Hindustan Times
Salman Khurshid, the law minister, was until recently a good Muslim to have in government. Read more
(35 votes, average: 1.89 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Zia Haq on Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 7:23 pm
Filed under India, Religion · Tagged AK Antony, anna hazare, backward minorities, Batla House shootout, Congress, defence minister, Election Commission, Hindustan Times, Hindutva, law minister, news, They call me Muslim, UPA, Uttar Pradesh elections, Zia Haq
Parliament’s historic debate on Saturday, which resulted in Anna Hazare agreeing to break his 12-day fast, began with an appeal for a collective “sense of the House” on the Lokpal Bill from Pranab Mukherjee, the leader of the House. Read more
(122 votes, average: 1.9 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Zia Haq on Sunday, August 28, 2011 at 5:57 pm
Filed under India · Tagged 2002 Gujarat riots, anna hazare, anti-corruption law, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, BJP, Congress, Jaswant Singh, L K Advani, Leader of the Opposition, lokpal bill, Narendra Modi, Parliament, Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister, Question hour, Rahul Gandhi, Sushma Swaraj, Zia Haq
The success of anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare’s protests could be both encouraging and ominous. Whether the benefits accruing out of Hazare’s movement will outweigh some inherent risks will be known in the coming days, maybe months. Read more
(69 votes, average: 2.54 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Zia Haq on Sunday, August 21, 2011 at 5:00 pm
Filed under India · Tagged anna hazare, anti-corruption activist, Hindustan Times, lokpal bill, Manmohan Singh, news, ombudsman, Zia Haq
Anna Hazare and his adherents bring to mind civil society’s renaissance moment in post-Communist Eastern Europe. Read more
(16 votes, average: 2.5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Zia Haq on Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 8:12 pm
Filed under India · Tagged anna hazare, Bhrashtachar Virodhi Jan Andolan, Cicero, civil society, Communist politics, fanaticism, Hindustan Times, Kolakowaski, Locke, Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan, news, Socialism, Will Kymilica, Zia Haq
Gandhi – who India still reveres deeply – floated up in public memory recently when the contemporary Indian press and some middle-class Indians had hallucinating glimpses of him in rural activist Anna Hazare, who launched a Gandhi-style protest against high-level corruption. Read more
(16 votes, average: 2.81 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Hindustan Times on Sunday, April 17, 2011 at 4:33 pm
Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged anna, anna hazare, anti corruption movement, british raj, Gandhi, gandhian, George Orwell, Hindutva, lokpal bill, Mahatma Gandhi, Noakhali
