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Farmer remains one of the pillars of our nation. Majority of our populace is still reliant on farming sector for livelihood. However, farmer’s plight...

In fact, for the last several decades, children studying in madrasas were being given scholarship from the government exchequer every month. But as soon as the Uttarakhand government asked the bank accounts of these children to be linked with the Aadhaar card number, 1 lakh 95 thousand 360 children went missing simultaneously. So far, the government was distributing scholarships worth Rs. 14.5 crore every year in the name of these missing students. Which has now reduced to only 2 crores.

FCRA amendment Bill has been now passed by both the Houses of Parliament which can be considered as one of the most historic steps...

A lot has been discussed about reservation since Independence, but solution to it is nowhere in sight. The reservation law was amended just for...

Now about the media and drugs, let me take you back to a story of 15 years vintage. This was narrated by some security personnel. A huge cache of drugs were seized in Delhi in March 2005. One person was arrested. In the said incident an accomplice got killed. That accomplice was the son of very power person in the media. They entire narrative of this killing was changed as an accident of being a hit and run case. The then Minister of I&B spoke to the Commissioner of Police Delhi of the time and personally ensured that not trail is left All this to ensure the deniability of children of elites of Lutyen’s Delhi indulging in drugs. I do not know the details of the persons. I do not want to sully the image of the child who unfortunately is not longer with us. But I am sharing this to buttress my point that no professional area is free of these menace and we need to escalate the level of diligence. The police personnel were also too keen to peddle this narrative as that would mean avoiding a lot of trouble in the sense that unnecessary media attention could be avoided as well as police personnel would be spared of any encounter killing controversy. So they too were too willing to hush up the matter and make it look like an accident.

Just as the Notebandi destroyed black money, similarly the two heavyweights of Punjab and Maharashtra were ruined by this bill.