Pairokar

By Parmanand Pandey The way Justice P.D. Dinakaran, the Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court is trying to give the caste and communal colour to the opposition of his elevation to the Apex court is indeed very sad and tragic. What is all the more disturbing is that the reaction of National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes over this issue, which by stretch of imagination is very nasty, ugly, stinking and in bad taste. Corruption is like a cancer. We may believe or not, it has spread to the entire polity of the Indian state. However, it is quite satisfying that people have very high expectations from the judiciary. But it gets dashed when they come to know that those who are appointed to the high posts of judges are not above board. One of the former Chief Justices of India, Justice Bharucha was on record that 20 per cent judges in the country were co...

By Parmanand Pandey Tragic death of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajshekhar Reddy in a chopper crash on the hills of Nalla malla is sad, very sad; but the political drama that has started even before the charred body of the late YSR was laid to rest is a sadder event. It is reported that 148 out of 170 Congress MLA have already signed on a letter of allegiance for Shri Jagan Reddy, son of the late Shri Y.S. Rajshekhar Reddy. The way these MLAs lost no time in expressing their fealty to young Jagan Reddy is certainly a matter of grave concern for the democracy because the army of sycophant MLAs of Andhra Pradesh have not left any to make a farce of it. It is our culture not to speak ill of anybody after his/her death but YSR was not anybody. He was a public figure and he cannot be spared from critical appraisal. There is hardly any doubt that he was a dynamic leader bubbling with energy and innovative ideas. But at the same time, there can be no denying that the public perception...