Shining Path
Read biographyFirstpost is thrilled to introduce Shining Path, an audience member who will begin blogging for us on a regular basis. In his own words: "Shiningpath had enough! 6451 days of debilitating non-work in corporate corridors, cubicles and windowless cabins. Chained to protocols, bound by hierarchies and surrounded by people with core competencies. So he hit the self-eject button, and found himself a nice hammock – from where he now watches the world , reads, attempts to write , gives a comment here, a commentary there...unsolicited mainly….and moonlights as a freelance business consultant in Bangalore.
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Sonia Gandhi: The leader who never delivered?
Part 1 was published earlier – please click here to read. Continuing from where I left off…… When the going gets tough…..the tough are nowhere to be seen: Where was Sonia Gandhi when outrage was boiling over rather disconcertingly on the streets of Delhi – June 2011 & December 2012 - #Congress #InMyOpinion #Media #Raebareli #Sonia Gandhi
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Why this secrecy over Sonia Gandhi?
“Why is it that the mainstream media (MSM) displays, what can only be termed as pusillanimity bordering on the obsequious when it comes to Sonia Gandhi?” is the question that bounces around inside my head quite often. Occasionally it lights up my amygdala. There is a certain docile, rebarbative and #Congress #Foreign trips of Sonia Gandhi #National Election Watch #Sonia Gandhi #ThatsJustWrong
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39 MLAs with serious criminal charges, did Karnataka’s voters get a good deal?
Governments, so far from being always the cause or means of order, are often the destruction of it - Thomas Paine, Rights of Man. This is in continuation to the 2-part series that was published here on Firstpost before the Karnataka polls, wherein the contestants were mapped against metrics such as #B. S. Yeddyurappa #Congress #criminal case #disproportionate assets #Karanataka Elections #KJP #PoliticsDecoder
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Karnataka election results: Why we shouldn’t write off Yeddyurappa yet
Sigh! Democracy will win in Karnataka today. A clutch of self-serving, power-hungry and sinfully wealthy – never mind the means by which such wealth is acquired – do-gooders will jostle and jump over each other’s head to grab the throne once the results are in. Who will it be? As #BJP #BS Yeddyurappa #Congress #Karnataka 2013 #Sonia Gandhi
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Criminal choice: The Karnataka voter’s unenviable position this polls
Last week, I delved into the asset comparison of the 179 MLAs who are re-contesting the upcoming elections in Karnataka. Carrying that piece forward, let us put a few more metrics under the scanner, and see what jumps out and scandalizes us further. The data being presented and referred to in #BJP #Congress #ConnectTheDots #Karnataka polls #KJP
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How winning Karnataka polls is great for MLAs’ wealth
The Great Indian Election Bazaar is about to get underway in Karnataka. Promises will be made, cash/food/liquor distributed, colossal non-achievements will transmogrify into stellar achievements at public meetings and rallies, odes to democracy will be sung by some perennially blind and horrendously out of tune political commentators and #Karnataka #MLAs #PoliticsDecoder #riches
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An open letter to Justice Markandey Katju
Dear Justice Katju, We have been learning to live with your preachy and highfalutin’ commentaries for some time now. We also tolerate the preachy and abominable drivel of a suitably unenlightened Asaram Bapu and his PR officer occasionally. However, allow us to pick your scientific brains on a few issues and questions #1993 serial blasts #InMyOpinion #Justice Markandey Katju #Sanjay Dutt #Supreme Court
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How to improve India’s police – a roadmap
By Siddharth Chatterjee and Shining Path The country’s image has been battered by screaming news headlines of human rights abuses, tragic episodes of rapes, spiralling crime rates and endemic violence. Close on the heels of the Delhi gang rape episode, the case of a young woman in Punjab who was #Corruption #HowThisWorks #Indian Police Service #Police #Police Reforms #Supreme Court
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Judiciary in India – Victim or Culprit?
Last week, in the first part of a 3-part series on Criminal Justice Systems, I had looked at some of the issues afflicting the Judiciary. Taking up from where I left off.... Judge to Citizen Ratio: One of the primary reasons for the alarming rates of pendency and delays that #CBI #ConnectTheDots #Courts #Indian judiciary #lawyers #Supreme Court
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It is time to fix India’s criminal justice system
“….it is not merely of some importance but is of fundamental importance, that justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done” – Lord Hewart. The Indian criminal justice system appears to be creaking and groaning at the joints. More importantly, very little meaningful #HowThisWorks #Judiciary in India