On August 30 in his 68th edition of his monthly Mann ki Baat national radio address, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke mostly of toys and ...
On August 30 in his 68th edition of his monthly Mann ki Baat national radio address, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke mostly of toys and childhood. He did not refer to any specific issue on the day after India set a world record for the largest number of coronavirus cases in a 24-hour period although he urge his listeners to adopt Indian-bred dogs.
The dark clouds of unemployment, disease, hunger and death are gathering this monsoon season. Besides raging Covid-19, many states are broke and unable to pay salaries, the economy is shrinking fast and we have had the biggest GDP contraction ever. Millions of Indians, already surviving at a subsistence level, are going without a square meal a day, China has violated our border and a limited war could take place any time.
Things are not good and if politics today operated on the usual principles of anti-incumbency, the regime should be discredited and fighting for survival. But this is not happening for multiple reasons. First, there is no credible national opposition as we have again been reminded by the recent pathetic sequence of events in the Congress. Although Sonia, Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi preside over a shrinking and disabled party, media...
