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Response to Sanjeev Sablok's inquiry into my allegations against Bharat Swabhiman, and explaining why I am a member of the Aam Aadmi Party [Click on the post title to go to the blog that necessitated this article] A s a careful reading of my tweets will show, the allegations are relayed, not mine, though the Bharat Swabhiman’s hesitation to launch an all-out movement against government’s corruption was witnessed firsthand. For want of space on Twitter, I couldn’t name the persons making the allegations. The friend referred to there is Chandra Vikash, who was once my batchmate in Holy Cross School, Bokaro Steel City (then in Bihar, now in Jharkhand), between the grades VI and X [We cleared Class X in the year 1987]. Disturbed as much as I was by rampant, all-pervading corruption, Vikash had moved to Delhi, leaving his well-paid job as an engineering consultant in Bangalore because he thought the national capital was the epicentre of corruption and here was where he co...

But it was a manifestation of the "functional anarchy" that India is known to be, which unravelled in central Delhi this week , as non-violent demonstrators bore the brunt of a frustrated police force I am managing to write this post with immense difficulty in typing as my right hand that received a big blow from a policeman's lathi last evening is reluctant to cooperate in this necessary exercise of reporting the eyewitness account. I was surrounded by five Delhi Police and RAF personnel who dealt massive blows all over my body in a fit of rage even as I kept screaming that I was a peaceful protester exercising my democratic right. I am not joining the demonstrations today because a few more hits in the same parts of the body will render me motionless, while I am entrusted with the task of organisation building. The day before yesterday, 22 December, we were squatting around the canopy at a distance of about half-a-kilometre from North Block where Rajpath ends,...

Subramanian Swamy's allegat ion of Soni a-Rahul Gandhi indulging in a Rs 1,600 crore fraud contains questions more credible than the points of defence pu t up by the Congress, n otwithstanding the fact that every allegation by the Janata Party president is viewed by his detractors through the lenses of his past record of frequently changing alliances, communal diatribes and intemperate attacks on the person of his target at a given point of time “S ince when has it become legal for a political party to extend a loan?” Subramanian Swamy asks, questioning what appears a dubious business transaction between a dysfunctional media house, whose newspaper was launched by the first prime minister of the country, and a purported non-profit company, the majority stakes of which are held by the Indian National Congress's first family. The question is valid. Attacking his decade-long pet hate Seeking an explanation as to why a general body meeting of shareholders of Associ...