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Hindi poet and translator based in Bangalore, India.
Category: Politics
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While UPA seems quite ready with Rahul Gandhi as their successor for PM’s office for the 2014 elections, BJP is internally messed up. Who should be their next contender? Both Nitish and Modi have proven their administration skills. Read my latest article on the NRI.
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Off-late, we have literally hated our politicians and bureaucrats for recent corruption and scams India has suffered from. While debating public sectors, NGOs, to accept huge bribes and are dishonest, did we for once ask ourselves one simple question- “Who pays these bribes?” Well, it is the corporates! Why shouldn’t then, corporates not be covered under Lokpal?
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On 20th August, Congress celebrated Rajiv Gandhi’s birth anniversary. Well, that was another scam, to summarize. On 20th August, there were 108 ads amounting to more than 48 published pages in 12 prominent newspapers of India. Among the 21 advertisers extolling the virtues of the dear departed were the ministries of information and broadcasting, micro small…
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UPA ministers claimed that people outside the parliament have no say in framing of a union legislative bill. They claimed that this power belongs only to the parliament. I need not mention that they are trying to divert away the focus from the whole issue. But even if, momentarily, I believe in these hypocritical tantrums…
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I understand that the past two years have been horrible in terms of scams, scandals and inflation. But it has given us something that we have fought for a long time – ‘dignity’. An open letter to the vibrant and dignified, emerging Indian middle classes. Read my latest article on the NRI.
सौरभ राय | Sourav Roy 