The latest whataboutery involving Bidyut Chakraborty, the Vice Chancellor of Vishwa Bharti university, and that of the Nobel laureate Dr Amartya Sen, has its seeds embedded in the year2014 when the latter had staunchly opposed Narendra Modi’s election as India’s fourteenth Prime Minister. Vivekanand Jha, Ranchi: Dr Amartya Sen, a global academician, a Nobel laureate, […]
2020 has been a challenging year for everyone. Covid-19 and lockdowns, a crashing economy, social tensions and anxiety – they’ve all created a sense of fear and hopelessness in so many people. As we prepare to welcome a new year, and the morn of 2021 brings the eve of 2020 to an end, it is […]
Vivekanand jha, Ranchi. The pan Bihari identity that Nitish Kumar sought to build when he gave a clear call of ‘Han, Ham Bihari hain’, stands incontrovertibly punctured at the altar of his anointing a successor from his own Kurmi caste, despite there being several competent leaders from forward castes. Willy nilly it has struck a […]
Never in the independent India, Bengali Bhadralok and Bhadramahila were stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea: If they vote for BJP, they tend to extend an open invitation for communal agenda to seize the culturally awakened people into a feast of communal frenzy; whereas if Mamata is voted back, the spectre of […]
Kant’s, the CEO of Niti Aayog, emphatically stressing upon Kerala, being God’s own country, while giving a significant miss to highlighting the quintessence of Kerala, being the birth place of great Adi Shankaracharya, was a stark failure to highlight the greatest philosopher born on earth, who was also a unifier of the geographical entity known […]
Had there been no Jawaharlal Nehru, where would the Modi government find its own litany of excuses to hide behind the avalanche of their own omissions and commissions? In fact, the tendency of BJP and Modi government to hide their own skeletons by simply magnifying the failures of Jawaharlal and correspondingly minusculing its own. The […]
Vivekanand Jha Ranchi: Namak ka Daroga, one of the famous stories penned by an immortal Munsi Ptemchandjee, which is being filmed by Gulzar, was recently shown on Doordarshan. As I watched the story of an honest and upright Daroga, Station in charge of a police station, the story that I read in my juvenile days, […]
Union Textile Minister, Smriti Zubin Irani said that the concerted efforts of the government, industry, and multiple stakeholders turned the PPE crisis into an opportunity for India. Calling this success as an ‘inspiration’ for indigenous manufacturers, Irani said that India was able to produce 60 million PPEs and 150 million N-95 masks domestically during the […]
Basu’s corpse would be turning in his grave with Mamata unleashing tandav in West Bengal. Vivekanand jha, Ranchi. With the scenario in West Bengal deteriorating to such an extent that the demand for the President’s rule is so vociferously sought to be imposed by the BJP. Will BJP hand over a walkover to Mamata by […]
It is the most opportune time for the ghost of Sitaram Kesri visiting Sonia Gandhi: she too, like she did to Kesri, needed to be thrown out of the party and political obituary be written off her as well her offsprings Vivekanand Jha Ranchi: In 1989 General Election, Rammohan Gandhi contested the election against the […]