By Dr. C. D. Sreenivasa Murthy The British Government took over the administration of India from the East India Company immediately after the First War of Independence (Sepoy Mutiny) in 1857. They had a very low opinion about Indians and their capacity to rule themselves. In 1927, the then Secretary of State for India, Lord…
Mysuru: Regretting that Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s vision of ‘we are Indians and the country comes first’ is being forgotten, former University of Mysore (UoM) Political Science faculty Prof. H.M. Rajashekar expressed concern over rising casteism and communalism among the youth. He was delivering a special talk on the topic ‘Aspirations of Indian Constitution’ as part…
Mysuru: “We cannot understand our Constitution, if we cannot understand our country,” opined retired Judge of Karnataka High Court Justice H.N. Nagamohan Das. He was addressing the gathering at ‘Samvidhana Odu,’ an awareness programme on laws, organised jointly by the District Legal Services Authority (DLSA), Mysore Bar Association, Education Department and Law School, University of…
Mysuru: Emphasising that the practise of casteism, corruption, increase of crime and terror activities are threatening peace, stability and existence of democracy in the country, former Judge of the Supreme Court Justice Shivaraj V. Patil called upon the youths to protect the law of the land by adhering to the principles and core values of…
By K.C. Biddappa, Retd. Senior Vice-President, ITC Ltd. This has reference to K.B. Ganapathy’s Abracadabra in Star of Mysore dated Jan.3 regarding the perpetuation of dynastic politics in Indian democracy. How true! Dynastic politics is in the DNA of Indian political system. For a common, hard-working, honest and tax-paying citizen, democracy in India has very…
Implementing the land’s laws and interpreting them are different kettles of fish. The various wings of administration may have won battles in the task of ensuring the masses fall in line but have clearly lost the war. The script writers of the country’s Constitution, either in spite of or because of the 120 or so…
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