Category: Editorials

The ‘Her’ Ganapati, society and wisdom

  By Vijay Darda | 12-09-2016 Ganeshotsav which once was confined to Maharashtra has today become popular all over the country. Besides Maharashtra, other states have also adopted Ganeshotsav with equal enthusiasm. This 11-day festival is reaching the last stage of celebration. This is the right time to take stock of the relevance of the festival initiated by Lokmanya Tilak

Not anarchy, but veering towards inhumanity!

  By Vijay Darda | 05-09-2016 There is an old adage in Marathi that says how man is becoming brutal and how he is developing animal instincts. For the last few years, the country is facing a piquant situation, which indicates how man, who is considered to be the highest creation among all living creatures, has started behaving like a

Who is to shoulder the responsibility?

  By Vijay Darda | 29-08-2016 ‘Ram Rajya’ is not just an ideal concept. It was the dream of Mahatma Gandhi and it was the duty of each one of us to fulfil that dream. But this dream has not been fulfilled in the last seven decades after independence and now that dream is getting even more distant. Is it

Who blocks India’s medal hunt at Olympics?

  By Vijay Darda | 22-08-2016 Going by our previous performances, we should be glad that our athletes have performed well in Rio Olympic 2016. Even when some of them have not won medals, they have delivered a performance that is quite creditable even in the international arena. In terms of medal, the silver for shuttler P V Sindhu is

India@70: Time to bridge India-Bharat chasm

  By Vijay Darda | 15-08-2016 It is celebration time and the Bharat Parv is on. This is in the fitness of things. The festivities are in full flow. From a newly independent free country, whose future was beset with doubts about the stability of its integrity and unity we have marched on to being a regional super power and

Dalit crisis gets lip service, fails humanity test

  By Vijay Darda | 08-08-2016 We have a Dalit crisis since time immemorial. It is not that we have done nothing to solve it, but the fact remains that it persists in spite of all our efforts. Whenever an incident takes place of Dalit atrocity, the responses may be on partisan lines, but these are usually politically correct. When

Let us end our low medal tally Olympics syndrome

  By Vijay Darda | 01-08-2016 With 120 athletes participating in 16 Olympic events at the two week long Rio Games that get underway on August 5th this is India’s biggest contingent in this four yearly event that tests the sporting prowess of nations. Indians would participate in archery, athletics, badminton, boxing, golf, hockey, gymnastics, judo, rowing, shooting, swimming, table

The need to fight negativity

  By Vijay Darda | 25-07-2016 Temperamentally, I am an optimistic person. I can find positivity even in some of the most difficult situations. After all it is optimism that makes all of us get past all the hurdles in life. But of late, I am discerning that there is a growing negativity all around us, and this is almost

Resolving the Kashmir tangle

  By Vijay Darda | 18-07-2016 There are strong political reasons both at the bilateral level and internationally that the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan has remained unresolved for almost seven decades. Beginning 1948 when it first harboured the ambition of capturing Srinagar, Pakistan has repeatedly made unsuccessful attempts to resolve the issue militarily. After its attempts in 1965

Modi makes the India-Africa link work

  By Vijay Darda | 12-07-2016 Just take a look at this bit of information. India and Africa account for 2.5 billion people and yet neither has a seat on the United Nations Security Council. Of course there is a history behind this distortion. When the UNSC was formed in 1945, neither India nor most of the countries in Africa