tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70548952297513176732024-03-19T13:05:42.318+05:30RESEARCHEvery truth is printableSurajit Dasguptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03678536841163806350noreply@blogger.comBlogger117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7054895229751317673.post-29527461932642364132022-06-19T17:38:00.000+05:302022-06-27T00:15:56.557+05:30What 'Religious Terrorism' Means & When It AppliesLocal residents and police officers clear debris at
a blast site in Malegaon, 29 September 2008Photo courtesy: REUTERSMuch as the journalists may detest the forum for having encroached upon their exclusive right to comment on society, Orkut is where I have been getting instant gratification as a commentator the moment anything worth commenting upon happens anywhere in the world, since the days Surajit Dasguptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03678536841163806350noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7054895229751317673.post-49635155286202168702016-08-16T20:40:00.003+05:302020-11-24T18:42:58.801+05:30How Old Is India?
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Surajit Dasguptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03678536841163806350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7054895229751317673.post-50127852821079085232016-07-09T21:20:00.003+05:302016-07-09T21:24:01.840+05:30Media Waffles On Modi's Shuffles - 2
Here's why Modi transferred, demoted, promoted and left untouched some of his ministers and MPs of BJP
Continued from Part 1
Subramanian Swamy
A transfer that would have been just short of a revolution was Arun Jaitley’s from the Finance Ministry. Accept it, no BJP supporter likes him. While the Subramanian Swamy camp makes no bones about their disapproval of Jaitley, supporters who are Surajit Dasguptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03678536841163806350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7054895229751317673.post-39400936728255028642016-07-09T00:12:00.001+05:302016-07-09T22:53:52.067+05:30Media Waffles On Modi's Shuffles - 1
Speculations are rife whenever journalists try to read the Prime Minister’s mind. In the last three days, as always, Modi drove them to their wit’s end just as he had the day before inducting his first council of ministers two years ago
Prime Minister Narendra Modi seemed to have some fun, virtually challenging the media to read his mind for 48 hours. On 4 July, even as journalists had been Surajit Dasguptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03678536841163806350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7054895229751317673.post-34229269341787768662016-02-25T11:54:00.001+05:302016-03-01T16:46:40.083+05:30JNU Students Allege Political & Religious Discrimination By Teachers
Most of the time, it is subtle. The teacher would make snide remarks about you as you pass through a corridor and, sometimes, even while a lecture session is on — if you do not happen to share the teacher’s political ideology. It is not necessary that you are affiliated to the ABVP or the teacher owes his/her allegiance to the CPM, CPI or CPI(ML)-Revolution. The professor might have been a Surajit Dasguptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03678536841163806350noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7054895229751317673.post-84819694622076498522015-12-30T18:57:00.000+05:302016-02-25T15:33:08.801+05:30Arvind 'Tughlaq' Kejriwal
His strategy of playing the underdog and targeting high-profile rivals was sticking with the people until he turned out to be a serial liar
This man has gone mad. While “mad” is not a standard term in the lexicon of political commentators, I couldn’t find a more apt description for Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal based on his behaviour over the past month or two. First, the Surajit Dasguptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03678536841163806350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7054895229751317673.post-38694124148241374812015-11-02T10:36:00.001+05:302015-11-02T22:37:31.364+05:30NDA Forming Govt, BJP May Get Majority On Its Own
If this does not happen, there would still be no UPA government! Read on to know why and how.
T
he headline tells the entire story. But the Bharatiya Janata Party had reasons to be concerned from the first two rounds of Bihar Assembly elections, while it is upbeat about the third, which it is expecting to sweep, when I landed in Patna and went all over the place in the state. The Surajit Dasguptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03678536841163806350noreply@blogger.com0Patna, Bihar, India25.5940947 85.13756450000005325.3649922 84.814841000000058 25.8231972 85.460288000000048tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7054895229751317673.post-40388016466221096002015-07-01T21:49:00.000+05:302015-07-01T21:49:00.327+05:30Lessons For India From Greece
Hopefully, readers won’t find the comparisons Greek. The
European country is a typical example of the ultimate fate socialism and
populism meet. India, beware!
In terms of economics, this is the chronology that unfolded
in Greece, which the whole news media is talking about today.
Greece
enters Eurozone in 2001.
Unfortunately
Europe goes into recession around 2008. Greece Surajit Dasguptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03678536841163806350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7054895229751317673.post-52089205079738501212015-06-28T16:02:00.000+05:302015-07-16T16:14:33.803+05:30‘Media Dancing To Congress’s Tunes’
Liberal economic thinker Surjit
S Bhalla speaks to me after being cut short during a
televised debate
T
here is a concerted effort on the part of the Congress to
project the current NDA government as UPA-3, and the media is playing by its
script — well known commentator on economic affairs Surjit S Bhalla believes.
His appearance on NDTV on 25 June made him stand out as a Surajit Dasguptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03678536841163806350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7054895229751317673.post-74757208646836118092015-06-25T15:56:00.000+05:302015-07-16T15:57:29.042+05:30Janata Couldn’t Have Won Without RSS
On the Emergency Day, I present an untold story of India’s pacifist, media-shy right wing organisation in the backdrop of Indira Gandhi’s despotism
I
have been sympathetic to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh because it is a nationalist organisation. I am not a supporter; there are aspects of its belief system — chiefly science and economics — that I disagree with. This is the Surajit Dasguptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03678536841163806350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7054895229751317673.post-7071141602710012482015-06-12T21:05:00.000+05:302015-07-10T21:18:19.820+05:30Let Railways Make Economic Sense: Debroy Committee
The recommendations are
not driven by a doctrinaire free market philosophy. It’s a pragmatic approach
towards making the department viable.
I
have procured a copy of the recommendations of
the “Committee for Mobilization of Resources for Major Railway Projects and
Restructuring of Railway Ministry and Railway Board” headed by eminent
economist and NITI Aayog member Surajit Dasguptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03678536841163806350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7054895229751317673.post-63299039541220691562015-06-06T21:05:00.001+05:302015-07-14T23:03:41.245+05:30Modi Can’t Say ‘No’
But the NDA government entertains them because of a chequered history of the BJP and India's own inability to appreciate genuine secularism
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Surajit Dasguptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03678536841163806350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7054895229751317673.post-86583894861594321402015-05-24T13:59:00.000+05:302015-07-16T14:03:53.380+05:30Politics Of Dinkar
It has all the right messages for the nation. The polity
will be well advised not to slot him into a caste for identity politics or
cherry-pick from his statements to imprison governance in dogma.
A
Bengali in Bihar, I spoke simple Bengali, shorn of
Sanskrit-origin words that I thought were meant only for editorials in Anandabazar
Patrika until I migrated to Kolkata after Surajit Dasguptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03678536841163806350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7054895229751317673.post-43640861940030170322015-05-12T19:25:00.000+05:302015-05-14T15:35:08.595+05:30Government Is Directionless: Govindacharya
But it has such educated advisers that it seems unlikely that its silence on critical issues is a result of ignorance; it must be part of its strategy, the right wing ideologue says
Govindacharya addressing the press conference
Seizing the opportunity to assess the NDA government’s performance over the past one year before other political observers do, founder of Rashtriya Swabhiman Surajit Dasguptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03678536841163806350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7054895229751317673.post-39518594091077975262015-04-19T20:24:00.000+05:302015-07-10T20:25:43.161+05:30Muslim Truth Denied By Muslim Men
Other
men are found wanting in protest, too. Support for emancipation of Muslim women
from unfair marital laws of the Shari’ah comes mostly from victims of the
patriarchal regime and women of other faiths.
“H
umera was sick of this life. It was as if she was
continuously tightrope walking, balancing herself like a skilled acrobat so
that she would not fall down. Every time sheSurajit Dasguptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03678536841163806350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7054895229751317673.post-71232369608731491532015-04-06T19:02:00.000+05:302015-07-10T19:42:25.239+05:30Congress Appointees Decide How BJP Govt Is To Be Projected
This state of affairs of the I&B Ministry explains why the government has been failing on the propaganda front
I
f you have been wondering why Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s flagship programmes Jan Dhan Yojana, Make in India, Land Acquisition Bill/Ordinance, etc are not being hard-sold by state-owned media houses Doordarshan and Press Information Bureau, wonder no Surajit Dasguptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03678536841163806350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7054895229751317673.post-74061614018241639222015-03-05T14:05:00.002+05:302015-03-05T14:06:12.475+05:30Yadav, Bhushan Shouldn't Be Complaining
They did everything to subvert internal democracy in the Aam
Aadmi Party until the tables turned against them. In all likelihood, the
party chief tolerated them for his own intellectual shortcoming and the
fear that the duo would be dangerous as dissenters.
Their story of subterfuge is long. While one of them was initially
admired within the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for disarming other Surajit Dasguptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03678536841163806350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7054895229751317673.post-76713967111391306432015-02-25T17:25:00.000+05:302015-07-10T17:26:32.591+05:30Raju Guide Of Indian Activism
Dig
deep into Anna Hazare’s past and you will see how an ordinary man, basking in
the glory of cleverly designed ‘people’s movements’ from Maharashtra to Delhi,
started believing he was a saint like the protagonist of the 1965 Hindi film Guide
I
n the 1965 classic Guide, Raju, the main character
played by ‘evergreen’ Dev Anand, is a boy-next-door with a fair share of rightsSurajit Dasguptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03678536841163806350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7054895229751317673.post-2411632870212860472015-02-21T22:31:00.004+05:302015-07-18T21:12:41.695+05:30Who Is Surprised By Corporate Espionage?
This
has been happening for donkey’s decades, with many dubious incidents having
unfolded before journalists of the present generation. What is reassuring, the NDA
government has antecedents to inspire this confidence among the people that it
will not spare anybody who is guilty.
After serving for a few months on the Science &
Technology beat, I was given the Petroleum Ministry and Surajit Dasguptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03678536841163806350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7054895229751317673.post-39683649340961637912015-01-30T16:20:00.000+05:302015-07-13T20:24:42.677+05:30Kejriwal Helped By Media Taking You For A Ride
The
politician used every past associate of his to climb the ladder of fame and
success, and a large section of the journalistic fraternity agreed to be
cheerleaders of his fake movement with initial help from the UPA government and
waylaid RSS swayamsevaks
S
ome days ago, Times Now went ballistic over a claim
by Kumar Vishwas of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) that the Surajit Dasguptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03678536841163806350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7054895229751317673.post-25679214001932693412015-01-12T14:04:00.000+05:302015-07-10T15:32:11.856+05:30Another Rabble-Rouser?
I
f you have seen the crowd during the August 2011 movement led by Anna
Hazare and then if your jaws dropped when you saw lakhs turn up to hear BJP’s
then prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi even in the south Indian state
of Kerala where the party was near absent, you have seen nothing. You must know
PV Rajagopal, president of Ekta Parishad, who commands a following Surajit Dasguptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03678536841163806350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7054895229751317673.post-27584033684446698942015-01-08T15:35:00.000+05:302015-07-10T20:06:43.790+05:30Clash Of Civilization And Bestiality
If the only means you
can think of expressing your disagreement with some cartoons — however unsavoury — is
murder, you need to be treated on your terms. Andcould we stop that facile ‘all
are equal’ apology? Islamist fundamentalism is the greatest force of Evil
facing humanity.
I
ndia joined the world yesterday in being stunned at the brutal murder of about a dozen journalists Surajit Dasguptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03678536841163806350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7054895229751317673.post-85477875539872564182015-01-05T23:45:00.002+05:302015-01-05T23:45:50.327+05:30NDA's Intent Of Transforming India
The establishment of NITI Aayog is a clear message that the
government is committed to reforms, decentralization and a cooperative
federalism that advocates involving states in the Centre’s decision
making.
In what can be seen as the greatest policy shift by the new
dispensation, the NDA government has begun the year 2015 with scrapping
of the Soviet-modelled Planning Commission withSurajit Dasguptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03678536841163806350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7054895229751317673.post-858604885857792292014-12-20T16:53:00.000+05:302015-07-31T12:57:13.769+05:30In The Name Of Allah
I
n the midst of mourning in
the subcontinent and inexplicable silence of the Arab world following the
Peshawar attack where 132 children were butchered by terrorists came
Tahreek-e-Taliban Pakistan’s justification for the massacre that is likely to
lead to impressionable minds among Muslims seeing religious reason in violence
and those among Hindus seeing Islam as an evil faith.
<!-Surajit Dasguptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03678536841163806350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7054895229751317673.post-65374076497368821152014-12-09T22:35:00.000+05:302015-07-14T22:48:39.952+05:30Why Bharat Doesn't Revolt Against India
H
is rationale is sound. And he has a way with words — he borrows the term “Californication” from the American comedy by that name to summarise Amartya Sen and Jen Drèze’s description of a liberalising India as “islands of California in a sea of sub-Saharan Africa” — which is remarkable, given that he went to-and-fro between electronic and print mediums of journalism, a transition the Surajit Dasguptahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03678536841163806350noreply@blogger.com0