Posted by sanjaykaul on April 11, 2011 · 3 Comments
Irrespective that the crusade by Anna Hazare was a result of circumstances created by the BJP and the collective opposition’s hard line on corruption under the UPA regime, the point remains that the Lokpal Bill is a bitter pill for the Congress to swallow. But looking at the mood of the nation, it will have … Read more
Filed under Governance · Tagged with Adarsh scam, Anna Hazare, BJP, Congress, corruption, CVC Thomas, CWG scam, Governance, Government of India, India, ISRO case, Jan Lokpal Bill, Jantar mantar, Lokpal Bill, NAC, National Advisory Committee, New Delhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, probity in politics, protests at Jantar Mantar, Sanjay Kaul
Posted by sanjaykaul on January 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The recent episode of the demolition of an illegal mosque in Jungpura in New Delhi has been an eye opener for all concerned. Apart from blinkered governance, it has to rate as a most bizarre case of the government arguing against its own property! What seemed like a protracted legal battle of a well-meaning, law abiding … Read more
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Posted by sanjaykaul on September 24, 2010 · 2 Comments
This post argues that the Congress’ lack of vision and crony politics has repeatedly got us to the brink in the valley and that it is time to ignore the destructive self-obsession of the Kashmiris and the pompous responses of the Nehru-Gandhis, and attack the problem instead of the people. The unraveling of the Kashmir … Read more
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Posted by sanjaykaul on September 17, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Written to commemorate India’s sixty-third year of Independence, this post argues that without a well defined sense of identity, nations fail to be great. And that Nehruvian political tradition has asphyxiated our natural oeuvre. Sixty Three years after independence, even as we ponder what we have made of this nation, there will be tributes to … Read more
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Posted by sanjaykaul on August 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Something just doesn’t add up. Governmental gobbledygook tells us we’re doing fine. Big media bleats the same message most obediently while economist spin meisters do rounds of TV studios and trammel us with data. Nobody knows what to think. Are we in the grip of a recession or a recovery? Is the inflation good for … Read more
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Posted by sanjaykaul on May 16, 2010 · Leave a Comment
The power regulator asks private electric distribution companies to reduce tariff since they made huge profits. The Chief Minister of Delhi steps in and says people of Delhi are rich enough to pay and ticks off the regulator. Unbelievable, but true! The repeated controversies involving power distribution companies in Delhi after privatization of the … Read more
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Posted by sanjaykaul on September 27, 2009 · 3 Comments
Thirty minutes of mayhem on a TV Show – and why we shouldn’t take Chidambaram’s remarks seriously, and why the Government is responsible for how citizens behave. I thought I’d let the squawking pass, but it seems that the advice of Minister Chidambaram to Delhiites to enhance their social behaviour quotient in preparation for the … Read more
