India’s federal structure provides for power to the Central Government for some major decisions and autonomy for States on many others.
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There is a proverb in Tamil: The patient person will eventually rule the world.
This was really the mother of all polls, or rather, didi of all polls. As it turned out, it became didi’s polls, both before and after and all through.
Last year same time, when Covid was in its nascent stage and the nation under lockdown, the Government pompously announced a slew of economic measures of which only a few were of any worth to the people.
The burning fires singed my eyes and face. The billowing smoke shut out visibility allowing just blurred windows in instalments.
Delhi choking; Maharashtra gasping; UP breathless. Indeed, we viewers of national media are getting drowned by such news ceaselessly through the day.
The sad demise of actor Vivek is a landmark in Tamilnadu’s sordid Covid history.
It is our turn to get ‘wicked’. The Tamilnadu Chief Minister’s certificate to himself about his nationalistic credentials does provoke cynics like us to take a peep into his past Of course, quite a few enquiry commissions havedone this before,
The Maharashtra imbroglio has turned out to be a nemesis for all the political players there. Besides, a few Constitutional offices have also been tarred in the process.
