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Reservation not panacea of what ails India

The Parliament's approval of legislation to provide 10 per cent reservation in jobs and education for the economically weaker section, including upper castes, evokes an anecdote in which a vagabond adolescent keeps on throwing the hard-earned money of his father into a...

This winter sloth!

"Uncle." "Yes dear." "Damn, damn, damn this winter. It has given me sloth, lethargy, O both physical and mental half-inertia. Not I alone…my all friends, school teachers, private tutors…O in fact whosoever lives suffers…oldies and kids the most." "Dear, damn n...

Meghalaya Mining Crisis: Illegal, Inhuman, Anti-ecology

First the facts of the matter. Disaster struck on December 13 last at a rat-hole coal mine in Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya, in which at least 13 miners got trapped due to a deluge of water rushing into the mine, following the break-down of the chamber due to unscientifi...

Need to save victims of Kota education shops

They come in the hope of cracking the IIT and medical entrance exams but crack themselves. Kota, once hailed as a Mecca for grooming students for competitive exams, has now become a Karbala for many an aspirant. Data by the district administration reveal that 58 stude...

The courage to rebel or resign

Perhaps, the very first bureaucrat who was hounded by the then establishment was Chaturvedi Badrinath of the Tamil Nadu cadre. This was in the early 70s when controversy had erupted in the backdrop of the governmental venture - the 'Time Capsule'. Chaturvedi raised sev...

Looking for grand alliance: Whither opposition unity?

2019 polls will be fought via state-specific combinations
While the Opposition has been touting a Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance), what is happening on the ground is quite different. It is quite clear now that a Grand Alliance is unlikely and instead the parties are inclined to go for state-specific alliances. This is becaus...

Is killing, pelleting, suppressing Kashmiris the only way to look at Kashmir?

To Mr Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India Dear Modiji, Kashmir as a political dispute has remained in news from the day one when your goodself assumed the chair of Prime Ministership. It is the highest executive position that few chosen ones have the privilege ...

A Gordian Knot called Kashmir

Stubbornness coupled with indifference of two neighbours mar lives and dreams of Kashmiri people
When wounds continue to fester and heal in a circular fashion, the body gets accustomed to them. Since they come, stay and go and then repeat there is very little novelty and even lesser interest to remedy an ailment that has its highs and lows. Now, apply the above an...

Jaitapur: Ten years of a peaceful agitation against nuclear lobbies

Ten years is a long time - One decade, half a score or third of a generation. That's the number of years since the fight against a nuclear power project has been raging in Jaitapur, Maharashtra on the west coast of India. On 28th August, in the idyllic Konkan region,...

Sowing division: Caste is crucial in Indian elections

Of course, politicians did not create the powerful Hindu caste system. They merely exploit this fault-line, exacerbating the caste animosities to build vote banks.
"Jaati na poocho sadhu ki, pooch leejiye gyan", sang India's saint-poet Kabir. (Do not judge a saint by his caste, imbibe his knowledge). However, the most-asked question in an Indian election is about the candidate's caste. Political analysts ask it, poll strategists ...

My splendid Sikh TA

As a scholar of religion and someone promoting understanding between faiths, I am an admirer of Guru Nanak Devji, the great founder of the Sikh faith, and see members of his community through his wise and profound teachings. Helaid down these three core principles of S...

Keeping Congress out of SP & BSP alliance will not hurt opposition parties

The Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party have kept the Congress out of a grand alliance that all set to come up in Uttar Pradesh as its presence in the fray separately tends to prevent the element of polarization of votes, thus providing ample space to SP-BSP in mak...

2019 General Elections in India: Ten Good News

With the advent of the new year, India faces the spectre of a protracted, intense and perhaps bitter election campaign ahead for the General Elections of April-May, 2019. The state polls of 2018, often touted as the semi-finals of this season, have brought the competit...

Panic in BJP ranks over 2019 polls

There is panic in the ranks of the ruling party as the General Election time is approaching. The reason for this is the defeat in the elections to the three State Assemblies of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. The three states in the Hindi heartland had been...

Successful general strike will impact Lok Sabha polls

Workers fed up with Modi regime's policies
Will the impact of General Strike of 8-9 January reverberate in general elections? A general strike barely three months before general elections, that too stretching for two days, is bound to assume special significance no matter whether it is a total success or not in...

In Line of Fire: Why Kashmiri youth troop to encounter sites to shield militants

A disturbing trend of civilians trooping to encounter sites to shield militants has intensified in 2018, a bloody year with 267 militant deaths in 143 encounters.
On the morning of April 12, 2018, a military chopper hovered above Khudwani, a crammed neighborhood in restive south Kashmir's Kulgam district. The search for Aazad Malik, a top Lashkar-e-Toiba commander, was on. As the early rays of the sun spread across Khudwani, th...
 

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