deccanchronicle.com/rss/dc-comment/rss.xml en http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130525/commentary-dc-comment/commentary/future-ipl-stake Like a Bollywood thriller heading for a suspenseful denouement, sensational season six of the Indian Premier League is approaching a heady climax. Not even the most creative film scriptwriter could have envisaged such a gripping plot combining cricket, gambling, fixing and women as honey traps. IPL IPL betting CSK BCCI N. Srinivasan Gurunath Meiyyappan TO DO Sat, 25 May 2013 06:57:24 +0530 TODO http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130524/commentary-dc-comment/commentary/if-malala-were-indian So what are we going to tell Malala Yousafzai? How shall we break the news to her? The elections in Pakistan are over. It was a historical event all right, not least because of the enormity of the opposition to it. One elected government handing over power to another set of elected politicians is Malala Yousafzai TO DO Fri, 24 May 2013 08:40:50 +0530 TODO http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130524/commentary-dc-comment/commentary/upa-celebrates-future-uncertain There is no surprise in the fact that the UPA has issued itself a positive report card while observing its ninth straight anniversary in office. Which ruling party or grouping wouldn’t? Equally, it is to be expected that the BJP, the main Opposition party, which aspires to supplant the UPA as the TO DO Fri, 24 May 2013 08:32:27 +0530 TODO http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130523/commentary-dc-comment/commentary/time-serious-talks-china   While Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang was here, charming his way through official New Delhi (unlike most Chinese leaders whose outstanding attribute is a dour uniformity), an opinion poll of the Lowy Institute and Australia-India Institute found wide publicity in the country. It suggested that Li Keqiang China Manmohan Singh India TO DO Thu, 23 May 2013 08:46:10 +0530 TODO http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130523/commentary-dc-comment/commentary/cameron-doesn%E2%80%99t-have-strategy-europe   London: Shortly before the Conservative party conference last year, the head of the Fresh Start Group of Eurosceptic Conservative MPs went in to see the Prime Minister in Downing Street. The group had heard that David Cameron might make his big Europe speech at the gathering and its head, Andrea David Cameron Europe Britain TO DO Thu, 23 May 2013 08:38:17 +0530 TODO http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130522/commentary-dc-comment/commentary/lokayukta-shows-way Uttar Pradesh’s lokayukta has rendered signal service by boldly exposing the siphoning off of Rs 1,400 crores from funds to build parks and memorials in the state. It is also a shocking pointer to how far public morality has fallen in the nation’s most politically competitive state that has given Uttar Pradesh mayawati Lokayukta TO DO Wed, 22 May 2013 12:37:44 +0530 TODO http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130522/commentary-dc-comment/commentary/kids-%E2%80%98collateral-damage%E2%80%99-horrific It is disturbing news that poor tribal children should have to die as collateral damage as the Indian state takes on the challenge of the Maoist insurgency. Whatever the nature of the security imperative in a given situation, the killing of civilians, leave alone children, is wrong and immoral. Maoist TO DO Wed, 22 May 2013 12:25:46 +0530 TODO http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130522/commentary-dc-comment/commentary/new-sharif-era   kARACHI: Good, bad or ugly, the 2013 elections in Pakistan are over; and now testing times are ahead for the new incumbents. It is the third coming for Nawaz Sharif, a remarkable turn of fortune for a leader who was ousted from power by the military at gunpoint in 1999 and convicted on treason Nawaz Sharif Pakistan PML-N TO DO Wed, 22 May 2013 12:12:14 +0530 TODO http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130521/commentary-dc-comment/commentary/guatemala-exhales The central American nation of Guatemala deserves congratulations for setting a historic precedent in the annals of justice. A local court there recently convicted a former military dictator, Gen. Rios Montt, for genocide and crimes against humanity and sentenced him to 80 years in jail. The only TO DO Tue, 21 May 2013 11:02:11 +0530 TODO http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130521/commentary-dc-comment/commentary/anti-fixing-law-right-step Law minister Kapil Sibal is smartly off the blocks once again in trying to find a solution to the evils of spot-fixing and match-fixing, which has had cricket in its grip for a while now. His idea of enacting legislation to deal with fixers in sport is laudable against the backdrop of the Indian TO DO Tue, 21 May 2013 08:44:00 +0530 TODO http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130520/commentary-dc-comment/commentary/will-premier-li-come-clean-about-ladakh For all the promise of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow — a wonderful future for both India and China, that together have 40 per cent of the world’s population, if they intensify cooperation and extend the arc of their relationship — we can only say great relations are built only when TO DO Mon, 20 May 2013 11:07:56 +0530 TODO http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130520/commentary-dc-comment/commentary/beat-odds-fix-fixers-first Arnab Gos­wami to BCCI lawyer: “Is this a cover up?” BCCI lawyer: “No, it’s not a cover up.” Arnab Goswami: “I am asking you again, is this a cover up?” BCCI lawyer: “No, it’s not a cover up.” (Let’s hope he is more articulate in court. But then, he is not often faced with a hanging judge). Arnab TO DO Mon, 20 May 2013 11:07:29 +0530 TODO http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130519/commentary-dc-comment/commentary/forget-there-was-ever-book-enjoy-film New York: At an art shindig on Park Avenue, I spotted Baz Luhrmann, the director of the latest and very noisy version of The Great Gatsby. A charming man, I was told, just before I was shocked — shocked à la Captain Renault — to hear the dwarfish mayor of the Big Bagel suggest an honorary American TO DO Sun, 19 May 2013 11:43:33 +0530 TODO http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130518/commentary-dc-comment/commentary/kabul-deserves-our-help   The visit of Afghan President Hamid Karzai to New Delhi early next week, the second in six months, is for urgent top-level consultations to improve security in that country. Which way the game turns in Afghanistan after the US and Nato troops leave in 2014 is likely to impact India in many ways Hamid Karzai Afghanistan India Kabul NATO United States TO DO Sat, 18 May 2013 12:45:37 +0530 TODO http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130518/commentary-dc-comment/commentary/bonds-good-idea-educate-people   The inflation-indexed bonds announced by the Reserve Bank are a really good idea and will help the lower, middle and upper middle-income groups as a hedge against inflation. It is they who are hit most by inflation, and don’t have hedging instruments they can understand and deal with. Therefore Reserve Bank of India Reserve Bank bonds inflation economy TO DO Sat, 18 May 2013 12:42:06 +0530 TODO http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130516/commentary-dc-comment/commentary/why-did-drug-firm-ignore-warnings It’s a sad commentary on the integrity of a company like Ranbaxy, one of India’s top pharmaceutical firms, that its American arm was compelled to plead guilty to distributing adulterated drugs made in India in the United States in 2005-06. What is inexplicable is why, when a former Ranbaxy TO DO Thu, 16 May 2013 13:23:32 +0530 TODO http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130515/commentary-dc-comment/commentary/nawaz-iii-chances-are The Pakistan elections have resulted in the launch of Nawaz Sharif III who, much like Sylvester Stallone in Rocky III, is older but expected to box the same way — sprayed blood and grunts.Sharif went to election promising to end the terror-induced insecurity, attributed by both him and Imran Khan Nawaz Sharif TO DO Wed, 15 May 2013 08:38:16 +0530 TODO http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130515/commentary-dc-comment/commentary/karnataka-cm-must-be-team-player Karnataka’s new CM Siddaramaiah moved swiftly to show his mastery over the administration of a corruption-ridden state by announcing a slew of sops to the poor, and waiving loans worth Rs 4,409 crore for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, OBCs and minorities. There were two underlying messages Siddaramaiah TO DO Wed, 15 May 2013 08:28:26 +0530 TODO http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130514/commentary-dc-comment/commentary/hitting-rock-bottom Why did the Congress Party all­ow the resignation of its two ministers, law minister Ashwani Kum­ar and railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, to get drawn out for so long? It would be erroneous to say that the government’s foot-dragging was the result of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh trying to Congress TO DO Tue, 14 May 2013 08:28:52 +0530 TODO http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130514/commentary-dc-comment/commentary/about-turn-corner The mandate couldn’t have been clearer. That doesn’t mean it is any less daunting than an ambiguous one would have been. Nawaz Sharif’s tenacity is remarkable. As he stood on that balcony of the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) headquarters, ma­k­ing his victory speech in the small hours of Sunday, Nawaz Sharif TO DO Tue, 14 May 2013 08:24:43 +0530 TODO http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130514/commentary-dc-comment/commentary/nawaz-sharif-win-sparks-hope-caution-too With PML(N) leader Nawaz Sharif becoming Prime Minister following elections, there is a good deal of expectation in India that ties between the two countries will improve. However, this expectation is tempered with an understandable degree of caution. It was during the veteran industrialist- Nawaz Sharif TO DO Tue, 14 May 2013 08:20:29 +0530 TODO http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130513/commentary-dc-comment/commentary/decoding-kannadiga-wrath There is a proverb in Kannada, “Kaiyalli sharanarthi, konklalli donne” (Folded hands, but with a stick under the arms). That’s what the people of Karnataka demonstrated last week. For close to six decades, and despite rapid strides in information technology and infrastructure, all that the common Narendra Modi BJP TO DO Mon, 13 May 2013 08:17:02 +0530 TODO http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130512/commentary-dc-comment/article/good-shepherd-cometh-he-must-tend-whole-flock Siddaramaiah. From Siddaramanahundi village. Proud son of Mysore. And Karnataka’s soon to be Chief Minister -to be sworn in at 11.30 am on Monday. First job at hand? Convince the people of this state that he is more than just a leader of the Kurubas, the shepherd caste that he belongs to, and that Siddaramaiah Kuruba karnataka Congress TO DO Sun, 12 May 2013 08:37:45 +0530 TODO http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130511/commentary-dc-comment/commentary/no-room-mercy It appears actor Sanjay Dutt will have to go to jail next week and possibly spend the major part of the remaining three and a half years of his sentence behind bars. The news will doubtless be received with some amount of ambivalence. On the one hand is the argument that all are equal before the Sanjay Dutt TO DO Sat, 11 May 2013 15:03:25 +0530 TODO http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130511/commentary-dc-comment/article/there-way-out-logjam   Parliament’s Budget Session folded up prematurely on Wednesday. We are told the present Lok Sabha has been the least productive in terms of number of hours put in by MPs and the number of bills cleared. This is a sign of the barren political plateau the country finds itself perched on.   If the Lok Sabha UPA-2 Parliament TO DO Sat, 11 May 2013 15:00:41 +0530 TODO http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130510/commentary-dc-comment/commentary/zero-sum-diplomacy The recent Chinese incursion across the Line of Actual Control near Daulat Beg Oldi in Ladakh is nearing a diplomatic resolution. However, it is not entirely clear what concessions, if any, were made to the People’s Republic of China to end this military standoff that the People’s Liberation Army’ TO DO Fri, 10 May 2013 11:06:19 +0530 TODO http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130510/commentary-dc-comment/commentary/roasting-rulers-was-long-overdue The Supreme Court has done the country a big favour by denouncing in the strongest terms the tendency of the Central Bureau of Investigation to be over-submissive to the government, and for having shown the status report of its probe into “Coalgate” to various persons, including the law minister, coalgate coal scam CBI Ashwani Kumar Congress UPA TO DO Fri, 10 May 2013 10:58:41 +0530 TODO http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130509/commentary-dc-comment/commentary/season-blame-defence This, I fear, is the season for bashing the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), because it’s the time when our defence services project their wishlists for the latest in weapon systems and arms merchants flock to New Delhi peddling their wares. Some of their products may still be DRDO defence TO DO Thu, 09 May 2013 11:22:14 +0530 TODO http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130509/commentary-dc-comment/commentary/dc-editorial-karnataka-has-lessons-all   The Congress snatched power away from the BJP in Karnataka on a day when it was under siege in New Delhi with the law minister being hauled up by the Supreme Court for overstepping the line in dealings with the CBI, and the railway minister battling allegations of corruption.    The Karnataka Supreme Court Law ministry Ashwani Kumar Pawan Kumar Bansal P.K. Bansal coalgate coal scam CBI karnataka Congress karnataka assembly polls Karnataka Polls 2013 Karnataka Polls 2013 Breaking News TO DO Thu, 09 May 2013 08:01:17 +0530 TODO http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130508/commentary-dc-comment/commentary/twilight-ppp The battle lines have been drawn as polling day closes in. The outcome of these elections, now less than a week away, is perhaps the most difficult to predict since the 1970s. There may be many surprises waiting as the battle at the hustings intensifies. It is no more a traditional fight for the TO DO Wed, 08 May 2013 09:10:08 +0530 TODO