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The Real India Story
@ljishnu Posted on: 15 Jan, 2011
India’s interests are far more important than what businessmen and their champions think it is
Letters
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2011
AUTONOMY OR CORRUPTION?
Spanner on Mumbai's free floor space project
Issue Date: Jan 11, 2011
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) project to provide free floor space index (FSI) to builders creating public parking slots has gone all wrong. The builders are exploiting the project to fill their coffers.
Reserved for no one
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2011
The rapidly changing demography of Jharkhand, a state carved out of Bihar in 2000, has given a disturbing twist to the panchayat elections held in the region after more than three decades. Perhaps for the first time in the country, there were no candidates even to file nominations in a large number of panchayat seats reserved for members of the Scheduled Tribes (ST). No nomination was filed for almost 2,000 posts in the first three rounds of the five-phased panchayat elections.
Letters
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2011
MANAS SHOWS SIGNS OF RECOVERY
Letters
Issue Date: Dec 31, 2010
WHAT WILL DEER EAT?
Letters
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2010
PDS for family planning
Spoils of local bodies
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2010
This was the fourth panchayat poll when Shila Devi of Nayamatpur village cast her vote. The polls usually were a staid affair, with two or three candidates campaigning on bullock carts or on foot. But this year, the 50-something was struck by the dust raised by cavalcades of SUVs, all plastered with posters and packed with campaigners. Nineteen candidates from her village of 4,000 were in the fray for the post of gram pradhan. Liquor flowed freely; saris and other gifts were in plenty too. Never before did Devi see such intensity during a panchayat election. Nor did Uttar Pradesh.
Bread and games in India
Posted on: 15 Oct, 2010
We need spectacle in the capital, not mundane things like schools and hospitals in villages
Bread and games in India
Issue Date: Oct 15, 2010
In the final years of the Roman Republic, the Senate kept the masses happy by distributing cheap food and staging big spectacles known as the circus games to get votes. In his satires, the Roman poet Juvenal observed witheringly that governance had been reduced to panem et circenses (bread and circus/games). He was referring to the Roman practice of giving free wheat to its citizens and mounting costly games as a means of gaining power, a practice adopted later by the Roman emperors. Entry to the games was also free.
