As expected, the issue of taxi permits to only those who know Marathi has snowballed into a controversy. Hindi media has in its typical theatrical style found an analogy with the attacks on Indians in Melbourne. This is the start of the morning and I am watching a Hindi news channel. The reporter is screaming, “Maharashtra government has issued this order on the basis of an old Act.” Probably the reporter or anybody on the editing desk have never heard about the Motor Vehicle Act, 1989 which is still in force. Compared to many laws in India,...
Friday, January 22, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Gear Changing Politics of Maharashtra
The Congress leadership in Maharashtra have once again demonstrated why the party is able to rule the state even after so many failures on many fronts. The government has succeeded in creating a issue which was non-existent, lending a hand to Maharashtra Navnirman Sena.Chief Minister Ashok Chavan backtracked from state government's decision of giving licenses only to those taxi drivers who know Marathi. He said taxi drivers should know any...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
The Education In Bad Light
It is education which is making news in Maharashtra since last two weeks. There was also a bit of entertainment to it also. First the issue rose up in the form of controversy over a movie, then the talk centred around appointment of head at university and then a deemed university was striped off its status. Shikshanachya Aicha Gho, a movie directed by Mahesh Majarekar, attracted too much criticism from organisations and educationists. The name...
Saturday, January 09, 2010
One More Minister Arrested In Maharashtra
Another shameful incidence in the Maharashtra politics as police registered a case against Maharashtra Tourism Minister Vijaykumar Gavit, MLA Jaikumar Rawal and 41 others for alleged misappropriation of Rs 16 crore from the Dadasaheb Rawal Cooperative Bank here.fullstoryThis is not the first time that ministers and other politicians from the state were in the soup. Surupsingh Naik, the then transport minister was even sent to jail four years ago...
