The classic clash, inevitable in a democracy, seems to be well and truly on. The Supreme Court’s angry remarks against the politicians for their untiring tirade against it are telltale evidence of the simmering feud between the two constitutional pillars. And the gauntlet has been picked and thrown back, too.
Author: T R Jawahar
The chorus is at a crescedo. Every politician or party worth the name seems to have a quote of lament to offer on the quota issue in unaided private colleges. And why not? After all, the recent decision of the Supreme Court rejecting reservations in admissions to such institutions hits at the core of their existence and threatens their bread and butter.
Bedlam. Pandemonium. Tumult. Furore. Noisy scenes. One automatically associates these words with Pavlovian penchant to Parliament of India, the cosy habitat of that elite and exclusive club called People’s Reps. The combined din of our large and diverse democracy finds its concentrated reverberations here
Tokyo needn’t worry’. This is what the CPI-M government in West Bengal had to say on the Gurgaon Honda incident when police and workers had a bloody confrontation last week. And this when the comrades elsewhere have been kicking up a lot of dust all over the country over the ‘anti-labour’ measures of Honda, a Japanese company.
If fire or wind does not get you, water will. People and property seem to be irrelevant specks in nature’s scheme of things. It is as if the elements have embarked on a major cleaning up operation to rid the world of its vilest inhabitant-humanity.
Etiquette demands that we should not speak ill of the dead. But then an obituary for someone like Veerappan can be anything but flattering. In any case, I am no fan of his, unlike many learned and zealous peers in the profession.
In the raging tussle between inner voices and Congmen’s noises, it is happy tidings for the country that the former has prevailed (so far). Indeed it was a sordid spectacle, reminiscent of the May of 1999 when Pawar revolted, to see the entire stretch of Janpath littered with Congmen, literally on a roll, shamelessly begging and beseeching their sole source of sustenance to relent.
Respected Dr Thaanai Thalaivar Kalaingarji, Congratulations on being anointed unopposed as the leader of The Progressive Front in TN. Though ‘Front’ is familiar stuff for us, the word ‘Progressive’ certainly sounds, well er, progressive.
If the nation does not turn up for work on a particular day, you can bet that the Leftists are at work. Conversely, if the teeming millions of the country unfailingly meet their daily tryst with their chosen vocations the obvious inference is that the Leftists are idling in their devil’s workshops, namely, politburos!