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UPDATED: March 1, 2021 22:51 IST
Fear is the key: Climate activist Disha Ravi being escorted to a local court in Delhi (Photo: AFP)
On February 14, when Delhi Police arrested 21-year-old Bengaluru-based climate activist Disha Ravi and slapped charges of sedition on her, two distinct narratives emerged in the media. One group of people branded Ravi, who has been accused of making edits on a controversial online toolkit to allegedly defame India, an enemy of the state. The other called the Delhi Police action another instance of the blatant abuse of the sedition law by people in power to curb dissenting voices. And it s not just Ravi. In January this year, three sedition cases were filed against Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor and six journalists, including India Today Group s Rajdeep Sardesai, for tweeting unverified news about the farmers tractor rally in Delhi on January 26. Last year, Section 124A of the IPC (Indian Penal Code), which deals with sedition, was invoked
UPDATED: January 25, 2021 10:09 IST
Gandhi in the middle: Priyanka Gandhi and other Congress leaders on the party s 136th foundation day, Dec. 28, 2020 (Photo: ANI)
On January 3, 2014, facing flak from the media and the Opposition on many issues, including corruption, then prime minister Manmohan Singh said: I honestly believe that history will be kinder to me.given the political compulsions, I have done the best I could do. In May that year, he was ousted from power, and his party, the Congress, sank to a humiliating low, winning just 44 seats in a Lok Sabha which has 543 members.
Almost a decade later, the general public, at least, seem to have a kinder view of the former prime minister. In the latest edition of the India Today Mood of the Nation survey, 16 per cent respondents see him as the best suited leader to revive the Congress, a party which currently accounts for 54 members in the lower house and is in power in just five states-three on its own and two in a coalition
UPDATED: January 17, 2021 17:29 IST
In the hot seat: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at
a press conference in November 2020 (Photo: Getty Images)
When Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presents Budget 2021 on February 1, the circumstances that she will do so in will be, without doubt, exceptional. The Covid-19 lockdown last year was an economic earthquake of sorts, comparable to the global financial crisis sparked off by the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008. D.K. Joshi, chief economist at Crisil, says, No other budget compares as closely to the upcoming one as the one that followed the Lehman Brothers crisis. Thanks to the fiscal stimuli rolled out in 2008-09, India emerged rather unscathed from that crisis, though the splurge seeded other problems, including a spate of corporate bankruptcies and mounting bad loans in the following years.