The nation is shocked enough to talk about the Manipur violence after the video of a mob parading two naked women went viral. But what should shock us, even more is the lack of Police action and the PM’s silence for all this time. The violence in Manipur erupted after a rally by the All-Tribal…
Plea for Footwear Bhagya in addition to five Congress guarantees!
July 20, 2023Reading a news item this morning titled ‘Youth, distressed over losing footwear, dials emergency number’ and its contents, my memory went amok and my own experience in losing footwears came crowding to my mind. Since there is lot of fun and human element, I thought I could share it with my readers. While ruminating on…
Musings on 2024 Parliamentary election
July 19, 2023I.N.D.I.A Vs BHARAT, Howzat? Indian Democracy seems like a paradox. The first paradox is that we got it in darkness of the midnight. Pandit Nehru in his first Independence Day speech, in great flourish and rhetoric, declared that ‘when the whole world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.’ I had read that Napoleon…
Of Onions and Tomatoes!
July 16, 2023By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The Price of Onions’ is the name of a book by Ashok V. Desai, that I first read, exactly twenty years ago and which I have re-read a couple of times thereafter, just because I find it very interesting to go through the way everyday economics has been simplified…
Old leaders make way… Youngsters are coming
July 15, 2023The recent political machinations in Maharashtra brought up an interesting issue — age. Is age just a number in politics? Yes. But one should know when to retire and how to retire. In all facets of life. Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) President Sharad Pawar, at the launch of his autobiography last month, announced his retirement…
Going 54 years back to re-live the past as a journalist
July 11, 2023There was a magazine in Bombay (now Mumbai) called ‘Imprint’ in the 1960s and 1970s. Those were the days of Congress hegemony and the rise of Indira Gandhi. The magazine had invited articles from its readers on the subject, “What life will be like in India in the 70s. I decided to participate, wrote the…
Budget Bonanza for Mysuru
July 8, 2023Chamundi Hill Development Authority on the anvil In the late 1970, D. Devaraj Urs, the then Chief Minister who brought in the MOST revolutionary land reform, nationalised buses and named Mysuru State as Karnataka, was known for his indifference to the votes of the educated and the rich. And he openly declared so in his…
A Law for Old Parents and Senior Citizens
July 7, 2023The problem of old-age is as old as hills. In the early centuries, finding old people of past 60 years of age used to be as rare as hen’s teeth. The longevity used to be short no matter you are Alexander the Great or Swami Vivekananda. Reasons could be many. It could be genetical, in-breeding,…
Reducing the high death toll on our Toll-Way!
July 2, 2023By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD It is for the third time in a very short span of time that I am writing about this subject and I hope and pray that I don’t feel compelled to write about it once again. But if we look back, not a single day passes without our new…
First, build on the ground, then underground
June 24, 2023It was reported yesterday that Karnataka Dy.CM and a team of senior officials would visit Singapore to get a first-hand experience of tunnel roads so they can build similar underground roads to decongest Bengaluru. Ambitious much? A few years ago, Bengaluru got an underpass system called ‘Magic Box’, where they created box-shaped passages under existing…
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