Muzaffarpur Deaths: How To Outsource One’s Conscience
byThe first major test of Ayushman Bharat, a program of assured health care for millions of India’s poor, was in Muzaffarpur – and it failed miserably.
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The Curse of Encephalitis – and the Apathetic Nation
byNews of scores of children dying from Encephalitis has gripped the media. As this article goes to print, 140 deaths have been already reported…
Why It Is Important To Count India’s Chickens (and Cows)
byIt was in 1919 that the importance of a livestock census was first recognised, a good 47 years after human counting was started in 1872.
A Silent Revolution
byThe size of fisheries and aquaculture in India is humungous. We have 3.5 million marine fisher population and 10.5 million persons engaged in inland fishery and fish farming.
OROP – reinventing the subterfuge?
byNewly appointed Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has constituted a Committee headed by Comptroller General of Defence Accounts (CGDA) to examine the equalization of pensions…
Dirty Linen And Clean Chits
byWashing machine has been improved upon and today the clean chits come out smelling of roses, the dirt flushed into the holy Ganga and recycled under the Swachh Bharat programme.
Deriding The Army Special Forces Badge
byObjection by the ICC of MS Dhoni sporting the Army Special Forces badge, the winged dagger with the words ‘Balidan’ meaning ‘sacrifice’, on his…
Rahul Gandhi And Congress Must Stay Course
byThe naked truth is that Rahul Gandhi did not lose the 2019 polls, Congress ideology did. Messers Modi and Shah have created a New India in which there appears to be no place for what the Congress has always stood for: liberal values, secularism, inclusiveness, consensus, human rights, genuine federalism, compassion for the poor.
What Will It Take For The Himachal Forest Dept. To Wake Up ?
byThe explosion of trekking in forest areas and fragile mountains is getting completely out of hand and in the days to come shall pose the biggest danger to the natural environment, including its flora and fauna.
Rahul Gandhi – Leadership Undefined
byRahul Gandhi, the leader of Congress Party after the election results has been most unlike a leader. Failures and disappointments are part and parcel…