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Being a student of good governance, we need to have an analytic look on Back to village programme initiated by the Jammu and Kashmir Government. From governance point of view, if the programme is for good governance, it has to pass by certain parameters namely transparency, accountability, fairness and timeliness. […]
The mindset of the Bureaucracy at the highest level in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir at the time of neutering of Article 370 and its reorganization into two Union Territories has had a crucial bearing on the administrative processes that followed after the revolutionary changes in the state. […]
FARM BILLS The the two Bills on Farm Reforms and the one on the amendment to the Essential Commodities Act that were passed in the Lok Sabha on 16 September are being used as political tools by the opposition. And, even Akali Dal, a partner in the NDA, has taken […]
September 17, 2020 CANNABIS The opinion in the country seems to be divided over whether it is important to continue with the hyped ongoing public discourse on the clean-up operation of Bollywood from its alleged drug and underworld nexus or should we let that be carried out as per the […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has played havoc with life in India. As it is, the economic performance in the pre-Covid-19 period was far from what it should have been in the BJP government’s pursuit of becoming a 5 trillion dollar economy. The GDP growth steadily declined from 8.3 per cent in […]
September 13, 2020 The Congress Party goes for a re-jig and ousts Ghulam Nabi Azad from the organizational position. The High Command – whatever that means in a supposedly democratic institution – has settled the score with the senior leader for thinking of reviving the party without having […]
“Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr but let no lust for martyrdom”. Mahatma Gandhi On 14th September we shall continue to remember our martyrs who fell to the onslaught of terrorism forced upon peace- loving community of Kashmiri Hindus by the forces inimical to […]
The spat between the Bollywood star, Kangana Ranaut, and the Shiv Sena Member of Parliament, Sanjay Raut, is yet another story that the news channels have lapped on to for their noisy debates. The story was so damn inconsequential initially that, ideally, it did not warrant any human attention. But, […]
Six non-BJP ruled states went with a review petition to the Supreme Court seeking postponement of the JEE and NEET examinations that are being held in this month. There are obvious compulsions for the Government to get the close to 2.5 million students into the academic mainstream as, also, […]
I have been invited by Epilogue to use its platform and reach out its subscribers with my views on contemporary issues on a, more or less, real time basis. Have decided to write a column under the caption Duda’s Daily Doodle and in this I would attempt to touch upon […]
