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Eight years of NDA Union Government’s misgovernance since 2014 has plunged the nation into the vortex of communalism, hatred, religious polarization, divisive/majoritarian politics, ever rising unemployment, growing inflation, farmer crisis and economic down turn as never before, making India a dystopia, a society characterized by human misery, squalor, oppression and disease. Besides, the Prime Minister made India communal and authoritarian. Minorities bashings/targeted violence against minorities have been institutionalized by ruling RSS Pariwar as state cruelty and nationalism are used to divide society for political gains. Resonance of Nazi Germany can be seen in politics today. Poor have been marginalized. Damage to Indian democracy under the PM is lasting. India has transformed into an illiberal, majoritarian and intolerant country. Far from ground reality, Government has been surviving on headline management, propaganda and fake news.

In 2020, the present NDA government, while bringing three farm laws said they are intended to facilitate fair markets and enhance farmers’ incomes. But the government acted exactly in the opposite by banning exports all of a sudden, when the global wheat prices are attractive and watered down the hopes of Indian wheat farmers.

To talk of coincidence, ‘Geetanjali’ has got lucky for a second time in a hundred and ten years. In the first time, Rabindranath Tagore’s book of poetry, Geetanjali, won him a Nobel Prize in literature. Now, a century and more later, another Geetanjali, the Hindi writer of stories, is awarded the hugely prestigious International Booker Prize for literature.

After the newspaper report with the picture showing the IAS couple watching the dog take a walk in the stadium, the Ministry of Home Affairs transferred Sanjeev Khirwar to Ladakh, and Rinku Dugga to Arunachal Pradesh, separating the couple, and punishing the dog for being the reason for their separation. The decision that will mar the careers of the IAS couple, and dog them for the rest of their lives, is also a dog whistle to the powerful in the higher echelons of the bureaucracy.

The Consumer Price Index (General) measuring retail headline inflation shows a year on year growth of 7.8 per cent in the month of April 2022, which is the highest in the past eight years. Actually, the CPI (General) was higher than 6 per cent in the month of May and June last year and then the prices seem to moderate till September 2021. Since then, there has been a sharp rise in prices reaching close to 8 per cent in April this year. It is also important that core inflation which excludes food group and fuel and clothing also reached 7 per cent year on year growth in April 2022.

On May 27, 1964 at 1.44 PM, India's first Prime Minister and one of the best chroniclers of this great nation's history breathed his last at his residence Teen Murti Bhavan. Nehru along with Indira Gandhi came back to Delhi on May 26 afternoon after a three day holiday in Dehradun. Nehru had not been keeping well since his last stroke at the Bhubaneswar session of AICC in January of 1964. After a short rest, the 74 year old Prime Minister, took to his normal schedule despite the requests by his panel of doctors to go slow. For Nehru, work was worship, and when he was not doing official work, he was reading.

During the Ramjanmabhoomi agitation, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and other Hindutva outfits had raised the slogan “Ayodhya sirf ek jhanki hai, Mathura or Kashi baaki hai”. This translated means “Ayodhya is just the beginning, Mathura and Kashi are left”.

Peace and Harmony helped in development and growth in the human society most of the time; there have however been incidents of violence against others from time to time which have hampered socio-economic growth. Such incidents do not occur spontaneously. Studies have shown that most of the time they are instigated by some vested interests with political, economic, social and cultural motives.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Campaign in the prestigious Thrikkakara Assembly by-election has entered the last lap with both the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the Congress-headed United Democratic Front (UDF) pulling out all stops to ensure victory.

Eight years of Narendra Modi, and the lament is “there are still two more to go.” May 26, 2014 Narendra Modi stuck his thumb out at the naysayers and took oath. From that day on, the people of India haven’t been given reason to forget that the man rules their lives. And, if anybody should take responsibility for the lurking disappointment, it’s as much the Opposition as it is the man himself.