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My Lord, Heavens Have Fallen! Judges No Longer Occupy the Seats of Gods CRICKET AND POLITICS: NOT A GAME OF GENTLEMEN >> p.5 July 1-15, 2015 | Vol. 06 Issue 11 | ` 30 RNI No. UPENG/2010/33798 | PRN: UP/GBD-150/2015-17 www.governancenow.com MY LORD, HEAVENS HAVE FALLEN! Judges no longer occupy the seats of gods. Some blame it on their self-selection system. The political executive claims to restore their sanctity with a new law. Ironically, that law is now under judges’ scrutiny, leading to an unusual showdown p.10 GOV NEXT EXCLUSIVE Suresh Prabhu Media wakes up to would make a farmer’s travails DeitY secretary good Czar, writes only when he RS Sharma shares Ashok V Desai commits suicide Digital India vision p.8 p.44 p.54 FOUNDERS TEAM Gautam Adhikari Markand Adhikari Anurag Batra C ARUN KUMAR Editor ontents Ajay Singh [email protected] Executive Editor Ashish Mehta Deputy Editors Shubhendu Parth, Anju Yadav, Prahlad Rao Contributing Editor Dr R Swaminathan Assistant Editor Ridhima Kumar Special Correspondents Jasleen Kaur, Pratap Vikram Singh, Pankaj Kumar Principal Correspondents Geetanjali Minhas (Mumbai), Pragya Gupta Senior Correspondents Puja Bhattacharjee, Ankita Lahiri, Shivani Gaurav Chaturvedi (Chennai), Shreerupa Mitra-Jha (Geneva) Correspondents Shishir Tripathi, Yogesh Rajput Sub-Editor Swati Chandra 10 REVAMPING JUSTICE Design Bishwajeet Kumar Singh, It seemed like a mock wrestling between the political executive and the judiciary. Noor Mohammad, Yoginder Singh The arena is the supreme court which is examining the constitutionality of Photographer Arun Kumar the NJAC. The showdown is real General Manager (Sales) Debabrata Ray 09899650692 [email protected] 8 Suresh Prabhu 30 Vijay Vardhan Singh 09999685086 Prem Kumar 09711888860 would make a good Jay Singh 098119 22402 Czar: Economist Prashant Kumar 09386347428 (Bihar) Disinvestment: An uphill task? 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Printed at MP people’s police Printers, B-220, Industrial Area, Phase II, Buckled under the Noida 201301 (UP) and published at 24A Sporting tales from Mindmill Corporate Tower, Sector 16A, Film will of political Meerut sports market City, Noida 201301 (UP). Ph. 0120 4577999, executive and now Editor: Ajay Singh (responsible for selection private players, of news under the PRB Act.) 58 police find it difficult to reach out its Volume 06 Issue 11 RNI No. UPENG/2010/33798 helping hands to Preparing India for the public Internet of Things www.governancenow.com [email protected] Cover Illustration: Ashish Asthana www.GovernanceNow.com 3 Offbeat Mahabharat in FTII International The students and faculty of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Yoga day: Two Pune are upset over the appointment new Guinness of actor Gajendra Chauhan as their new chairman. Chauhan is most- records ly known for playing the role of Yud- India has set two new hishthir in TV serial ‘Mahabharat’ in Guinness World Re- the 1980s and had a nondescript film cords – for most individuals, and individuals from the largest number of na- career including some C-grade mov- tionalities – in performing yoga at a single venue on June 21 (International ies listed in his curriculum vitae. The Yoga Day). As many as 35,985 participants belonging to 84 nationalities per- primary grouse of the students is formed asanas at the official observation of the day organised at Rajpath in that the premier institute, which has New Delhi. Several top bureaucrats, secretaries to the ministries and top po- had the likes of Rajkumar Hirani and litical leaders led by prime minister Narendra Modi participated in the event. Adoor Gopalkrishnan as alumni, the The ministry of AYUSH was awarded the two world records by GWR officials new appointment is a political move at a ceremony held later in the evening. Out of 193 countries of the UN, yoga and that it may curb the voices crit- was observed in 192 countries except for war-torn Yemen. UN secretary gener- ical of the government. Chauhan is a al Ban Ki-moon along with external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj performed member of Bharatiya Janata Party yoga with the UN officials and celebrities at the Times Square in New York. (BJP) and has served as a joint con- Meanwhile, the Congress party crticised the event as a “shameless attempt” by vener of cultural wing in the par- the BJP government to usurp yoga and it shared a photo of Pandit Jawaharlal ty. The position of the chairman was Nehru performing yogasana and greeted people on the occasion on its official earlier held by stalwarts like Adoor Twitter handle. Gopalakrishnan, Girish Karnad and Saeed Mirza. Crocodile on road draws Taj Mahal complex gets free Wi-Fi ASHISH ASTHANA Posting a selfie with Taj Mahal will now be easier attention to potholes for tourists. The 17th century monument has been FACEBOOK/BAADAL NANJUNDASWAMY There is al- provided with free Wi-Fi facility recently. Union ways a unique minister for communications and IT Ravi Shankar way to grab Prasad launched the 30 minutes free Wi-Fi service attention to for the complex. The facility is set up by state-run get the work operator BSNL with the optical fibre backbone which done. Keeping can provide high speed internet of up to 100 Mbps. this in mind, Anyone who wants to remain logged in for more than a Bengaluru half an hour can do so by paying `30. In February, Wi- based artist Fi facility was launched by BSNL at Dashashwamedh Ghat and Shitala Ghats of has proved how art can be a tool to get Varanasi. Future plans include providing the facility at Fatehpur Sikri, Khajuraho, the intervention of civic authorities who Jagannath Puri and other tourist places by March 2016. failed to repair a pothole in the middle of a busy road in his town. Expressing frustration over the negligence of civic body, the 36-year-old visual artist Baadal In about 140 characters Nanjundaswamy turned the 12-feet-long Roshan @roshan13496 Baijayant Jay Panda @PandaJay pothole in the middle of the Sulthanpal- Normal People : Rainy On @TimesNow, @swapan55: ya road in north Bengaluru into an arti- Season :) “will you please speak up a ficial pond adorning a giant crocodile in Mumbaikar : Local-Train- little louder, Arnab, i can’t it. The artificial crocodile pond grabbed Bandh-Season :( hear you.” Deeelicious the attention of not just passers by but it also went viral on social media. The re- Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor RushdieExplainsIndia ‏@ sult was surprising as the repair work Fourth power cut in last RushdieExplains which wasn’t done in a month, was done 24 hours at LodhiEstate. Monsoon refusing to rain in just a day after the artist posted the Yesterday 7 hrs in total, down on Delhi because it’s pictures of the ‘crocodile pond’ on social wonder how long today. And not sure under whose juris- media. The Bengaluru municipal corpo- some think Lutyens’ Delhi is diction it will fall ration covered up the pothole in a day. exempt! Visit us at www.governancenow.com n twitter.com/governancenow n facebook.com/governancenow 4 GovernanceNow | July 1-15, 2015 OPENING COMMENT Not a game of gentlemen A saga of cricket disguising crimes of the elite Ajay Singh account and found explosive material about his links with Sushma Swaraj and her husband Swaraj Kaushal. The BCCI is dominated by powerful politicians like n one of his critical essays on the crime stories of the Arun Jaitley and Sharad Pawar. The expose about Swaraj early 19th century, George Orwell was fascinated by a precipitated a full-scale war, in which Lalit Modi came out character. AJ Raffles, a gentleman thief, featured in a with further damning revelations about his one-time men- collection of short stories titled ‘The Amateur Cracks- tor, Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje. man’, by EW Hornung. In characteristic Orwellian Lalit Modi owed his career in cricket to Raje, though he Ihumour, he wrote that Raffles’ association with cricket fell out of favour subsequently. Raje gave a written testi- and the prestigious MCC was a perfectly plausible disguise mony to the UK authorities in favour of Modi to facilitate to conceal his crimes. his stay in the UK. Raje’s son, Dushyant, is the beneficiary In describing Raffles, Orwell wrote, “...certain things of Lalit Modi’s munificence. Lalit Modi purchased his com- are ‘not done’ and the idea of doing them hardly arises. pany’s shares at exorbitant rates in a quid pro quo. Raffles will not, for example, abuse hospitality. He will The BJP seems deeply mired in the murky business of commit a burglary in a house where he is staying as guest cricket. Like in Victorian Great Britain, where the aristoc- but the victim must be a fellow guest and not the host. He racy controlled the games and propped up lackeys like Raf- will not commit murder and he avoids violence wherever fles, politicians in democratic India effectively monopolise possible and prefers to carry out his robberies unarmed.
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