Category: Opinion

  • Manipuri scribe abducted, released after voices raised by many including PEC

    Manipuri scribe abducted, released after voices raised by many including PEC

    Geneva: Expressing serious concern over the abduction of a senior journalist in Manipur of northeast India by some militants early this morning (11 February 2025), Press Emblem Campaign (PEC) demanded his unconditional release. The global media safety and rights body also urged the local authorities as well as Prime Minister of India to take appropriate…

  • Can Kaladan Project completed by July ?

    Can Kaladan Project completed by July ?

    Amid all troubles following an unstable situation in Myanmar/ Burma/Brahmadesh), India is looking at commissioning the ambitious Kaladan riverine project connecting a port in Rakhine/Arakan State with the land-locked north-eastern States for regular trading. Agreed officially between New Delhi and Naypietaw (earlier Rangoon) in 2008, the Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Corridor Project was initiated under…

  • दिल्ली के नतीजे उतने भी चौंकानेवाले नहीं हैं

    दिल्ली के नतीजे उतने भी चौंकानेवाले नहीं हैं

    दिल्ली विधानसभा चुनावों में भाजपा को मिली सफलता जितनी चौंकानेवाली लगती है, उतनी है नहीं. 2014 से केंद्र में अपराजेय भाजपा के रहते और मोदी-शाह जोड़ी की नाक के नीचे दिल्ली विधानसभा चुनावों में ‘आप’ को मिलती रही प्रचंड जीत- और भाजपा जिस अंतर से हारती रही- उससे कहीं अधिक चौंकानेवाली थी. इसे केजरीवाल की…

  • Devi Saraswati worshipped in trouble-torn Bangladesh

    Devi Saraswati worshipped in trouble-torn Bangladesh

    The dwindling Hindu population of Bangladesh celebrated Saraswati Puja peacefully to worship the deity of wisdom, knowledge, and arts on 3 February 2025 across the trouble-torn south Asian nation. As Saraswati Puja is a major religious festival of the Hindu community in the neighbouring country, the devotees celebrate the occasion every year amid enthusiasm, festivity…

  • देश की राष्ट्रपति माननीया द्रौपदी मुर्मू जी के प्रति

    देश की राष्ट्रपति माननीया द्रौपदी मुर्मू जी के प्रति

    मैने श्रीमती इंदिरा गांधी को सन् 1967 में रावर्ट्सगंज के रामलीला मैदान में भुक्का फाड़(फफक कर) रोते हुए देखा था।उस समय सोनभद्र मिर्जापुर जिले का दक्षिणांचल कहा जाता था। भीषण अकाल पड़ा था ।भुखमरी फैली थी। मैदान में हजारों नंगे-भूखे आदिवासी बैठे थे।खादी की सफेद साड़ी पहनी प्रधानमंत्री श्रीमती गांधी किनारे से पैदल आयीं ।उन्होंने…

  • एक साधारण, पर ‘असाधारण’ सरदार!

    एक साधारण, पर ‘असाधारण’ सरदार!

    अभी अभी दिवंगत हुए डॉ मनमोहन सिंह पर कुछ लिखने की न मुझमें पात्रता है, न ही बहुत जरूरी लग रहा था. सबसे पहले तो यह स्वीकारोक्ति कि मुझे अर्थशास्त्र की बहुत समझ नहीं है; और मनमोहन सिंह की ख्याति अर्थशास्त्र के विद्वान के रूप में है. और वित्त मंत्री के रूप में देश में…

  • India on the 76th Republic Day!

    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…

  • संपूर्ण क्रांति  : पचास साल का अधूरा सफर

    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…

  • Railways safety nosedives

    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…

  • Union government on women empowerment in last nine years

    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…

  • Nine years of misrule by union government

    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…

  • नया संसद भवन/परिसर  : ‘राजा’ की सनक का एक और उदहारण!

    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…

  • Railways to complete electrification of broad gauge routes this year

    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…

  • Scientific temper eludes India

    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.…

  • Jails to be deradicalisation centres

    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…