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03 May 2009
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| Editorial: Constitutional Institutions Losing Credibility? |
Editorial: Constitutional Institutions Losing Credibility?
A perceptible decline in political culture is getting reflected in the eroding credibility of the constitutional institutions. Attempts to safeguard politically vested interests have led to politicization of these institutions. The increasing political interference in the functioning of these institutions and presence of pliable officials have led to a situation that people are fastly loosing faith in the system. The tendency in the bureaucracy to stop to any extent in pleasing the political mas...
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| Uncovered Backwardness of Muslims: Part 4 | Uncovered Backwardness of Muslims: Part 4
Dr. Radhasyam Brahmachari
On March 26, 1940, the leaders of the Muslim League, the political front of Indian Muslims, raised the issue of creation of Pakistan as a separate Muslim homeland; and on August 14-15, 1947, the partition of India into two independent states, India and Pakistan , became a reality. At that time, the Muslim population in undivided India was 23 percent, but Pakistan received 32 percent of the land area. The most appropriate step after the partition was to carry out ...
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| CBI Becoming a Political Tool? |
CBI Becoming a Political Tool?
 Shiv Shakti
The recent revelation that CBI facilitated the withdrawal of Red Corner notice against Quattrocchi is symptomatic of the rot that has crept in the entire system. Moreover, Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh's recent threat to ‘use' CBI against political opponents doesn't now seem a hollow one - it is very much real. Congress enjoys an unassailable record in misusing the constitutional institutions, CBI included, to serve its political interests. It is so overwhelmingly...
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| Battering Ram |
Battering Ram
 Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Congress’s propensity for institution-wrecking might cost it this election. Institution-building is difficult. But the CBI saga suggests that the Congress violated the simplest rule: stay out of the way. There are still enough professionals in the system who can deliver. There is much analysis of why the Congress is strug- gling, despite ostensibly favourable circumstances. Many explanations are familiar and spot on the organizational revival is still uneven; its ...
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| Human Rights Organisations are Inhuman |
Human Rights Organisations are Inhuman, Against Humans
Amba Charan Vashishth
Strange are the ways of God and, still stranger, are the ways of the self-proclaimed human rights organisations (HROs) and activists (HRAs).If terrorists strike, kill a few dozens and maim a few hundred, it makes a big story for our TRP hungry and sensation chewing media and newspapers for a day or two. Then they forget. They don't try to follow it up. To report whether the bereaved families are being looked after properly; whether the injured are getting proper treatment ...
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