Monthly Archive: December 2016
B Kolappan in the Hindu, December 6, 2016 (Note: Jaya must have been a reluctant actor, initially, both in film and politics. But people’s response to her performance in both the fields came as a natural mass outburst,...
PTI | New York, December 5, 2016, in the Statesman, Kolkatta (Note: Our honourable Prime Miniser Modiji has added another feather to his crown among world leaders. He has won the contest for the “TIME Person of the Year 2016,” by beating hollow Trump,...
Pushpa Narayan| (Dec 6, 2016, in Times of India – TN CM Jayalalithaa passes away…) (Note: “Homo humus, fama fumus, finis chinis!” goes a Latin saying to nutshell human life from start to finish. Rendered in English it means: “Man is mud,...
Joanna Moorhead, in the UK Guardian, Wednesday 23 November 2016 Pope Francis’s latest pronouncement on abortion is a step in the right direction but isn’t the spectacular move needed to show he takes women seriously. (Note: Popes tend to be...
Sterilize after demonitisation, bjp MP – HT Correspondent ,Hindustan Times, 4/12/16 Union minister Giriraj Singh said India has 16% of world’s population, and continues to add to it at a high rate. (Note: Sterilization is always remembered with Sanjay Gandi in Indira Gandhi’s...
Anjul Tomar, in the Kokatta Statessman, December 3, 2016 (Note: Magicians endear themselves to unthinking crowd by pulling out a rabbit from the hat. What we need, especially what a democracy needs, is not a credulous crowd, but a critical...
(Based on a presentation at a public meeting organised by the All India Catholic Union at Mangalore on 26th November 2016) By Chhotebhai (Note: The title is both provocative and pregnant with conflicting and enticing views (of...
30 November 2016, by Christopher Lamb, in The Tablet Weekly, UK Senior Vatican lawyer says four cardinals who questioned Amoris Laetitia have caused a 'grave scandal' in Catholic church (Note: The writer of the article seems to be living in...
Gyan Ranjan Saha, in The Statesman, Kolkatta, December 1, 2016 (Note: Parliament is the heart of democracy. As long as it is not allowed to function, cardiac arrest would be the end result. We have a federal system of government and...
December 1, 2016, Chaitanya Kalbag in The Needle's Eye | Economy, India | ET (Note: In this article, the author compares Modi’s demonetization drive to Indira Gandhi’s Garibi Hathao on various counts. Worth recalling is the fact that Indira-led Congress party won 283 seats in the 1967...