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Meager Dole to the Poor won’t Reinstate those Apparent Halcyon Days

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(Pic Credit: Google Images) The marketing slogan  ‘India Shining’ used by   the  BJP  during the 2004 election campaign,  continues to meet with colossal disfiguration as the country is experiencing an economic slump owing to the reckless rampage of the unseen virus. The glaring contrast in the living realities between the poor and the rich in India is a thorn in the flesh of our ‘booming’ economy. The pensive passivity towards the lion share of the population consisting of the poor class and the obsolete economic policies introduced by consecutive governments have widened the gap between these two extreme classes. The present government has been accused of being an instrument in writing off  a staggering amount of Rs 68,607 crores due from 50 top wilful defaulters till September 30, 2019. However, this startling revelation includes only the amount due from the super-rich defaulters from India, not those from overseas. These duplicitous defau...

‘Social Distancing’: A Well-Crafted Stratagem to Cordon off the Exiling Horde

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                                                      (Pic Courtesy: Google Images) I pen this piece not to find fault with the Governments both in the center and the states, or about the right wing or the left-wing political figures who have played ample roles in inflicting miseries after miseries to the soul of the Nation. It is neither about Mr. Modi; an example par excellence of being a persona non grata nor the Biblical scale sufferings he has inflicted, yet again, on the people who blindly trusted his charisma. This is not about the apparently elected and reelected politicians with the rictus of arrogance stretched across their faces. This is not about the inept judges who dared to throw away the moral compass in the arid deserts of ambitions and personal gains. It is also not about the bureaucrats who shamelessly engage in Faustian bargain,...