C-ing through Pradhan Quack's charade
C-ing through Pradhan Quack’s charade April 19, 2021, 2:59 PM IST The author is a senior journalist and a political commentator. It’s a double whammy for Mother India. First, the misdiagnoses five diseases aka 5Cs – corruption, casteism, communalism, cronyism and criminalism – as the reason for Indian democracy being on the ventilator. Then his alter ego Mr Hyde starts playing politics by targeting vote-bank politics, a euphemism for minority baiting, as the root cause. The jhola doctor is half right. Indian democracy is being slow poisoned ...