A recent Patna High Court judgment on alcohol ban in Bihar can as well be applied to Gujarat. As reported by a legal news portal, under the title "State's Alcohol Ban Led To Illegal Liquor Trade; ...

It was with a welcome surprise that I received a reaction from Gujarat Congress chief Shaktisinh Gohil objecting to my blog titled “When Congress leaders in Gujarat forgot to remember Jawaharlal Nehru ...

On 16th November morning, on opening Facebook, I came across a post in Gujarati which said, "The controversial speaker Kajal Hindustani, infamous for her provocative speeches, is scheduled to deliver ...

Worked as Political Editor of the Times of India, Ahmedabad, till January 2013, as representative of the paper in Gandhinagar, Gujarat’s capital, Rajiv covered the state government between late 1997 ...

I started blogging in May 2011, when I was with the Times of India’s Gandhinagar representative, looking after the Gujarat government. The credit for this goes to Bharat Desai, who was editor of the ...

It was November 14, Jawaharlal Nehru’s 135th birth anniversary. While the national leaders everywhere – ranging from Congress’ bigwigs to Narendra Modi and Rajnath Singh – paid their tributes to the ...

I was quite excited when Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched what was called "the expanded Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY) scheme" for those aged 70 and above, ...

My Vadodara-based activist-friend, Jagdish Patel, who has long championed the cause of the victims of silicosis, a deadly occupational disease, has forwarded to me an interesting blog by the executive ...