By Vijay Darda | 13-04-2015 We always find it engrossing when some predictions made about the future start coming true during our lifetime. In this respect, the Tofflers-Alvin and Heidi — an American couple that began writing best-selling books like the Future Shock, The Third Wave, War and Anti-War- from the 1970s onwards have been particularly impressive. Now, for
By Vijay Darda | 06-04-2015 Let us get a few things clear right at the outset. We may debate the pros and cons of global warming, climate change, its impact on the economy and apportion blame for it in international conferences. But at the level of individual citizen we do not have this luxury. The individual citizen, especially the
By Vijay Darda | 30-03-2015 That we are a cricket crazy nation, and the game is our only secular religion need not be over-emphasised. This is something that is internalised by the millions of fans who have imbibed all the nuances of the game from the live coverage and bi-lingual commentary that beams into the remotest corners of the
By Vijay Darda | 23-03-2015 Recently, there have been two prominent episodes in our public discourse that have highlighted the chronic curse of gender bias in our society. The first was the knee jerk reaction of the Union government banning the BBC documentary India’s Daughter narrating the story of that 23-year-old braveheart who was gang-raped in a moving bus
By Vijay Darda | 16-03-2015 You can draw your own preferred conclusion. The top three: Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Indian Ocean countries), finance minister Arun Jaitley (United Kingdom) and home minister Rajnath Singh (Japan) all decided to go abroad at the same time. No one can accuse these responsible men holding such crucial posts, that they neglect their domestic
By Vijay Darda | 09-03-2015 For 68 years we have had a problem called Kashmir. It does not offer itself to any easy solution. In fact, a difficult one is also tough to discern on the horizon. We have fought wars across the border, and our armed forces maintain an eternal vigil within our own territory. Pakistan has played
By Vijay Darda | 02-03-2015 On the face of it, you cannot really find much fault with the two budgets presented in parliament last week. Both the Rail Budget from Suresh Prabhakarrao Prabhu and the General Budget from Arun Jaitley have a clutch of good features. But as an ordinary citizen you cannot really go ga-ga over these exercises
By Vijay Darda | 23-02-2015 It is not for nothing that capitalism gets a bad name. One of its traits is a fierce no-holds barred competition with all ethical considerations being damned and the desire to win at any cost. On the eve of the budget session, we have seen the eruption of a case that is being mistakenly
By Vijay Darda | 16-02-2015 In the first place, a huge round of applause is in order for the Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal and his team. No amount of praise would be adequate enough for the manner in which they have surmounted the odds against them. They have overcome the combined might of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s
By Vijay Darda | 09-02-2015 Bollywood films are always larger than life and their influence on our life is also in the same proportion. Indeed, these films have an extraordinary presence in our daily lives that goes beyond much their screen life. For instance, lines from film songs are remembered spontaneously to describe current situations. The latest incident in
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