Pankaj Vohra

BHAGAT SINGH AND THE HANS RAJ VOHRA ANGLE IN THE HANGING

March 29, 2021

Bhagat Singh has undoubtedly been the most iconic figure of the Indian freedom movement and like many others such as Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, has never got the kind of recognition which he deserved. It was exactly 90 years on last Tuesday when he and his two associates, Sukhdev Thapar...

CENTRE ATTEMPTS TO MAKE DELHI ASSEMBLY REDUNDANT

March 27, 2021

The Centre’s Bill on Delhi, passed by both houses of Parliament, is a clear attempt to provide overriding powers to the Lt Governor, while diminishing the role of the elected government. The move has already invited a lot of criticism from political parties, other than the BJP, and could lead...

CONGRESS SNUB TO G-23 SERVES NO PURPOSE

March 15, 2021

By excluding some of the prominent leaders from the list of star campaigners, who after their suggestions to the leadership for holding elections to various party positions, are considered to be dissidents by the high command, the Congress appears to be pursuing a path that leads nowhere. The non-inclusion can...

CHACKO’S RESIGNATION IS A SETBACK FOR CONGRESS IN KERALA

March 13, 2021

P.C. Chacko, the four-time Lok Sabha MP, who shot into prominence in the seventies while being part of the Indian Youth Congress led by Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi, has decided to part company with the grand old party. Considered an important activist of the youth movement, he and Vyalar Ravi, also...

SUNIL GAVASKAR’S GLORIOUS 50 YEARS IN TEST CRICKET

March 8, 2021

Without any shadow of doubt, Sunil Gavaskar has perhaps been the greatest Indian batsman of all times, notwithstanding the iconic status of Sachin Tendulkar and now Virat Kohli. On Saturday, the Board of Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) honoured this legend at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on...

SASIKALA’S QUITTING RAISES SEVERAL QUESTIONS

March 6, 2021

A majority of political analysts were of a considered view that V.K. Sasikala, a close aide of former Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa would be the “X” factor in the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections which are barely a month away. However, the lady who was recently released from the prison on...

AMOD KANTH RELIVES THE TROUBLED DECADE IN THE CAPITAL

March 1, 2021

Amod Kanth has without any doubt been one of the most outstanding IPS officers, who served in the capital. Although, he could not become the Commissioner of Police, yet his professional achievements have been exemplary. In Khaki in Dust Storm, his maiden book on his tenure in Delhi, he has...

AVOIDABLE CONTROVERSY OVER THE MOTERA STADIUM RENAMING

February 27, 2021

By renaming the newly-built Motera stadium after Narendra Modi, the Gujarat Cricket Association and the state administration have created a totally avoidable controversy which could cause acute embarrassment to the Prime Minister. Many of the BJP’s opponents have been most critical of the fact that Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, whose name...

AMARINDER SINGH ASKS CENTRE TO BE PRAGMATIC AND NOT SIT ON EGO

February 22, 2021

Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has stated that that the farmers’ agitation cannot go on indefinitely and like every war has to end one day, this too would have to reach a conclusion. His prescription is that the Centre must not sit on ego and resolve the issue amicably,...

BJP SHOULD REIN IN MOTOR MOUTHS WHO CAUSE NATIONAL EMBARRASSMENT

February 20, 2021

Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb has, by his irresponsible utterances, created unnecessary embarrassment with Nepal and Sri Lanka reacting to his statement by lodging a complaint with New Delhi. Biplab had recently claimed that Amit Shah had during his tenure as the BJP chief told him and some others...

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