Sashikala VP
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Know your minister
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s six trusted lieutenants are back at the helm of their ministries, being rewarded for good work after the voters gave the party their stamp of approval The six stalwarts who took oath on February 16, are the same men who had done so in 2015. There was hope that Atishi, someone credited […]
Song sung true
The campaign songs put out by the three parties in the Delhi fray clearly enunciated what they stood for. AAP’s cheeriness clearly trumped BJP’s doomsday scenario As the metro stopped and opened its doors at designated stops, the unmistakable beats of AAPs campaign song for Assembly elections 2020 seemed to be heard every other day. Sometimes […]
High hopes
Independent candidates —who contested the just concluded Assembly Elections — were oddly confident, yet missed the mark I MUST have asked more than a couple of times, “Why do you think you have a chance to win”? And each time, the answers did not justify the energy put into a contest defeat is almost a […]
Delhi’s verdict will be decisive — and not just for its denizens
Though the Capital may not be a full-fledged state, its high decibel Assembly campaign has thrown up weighty issues of nationalism, health insurance and endangered communal harmony. Will voters take stock of these controversies or assess the work done in their constituency? “THESE ELECTIONS are going to be an election of the country”, said […]
Who’ll dare fix Delhi’s air?
Political parties are making tall promises to combat pollution in the Capital. But there remains a void when it comes to planning and implementation THE AIR is thick, its noxious quality haunting the Capital city. It’s not the frighteningly high levels of pollution that’s making us choke on our food, but which party will come […]
‘Congress has put its trust in young people’
The feisty MLA whom the Congress has fielded from Chandni Chowk is going hammer and tongs at her former party’s chief Arvind Kejriwal, and is dismissive about the BJP’s chances of making a dent Alka Lamba will be contesting again from Chandni Chowk constituency, this time from the Congress Party, with which she had been […]
Rhetorical flourishes
As election fever rises, words are exchanged and jingles are composed that amuse the voters but enrage the candidates THE DATES for the Delhi elections have been announced and with it an entertaining and quite imaginative mix of social media jousting. The Aam Aadmi Party has been punching it out and perhaps it has I-PAC […]
Every new year brings hope for the abandoned
One is an orphan and two others who did not get the parental care and support every child deserves. Yet they have found their feet in a cruel world with the help of institutions that provide care when families don’t THE NEW year always brings hope of a better tomorrow. So here are stories of […]