By Sidharth Mishra

Over the past few days, newspapers have been full of reports about how successive governments of post-Independent India kept a close eye on issues related to the former Congress president and founder of the Indian National Army (INA), Subhash Chandra Bose, popularly known as Netaji. Bose’s legacy over the years has shown remarkable resilience. His legacy continues to resurface back into the news cycle of Indian media. This has been the case with the Indian media for nearly sixty years, ever since ‘Netaji’ is supposed to have died in an air crash in 1945.

The timing of the latest Bose leak, which looks to be an attempt to smudge the image of the erstwhile Jawaharlal Nehru-led government, should probably invite skepticism. It cannot be a mere coincidence that the report 

By Sidharth Mishra

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his team of floor managers in both the Houses must have gone for recess in the on-going Budget session of Parliament with a certain sense of satisfaction. The Parliament was adjourned on March 20, for a month, due to the stipulated mid-session recess; it will be reconvened again on April 21. Those who believe in parliamentary democracy must have noted with contentment that both the Houses; despite the Opposition’s repeated attempts to create a logjam even on feeble grounds, worked to the capacity.
According to the data released by PRS, a research body working in the field of legislative activity, the current Lok Sabha session recorded a whopping productivity of