Fact No. 1: Donations by companies to political parties is the biggest contributor to corruption in India. All parties acknowledge this. Fact No. 2: Elimination of corruption has been a top priority with the BJP Government. After the currency demonetisation, government leaders even claimed that black money and corruption had been virtually stamped out. Fact…
Gagging the Press: Time to show people’s power
March 30, 2017Sir, I was shocked to read KBG’s Abracadabra titled “Audacity of Legislators” (SOM dated Mar.24). This is not a disaster only for the Press and Media. In fact it is we the people who should be even more concerned. If the Press does not inform us of the shenanigans of our political leaders who will?…
Audacity of Legislators
March 24, 2017Media is the life-line of Democracy and Secularism. Don’t strangulate it To be true to my faith, I may not write in anger or malice. I may not write idly. I may not write merely to excite passion. The reader can have no idea of the restraint I have to exercise. – Mahatma Gandhi “You…
Winners cheer, losers sulk, but what real difference do elections make to our anarcic democracy?
March 14, 2017This is a loner’s lament when more than half the country is rejoicing over the BJP’s overwhelming triumph in UP. The party and its leaders deserve the best of compliments. But the victory — and the defeat of those who lost — needs to be assessed in the overall context of democracy’s growth in our…
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