Right to eat meat is a natural right. It is implicit in the Fundamental Rights of life and liberty, religion, profession and equality. It is not right to demand and enforce ban on meat. There is no compulsion to eat meat. There are vegetarians of different types who want to impose their views on others….
Author: Vincent Augustine D'Souza
Vincent Augustine D'Souza is a blogger, author, novelist, and quiz master.
He writes on politics, economy, corruption, terrorism, current events, sports/games and many more topics on his blog Voice From The Rooftop (http://voicefromtherooftop.com).
He has written four novels — King, Pope, Dream and Trump.
They are available in ebook format.
His major non-fiction work is English Konkani Dictionary (https://englishkonkanidictionary.com).
He has also written Model Constitution for India and
Model Constitution for United States of America.
His quizzes appear on his quiz site Go 4 Quiz (https://go4quiz.com).
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One Rank One Pension
On 5/9/2015 Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar announced government’s version of One Rank One Pension (OROP) which failed to satisfy many ex-servicemen. The issue started in 1973 and the last word is not said. In 2014 during Lok Sabha elections BJP had promised OROP within 100 days of coming to power. Ex-servicemen had faith in Narendra…
Uphaar case
The judgment of the Supreme Court in Uphaar case on 19/8/2015 has left many people shattered and also raised questions about judges making their own laws or amending laws according to their whims and fancies. Instead of sending guilty persons to jail as per law for causing death by negligence of 59 persons, the judges…
White Day for Democracy
3 August 2015 was a white day for democracy and black day for mobocracy and anarchy in India. Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan suspended 25 Congress MPs under rule 374(A) for five days for disrupting the House. For too long disruptions have gone on. Over the years suspensions had been rare. When majority of both…
LPG subsidy
There is a campaign asking LPG customers to give up subsidy and by doing so they are gifting LPG to a deprived household. TV ad appears regularly. There was a newspaper ad. CNN-IBN has made the campaign its own. It is said one million customers have given up subsidy. Subsidy is for 12 cylinders per…
Parliament disruptions
Parliament is a forum for discussion and debate with dignity and decorum. There is no room for disruption. When any House of Parliament has to be adjourned due to disruption it is a disgrace. Since many years disruptions and adjournments of Parliament have become a common occurrence. Sometimes whole sessions are washed out. As a…
Tyranny of judges
26 June 2015 is a black day in the history of USA and the world. USA’s Supreme Court by 5-4 majority judgment destroyed democracy and upheld same sex marriages. In California people in a referendum had voted to define marriage as union of one man and one woman. In USA marriage is a state subject….
Thou shall not forgive
There are Christians who think they have to forgive whatever crimes may be committed against them because Jesus Christ said so. Jesus Christ spoke of mercy and forgiveness but not in all cases. When Jesus Christ spoke about forgiveness it was not about murder, abetment to murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to murder, false claim to…
Cricket is not religion
Some say cricket is a religion in India. They are wrong. Cricket is a game followed by many Indians. It is popular. That does not make it a religion. AIR and DD promoted cricket. India did reasonably well in cricket. In other games India lagged far behind. There is no god of cricket. There are…
Prostitution is commercial rape
There has been no talk on any TV channel about how to end prostitution. On the contrary there was talk about making it legal. There is evidence that prostitution has gone up where it was made legal. On 29/1/2014 Gloria Steinem said: “Prostitution involves body invasion and so it is not like any other work….