Permanent Revolution

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The Prince Charming has spoken... what a disaster? <!--[if gte mso 9]>

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The judgment on one of the cases that I enjoyed arguing. http://judis.nic.in/judis_chennai/qrydisp.aspx?filename=32970

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Musings.... The possible shape of things in Tamil Nadu... Conventional political wisdom may lead one to think that political parties do not disappear from our domain. But then, we do have instances such as the Telugu Desam faction that Lakshmi Parvathy headed for a while or that of the mammoth called the Janata Party that ruled India for a couple of years having disappeared from the political

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Baba Ramdev and his threats... some lessons from historyThe frenetic pace at which some union ministers have gone about dealing with Baba Ramdev may seem to suggest that the Manmohan Singh Government means business when it comes to being responsive. A less charitable explanation to this would be that the UPA-II is aware of large support base that the saffron clad baba commands and that letting

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A rather prosaic analysis of Tamil Nadu after the polls... When Ms. J.Jayalalitha became Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu in 1991, it appeared to mark the end of the anti-Brahmin movement that had determined the course of electoral politics in the State since independence. C.Rajagopalachari, the only other Chief Minister of the State (it was the Madras State), after all, did not lead the Congress

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The CPI(M) will be sent packing...But the Communist Legacy will stay alive... It is most certain that the CPI(M)-led left, also identified as the mainstream left for some reason, is on its way out of power in both Kerala and West Bengal. Tripura will remain the last bastion for the party. And if any reason is to be culled out for this it will be the CPI(M) having abandoned its legacy. The CPI(M)

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Disparaging the Anna Hazare Campaign (This appeared in ET on 20 April 2011)The campaign against corruption, which assumed a concrete sense when Anna Hazare and his team introduced the draft Jan Lokpal Bill, is now sought to be debilitated. The political class that could wax eloquent in and outside Parliament on the need to cleanse the system and funded NGOs, that sustain themselves by running

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Why I support Anna Hazare (published in EPW)April 16, 2011 Vol xlvI No 16 Economic & Political WeeklyLokpal Bill Campaign: Democratic and ConstitutionalV Krishna AnanthHistorian Shahid Amin, in his seminalwork on Chauri Chaura, talks about the difficulties of recovering an event from its judicial and nationalist records. This is true as well of trying to make sense of a contemporary event such

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It's raining gifts... Why not have elections every year... or every month???? The AIADMK chief, Ms. J. Jayalalithaa is said to have worked hard to exclude Vaiko’s MDMK from the front she now leads because she was assured of a large donation from a business house in that event. Well. Notwithstanding the absurdity, such tales do the rounds with none raising doubts. It sounds absurd because there

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A lesson from Japan's tragedy...Japan, amidst the huge tragedy that its people have suffered, also holds an important lesson to us. The 2004 tsunami that struck us and some other nations in East Asia came as a reminder to a generation that had heard of the word for the first time. But then, one does remember a dialogue in the Tamil film Anbey Sivam, where the tsunami is talked about. The fact is

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Manmohan Singh beats Gujral... I hope he is not beaten by someone in future It is difficult for a historian of politics to desist from making assessments of leaders of the past. It is also difficult to resist the temptation of using superlatives in such assessments. Let me admit now that such temptations are better resisted. If not, one is bound to land in trouble. I say this out of my own

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I Am Innocent... I cannot do anything else in a Coalition... Says Manmohan Singh Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh seems to be under an illusion. His interaction this week with editors of a select group of editors of TV channels bore resemblance to a time in our recent past when Rajiv Gandhi, then the Prime Minister, sought to deflect criticism of corruption in high places by making it that he

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Dear Mr. Rahul Gandhi, I am sure that you do realize, as much as I do, that your surname does convey an impression that you are a legatee to Mahatma Gandhi. I am not blaming you for that. It so happened at some point. However you could have made amends by way of inheriting some of Bapu’s qualities and the most important among them being brutally honest. I presume you know that Bapu lived in a

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On Egypt... may be too simplistic and seditious too... But I think this way For a generation that has grown up in the last couple of decades, the kind of protest happening in Cairo is indeed unprecedented. The last time that such crowds thronged the streets seeking an end to the regime was in the late 1980s. Beginning with the Solidarity movement in Poland, there were such massive mobilisation of

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The Lord and his Son-in-Law As someone who had been a judge in the higher judiciary for several years, Justice K.G.Balakrishnan cannot pretend innocence over the acts by his kith and kin, the assets they have amassed and particularly so when it is worth a lot more than their known source of income. Only the naïve can argue that he shall not be held responsible for their acts. It is hard to

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The Bofors Story Will Continue to Haunt... The Bofors scandal involving Ottavio Quattrocchi cannot be buried so easily. But then, since the story involves the Congress party’s most important family, it is unlikely that the order of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal provokes the Congress party to stick to the zero-tolerence-to-corruption line extolled by Prince Rahul Gandhi at Burari. It may be

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Binayak Sen and Section 124-A The verdict by the Sessions Court in Raipur sentiencing Binayak Sen and two others to life imprisonment raises questions that are both political and legal. Section 124- A, on which the prosecution rested its case before sessions judge B.P.Verma, did not figure when the Indian Penal Code was enacted in 1860. This section was inserted a decade after the act came into

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Who then is our Prime Minister? The Congress plenary at Burari (adjacent to New Delhi) last week has raised a whole lot of issues. The party leaders claimed a legacy of 126 years. It is true that the Indian National Congress by which name the party headed by Sonia Gandhi is known even today was founded in December 1885. But then, in the years between then and now, a whole lot of splits have

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We Deserve someone better as NHRC Chairman Justice K.G.Balakrishnan, now heading the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), seems determined to lend all his might to drain out the peoples’ confidence in the higher judiciary in India The controversy involving Justice Balakrishnan was revived in the public domain only after a Division Bench of the Madras High Court found serious wrong doing on

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Chidambaram on Migrants and Crime Union Home Minister, P.Chidambaram spoke of illegal migrants into Delhi being the cause for lawlessness in the capital; he said this in the context of an incident of rape in the city. Chidambaram did not think before he spoke and in a sense revealed the mindset of a certain kind of people who want fancy buildings and malls in their city but will insist that those

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Nira Raadia and the Tapes France in May 1968 witnessed such tumult that the rulers were almost on their way out. Charles de Gaulle’s regime appeared to be brought down. And the leadership of the student movement of that time came from the professional classes. There were a number of journalists who played an important role in that movement in which the factory workers, fairly organised in trade

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After Raja.... What? It was inevitable. A.Raja’s continuation as Union Minister had become untenable. Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh must have asked Raja to leave the cabinet long ago; 11 months ago to be precise. He was in possession with material by Dr. Subramanian Swamy along with a sanction to prosecute Raja. This is what the Supreme Court judges asked last week. Well. Swamy’s application

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Myanmar, Obama and We!!! In his address to the joint session of Parliament, US President Barack Obama implored, rather decreed, that India shall not remain silent on the goings on in Myanmar. The US president did say what a number of those committed to democracy and human rights had said in the immediate past when the regime conducted a farcical election. To be fair, Obama, like his predecessors,

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The Adarsh Society Scandal!!! Nandan Nilekeni, the nation’s pick for the making of Unique ID cards may set out on his project right away from Mumbai’s Adarsh Nagar Housing Society. As someone known to me once remarked that the UID will end up serving the police and other arms of the state to set up a data base of the subversives and pick them up as and when the need arose. Well. I know that those

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No Use Hounding Arundati Roy The Union Government, at last, is reported to have decided against hauling up Arundati Roy (and Syed Ali Shah Jeelani) on charges of sedition. This is after having wavered on the issue and the BJP making a lot of noise demanding her arrest and prosecution. It looked as if Arundati Roy was such an influential person and that her speech in a hall at New Delhi’s

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Democracy and the Karnataka drama It is difficult to say as to who rules the State of Karnataka today. In other words, there can be as many correct answers to such a question; one could say that it is B.S.Yediyurappa; another could argue that it is any one of the Reddy brothers; and a third could argue that it is the Governor, Hans Raj Bhardwaj; and yet another argue that it is the full bench of

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A memoir that’s honest to the hiltAmong the well known lawyers of our times, Fali S Nariman is one of those who have always represented the propertied classes in court. There is hardly an instance when he took up the cause of the poor. In this sense he belongs to a league that sought to turn the Constitution on its head. But Nariman is also among those to whom democracy is merely a political

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AFSPA must be scrapped... not only in Kashmir but everywhere... Kashmir is on the boil once again. Amidst images of stone pelting by the youth, which are now becoming regular visuals that the TV channels beam across the country, the Union government, we are told, is now talking to Chief Minister Omar Farooq. The Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), a notorious legislation that has been there

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Jharkhand as a Window to our Democracy!!! The BJP, or for that matter parties across the spectrum, do not seem to have any sense of shame. If there was any, there was no way Arjun Munda will become Chief Minister of Jharkhand. The BJP has cobbled up a majority with the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), the Janata Dal (United), All Jharkhand Students’ Union and a couple of independent MLAs, adding up

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A new Chief Information Commissioner for Tamil Nadu Along with the report of Mr. K.S.Sripathy being sworn in as the Chief Information Commissioner of Tamil Nadu, the media also reported the arrest of three persons. RTI activists V.Madhav, Siva Elango and Gopalakrishnan were picked up from outside the Raj Bhawan, detained through the day in two different police stations, and released before dust.

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Vedanta.... is not maaya in this case The irony could not have been more pronounced than the context in which Vedanta Resources figured in the media. Anil Aggarwal’s rags-to-riches story was splattered all over in the English language papers. That this man who dealt with scrap business as late as in 1976 had grown in size to acquisition Cairn Energy’s India operations and is all set to enter the

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Why should the CPI(M) have problems with Mamata's Rally??? Almost all the texts, elaborating the Marxist definition of communism, stress upon the need for communists to make full use of the contradictions within the capitalist camp and push ahead for the revolution. There are a number of texts, written by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, that lay down as imperative for the communists to use all

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Bhopal as a parable of compromise (published in The Economic Times, June 11, 2010) Even a child with an elementary sense of justice is bound to be outraged by the verdict by the chief judicial magistrate's court in Bhopal on the criminal case involving the various top officers of the Union Carbide India Ltd. Those who caused the death of over 20,000 people (3,800 in a single night and the rest

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Have Not Blogged For A While. I Was Far Away From My Desk and My Computer!!! The trip was thought of even before we looked into the logistics. I have heard, during my days in JNU, that the Himalayas are a wonderful place and that you do not have to be a believer to go through that spiritual experience. Well! I did experience that when I had been to Haridwar on an assignment. Long hours at the Har

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On Cut Motions and the Cuts that our Leaders get out of them The framers of the constitutions may not have imagined how creative the political class would turn. A recent example of this, in the long litany, is that of how the provision for cut-motions while discussing and passing the demand for grants in a budget has been turned into a means to political survival and enrichment by leaders of

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Well... I do not want to condemn the Maoists now... Nor do I celebrate what they did... The tragedy that met with the personnel of the CRPF engaged in Operation Green Hunt the Dantewada district in Chattisgarh is indeed unfortunate. Those who died, in most cases, hail from the poor families across the country. There is no way that such killings can be justified in the name of revolution. Having

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Narendra Modi and the SITThere was something that offended human sensibilities in the reports about Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi being interrogated by the SIT. One aspect that was offensive was the fact that it happened so late. The anti-Muslim pogrom was carried out in Gujarat in February-March 2002. And the investigations are still under way in February-March, 2010! Contrast this with

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Kanu Sanyal There is something ironical about communists ending their life by committing suicide. Kanu Sanyal, the legendary who set a generation take up arms, in the belief that violence was inevitable to change the world into a better place, was found dead hanging himself to the ceiling. Kanu Sanyal, along with Charu Mazumdar and Jungal Santhal belonged to the CPI(M) initially and broke out of

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On the Bill that the Rajya Sabha passed.... The passage of the Constitution Amendment Bill providing for reservation of constituencies for women in the Lok Sabha and State assemblies in the Rajya Sabha is indeed a milestone. However, it is too early to celebrate. For the Bill has to be moved in the Lok Sabha, where the opposition to the idea could be louder given their numbers and also the fact

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Political Parties and Petro-price Hike... There is a certain sense of absurdity in the way political parties behave. But then, that is no excuse or reason to slide into a partyless democracy. The party system is indeed inevitable as long as we decide to remain a Parliamentary Democracy. It is a different matter that we are now witnessing a conscious and even desperate attempt to distort the

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W.R.Varadharajan It is not new with the communist parties to expel its members, including senior leaders. But then it is, perhaps, unheard of for a member of a communist party for long years to kill himself after being axed from party committees. W.R.Varadarajan’s end, in the manner it happened, was indeed sad. And even raises some concerns over the manner in which the communist parties deal with

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Liberhan Commission: A Critical Analysis (Economic & Political Weekly, January 23, 2010)Reports by enquiry commissions into an event that the nation could have done without can, in the best of circumstances, be taken as the basis for remedial measures that the State could take to prevent a recurrence of such tragic events. By its very nature, such inquests by bodies set up under the Commissions

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Jyoti Basu (July 8, 1914-January 17, 2010) When he decided to associate with the communist movement in India Jyoti Basu could not have seen him becoming the Chief Minister of West Bengal. But then, Basu ended up being the longest serving Chief Minister of any State in India. Basu would not have thought that he would end up with this distinction when he was sworn in as Chief Minister of West

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Amar Singh should stick to his retirement plans I remember having met Amar Singh first sometimes in 1993. That was at the Jay Vilas Palace in Gwallior. As a reporter with an English language paper in New Delhi, I was assigned to report on a public meeting that Madhavrao Scindia had organised then. The real purpose behind that meeting was to establish Scindia’s clout in the region and thus part of

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I had written this sometimes in 2000. Some of the characters are still around and some are dead and gone. But corruption is still alive.... A national consensus on corruption? ``Participation in political activities and public life as such began to be seen as a vocation soon after 1947. And hence a means to self-preservation. It is only natural then for the institutionalisation of corruption.'' -

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Dinakaran is Making a Virtue out of a Reality It is now a habit, for those in positions of power, to make a virtue out of a necessity. We are used to seeing politicos, when arrested for or charged with corruption that they believe in the law and that they will face the due process of law. The point is that they hardly have a choice because the due process of law taking its course is not a matter

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Bhopal... 25 years have gone and..... It is 25 years now after one of the worst incidents of manslaughter in independent India. I am not referring here to the murder of Sikhs by the Congress-led gangs in Delhi and elsewhere. It remains a blot on our experience with the rule of the law. But then, I am now referring to the killing of at least fifteen thousand people (the Government of India’s

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The Thackerays, Sachin Tendulkar and the ``nation'' The Shiv Sena’s writ had stopped running in Mumbai for some time now. And its chief, Bal Thackeray, is no longer dreaded or feared by the people of the metropolis as he used to be until a few years ago. That the old man now resembles a tiger in its last days, unable even to scare away an infant dear is a fact that he knows. And his son, Uddhav

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While I reiterate my faith on the Constitution in the context of Justice P.D.Dinakaran...I can insist upon that everyone must believe in the Constitutional scheme and wait for the Hon’ble judge, P.D.Dinakaran to be impeached; after all,neither did I have any land in Kaverirajapuram (where the Lord owns a couple of hundred acres in his own name and encroached a similar extent of land from the

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Of ``Crimes'' and ``Punishments'' During the week that went by, the security guard at our apartment complex dutifully informed me that he, along with some others like him in the adjoining apartments, had caught a thief the previous night. I could see a glee on his face when he said that a police officer, who lives in the vicinity, was kind enough to wake up when they pressed the bell at his door,

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The Courts, the parks and the statues... Going by reports in the English language media, a full fledged war is in the making. The terrain of this war in the making, if one takes media reports seriously, is going to be one of the court halls in the Supreme Court of India. The provocation for this, according to the media, is Mayawati’s intransigent attitude over the issue of building parks across

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Quattrocchi, they say is not a fugitive now and Bofors they say is just a ghost!!! Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is known to be a straight-forward man apart from being one who adores the IMF-World Bank scheme of development. It is, hence, no wonder that he rants against corruption and has even gone to town, recently, that the Government would enact a law to confiscate the property of those who

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Media wants another nuclear test The mainstream English language media is now obsessed with just two subjects. One being a statement by Dr. V.Santhanam, formerly with the Atomic Energy establishment, that the 1998 nuclear tests did not yield the results that were claimed; and the other being that the Chinese army has made some incursions in the Sino-Indian border along Arunachal Pradesh. Let me

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September 12, 2009 was indeed an important day for me. India Since Independence: Making Sense of Indian Politics was launched that day. I had begun working on this sometimes in June 2004 and completed the draft in late 2007. The book was thought about as I began teaching at the ACJ (in October 2000); and it was launched from the lecture hall of ACJ that day. I could not have had a better person

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inheritance of power!!!!!!!!!! There is something extremely ugly with the way our political culture is developing into. One of the manifestations is the manner in which public office is sought to be reduced into private property and the consequent notion of inheritance. The developments in Andhra Pradesh involving one Jagan Mohan Reddy and the caretaker Chief Minister K. Rosaiah are simply a

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I picked this up from a 17 year old BUT WHY?Oh god!I am losing all my hope in you,I am beginning to feel, what you do?I have seen you with many wives,Is this what is a woman’s life?I have seen you live as a bachelor,And I always wonder what for?If you are there, you must be one,But communal riots take the lives of tons!Why are people born disabled?Is it because he had willed? Or

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Jaswant Singh, Jinnah and History Jaswant Singh asked for his expulsion from the BJP. And he got it. There was nothing else that the party could have done after Singh heaped praise on Mohammed Ali Jinnah. And more so because Singh’s reason to praise Jinnah happened to be that he created Pakistan. Jaswant Singh could have earned a ``promotion’’ in the BJP if he had praised Jinnah for having defied

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Dr. Manmohan Singh's lament on Courts, Cases and Backlog...A critique Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s lament over the pendency of disputes – as many as 3 crore cases pending before the various courts across the country was indeed a brave statement. And even if it was unintentional, he gave an opportunity to those from our middle class homes to raise a discussion on the state of our judicial

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On the Right to Education Act... The Right to Education Bill is now an Act. The passage of the Bill by Parliament in the session that ended last week was the culmination of a legal process that began in 1993. It was in that year that the Supreme Court held, in the Unnikrishnan vs State of Andhra Pradesh case, that children between 6 and 14 years of age have the fundamental right to education. The

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Buta Singh and his amoral ways....Someone like me, who follows political developments so closely, had lost track of Buta Singh’s movements. It probably needed something like a Global Positioning System (GPS) device to keep track of that. I remember Buta Singh as Minister in Rajiv Gandhi’s cabinet in the late 1980s. He was among those sworn in on December 31, 1984 after Rajiv Gandhi’s Congress had

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Kashmir: Omar v/s Mehbooba!!!! The crisis in the Kashmir valley is far too serious than to be abused by the political leaders from there for their own partisan gains. Mufti Mohammed Sayeed’s daughter and leader of the People’s Democratic Party, Mehbooba Mufti will do this country and the people of Jammu and Kashmir a great service if she realizes this. The provocation to say this now is the ugly

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Rita Bahuguna Joshi must be sacked There is something wrong somewhere with the Congress party. How else do we explain the fact that the president of the party’s Uttar Pradesh unit, Rita Bahuguna Joshi, saying what she said about rape? And more than that, how else do we explain the reaction of the party high command to all that had happened involving Rita Joshi? And all this at a time when the

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On tax exemption to corporates funding parties for elections Among the many proposals by the Union Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, in his budget for 2009-10, one that causes some concern is that to grant 100 per cent exemption from tax for contributions by corporate houses to the election fund of political parties. Well. It may sound good on the face of it. It is a known fact that corporates

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Justice Liberhan says he is relieved!!!!! Justice M.S.Liberhan must be a happy man. He was head of a Commission and thus commanded all the paraphernalia that comes with such post-retirement sinecure for such long time. If I may take the discussion a bit further, the retired judge of theDelhi High Court did not have such a long stint as High Court judge as much as he had as head of the commission.

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Violence in West Bengal The situation in parts of West Bengal now is reminiscent of that in Kerala sometimes in 1959. Those familiar with the saga of the dismissal of the EMS Namboodiripad Government in Kerala in 1959 will recall that the issue then was a dilemma in the minds of those in the CPI then (the party had not split then) over the use of the police against the agitators. Well. Let me

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My Take on the Poll outcome from Tamil Nadu The AIADMK-led alliance was expected to do much better than it did from Tamil Nadu. The logic of alliance arithmetic was behind this expectation. J.Jayalalitha, after all, had managed a pre-poll alliance that consisted of the PMK, considered strong in the Northern part of Tamil Nadu as well as the MDMK and the two Left parties with a thin but stable

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My Visit to DubaiAn invitation to participate in the 8th Arab Media Forum at Dubai was indeed a pleasant surprise; and more so, when I found that Seymour Hersh, whose exposure of the My Lai massacre, was listed as a speaker in the conference. There were also sessions on the Media and the Palestinian Struggle on offer. Well. The terminal at the Dubai International airport is a huge structure. It

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The melting down of pre-poll rhetoric With just the last phase of polling left, the political theatre has already shifted to the air-conditioned halls in New Delhi. And if the flurry of statements by leaders of the various political parties is any indication, it clearly suggests the intensity with which they will play games within hours after the counting of votes begin on May 16, 2009. Let us

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Bofors and Quattrocchi: This one appeared in the New Indian Express (April 30, 2009) Ottavio Quattrocchi, according to the CBI, is innocent. The Bofors scandal, according to the Congress party’s Crown Prince Rahul Gandhi, was a ``complete lie’’ that the opposition used for 20 years. Well. The truth, even according to official documents and the records in the CBI’s possession, conveys another

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The crisis in Lanka is humanitarian ... It is now a matter of time before the Sri Lankan army captures the few square kilometers of land that is still under the LTTE. And it is also likely that Mahinda Rajapakse emerges into a national hero in the Island nation. It is certain that the Tamil speaking people who are left behind in Colombo and in other towns where the Sinhalese constituted the

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Are we being honest when we call ours a vibrant democracy? Nafisa Ali, a socialite from Delhi is now the Samajwadi Party’s candidate from the Lucknow Lok Sabha constituency. She was the Congress candidate from South Calcutta in the May 2004 elections against Mamta Banerjee. Nafisa Ali’s claim to fame is that she is part of the elite gatherings in Delhi and had also won a beuty contest in her

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Here is a Book Review I did for The New Indian Express, Sunday, March 29, 2009The many facets of a maharajaA biography need not be a chronicle of the life of the subject. It is also not possible for a biographer to stay detached from the subject. I is, after all, also an expression of the passion with which the author looks at his subject. Vir Sanghvi makes clear, in the preface, his close

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This farce about the Third Front is really too much to swallow The absurd drama that unfolded in the past week, beginning with the Biju Janata Dal turning secular, the rally at Tumkur in Karnataka where the Left parties, the Janata Dal (S), the TDP, the TRS, the AIADMK and the BSP announced the birth of the Third Front and the gathering on Sunday night for a dinner at Mayawati’s residence in

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I wrote this before the BJD-BJP alliance broke ... But then, nothig much has changed Maya Kodnani is a minister in Gujarat. We are told, by a Special Investigation Team of the Gujarat police, that Kodnani went around firing a pistol and commanding a mob that massacred Muslims in the Naroda Patti area in Ahmedabad in March 2002. The number of dead in the anti-Muslim pogrom has now been revised

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A Note to the Editor in Chief, The New Indian Express, Chennai on the High Court IncidentsDear Aditya, I am writing this to you to draw your attention to a set of facts that are relevant to events in the Madras High Court premises on Thursday, the reports on them and your editorial today. And it is necessary to do that given the long and glorious tradition of your newspaper and its reputation of

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The clamour about Gandhi's belongings being auctioned Reports of an auction of Mahatma Gandhi’s personal items, scheduled for early March in New York, have sent a cross section of our MPs into a clamour for Government’s intervention. The MPs have demanded that the Government either try to stop the auction and in the event of that being impossible, to participate in the bidding and get the items

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Do we need the CBI to know if Mulayam has assets disproportionate to his income??? The myth about the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) being an autonomous agency has exploded once again. The about turn by the agency in the case involving Mulayam Singh Yadav is the latest of these instances. The case against Mr. Yadav is that he owns assets disproportionate to his known source of income.

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I was provoked to write this after reading thru the main lead in The Hindu today (January 31, 2009)on Navin Chawla Chief Election Commissioner, N.Gopalsami, is reported to have recommended to the President, that Navin Chawla be removed as Election Commissioner. In doing so, the CEC has relied on Article 324(5) of the Constitution. A close scrutiny of the Constitution and Article 324(5) conveys

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My apprehensions on Kashmir and the poll outcome It is now the case, in the political circles and in the media that democracy is once again on the rails in Jammu and Kashmir. Well. It is difficult to argue otherwise given the fact that the elections to the State assembly, held amidst apprehensions of separatist violence and in the context of a call by the various groups in the valley

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Who are you to Question Me asks Brinda Karat to Karunanidhi... The DMK chief, M.Karunanidhi wondered, recently, as to how the CPI(M) and the other Left parties could even think of an alliance with the AIADMK, whose leader J.Jayalalitha had supported the kar seva in Ayodhya in 1992. And the CPI(M)’s politburo member, Brinda Karat responded to that within no time: She pointed out that Karunanidhi

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EPW/DECEMBER 6, 2008Vishwanath Pratap Singh (born 25 June 1931 – died 27 November 2008) India’s eighth prime minister (2 December 1989 to 7 November 1990) was a complex and brilliant political personality who will be remembered for a variety of reasons. Beginning his political life in Allahabad in Indira Gandhi’s Congress, he was among those whom Sanjay Gandhi promoted to positions of power. This

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An Essay by a School Student... found it interestingIntroduction In the last few months there was a lot of sound and fury on India’s civilian nuclear deal with the US. The debate was so intense that our union government was brought on the brink of collapse. Opposition to the deal from the left parties reduced the government to a minority and the government survived only

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Here is a poem... I did not write it... But found it interesting Oh god!!!!!!!If at all u r there!Tell me why,I am me?Is it because, I was the chosen oneAs said in d bible?Or is it because I had committed any sin?Tell me why,I am like a light house?With no one to play with,And no one to care.Is it because, I never danceTo d tune they play?Or is it because, I am what I am?Tell me why,I am so

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On Section 124A of the IPC and Sedition... Time to scrap that... The series of arrests, first of MDMK leaders Vaiko and M.Kannappan and of film makers Seeman and Ameer have foregrounded the existence of Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) once again. And in a sense, here is an occasion to debate on whether this section must remain in the penal code at all.It may be mere

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On the CEO being killed in Noida... (a version of this appeared in the New Indian Express) There was indeed a sense of irony in the way the political establishment went ballistic about the incident in Greater Noida involving the death of Lalit Kishore Chaudhury. The incident, without doubt, was unfortunate. It must not have taken place and such acts as the one that the victimized

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Some thoughts on Khairlanji and the new turn in the Sohrabuddin murder ..... The verdict of the Sessions Court in Bhandara in Maharashtra on September 15, 2008 followed by the judgment on September 24, 2008 sentencing six men to death and two others to life term imprisonment evoked mixed reaction. The Sessions court baffled many when it dropped the charges under sections of the

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Am sure I will be accused of being anti-Federal.. but then... That the social fabric in Orissa and in Karnataka is now torn with violence being reported from town after town is indeed a cause for concern. The attacks, in these two States, are clearly a planned one and the perpetrators belong to the Bajrang Dal and such other outfits that have been behind similar such attacks in the

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I have my own reasons for demanding Shivraj Patil's exit... It is likely that Shivraj Patil may be asked to quit the Union Home Ministry even before you read this column. This, however, is only a possibility and Sonia Gandhi may chose to ignore the strident demand for Patil’s removal from the opposition as well as from a section of the Union Cabinet. Lalu Yadav, according to reports in

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Some Notes on the Chiranjeevi factor.... Telegu cine-star Chiranjeevi has raised a storm in the political discourse in Andhra Pradesh. The launch of his Praja Rajyam Party, at an impressive rally at Tirupathi, is being seen as an event that will alter the course of politics in Andhra Pradesh in the same way as did N.T.Rama Rao with his Telegu Desam party in 1983. Well. There

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I feel this way after reading about the recent developments in Singur The developments in Singur involving the NANO car project are clearly a manifestation of the long legacy of popular mobilization in West Bengal. There is, indeed, an irony in the developments in the sense that the people and their struggle, at this point of time, is against the Government led by the Communist Party

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Another 3rd Front, they say, is in the making.... Another third front is in the making. The nucleus this time is Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party. The end game of this combination is to install Ms. Mayawati as India’s Prime Minister. The foundation for this formation were laid in the context of the confidence vote consequent to the decision by the Left parties to withdraw support to the

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A slightly different version of this appeared in the New Indian Express Tuesday, July 22, 2008 On March 30, 1940, eminent philosopher and one of twentieth century’s greatest thinkers, Bertrand Russell’s appointment as Professor at the New York City College, was revoked by Justice McGeehan of the New York Supreme Court. The case that he disposed was based on a tax payers suit filed by

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