Friends, how can one river flow through two locations? Here I call out the right wing hypocrisy and sham in naming Allahabad as Prayag while actively running the Saraswati Heritage Project in Haryana. The Saraswati project in Haryana – noble in intent but flawed in execution if its waters are to be supplied from river Sutlej in Himachal Pradesh- has dire implications for Panjab.
Thank you Punjab Today for publishing the piece.
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Tags: Allahabad, BJP, Prayag, right wing ideology, Saraswati, Sutlej, Yogi
Friends, Kanwar Manjit Singh pushed me yesterday to expand my Facebook post. Here is the article I wrote.
‘While in the nation the Emergency lasted less than two years, in Panjab formal Emergency lasted a total of nine years including the national Emergency period. Informal Emergency – unaccountability of the government – lasts until date.’
Tip: This is a grim piece but in it is tucked a joke. Let me see who finds it.
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Tags: Akali, BJP, Emergency, Indira Gandhi, Jana Sangh, President Rule, RSS
Friends, except for Facebook and intense talks with journalists, I did not report or speak on the Karnataka elections. Being born Sikh, it was hard for me. Until Jairaj Singh pushed me to stick out my neck.
So, here it is because I love Bengaluru and Karnataka.
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Tags: Bangalore, Bengaluru, BJP, Congress, elections, JDS, Karnataka
One May 16 the Indian General Elections Results were announced. On that day Tapasya Mitra Mazumder from Bangalore Mirror did an article on the end of the viscous and sometimes virulent discussions on Facebook. She quoted me too.
‘The political drama draws to a close today, but the eight months (or so since Modi’s candidature as PM) have taken its toll on friendships in both virtual and real space. The 2014 general elections in India would be the story of its social impact and that of ‘unfriending’. ‘
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Tags: 2014 General Elections, AAP, Bangalore Mirror, BJP, Narendra Modi