Category: National
Let every Home light a candle; Nurse to grow a Vivekananda!
To wipe out darkness of Ugly Indian – dr. james kottoor (Chicago) “The ‘achhe din’ has already arrived, but for whom? For the ugly Indian!” This is the substance of the article by Kapil Sibal (read it below), an outspoken person for...
If good people continue heading to MNCs, bad ones will control politics: Vishwas Sarang
In the pic: Viswas Sarang (left), Bhakti Sarang (centre) and Jaivardhan Singh (right). (Note: George Bernard Shaw reportedly said, “Politics is the last resort for the scoundrel”. With unabashed horse trading before and after elections to form governments, and legislators trying to secure...
Government is Your business Vote in performers not failures! dr.james kottoor (Chicago)
In How good is Modi’s ‘New India’? No one can contest the fact that Modi is unparalleled in inventing meaningful buzzwords suited to time and place to fan into flame people’s expectations when it comes to...
Ideal lowly Cattle Class should Replace Lording clerical class
Oh! India cast out thy shameful caste system dr. james kottoor (Chicago) “Depth of humility led the Carpenter of Nazareth to get born in a lowly cattle shed. So do not lord over people in your care nor blow up...
Corruption has eaten our polity from inside, Let us pledge to end it !
Modi on 75th Quit India anniversary – PTI, Published Aug 9, 2017, in Deccan Chronicle. On the 75th anniversary of the Quit India movement, the PM asked the nation to take a pledge to create a 'new India' by 2022. Prime Minister...
Night of Emergency! The night democracy died – 40 years later:
Arul Louis, June 23, 2015, IANS 17:52 IST In the summer of 1975, the anger against corruption and high-handedness that rippled across the northern half of India had built into waves of fury against a prime minister whose legitimacy had...
Beyond Doklam standoff, a look at 5 areas where India is well ahead of China
(Note: The article below will help CCV readers realise that notwithstanding China's high-pitched rhetoric and relentless attempt to cow down India, our country is far ahead of China in space exploration capabilities and also in alternative nuclear energy technology. There...
Chinese media thinks PLA can annihilate Indian Army. Can they? A Reality check
Indiatodayin Prabhash K Dutta New Delhi, August 5, 2017 | UPDATED 17:42 IST (Note: Readers will recall yesterday's article on China's diabolic strategy to use Doklam as a laboratory to test its salami slicing policy of territorial expansion into PoK and other...
Constructive Criticism is need of the hour! – dr. james kottoor (Chicago)
Censorship is slur on Indian democracy! – Voice of dissent & constructive Crititicism is need of the hour! – dr. james kottoor (Chicago) If the CCV publishes Kuldip Nayar, again and again, it is because his type of frankly speaking journalists are hard to find...
China’s ‘salami slicing’: Why Doklam must unite world leaders against Beijing
Indiatodayin Prabhash K Dutta New Delhi, August 4, 2017 | UPDATED 17:28 IST (Note: China is using Doklam as yet another laboratory to test its salami slicing policy of territorial expansion. Oxford Dictionary defines Salami Slicing as the process of gradually reducing...
What chance for Profesional Congress? dr. james kottoor (Chicago)
Is Modi unbeatable in 2019? Only yesterday we posted an editorial asking No stopping Modi in 2019? We were commenting on the article of Manish Tewari, contesting more forcefully that the turncoat Nithith Kumar’s claim that victory for Modi in 2019 is...
Doklam: What China stands to lose if it goes to war with India
Indiatodayin 31 July 2017 (Note: Irrespective of border disputes between China and India, the two countries should realise they are Asian giants and also world powers. So going into a war will result in huge losses for both. Modern...
Our Wi-Fi at Indian railway stations better than San Francisco, London Wi-Fi: Google
(Note: Enjoyment of Wi-Fi facility for passengers at major railway stations, courtesy Google and RailTel. Isaac Gomes – Associate Editor, CCV). Shobhit Varma – Indiatodayintech 1st August 2017 As a part of Prime Minister Modi's Digital India initiative, the...
Transgenders’ plight in India – National plans in states fail to get implemented
dr.james kottoor (Chicago) The immediate provocation for focusing on this topic is the fact that Donald Trump, president of the oldest democracy in the world has criminalized over 15,000 transgenders in the military through a tweet and declared them to...
Cows, milk and India
Our country is projected to become world's biggest cow milk producer by 2026 (Note: According to OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2017-2026 report India's cow milk production will see a jump of 60 million tonnes in the next decade, with cows to...
Confessions of a desi cow: No ‘panga’ in my name, please!
Shobha De in Times of India, July 23, 2017 (Note: Of course our Holy Cows can’t think or dream. But you who read this can do both. So transport yourself into the brain of your harmless and affable looking gentle cow and...
India shining or stinking? dr. james kottoor (Chicago)
What about manual scavenging? Swachh Bharat Abhiyan was and is one of the most beautiful ideas piloted by PM Narendra Modi. But it has still a long long way to go before its most ugly, dirty, shuddering, stinking truth...
The Poor go Poorer – MPLAD Funds Part 2 (Final)
Further to the 18th July 2017 article on “How Our MPs spend their Rs 5 Crore-a-Year MPLAD Funds”, given below is a list of projects which can be funded through MPLAD Scheme. This is a sector-wise list of illustrative works...
CHERRIES & ROAST – chhotebhai
It is very topical because just yesterday a group in Mumbai has been booked for mimicking the Prime Minister – chottebhai Does this sound like a recipe? It is, and isn’t! It isn’t a recipe for food, but it is...
