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Nobody questions favours to the employers in a criminal matter that falls under section 405 of the Indian Penal Code having a provision for punishment of imprisonment up to three years, or with fine , or with both under section 406 of the Code. Such a favour is not generally shown towards the employees committing any criminal breach of trust. Its clearly a partisan approach of the Minister in this particular matter. What can one hope from this present system including the provisions of law when for the same offence an employee is liable to be punished with imprisonment of up to seven years and shall be also liable to fine under section 408 of the Code.

The status of legislators in India has been changing since our independence. Earlier, they were “representatives of the people” both in words and its spirit, but now they have reduced to merely the “delegates of their parties.”

Deriving happiness from ahimsa and slaughter is perhaps as old a practice as evolution of humankind itself. It continues despite the fact that the human civilisation considers it since at least 2500 years ago that we do not have any equitable or moral right to practice ahimsa and killings.

After a long battle the NABARD (Amendment) Bill got clearance from the Cabinet paving the way for disbursing loans to farmers at the interest rates of below nine per cent. It a great relief for farmers, for the banks as well as private money lenders of our country has been exploiting them for years by giving them loans at a much higher rate of interests than many other sectors including industries.

Over 2200 people have already lost their lives in floods while millions have become homeless and are suffering post - flood miseries like diseases, hunger and lack of potable water since June this year. It is a phenomena of every year and yet government of India have been almost careless. Needful is yet to be done. The approach in the government is to consider it merely a statistics not a great tragedy.

Manmohan Singh has been taking bold steps for years in the central planning and growth of India. Mulayam Singh Yadav had taken such bold steps for the development of Uttar Pradesh. And now Mayawati has been taking bold steps in scraping the policies of such development and growth that were primarily based on multilevel injustice and exploitation. However, the moot question is, can she succeed in changing the system or would ultimately surrender to the vicious circle.

Getting the history of a nation rewritten is an old practice in the history of many nations of the world. Most of the time the motif behind such exercises is political. However, what is happening in Israel is something different.

Reservation is one of the most useful instruments for our society as scalpel is for patients needing surgery. Its opposition at concept level is wrong unless we find any better tool, but its misuse for narrow political ends is like killing the patient with scalpel even in the operation theater where doctors are supposed to save lives.

Elimination of poverty and hunger has lately been in focus in the Planning Commission and a working paper was also prepared by Arvind Virmani. It is declared in the document itself that the views expressed are of the author and not of the institution in which he works. However, it is noteworthy that this paper has got endorsement by the seal of the government on it and it is now available in the website of the Planning Commission.

The manner in which our Parliamentarians pass various Bills is indicative of the fact that they do not think much on them before their passage in the Houses, what to talk about a careful thinking in comprehensive manner. The Office of Profit Bill in also not an exception.