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INDIA’S SOBEREST SECULAR FACE

Gulam Nabi Azad is the new political focal point. Branded now a rebel within his party, the staunch Congress leader since Indira Gandhi days, is now an unwanted man by his party for his G23 venture, a rebel faction against the present leadership. Azad is one of the soberest faces of Congress, unlike most of […]

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Rollback and rate irrationality

In India, politics and economics are interlinked. Apparent welfare measures and freebies are thesensitive vote catchers as well as the biggest sources of frauds at the ground level. Though the practice of DirectBenefit Transfer (DBT) has considerably reduced the malpractices at the delivery level, economic misuse forpolitical gain is still prevalent, as it is hard […]

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Who dares to say the emperor has no clothes?

If anyone repeats a mistake several times, that is attributable to be either deliberate or absurd. That is arrogance and irresponsibility. When a government does it, one has to call it out.  We see it routinely in the practice of State administration. Foul after foul deliberately. When we do something to correct, the action boomerangs […]

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The aimless action called reservation

The backward section is still identified as “backwards”, much to their indignation. Any change in the perception hinges on our country’s bold move to break the caste-based reservation. Much brain drain has already happened at the cost of the British ghost of reservation. The darkness of tonight refuses to open for a morrow. Exactly 24 […]

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Are we homo-sapiens or hetero-sapiens?

It seemed we were trying to mend what historians missed over thousands of years. The out-phase of the Neanderthals by assimilation into homo sapiens draws a parallel line with our attempt to integrate the tribal classes with mainstream society. By the term “tribal”, we used to mean Adivasis. That means aboriginals. In a sense, the […]

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