Tag: politics

Recently we have witnessed an intense debate on the proposal for introducing ten per cent reservation in educational institutions and government jobs for the poor belonging to the forward castes across religious faiths.

POLITICS OF FOOD The debate over whether mid-day meals should be vegetarian or non-vegetarian has become part of the larger politics around food in the nation. The Odisha government plans to serve eggs as part of the mid-day meal but will it receive a national resistance?

POLITICS On December 16th Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Rae Bareli and delivered a speech full of rhetoric. And then he came to Prayagraj and amid priests and sadhus offered Puja to Ganga.  How does one make sense of the day in the life of the Prime Minister when the nation is torn with innumerable problems ranging from the killing of civilians in Kashmir to the agony of the farmers?

SRI LANKA Sri Lanka’s political crisis seems to be calmed down after the reappointment of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. Two days back Mahinda Rajapaksa’s son twitted that the temporary prime minister Rajapaksa is resigning and ongoing crisis in Sri Lanka is going to end very soon.

POLITICS Gorakhpur’s Urdu Bazaar is now Hindi Bazaar while Allahabad has become Prayagraj - the trend of changing names of significant towns and cities of the nation reminds us that a politics based on differentiation and alienation of the minority is opposed to the growth of the nation as a whole.

POLITICS The Seoul Peace Prize was awarded to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for fostering economic growth and furthering the development of democracy, as several Korean civil society groups staged a protest against the awarding.

POLITICS The ambit of the “disturbed areas” under section 3 of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA), 1958 has been increased, after the central government’s decision to extend the jurisdiction of the state to three more districts of the state and further also extending its eight police stations to the areas bordering Assam

THE NEW LEAM VIEWPOINT They arrest a student for shouting a slogan; and they want to delete the word 'Muslim' from  the name of Aligarh Muslim University. In these absurdities we see the growing insecurity of the ruling regime.

POLITICS In Madhya Pradesh it has been made mandatory to have 15,000 Likes and 5,000 Twitter Followers if one aspires for a part ticket in the upcoming assembly elections.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee claimed a respect that transcended political boundaries. His poetic sensibilities and ability to charter out ways to reach out to difference strands of ideologues while retaining his own ground made him a trustworthy politician.