THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING THE CONGRESS MANIFESTO 2024- PART I
SANTOSH PAUL THE DELUSIONAL ECONOMICS OF THE BJPSuppose there are 10 people on a bus in Delhi and the average of their yearly income isRs.10,00,000/-. At the next stop, one person on the bus gets off and Bill Gates gets on. Mr. Gates makes Rs. 5,85,000 crores a year. What is the new average salary…
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സന്തോഷ് പോള്‍ SANTOSH PAUL, SENIOR ADVOCATE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA നിങ്ങളെല്ലാവരും 2024 ഏപ്രിൽ 26-ന് വോട്ട് ചെയ്യാൻ പോകുന്നതിനാലാണ് ഞാൻ നിങ്ങൾക്ക് എഴുതുന്നത്. തൃശൂർ കേരള സംസ്ഥാനത്തിൻ്റെ രൂപകമാണെന്ന് ഞാൻ നിങ്ങളോസന്തോഷ്‌ട്രോഫിട് പറയട്ടെ. കേരളത്തിലെ ഭൂരിഭാഗം പ്രദേശങ്ങളെയും പോലെ തൃശ്ശൂരിൽ 95.96% സാക്ഷരതയും 97.37% പുരുഷ സാക്ഷരതയും സ്ത്രീ സാക്ഷരത 94.72% ഉം ആണ്. നമ്മുടെ സാമ്പത്തിക ചരിത്രത്തെക്കുറിച്ച് ഞാൻ നിങ്ങളോട് ചിലത് പറയട്ടെ. 1970-കളുടെ മധ്യത്തിൽ ഞാൻ കോയമ്പത്തൂരില്‍ സ്‌കൂളില്‍ പഠിക്കുകയായിരുന്നു.…
ENTE PRIYAPETTU THRISSUREKARE
BY SANTOSH PAUL, SENIOR ADVOCATE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA I am writing to you because you all will go to vote on 26th of April 2024. Thrissur let me tell you is metaphorical for the State of Kerala. Like most of Kerala Thrissur has an overall literacy rate of 95.96%, 97.37% male literacy and female…
CICERO, ERSKINE, ORWELL, PRASHANT BHUSHAN: SPEAKING TO POWER AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
Two thousand and ninety years ago, Marcus Tullius Cicero, the greatest lawyer this world has ever seen, rose to speak on behalf of the people of Sicily. This was a unique legal action under the Roman law. It was brought up by the subject peoples of Sicily, then a Roman colony, against Gaelus Verres, the…
A TRIBUTE TO SOLI SORABJEE, A PATRON OF JAZZ
This is a tribute to the eminent lawyer Soli Sorabjee who has been a great patron of jazz. He recently celebrated his 90th birthday recently. He has done more than anybody else for the promotion of jazz in India. Jazz Yatra commenced in 1978 under the patronage of people like Soli Sorabjee, Niranjan Zhaveri and…
LESSONS FROM LEBANON: CONSEQUENCES OF SECTARIAN POLITICS
Lebanon, was the very epicenter of a rich multi religious and ethnically diverse society in the Middle East. Here Maronite Christians, Greek Othodox Christians, Greek Catholics, Shi’ite and Sunni Muslims, the Druze (an offshoot of Shi’ite Islam) and Jews coexisted and thrived. As Edward Said put it, Lebanon was synonymous with “openness, diversity and the…
LESSONS FROM LEBANON: CONSEQUENCES OF SECTARIAN POLITICS
Lebanon, was the very epicenter of a rich multi religious and ethnically diverse society in the Middle East. Here flourishing communities of Maronite Christians, Greek Orthodox Christians, Greek Catholics, Shi’ite and Sunni Muslims, the Druze (an offshoot of Shi’ite Islam) and Jews coexisted and thrived. As Edward Said put it, Lebanon was synonymous with “openness,…
ALBUMS THAT SHAPED A GENERATION AND FAR BEYOND
BEGGARS BANQUET ROLLING STONES (1968) This Rolling Stones album was made in the midst the psychedelic rock movement. Yes, it is one of the greatest rock albums ever made. Beggars Banquet is a priceless psychedelic gem from that era. It demonstrates the band’s strength handling deftly a genre, which most bands of the time clumsily…
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