Dheeraj Kalgutkar

Every now and then, be it on social media or tea-time conversations, whenever we discuss about politics and, dare compare the previous and present Indian governments, too many still defend the Narendra Modi led government for Corruption free one year. Yes, the writer here too admires the Gujarat strong-man for India has seen no big ticket scam in what, a year. No politician has been arrested or alleged of any loss to exchequer unlike his predecessor. In short a clean, no-nonsense governance from Team Modi. But is it all or is there something which we are missing of taking note!? You know what made such big ticket scams of Congress led UPA government come out in open and subsequently wrote the grand old party's obituary? It was obviously media which highlighted them round the clock which in a way got imprinted on minds of masses for quite a long and never bit the dust! But was it just the media or there was something else, something more powerful, something which i

An Indian court has sentenced Bollywood star Salman Khan to five years in jail for killing a homeless man in a 2002 hit-and-run driving incident in Mumbai. The actor is one of Bollywood’s biggest stars, appearing in more than 80 Hindi-language films. Several of his films, including Dabangg, Ready, Bodyguard, Ek Tha Tiger, Maine Pyar Kiya and Hum Aap Ke Hain Kaun, have been huge commercial hits. That’s short of his bio to make one grasp the magnanimity of a hit-and-run case which took life of one poor homeless and injured the others who were sleeping on pavements. The case could have got over in few months or a year had it been the poor responsible for killing of the elite but because it is the other way around it took 13 years to call it an end! But that’s not all — the elite are now in open revealing their dark inside, the shameless callousness of shaming the victim and playing innocent of a criminal. You know what is shamelessness? We understand when