RIGHT PERSPECTIVE
Free India, unfree India Inc – Part 1
At a time when India is celebrating the 70th anniversary of Independence, it would be instructive to find how free India Inc is. On the face of it, the answer is obvious: big industrials and business ... Read More
Gorakhpur: When shame dies
Governments change, James Bond said in Golden Eye, the lies stay the same. Also the dissimulations, the deceits, the excuses. So, more than 70 children die at Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College Hos... Read More
What freedom?
As India celebrates the 70th anniversary of freedom today, does anybody bother to stop and ponder over the content of freedom they are crowing about so smugly and boisterously? To strike just one note... Read More
Politicians’ cant and rancid reality
Three sanitation workers died of asphyxiation inside a sewer manhole in New Delhi’s Lajpat Nagar on Sunday. About 10 days before this mishap, four men had perished while cleaning a rainwater harvest... Read More
Congress’ irrational exuberance
Eager to score brownie points against the Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party leaders have made a major setback to the former—its veteran leader and Sonia Gandhi confidante Ahmed Patel barely managing ... Read More
Give me liberty or give me… food!
The Supreme Court has done well to trash the government’s argument that the imperative to provide food to citizens—and by implication to introduce any other welfarist measure—can undermine priva... Read More
Modi fails on defence preparedness
The Comptroller & Auditor General’s (CAG’s) recent report not only underlines serious concerns about defence preparedness but also raises a very uncomfortable question: are the Narendra Modi g... Read More
In defence of Naresh Agarwal
The remarks made by Samajwadi Party leader Naresh Agarwal last week in the Rajya Sabha, linking Hindu gods with various forms of alcohol, were surely in bad taste. He expressed regret for the remarks,... Read More