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Upendra Singh (Bangalore), India’s Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER), the Indian students spent in 2016-17 to study
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Vipin Bagga, Deputy General Manager (Operations) average of 44 per cent. A 2016 assessment for this exodus are not far to see. India seri-
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Arokia Raj L., Regional Sales Manager (South) of 150,000 engineering graduates found ously lags behind when it comes to higher
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THEOIL AMESSYSTORY
IMBROGLIO OFWASTE
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PTI
GOVERNORS
NO MORE YES-MEN, PLEASE
By Amarnath K. Menon
R
eplaced by gubernatorial skull- rest Rao. He complied. Moments later, It is true the BJP had finishedasthe
duggery on August 16, 1984, asked whether he agreed with what he single largest party. It is also truethat
while recuperating from heart had been ordered to do, Reddy replied: it was some way short of a majority
surgery in the United States, the duly “The governor is the Centre’s agent and and that the Congress-JD(S) post-poll
elected chief minister of Andhra the highest constitutional authority in alliance—“unholy” though AmitShah
Pradesh, N.T. Rama Rao, called upon the state. His word is law.” called it—had the numbers. Valaeven
governor Thakur Ram Lal at Hyder- On May 16, 34 years later, when ignored the convention of pickingthe
abad’s Raj Bhavan and informed him Karnataka governor Vajubhai R. Vala most senior MLA as pro-tem speaker
of the assault being perpetrated on decided to swear in the BJP’s B.S. Yed- in preference for one from theBJP.
democracy. Lal, a former chief minister dyurappa as chief minister, he seemed “The governor has violatedall
of Himachal Pradesh, hand in glove to be channelling Lal and acting as a democratic principles by sendinghis
with Indira Gandhi, ordered the state’s stooge for the Centre rather than as invitation letter late in the nightand
police chief, M. Mahendar Reddy, to ar- a principled constitutional authority. calling for a swearing-in ceremonythe
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UPFRONT
next morning,” said K.C. Venugopal, Congress
general secretary in charge of Karnataka. Un-
surprisingly, the BJP disagreed. “When there is
no pre-poll alliance, according to constitutional
convention,” said P. Muralidhar Rao, a BJP
national general secretary, “and the Supreme
Court’s observations in the S.R. Bommai case,
the single largest party should be given an op-
portunity to form the government and prove its
majority on the floor.”
Both parties can cite precedent in their
favour. The Congress can point to recent elec-
tions in Goa, Meghalaya and Manipur, where the
single largest party was ignored in favour of post-
poll alliances formed by the BJP. The Constitu-
tion does not offer cut-and-dried guidance in
such cases; much is
at the governor’s
Neutral discretion. But
governors Vala did not appear
must now be to be acting in
appointed good conscience.
and prodded “Calling on the INTOLERANCE
BJP, which did not
to act in the GAGGING A CALL
have the major-
interests of
ity, to form the
democracy
government was a TO PRAYER?
travesty of the
Constitution,” said
Dr V. Suresh, president, People’s Union for Civil
A
Liberties. “The trimurthi think they can start letter written by Anil nation”, Naqvi said, “should
their Gujarati business in Karnataka,” smirked Couto, the archbishop be seen. As long as you have a
H.D. Kumaraswamy, chief minister-designate. of Delhi, noting a prejudiced mind, you cannot
Vala is believed to have consulted former “turbulent political atmo- look at this progress.” BJP
attorney general Mukul Rohatgi. Law minis- sphere which poses a threat president Amit Shah referred
ter Ravi Shankar Prasad quoted the Bommai to the democratic principles... to the letter when he said in
verdict and findings of the Sarkaria and Punchhi and the secular fabric of the a press conference, with not
commissions, but his arguments backing Vala nation”, has been interpreted a trace of irony, that “nobody
had a whiff of sophistry. “The governor’s sole job,” by the BJP as criticism of the should talk of polarising the
said Supreme Court lawyer Sanjay Hegde, “was government. Home minister people on the basis of reli-
to decide who was likely to command the confi- Rajnath Singh admitted he gion.” KJ Alphons, minister of
dence of the House and invite that lot to form the had not seen the letter but tourism, said, again without a
government. He should have had strong reasons sought to reassure people any- trace of irony, that “godmen”
to discard the side with the majority in favour of way that “India is one of those should steer clear of politics.
the single largest party which was well short.” countries where minorities And then Giriraj Singh,
It is no one’s contention that Vala is the only are safe and no one is allowed minister of state for micro,
governor to have proved pliant to his master’s to discriminate on the basis of small, and medium enter-
voice, but it cannot be anyone’s contention either caste and religion.” prises, jumped into the fray.
that choosing political expediency over credibi- Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, In full battle dress, yodelling
lity is in the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra the minority affairs min- war cries. “The church is
Modi’s best interest. Vala has been embarrassed. ister, argued that the arch- trying to create a situation
If any good is to come of this farcical episode, bishop saw events through of civil war in the country,”
neutral governors must now be appointed and a jaundiced eye. “The prime thundered Singh. A slight
encouraged through rules and protocol to act in minister’s commitment to de- overreaction, you might
the interests of democracy, not political power. ■ velopment without discrimi- think. But he had more.
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HOPE AND PRAY
Just another day at The Oil Imbroglio
New Delhi’s Sacred
Heart Cathedral
Retail prices of fuel hit record highs this week,
and oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan promised
the government would find ways to check the
nation taken so personally
spiral. India is one of the leading importers of
by the BJP? The letter was
crude. Rising prices and a strengthening dollar
dated May 8 and could easily will adversely impact India’s fiscal and current
have been ignored. Couto has account deficits. Government sources have been
S
GE been forced by the manu- playing down the impact while also insisting that
A
M factured furore to state the the government has no role in the pricing of oil,
TY I obvious—that his letter was with retail prices pegged to daily fluctuations in
T
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AL/ at religious instruction. Both point out that the excise duties on fuel have been
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petrol in Delhi on
of the day that it cannot see Tuesday, May 22, a
that the “threat to the secular record; Rs 84.4 in
“Everyactionhasareaction”, fabric of the nation”, as Couto Mumbai; diesel prices 6 a.m.
too hit a high of
hesaid,thethreatimplicit.“I wrote, could reasonably be
Rs68.08inDelhi
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communalharmony.Butif Congress too, with its politi- `19.48 fuelpricereset,a
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sinceJune2017
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mentisnotformed...people Not to be outdone in the
for every litre of
fromotherreligionswilldo overreaction stakes, petrol by the Centre; 4.4
‘kirtanpuja’sothatitis.” an ex-Congress leader Rs 15.33 per litre of
in Goa, Savio Rodrigues diesel. Every rupee million
cut in excise duty will
NOWHERE tweeted, to a chorus of online result in a Rs 13,000
approval, that the media crore loss, claims Barrelsofoilper
IN COUTO’S should cover “this absolutely government day,imported
byIndia;imports
LETTER DOES HE communal statement of $80 accountfor83%
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Rodrigues asked, “does he Top3suppliers:
OR SO-CALLED mean ‘defeat Hindu forces’? The price of a barrel Iraq,SaudiArabia
Does he imply that Hindus of Brent crude last andIran
HINDU FORCES week, the first time
are bad for Hindustan?”
such levels had
Nowhere in Couto’s letter been hit since 2014, $8.1 billion
does he mention Hindus largely because of
Couto’s letter did not or so-called Hindu forces. concerns over Iran
India’scrudeoil
and Venezuela
name any political parties. It Indeed, his caveats, such as importbillinFebruary
is an appeal in despair and they are, and intended for 2018,reveals
hope, the latter somewhat circulation only among the 19 governmentdata;the
billforthisfinancial
quixotically to be found in an priests and parishioners of
yearisexpectedto
exhortation to pray and fast his archdiocese, are rather Days of hiatus, as cross$105billion,
petrol and diesel price
every Friday in the run-up mild. What does it say that upfrom$88billionin
hikes were suspended
to the 2019 general election. the response has been so 2017-18
during the run-up
Why is an archbishop calling politically charged and out of to the Karnataka
for Catholics to pray for their proportion? ■ elections
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BOOKS
A MESSY STORY OF WASTE
By Bharati Chaturvedi
I
t’s a legitimate question: why is place, they allude to repair and reuse
India so dirty? Undaunted by the as a sort of hallmark of Gandhi, silenc-
complexities of waste in India, ing both the context of the man and
historian and writer Robin Jeffrey the life conditions of millions globally,
and anthropologist Assa Doron mostly without agency. Sometimes,
team up again, to write this book. the ana lysis is facile. On why there
It’s a 360 degree apprai sal of isn’t a robust change in many Indian
India’s waste crisis—broken into seven municipalities: ‘For an IAS officer,
chapters. Researching a signifi cant being a municipal commi ssioner is
breadth of writing and data, they something you do for 2 or 3 years...’
conclude: there’s a lot of waste in India But isn’t that the case with everything
because we consume differently and the IAS does? What makes the tempo-
more; we are also more numerous; rary nature of posting for administra-
the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, they tors a cause of failure in one sector but
believe, hasn’t quite cleaned up India; success in another?
the caste system continues to bear the Books create space for authors to
WASTE OF A NATION
brunt of urbanisation; and people are Garbage and Growth in India lay out their perspective, even if they
key. So, what’s new? by Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey sometimes start pinning gold medals
For one, a lot of data and refere- Harvard University Press on people in the form of patronis-
416 pages
nce—the chapter notes and bibliogra- ing burra sahib descriptions: ‘the
phy are a hundred pages—that build most committed and knowledgeable
the picture of the new, consumerist advocate’, ‘an authority on these mat-
A lot of the authors’
middle class whose waste is strewn ters’, and my favourite—‘if only, if only
good work is undone
across the country. Despite many (while advocating for more goodies for
surprising absences, I quite enjoyed by the sweeping, NGOs)’. By the end, I made peace with
this usually ignored section. The data often perception- these, because they usefully indicate
is valuable, though it also left me based, generalisa- the authors’ people-centric politics.
wondering if the authors used the data tions they make When a book is full of lofty
unquestioningly as long as the sources truisms, one begins to miss critical
appeared kosher. How did they tri- enquiry of the kind one expects of
angulate important numbers? They serious scholars. No one piece of work
peg the number of people picking and can meaningfully speak of everything.
recycling trash in Delhi at 300,000. I er choices—pollution versus purity, Yet, if one is trying to understand why
would put it at half, based on multiple in this case. You see the footprints of India’s detritus is smeared across its
sources. What made them pick this frugality washed off, yet embedded in landscape, surely the nature of the
source? I couldn’t figure out, and the consciousness of many. new Indian city—as it is emerging
while they mention the miseries of Some of this is undone by the and becoming the focus of all physical
data accuracy, they also, on occasion, sweeping, often perception-based, land use, masterplans and local area
turn victims of the phenomenon. generalisations. Sample this: ‘India’s plans—deserves attention?
By weaving mass urbanisation into recycling economy has long existed; Who is the book written for? I’m
shifting consumer choices, Doron- it is innovative and subversive; and not sure—it reads like a thinking per-
Jeffrey make the case of waste much although it is constrained by its cot- son’s travelogue through urban India.
richer. It isn’t just about people picking tage industry structure, it is propelled This is also its strength—for all its
convenience or enjoying being wealth- by flexibi lity.’ What shall we make misses, it takes the reader back to the
ier. The case of shifting to toothpaste of this? How should we unshackle reality of a complex, messy world of
and brush from datun gestures at the recycling? Doesn’t the sector already waste, an important armour against
residual tension even in such consum- metabolise optimally? At another today’s silver-bullet projects. ■
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