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DECONSTRUCTING MODI – KITNA MAZBOOT?
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Note — As India is in the throes of the narrative about a Mazboot Neta/Mazboot Sarkar, here is a piece by Swarajbir, Punjab’s foremost playwright and poet, and also the editor of Punjabi Tribune, on the psychology that goes into the election of a leader ...
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IN AN AGE of information explosion and demand for transparency in the functioning of various institutions, the country is seeing an increasing trend where attempts are being made by these institutions to put a lid over their functioning. Of course governments always like to restrict ...
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WITH THE OUTCOME of the general elections just a week away, and voting to be completed in just 59 seats, all eyes are on the performances of various parties and formation of the new government.
It has been a long and hard fought elections with political ...
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ELECTION ISSUES BEING DEBATED NOW
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EVEN AS WE are in the middle of the election campaign for the Lok Sabha elections, one aspect that stands out starkly is the issues that are being talked about to influence the voters.
None of the major political parties are focusing on the real issues ...
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Your politician is not talking about it, even when he is talking incessantly about issues that matter to you. But why are you silent?
S Pal A WOMAN EMPLOYEE of the Supreme Court, who was in direct touch with the Chief Justice of India, thanks to her ...
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IT IS DISTINCTLY possible that Narendra Modi won’t be the next prime minister, and Rahul Gandhi is not the only one saying that. Of course, there are two more suspenseful laps to go before the May 23 results come in.
As Rahul and others have guessed, ...
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LOSING THE PERCEPTION GAME
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THE CONGRESS, which has ruled the country for nearly 60 years of its independence, appears to be suffering from a death wish. The way the party had been scoring self goals in the recent past may be sounding music for the BJP but would be ...
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CJI GOGOI SEXUAL HARASSMENT CASE
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FOR THE SECOND TIME within a year, the highest court of the land has come under a cloud of controversy. Both the incidents have been unprecedented and have brought the functioning of one of the three pillars of democracy under a close lens.
The current Chief ...
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HAVING CLOSELY watched and covered elections for the last forty years I can safely say that the ensuing Lok Sabha elections are proving to be most bitter and have brought down the electioneering debate standards to a new low.
There have always been exceptions in the ...
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JALLIANWALA BAGH 1919-2019
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TO LIVE FOREVER in someone’s debt is to prolong the life of a good deed.
TO LIVE FOREVER with a sense of guilt is to prolong the life of an acknowledgement that a bad deed was indeed done, and that it must never ever happen ...
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SPACE VS RACE — SPECTACLE VERSUS HARD QUESTIONS
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PRIME MINISTER Narendra Modi went on national television to announce India now has the capability to shoot down an inimical spy satellite in space.
Indians are supposed to be ecstatic at this achievement, even though there has never been talk of anyone deploying a spy satellite ...
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THE BRAVE NEW India of Narendra Modi was so pissed off with repeated acts of terror, carried out by elements in Pakistan or those backed by them, that when an Indian youth rammed a car-full of explosives into the CRPF caravan in Pulwama and killed ...
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#Punjab Congress president Sunil Jakhar has said his party will not seek votes of Dera Sirsa.
#Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal has said his party will not be seeking the support of Dera Sirsa. IF WE HAD BEEN living in different times, somewhat better times, ...
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KHADOOR SAHIB - TO BECOME THE CYNOSURE OF PANJAB
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13.03.19 - AMANDEEP SANDHU
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WHATEVER HAPPENS in India in the 2019 elections, an unlikely constituency - Khadoor Sahib - is slated to become the cynosure of Panjab. In Khadoor Sahib a democratic electoral process has pitted two radically different Sikh ideologies against each other.
 The town Sultanpur Lodhi, associated with ...
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"WHAT is constantly said is that that you must not attack the government because it will endanger the country. There are times when the only safety of the country is attack upon the government, and it will be a grave dereliction of duty on the ...
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WHILE VARIOUS political parties had declared that the Indian Air Force attack on Jaish hideouts, and the subsequent air dual when Pakistani jets entered Indian territory, would not be politicised, it did not take much time for almost all these parties to do exactly the ...
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UNFORTUNATE FALLOUT OF THE PULWAMA ATTACK
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The senseless attack on security forces in Pulwama, which claimed the precious lives of over 40 security personnel, has put the focus back on the Kashmir issue and the involvement of Pakistan and terrorist organisations operating from that country.
The timing of the unfortunate attack is ...
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READING GANDHI THROUGH PULWAMA
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IF YOU ARE really a patriotic citizen, a sacha desh premi, you should know the truthful answer to this simple question: Was Mahatma Gandhi shot at from the front, or was he shot in the back?
What did you say? No, wrong. Terribly wrong, and obviously ...
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KYUN KE HUM HAIN HINDUSTANI
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PRIME MINISTERS usually speak very carefully. That's why they have tremendous help to decide what to say. They have teams of speech writers who are great with words, and they have extremely savvy spin masters who know how to convey what needs to be conveyed ...
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LARGE SECTIONS of media have been talking about the ensuing elections as a Modi versus Rahul contest. This Namo versus Raga question is also often asked during social interactions and even from total strangers.
The speculations are there despite the fact that we have a parliamentary ...
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