By Vijay Darda | 15-09-2014 At the last count, 1,42,000 people had been rescued by the Indian Army in an on-going operation after unprecedented floods literally drowned the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Lest, we forget it is called the place that is heaven on Earth. Its people have faced death by drowning in furious flood waters that have
By Vijay Darda | 08-09-2014 In April 2013, when Chief Justice P Sathasivam ordered the quashing of the second FIR against Amit Shah in the Tulsiram Prajapati case nobody could have predicted that he had a ‘deal’ with the BJP. Indeed, at that time the Modi campaign had not even started, so the question of some kind of reward
By Vijay Darda | 01-09-2014 We are all aware of the fear that the sight of a lowly police constable strikes in the hearts of anyone who tends to cross the line on the road. The most coordinated response for any checking on the road by these constables, comes from the auto-drivers who make a quick U-turn and then
By Vijay Darda | 25-08-2014 Let us first get the size of the task clear at the outset. When the parliament passed the first constitutional amendment of the Modi government that seeks to replace the collegium system of appointing judges to the Supreme Court and high courts, it was not just an administrative or judicial reform. It was a
By Vijay Darda | 18-08-2014 In the few months that elapsed between the 68th Independence Day and his royal coronation-like swearing-in as Prime Minister, the most significant worry for his supporters was that Narendra Modi the person who had a speech or a tweet ready for every occasion had somehow gone tongue-tied. Come August 15, and Modi not only
By Vijay Darda | 11-08-2014 Way back in the 90s, brother Rajendra (now the education minister of Maharashtra) and myself went to Germany in search of latest printing machinery for our newspaper. A German salesman was giving us the usual pitch about the ‘excellent’ qualities of the machines. In an aside, the two of us wondered in Hindi as
By Vijay Darda | 04-08-2014 During the course of everyone’s life, relationships do run through several phases. There are ups and downs. The major difference for those in public life, is that they are critically exposed to the probing eyes, especially when they are down. These days, we are witnessing a public exposure of the events that took place
By Vijay Darda | 28-07-2014 Last week we witnessed some very unpalatable scenes. Even as television channels were showing visuals of Shiv Sena MP Rajan Vichare force-feeding a canteen supervisor at the Maharashtra Sadan, the MPs were denying that any such incident took place. Later, when they realised that such a denial was not tenable, MP Vichare accepted that
By Vijay Darda | 21-07-2014 I am quite in agreement with the argument that we have over-blown the controversy surrounding the meeting between freelance journalist Ved Pratap Vaidik and the 26/11 terror mastermind Hafeez Saeed. By, we I mean the politicians and mediapersons. After all, journalists do meet all sorts of people, and it is also a fact that
By Vijay Darda | 14-07-2014 If you go by the first week of the Budget Session for the Modi-led NDA government, then the set of disappointments over the much touted ‘acche din’ among various segments of the population is clearly understandable. The rail fares have gone up, food and vegetable prices are running high, and the budget is already
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