Ever since Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah decided that India as a country, after 73 years of Independence, should for once wake up from its euphoria of freedom and slumber of complacency, much had happened to our country’s destiny. If 1947 was a red letter day for India, so also was…
Activists stage hunger strike against Citizenship Laws
March 12, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Accusing the Union Government of introducing CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act), NRC (National Register of Citizens) and NPR (National Population Register) against the wishes of the people, over 70 activists under the banner of ‘Save Constitution Committee’, staged a day-long hunger strike, today at Gandhi Square in city. Alleging that the NDA Government at the…
Lack of communication has fuelled anti-CAA protests: Chakravarti Sulibele
March 1, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Stating that lack of communication has fuelled anti-CAA protests, columnist and Yuva Brigade Founder Chakravarti Sulibele said that the ongoing protests is a classic example of what communication gap could lead to. He was speaking after launching ‘Gnana Dhwani’, a 90.8 FM Community Radio Station marking the decennial celebrations of Gopalaswamy Shishuvihara at Swami…
Political Pawns?
February 22, 2020On 20th of February at an anti- CAA event in Bengaluru, a 19-year-old Amulya Leona, an under-graduate student, was given the microphone to say a few words against the CAA. And she did so in dramatic fashion. She began by shouting “Pakistan Zindabad.” Then after a dramatic pause she again shouted “Pakistan Zindabad”, hoping the…
‘Indian Muslims need not worry about CAA’
January 25, 2020BJP National Organising General Secretary B.L. Santhosh allays fears about Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) Says no one can snatch away citizenship of minorities; targets Opposition for smear campaign and disinformation Mysore/Mysuru: BJP National Organising General Secretary Bommarabettu Laxmijanardhana Santhosh, better known as B.L. Santhosh has dispelled fears about the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) Act saying…
Supreme Court refuses stay on CAA
January 22, 2020New Delhi: The Supreme Court this morning made it clear that it will not grant any stay on the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) without hearing the Centre and said it may refer pleas challenging the validity of the Act to a larger Constitution Bench. A Bench headed by Chief Justice S.A. Bobde is hearing a batch…
Musings on Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa’s defence of CAA — 2
January 14, 2020[Continued from yesterday] The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore.”— Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer (1480-1521) As I mentioned yesterday in this column, Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa, as if inspired by the philosophy of the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan quoted above, refused to…
Warning: A New Generation Rises
January 14, 2020By T.J.S. George What is happening to our country? Suddenly, it is a ship drifting in a storm, rudderless and captainless. The brutality that was unleashed in JNU last week was unprecedented, more in-your-face than the violence that recently rocked Jamia Milia and Aligarh. The goons, who beat up students and teachers at JNU, were…
‘Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed was made President of India as a reward for building Muslim vote-bank of illegal immigrants for Congress’
January 14, 2020Thus spake Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa Acclaimed Novelist and Saraswathi Samman awardee Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa has said that Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed was made the President of India in return for his efforts to consolidate the Muslim vote-bank in favour of Congress party. Replying to questions by scribes at a press conference called at his residence in…
Musings on Dr. S.L. Bhyrappa’s defence of CAA —1
January 13, 2020The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore.” — Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer (1480-1521) For those who are opposing CAA in our country today, the idea of India is not in believing ‘India first.’ For them, India seems to come next. Whatever it is,…
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