Monthly Archive: December 2016

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The Reluctant Actor and Politician

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,...

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Modi beats Trump, Putin to Top TIME Person of the Year poll

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,...

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Amma no more! Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa dies

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,...

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‘Black money generation is continuous’

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...

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FREEDOM OF, OR FOR RELIGION?

(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...

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Mamata and Demonetisation – Oppose, expose, depose

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...