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Bunking Won’t Block the Truth

AMIT SHAH’S absence from the Lok Sabha during the entire Monsoon Session was quite bizarre. Even after being present in the Parliament premises, he was consciously but quite obviously staying away from the House. The grotesque attacks on the protesting students and youth at Jantar Mantar during their march to the Parliament, provoked widespread revulsion. In turn, the joint Opposition’s pointed demand for the Home Minister’s specific explanation, put him in a tight spot.

No Rice on the Plate, But No Dearth of Ghee in Our Dreams!

My Dear Sir,

Pray tell, what is the most critically urgent regional, national or international crisis plaguing our land today? Ah, no - forgive me, you’ve asked a hopelessly foolish question! Whether one’s belly is empty or full, whether employment exists or not - those are horribly ancient, terribly outdated fashions. The real question confronting civilisation today is - tonight, will you earn a direct VIP pass to heaven by eating paneer or will you roast in the blazing fires of hell for eating mutton?

Court Slams Noida DM, Police for NSA Arrest of Activist

THE Allahabad High Court, in a habeas corpus petition disposed of on September 2, has quashed the preventive detention of Akriti Chaudhary, a 24-year-old first-year law student at Delhi University, holding that her continued incarceration under the National Security Act, 1980, was violative of Article 21 of the Constitution. A division bench of Justices Atul Sreedharan and Achal Sachdev ordered her immediate release and directed that Rs.

Bihar: Memoirs of Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Released on his 103rd Birth Anniversary

The autobiography of legendary CPI(M) and AIKS leader Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi was released on September 1, his 103rd birth anniversary, by CPI(M) Polit Bureau member and AIKS president Ashok Dhawale at the CPI(M) state office hall in Patna. The autobiography in Hindi, titled ‘Marxism: My Struggle Path’, was edited by his late comrade Siddheshwar Nath Pandey and daughter Mrunalini. 

Bhagwat Fails to Whitewash RSS…Again

RSS sarsanghchalak (supremo) Mohan Bhagwat’s periodic attempts to portray the RSS ideology – and its brand of fanatic Hindutva – as mellow, tolerant, and inclusive are becoming more and more pathetic and meaningless. Nobody believes these sermons, not even their own khaki clad cadres. The most recent instance of Bhagwat’s reflections was in New York, USA, where he declared, “If any Hindu thinks that there should be no Muslim in Bharat (India), he will not remain Hindu.”

Apropos GDP Estimates

THE first GDP estimate for India was made by Dadabhai Naoroji for the year 1867-68, though his estimate was extremely rough. V.K.R.V. Rao made the first careful GDP estimate for 1931-32, and subsequently regular official estimates were made from 1949 onwards. The motivation for the early estimates was to establish the material deprivation of the Indian people under colonial rule, while the regular post-independence estimates were meant to track the progress being made by the country after the achievement of independence.

Uproar in Assembly over DGP’s suicide note; Call for CM’s resignation

The Tripura Legislative Assembly was thrown into turmoil on Monday following allegations that the suicide note of DGP Anurag Dhankar directly points fingers at the Chief Minister. Congress MLA Sudip Roy Barman was expelled from the Assembly after he pressed the Chief Minister and the Treasury benches over allegations that the suicide note had been concealed. In protest against what the Opposition described as an attempt to suppress democratic voices, opposition MLAs boycotted the first half of the day’s proceedings.

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