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The saffron brotherhood has a remarkable capacity to let loose new warriors on an unsuspecting public at regular intervals.

LONDON: While the detractors and opponents of the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn have been scaring the Britons with the scenario of worst impact of his continuing as the leader, least to speak of his possible election as the prime minister, on the politics and economics of Britain, his supporters claim that there will be a grassroots rebellion if the party tries to prevent Jeremy’s attempts to redemocratise Labour and pursue his own course.The latest criticism to Corbyn’s leadership comes from Mark Carney, the Governor of Bank of England. He holds that the economic policies put forward by Jeremy Corbyn could “imperil” Britain's economic recovery besides “hurting” the poor and elderly. It is not clear whether he was speaking the mind of the Governor, an economist.

When Dr Raghuram Rajan announces his next bi-monthly monetary policy review on September 29,amid unrelenting pressures for a rate cut from North Block and corporates, he would miss a major constraining factor, now that the Federal Reserve has deferred its first post-crisis hike in US key interest rate kept at near zero since 2008.

It may be misleading to call the coming election in Bihar a referendum on the Narendra Modi Government. Voters are not delivering a judgment on Modi’s performance as Prime Minister. They recognize, it is too early to do that. Neither is it that a victory in Bihar will solve all of the Modi Government’s problems. Nevertheless, Bihar is a political test for Modi, for BJP President Amit Shah and for their generation in the BJP.

On Friday morning I saw a young couple on the ITO Bridge over the Yamuna. They stopped over the river while riding to their office. The lady threw, very reverentially, a plastic bag full of flowers and other ingredients of some Puja at home. Devoted Hindu, though young, and their reverential throw of the package in the Yamuna is a fitting answer to the detractors of our religion and rituals, so I thought. I am rather clumsy with my phone’s camera. In the confusion instead of clicking their reverential immersion of the Puja package I ended up clicking myself in the dark interior of my car. The possible poster of two young devotees on twitter have to wait for some future such spectacle.

BHOPAL: 'There are several Petlawads in Madhya Pradesh', claims a leading Hindi daily (DainikBhaskar). Petlawad is a small town in the tribal Jhabua district in Madhya Pradesh, where a massive blast on September 12 left more than 100 persons dead.

Within minutes of UN Human Rights Panel's indictment at Geneva of 'gross violations' and tortures by Sri Lankan army in the 2009 war ending the LTTE rebellion, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Ms.Jayalalithaa demanded an international probe with a resolution of the State Assembly adopted unanimously. Her main rival, Mr Karunanidhi's DMK, backed the resolution.

Amidst global turmoil, jerked by Chinese yuan devaluation of 1.9 percent on August 11, India’s enigma was unraveled by the group of world-class economists. They dashed the threat and were univocal in declaring India a safe country. They asserted that India was far from contagion impact of yuan devaluation and global turmoil. Reasons, India’s economic fundamentals were strong and evidently, India would outsmart Chinese growth in near future. Strong economic fundamentals , bottom out of growth and downturn in the inflation will insulate india from the impact of global turbulence, owing to yuan devaluation.

Is the agitation of women workers of Kannan Devan Hills Plantations(KDHP) in Munnar a spectacular success as is being made out to be by the mainstream media? If the Government’s duplicity and the ground reality are any guide, it certainly is not.

The Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wicremesinghe is not a stranger to New Delhi and his three day visit to India this week is seen as turning a new leaf in the Iindo -Sri Lanka relations and take it forward. Since expectations were not too high on either side , the visit went off well with talks conducted in a cordial atmosphere. The fact that he chose India for his maiden visit after he took over, speaks volumes . Ranil is known for his pro- India sentiments. There were several issues- some contentiious and some not so contentious- including the fishermen issue, economic and trade, security, the ethnic Tamil problem, the implementation of the 13th amendment plus the UNHRC resolution and security and China which were on the table.