BY KULDIP NAYAR HOW free is the media or, for that matter, how free is the right to express oneself? This is the question which has arisen in India after the three speeches, one by the Vice President, Mr Hamid Ansari, another by the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh and yet another by Mr Justice Markandey Katju, chief of Press Council of India.
Mr Rahul Gandhi’s comment that he was not “obsessed” with becoming prime minister hardly helps him project himself as a politician who is not interested in becoming prime minister. He has not said he would never like to become prime minister.
Portrayal of Christ in Kerala KERALA CPI-M’s portrayal of Jesus Christ as a revolutionary leader in its election campaign through some controversial paintings is both misleading and derogatory and deserves to be condemned, as it goes against Christian teachings.
BY PRABHAKAR TIMBLE IN the 40-member fifth post-statehood legislative assembly of Goa, we have 12 ministers and another 14 MLAs decorated on government corporations or statutory authorities to ensure that none of the ruling coalition is left out.
THE alliance between the BJP and the MGP has injected some adrenalin into the election process. The Election Commission might not take lightly to anyone making predictions about what will happen now that the alliance is a reality, but the Congress camp is definitely breathing a lot more heavily.
WISER from its decision to back the Gaddafi regime in Libya, which went all wrong, India has played all its cards well in the Syrian conflict. New Delhi jumped off the fence and went along with the Arab nations in the Middle East where it has invested substantially.
Wooing Minority Voters THE Congress ticket aspirants for March 3 assembly elections along with their Rajya Sabha representative seem to have developed great love for minorities by raking up the attempt by the Parrikar government to cancel the Good Friday and St Francis Xavier feast holidays.
By Nandkumar Kamat THE acid test of Goa’s Official Language Act (OLA) was availability of the most widely discussed, highly hyped and publicised and most controversial and expensive semi technical document - the Regional Plan 2021 being made available in Konkani.
The writing is on the wall. It is winning that matters and the first list of 22 candidates released by the Congress displays this streak. There were a few surprises.
Army Chief, General V K Singh has won Round I with the Supreme Court declaring that the decision making process to determine the General’s date of birth was vitiated and instructing the government should consider withdrawal of its December 30, 2011, order fixing the date of birth as May 10, 1950.
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