Kerala staggering, and turned the state into a political battleground. Ironically, the New Year began with a bang for the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) government. The Women’s Wall programme launched by the LDF was acclaimed as a runaway...
Did Modi pressed reset button in the New Year Day interview with ANI
It seems prime minister Narendra Modi has pressed the reset button with the recent expansive interview with news agency ANI. He portrayed himself as a statesman who is committed to constitutional process. Televised on New Year Day, Modi defended his government’s record without bitterness to the opposition, even though...
‘Voiceless collateral victims of hartal’
By Aditya Aamir It was another ‘hartal’ in hartal-country Kerala on Thursday, the fourth since September 28, 2018, and the first of 2019. Petrified public transport buses are stranded in transport hubs across the state and even if shops and other commercial establishments are presenting a strong face, lack...
Small Parties Flourish With Weak Governments
By Rahil Nora Chopra An old saying in Indian politics is that small and regional parties always favour a weaker government over a strong one. The late BSP Leader Kanshi Ram had always claimed that the party would flourish only when there is a weak government. With the...
Religion Does Not Appeal To The Hungry
By Sagarneel Sinha One of the important lessons that political parties should learn from the assembly election results of the last leg of 2018 is that the voters are more concerned about issues which affect their daily lives. The three states namely Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan that...
Ngos, Bureaucrats Loot Money Meant For Manual Scavengers
By Arun Srivastava The Swachh Bharat Mission ostensibly aims to achieve safe sanitation for all by 2019 but even with the arrival of the year, the mission has not acquired a pan-India shape. Worst still, it has become a mechanism to usurp public money. From the babus to...
Arun Jaitley Had No Answers To Rahul’s Five Questions On Rafale
By Nitya Chakraborty Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s 40 minute reply to Rahul Gandhi’s attacks on the Rafale deal on Wednesday in Lok Sabha had all the qualities of a legal luminary and an orator but it had no answers to the pointed questions raised by the Congress President against...
Kerala Teeters On Pinarayi’s Direction
By Sushil Kutty Rafale is not the issue in Kerala. Swami Ayyappa is. Unrest is on the move everywhere in the state after two child-bearing age women entered the Sabarimala temple Wednesday morning. Clashes between agitating Sangh Parivaar cadre and CPM workers claimed one life Wednesday evening. Chief Minister...
Last minute economic reforms needed for Modi to lure voters
In politics one week period may be too long, but for comprehensive economic reforms which should be meaningful a four-month time is too short. Seriously, the Modi government is up against time now as 2019 General Elections are just ahead. Commentators and economic historians may become busy these few...
Swami Ayyappan Loses His Celibacy For 4 Minutes
By Aditya Aamir ‘Yuvatis’ Kanaka Durga and Bindu sneaked into Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple in the wee hours of January 2, 2019. Victory! Temple Chief Tantri Kandraru Rajeevaru closed shut the temple doors and “purified” the temple precincts. Humiliation! Only then was the temple reopened for male Ayyappa devotees....
Kamal Nath Govt Wilts Under Mayawati Ultimatum
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: The Congress government in Madhya Pradesh has averted a political crisis by agreeing to withdraw all “politically motivated” cases filed by the previous BJP government as demanded by BSP leader Mayawati. The decision comes within a day of Mayawati threatening to reconsider her...
New Cuban Constitution Ensures Participative Democracy
By W. T. Whitney Jr. Delegates of Cuba’s National Assembly of People’s Power on December 22, 2018 unanimously approved extensive revisions proposed for Cuba’s Constitution of 1976. The Assembly authorized a national referendum on acceptance or not of what is in effect a new constitution. That vote takes...
Less Prospects Of A Fight Between Govt And RBI In 2019
By Anjan Roy On the New Year’s Day the Reserve Bank of India put in place a mechanism for restructuring the stressed assets of the medium and small scale sector. Individual banks have been advised to take up stressed loans of these units and work out schemes which...
New Year Augurs Well For The Global Left
By B. Sivaraman It is a spring back moment for the global Left. It might not have reached a point of renascence yet. But the Left revival, though inconspicuous and asymmetrical across countries, is unmistakable. It is a bouncy aftereffect of the all too common right wing surge...
Oppostion Has To Adopt Three Point Programme To Unseat Modi
By Nitya Chakraborty Prime Minister Narendra Modi has broken his mounabrata by giving an extensive interview on New Year’s Day to ANI which elaborates in a big way his strategy to fight the Lok Sabha polls in April/May 2019. Three things are clear. First, the Prime Minister will...
Allahabad renamed as Prayagraj. Will voters be favoring BJP?
Kumbh Mela is just a fortnight ahead and amid such time the much hyped renaming of Allahabad has been approved by the Centre. As sought by the Uttar Pradesh government, the city will now be called as Prayagraj. The Yogi Adityanath cabinet took the decision of renaming the historically...
RSS Speaking Its Mind Through Gadkari
By Arun Srivastava Nitin Gadkari has been training his guns against the leadership of the Modi-Amit Shah duo. It began with the revelation that the election promise of Rs15 lakh being deposited into the account of every Indian out of the proceeds of black money seizures was made...
