The Wordsmith

The Indians living in the United Kingdom are the latest victims of the reforms introduced with the country’s tough immigration policy. A large number of high-skilled South Asian professionals, mainly Indians and Pakistani, have been denied the ‘Indefinite Leave to Remain’, ILR, and threatened with deportation. The UK government is certifying them as ‘illegal immigrants’, who failed to produce proper documentation and made several errors in the tax-filing system due to the amendments made in the UK’s immigration policy.    Not only South Asians but the Windrush generation has also been facing crisis and hardship after the hostile immigration policy. The victims allege it to be merely an implausible excuse behind deportation; the real objective is to meet the target of the new ambitious immigration policy by the Theresa May government, which is receiving widespread criticism due to the treatment of the immigrants of the Windrush generation, and other Commonwealth nation...

                       Picture Credit- The India Saga The allegations regarding the transparency of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) have ignited a debate in this country. After Bharatiya Janta Party secured historic mandate in Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati alleged the winning party with the EVM tampering. In the UP post-result press conference, she outrageously pointed out the doubts over the veracity of these voting machines. Subsequently, Samajvadi Party also went vocal on EVM tempering debate, sooner picked up by the Aam Aadmi Party Convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal after the defeat in Municipal Corporation of Delhi election. Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodiya said the BJP party has mastered to tampering EVM since UP win and now they have graduated to 'hacking' the EVM for MCD results in their favor. But how justified the allegations are without knowing the deta...