Understanding the Land Acquisition Bill: Politics, changes and impact
It is hard to believe before the UPA Government brought the amendments to the Land Acquisition Law in 2013 that we were following the so-called The Land Acquisition Act, 1894, a 120-year-old legislation. The 1894 More...
In defence of ordinance raj
Everybody in the Opposition and many among opinion makers are bemoaning the slew of ordinances that the Narendra Modi government has come up with. The fact that the ordinances are aimed at kick-starting economic More...
Reason and due procedure, not emotion and activism will solve Black Money case
(This was sent by an IndiaFacts reader and supporter, Shwetank Bhushan) The most pertinent question is, if we want a lawful state or we just want to take out our frustration? I do not understand, why names against More...
Gauche CBI torments Baijal
The Central Bureau of Investigation’s action against Pradeep Baijal defies logic. The premier agency has alleged cheating in the sale of ITDC-owned Laxmi Vilas Palace Hotel in Udaipur. Twelve years after he demitted More...
Time to shed Emergency legacy
Information & Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar has rightly highlighted the “Emergency mindset” of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. The mindset vilifies anything that More...
How Justice Sachar helped loot poor Hindu children’s scholarships
An Open Letter Dear Justice Sachar In your article, ‘A P.M. at Work’ published in The Statesman on June 15, 2014, you have waxed eloquent about importance of justice, ethics, etc. My humble advice to you, More...
Sonia Gandhi’s NGO regime exposed
That sundry activists indulge in anti-national activities has been the theme of a large number of articles that I posted on this website. A news story in The Indian Express (June 7, 2014) has confirmed, if any More...
ISI hand in the Maoist insurgency to subvert India
Now that the crony-Islamic regime of the UPA has been defeated electorally and booted out of power lock stock and barrel, it’s time to decode certain murky political developments during last 10 years. Tracing More...
Indian intellectual mafia in panic mode
Once upon a time, India was so good from the perspective of intellectuals. Which means Nehruvian. Socialism, secularism, and non-alignment—the key ingredients of the Nehruvian consensus—were flourishing. Of More...
Manmohan Singh: A spineless perjurer
Centre for National Renaissance president and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy famously compared Manmohan Singh with Bhishma of the Mahabharata. Like Bhishma, who did nothing to check the disrobing More...