Senior Congress leader and former Union minister Veerappa Moily speaks to Outlook about poll strategist Prashant Kishor’s role in the party, leadership crisis and more..
The senior Congress leader also said that the party’s top leadership must see ideological commitment while promoting leaders.
The names of the recipients of the awards were announced by the National Academy of Letters during the opening day of its annual 'Festival of Letters' event
Moily expressed the view that judges should not take upon themselves to punish a person who makes allegations against them.
Veerappa Moily said the Congress Working Committee will take a call on the matter after Gandhi insisted he would quit as the party chief.
Emphasising that Gandhi alone can lead the party, he said it is the AICC in-charges and chiefs of states, where the party has done badly, who should be held accountable and not the Congress president.
The Air Force chief had said "Rafale was badly needed" and the top court gave a "very fine judgment". He also called the Rafale deal a "game changer".
Ever since Sonia Gandhi stepped down as the Congress president, there was speculation whether Rahul Gandhi would assume charge of the UPA chairperson or she would continue in the position.
Asked if he expected Rahul to take over next month, Moily said, "Possibly yes".
Indu Sarkar, based on the 1975-77 Emergency period, has evoked strong criticism and protest from the Congress party.
He would take his colour, brushes and canvas outside to paint and talk with his love. He would stand close to the window and paint, keeping an eye on his muse.
They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
Younger people do not have much progressive beliefs; a 2017 survey found that one-third of young people opposed inter-caste marriage.
The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.