Remembering two wonderful people, as the world observed the ‘International Day of the Elderly’ on October 1st
If there is one ministry that India under NDA governance can be proud of, it is the External Affairs Ministry. Recently, women, including External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj took Indian foreign policy to new, respectable and proud heights.
It verily looks like fuel is the robin hood of the central government. An instrument to rob the ‘rich’ to help the poor, as admitted to by one of its Union Ministers
With the dust over Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, the ‘leader’ of the cult Dera Sacha Suda yet to die down, one wonders how significantly the numerous God-men, God-women, religion, atheism or political ideology influence ordinary mortals
India, as a nation needs to move away from self-defeating tunnel-visioned functioning to a wider, more progressive one, where important and relevant issues are addressed.
If the first freedom struggle had a foreign aggressor leave India, bestowing her freedom, the enemy within, seeking to throttle dissent, thought and opinion will seems poised to trigger the second one
The BIP-led NDA captained by Modi follows the trail of minority appeasement, the favorite political game of the Congress, much to India’s disillusionment
The Supreme Court has stood up to the cause of citizens’ ‘privacy’. But, isn’t that commodity long dead and gone? With ‘privacy’ having given way to ‘rights’, and self advertisement being the ‘in-thing’?
Remembering a good old bygone era when people ‘lived and let live’!