https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8.jpgOpinionEvery year there are visible polluters in our cities and towns. In the NCR for instance the smoke carried across from the fields in Punjab and Haryana that where crop waste is burnt is a significant contributor to air pollution levels. Pollutants ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionAs Kabir Jayanti approaches on 22 June this year, it is an opportune time to remember Sant Kabir, a mystic poet who defies classification. Hindus and Muslim both claim him. It is said that upon his death the two communities both fought for custody...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionFor many years, middle-class Indians have contrasted the benefits of aging in India vis a vis a developed country such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada or even Australia, nations that have a fairly large Indian diaspora. Those argu...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionTowards the middle of next month, the G 7 will be held at Fasano, a scenic Italian town overlooking the Adriatic Sea in the province of Brindisi in the southern part of that nation. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has already sent out an invitation ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionIt’s a matter of historical record that when Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was offered the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award, he refused to accept it. It was his considered view that serving member of the cabinet were able to exert ‘control a...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionIf nations are to live in peace, they must learn to be human and humane.  As Hanuman Jayanti approaches on 23 April it is time to reflect on one of the central characters in the Ramayana, the redoubtable Hanuman and his impact on the minds of mill...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionAs Ram Navami approaches it is time to remember Lord Rama. This year will be a special year for his devotees because leaving aside the question of political affiliations, the majority of Hindus were happy with the inauguration of the temple at Ayo...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionFew sensible people will contest the idea that the decision of the Supreme Court to declare triple talaq unconstitutional was an excellent idea in keeping with the idea of equality enshrined in Article 14. The practice clearly contravened the idea...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionIn a general sense, the term secretary in government does not exude power Briefly stated, mnemonics is said to be a system for assisting and improving the memory. Within the science of mnemonics, some methods use images, others use rhyme, and ther...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionIntellectual honesty is a crime in any totalitarian country: George Orwell A few years ago, Shashi Tharoor was on a show with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation to discuss his new book. In ‘An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India,’ a ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionIntroduction of global ranking of colonial atonement should be undertaken. Transparency International’s annual report has ranked India at number 93. In 2022 it had been ranked at no 85, so it has been backsliding. In the coming weeks, the Varietie...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionHis faith in religion was revived when he discovered Swamy Vivekananda’s teachings. As we approach Netaji’s 127th birth anniversary, on 23 January, it is an ideal time to reflect on some lesser-known aspects of his life. For instance, many are una...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionThe Boy Who Fought an Empire is a play that seeks to inform children, and have them meaningfully engage with the fascinating boyhood, adult, and mature years of the person who became known as ‘Netaji.’ Subhash Chandra Bose searched for meaning and...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionOnly one country’s film industry can potentially challenge Hollywood’s global dominance and give it a run for its money. Neither China nor Europe is up to this task (although it could be argued that China is doing so indirectly by taking over owne...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionIn the heart of our nation, where decisions are made, Stood the new Parliament, in sunlight and shade. An attack it endured, the day could have potentially been one of great sorrow, But from the ashes, we rise for a better tomorrow. Lessons must b...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionExtrajudicial killings are reprehensible no matter if they are carried out by the Americans, the Russians, Israel or India and whether they are carried out domestically or overseas. Leaving that issue aside, it’s worth taking a closer look at rece...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionAs Navy Day approaches it is time to remember and honour our valiant seamen, especially those who contributed in one way or the other to the freedom struggle. Navy Day is celebrated every year on 4 December. It was on this day when during the cour...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionThis time, there is a twist in the tale, or a variation in the standard Bollywood formula. Tiger 3, the latest offering from the YRF Spy Universe, declared to be a box-office hit by the trade pundits has thereby resurrected the fortunes of aging s...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionGiven the urgency of the issue it is time to sound the alarm bells and challenge the hypocrisy, if not duplicity of the Canadian government and its leader. Some days ago, the Khalistani extremist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun made an extraordinary state...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionThere is evidently a huge interest in stories related to mothers-in-law in India, but oddly enough, it appears confined to the screen. Before television came into its own, the nasty mother-in-law who harassed and persecuted the innocent daughter-i...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionAs World Student Day approaches on 15 October, to honour the birthday of APJ Abdul Kalam, one of India’s greatest Presidents, it is time to soberly reflect as to what India can offer the global student community in time to come. India has certain ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionAs Gandhi Jayanti approaches it’s time once again to reflect on the life and times of Mahatma Gandhi as depicted in articles, books and even cinema. Turning to the film ‘Gandhi’ which garnered as many as eight Oscars, Richard Attenborough the dire...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionBill Gates once stated in an interview that he often has bets with his billionaire friend Warren Buffet whenever they are in disagreement over the outcome of something. They generally have a bet for one dollar, and the loser presents the bill to t...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionIn 2012, the BBC carried out a poll on the hundred greatest Brits, and as a result of that poll, Winston Churchill emerged as the greatest Briton. The results of that poll were subsequently taken down, but there is no question that in the minds of...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionIn a few weeks from now, India will head for elections in five states, and a few months thereafter, the countdown will begin for Lok Sabha elections due possibly around April 2024. Once again, there will be editorials in newspapers and heated deba...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionA fair amount of controversy was generated some weeks ago in respect of the proposed editing of several works written by notable children’s book author Roald Dahl. Mr Dahl, it was argued by his publisher, often used language that could potentially...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinion“No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it,” said President Theodore Roosevelt famously while addressing the US Congress more than one hundred years ago. In order to mitigate corr...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionEstablished more than ten years ago in 2011, World Hunger Day reminds us about the global food crisis. Observed on 28 May, as the day approaches this year, it is an opportune time to reflect on the devastating Bengal Famine of 1943-44, the last ma...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionA few years ago, the Washington-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace discovered that Indians have not yet rejected hereditary candidates. As a matter of fact, an astonishing 46 percent of voters said that they actually preferred politi...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionWhen Rishi Sunak became the first Indian-origin prime minister of the United Kingdom, it was a remarkable development. Earlier, it was only in the corporate world that India was providing leadership, with numerous CEOs of Indian origin heading som...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionWhen Rishi Sunak became the first Indian-origin prime minister of the United Kingdom, it was a remarkable development. Earlier, it was only in the corporate world that India was providing leadership, with numerous CEOs of Indian origin heading som...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionThe criminality and hypocrisy of overseas propagandists of an independent state of Khalistan is evident to most Indians, including the vast majority of Indian Sikhs, though not to naïve Western governments, some of whom have become inadvertent fac...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionWhether or not you agree with the recent verdict against Rahul Gandhi, it raises numerous questions about the pace of justice in the country and the upward trend in the criminalisation of politics across the country, across all political parties. ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionAs International Day of Happiness approaches,it is time for all of us to think of how we can be happier, even though happiness, like love, cannot be forced. For ten years now, since 2013, on 20 March, the United Nations has celebrated the Internat...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionAn actor can make his or her presence felt even with a few lines. Actors may complain to film directors about having too little to say. Directors argue back that it is not what you say that matters as much as how you say it. Bollywood fans recogni...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionIn Goldfinger, one of Ian Fleming’s most memorable novels that was subsequently made into a film, a character says the following words: ‘Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago. Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionAs this year’s Republic Day approaches, an important birthday approaches just a few days earlier which the nation will also celebrate. In 2022, it was decided that henceforth, Republic Day celebrations should commence from 23 January onwards so th...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionEven though nominations will be announced only towards the end of January 2023, you could say that, in a sense, movie history has already been made with the shortlisting of four Indian films at the Oscars: two documentaries and two feature films. ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionHuman rights presuppose the existence of humans and on Human Rights Day, celebrated every year on 10 December, we have to prioritise the rapidly escalating threat to humankind and all forms of existence above human rights itself. Following recent ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionPIYA:  Can I have some money, Papa? PAPA:  What for, Piya? PIYA:  Just going to McDonalds with friends in the evening. PAPA:  To eat all that junk food. PIYA: Not unhealthy if eaten in moderation, Papa. The Americans were so sm...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionPAPA: So, what is the news today, Piya? And what’s that stuff you’re eating for breakfast?PIYA: It’s bun maska, Papa, and the news in the paper is that Elon Musk the new owner of Twitter is now asking everyone to pay eight dollars for a blue tick....https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionWe have so many international days every year, and it is good that we have them, for they draw our collective attention to important issues and themes, but sometimes the themes themselves are ill chosen, or perhaps, it would be better to say that ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionThe news came in a few days ago that this year’s Man Booker Prize has been awarded to Shehan Karunatilaka, the Sri Lankan author of The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, which explores the civil war in his country. It appears to be a good time for Sou...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionA big budget film Adipurush is slated to hit the screens in January next year. The publicity for the film started a little before Dussehra this year to build up hype. The lead actor Prabhas even flew down to attend Ram Leela at Red Fort, together ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionOn this Gandhi Jayanti on 2 October, also known as the International Day of Non-Violence following a 2007 resolution passed by the UN General Assembly, let’s pause to remember the Mahatma in a less serious, almost light-hearted fashion.Anyone fami...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionOn 24 August, the war in Ukraine entered its sixth month, with no end in sight. Two days later, on 26 August, we celebrated International Dog Day. Two seemingly disparate events, the first an unfolding tragedy, the second a celebration and yet the...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionThe performance at the box office of both Aamir Khan’s Laal Singh Chaddha and Akshay Kumar’s Raksha Bandhan has been underwhelming to say the least. Producers, distributors, actors, cinema owners, everyone connected to the film industry in one way...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionSpeaking in a lighter vein, the news is that India has entered the finals. Not of the cricket World Cup, which is still a while away, but the finals of something even diehard cricket fans should concede, is equally, if not more momentous. Rishi Su...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/the-nepo-kids-of-bollywood-and-beyond/July 13, 2022, 2:28 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Key-to-Bollywood’s-drug-saga-riddle-lies-in-Gujarat-1.jpgOpinionOne prominent area where nepotism flourishes possibly even more than the film world and the world of law and justice is the world of politics.https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/naming-and-shaming-of-invisible-polluters/November 27, 2024, 3:18 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/jk-8-300x169.jpgOpinionThere are several reasons why the creative spirit can be disturbed by success. The phenomenon itself is well documented, but philosophers and psychologists either have not considered the issue important enough to investigate or have not, in any ev...