Which master’s voice?

CBI Vs CBI By Poonam I Kaushish It was an unprecedented midnight coup when in the stealth of night 1am CBI Director Alok Verma was replaced...

How safe are we?

India's Exports Slide Rajiv Gupta It has not been even a month since the horrific bomb blast at the Red Fort, but already it seems like...

Skewed & contradictory

Budgetary Projections By Shivaji Sarkar A high-expectation ambitious Union Budget can have many contradictions. On the one hand it aims too high, and on the other...

Indian crisis beyond shores?

‘Digital Berlin Wall’ By Shivaji Sarkar India is complex. So is its economy. It is stated to be in crisis, its merchandise sales, core sector and...

Who will emerge chanakya?

Political Diary By Poonam I Kaushish Lonely lies the head that wears the crown. And nobody knows this better than Chief Minister Nitish Kumar who...

‘Godmen’ exploitation unchecked

Hathras Tragedy By Dhurjati Mukherjee The fanaticism manifested in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras which touched around 121 people killed in the stampede is indeed distressing. According to...

Right spend in question

Wasteful Nation By Shivaji Sarkar Periodic festive post-lockdown sales are not indicators of the economy booming for sustainable development as the slump may loom large. There...

A mini revolution

New Education Policy By Dr S. Saraswathi (Former Director, ISSCR, New Delhi) Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that the new National Education Policy (NEP) will mark...

The Identity Trap

By Rajiv Gupta Most people who have gone through a job interview will be familiar with the question, “Tell me about yourself” where the interviewee...

Sanitation Initiative

Build people’s campaign By Dhurjati Mukherjee The Government’s initiative on sanitation to make the country “open defecation free” by October 2, 2019 is well meaning but...

Reading Modi’s mind

UN Vote On Jerusalem By Dr DK Giri (Prof, International Politics, JMI) The US President Donald Trump’s declaration on 6th December recognising Jerusalem as the capital of...

Triggers stunning losses

The Great Miscommunication By Shivaji Sarkar It’s about miscommunication and unfathomed losses. Never has the Gulf wars jolted India so hard. India’s recent anxiety over a supposed...

State govts challenge post

Role of Governors By Dhurjati Mukherjee Recently Vice-Chancellors of seven Kerala universities have moved the High Court seeking direction to cancel the Chancellor’s show cause notice...

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...

Warnings ignored play havoc

Joshimath Calamity By Dhurjati Mukherjee Reports on the sinking town of Joshimath get worse. Water is now said to be gushing out of fields while houses...

Neta: Don’t cast vote, vote caste

Quota In Perpetuity By Poonam I Kaushish With elections round the corner, quotas and queues are back on the political platter as the BJP-led NDA Government...

Prices, graft roil economy

Court Exposes Kinks By Shivaji Sarkar Innocuous developments are unfolding amidst the growing fervour of the impending elections. Despite concerns of the Reserve Bank of India...

Fresh assault on judiciary

By Inder Jit (Released on 27 January 1981) Another Republic Day has rolled by. The nation has gone through the ritual of annual celebrations at the...

Pervasive, clarity vital

Land, Forest Encroachment By Dhurjati Mukherjee The encroachment of land and forests in the country is not just physical and bluntly visible but matched by statistics....

Strategic defence pact

Saudi Arabia & Pakistan By Piotr Opalinski (Expert, Centre for International Relations, Poland) The Defence Agreement, signed last month by Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, is another sign...