Dance of democracy
US, India Elections
By Rajiv Gupta
Winston Churchill is reported to have said, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that...
Recession fear grips
Fortune Lost In Stocks Crash
By Shivaji Sarkar
The Indian stock market is crashing again, perhaps on artificial resuscitation and gasping. The pressure is building. Recent...
Discourtesy to parliament
By Inder Jit
(Released on 28 Feb 1984)
Parliament is still not getting from Mrs Gandhi and the ruling Congress-I the respect and courtesy that is...
The Sri Lankan Prime Minister Comes Calling – Reassuring India
By Dr. D.K. Giri
Prof. International Politics, JMI
Mahinda Rajapaksa, The Prime Minister of Sri Lanka who is perhaps the de facto President of Sri Lanka,...
Is it justified?
Encounter Killing
By Dr. Oishee Mukherjee
The killings of four persons in Hyderabad allegedly accused of rape once again point to organized violence of the State....
Erosion must be stemmed
Human Rights Day
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
Today, as the world observes Human Rights Day every year, India and its government must reflect on its record. With...
India’s Rulers and the Republic
By Inder Jit
(Released on 26 January 1988)
Several sharp questions are being asked at home and abroad as India celebrates its 38th Republic Day with...
Gulf crisis seeks strategy
Towards Green Energy
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
In the wake of the Middle East crisis, the need for acceleration of green energy in India assumes great significance...
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,...
Uttarakhand shows way
Cluster Ventures
By Shivaji Sarkar
A country that is having crunch of jobs is going a different way for creation of livelihood in the poorest areas...
Time to evoke esma
Diminshing Parliament
By Poonam I Kaushish
Yawn! We have been through this before. Of how India’s temple of democracy Parliament is increasingly being called a mockery,...
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...
Hits poor, profits big firms
Digital Technology
By Shivaji Sarkar
The most coveted digitalisation and hyperglobalisation has come in for severe criticism by the United Nations. It helps big firms, big...
India’s albatross
The Nowhere People
By Poonam I Kaushish
Circa 1975: Hundreds of thousands fled South Vietnam after Saigon’s fall for fear of political persecution, the largest mass...
Let’s talk of today, not past
Beyond The Kashmir Files
By Sagarneel Sinha
The recent controversial statement made by the Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid on Vivek Agnihotri’s directorial film, The Kashmir Files,...
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:...
Imaginary distinction
Outsider-Insider
By Dr. S. Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
Hundreds of workers who had gone to Kashmir in search of employment are reported to be fleeing...
India’s response
Global Trade War
By Prof. D K Giri
(Professor of Practice, NIIS Group, Bhubaneswar)
The unilateral and universal tariff imposed by Donald Trump had shaken the world....
Reaping political benefits?
Cow, Profitable Business
By Poonam I Kaushish
The drumbeaters are busy serenading the victorious in the keenly fought five States polls, the losers sulk behind closed...
Where is society heading?
Violence Rhetoric Of The Times
By Poonam I Kaushish
Violence is the rhetoric of the times. Pick any newspaper. Any day. Splashes of social schism gore...