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AAP’s Water Freebies

There are too many issues in this main issue of free water. First, the economics; secondly, the subsidy management; thirdly, the water conservation and management; fourthly, water distribution and the accompanying corruption; fifthly, the environment; seventh, the ideology; eighth, the politics, etc. The immediate reaction of a rational mind would be that the water freebies is politics, which is also true; but the politics, in practice, is an umbrella science,…


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LGBTs – Lesbians Gays Bisexuals Transgenders

First published on 3rd July 2009 Are LGBTs actually a different sexual group, who are fighting for their rights to be treated equal to others? The only group which I have seen isolated and deprived is that of eunuchs, who earn their livelihood by dancing in social events and, lately, also by extortion and prostitution; they probably fit into the category of transgenders. Lesbians-Gays-Bisexual are not a different group, but,…


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Current Economic Crisis

First published on 20.08.2013 The world economy can be segregated into two parts: First, the interlinked market based economies of the countries/centres mostly following the US model of development, and, second, the islands of nations/regions delinked from the globalised world sustaining themselves on the basis of local resources and development. The Indian economy in the urban centres and the most of the rural centres is now linked to the world…


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Budget Speech 2013

First Published on 28.02.2013 I have no doubt that this year’s budget speech is very biased. The speech starts with a defensive statement that, given the serious current account deficit problem, there is no choice but to welcome the foreign investments – and, therefore, when he mentions the CAD figure, he mentions it in the USD, clearly indicating the intention to mortgage the Indian sovereignty to fund the CAD. However,…


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In Re: Medical Student Rape; the Indian Youth Are Disoriented

First published on 22.12.2012 I feel scared living in this country because anything is amenable to manipulation here. I have worked in the corporate sector as a banker (though it’s history now), in the legal sector as an advocate, and in the society at large as a writer — all in the urban areas. The urban society can easily be classified into the power-elites, the elites, the skilled workers, and…


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A Raja : Better Luck Next Time

First published on 14.11.2010 A. Raja need not go because his defense is convincing in one of the interviews given to The Hindu (http://www.thehindu.com/news/resources/article884339.ece), and when there is no other criteria except the prima facie culpability, the prima facie defense of the accused, even when unsubstantiated, should be given due consideration if it raises prima facie doubt with respect to the prima facie case of the prosecution. The transcript of…


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In Re: Supreme Court Order Dated 12.09.2011; Zakia Jaffrey Has a Reason to Be Unhappy

First published on 12.09.2011 Zakia Jaffrey is the only person who, without knowing anything about law, is expressing the true sentiments wrt the SC order dt. 12.09.11 in Zakia Nasim Ahesan v. State of Gujarat. In this case, the SIT investigated the matter on the directions of the Supreme Court. The SC also appointed an Amicus Curiae and directed him to file his report after an independent assessment of the…