PMC Bank and a Clever RBI..!
Have been watching the debacle of the PMC Bank which is the Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative Bank, and how the RBI, controlled I’m sure, totally by the government, is dealing with the crisis. Have noticed today, that there is no more a sense of fairness: It’s either majority versus minority…
Police Custodial Deaths and a Mother..!
“Youth dies in police custody! Over, 100 killed in police custody in Maharashtra in four years “ Times of India, Oct 30th “Just give me my son! Place him across my lap. Open your eyes child, did you close them, so you wouldn’t see the next blow and the next?…
Abhijeet Banerjee and Tihar Jail..!
“He is fearless in expressing his opinions..” Nirmala Banerjee, Abhijeet’s mother. Did you know Tihar jail was where Nobel Prize winner Abhijeet Banerjee spent ten days of his life? Till now, you must have been under the impression only politicians made a success of their careers after a stint in…
Jesus and Lynching..!
Mob lynching comes from Bible, says Mohan Bhagwat (RSS Chief) …India Today, 9th Oct Ah sir, so a gruesome word like ‘lynching’ has been cleverly ascribed to Jesus, a man who lived on earth without sin? There were many who twisted such lines during his life, so that he could…
Aarey Forest and Creatures of the Night..!
And in the night they came into Aarey Forest; the woodcutters! With blackness as cover, they pulled out electric saw and iron axe, startled the sleeping birds in the trees, their young in their nests, and brought their homes crashing down. Creatures of the night, who come out, while all…
Robert Clements is a newspaper columnist and writes a daily column, which has graced the pages of over 60 newspapers and magazines, from a daily column in the Khaleej Times, Dubai, the Morning Star, London, and in nearly every state in India, from The Statesman in Kolkata, to the Kashmir Times in Kashmir to the Trinity Mirror in Chennai.