India’s “Boat People”
Gets Tough On Rohingya Migrants
By Poonam I Kaushish
In the summer of 1975, hundreds of thousands of people fled South Vietnam after the fall of...
Sports Women
Making India proud
By Proloy Bagchi
Two recent TV advertisements show teenage girls displaying their keenness for playing football and basket ball. While pushing their respective...
Reform centres for inmates?
‘Open Jails’
By Dr. Oishee Mukherjee
The Supreme Court has favoured setting up of ‘open jails’, where inmates will not be confined within prison walls and...
Tight rope walk for India?
Hosting Rouhani
Dr. D.K. Giri
(Prof. International Politics, JMI)
President of Iran Hassan Rouhani was in India between 15-17 February. He was returning the obligation of Prime...
Religion & power politics
Lingayat Minority
By Dr S.Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
BJP President Amit Shah's categorical announcement that his party will not support a minority religious tag to...
Crown of thorns?
Office Of Governor
By Dr S Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
Karnataka has earned a unique distinction of having given some important lessons on the office...
Social media ‘kills’
Murderous Mob
By Poonam I Kaushish
Social media 'kills' and how! Mob lynching is back on the political-social scene with 17 cases across 9 States from...
Trial in mp, Rajasthan?
Duplicate Voters
By Insaf
Democracy may be in peril in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. Rather, the Opposition Congress is unambiguous about it, as there are signs...
Delay cost huge, rework: Cag
Clean Ganga Project
By Shivaji Sarkar
"The Ganga cleaning project has cost the nation Rs 7304 crore", notes the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in its observations...
Rejuvenation of Rivers
Challenge to politics, faith
By Dr S Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
The Union Government has plans to clean all rivers in the country — a...