Without going into the debate when the next elections will be held, Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin, for all practical purposes has given an “election budget”.Just a few months back, the government was hell bent on getting Tarin’s predecessor.
Populist politics
May 23, 2021
Populism is the “political science of providing simple answers to complex questions.” Populism is a “thin-centered ideology that considers society to be ultimately separated into homogenous and antagonistic camps, ‘the pure people versus the corrupt elite’”.
Populist politicians offer simple solutions to complex problems. Populist politicians offer overly simple prescriptions in a highly complex world. Here are some examples. Question: Why has the price of sugar gone up by 100 percent? Answer: The mafia has done it. Question: Why has the price of wheat gone up by 100 percent? Answer: The mafia has done it. Question: Why has the price of electricity gone up by 200 percent? Answer: The mafia has done it.
Covid 19 coronavirus: India s media turns on populist PM Narendra Modi as pandemic brings nation to its knees
28 Apr, 2021 03:21 AM
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India is fighting a devastating second wave of Covid-19 that is killing thousands each day. Video / CNN
India is fighting a devastating second wave of Covid-19 that is killing thousands each day. Video / CNN
Daily Telegraph UK
By: Joe Wallen and Ben Farmer
Opening up their morning copy of Sandesh, a leading Gujarati daily newspaper, readers were confronted with an unusually shocking scoop.
Reporters had camped outside Ahmedabad Civil Hospital s Covid wing and, in the process, revealed the authorities in Gujarat had been massively undercounting the state s Covid-19 death toll.
Is democracy for everyone? Are concerns about elections and human rights a luxury that only rich Western nations can afford? Some leaders notably those of the People’s Republic of China have long railed against the notion of “universal values,” which they see as an attack their right to rule. (Which, of course, it is.) One would suppose that any U.S. president, especially one as focused on rolling back the tide of autocracy as Joe Biden is, would retort that core liberal democratic principles are not just America’s values, but the world’s.
Yet Biden’s answer in a recent CNN townhall muddled that message. Speaking about a phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Biden first attempted to explain Xi’s own worldview: “If you know anything about Chinese history, it has always been the time China when has been victimized by the outer world is when they haven’t been unified at home,” he said. “To vastly overstate it, the central principle of Xi Jinping is