The stringent action being initiated by the State government against the striking employees marks a watershed in governance. It is for the first time that a popular government has mustered the courage and demonstrated the same in the form of punitive measures backed by appropriate laws and ordinances to call the bluff of the mafias masquerading as labour unions.
Author: T R Jawahar
If there is one tribe in this country that has always had all sides of its bread buttered, come what may, it is the mass of government employees. Their fortunes have invariably swung upwards, whatever the state of the economy and unmindful of their usefulness to the country.
Insiders and people in the know of things claim that the real reasons were the usual pedestrian stuff, namely, corruption and nepotism and that the game was up.
Blowing one’s trumphet, to be sure, is not a desirable trait. But there are occasions, legitimate exceptions, when one can indulge one’s ego with a sense of justification and without guilt. Today is one such red-letter day, or rather, evening, whence your News Today, begins to make its daily forays into your hearts and homes, resplendent in a variety of colours and donning a new look.
With national dailies sticking up unabashedly for illegal aliens for the simple reason that they happen to be ‘secular missionaries’, the communal outfield in the country does seem totally queer. So, asking an inveterate overstayer, a tout of a faith masquerading as a tourist, to get out tantamounts to impingement of religious freedom
Blowing one’s trumphet, to be sure, is not a desirable trait. But there are occasions, legitimate exceptions, when one can indulge one’s ego with a sense of justification and without guilt. Today is one such red-letter day, or rather, evening, whence your News Today, begins to make its daily forays into your hearts and homes, resplendent in a variety of colours and donning a new look.
The Missionaries of Charity are, for a change, the beneficiaries of some divine benevolence what with Mother Teresa all set to become a Saint, courtesy, Pope. No complaints about that for it makes little sense to a communal ignoramus and a sinner to boot like me.
In Gujarat, it was not the Congress that was pitted against the BJP but the ‘secular’ media composed of national dailies with their notional agendas and the Stars for whom even the sky was not the limit when it came to BJP-bashing or Modi-baiting.
In Gujarat, it was not the Congress that was pitted against the BJP but the ‘secular’ media composed of national dailies with their notional agendas and the Stars for whom even the sky was not the limit when it came to BJP-bashing or Modi-baiting.