Can India meet challenge?
Climate Goals
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
With the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) scheduled to begin on 30 November in the UAE, meeting climate goals would be in the forefront. Moreover,...
Wb gov-cm play politics!
Of Riots & Refugee Camps
By Insaf
Politics in West Bengal over riots and displaced citizens continues to persist. Governor C V Ananda Bose is quoted...
How can last man gain?
New Vision 2040
By Shivaji Sarkar
India has stepped into a new decade, like the rest of the world. It needs a new vision 2040 to...
Liquor shops under lockdown
Long for Freedom
By Dr S Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
The Madras High Court on 8 May directed the State Government to close all 3,850...
Besieged in Bihar, U’khand?
Democratic Rights
By Insaf
Two States have put a big question mark on the citizens’ democratic rights. In Bihar and Uttarakhand these appear to have come...
Assessing India’s position
Israel & The World
By Prof. (Dr.) D.K. Giri
(Secretary General, Assn for Democratic Socialism)
The Israel-Palestine war is raging ghoulishly with horrendous consequences. The world is...
Crime is now politics
Bahubali-Khadi Nexus
By Poonam I Kaushish
The sordid saga of dreaded gangster Vikas Dubey of Kanpur with over 60 cases to his name came to a...
India in hurry, Bangladesh lukewarm
Worsening Ties with Dhaka
By Shivaji Sarkar
It’s a historic event. India and Bangladesh have entered a critical phase in their diplomatic relationship. On December 9,...
Will it aid state varsities?
Natl. Research Foundation
By Dhurjati Mukherjee
There can be no denying that research in the country has been lacking with meagre funds at the disposal of...
Denting dissent & democracy
Activists' Arrest
By Insaf
The nation is in dire straits. The high profile arrests of rights' activists and lawyers in three cities on Wednesday last puts...
A remedy for the new malady
By Inder Jit
(Released on 28 August 1984)
Outrageous developments in Andhra Pradesh and earlier in Jammu and Kashmir and Sikkim have posed yet another threat...
A new significance
Ram Janmabhoomi
By Dr S. Saraswathi
Construction of a modern temple for Lord Ram at Ayodhya, for which bhoomi pujan was conducted on 5 August...
Quotas And Queues
How do we spell merit?
By Poonam I Kaushish
Quotas and queues are back on the political platter wherein our netagan are busy indulging in one-upmanship,...
Aim viksit future by 2028
By Shivaji Sarkar
Bihar Freebie Trap
Bihar’s 2025 elections are shaping up as a decisive moment for the state’s future. Once again, the political narrative is...
Poll guesses favour Rajiv
By Inder Jit
(Released on 4 December 1984)
Poll talk dominates all else. The guessing game is on again. Newsmen commentators and anyone who appears to...
Whose corrupt in whose eyes?
‘Power’of Corruption
By Poonam I Kaushish
When does money become dirt? When it begins
to stick. As the Kartigate corruption saga
explodes on the political firmament, it has...
GNCTD bill: Delhi govt undermined
By Insaf
The AAP government in Delhi is seething with anger and rightly so. Its powers have been curtailed with a lieutenant governor (LG) being...
Will needed for success
Mediation By Law
By Dr.S.Saraswathi
(Former Director, ICSSR, New Delhi)
The Draft Bill on Mediation circulated by the Government for comments has come at a time when...
The people’s right to information
By Inder Jit
(Released on 7 August 1984)
Ignorance continues to abound in regard to Parliament, its constitution, practices, procedures and privileges. Thirty-four years as a...
Students outfits ‘unblock’ it
BBC Documentary
By Insaf
India: The Modi Question, BBC’s documentary raises a wider one. By blocking links on social media, hasn’t the government stirred up a...