Profiteering from the Pandemic
Why write this when everybody is aware of it? I want to publicly hang my head with shame for belonging to a society with such low morality. My words may seem harsh and unacceptable, but I can’t shy away from this dreadful truth. The Coronavirus made life difficult for the world in the last […]
Its catastrophe Covid 19: Hubris or political advantage, save the people
India is crying. It took 2.58 lakh deaths (official figures, just double the real numbers) and close to 4 lakh positive caseload, (official figures, double them up too) for Prime Minister Modi to speak up (that too in a meeting with the DMs) that he feels the pain of suffering covid 19 people and showing […]
Prime Minister Modi’s Bangladesh Maitri, a diplomatic story in a political cloak
New Delhi: The recent Bangladesh visit of Prime Minister Modi was a significant one for many reasons. It not only was his first overseas visit after the Covid pandemic but was a very deftly chosen one. What made it unique was that other than strengthening bilateral relations and promoting our Neighborhood First and Act East […]
Vested interests want war to continue in Afghanistan; India will be part of the peace process: Afghanistan Foreign Minister Mohammad Haneef Atmar
The Afghanistan Foreign Minister Haneef Atmar was in New Delhi on March 22-23, 2021 in which he talked at length on various issue his country is mired in. Apart from expanding bilateral relations, talks on peace process in Afghanistan could not have been missed by both the FMs as the looming Turkey engagement between […]
Farmer women to MPs, women empowerment should be more than lipservice
As a group of women MPs and women journalists celebrated International Women’s Day in each others company, talking on women struggle to achieve and make their place in the society, some 27 kms away at Tikri at the Delhi borders thousands of farmer women leaving their homes and hearth sat in protest in support of […]
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Is freedom of press a Quid Pro Quo in these times!
In 1975 India underwent its darkest tryst with democracy. As Indira Gandhi declared emergency it spelled the death of all liberties and rights. Press became a dumb lamb. It was meant to be so. Leaders and journalists were arrested and put behind bars so that even a word of dissent was not even uttered. These […]
A Republic Day gone wrong!!!!
This Republic Day, 26 January 2021 will go down in the annals of history as one that scarred the glorious history of this great nation called India. The capital was run over by violence, vandalism, arson, and mayhem. It will not only be a blot on what our democracy is about but also a nation […]