Category: Editorials

We should learn spiritedness from country like Croatia

  By Vijay Darda | 16-07-2018 It is painful to see India, with a population of more than 125 crore, standing at the last rung in the world of sports A small country with a long coastline between Central and Southeast Europe on the Adriatic Sea, Croatia though lost the title clash, astonished the whole world by reaching the FIFA

Who is responsible for the plight of cities?

  By Vijay Darda | 09-07-2018 Indian cities have ra, yet the government says we are progressing..! Rain in Mumbai..Mumbai helpless! Rain in Nagpur..Nagpur helpless! Rain in Delhi..Delhi helpless! Whenever any city experiences a little more than average rainfall into cesspool..! A stampede on the railway bridge in Mumbai last year, a bridge collapsed this year. A few months ago,

India should not bow down to US threat

  By Vijay Darda | 02-07-2018 We should have the right to look at our interests; America should refrain from playing the Big Brother of the world! Janunat Garbe Nafse-khud tamam ast/Je-kashi Pa-be Kashan Neem Gam Ast! The meaning of Ghalib’s couplet is.. Once if we make up the mind, the distance between Kashi and Kashan is only a half

This approach of banks may ruin the country!

  By Vijay Darda | 25-06-2018 Ruthless with small borrowers and complicity with big defaulters is an open secret now; the entire banking system is at stake! Three news reports which have come within a week are extremely worrying. The first news was that the government has written off bad loans worth Rs. 1,44,000 crore. Generally it is called a

Need for a decisive battle against terror

  By Vijay Darda | 18-06-2018 The killing of Shujaat Bukhari is an attempt to bury the yearning for peace. Salute to brave soldiers like Aurangzeb! The gunning down of Shujaat Bukhari, editor of newspaper Rising Kashmir, is not a commonplace incident. Shujaat was a journalist who used to write fearlessly and called a spade a spade. He was actively

Pranab Da is outspoken and committed to diversity

  By Vijay Darda | 11-06-2018 What is relevant now is not why he went to the RSS programme. What is important is what he said there. Even as Dr Pranab Mukherjee came under sharp criticism from all quarters for accepting the invitation to attend the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s (RSS) programme, he refused to answer any questions. He said that

If we continue to trifle with nature, disaster is imminent!

  By Vijay Darda | 04-06-2018 Land is turning barren, rivers going dry, forest getting denuded, air getting polluted, things are not hunky-dory any more! Alarming as it is, a recent report by the Centre for Science and Environment has shocked me. The report states that by 2030, 21 cities in India will be ‘dead zero’ as far as availability

Oppn unity must for health of democracy

  By Vijay Darda | 28-05-2018 Political parties will have to rise above self interest to capitalise on the hope revived during the swearing-in ceremony in Karnataka Reviving the hope of opposition unity, important leaders of opposition parties came together on a single platform during the swearing-in ceremony of HD Kumaraswamy in Karnataka, thereby giving a clear message that the

Did country dream of such a democracy?

  By Vijay Darda | 21-05-2018 Politics runs amok in the arena of power. Might becomes right! The common man is reduced to being a mute spectator! This was bound to be the fate of Yeddyurappa, who tried to ride piggyback on the governor to occupy the chair of Karnataka chief minister! But just imagine what would have happened if

Keep elections out of mud-slinging

  By Vijay Darda | 14-05-2018 As the dust and din of electioneering settles in Karnataka, the unanswered question is why were public issues left untouched during the campaign? The fate of the candidates has been sealed in the EVMs and who will win and lose in Karnataka will be revealed when the election results are declared tomorrow. People are