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Not much is to be seen in the crossing over of Anju Thomas to Pakistan
These days love stories of two women namely, Anju Thomas and Seema Haider (Sachin) have become the talk of the town. Both crossed the borders of their own respective countries to meet their loved ones. The latest one is Anju Thomas, who went from India to Pakistan to marry her lover, Nasarullah. Seema Haider has…
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Only sensitisation and crackdown can stop Child labour
First of all, here is news, which has been flashed across all newspapers that an airline Pilot couple in Delhi, who allegedly hired a 10-year-old girl as domestic help and tortured her, were arrested a few days back, and have been sent to jail. According to police, medical tests showed that the girl had sustained…
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Seema Haider Must be Protected
Controversy has flared up across the country over Seema Haider, an illegal migrant from Pakistan to Greater NOIDA of Uttar Pradesh (India) to live with her lovelorn new husband. She claims to have converted to Hinduism and has married a Hindu Sachin at Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu (Nepal). She has illegally come to India along…
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Education System Touching Low-ebb
University and College teachers’ appointmentprocesses and interests have changed beyond recognition in the last four tofive decades. My father-in-law Dr Sabhajit Mishra, a retired Professor and Headof the Philosophy Department of Deen Dayal Upadhyay University of Gorakhpur,says that in the seventies the salaries of university and college teachers werenot as lucrative as they are today yet…
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Uniform Civil Code a Welcome Move
Article 44 of the Constitution of India says: ‘The State shall endeavour to secure for the citizens a Uniform Civil Code throughout the territory of India.’This was made clear by the makers of the Constitution of India more than 7 decades ago, yet it is still not fulfilled and is being debated at various fora…
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‘Honeymoon’ That Makes Serious Reading
Don’t judge a book by its cover. Sometimes the cover of a book can be deceptive. Normally the title of a book is made catchy to attract the attention of the readers. But what can you say about a serious book having a cumbersome rather embarrassing title like ‘Honeymoon’ by Sushil Chand Shrivastav, an officer…
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Remove the Rot from the Allahabad High Court
Justice Markandeya Katju once remarked about the Allahabad High Court, quoting the Hamlet of Shakespeare, that there was something rotten in the state of Denmark (paraphrase it with Allahabad High Court). There are three recent incidents related to the Allahabad High Court which further reinforce the comments of Justice Katju. Although he has not been…
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Female Wrestlers are Doing Injustice to the System and Eroding their Trust.
Justice has to be dispassionate. It cannot be allowed to succumb to the demands of a mob or yield to agitations. The sit-in dharna of some wrestlers against the WFI chairman Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh for more than a month demanding his arrest and removal from his present post cannot, in all fairness, be acceded…
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Digital Transaction is the only way to Root Out Black Money
The withdrawal of 2000 currency notes did not cause any ripple in the country. As a matter of fact, for nearly three years, it has not been in circulation because of it being inconvenient for people. The general public has been well aware of its imminent ban or withdrawal sooner or later. So, only those…
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Irrelevant controversy about the Degree of Prime Minister
Is it not amazing that a Chief Minister has got himself embroiled in the controversy over the educational qualifications of Prime Minister Narendra Modi? How does it matter if he does not possess a university degree? After all, the people of India have not elected him based on his educational qualifications. He enjoys the confidence…