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Who is robbing parliament’s dignity?
Published on 26 Aug, 2011 at 12:11 in Comments | Viewed 48 views times | No Comments
As the peoples’ uprising against a venal political class in India shows no signs of abating, a strange din is evident in some debates and comments. Apart from reeking of cynicism and a not-so-veiled contempt for the self-mobilising multitudes, they all essentially converge on a few broad points. Let us look at them point by point.
One. Parliament is supreme.
No, parliament is not supreme. The constitution of India is, says…
Behold India’s unfolding democratic revolution
Published on 24 Aug, 2011 at 13:00 in Comments | Viewed 55 views times | No Comments
A unique revolution is unfolding across India. No matter what is the immediate outcome of this popular upsurge, triggered by the inspiring determination of a 74-year-old man’s refusal to eat food till the first step towards containing the hydra-headed monster of state-encouraged corruption is taken, Anna Hazare’s fast has already become an event of great historic proportions.
Take a few recent developments in the so-called developed democracies of the West….
‘Annalogy’ of protest turns new chapter
Published on 24 Aug, 2011 at 12:57 in Comments | Viewed 44 views times | No Comments
A veritable wave of ‘Annamania’ has swept an angst-ridden, urban, middle India, specially in ‘Annapolis’ (read Delhi), giving the illusion of a new era christened ‘Anna Domini,’ marked by ‘Annalia’, mixing anti-establishment hysterics, populist entertainment and the romance of a revolution.
The over week-long spontaneous uprising against corruption shepherded by a fasting 74-year-old self-styled Gandhian has spawned a new vocabulary of protest and bred a popular mythology that is seductive…
I am Anna Hazare… Am I?
Published on 21 Aug, 2011 at 10:26 in Opinion | Viewed 173 views times | No Comments
Looking at the multitude of supporters that Anna Hazare movement has been able to muster I am wondering why haven’t equally graver issues, such as the murder of female children, child labour in homes, hotels and factories, or poverty outside our car windows received this kind of support. Why are…
Anna’s protest: Right or Wrong?
Published on 21 Aug, 2011 at 10:23 in Opinion | Viewed 381 views times | No Comments
As Anna Hazare, 74 year old frail but staunch Gandhian will head to Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan to resume his fast for Jan Lokpal Bill the Team Anna versus government deadlock seems to be over for now. Anna Hazare has been given the permission to fast for 15 days at…
Anna’s hyperboles may yet produce a strong Lokpal
Published on 20 Aug, 2011 at 14:44 in Comments | Viewed 41 views times | No Comments
Although the Manmohan Singh government has been battered and bruised by its inept handling of civil society activists, the latter’s claim of being harbingers of a second independence movement has also begun to wear thin.
The terms to which Anna Hazare agreed while negotiating with the government while in Tihar Jail – that he will not undertake a fast-unto-death…
Bill that will allow foreign law firms through back door
Published on 18 Aug, 2011 at 13:22 in Comments | Viewed 45 views times | No Comments
Relatively unnoticed amid the scams and agitations haunting the government, Law Minister Salman Khurshid set a time bomb ticking. Earlier this month, exactly 50 years after the Advocates Act, a bill was placed by the minister, a legal practitioner himself, for wide consultations that seeks to set up a new regulatory authority for the profession.
Called the Legal Practitioner (Regulation and maintenance of Standards in Professions, Protecting the Interest of…
Mumbai terror attack underscores India’s vulnerability
Published on 5 Aug, 2011 at 10:33 in Comments | Viewed 63 views times | No Comments
Even before the country could ascertain the implications of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s much-awaited cabinet reshuffle, especially since it is supposedly the last major one before the next general election, the Mumbai blasts reminded it yet again of its dangerous neighbourhood and volatile domestic scene.
For the present, the terrorist outrage appears to be the handiwork of an indigenous group, probably the Indian Mujahideen. But the curious coincidence of these…
INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE IN INDIA ……AND DIVORCES
Published on 2 Aug, 2011 at 9:02 in Opinion | Viewed 130 views times | No Comments
It is often said in India that the marriages are settled in the heaven and performed on the earth. A marriage, under the Indian system of society, is a sacrament unlike Christianity and Mohammedan systems and the dissolution thereof is least liked. The changing economic and social scenario and the shift of Indian population in foreign land are adding new dimensions to the concept and the rate of divorces…
MELBOURNE’S MEDICAL MAYHEM
Published on 2 Aug, 2011 at 9:00 in Opinion | Viewed 62 views times | No Comments
It was one of the most gut wrenching things I have ever had to witness. MELBOURNE’S MEDICAL MAYHEM . When you Google search on Ambulance Victoria, you will get this back “No matter where you are in Victoria, you will receive prompt, high quality, emergency medical care and transport from Ambulance Victoria.” Last month, I suddenly got ill and had to call 000. Here I am short of breath waiting…
