Poor lose, powerful gain

Pro-crony Policies By Shivaji Sarkar India’s aspiration to become a $5 trillion economy depends critically on promoting “pro-business” policy that enhances market competition negating the...

Farming, Jobs, Pvt Sector…

Create integral economy By Shivaji Sarkar India needs some quick solutions. It needs more jobs, a free and low-cost banking, a growing industry and a thriving...

Show the way, house

Parliament Session By Poonam I Kaushish Monsoon embraced the country in its squelchy soaking tentacles even as the first day of Parliament’s 19-day monsoon session got...

Gau Rakshaks, Netas

SC cracks the whip By Insaf Stop pussyfooting around. A terse message from the Supreme Court to State governments on doing precious little against cow vigilantes....

States hit by empty atms

Modi's "Cashless" India By Insaf The Centre's grand plans towards a 'cashless society' have not only come to haunt it but become a butt of jokes....

What’s in a song?

Vande Mataram By Poonam I Kaushish Much ado about nothing! That is the sum total of a debate in Lok Sabha yesterday to celebrate 150 years...

Politics vs Economists

Exit of CEA By Shivaji Sarkar The third high profile departure, now of Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) Arvind Subramanian coming shortly after the decision to...

Govt fiasco, heed advice

2nd Wave Crisis By Dr, Oishee Mukherjee The ongoing second wave of Covid-19 in the country, best described as a catastrophe, has brought into sharp focus...

Millennial brat pack bro!

Parties Invoke Dynastic Gods By Poonam I Kaushish In our continuing poll nautanki this week’s flavour is pedigree. No, I am not talking about the canine...

Up restates it be damned

Ideology & Principles By Insaf Ideology be damned! The political development in Uttar Pradesh sadly reiterates it. With Assembly elections slated February next year, the BJP...

Not trade unions

Union of States By DrS.Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) WestBengal Chief MinisterMamata Banerjee has called upon “Opposition parties” to band together to prevent the BJP from...

Nepal, Bhutan part of India!

Trump's Gaffe By Dr. D.K. Giri (Prof. International Politics, JMI) The US President Donald Trump's apparently preposterous perspective that Nepal and Bhutan are parts of India is...

Opposition unity: Fresh moves

By Inder Jit (Released on My 6, 1980) Latest developments in the north-east region continue to cause grave anxiety. The stalemate in Assam was bad enough....

Parliament and the opposition

By Inder Jit (Released on 15 January 1985) All eyes are on the new Lok Sabha, which is due to assemble today for its first sitting....

Act we must, not just observe

Mahatma Gandhi's Relevance By Dhurjati Mukherjee India grapples with injustice, violence, caste divisions, inter-religious rivalry et al, away from essential pluralism, away from democratic mores, away...

Pandemic exposes faultlines

Economic Plugging By Moin Qazi A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say:...

Ideas more dangerous than guns

New Grammar of Sedition By Poonam I Kaushish “Off with her head, arguments later”, ordered the Queen in Alice in Wonderland. A term synonymous in modern...

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...

Will govt yield, raise msp?

Farmers' Blockade By Dhurjati Mukherjee The farm sector is up in arms and has announced a 10-day crop blockade of the country's cities from June 1...

To punish or not to punish

By Inder Jit (Released on 4 April 1978) What many have felt all along has now been confirmed by the Shah Commission in its thought-provoking Interim...