Posts by: Sashikala VP

Sashikala VP -April 6, 2018

Instead of getting their ears blasted by loud music at a bar, Delhi-NCR audiences are warming up to stand-up comics with their risqué jokes A city that laughs together stays together. No wonder, stand-up comedy is replacing Parliament sessions as a mode of entertainment. Papa CJ – winner of Asia’s best stand-up comedian award in […]

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Sashikala VP -March 30, 2018

As the 60th anniversary of the Dalai Lama’s crossing into India approaches, an interview with Sonam Dagpo, official spokesperson of the Central Tibetan Administration March 31 of this year marks 60 years since the Dalai Lama stepped into Indian territory, along with thousands of Tibetan refugees. While New Delhi was supposed to play host to […]

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Sashikala VP -March 23, 2018

Article 19 of the Constitution of India guarantees some of most important fundamental rights to the citizens. On 16 March, a Supreme Court bench comprising Justice AK Sikri and Ashok Bhushan made an observation in regard to Article 19 (1) of the Constitution while quashing a plea by President of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha Bimal Gurung […]

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Sashikala VP -March 23, 2018

‘Be quiet and stand in a corner!’ the Centre seems to be telling those who want to be in the vicinity of Parliament to raise issues their MPs don’t care about Some say angrily that it is an “undeclared emergency,” a strangling of democracy. Others say it is an attempt to silence dissent, to “thwart […]

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Sashikala VP -March 15, 2018

The answer to the question: if you’re under 35, unmarried and not working for a multinational firm: “Most probably not, not in Delhi”. That, anyway, is what realtors and real estate consultants of Delhi-NCR say. They haven’t come across a single, single individual wanting to buy a home. All echoed a spouse’s income as paramount […]

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Sashikala VP -March 8, 2018

When the UN earmarked a day for women to celebrate, it also offered an opportunity for the gender to make an assessment of where it stands in terms of greater equality This International Women’s Day, over 30 women’s groups from across Delhi marched as one unit insisting on “socio-economic and political justice” for all and […]

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Sashikala VP -March 8, 2018

The forging of new alliances and the shifting of allegiances prevented anti-BJP forces from uniting against the common enemy in the three states where Assembly elections were held The North-east elections have brought three more states into the grip of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Many had predicted Tripura would shun its long-drawn history with communism […]

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