Appointment of Chief Justice

By Inder Jit (Released on 7 February, 1978) Top Government leaders are embarrassed by the continuing speculation in the press in regard to the choice of...

Prioritise small, young farmers

Agricultural Transformation By Dhurjati Mukherjee There is some good news coming from the farm sector. The lockdown hasn’t much affected agriculture because of normal rabi crop...

India’s diplomatic balancing act

US Invasion of Venezuela By Dr. D.K. Giri (Prof of Practice, NIIS Group of Institutions) The recent US invasion of Venezuela has sent shockwaves across the globe,...

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...

J&K strategy needs rethink

Civilian Killings By Insaf North block should be in a bind viz its strategy on Kashmir. Civilian killings, migrant workers leaving the Valley, an exodus of...

Mahatma’s ideals forgotten?

India After Gandhi By Dhurjati Mukherjee Seven decades later after Mahatma Gandhi was killed, 30 January1948, the nation remembered the father of the nation yesterday. Many...

Karmic pay back?

Chidambaram Arrest By Poonam I Kaushish The chickens have come home to roost and you reap what you sow. Two maxims which enunciate the steamy saga...

In name of ‘development’?

Environmental Destruction By Dhurjati Mukherjee As the hot summer pounces on the country with heat waves predicted in most parts, there is need to put sharp...

Maha impropriety

'Secular' Row By Insaf The word ‘secular’ has led to a storm in Maharashtra. New Delhi is being asked to sack Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari,...

Delhi Univ Polls

Hope for Cong, BJP frowns By Insaf Delhi brings a smile to the Congress and its leadership. Elections to the Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) provide...

Brics dilemma for Trump

India, Energy & $ By Shivaji Sarkar The “King Dollar” is feeling threatened—not by a rival superpower, but by a non-currency from BRICS. In response, President...

Covid-19 changes nothing

Bihar Elections Round The States By Insaf   Elections will be elections, COVID-19 or not. Crowded campaign rallies for Bihar’s first phase of polling on Wednesday...

Deriding basic tenets

Civil Society 'Warfare' By Dhurjati Mukherjee Understanding of society, the process of its growth and development, as clearly enunciated by distinguished scholars, social scientists and philosophers...

‘Developed’ is problematic!

Trump's Big Punch By Shivaji Sarkar India is being continuously hit by the US President Donald Trump’s withdrawal of Generalised system of preferences (GSP) on 5,111...

Situating ‘operation sindoor’

Democracy & Disruption By Prof (Dr) DK Giri (Professor of Practice, NIIS Group of Institutions) The last week has been eventful in global geopolitics in terms of...

Showing a new ‘disha’

Justice Executed By Poonam I Kaushish India is at war with its betis. If Nirbhaya, Kathua, Unnao, Muzzafarnagar etc weren’t gut wrenching, the latest tale of...

Despair to dignified opening

Migration Commission By Dr. Saraswathi (Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi) The current migrant workers crisis triggered as a by-product of COVID-19 pandemic has exposed many problems in...

Darlings, kis ke liye!

Op Sindoor: Pak Badnam Hua By Poonam I Kaushish Every tragedy falls into two parts: a complication is followed by denouncement and unraveling, said Aristotle. Pakistan...

Fancy imports hit liquidity

Rate Cut Roils 2.52 Bn Old, Poor By Shivaji Sarkar As the “Trumpire” strikes with aggressive tariff moves to assert American dominance, India must resist the...

Sjm treads Gandhian path

Job Creation Sans Govt By Shivaji Sarkar Acute unemployment, the biggest political challenge for the country, is sought to be resolved the Gandhian way by the...