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Source: The HinduThe sluggish growth rate in the fourth quarter of 2016-17 has brought back the smile to economists and politicians critical of the Modi government’s move to demonetize Rs 500 & Rs 1000 notes. Previously, the move was perceived to have little impact on the Indian economy and was hailed as a political masterstroke which yielded huge political dividends for the ruling party in the Uttar Pradesh election and Odisha Panchayat elections. Like any other economic policy whose outcomes are felt with a lag effect , Demonetization according to these critics has slowed down the Indian economy and perhaps also could have been ‘organized loot and plunder’.
Source: The HinduThe outrage in the country over the Central government’s order to ban sale of cows along with other livestock has put the ‘politics of the cow’ in the limelight. Going back to India’s political history, one can reminisce the year 1967 when the country witnessed a cow protection movement by members of the erstwhile Jana Sangh nad various other Hindu nationalist movements. A totemic symbol for Hindus, cow has been a source of ethnic conflict between Hindus and Muslims in Northern India and continues to be politicised.
