Is Dr Harsh Vardhan worried about education or….
By Vijay Darda | 30-06-2014 Union health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan (a medical doctor by profession) has made two sensitive statements that convey a bothersome mindset. First, he made the, “fidelity is better than condom”, declaration in an interview to the New York Times. Then, before this controversy could die down it emerged on […]
Price rise: Same logic, different voices
By Vijay Darda | 23-06-2014 In the one month that Modi Sarkar has been in power, the common consumer has been hit hard. There has been no let-up on the price front. Food and vegetable prices have continuously risen, and on top of it there has been hefty hike in rail fares-both passenger as […]
Good opening for Modi-fied India
By Vijay Darda | 09-06-2014 After his stunning victory, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a good opening, as the show biz people will tell you. There was the emotional touch at his being elected the leader of the BJP Parliamentary Party, followed by an international array of politicians at his swearing-in that had the […]
A new era of opportunities and challenges
By Vijay Darda | 01-06-2014 It is not just a coincidence that Narendra Modi begins his tenure as a Prime Minister on the eve of 50th death anniversary of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru — India’s first Prime Minister. The results were declared on May 16, and he had got a clear majority. So, there was […]
Cong self-goals mount Rahul’s losses
By Vijay Darda | 31-05-2014 After the UPA-II got power in 2009, the common perception in political circles was that at some point of time during the course of the next five years the Congress leadership in government would pass from the hands of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to Rahul Gandhi. This was […]
Modi’s quest to be BJP
By Vijay Darda | 24-03-2014 There was a time when a Congress president Dev Kant Baruah became infamous for a slogan — “India is Indira”. Those were the days of post-1975 Emergency. It is something that the BJP never forgets to remind us. But then the last week has conclusively proved that Modi is […]
Electing 16th Lok Sabha, onus on the people
By Vijay Darda | 10-03-2014 The high democratic ideal of a government, of the people, by the people and for the people places a great responsibility on the people. They have to use their collective sovereign power wisely when electing a government. Through more than six decades of working with the largest democracy in […]
Not the way to run a democracy
By Vijay Darda | 24-02-2014 We had the last session of the 15th Lok Sabha this week, and now we are getting ready for another General Election to create the 16th one. When I say that it a testing time for our democracy, then I am using a mere regular cliché. From my experience […]
Telangana: Doing the right thing, the wrong way
By Vijay Darda | 17-02-2014 The legitimacy for separate Telangana is an issue beyond debate. There is historical evidence to establish it, and there is an increasing amount of documentation to assert that political leaders too have accepted it. But then we know from experience, that the right thing seldom gets done. The people […]
The essence of a sincere man
By Vijay Darda | 03-02-2014 The Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi made himself available to the most intense grilling at the hands of the country’s acutely aggressive television anchor for over 80 minutes. There was no question under the Sun that was not put to him, and by any standards it went on for such […]