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The realisation that attempts to polarise electorate on basis of Hindutva and religion didn’t work in secular Bengal has finally descended on the BJP leaders, but this is coming after four months of the assembly election and has given rise to scepticism.

A top ranking US diplomat had observed in a security conference in Qatar years back, where this correspondent was privileged to be a participant, that “a country is known by the sport it plays”.

The everyday violence against Muslims is showing a disturbing pattern. In the month of August, there have been at least four recorded cases of gratuitous violence against Muslims in the streets of some cities and small towns in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. The targets of such attacks were poor Muslims such as street vendors, auto rickshaw drivers and even beggars.

Camouflaged in jargon that speaks of ‘monetisation of de-risked assets’, the BJP-led NDA government has announced its plan to sell out India’s public sector. In that plan, assets ranging from roads, ports, airports and railway track and stations, through fuel pipelines, telecom towers, optical fibre cabling, warehouses, and stadia, are to be handed over to big private investors in return for upfront or staggered payments of around Rs 6 lakh crore over a four year period ending financial year 2025. That sum, the government promises, would be used to create new infrastructural facilities.

In the turbulent days which the country is passing through, the dynamics of political developments would take swift turns and tides. In the politics of any country, there must be the reflection of agonies and aspirations of people. The rightward shift in India's life since the ascendance of RSS-BJP rule has intensified the sufferings of the people. There have been pouring of promises by Narendra Modi but none of them were meant for the welfare of people. In the garb of sab ka saath sab ka vikas they were paving the way for the corporates, both domestic and foreign to loot the country.

New Delhi: Promising youngster Muskan displayed her brilliant form and blanked Yelyanur Turganova to storm into the final on the fifth day of the ASBC Asian Youth & Junior Boxing Championships in Dubai.

The first caste census in India was done with the first ever census conducted in 1901 under Lord Risley as the Commissioner of Census of India which was discontinued after the Census 1931 due to opposition of the leaders of the Freedom Movement of India, triggered especially after Dr B R Ambedkar exposed the falsity of the very basis on which castes were enumerated. How it comes now that large number of our politicians are finding caste census beneficial for the country which was found harmful by the founding forefathers of the Independent India?

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and Union Cabinet minister Narayan Rane! It requires constant up and down eye movement to keep both of them in one frame. That’s because if Uddhav Thackeray is reed thin and tall, Narayan Rane is rock stout, and short! So much so, Shiv Sainiks take huge pleasure trolling Rane’s attempts to reach for the skies!

BHOPAL: Sangh Parivar and leaders and spokesmen of its affiliates never miss any opportunity to malign Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. The latest in their malicious campaign is an article written by Rakesh Sinha, BJP member of Rajya Sabha. In his article published in Indian Express (August `14) Sinha claims that "Despite the unbounded reverence for Mahatma Gandhi the masses rejected his silence on the hanging of Bhagat Singh."

Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh, who formed the BJP’s government in the state in 1991, has passed away. He was also governor of Rajasthan. He was accused of criminal conspiracy in the Babri Masjid demolition case for it was during his tenure as CM that the 16th century mosque was demolished.