BRICS Summit in Johannesburg; Tripta Tyagi of Neha Public School; Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the BJP MP
Opinion Watch
Bandung Spirit
Just concluded BRICS Leaders’ Summit still engages dominates commentaries on road ahead, and The Tribune has sought to dispel the notion that the six new members in the group will act as lackeys of China. The Chandigarh-based daily has argued that barring Iran none of the five members to join BRICS next year – Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Argentina, Ethiopia, and Egypt – are anti-west. The daily also reasoned the new members are deep pockets which will strength the New Developmental Bank. But it underlined that the Bandung Spirit of 1955 may not be replicated, for the world has become transactional.
Relevance of BRICS is in its economic strength, and that was the original objective. But the group is being hijacked by China and Russia to score political brownie points. India must block rhetoric of rogues at such forum.
Teaching Hate
Several dailies have come down heavily against a teacher, Tripta Tyagi, in a private school, Neha Public School, in western Uttar Pradesh making small children slap their Muslim classmate. The dailies have questioned the snail’s pace of laws acting against the culprit. They reasoned that strict provisions exist for protection of children under specific laws, while underlining that the police acted only after the National Commission for Protection of rights of children got in action.
Virus in air can infect anyone, and hate being peddled from several social media platforms go unchecked. Also, the fact that schools of Tyagis exist in India reminds that the political class has been horrendous with their commitment to the cause of education, while it indeed is baffling that the alleged abuser of the child escaped the law for days for reasons known best to the administrators.
Slippery Mat
Indian wrestlers will now compete in the World Championship next month in Belgrade as neutral sportspersons without the Indian national anthem playing out, said Deccan Herald in its Editorial, adding that the suspension of the India’s federation was a natural fallout of the knee-jerk response of the government to the protests of the celebrated Olympians. The Bengaluru-based daily also questioned the silence of the government on suspension of the Indian federation, while underlining that the ruling dispensation which “puts high premium on national honour”.
The BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh was in the dock for serious charges levelled by the wrestlers, which have been substantiated by the Delhi Police in its chargesheet. Yet, there were attempts of character assassinations of Olympians, and motives were attributed to them for holding protest. Now, the nation pays the price.
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