In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka explains how taking a bath could be stressful for a guinea pig and more By Maneka Gandhi Is it alright to let my young children play with guinea pigs? Guinea pigs are delicate creatures, so ensure your children are supervised while playing with their pet guinea pig. Teach your…
Congress did it then, bjp now
August 20, 2019By T.J.S. George The Congress went dictatorial when Democracy was aglow with its initial patriotic zeal and Jawaharlal Nehru was an inspirational figure. Yet, Nehru became a silent participant in the molestation of Democracy. It was left to Ambassador M.K. Bhadrakumar to point out something no one else had noticed — how the Congress had…
Modi’s Razor’s Edge: Let us support Family Planning Campaign
August 19, 2019Today, from the ramparts of the Red Fort, I want to address the issue of population explosion in the country. Parents in India now need to give a serious thought to whether they will be able to fulfil their child’s dreams and aspirations and support a new life. A small section of society, which keeps…
Chhota Parivar Sukhi Parivar
August 17, 2019Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave his customary Independence Day speech on Aug. 15 and there were no surprise announcements. But what surprised many is that the PM’s sharpest critic, senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram, praising it ! Chidambaram said, “All of us must welcome three announcements made by the Prime Minister on I-Day. Small family…
Flooded Resorts and Foolhardy Tourists
August 16, 2019By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Even as we are going through a very grim and devastating flood situation, we are reading many disturbing reports of tourists being stranded in flooded resorts and home stays. A notable example is of the hundreds of tourists, including a handful of foreigners, who had to be evacuated at…
Right Intentions, Wrong Steps
August 13, 2019By T.J.S. George When the makers of our Constitution used the term ‘India that is Bharat,’ the implication was that the cultural strength of ancient Bharat would energise the modernistic thrust of resurgent India. It did for a while; India became a model for newly-independent nations. Then new forces rose that damaged India’s position as…
How to cure our officials from MAFA disease?
August 12, 2019You are warned. These heritage buildings will collapse ! It seems our Government officials are suffering from a disease called MAFA. An abbreviation, acronym for an official mindset of Indian bureaucrats coined by N.R. Narayana Murthy of Infosys. MAFA means ‘Mistaking Articulation For Accomplishment.’ Meaning, these officials think just by perpetually talking about a problem,…
Leadership is Risky Business
August 12, 2019By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam Traditional thinking associates leadership with authority and it is intuitively interpreted as having the power to lead people and organisations to bring about the change that one desires. Occupying positions of authority reinforces this understanding and people start relying more and more on the ‘power’ that goes with the position. Over…
Finally, from Kashmir to Cape Comorin
August 10, 2019Kashmir is no more the special one. But it remains so for the Congress Party and Pakistan. And why not? Kashmir has been used and misused for politics both within India and Pakistan. After the special status to Kashmir was revoked, a headline in a Pakistani newspaper read, “Madman on the loose” with the photograph…
Has Modi found Final Solution to Kashmir ?
August 9, 2019Do we need a Holocaust Museum? The morning of Monday, 5th August, 2019 will be remembered as the Red Letter Day, as the historic day of Independent India. If you wonder why, the answer is in the historic decision taken by the BJP-NDA Narendra Modi Government on that Monday morning in the Rajya Sabha. That…
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