Hindustan Times
Opposition to women’s reservation comprises of two strands.
One line of opposition argues that women do not need quotas for empowerment and if they come through quotas they will always remain ghettoised. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Varghese K George on Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 9:39 pm
Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged empowerment, ghettoised, governance, Jayalalitha, Madhepura, mamata banerjee, Opposition, Sonia Gandhi, upper class women, women’s reservation
Shiv Sena has never had it so bad. Except Sharad Pawar, nobody seems to take Sena seriously.
Credit for reducing Sena to irrelevance must go to Rahul Gandhi, whose visit to Mumbai on February 6th transformed the situation. Gandhi’s strong position that Mumbai belongs to all Indians galvanized the Congress-led state government, encouraged his friend Shah Rukh Khan to stand his ground and prompted large sections of the middle class to come out openly against the Sena. Read more
(6 votes, average: 3.33 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Varghese K George on Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 10:21 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Congress chief minister of Maharashtra, marathi, Narayan Rane, Rahul Gandhi, Shah Bano case, Shah Rukh Khan, Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena, Sonia Gandhi
Demands for smaller states would be the most troublesome political issue for the ruling Congress in 2010. That’s, of course, assuming that nothing unexpected such as a terror attack happens. Read more
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Posted by Varghese K George on Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 10:40 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Ahmad Patel, AK Antony, K Chandrashkhar Rao, Manmohan Singh, P Chidambaram, political issue, Pranab Mukherjee, ruling Congress, smaller states, Sonia Gandhi, Telangana, YSR
Why National Security Advisor (NSA) MK Narayanan lost his job has not been explained sufficiently by those who should know in the Congress and the government. But there are some guesses and some plausible explanations in political circles. Read more
(2 votes, average: 3 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Varghese K George on Saturday, January 16, 2010 at 8:18 pm
Filed under Policy and Politics · Tagged Congress, governmen, home minister, master survivor, minister of state, MK Narayanan, Mumbai terror attacks, National Security Advisor, P Chidambaram, Shivraj Patil, Sonia Gandhi
