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Jai Shri Ram, says Mukesh Dalal and he would not stop till he acknowledged. Sure. Lord Ram must be laughing at him with all his blessings. He was contesting the Surat Loksabha election on the BJP ticket but following a slight signature glitch in the papers of Congress candidate Nilesh Kumbhani, Mukesh Dalal has been […]
Because it is Gujarat, the latest comment by Prime Minister Narendra Modi that flaunting and eating meat during the Hindu holy month of sawan (called chaitra in Gujarati) is being lapped up as a yet another bold stand by the unstoppable prime minister. Food fascism in Gujarat is not new. Gujaratis are absolutely okay doing business and selling or […]
The Gujarat BJP has never had it this complicated. The Party is now seriously ruminating to replace Rajkot Loksabha candidate amidst fear of losing vital Kshatriya votes in Gujarat. The BJP won all 26 Loksabha seats in Gujarat in 2019 and wants to repeat the feat. But Kshatriyas in Gujarat are up in arms against […]
Those who attacked international Muslim students on Gujarat University campus were not hostelites but local youth who barged into the A block which housed these foreign students. Surprisingly, what began as an internal hostel clash between two groups is now snowballing into a case of Islamophobia. So far five youths have been arrested by the […]
Now that the Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress have announced an electoral alliance, all eyes are on the Bharuch Loksabha seat in Gujarat. There are 26 Loksabha seats in Gujarat. Currently, all 26 are with the BJP. As per the AAP-Congress alliance, two seats in Gujarat, Bharuch and Bhavnagar, have been given to Arvind […]
This resource-rich State in Central India is one of the fastest developing States of India. Bhupesh Baghel of Congress is seeking a second term. There are 90 seats in Chhattisgarh and 46 seats are required to form a majority government. Bhupesh Baghel is known for his governance, administrative skills, innovative welfare schemes and patience. Before […]
Women and Cadila Pharma owner Rajiv Modi, a known Gujarat-based pharmaceutical unit, always has had an uneasy relationship. Elena (not her real name), a Bulgarian woman working as a personal assistant to Cadila CMD Rajiv Modi has accused him of sexual harassment. The woman earlier had written an application to the local Vastrapur police but […]
The Gujarat Police has arrested an executive engineer, albeit a fake one who flaunted his government credentials and embezzled roughly Rs 4.15 crore for “tribal welfare”. He gathered the money for 93 plus tribal welfare schemes. He had also opened up his government office in Chhota Udepur district of Gujarat. In the recent past, Kiran […]
Gujarat has a bad history of fakes and impersonation. After the infamous Kiran Patel case, where an Ahmedabad resident was caught while he continued to pose as Additional Director (strategy and campaigns ) associated with the Prime Minister’s Office; one more fake PMO official has now been booked by the CBI. This man, identified as […]
Remember the soft-spoken, erudite Joe, aka Penn Badgley, in the Netflix bestseller “You”? Or back home, the absolutely average middle-aged, rustic Vijay Varma in Dahaad? The Cyber Cell of Gujarat police has finally arrested a similar murderer, an absolute, rigid criminal, a much-below-average-looking middle-aged man who has no remorse for killing his wife, Sajni, on […]
As if 12 cases in 15 years are not enough, now Gujarat cadre former IAS officer Pradip Sharma has now been sentenced to a month’s imprisonment for possessing a cell phone in Palara jail in Kutch. A raid by local authorities reportedly discovered a cell phone in Pradeep Sharma’s barrack along with several numbers written […]
If you wanted to know Gujarat, the real Gujarat it was not possible not to have “encountered” Achyut Yagnik. Outsiders often mistook him for an academician interested in just the socio-political and cultural aspects of Gujarat. But those few who regularly kept in touch with him and later became friends knew that Achyut Yagnik was […]
Dear parents, This is an open letter that you must read if you do not want to raise kids like Tathya Patel, Manu Sharma, Vismay Shah or Param Sharma. Tathya is in the news for ramming his car into a crowd, killing nine and injuring 13. Vismay, who could now be called Tathya’s junior, was […]
The great North-South Divide in India has always been intriguing. Of course, once it became apparent that the Congress will sweep the mighty BJP out of the southern state of Karnataka, a few ‘news’ channels started focusing more on the local body elections in Uttar Pradesh rather than the Assembly polls in Karnataka. But then, […]
Actor Sanjay Dutt provided us with the laughs when he, as a loveable rogue, cleared the medical exam using a dummy candidate in Munnabhai MBBS. An investigation by Vibes Of India can reveal that there are at least two dozen Munnabhais and bens currently employed by the Gujarat government in various positions. These two dozen […]
For any Gujarat-based journalist to see Rahul Gandhi being disqualified as a member of parliament for his statement of why “these thieves from Lalit Modi to Nirav Modi have the Modi surname” would sound nothing but a boring, casual political statement. Because many of us have constantly and consistently followed Narendrabhai Modi. If I have […]
Conman Kiran Patel’s arrest in Jammu and Kashmir is just the tip of the iceberg. Focusing on the Jammu and Kashmir police’s so-called inefficiency and administrative competence – or the lack of it – would be papering over the obvious issues. Two pertinent questions scream out. How could he defraud the system entirely on his […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s chemistry with Gujarat coupled with Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s inimitable electoral arithmetic, has ensured the BJP’s historical win in Gujarat. AAP particularly played a major role in decimating the Congress to 16 seats. In the 2017 elections, the BJP had bagged 99 and the Congress had an impressive 77 seats. […]
Juhapura is the largest Muslim ghetto in India. Today it goes to polls. I spent a Sunday there. Presumptions are dangerous. The vegetarian food I found in Juhapura is (probably) as good as the non-vegetarian fare that this place is known for, besides the blood. When I say blood, I mean the bloody riots and […]
Deepal Trivedi It is a clash of models in Gujarat. The BJP has been consistently in power for about 27 years in the state, bar 1996 when Shankersinh Vaghela became the Chief Minister for a year with outside support from the Congress. In any other state, anti-incumbency, slackness and people’s desire for a new party […]
