N D Sharma

is a senior journalist, and Patron of eNewsroom India.

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How Rajiv Gandhi stood up against public opinion, and eventually bowed to it

Rajiv Gandhi was a gentleman, without any experience of statecraft and uninitiated in political roguery. But the same cannot be said about those who had become his close advisers when he became Prime Minister following...

Bhopal Gas Leak survivors have particular reason to remember Motilal Vora

Motilal Vora who died on December 21, a day after he had turned 93, had a humanitarian quality not so common among the political class. Survivors of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster have a...

Modi’s farm laws will mean death of fair price shops

An inevitable consequence of Modi’s farm laws will be the gradual death of public distribution system (PDS). Through PDS, an estimated 75 crore people, belonging to the economically weaker sections, are provided essential commodities such...

Kalidas Samaroh, once a pride of India, reduced to a minor government function by Shivraj Singh Chouhan

Annual Kalidas Samaroh (reduced from usual seven days to three days ‘because of coronavirus’) was jointly inaugurated by Usha Thakur and Mohan Yadav in Ujjain on Devotthayini Ekadashi (November 25). Usha Thakur is Madhya Pradesh...

Need for a comprehensive review of the law governing Election Commission of India

In an article in The Tribune, eminent journalist and author Rasheed Kidwai has focussed attention on the inadequacies of the Election Commission to hold elections with a modicum of fairness and deal appropriately with those...

CBI, country’s premier crime investigation agency, losing trust of the people

Maharashtra’s is the latest non-BJP government to withdraw general consent to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for taking up investigation of a crime in the State on its own. Rajasthan, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh and...

Madhya Pradesh Assembly by-elections and disquiet within the ruling BJP

The 28 Assembly by-elections in Madhya Pradesh are becoming more problematic for the ruling BJP than for Congress. Of the BJP candidates, 22 are those who had quit Congress along with Jyotiraditya Scindia, to bring...

‘Temporary’ Chief Minister and mess in the government in Madhya Pradesh

Shivraj Singh Chouhan said at a Mandsaur function on September 20 that he is a temporary Chief Minister (of Madhya Pradesh). Chouhan is not known to be a person to say such things lightly; hence...

Slimy side of Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh Narayan Singh

On September 20, the Rajya Sabha witnessed uproarious scenes as the opposition members created a bedlam demanding a division on farm bills. They were provoked by the cavalier attitude of Deputy Chairman Harivansh Narayan Singh...

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A K Roy the Jharkhand Movement leader and three-time MP of Dhanbad is no more

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It is not about Didi vs Modi anymore. It is now Bengali culture vs invaders

I returned home at the end of another normal day. As normal as it could be amidst political campaigns before one of the most...

India’s first game show during lockdown to generate funds for COVID-19 relief

Kolkata: It sounds interesting - a game show with celeb couples for the benefit of Corona victims. Each episode features celebrity couples competing against...

Jharkhand’s angry tribals resort to Pathalgadi, their age-old practice

Ranchi: At a time when Jharkhand is all geared up for the Dhanbad visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 25 to lay...

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