Category: Opinion
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India on the 76th Republic Day!
India celebrates 76th Republic Day on January 26, 2025 to mark the enforcement of the Constitution of India on that day in January 1950. Results of General Elections to the Lok Sabha (House of the People) on June 4, 2024 have shown shift from over ten terminal years of inhumanity, bigotry, unspeakable cruelty, about the…
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संपूर्ण क्रांति : पचास साल का अधूरा सफर
वर्ष 1974 में गांधी मैदान (पटना) में लोकनायक जयप्रकाश नारायण द्वारा “संपूर्ण क्रांति’ के उद्घोष को पचास वर्ष पूरे हो रहे हैं. उस आंदोलन का मकसद समाज और व्यवस्था में आमूल बदलाव करना था. मगर अफसोस कि वह लक्ष्य अधूरा रह गया! लेकिन उसकी जरूरत और प्रासंगिकता बनी हुई है. इसलिए उस आंदोलन और उस…
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Railways safety nosedives
Indian Railways safety has taken a big hit with the June 2, 2023 horrendous Odissa triple train accidents. Budgetary allocations for safety of rail services have come down drastically since 2014. Commensurate with that massive vacancies in Indian Railways have plagued rail safety. RSS Pariwar union government’s initial covert ploy through captive mainstream media to…
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Union government on women empowerment in last nine years
RSS Pariwar union government in last nine years has been big on women’s empowerment and small on the ground. Inauguration of a new parliament building in the New India’s Azadi Ka Amrit Kaal on May 28, 2023 by the Prime Minister (PM) was a day that brought national shame upon women of the country when…
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Nine years of misrule by union government
Promises made by BJP to come to power in 2014, such as, 20 million (2 crore) jobs every year, Rs.15, 00,000 in every bank account, a US $5 trillion economy by 2024, doubling of farming income by 2022, cooperative federalism, a Congress-free (mukt) Bharat, evaporated in thin year in the last nine years of RSS…
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नया संसद भवन/परिसर : ‘राजा’ की सनक का एक और उदहारण!
अमूमन हर राजा-बादशाह और शासक अपने कार्यकाल में कुछ ऐसा कर जाना चाहता था, जिस कारण इतिहास में उसे खास स्थान मिल जाये. वे इसके लिए खर्च की परवाह नहीं करते थे. उनको पूछना भी किससे था. सरकारी खजाना अपनी जागीर थी. दुनिया भर में शासकों की ऐसी महत्वाकांक्षा या सनक के कारण बनी शानदार…
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Railways to complete electrification of broad gauge routes this year
Indian Railways will complete hundred percent electrification of its entire Broad Gauge (BG) routes by the end of this calendar year (2023). Out of a total of 65,269 BG Route Kilo Metres (RKMs) across the country, 58,812 RKMs, equivalent to 90.06 per cent RKMs have been completed as on March 31, 2023. Remaining 6,457 BG…
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Scientific temper eludes India
India, an ancient civilization, has been home to largest number of superstitions and myths in the world. Indian society, amidst regional variations, has always been very conservative and superstitious. Mindset of people has hardly changed despite great reforms in the 19th and 20th centuries. Average Indian consciousness is mostly clouded by obtrusive superstitions and prejudices.…
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Jails to be deradicalisation centres
RSS Pariwar Union Government in the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has raised Government of India’s concern over the failure of States to implement the Model Jail Manual 2016 for bringing uniformity in the basic principles governing jails of the country. States and Union Territories have been advised to pay special attention to inmates inclined…
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Extant status of Indian prisons
Supreme Court of India, in its judgments on various aspects of prison administration, has laid down three binding broad principles for imprisonment and custody. First, a person in prison does not become a non-person. Second, a person in prison is entitled to all human rights within the limitations of imprisonment. Third, there is no justification…
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Central allocations for minorities reduced drastically
Union budgetary allocations for welfare of country’s minorities in Ministry of Minority Affairs in the General Budget 2023-24 presented by the Finance Minister on February 1, 2023 in Parliament has been reduced drastically by 38 per cent compared to the allocations in the fiscal year 2022-23 (last financial year) from Rs.5020.50 crore to Rs.3097 crore.…
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India on the Republic Day 2023
Republican India on the 74th Republic Day, January 26, 2023, is witnessing how the RSS Pariwar Union Government is keeping in place an electoral façade, using lucre, ill gotten canny, manipulations of satraps, cautionary threat, outright purchase of elected legislators, false propaganda, even more false promises, the hobgoblin of “enemies” within and without endangering “national…
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Centre-State relations take a big hit
Centre-State relations between the opposition ruled States and the RSS Pariwar Union Government have worsened as never before. The much touted, much hyped ‘cooperative federalism’ by the Prime Minister (PM) has taken a big hit since 2014. Institution of Governor is aggressively misused to destabilize opposition (non-RSS Pariwar) ruled State Governments so much so that…
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Abuse of power violates human rights of people
India has a long history of gross abuse of power and deprivation of human rights of its people in the garb of laws and legality. The system of criminal jurisprudence in the country, drawn from its colonial past, is designed to instill fear of authority and subservience to the rulers among the people, now the…
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Undermining public institutions threatens democracy
Dictionaries have defined democracy as a government by the people, a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by their elected agents (representatives) under a free electoral system, with the practice or spirit of social equality, with a social condition of classlessness and equality and the…