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.
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The reader, pardon, leader of the opposition, Sonia Gandhi, appears to have had a wonderful day out in Parliament yesterday, if national dailies are to be believed. And at the end of the day it seems all the veterans, sniggering veterans at that, were floored by her, just a novice, and left crawling on the floor of the House.
There is something in you that snaps everytime you behold her — either on the TV or on the front pages of the national, not always nationalist, dailies — resplendent in wholly Indian attire and mouthing wholly Indian issues.
The Supreme Court verdict declar-ing strikes as illegal is a water shed in many ways. It has effectively put paid the pompous plans of the most pampered proletariat, namely the Government staff, whose pavlovian penchant for lapsing into strikes at the drop of a hat, and not as a last resort as they claim, has attained notoriety of sorts.
The raging debate on Ram Temple and Uniform Civil Code in TN has brought to the fore the extremes within the Dravidian parivar. While Jayalalithaa has been emphatic in her support for both, Karunanidhi has rejected these outright.
‘The State shall endeavour to secure the citizens a Uniform Civil Code throughout the territory of India’ — Article 44 of Indian Constitution.
The Supreme Court has rendered a signal service to the hostage Indian populace by extricating them from the clutches of labour mafias masquerading as unions who were holding the State and its government ‘to ransom’, to quote the apex court itself.
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.
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.