In today’s Times of India , Mumbai edition, when I read this particular news item, the first thought that came to my mind was that are the ministers and officials of Maharashtra govt so dumb or there is some hidden meaning in the news item. The news item is that Maharashtra govt wants to re…
Author: Anil Malik
Other Sports
In our cricket crazy nation, generally the other sports are getting step motherly treatment most of the times, from Govt as well as print and TV media. The recent example is the case of Bhumika Sharma(see above photograph) who won the Miss World Title in Body Building at Venice, Italy. There was no coverage in…
Prison Murder
Recently in Mumbai’s Byculla prison for women, a convict Manjula Shetye, was found dead . It was alleged by the other inmates that she was mercilessly beaten by prison staff. The other inmates staged a protest inside the prison and all of them assembled on the terrace raising slogan against the prison staff. Among the inmates,…
Loan Waiver
Recently Maharashtra govt announced loan waiver for farmers, after much agitation by opposition parties and even the alliance partner in govt, Shiv Sena supported the demand for loan waiver.When the govt announced the figure of Rs 34,000 crores as loan waiver amount, it was really shocking that such a huge amount is required to bail…
Presidential Candidates
Today in the news papers there is a news item which mentions that the Congress/opposition backed nominee Ms Meira Kumar is upset about the Dalit colour being given to Presidential elections. But who gave the Dalit colour to this election, it is well known fact that NDA announced their candidate Ram Nath Kovind before Congress/oppositions…
Armed Forces
Recently I came across whatsapp message , which was forwarded to me, the writer of the message was Ms Zenobia Panthaki. The writer has described her experiences while travelling to USA with her husband(Retired Armed forces man) over the years, in which she has described how Americans treat their armed forces. She mentions that once…
Like Emergency
Yesterday Congress spoke person gave a statement that situation in the country is like Emergency. I want to ask Congress on what basis their spoke person has given such statement. Have they forgotten what was the condition of the country during emergency imposed by then PM Indira Gandhi. If Congress is forgotten, then I am…
Dalit Dalit
So now opposition parties led by Congress has announced their candidate for Presidential elections, Ms Meira Kumar, who is also a Dalit, like NDA’s candidate Ram Nath Kovind. If seems that Congress party had no choice but to select a Dalit candidate to counter NDA’s choice thinking that there might be a chance of breaking…
Toll Tax
Today there is a news item in news papers that Maharashtra govt is going to extend the toll collection at Mumbai Entry point at Vashi, Worli Sea Link Road and Mumbai Pune Express way by few years more. This they are going to do for financing future projects. This is rather new innovative idea by…
Cricket Coach
I think it has become habit of BCCI to wash their dirty linen in public, there are no other words to describe how the Cricket Board has handled the issue of Anil Kumble, till yesterday the coach of Indian Cricket Team (seniors). It was known to every one that Kumble’s contract was till the…