Kanan Jaswal's Thoughts of the Days of March, 2022
Mar 01: We are not yet out of a once-in-a-century pandemic and now the frightening apparition of a world war; what's wrong with the 2020's? Mar 02: We should be flexible except when it comes to our values and principles. Mar 03: When a State government is not functioning in the manner laid down in the Constitution, it is the Centre's bounden duty to invoke the Article 356 and dismiss it. Mar 04: The Opposition leaders have shown unexpected maturity in commending the stand taken by the Indian government on Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Mar 05: For reasons not difficult to fathom, government agencies prefer spending huge sums of money on buying or creating new assets to spending far less on properly maintaining the existing ones. Mar 06: It is now so painful to recount that in 1994, all five veto powers of the world, Russia, US, UK, China, and France, had given s...