Another brilliant book I finished recently. Shows how totalitarian regimes use systematic brainwashing techniques and mass psychology to imprint their subjective truth on their citizens.
Three-Day Bank Strike has been deferred. But five-day week is a good idea for bank employees and bank balance sheets. Customers will not suffer in a digital economy, if planned with care. Win-win-win for all three. Latest #BankersTrust in @bsindia
@IndiaToday Ranganathan has a habit of shouting at the top of his voice whenever he is defending the indefensible. His so called intellect fails to hide the fact that he is one of the vilest panelists ever….
Read “Deep rot,” today’s lead editorial in The Hindu: https://t.co/Jj0HMlMxJr
Electoral fraud is not uncommon in electoral democracies. But the SIR (Special Intensive Revision) conducted by the Election Commission of India under the authoritarian and arrogant reign of Gyanesh Kumar belongs to a special species. It is now beyond dispute that the SIR done in several States, and worst of all in West Bengal, has inflicted a grievous and seemingly irreparable wound on India’s electoral democracy. The revelation that Chief Election Commissioner Kumar pushed through decisions related to the SIR without the knowledge, let alone consent, of the two other Election Commissioners shows arbitrariness and lawlessness of the worst kind. The Indian Express must be commended for its investigation, which has exposed how deep and how high the rot has gone into the electoral system. Unfortunately, when the scandal of the ongoing SIR was taken to the Supreme Court of India in the expectation that it would act to uphold the constitutional guarantee of universal adult franchise, the highest court in the land failed the big test. Gyanesh Kumar must resign. An impeachment motion to remove the CEC is unlikely to make headway, given the numbers in the Lok Sabha. If Gyanesh Kumar, with the backing of the Union government, decides to brazen it out, mass democratic protest will be the only way to force him out.