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...
Reform sharing of resources
Environment & Sustainability
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
There is consistent discussion in the media as also conferences in many parts of the country regarding environmental concerns and...
Oli’s historical visit
India & Nepal
By Dr. D.K. Giri
(Prof. International Politics, JMI)
The three-day visit last week of Nepalese Prime Minister KPS Oli turned out to be "fruitful,...
Tackle rural-urban divide
India's Job Crisis
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The debate on 'jobless growth' has greatly embarrassed the government. That there is an employment crisis cannot be doubted and...
Mere temporary solution
Hike In MSP
By Shivaji Sarkar
The Union Cabinet's decision to hike minimum support price (MSP) for 14 crops is a move to ease agrarian distress...
Blend of realism & restraint
Vajpayee's Foreign Policy
By Dr. D. K. Giri
(Prof. International Politics, JMI)
Atal Bihari Vajpayee left deep footprints on Indian politics in the six decades of his...
Stokes ‘outsider’ debate
Gujarat Exodus
By Insaf
Mahatma Gandhi would be turning in his grave. Gujarat hate attacks have forced thousands of Hindi-speaking migrants flee the State. The exodus...
Reorienting policies vital
Next Poll Planning
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
The NDA has about five months to go before the Lok Sabha elections and apart from improving governance, the vote...
Vadra: Breaking Omerta code
Tale of Two Sons In-Law
By Poonam I Kaushish
This is the tale of two sons in law, Feroze Gandhi and Robert Vadra. The first, a...
Economic crisis looms
Policy Paralysis
By Shivaji Sarkar
Election time is show time. The minuses are swept under the carpet as rhetoric rules the roost. Manifestos are not necessarily...
Redraft economic vision
Votes of Aspiration
By Shivaji Sarkar
The BJP, rather Narendra Modi, has stunned the world. Resounding victory touching 352 plus is a rare feat in...
Never-ending exercise?
Assam's NRC
By Insaf
Assam’s NRC conundrum lingers on. Both the Centre and the State government have again knocked on the Supreme Court’s door seeking extension...
Windfalls don’t make Economy
RBI Intervention
By Shivaji Sarkar
Some coincidences, some windfall, reworking fiscal package and falling growth rate mark the current economic developments. The transfer of Rs 1.76...
Leaks Foreign Exchange?
Liberalised Remittance Scheme
Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi are not the only people who have parked their wealth abroad. They have, however, done...
Will new policy meet target?
Right to Water
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Yet another National Water Policy is on the anvil. The Union Water Resources Ministry has finalised a 10-member committee under chairmanship...
Tribunal permanent remedy
Chronic Defections
By Dr.S.Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
The Supreme Court is indeed forced to make a rather drastic recommendation that Parliament should by an amendment...
Ideology be damned
MP Crisis
By Insaf
To be or not to be, that is the question. Not just in Madhya Pradesh but across parties, States and of course...
Making a mockery of law
TN Custodial Deaths
By Insaf
Reprehensible! The alleged custodial death of father and son in a police station in Tamil Nadu has sent shock waves across...