Opinion

The furore in JNU and the role of India’s urban, educated, privileged class is tied by an invisible umbilical cord with our history of being invaded and colonised.

While inflamed emotions and anger are understandable, it is time for our political masters to do more than express their feelings — and that, unfortunately, is not happening.

Both Yogesh Tyagi of Delhi University and Mamidala Jagdeesh Kumar of JNU have not been part of the academic communities which they are leading today.

The NRC process was indeed largely fair and transparent, it was a scientific process. The process itself was not discriminatory against anyone, but there were room for discrimination as verification officers had arbitrary power.

There was immense pressure on the judiciary to resolve the dispute of 2.77 acres of land in Ayodhya.

The insurgent outfit still has the resources to give a harrowing time to the Indian security forces for a few years or to the civil administration through agitations and road blockades.

Post the Supreme Court’s judgment, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea have started lobbying with the government for bailouts.

The outcome of Haryana and Maharashtra Assembly election results is significant on many counts — for the first time, the Gandhis did very little campaigning.

Plagued by infighting, absence of a team till a couple of weeks before the election and lack of poll strategy, the Congress too was taken aback by its own success.

The base camp of the glacier is located at 11,000 feet. Kumar Post, which the minister says will be open to tourists, is at 15,000 feet. Clearly, it's not a destination for the faint-hearted.

That all is not well with the cooperative banks and their oversight mechanism also becomes apparent when one examines the frequency with which such banks are put under restrictions.

It is not as if the BJP did not have support from Indians abroad but Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in these five years, has taken it forward.

Efforts should have been made to leave more disposable income with middle class.

While the prime minister has been spreading the message of healthy living, there is a system honed since childhood that keeps him unflagging despite a punishing work schedule.

Indian Parliament and politics will be poorer without Mr. Jaitley. It's a void which can never be filled.

Even bitter critics of the BJP had much reverence for Arun Jaitley. This was because he never lost that balance — whether it was his Parliament speeches as the Leader of Opposition or as the senior-most spokesperson of the party.