Tag: corruption

Netanyahu Will Go, but the State Will Die With Him

Carolina Landsmann Apropos talk about a plea bargain for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in exchange for his retirement from political life, which President Isaac Herzog is working on; apropos the Supreme Court’s attempts to buy time to postpone the “constitutional crisis” (that is, the “storming of the Bastille,” aka the court, by “the people,” which,… Read More Netanyahu Will Go, but the State Will Die With Him

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Democracy demands a public debate on Great Nicobar’s environmental and strategic costs

The commercial framing of the project by the Narendra Modi government cannot be allowed to avoid parliamentary scrutiny on strategic matters Bharat Bhushan During his visit to Great Nicobar island, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has drawn national attention to the proposed Great Nicobar Holistic Development Project — a deep-sea transhipment port and allied infrastructure valued at around Rs… Read More Democracy demands a public debate on Great Nicobar’s environmental and strategic costs

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Kejriwal Should Realise the Allure of Jantar Mantar is Misplaced

NB: A much needed reminder: the loudspeakers for Lokpal fell silent after the AAP and BJP came to power in their respective bastions; the AAP’s own internal Lokpal was unceremoniously dismissed; and the party kept a safe distance from all issues of communal strife during the Delhi riots of 2020 (including opposing bail for Muslims… Read More Kejriwal Should Realise the Allure of Jantar Mantar is Misplaced

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शराब घोटाले में केजरीवाल-सिसोदिया बरी, कोई सबूत नहीं मिला, CBI की ही होगी जाँच / Judge says case entirely discredited and orders inquiry into the CBI

On personal liberty, the court underscored that pre-trial incarceration could not be treated lightly. “Liberty, once curtailed, cannot be meaningfully restored by a subsequent acquittal, nor can the passage of time compensate for the loss occasioned by unwarranted pre-trial detention,” the court said NB: Everyone interested in the horrifying assault on the Indian justice system… Read More शराब घोटाले में केजरीवाल-सिसोदिया बरी, कोई सबूत नहीं मिला, CBI की ही होगी जाँच / Judge says case entirely discredited and orders inquiry into the CBI

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta: Epstein Files aren’t an ‘island story’. They are about the nature of collective power

NB: An incisive commentary by Professor Mehta. “First, though there is partisan bickering, there is still a kind of attempt to exceptionalise the behaviour of this ruling class… a bounded zone in which elite actors could suspend norms without contaminating the moral order of the centre. Second, there is a pathology of modern political life,… Read More Pratap Bhanu Mehta: Epstein Files aren’t an ‘island story’. They are about the nature of collective power

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The Unmaking of Ladakh: RSS, Corporate Power, and the War on India’s Plural Soul

Since 2014, this has been the RSS–BJP’s consistent strategy: criminalize dissent, discredit activists, and rewrite constitutional morality. They know that a large-scale civil war is impossible in a subcontinent as vast and diverse as India. What they fear are small, localized movements, like Ladakh’s, that cannot be militarily conquered, but only silenced with force. The assault… Read More The Unmaking of Ladakh: RSS, Corporate Power, and the War on India’s Plural Soul

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