Pankaj Vohra

SANJAY GANDHI’S TRAGIC PLANE CRASH: THE DAY THE COURSE OF POLITICS CHANGED FOREVER

June 23, 2021

It was exactly 41 years ago, when at 8.40 in the morning of 23 June 1980, my father woke me up and told me that the Police PRO was on the line. I had reached home late the previous night after finishing my day’s assignments at the National Herald daily...

MILKHA SINGH WAS AN UNDISPUTED BHARAT RATNA

June 21, 2021

Milkha Singh would go down in history as independent India’s unchallenged sporting hero, whose feats inspired millions of our countrymen, making him a living legend. Despite facing acute hardships and a troubled childhood, the ‘Flying Sikh’, as he was fondly called, attained great heights, not achieved by any sportsman during...

DELHI UNIVERSITY UNDER A CLOUD IN ITS CENTENARY YEAR

June 14, 2021

The country’s premier university, Delhi University, in its centenary year, is in the grip of a major crisis resulting from apparently “illegal and questionable actions” of the ministry for Human Resources Development. The major contentious issue is that the university has a person functioning as the acting Vice Chancellor without...

AGRA HOSPITAL WHERE 22 PATIENTS DIED SHOULD BE CHARGED WITH MASS MURDER

June 12, 2021

In a shocking revelation, the owner of a hospital in Agra has claimed on a video that went viral, that he had directed the oxygen supply to some patients to be discontinued for some time to determine, who all could survive without it. As a consequence of this ‘mock drill’...

CANCELLATION OF EXAMINATIONS HAS SERIOUS RAMIFICATIONS FOR STUDENTS

June 7, 2021

The decision of the Union government following which several boards, both Central and states, have cancelled board examinations for Class XII students throughout the country, would have serious ramifications. In fact, the decision could affect lakhs of students, not only in terms of pursuing their dreams but would simultaneously deprive...

OPERATION BLUE STAR WAS INDIRA GANDHI’S GRAVEST FOLLY

June 4, 2021

It has been 37 years since Operation Blue Star, an intelligence and Indian Army-driven mission, which went on to change the political narrative in the country. The use of excessive force by the then Lt General K. Sunderji and the destruction of the Akal Takht by tank fire on 6...

FROM A CELEBRITY TO AN ACCUSED, JOURNEY OF SUSHIL KUMAR

May 31, 2021

Olympic medal winner and a national celebrity, Sushil Kumar has been in the news for the past one month purely due to wrong reasons. The famous wrestler is now facing murder charges for allegedly participating in the killing of a junior sports colleague, who chose to defy him by not...

THE DESECRATION OF DELHI APPEARS TO BE UNENDING

May 29, 2021

Former Chief Executive Councillor, the late Jag Parvesh Chandra used to often say that Delhi was everyone’s mistress and nobody’s wife because of which there was no ownership for the various mistakes that have occurred since Independence. While the spotlight has lately been on the alterations being carried out in...

COVID PASSPORT WOULD BE A PREREQUISITE FOR FUTURE TRAVEL

May 24, 2021

It is becoming evident that Covid immunisation would become an integral part of daily life and therefore it is essential that citizens must at the earliest get themselves vaccinated, even if the vaccine does not provide cent percent protection. In fact, in the future, for anyone to travel, not only...

COVID, THE SILENT ASSASSIN OF OUR TIMES

May 22, 2021

Not a day passes when one does not hear of friends, acquaintances and relatives succumbing to this deadly pandemic that has come to haunt the country for the second time. Unlike the first wave, the second wave is more lethal and appears to be never-ending. Frontline workers, mostly doctors and...

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