Garhwal Post
Worth it
The Aam Aadmi Party has finally agreed to take on what is basically a suicide mission – forming the government in Delhi with MLAs...
Systemic stress
Even as the Union Government is in free-fall, Parliament, too, is in a state of near paralysis. With contentious issues allowed to fester without...
Kejriwal effect
The BJP’s BC Khanduri almost pulled off a victory by introducing last minute ‘pro-people’ legislation during the assembly elections. This included a Kejriwal inspired...
Greater transparency
If the people are not convinced, what better way than to dump large amounts of information on them that they find hard to process?...
PR disaster
From the public relations point of view, Chief Minister Harish Rawat’s ‘press conference’ in Doon on Sunday was little short of a disaster. Having...
Feeble tokenism
Nothing can be more hypocritical than the Samajwadi Party demanding passage of the Prevention of Communal & Targeted Violence Bill in Parliament. Pilloried by...
Taking it personally
We are taught mathematics and physics of quite an advanced level in schools. It is often questioned how this would prove to be useful...
Weak enforcement
Street confrontations with the police have become commonplace in Uttarakhand. Every goon and his cousin are willing to challenge the police with the backing...
Sugar & Salt
Inflation is like high blood pressure and diabetes acting detrimentally on the nation’s health! It is caused by a set of ‘unhealthy’ habits that...
Any difference?
Dehradun has had the good fortune for some time of having a proactive and largely responsive SSP, even if not all of his experiments...
